Hawk The Slayer
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Whichever one had Resident Evil 9.
This forum definitely has a lot of love for Japanese games vs what is more mainstream like CoD/Fortnite but Twitter/X has a bunch of xbox "personalities" who shill the crap out of it on that social media platform and some commonly troll competitors. Kloberille, Colteastwood, Tom Warren, Gaz, PeteOvO, etc. They often rally the troops in these events. I wouldn't trust that poll more than Neogaf.Oh I agree last years was better. I don't think any of the shows this year were great, just noticing the variation. Looking at Geoff's polls for example as of right now:
Xbox - 67.6% give it a B or higher (63.4k votes - polling is still open)
SGF - 54.8% give it a B or higher (118k votes)
SoP - 51% give it a B or higher (152k votes)
With that, Xbox looks like the clear winner of the 3 with SoP being the worst. On GAF though it's currently 50% for SoP as the "winner". So I just figure it's either a skewed Sony fanbase here or a larger representation of Japanese style game enthusiasts here, since SoP had the largest proportion of that.
They focused on showing new games instead of more trailers of games they've already shown. I appreciate that. Planet of Lana II, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy and Keeper were all surprises. I would've liked to see something new from Rare (God knows what's happened to Everwild). but overall I think the Xbox showcase was very strong. It's just not about Xbox that much anymore, so it's not what it used to be.State of Play so far. It didn't have a lot of games, but a lot of them were things I'm interested in, including some PSVR2 titles.
Summer Game Fest show had more games I'm interested in, but also a ton of games I'm not.
Xbox Direct had some high points (like Mudang), but missing Fable and Perfect Dark was huge. Also CoD ending was fucking stupid.