XboxEra Community Hangout |OT8| Waiting for E3 2023

Im so excited for Mount & Blade 2 man, might eff around and be my GOTY lol.

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It was an ok show

I wasn’t even planning on buying anything in October until they announced it was releasing on the 25th. It’s gonna be great lol.

I want to see what Sony will do with a PS+ in 2023. The amount of AAA and AA games arriving on Game Pass launch day is insane! Also, later this year, Microsoft will launch the ability to buy Xcloud games, which will boost Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions. PS+ is fantastic, no doubt, especially with Ubisoft games. But without “Day One” releases, competing against Microsoft’s service will get more and more complicated.

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that hardspace shipwrecker game looks cool. I just watched the era review of it and im gonna check it out

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Same here. It’s probably too soon to say, but right now I’m not feeling this new crew at all.

Last year there were a lot of demos during one of the Geoff shows for Xbox, and Blacktail was among them. Maybe you can still find it. I played the demo and it was really damn cool. Atmosphere was great.

Dead Island 2 graphically looks nice, definitely better and cleaner than DL2.

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Also what were those awards for best Xbox and PS games? All multiplatform games. At least pick exclusives then, lmao.

Checked for Blacktail but there’s no demo listed. It definitely has my interest though.

Really? I think Dying Light 2 looks better. DL 2 is an AA game and I see DI 2 as being an “aa” game. lol. Basically, a slightly lesser version of DL 2.

Of course, it’s going to be all about combat and gameplay. Remains to be seen if it’s as good as DL 2.

Hmmm, well, cleaner. I thought the faces looked quite good.

But, then I haven’t played DL2 myself. Just videos.

Faces looked good. Environments didn’t look great to me in Dead Island 2. Also, Dambuster is the development studio and they released Homefront Revolution in 2016 which was a disaster all around so I definitely have my worries. lol.

But I do have interest in it and am looking forward to seeing more gameplay of it. Just have to wait and see.

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Pretty much.

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Exactly. None of those character designs or voices popped for me. But it’s just one trailer.

my idiotic “5 reviews in 5 days” challenge is done. uploading the soul hackers 2 review now. Madden 23 tomorrow, SH2 Thursday, DAH2 Reprobed Friday.

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Yep!

I don’t really remember caring much about the trailers of the first game, but the demo sold me on it. It didn’t take long for me to start liking the characters.

Randy did say they had some of the writers from the first game on this. But these characters seemed more like Borderlands 3 characters to me, just not as well made as all the other games and when they open their mouths it’s cringe.

But, yeah, we’ll see.

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Wonder if the reason they went with a presence like this is because they will have XO for new reveals from XGS and updates on upcoming big but previously announced XGS games. In the past Xbox had their own stage shows for GC.

Perhaps a better direction and with a schedule no less. Easier to pick up on the interest of certain game(s) you want more on. Not to mention, they have their own booth, so more fun for everyone.

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I guess, but this seems more like a after show thing, a extended thing. A show where they’d have new reveals, both first party and third party would be great. Perhaps that can happen next year.

XO this year if it happens should be a perfect opportunity to show updates on Redfall, Starfield. Maybe finally a update on Avowed, updates on any of these games by their many studios.

They will show things when they are ready, no use to rush things.