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The moment I saw RPG UI, I shouted, “I want this game!”
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They had me right from the introduction of the premise! Very cool concept, ripe with potential.
I was pretty darn satisfied with the showcase outside of two things:
- I was hoping for something about new controllers, guess I’ll have to make do with third-party.
- I don’t remember where I heard this (it might even have been here) but I could have sworn there was some chatter about a Blue Dragon revival. Hard to hold that against them, since it was gossip.
But yeah, walking away with 13 titles I’m eager to play, without paying any money on top of the lump sum I put down for conversion? That’s a damn good showcase in my book!
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So does this mean we’ll get a super gritty, gory DOOM remake?
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I wish insiders would just stfu about stuff.
Imagine if we had no knowledge of Doom The Dark Ages, that trailer would have surprised us even more. Insiders are a gift and a curse.
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After these last few months, I would say they are a curse.
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At some point it boils down to personal responsibility. I knew virtually nothing going in, cause I just avoided most places where I could have spoiled myself. 
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I hope so.
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I get that, but still.
I don’t think it was that long until the Xbox show would start and at that point I’m like, let the devs just announce it themselves. Ah well.
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Oh, you’re not wrong. It’s straight up asshole behaviour to steal someone else’s thunder like that. These devs work hard on the game, and the PR departments work hard on these showcases. And then some guy with a Twitter account shows up and ruins the surprise?
Yeah. Hard thumbs down from me. But assholes gonna asshole, so I just keep away from them. It’s a good rule to follow in all walks of life, really.
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Oh that’s nice… How much does that cost in the stables?
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The show was 4k right? Well… I’m watching all the trailers now on YouTube on Xbox’s channel and they are even more crisp. Fable and PD, goddamn!
Those truly show what XSX can do! And next year we get to play Fable, finally. PG are amazing.
Yeah, it was live in 4k on YouTube
Correct.
Though it was a livestream. (Sometimes/Usually/Typically ) VODs can look better than livestreams. It depends on the bitrate and encoder.
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Not sure it has been said but CoD beta is available for Game Pass, so no preorder required.
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Yeah it absolutely does for me. Watched all the trailers again and holy cow at the crispness. Love it.
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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: The Big ol’ Xbox 3rd Party Releases Discussion Thread (HiFi, SoT, Pentiment, Grounded) (Part 2)
It’s $100
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People need to understand that we’re finally seeing built for current gen games. I keep seeing cries for gameplay from Fable and State of Decay 3. We’ve reached a point where gameplay fidelity is practically indistinguishable from cutscenes. I get wanting to see uninterrupted gameplay but the notion that what we’re seeing is just CG is silly.
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I’ve had a bunch of reactions in the background while I was working (I’ve actually yet to sit down and watch it in 4K myself) and it’s safe to say that Xbox catered to what the media pundits and chronically online gamers (that includes myself to a large extent) wanted to see.
I’m the sort that does appreciate indie titles, loves to see experimental games, loves to see genres like sports and racing well represented, and doesn’t mind seeing developers talking about their games. They had none of that, but that’s actually a good thing if you want to appeal to the audience I described above.
And really, that’s what E3 week is for. Gone are the days of informing retailers as to what new products are coming. The audience I described above are the opinion makers and opinion shapers in the industry. These same people are aloof to the fact that mobile gaming is bigger than console and PC games, that games like Minecraft and Roblox dominate gaming, and that games like Forza Horizon 5 have 35 million players (nearly the population of Canada) while they dismiss the game because they don’t like racers (I’m referring to many of the big Twitch streamers). But these people, for better or for worse, help guide and direct opinion of the general populous to some extent. And they loved it. They loved what they saw and they loved how it was presented.
More than one reactor mentioned that they were okay with a trailers of games that they are not typically into because they were just so happy to see everything else. So much of the positive reaction is possible because of the heavy hitters that showed up.
And with many of the titles being 2025 titles, Xbox simply did what they had to do to give a great impression. Shades of PlayStation’s 2016 conference in where many of the titles didn’t show up until years later, but the end result was a very important conference for Sony because they looked far and away ahead of the Xbox in terms of content.
The other importance of having 2025 titles is that it subliminally messages to people that Xbox has a future and your purchase of either the console or Game Pass, this year, for Indy or BO6 is one you can make in confidence. “These great new games are hitting the Xbox in 2025…does that sound like a dead machine to you?” So I completely understand why they would announce titles that are that “far off”.
So it was great. My personal preferences of having developers talk about their game and to feature other smaller unique indie titles are already well covered by Xbox events happening later this weekend throughout the year (ID@Xbox showcases) so they pretty much have this event streamlined to do exactly what it needed to do. It’s the kind of showcase that sells consoles and frankly speaking people don’t buy consoles for indie titles (I say this as an indie developer).
Oh, and one last thing, there’s a lot of talk about this conference “saving gaming”. Yes that is hyperbole but that’s how these YouTubers and Twitch streamers make their money. So the timing works out well for Xbox.
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