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[bon]

Really boring conference. I'll give it a C+ because they had a Platinum game, even though the trailer wasn't very exciting.

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

Anyone else feels like a lot of the games have a cartoonish style?

 

[Maintenance]

So ntkrnl really did spoil everything, eh? At least it didn't have that 3rd party huge exclusive that Gamespot said (and if that was Kamiya's game, I'll laugh). The overall conference was good, Halo collection will probably make me buy a X1 next year.

 

[Wesker28]

No Kinect, no TV, no music... NOTHING but games
It was a really good conference for Microsoft.
Good job, Phil Spencer

 

[Yaoibot]

CGI/ 10

 

[JakOfTheShadows]

That was a crazy streamlined conference. It was pretty much pure game footage.

 

[urge26]

9/10

No huge surprises, kickass trailers and CRACKDOWN!

 

[SmokyDave]

I thought it was a great conference. Forza, DR3 DLC, Halo 1-4, and Crackdown 3 just convinced me that I need to buy an XBone ASAP.

Witcher 3 and The Division looked great too, but I'll get those for PS4.

 

[KiDdYoNe]

Oh god, Platinum game and Crackdown 3.... they are fucked.

 

[RealityPales]

If Project Beast makes an appearance tonight, PS4 wins by default in my opinion.

 

[.GqueB.]

Hmm.

Not really enthralled.

Though I'm sure Sony's will be worse.

Yup. I expect a lot of sales talk. They pull that shit every year even when the sales aren't that great. This year is going to be brutal. We'll see what happens but I can already see MS being on top here. Saw a few reasons to want a One.

 

[McBryBry]

Cheers to GAF for not going down!

 

[Roshin]

A solid conference, if a little lacking in content. Spencer was great and it was obvious that they had worked a lot on their messaging this year.

 

[kiguel182]

Overall it was a good conference.

They have cool exclusives and the whole Halo collection will keep fans happy this season. The Platinium game seems to have a cool concept but it's all CG of course so we don't know much.

But, on the other hand, there were no megatons. The big third party exclusive didn't show up and there was a lot of timed DLC instead.

As a non-Xbox owner that's good to me but of course for them it would've been a stronger conference with those things.

Still, some really cool games shown so it's good. EA is next let's see what they have to show.

 

[Nilaul]

5/10

 

[Kelsey]

Whooot, sequel to Guardian of Light coming to next gen only.

 

[GazzaScotland]

Fairly decent, nothing that really jumped out to me. Some nice things but nothing to rush me to by an new console.

 

[Nokterian]

And a nice "The NEW Xbox" there at the end.

Kinect is deader than a doornail.

Harmonix am cry.

 

[outunderthestars]

I only saw the last 30 minutes but I really liked what I saw. Phantom Dust, Platinum's exclusive, Crackdown. Lots of interesting stuff, great conference

CGI bullshit trailers are hard to get excited about.

 

[Prompto]

7/10 for me. Pacing was good and the focus on games was nice but there was no really big surprises besides Phantom Dust though thats partly due to the leaks. Too many CG trailers too. Sunset Overdrive looks great.

 

[simplythebest]

No xbox 1, but MS showed off some kick ass shit!

 

[FleetFeet]

All the pre-E3 hype led me to believe MS was going to kill Sony... honestly with the conclusion of the show, I've come away feeling that this was a very lackluster event, most everything shown was known, or assumed correctly beforehand. I think having such a blowout at E3 last year has hampered them this year.

 

[Sweep14]

Considering the hype generated by Phil Spencer statements about their E3, MS conference deserves a 6.5 - 7/10 IMHO

 

[Face it Tiger..]

B-

Reminds me of a Nintendo GameCube conference.

 

[EmptySpace]

ehhhh...it was alright.


lots of cg. what's up with that?

also, the power of the clou- i mean dedicated servers. lol.

 

[UberTag]

Kinect is toast. Harmonix has been left to die.

My pet peeve this year is going to be studio suits standing on stage holding a controller as if they're playing the game they're demoing when they're clearly not.
At least send some random dude out there while you talk so I can maintain some plausible deniability that you're showcasing gameplay and not some staged setpiece.

 

[Sorc3r3r]

Better MS conference in years.

The dominant feeling is that they are still in the "me too", reactive stance, but i think that they are going in the right direction finally.

Overall solid show.

 

[TheStruggler]

ill give it a 7/10 they did what they said games games game showever most the game i wanted from the conference were games i can play on my ps4 with possibly a better resolution or frame rate. Also to many CGI trailers.

 

[Frillen]

Another E3 flop for MS, how sad.

Explain.

 

[Kriken]

Pretty decent conference overall, not too much for me, but they focused entirely on games and gave me some interest in buying an XB1

 

[Cess007]

6/10.

Only actually interested in Sunset Overdrive and Oni. Nothing else picked my interest exclusively wise; from multiplatform, really excited for Assassins Creed Unity, Evolve and Lara Croft 2.

I really hope Sunset delivers and i can justify buying and Xbox One.

 

[foxbeldin]

Overall meh for me. Mostly multiplats, games we knew about, or remakes. I expected more.

Sunset overdrive looks damn cool though.

 

[aeroslash]

Sunset overdrive seems the best to come on Xbox one. Different from everything else and good looking.

The division looks graphically insane.

The worst have been the Japanese games no show except platinum.

If sony does a great show, MS will have a difficult year ahead.

 

[Rad-]

Very good conference. 8/10. If they had just announced something like Lost Odyssey 2 then that might have sold me on XOne.

XO has a pretty awesome fall lineup.

 

[Meatgasm]

Im just happy to see crackdown. I loved the first game to bits.

 

[Guevara]

Very disappointing conference.

High points were the Halo collection and Crackdown, but if anything the trailer convinced me that Crackdown is a long way off.

 

[CorrisD]

A good showing, as Spencer said it would be about games and it really was.

The problem I had with it was we knew about what had to be like 90% of the titles there beforehand due to leaks and announcements, I can't think of anything that really surprised me from the showing. The games that would make me go buy an Xbox One are seemingly next year titles, that being Halo 5 and Crackdown, nothing that makes me want to run to the shop and get one this holiday.

Would give it a B, a good showing but no real surprises, the most exciting titles for me aren't out this year or are multi-platform.

 

[tkscz]

Too many CG trailers, not enough gameplay trailers. Nice to know the game exist, but I would like to see it play. 3/5 from me.

 

[Buckethead]

Outside of Sunset Overdrive, pretty uninteresting conference for me.

Not really interested in an XBone.

It reminded me a lot of a gamecube-era Nintendo conference. A lot of reliance on old IPs, nostalgia, remasters/ports.

Yep.

 

[aronnov reborn]

I'm sure plenty of people enjoyed that conference but it was terrible for me.

If i already had an xbox one I'd be looking forward to Forza Horizon 2, Ori and the Blind Forest and maybe Sunset Overdrive & Halo collection.

absolutely nothing for me to actually go buy an Xbox one yet.

 

[driver116]

7/10 for sure. It felt like there was nothing in there for me tho.

 

[Kuni]

Yeah that was a solid conference. Well presented and games games games. Not too many new games though.

Scaleback was the most interesting announcement. Nothing making me jump out of my chair and buy a bone though.

Good stuff though hope Sony lives up to it.

 

[nickthebiggeek]

Another E3 flop for MS, how sad.

 

[Spehornoob]

Nothing really there that convinces me to get an XBone, but it was a solid conference. Nice to see the focus on games instead of "TV TV TV SPORTS SPORTS TV"

 

[Crosseyes]

Multiplats and lots of CG trailers, but it was games games games.

Found myself pretty entertained through it.

 

[GitarooMan]

Overall it made me excited to play some more Xbox One over the next couple years. The Conker tease was boooo... but I thought Sunset Overdrive looked great

 

[gutterboy44]

Looks like another building\rebuilding year for MS. Much better direction than last year, they basically took the same tone as Sony, games games, indies, games. Seems like they had some solid titles for Xbox fans.

I am really surprised to see that they 100% dropped, "power of the cloud" and replaced it with what it actually is, "dedicated servers" and I don't think they said the word Kinect once. What a difference a year makes.

 

[arab]

overall it was decent but nothing gave me hard wood

 

[BFIB]

No Kinect on that last shot of the console spoke volumes.

MS did exactly what they needed to do. Focused on games. Not feeling their first party titles though.

 

[Mass Effect]

Underwhelming? Average? 5/10?

Wow, thought it was pretty good... There wasn't any like "mic-drop" moment, but it was a steady stream of what I thought were interesting games.

Guess I'm crazy or something.