This is always a double edged sword. MS shows games like at E3 and everyone screams show me gameplay.
Then they do a stream like this full of gameplay with developer deep dives and ppl shout boring.
It's a catch 22 you'll never win.
Don't think it's as simple as that; the right mix must be had and FWIW, I think their E3 this year had a great mix overall.
For me it was great, they had lots of update talk for one of my favorite games of the year, MS Flight Sim, racing will be an awesome addition for the game, annoying to not get any release dates but that was still enough for me to get excited.
It's such a bummer, they have possibly the best game I've played in years on Xbox, big cool updates, one of the highest rated games on next gen, and it won't be elibable for the GOTY award since it's a 2020 release on PC. So close yet so far.
As for the rest. Forza Horizon 5 is going to be awesome, looks mind-blowingly good imo, but the rest was so-so. I played SoD2 a lot back in the days but it's an old game now, haven't even bothered checked out how it is on XSX. Feels like the DLC comes to late. Maybe they're using it to check what the community thinks of stuff they plan to have on SoD3?
Speaking of Flight Sim the racing update is very exciting, I think it'll garner interest from lots of racing game fans who aren't necessarily used to racing with planes (because there's been no games with that in ages), but are intrigued to give it a try.
May also help open the game up further to a wider audience especially once the Top Gun content comes too.
100% True. But most people either didn't read the tweet/blog or chose to ignore what it said.
It's just that after the infamous Inside Xbox from last year, people started to have this notion that Xbox will always strive to have a great showing. People will go with high expectations because they think Xbox owes it to them.
It's a huge mess, and I don't envy the Xbox marketing team at all.
It's weird but at the same time Xbox has to fight harder for attention and props to try catching up with Sony given how each of them performed last gen. Although it feels like Sony's taking that for granted now (for example, there's still no "big PlayStation event" announcement and the insiders vomiting the rumor up time and again look super stupid now for doing so), that's still what things are.
Basically Sony enjoys a lot of built-in mindshare even if they aren't doing much and they haven't really done anything catastrophic enough to start generating a metric ton of negative mindshare. Microsoft has a lot of negative mindshare due to XBO gen and they've been doing a really good job clawing away at that with the new systems, but that also means they have to go over and beyond in some cases to get get some types of mindshare that Sony would get by being more mediocre in those same instances.
Is it fair? No. But that's what things are. Over time though they'll start getting a lot more built-in positive mindshare if they keep making the right moves at the right times.
It was very tame and basic and nothing really interesting. Horrendous choice of hosts with clown hairstyles and fake attitudes. Black guy was the only saving grace as he is quick and to the point without any extra uncesserary shit.
This was more of a Game Pass advertising than anything else. I mean it's fine and no biggie and honestly I did not expect anything big here to begin with considering E3 happened 2 months ago or so.
1 big AAA title would of been nice but it is what it is. This will get a big fat C from me.
Halo Infinite was playable recently and what else will you shown for Forza? Nothing, at this point both of these big titles are already on many peoples Must Buy list including myself.
I was happy too see The Gunk still exists and that 1 new Stray RPG game looked interesting. This show was more for the fans of the games they already love and want more content for, which is justifiable I guess.
Yeah Parris is generally clear-cut and they're enjoyable as a host, I didn't actually have an issue with Kate co-hosting tho. My issue was that there were some awkward moments when they were presenting together, but that might've been caused by it being their first time co-hosting together. If they co-host subsequent events I'd expect the banter and ebb & flow between them to be more natural.
I mean they showed The Gunk but they barely showed anything of it tho? I was kind of surprised how brief the update was, and there was no Bright Memory Infinite, either.
All they need to do to make the show better is get rid of the interviews. Let the devs say what they need to say over the gameplay footage. Like the Stray Blade game was a perfect example of a dev talking about the game during the footage. Put interviews up on youtube later if you must.
I agree with this.
