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[Kwansu Dudes]

Original Xbox BC was the best of show for me.

 

[MasterForm]

499 yikes. Good thing i can play most of the games on my pC

And on a PS4 pro for that matter.

 

[HassanJamal]

Bloody hell. I stayed up for this, where the hell were new exclusives. Its all good to see the games shown off a year or two ago finally being released but come on now, no actual new exclusives.

I'm giving this conference a D-.

 

[Wace]

Anthem looked amazing but I gotta ask: I normally only play single player games because of time constraints. Do online players normally talk like this over voice chat?

Replace every third word with "fuck" and "shit".

 

[Musky_Cheese]

Boy that conference sucked all the Xbox hype away. Hype that was months of building

 

[OverturePT]

Looking forward to CrowbCat's downgrade comparison video.

 

[skny]

They showed a lot great games that I'm going to be playing on PC. pretty solid.

 

[ShooterMcGavin]

7/10.

Just a good stream of games all the way through. Nothing "HOLY SHIT" worthy, but still pretty good.

 

[waitwhat42]

Thoroughly unimpressed

 

[Asd202]

We were told 343i had a surprise. Like damn. They shouldn't have said anything.

The surprise was there was no surprise

 

[Theoris]

Sticking with the S, would now consider a PS4 pro for the last of us 2!

 

[Icolin]

Sluggish to start (and too long in length), but the conference found its groove around the time they showed that Dragonball game. From there on out, I thought the conference was pretty good. Metro was the highlight, hands down, and this conference had more variety than there's been in previous years.

The Xbox One X price is a massive letdown though.

All in all, 6.5/10 conference. Not 2013 levels of terribad, but not the fantastic show I think MS needed at this point in time.

 

[AlphaDump]

They did.

my bad, i stepped away for like 20 min to pick up some beer. thanks for the heads up, hopefully it looked good.

 

[ArgyleReptile]

Cuphead, Crackdown 3, and State of Decay 2 were the only games I'm looking forward to. With those, I'll finally be up to 6 Xbox ONE games!

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I was in at 399 out at 499 in at anthem

Anthem is multi-plat

 

[Burbeting]

Almost all 3rd party games looked very good.

But 1st party offerings felt quite weak. Only really interested in Ori and Cuphead, hopefully my laptop can run them.

 

[capslock]

That was...underwhelming? I don't really see a big jump from PS4 Pro, or maybe graphics are reaching DR.

 

[The Giant]

Xbox has nothing. Nintendo and Sony are gonna rip them to shreds.

 

[Aggelos]

Where's Biohazard 2 Remake, The Evil Within 2, Dead or Alive 6?

Where's the JP developers : Konami, Capcom, Square, Tecmo, Sega?

 

[offshore]

In a normal year, that would certainly pass as a decent if unspectacular conference.

But when you've got a $499 machine coming out in a few months, that was... well, dreadful.

 

[edbooneyebrows]

to anthem defeat destiny it has to have gameplay good as destiny.

nobody cares for graphics after 10 minutes.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

The IGN crew on the post show looked genuinely bummed when they cut to them.

 

[Starfield]

7/10 no megatons though

Microsoft's conference is clearly becoming a 3rd Party show-stage more and more every year.

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

That was an okay press conference, They nailed the structure of the show but I'm afraid until Micorosft actively invest in first party studios there conferences will always lack that x factor of unknown exclusives.

 

[Rabid Dwarf 76]

Good conference.

1. Microsoft
2. Comey
3. EA

LOL!

 

[Skyo]

Pretty gd conf, some really cool games shown. Im still confused to what is real xbox exclusive and what is timed. Sea of thieves and Anthem!

 

[Crazyorloco]

People are actually saying this is the worst MSoft conferance? They finally show a ton of games, new hardware ($499, but you don't need to buy it...), and yet it is still horrible? Many impossible to please.

Yeah it's not bad. They showed games. That was the biggest concern, but are those games interesting? I felt only a very few were.

Anthem though ❤️

 

[kanuuna]

Not a single live demo, right? Or did I miss one?

 

[aaaaa0]

Serious Question: How the hell does Anthem, a Frostbite game look a lot better graphically than Mass Effect: Andromeda which is also a Frostbite game?????

The engine you use is less important than what you do with it?

 

[DangerMouse]

Pretty good conference with a lot of games, but very few "highs".

Pffffffffh. Like hell its going to look like that.

.

It's gonna painful since visually it looked so good in this footage.

Anthem is quite pretty. Is it XB exclusive?

No.

 

[Schweinehund]

hmm, kind of surprised to see so many people hating the conference

I thought it was a good variety of games, the ones that stood out to me the most were the third party games. They better hope they can show a marked improvement over ps4 pro in gameplay if they want to sell.

Imo their pitch would be a lot better if there was a 60 fps mode for 1080p with AA, it would certainly impress me more.

 

[Mrbob]

Bioware should get back to making the kind of games they were making before the success of Mass Effect changed them.

They've been chasing what's been popular for awhile now. Remember when they wanted Dragon Age 2 to be the Call of Duty of RPGs? Then Skyrim passed them by.

I'm expecting Anthem to disappoint compared to Destiny 2.

 

[MotionBlue]

Anthem looks amazing. Ori and Metro too.

Where was the first party Microsoft?

 

[Rektash]

Wasn't a complete disaster but not that great either. They showed a lot of games but a surprising number of games looked kinda bad.

They certainly didn't sell me on the XBX with what they had to show.

 

[Rymuth]

Predicted every single exclusive in this conference save for Lucky's Tale. A puddle of water has more unpredictability than a Microsoft conference.

Seriously, those who've been expecting megaton exclusives were delusional.

 

[PG2G]

Anthem looked far better than I can imagine coming out of Xbox One. If the difference is huge I can see myself upgrading

 

[scarybore]

Other than the Xbox compatibility program and the potential of Anthem, nothing really excited me.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Anthem looked gorgeous, but damn, what a waste of Bioware...

 

[Sunset Samurai]

Damn 500 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[Mr.Fletcher]

Terrible conference. Lacklustre games and bogged down early on with a painful Forza section.

So disappointed.

 

[WetWaffle]

All in all, wasnt a very good conference, just console launch exclusives and no word on how long. Enjoyed Ori and that game with the fox but that was it. 6.5/10

 

[PeterGAF]

B+

 

[Ogodei]

Anthem seems a natural evolution from BioWare's old work along with the ground that's been broken by Horizon and Breath of the Wild (and to a lesser extent Xenoblade X, but that's just because of Anthem's focus on the mechs).

 

[Shambalakan]

Conference didn't have any surprise, other than amazing visuals of Anthem.
It was a boring conference for me. Maybe the worst Microsoft conference this gen.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

RIP Microsoft 1st party.

 

[Alucrid]

i do congratulate them on taking exclusivity phrasing to a new level

 

[Machina]

People are being very harsh on this one. The games came thick and fast and a lot of them looked really good

Metro
Sea of Thieves
Anthem
Deep Rock Galactic
Dragon Ball
Ori
Cuphead

They all looked awesome. The bad news for MS is I'm buying them all on PC. They can stick the $499

 

[Dehnus]

Price too high, they better make a good bundle out of it. Like 2 pack in games and maybe a few OG ones. They need to compensate to sweeten the deal,as Sony (if they are smart) will lower the Pro price to hit the wind out of their lungs.

 

[Quonny]

Microsoft completely and utterly failed on getting me excited for XOX. I'm sure people that like what Microsoft has offered for the past 4 years will be content, but man, I am just utterly underwhelmed.

I wanted to see a reason to buy an XOX. I don't want one anymore.

 

[StrikeBack]

Is over?

Is over my friend.