LOL same. like 9 of the games shown there were genuinely Triple A quality and the rest was still competent enough to be worth a purchase let alone a go on GP. It feels like people watched something completely different and i tuned into a different showcase.
Except for High on Life, I cannot remember the names of any of the indie tripe they showed off. I wonder how many people could actually name 9 games that were shown without cheating and looking at the summary etc. I remember the French/Canadian woman with her cool accent but not so much the game she was representing. I can just go back and watch the Max Payne cutscenes, no need to play her 1 FPS game. Also what the fuck was that side-scrolling game near the end? Pantymate? Pedicure? Pedestrian? No idea don't care. It had no place in what I/we hoped/expected would be when we finally see an Xbox blowout of all the stuff they've been working on.
Instead we got... here's what I genuinely remember:
- "Hi I'm Sarah Bond. I don't give a shit about games but the money is great. Here's
all we have for a look at all the games coming to Xbox in the next 12 months"
- Redfall - shit - is this
really an Arcane game?!
- a load of other filler I can barely remember, High on Life was there somewhere.
- Finally Forza Motorsport! Looks really good but......... basically looks like GT7... Both FM7 and GT Sport came out in 2017 so what did Turn 10 do with the extra year? Environments look better than GT (fair enough) but again nothing that screams "yeah well worth an extra year"
- a load more filler... something about extra Sea of Thieves and Grounded content (does that need to be in the showcase?)
- (me) OK we're like almost an hour in and no sign of Avowed, Perfect Dark, Hellblade (already seen gameplay for this so not that bothered but still), Fable, Gears? (they did the Kojima announcement thing so don't tell me they couldn't have slipped in some gameplay from aforementioned titles even if they're still over a year out)
- OK erm... there's only about 25 minutes left.. surely something big is coming right?
- Wow Phil Spencer looks like he ate something bad and then went 10 rounds with Mike Tyson..
- Kojima: "
please be excited yoroshiku onegaishimasu"
- OK here we go Starfield... let's see what all fuss was about..
- No Man's Skyrim? Seriously? Sure we shouldn't have expected anything else but this looks.............. rough. Facial animations look decent for one of these massive open world games.. 1000 planets? Can we not just to keep it to five extremely polished, handcrafted planets? Less can be more!
- Fucking hell I sat through 80 minutes of shit for an underwhelming look at Starfield. Oh well it's almost 4am better go to bed.
Funny I somehow could
sense it was going to be shit as soon as they opened with Redfall and that fake-ass sassy game commentary. I hoped that shit would have died with the original Division reveal but... nope.