Like why would you ever even bother considering this a possibility.
Because it happened last year? (Note I said Games LIKE, not those exact games.) I mean, I want to see more rather Japanese, classically-tuned releases. So much of it just looked like very similar 3rd Person things with similar guns, character motions, light rendering, etc, etc. Even if something looked more, say, cel-shaded, or more comic in style... XSEED, Falcom, Capcom, Atlus, ... there's a lot of companies and games that could have broken up the samey-feel of most of Sony's big releases. A small focus on Gravity Rush 2 would have felt great, too.
Even something like Nier 3 or such would have had that different type of feeling to it, that'd break up the western triple-A stagnation feel.
*watches trailer for Bound* Y'know, alongside Last Guardian (which has like... 1 cel-shaded-ish element now, lol), this would have helped make the conference feel more diverse. I always appreciate how Microsoft has some moment of "Indies that don't look like they belong at E3 in 2016". Seeing Stardew Valley and Bloodstained pop up in MS's ID@Abox just feels nice.
Don't worry, SAB, Tokyo Game Show will save us in having more interesting looking games.
Though yes, I'm getting so tired of those types of games. Days Gone is pretty much a perfect summary of what feels like a majority of "open-world" games coming out or just being a FPS.
Haha, yup. As a person who plays more Xbox, but still loves more JP games, TGS is always a weird place for me the past few years. They have the games I want, but they're not often released for the system I play more of... this can of course change with the game releases!
Even though Recore from the MS conference looks nowhere near as polished and "expensive" as something like Horizon Zero Dawn... it feels so much more like a "game", rather than a "cinematic experience". Recore also has the Sandstorms changing the entire world as a mechanic, which reminds me of Ed's father trying to map the ever-changing Earth in Cowboy Bebop. That kind of stuff makes me wanna jump in and play so much more than pixel counting screen resolutions, or the push towards realism.