2015 Microsoft E3 Conference

How many shirts will Phil Spencer wear?


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So people only wanted MS to show Scalebound/QB/Crackdown which they said would all be at gamescom? Now it sucked because of that.

MS wanted to show a lot of stuff at both.
 
Too bad I already bought one 2 weeks ago :(

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lol, j/k

sigh.. this shit still.
 
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, the series still looks too much like a tryhard Uncharted. More of the same stuff from the reboot. I'm going to pass on that.
 
Sony has to do a few simple things to way outdo MS..

announce Kingdom Hearts 3 as an exclusive and show gameplay + release window
Show Last Guardian *wink wink
Announce GT7
show that RPG by the Killzone dev
show new God of War
show Persona 5 with Release date
show epic Uncharted gameplay section
2 or 3 more surprise AAA announcements
great indie games

that would absolutely blow what MS just did out of the water for me.

I mean just last guardian and gg rpg would be pretty huge.
 
4/10 conference for me.

Cuphead was intresting.
Hololens was excellent

Tomb raider reminded me so much of uncharted 2&3 , not in a great way.
the rest was meh. gears was way too dark i coudln't see sh*t.
Halo ..well didn't excite me. and the burst of indies reminded me way too much of sony last year..
fable legends doesn't look that great IMO, and that ( yet another moba game ) really look lifeless to me.
backward compatibility is ok , but since it has restrictions i see no reason to be excited by this.

Ps: no need to bring a car in your conference , just like there is no need to bring a dancing star ( remember dance central ? )
Would have been better with actual gameplay from forza than this.
 
Are mods for fallout 4 exclusive to xbox one on consoles? If so I guess I'll be switching my ps4 preorder

I got the impression that they were, but maybe others felt differently. I thought that this would be through some Windows / Xbox architecture.

The guy from Bethesda also preceded that announcement by going on and on about working with Microsoft.
 
No price drop. Guess MS is gonna ride out $350 till the Holidays.

Will be interesting to see if this changes if Sony drops to $350 tonight.
 
Sony has to do a few simple things to way outdo MS..

announce Kingdom Hearts 3 as an exclusive and show gameplay + release window
Show Last Guardian *wink wink
Announce GT7
show that RPG by the Killzone dev
show new God of War
show Persona 5 with Release date
show epic Uncharted gameplay section
2 or 3 more surprise AAA announcements
great indie games

that would absolutely blow what MS just did out of the water for me.

that's a pretty good list, doubt they are bringing all that even if they had it don't forget Sony participates in all the conferences not just E3
 
Just watched it - was a bit late. That showing of Hololens with Minecraft was brilliant. First time I've been sold to the idea of it at all.
 
I came out of the conference less enthusiast towards gaming than I was before.

Outside of the BC it was so very very weak and safe and uninteresting.

Best new game was Cuphead and the highlight was Dark souls 3 because I'm a huge DS fan.
 
It was a well-oiled conference with some good reveals, I feel like they muted the crowd during trailers a lot though - I like to hear the crowd cheer at stuff.
 
Rare game looks amazing.

New controller looks nice.

Backwards compatibility is cool as fuck - I get to try some 360 games since I never had one.

Halo 5 looks okay - not looking forward to more Prometheans.

Fallout 4 mods are really cool - neat feature.

Tomb Raider looked more of the same as the last one...which isn't a bad thing.

8/10
 
Started off good but went quickly downhill in the middle and did not make it up at the end for me.

6/10
Would have been 8/10 if it was last year but BC this late in the generation I see no reason.
 
I'll be stunned if Sony can upstage this.

I'll be stunned if they can't lol

BC is cool, but I wanted more games. Can't say I was even remotely interested in any of the new announcements except for DkS3, if that counts... Which I'll be playing on PC lol
 
bit of a letdown. Biggest thing out of it was BackC and I liked recore. There was no new BK. Nothing amazing. The Elite controller was a bit of a surprise. Other than that the conference was like any other MS E3, Forza, Halo, Gears being the big games. I did like the fact that there was a lot more gameplay this year and less prerendered stuff.
 
As an X1 owner, I was losing my shit with the BC + that new Controller. I was so happy MS was finally fighting back, and they were in the zone!

Then..I kind of felt the conference lost steam, and then kind of just...ended. I will admit, that has to partly do with myself. The games they showed were just, okay for me. They were fine. But they are also what I expect, and I'm also kind of burnt out on some of those kind of games. So all in all, I felt they just started out really strong. And then it just kind of...yeah.

I don't know. I would probably give it a C- or C overall. Because the content itself was all solid and okay. But it was just kind of okay for me. I feel like if the BC and the controller were NOT in the conference, I would have seen this conference as a very solid..and okay conference. Which actually isn't a bad thing.

So yeah. I don't know. I sure love Phil Spencer and his shirts. :D
 
Underwhelming. Was recore and Gears 4 the only actual "reveals" that we didn't see anything before already?

I'm not trying to hate or anything, but the lack of solid gameplay for CG trailers shown last year demonstrates how bad an idea CG trailers are. They obviously don't have completed vertical slices to show since those trailers were too early.

Was Phantom Dust mentioned among those games coming to Gamescom?

So the phantom dust CG trailer was not known to the actual devs of phantom dust, so they didn't know Microsoft were going to tell people it was a remake. (it was just a multiplayer competitive game). When they approached MS to ask for the $$ to make the game Microsoft told people was coming, they said no.

Phantom Dust is canned
 
The Fallout 4 mods announcement and the 360 digital and physical games coming to X1 was the only thing that peaked my interest, but those were two huge megatons. I hope Sony can announce something similar.
 
I'd give it a C-
Hololens looked cool, but I'm always weary of prototype tech until it's fully released.
Halo trailer was a decent start.
BC was a nice extra, but BC has never really been a mass market selling point, especially when you're talking two years post launch.
I'm sure someone will like that controller, but definitely a niche product.
Cuphead looks cool, still coming to PC AFAIK? Indies getting some video time is always good but most could be in Sony/Nintendo conferences just the same.
I was only half watching the presentation and honestly thought the Gears video was of a Gears 1 Remaster, not of Gears 4, I could see so little, not a great way to wrap up.
FO4 mods stuff could be cool, but unknown if it's also on PS4 and still better to just get the PC version.
Tomb Raider looked solid.
EA...
Forza 6 was Forza.

I don't give a damn about CG trailers when it comes to relevance to the games they're supposed to represent.

Conference should have been half as long, had EA stuff presented by MS in about 15 seconds, a Gears demo that was actually visible, and even if the rest was the same that would have bumped it to C/C+. Simple not enough actual 'Here's an awesome new exclusive with gameplay footage!'

Ooh. C-? Your write-up certainly detailed why you felt that way, kudos. Interested in your views on the rest of todays shows.
 
6/10

Would be 4/10 if it wasn't for BC. Very average, safe conference.

You give BC a 2/10 boost? like if it were an 8 , BC would make it a 10?

I'm kind of amazed people sell their old systems if they are so hyped for this... unless your 360 broke, then I can sort of see it.
 
It was a very good showing by MS, their best in several years at E3.

But it just felt rather "been-there, done-that" to me, certainly nothing shown made me even pause to consider jumping onboard the Xbox train again.

I'm sure plenty of people will be hyped by it though, but I wonder how many of those were already predisposed to what MS has always offered.
 
9000 Gamer Points just for beating Battletoads! lol

Haha, imagine that!

Cuphead was the highlight of the show for me with Rare's game looking intriguing too.

Not much interest in anything else they showed. Am I the only one who thought that was kind of weak and very safe? Lots of CG trailers, even for that controller. Disappointing.

Not just you, it did feel like a safe and predictable conference. Really wish CGI trailers from both 1st and 3rd parties would just fuck off at this point. I'll take it over MS's kinect heavy 2010 and 2011 conferences though.
 
I didn't hear "Only on Xbox" or "Xbox Exclusive" during that part. Maybe I missed it, but I was listening for it.

I heard, "We've been asking Microsoft for this feature for 10 years." I get the feeling it's Xbox One exclusive. He didn't specifically say what you quoted though. We'll see.
 
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