Assassin’s Creed looked great but I’m already sold on that game. And Star Wars looked surprisingly good, I was feeling sorta lukewarm on it but that presentation made me a lot more interested. Everything else was whatever.
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This exactly.
The PoP remake re-announcement with a candle and release year was…laughable, I’m sorry. And there was no real surprise at all.
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It got people fooled to believe there would be a gameplay reveal.
Mediocre showcase but still, second best showcase of all the shows. They shouldn’t have cancelled The Division Heartland and while im not a mobile gamer at all, Assassin’s Creed Jade no-showing was surprising and hope they do a console port of it as I love Odyssey. No Beyond Good and Evil 2 despite Henderson saying that a trailer has been ready for over a year. If true, they should have shown it near the end of the show. I understand maybe not wanting to show it until after Outlaws releases but still, years away, show the damn game. And Prince of Persia remake being a logo was a waste of everyone’s time. Either show like 30 seconds of the game or don’t bother. No new Far Cry or Ghost Recon didn’t help.
Anyway, Ubisoft was the second best showcase for me due to Outlaws and Shadows. Of course, Ubisoft is my favorite company, publisher and developer so no real surprise here. lol
State of Play was third and Summer Game Fest was fourth for me respectively. Astro Bot and Lego Horizon Adventures were the only games that made either of them worth watching in my opinion.
Grade wise for me -
- Xbox / B+
- Ubisoft Forward / C-
- State of Play / D+
- Summer Game Fest / D-
This!
I told my buddies in party chat at that moment “surely this can’t be all they have right. Kidding?” and then it truly was just that, lmao.
Also, BG&E2. I think it’s safe to say RIP?
You’re a tough critic. 
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Haha. I rate shows differently than others. It’s all about what im getting out of each and every showcase. The more games I get out of them, the higher the grade. Most people rate shows in a general sense. I stopped doing this coming into this generation as I looked at it as making no logical sense because why would anyone who’s watching the shows care about what others think of it if they themselves loved or hated it?
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A very sound and healthy approach. If more people only thought about how the actions of these companies affected them and them only, there’d be a lot less gnashing of teeth.
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I totally get it. Objectively I get that the Xbox show was amazing and everyone loved it, but just for me personally, the only trailers that sparked that hype moment, where I was spontaneously smiling or shouting yeah!, were Starfield and Dragon Age. Most of the rest were either games that I’m not that into, or a game that I’m excited for but the trailer left me cold or didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know. So for me personally as a player and my specific tastes, it wasn’t an A show.
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I hate giving numbers to anything. So I’m just going with…
Xbox was a banger, I hate the word but it simply was, lol.
Summer Snore Fest
Ubisoft was good because of SW and AC, otherwise 
State of Play was 
Future Games Show was good with at least a handful of games I want.
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Exactly. There will always be things that companies do that I disagree with and whatnot but at the end of the day, it’s all about the games and where am I going? I’m not quitting gaming so I just try my best to ignore/get past all the bullshit and just concentrate on what I can actually control and that’s the level of interest I have in gaming and the games themselves.
I completely understand your point of view because I felt the same with the 2022 Xbox Games Showcase. Too many Indies/mobile/live service games that were of no interest to me. Only 5 games out of 25 or so were of interest to me on that show and none of the 5 were new reveals as they were all previously announced.
Shattered Space looks awesome and I love the horror/spooky theme they’re going for with it and Dragon Age was of interest to me but was waiting for the gameplay reveal yesterday which made the game day one. Love the art style, world and combat system.
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Tom said there’s a trailer waiting to be posted. Not sure if it’s true or not, but best to act shocked to see the game comes back like its first announced.
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A show is meant to be enjoyed my many though donor should be rated objectively and not according to someone’s preference. Just like a game. If a racing game is a masterpiece but the person reviewing doesn’t like racing games, he shouldn’t be giving it a lower grade because of his personal preference. So when scoring a show it needs to be looked at what were the objectives and if the team at Xbox delivered a wide variety of games that were of high quality to a diverse audience. And with that reasoning it becomes easy to see why the show deserves a close to perfect score.
Everything is subjective and at the end of the day, who actually cares how anyone else “rates” a games showcase? The whole thing is silly and serves as yet another vector for controversy. People need to just stop with the nonsense already.
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I understand that but I don’t view any showcase in this way because it makes zero sense to me. Why would I care if someone else loved a show but I hated it? Or vice versa?
For example, majority here don’t like Sony’s games so let’s say on a Summer Game Fest, they showed you 20 games and 10 of them were Sony games that majority here don’t like, is it still a great show for those who don’t like Sony’s games? I would say probably not. Granted, they could acknowledge that the games perhaps look great and are of a high quality but if that still results in them not caring about the games themselves, would it even matter? Again, probably not.
I will always view showcases and games on a personal FOR ME level. Will never understand why anyone would look at it any other way. For example, Elden Ring just sold 25m copies. Awesome but that doesn’t change the fact that I have zero interest in playing that game, never have and never will.
Play the games that are of interest to you and ignore the games that aren’t. It’s what I do and I would say that it works to near perfection for me. 
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Have a feeling maybe even MS has underestimated how this game in GP can potentially do wonders for their hardware sales. I truly hope so because their hardware is awesome. Probably won’t be enough for them to start reconsidering their new direction, but still.
Right, right. I remember seeing that tweet a few days ago. But didn’t he say it was ready a year ago? If true, tf are they waiting on?
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They have to keep the momentum going forward. One CoD won’t change everything, but it is definitely the start they need.
I don’t know the thought process over at Ubisoft. This is the same company that closed down Ghost Recon BR when it was almost done.
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If you rate something and make it publicly available I think it does matter yes, or else why would you be discussing it here on a message board and giving it a score?
You see I completely disagree on your take on Sony games. I can still look at a conference they do or a State of Play and say objectively if it was a good showing or a bad showing even if I have 0 intention of playing any of their games. I have never played Helldiver and don’t want to get anywhere near it, yet I still wouldn’t go ahead and call it a bad game because I’m not interested in it.
Look at the last State of Play for example. Sony showed nothing of interested to even their core fanbase except for Astro Bot, Monster Hunter while a big game is 3rd party, and Concord had no originality, doesn’t stand out from the 5v5 shooter crowd, isn’t free to play and isn’t something PS5 gamers asked for. So it’s not surprising to see the overall gaming circles give it a bad grade.
If you look at overall grades online I think it gives a good idea overall, but someone giving a lower grade to something simply because ‘‘it’s not my style’’ is not the way to go. It’s as if I’d give a knife a bad grade because I don’t like cooking, just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Like you say play the games you want and ignore the ones you don’t like, but then why do you grade something based on the stuff you didn’t like in it then? Also, if you make your score public means you expect the discourse or else giving away the score serves no purpose, especially if the only reasoning behind the score is ‘‘personal reason’’.
Just my 2 cents.
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I’ve been through this with Pete enough to know that this will end with a agree to disagree lol
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