Avowed - mid, cheap. Missed opportunity for a mature AAA RPG banger, instead… a rated Teen for kids snooze fest. I was looking forward to this one. Dissapointed big time, and I only have myself to blame. What we got today from the initial CGI tease... night and day.
Sea of Thieves GAAS. Not going to shit on this cause these GAAS titles, like Destiny continue to get airtime cause they don’t die…(big problem industry wide) but still. Snooze fest.
More Flight Sim - the fuck? Can’t make this shit a thing with a console audience no matter how much they try yearly or how cute they try to prop it with trailers. It’s a borefest for a super niche audience, mostly not even on the console itself.
Fable - more inengine for a game announced years ago. Facepalm
South of Midnight from Compulsion - "Single A - AA" stylized from former indie dev... meh till gameplay.
Starwars with CGI/In-engine whatever the fuck that was. A female Han-solo with Ubisoft design. Always hope for the good but....but....
Just consider that they could have gone a with non-human protag but that would actually be too diversified, and uncomfortable even for cliché bargain bin writers that plague this industry - specially Ubisoft employed ones. Did nothing for me.
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Indies showing more fucking gameplay is a disgrace for both MS and Sony – all I will say about indies.
PayDay the fuck? Still stuck in the PS3 era design wise and graphics wise. Why would you pick and show this trash?
Persona 3 – ancient port. Would resonate if it was a FFVII Remake/Demons Souls Remake, RE2 Remake quality of touch. At least to Persona 5 Royal level. But nope. Just glad in general Sony didn’t have to show any of the Personal related reels. Phew!
Hellblade II – More exposition. Wait a little longer routine. Fail!
Yakuza – thank god MS is now giving this IP screentime instead of Sony. Phew!
More FLOPOUT 76… initially I thought maybe they decided to do a CUPHEAD clone with the Fallout IP as a side-project – something actually good but nope.
Path of the Goddess – need to see more (OK).
Forza – OK. You know what to expect. Like with Gran Turismo, I’m impressed how these studios and their engines just don’t leap to the next level considering the lack of complexity and focused nature of the game design. Stagnation continues unabated, on both sides. “Where you gonna go?” paradigm.
Overwatch 2 showing on Xbox. ABK crazy. EA and Epic laugh to the bank. No fire gameplay either.
Starfield. Looked OK. Makes you appreciate something like Horizon, and the attention to detail, better animations, the gameplay etc. Of course with Horizon the problem is that thematically/story wise the game is mediocre – courtesy of mediocre writers, and a mediocre creative lead – Guerrilla studios eternal plague. Whoever suggested white/gray for HUD UI and also that small font – fire him. There is a reason games go with other tints. Just hope the font size can be changed at least. The big question for this game will be, can they catch the Bungie magic of curiosity? We’ll see. That human facial animation pipeline is atrocious after decades of the same criticism… tone deaf!
InExile Clockwork (OK). Not a fan of the artstyle. Reminds me of Bioshock Infinite – and those are not good memories but again it’s just the artstyle. Need to see more.
If you thought this showcase would light a fire under Sony’s ass…. Lmao. MS, once again, manages to put out a mediocre show full of fluff with no big hitters for a spine shaking punch. Nothing like a MS showcase to make a bad Sony showcase look passable by comparison. This is why they’re in third place and will continue to be so now, in the near, and far future. Not proper competition - simple as that. Mediocrity personified....
2 out of 10.
At least with the Sony Showcase I got Phantom Blade0, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Plucky Squire, Foamstars, Spider-man 2, Helldivers 2 to look forward to.
The wait a little longer show once again. This time to 2024/25 and beyond.
I will say this about the showcases. We have witnessed the most important epochal triumph of our time. NO Call of Duty showing on either showcase. Such a breadth of fresh air, only to be polluted by mediocre showings.
Ghosty boy is laughably delusional. But you do have to, in some ways, appreciate a warrior on war footing. Prob a late teen finding out the kicks of console warring.
