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[mekes]

Not much grabbed me, always like the look of Forza games, Cuphead still looks promising. Bit underwhelmed with the conference sadly.

 

[Hagi]

2/10 not one single game that would make me buy an Xbox. Such a shame.

Anthem looks amazing but I'll cop that on PS4 or PC.

 

[Real Hero]

Anthem has zero personality

 

[JMY86]

There were some great games shown but definitely disappointing for sure.

 

[Rellik]

😂
This gif is better than that whole conference.

 

[Canucked]

I am sold on some games but not the X

 

[kadotsu]

That was the worst showing MS' first party has ever had.

 

[dragonelite]

7/10

 

[GeoramA]

Yeah that was pretty bad. Way too many timed-exclusive indie games shown, absolutely zero surprises, and another $499 price announcement out of Phil's mouth.

The multiplats were the only good things.

 

[LeonSPBR]

6/10. Ok show but the price for XBX is just too much.

 

[Baroquemantic]

That was a B conference for me. Anthem and some of the indies were the standouts for me.

 

[Matt]

I thought that was a decent conference. I don't have an Xbox but the two games that I wish I could play one day are Sea of Thieves and Cuphead. Both of those look great.

Didn't catch whether or not Metro: Exodus was exclusive, but that looked solid as well.

It's not.

 

[eXistor]

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I am really, really down on Anthem. It feels like every game's just going to be Destiny in a few years. Please, someone somewhere leave some meaty single-player games for the rest of us?

Yup, I agree. We're very much at the point where the AAA industry is becoming standardized to the point where I can't even recognize games anymore. I paused Anthem to look at it and if I didn't know it was Anthem it could have been just about any AAA game out there. It looks good for sure, but it also looks homogenized like everything else. Everything is becoming online co-op or competitive games that are relevant for a short while after fading into obscurity except for the biggest of names. Single player games are still out there, but we're seeing less and less of them in the AAA space and it's a crying shame.

 

[paulogy]

So I can't figure out what 42 games they mean and what 22 exclusives there are. Of course I totally lost track during that ID@Xbox sizzle reel, and am not sure if they count Crimson Skies and the other games in the Xbox One X Enhanced section, but here's what I have. Maybe everyone else can help fill in the details:


Xbox E3 2017
42 Games, 22 Exclusives

01. Forza 7 (ex)
02. Metro: Exodus
03. Assassins Creed Origins
04. PlayerUnkown's Battelgrounds (launch ex)
05. Deep Rock Galactic (ex)
06. State of Decay 2 (ex)
07. The Darwin Project (launch ex)
08. Minecraft
09. Dragonball Fighter Z
10. Black Desert (launch ex)

11. The Last Night (launch ex)
12. The Artful Escape (launch ex)
13. CodeVein
14. Sea of Thieves (ex)
15. Tacoma (launch ex)
16. Super Lucky's Tale (ex)
17. Cuphead (ex)
18. Crackdown 3 (ex)

ID @ Xbox games

Ashen (launch ex)
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Middle Earth: Shadow of War
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (ex)

Xbox 1 BC:
Crimson Skies

Xbox One X Enhanced:
Final Fantasy XV
Resident Evil 7
Tom Clancy Wildlands
Rocket League

Anthem

 

[wapplew]

DbZ is highlight, 7.8 conference.

Pro
Good pacing, a lot of games, BC

Con
Some demo feel too long, some trailer fall flat. No new first party announcement other than expected Forza and Ori.

 

[LukasTaves]

Loved the amount of games they showed, but Ms completely shitted the bed with the 499 price tag, and not having a single AAA game announced other than forza 7.

Pretty terrible trailers for most of their games, SoT (which I played and found awesome) looked incredibly boring as did State of Decay and Crackdown.

 

[Dantrist]

They pretty much only need to show good demos of God of War, Spiderman and Days Gone to beat MS.

Just Spider-Man will do.

 

[Madness]

$499 is DOA. Almost $700 CAD. I can already play Gears 4 in 4K and HDR with my Xbox One S. Very disappointed at that price.

 

[Realyn]

People are listing Sea of Thieves and Crackdown as excluves ...

Crackdown was shown at: Gamescom 2015, E3 2016.

Sea of Thieves was shown at:E3 2015, E3 2016

Fuck almighty this is so bad.

 

[Data Ghost]

I honestly thought this was the year Microsoft kicked Sony's ass.

NOW.....I can't wait for the Sony conference.

 

[Corpsepyre]

Nothing I've seen makes me want this console. Most of this will be on PC as well. I'm happy with what I have I guess.

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

People want games, they show games, 22 of them being console exclusive and apparently they still get crapped on haha. Love it

 

[Gowans]

Watched with my xbox crew, loved it, Anthem looks unreal.

Day 1 for X, just need a preorder link.

 

[Occam]

How does this prevent the Xbone thing?
Xbone X. There.

 

[Skux]

If you aren't a PS4 or PC owner, I suppose the Xbox One X might look appealing if you're wanting the best version of multiplatform games.

But for PS4 and PC owners, there's just not enough that makes me want the X for $499. The PS4 exclusives are so much more appealing right now, and the third party experience is still good enough that you won't want to upgrade.

 

[Grazzt]

4/10 conference. Worse than last year, probably the worst I've seen.

 

[Elixist]

Conference a solid B






Sea of thieves is still what the fuck do you do

you look at the pretty waves and enjoy like ps1 gameplay and an indie devs first fps combat i guess.

 

[DragoonKain]

So no Ori on Xbox One ever???

 

[Starfield]

Doesn't Microsoft get it? Games is what is the selling point for consoles. Where are the Exclusive Games Microsoft???

 

[noonche]

That wasn't very good. There were a few neat things but nothing really grabbed me. Seems like Xbox well have one of their worst lineups in a while.

 

[Barzul]

7.5/10 lots of games, they just weren't exclusive to Xbox. I'll be playing on PC for the most part, glad Play Anywhere exists.

 

[geomon]

There was nothing there that's worth paying $499 to play.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

glad to see Angry Joe jump in and kill off the fervent overexcitment on that YT stream

"hell yeah that's worth $500!"
"really? come on guys, it really isn't"

 

[BadWolf]

Feel like Sony will destroy this conference tomorrow.

 

[Shadax the wizard]

Xbonex is a monster.

Metro stole the show for me.

 

[Henry Jones Jr]

Oh wait, I forgot about the shouting guy. Lowering my score to a C+

 

[Admodieus]

This is what happens when the off-years for Halo and Gears intersect

 

[MrFrankFontaine]

Oh man. That price. Don't think I'll be picking it up day one without something like Halo 6 that I really want to play. I guess we'll need to see what actually launches with the system.

 

[Jimm]

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.

I feel the same, the platformer with the Fox was the best game shown for me and I can run that on my PC, every other game I can play on PS4. I honestly expected more from the first party.

 

[CrustyBritches]

As a PC owner I'm glad I just bought a used PS4 Pro. There's nothing here for me.

I think this conference sold more PS4 Pros than Scorpios.

 

[U2NUMB]

I actually like it .. plenty of games I will play and stuff like Original Xbox working on x1 is a damn amazing thing and they should be commended for making that happen.

Player underground was a huge get as a launch as well. Gonna wait and play it on x1 now.

Only real letdown for me was Crackdown.. I am so very worried about that game.

People in years past would have loved a conf like this where its pretty much just game after game after game.

 

[KainXVIII]

3/10 - GAF reactions was far more exciting.

 

[wamberz1]

7/10

Would have been 5/10 if not for Metro

 

[akileese]

It's like the JP developers abandoned Xbox and just left it to bleed in this E3 conference

Xbox has zero identity outside of North American and Europe though. That's been a problem for MS from the very beginning. All that content goes to Nintendo and Sony unless they want to pay for it, like with Blue Dragon. I really wish they would too but ah well.

 

[Madchad]

Dont want to sound harsh but i was praying they did not snatch another Tales Game. Thank god.

METRO, ORI & ASHEN were the stand outs for me

And again to much pointless talking just show the games.

 

[wumster3000]

You guys are drama queens

Really? Elaborate please? What exclusive gave you a major boner? Ori gave me a boner, but nothing else. Show was trash.

 

[Hupsel]

Anthem looked great. Nice presentation keeping game trailers coming.

But...

Zero exclusives. Zero games that really want me to buy the system. No reason at all to buy a Xbox over a ps4 if your friends aren't on Microsoft's platform.

 

[Alucrid]

was forza 7 the only new first party title announced?

 

[Acrylic7]

How they fuck they gone let DBZ be the best thing at their show?

 

[theignoramus]

Oh is Anthem not an exclusive? Two of the best looking games shown are from third party developers and they will be available on other platforms. This wasnt a good sales pitch for why I should buy the XB1X.