As I posted in the other thread, it was a good "games show" (a lot of great third-party stuff and a healthy balance of indies and AAA, single-player and MP), but it was a very poor "PlayStation Studios" show -- which is what everyone expected and rightly so after 20 months.
We knew about Spider-Man 2 going in the show and that remained the biggest thing they showed to us. 2-3 other announcements (SSM's, BP's, Team Asobi's) and 2-3 more gameplay footage for announced games would have made this a 9/10 or even a 10/10.
Calling it a PS Showcase was a complete and utter lie. Mixing in indies and PSVR2 made 0 sense. Those already had their own State of Plays. With Summer coming up, they should of just had them at Geoffs show or something.
This whole thing felt like a 2 different State of Plays put together. It should have been only called PS Showcase only if it was majority of 1st party. Extremely disappointing to me personally. Even a title logo splash would of made me happy for like the next Sony Santa Monica game or even the new Naughty Dog IP.
What's upsetting is that they skipped a show last year and made the fans and general public believe that their show was going to be full of megatons or at least some cool surprises. Capcom once again carried with Dragon's Dogma 2. Alan Wake 2 was great as well, but those are 3rd party titles that could of just had a YouTube or blog post release.
You can argue there were three 1st party games - Helldivers 2, Spiderman 2 and Fairgames I guess? I don't know if I consider Marathon a 1st party even though they own Bungie, it's still a multiplatform. I don't consider Minecraft 1st party either even though MS owns them, it still available on all platforms.
I am interested in Marathon, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2, FF 16 and that Square Enix splatoon thing. Only because I am one of those weird people who is into silly MP competitive games like that. It's something different from Square so.
Meh... overall both hardware manufactures are a fucking joke one.
One is having a shitshow of managing studios and the other is too fucking busy sleeping and being tone deaf with their fans and showcasing nothing of interest. Meanwhile, Nintendo is sitting here with the weakest piece of shit hardware and laughing in everyone's face with Zelda TOTK. What a joke of a generation so far :/ sorry but I am a sad panda gamer today.