2015 Microsoft E3 Conference

How many shirts will Phil Spencer wear?

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The indies looked amazing, at least. Some highlights there for Xbox fans I guess (Fallout 4 mods, 360 BC, ect...), but nothing that made me want to buy the console.

I'd give it a solid C. Think that Nintendo and Sony would easily trump it with a big game announcement or two (Metroid Prime or Final Fantasy VII Remake, for example).
 
Windom Earle said:
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Shots fired!
 
Never been a xbox fan, but I thought it was an ok conference. The new controller is cool, as is backwards compatibility. But again I felt the majority of the (exclusive) games are not my thing. Recore might be an exception, but without gameplay it's hard to say.

Hyped about Dark Souls 3 though!
 
Snake29 said:
Sorry to say. They showed some cool things, but their first party line-up is a bit the same and nothing new.

- Halo 5
- Forza 6
- Fable
- Tomb Raider (not exclusive)

Even the games they will show at Gamescome al already known (especially gameplay video's)

Sony can beat them easily with games and other annoucments.
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I agree, their first-party library has generally never done much for me. I imagine this was a good show for the longtime Xbox fans though. Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable...that really covers it.

I'd give this show a B-. The indie stuff really saved it, plus the Rare collection is really awesome. Backwards compatibility is great, I can hopefully pack the 360 up at some point sooner rather than later. Tomb Raider looks really nice visually, but I want more puzzle-centric gameplay and the jury is still out there. Sea of Thieves and Recore could be really good, but I need to know/see more.
 
I don't think the conference did enough of what it needs to do.

Sony dropping the price whenever they decide to will be a bigger deal.

Good games though, if a bit colour by numbers.
 
I can't vote on the poll so I'm just commenting my opinion.
Although I do not own an XBO, I personally think this was the best conference since XBO launch.
 
Decent conference but nothing mindblowing.

360 BC was amazing to hear. Fallout 4 was the best looking game even if most came from yesterday. Hopefully PS4 also gets mods. Gears 4 had a good atmosphere but really nothing new was shown in terms of gameplay. It looked so similar to 3 that I'm a kinda disappointed.

Rare's game looked good but I'm pretty bummed that it isn't a new Banjo. Rise of the Tomb Raider didn't really have too much in the way of "game" to it. I'll pass on it. It's going to get slaughtered anyway this holiday releasing the same day as Fallout 4.

Aside from no Banjo, Halo 5 was the most disappointing thing. Too linear and scripted. That's not what a Halo campaign should be. Warzone looks promising but I'm not the biggest fan of the multiplayer even if it is an improvement on 4.

And they're going to have to do a lot to convince me HoloLens will actually work in its final state as they demonstrated.

Overall, the conference was probably a 5/10 at most. It really depends on how Sony and Nintendo do.
 
Papercuts said:
I think all their game demos were weak. The halo segment wasn't very interesting and the TR one was way too bombastic.
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I think the Tomb Raider demo, if not for the clips at the end was pretty bad. The whole mountain climbing in the middle of a storm. killing of Token black friend off screen, impossible parkour with very little actual tension. It was really disappointing. But everything after that looked really promising.
 
Yeah, no interest in most anything MS does and that was an entertaining conference. Good but not overdone indie spread, BC announcement, cool (probably faked) HoloLens demo, a pirate MMO by Rare, a nice Rare collection for those that like their crap games, Dark Souls III trailer reveal, fancy controller.

I mean, nothing stunning (and the Big Reveal being a new Gears is laughable), but as good or better than last year's Sony conference that everyone seemed to love.
 
I haven't kept up, but Hololens looked awesome. Is the woman (sorry forgot her name) who used to work on that tech at Valve working on it? (Was it Lydia Winters, the person presenting?) It was a great proof of concept. I think an AR + standard VR would be the way to go in the future, or can the Hololens already do it? Being able to see the real world uninhibited and have others see your eyes has a lot of benefits.

Besides that, an okay showing. The Rare pirate MMO is cool. Halo was kind of meh but the War mode is cool I guess but I don't care. Cuphead looks great but it's probably coming to PC right? The rest was just the standard stuff, not interested besides indies that will probably have PC versions.
 
The starting was very very good, with the moddable controller and backwards compatibility.

Now I'm seeing the list of the starting backwards compatible games, and it's nothing really groundbreaking (woops, used a buzzword here). In fact it's extremely limited, and I fear it will just be a reusable indie games machine.

I saw the Hololens reveal so that hololens section was not much of a surprise. My biggest surprise was actually that DS3 snip, I'm surprised Microsoft got that.
 
I feel conflict about this conference. It showed a lot, but the lack of Japanese publisher and developer really showed me a worrisome future of Xbox One.
 
Shouldn't have held for Gamescom. Throw Quantum and Scale in there and the conference goes from a 6/10 to at least an 8 if not higher.
 
I am curious about hololens again as the camera "view" made it seem like it fills the whole field of view, but that's been a back and forth discussion.

And no real megaton games. The backwards compatibility was good, and the controller looks great, but I thought they would have at least 1-2 huge unannounced games.
 
Microsoft currently leads with the E3 torch...

Until either tonight we'll see if Sony has a better conference, or tomorrow with Nintendo's
 
The fact that there's no COD, sports and kinect game taking up the most time feels refreshing.

I'm not sure how you can be disappointed really unless you're expecting "Halo 5 releasing today!!" announcement.
 
6/10. Solid but safe and boring.

A number of the demos were not very good to watch, Tomb Raider and Gears 4 for example.

BC is great, HoloLens looks good but I'm not sold on it and I would question how truthful the demonstration was.
 
It wasn't killer throughout, honestly it was front loaded, but I felt like it was great. A solid B. Looking forward to the publisher shows then back hyping for Sony. It's extremely possible for Sony to "win" against MS's showing but this show was pretty damn good. I expect Sony to hit "A" rank simply because they have been doing great this gen plus they're in the console driver's seat, and VR is my shit. We'll see but great opening to the day!
 
Mediocre conference, backwards compatibility is surprising, and amazing for the people who want it, but at the end of the day, playing old games isn't a big deal to me, and the second half just dragged on, which is surprising given how good their pacing usually is.
 
My biggest disappointments:

Tomb Raider and Gear of War 4 looked underwhelming.

Seems like Crystal Dynamics should delay TR, too (for more polish).

Biggest announcement: BC
 
Too safe. All the demos were pre-recorded. Minecraft looked the most realistic; oh, how I hope that was real.

Some real good content, but nothing with an x-factor. Some of the indie games looked more interesting, but alas, they're only subjected to a montage.

Gear was disappointedly dark. Halo was.... baad. So generic, no vision.
 
7/10 show some demos went on too long like Tomb raider and definitely Gears. Rares IP was not what ppl that loves classic Rare games wanted. I missed that real megaton. BC is good but not for all games?
 
In the first 10 minutes I thought Phil Spencer would get his revenge with his very own Wikipedia Entry:
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Turns out it was downhill after that.
6/10
 
Wow .....

I mean, I know I'm biased and all but that was pretty underwhelming. And as a gamer, I always look for a reason to get excited. Coolest thing of that whole conference was the modding capability for Fallout 4. That Guardians game is right up my alley, but hitting PC so all good there.

Pretty shocking to have such a pedestrian conference at this E3. Guess they really are holding a lot back for Gamescom
 
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