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[iconmaster]

WTF happened to Battletoads?

Oh gosh.. new Battletoads was the last thing that show needed.

 

[bender]

Didn't catch the conference. Flight Sim or Forza Horizon make an appearance?

 

[intbal]

Generation already lost for Xbox, we'll play game on gamepass on Switch and Playstation in 5 years.

Honestly, I think that's what Microsoft wants.

 

[Tesseract]

Didn't catch the conference. Flight Sim or Forza Horizon make an appearance?

flight no, forza yes

 

[Qudrat Rabbi]

“TRUE CREATIVE FREEDOM”

 

[Lone Wolf]

Where was all the gameplay? I can’t believe I may be going PS5 next gen. So far I’m not very impressed with either, but Xbox has disappointed me much more.

 

[Gamernyc78]

For reference here is Sony's ps5 exclusives and console exclusives shown during presentation

PS5 exclusives:

Astro Playroom (anyone played Astrobot knows even a pack in will be brilliant)
Demon Souls (need I say moree lol )
Gran Turismo 7 (looked gd and actual gameplay with raytracing)
Horizon 2 (cream of the crop in any showing BTW)
Spider Man(awesome and hyped)
Ratchet Clank (next gen all the way with gameplay)
Returnal - looked fire imo)
Sackboy big adventure (looked fun and good)

Console exclusives

Deathloop (looked gd)
Ghost wire Tokyo (looked gd)
God Fall (have high hopes looked gd)
Kena (looked great)
Jett the Far Shore
Oddworld
Project athia (looked so good)
Solar Ash
Bugsnax (looked meh but u never know)
Volcano High (only trash looking game imo)

There were more games but thy are multiplat.

People say Sony's show was mediocre? Smh thk God the consensus on internet has spoken and gamers to professionals have stated Sony's show was solid to great, massive showing with gameplay as well. Compared to what was shown today Microsoft show was a travesty imo of course.

Sony show solid 8.5-9
Microsoft Show 4.5-5.0

 

[MMaRsu]

The year of the CGI trailer

 

[TheContact]

off topic but just got an email from steam that the Fable Anniversay is 75% off ($8.74), ends tomorrow.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Japan will save us from this woke shit.

Anyway, Halo didn't look bad to me, just not impressive. But it kind of nailed the CE feels for me. And its a launch exclusive. I still wonder what PS5's launch title is. I might not jump into next-gen right away this time. I find the current to be fine still, something absolutely not the case with PS360 from 2011-12 onwards.

 

[FunkMiller]

Both showcases were underwhelming.

Only one came from a company with an overwhelming market share.

There’s Microsoft’s problem.

 

[Nikana]

Yup.

Way more games and better too. Forza's 2 second game engine clip looked leagues better than GT7. GT7 looked no better than GT Sport.

And even better, half the games shown are on GP.

Tell Me Why and that other story game with the cardboard kind of cut outs are definitely not the kinds of game I care about playing, but at least better than Volcano High. lol

All the games are on GP.

 

[hybrid_birth]

We need gameplay from Xbox that wow us graphically like horizon zero dawn did.

I didn't see that today. Still excited and getting both xsx and PS5.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Its so hard not to laugh. I think its time for Xbox to turn into a 3rd party publisher. Everything in the Sony conference was way better. Hell Ghost of Tsushima and TLoU2 look way better than anything they showed today.

I guess the saving grace for this... You can play all these unimpressive games for 10 bucks a month.

 

[HaveButOneLife]

Watched the show without looking at the forums. It was a really good showing, 22 launch exclusives over a wide range of games, Halo looked like Halo again, Stalker 2, Avowed, Fable, Everwild etc, etc. Almost all of them on Gamepass.

Great, right?

Then I came back here. Wow, what a load of salty bulltish.

Probably because you don't get to show trailers for an event that was hyped up for 2 months without disappointing people. That's what they've done here.

22 timed exclusives literally mean nothing, that time could have been dedicated to the other 6 studios or full on gameplay reveals, and Fable may have been announced too early when they could have planned all of these games years ago for the first year of their console's lineup. Face it, Microsoft blew it only for them to announce announcements at yet another event, but then again... they acquired mostly Indie studios.

 

[Fordino]

I still can't believe how last gen Halo Infinite looked. I mean, I - I - I thought they would've ... added trees? Grass? Awesome explosion effects?

No ... it ... it looked like an Xbox S game ... on 4K.

Jesus.

I completely agree, there were just fields of flat grass with trees darted around, it’s really poor.

I suppose compared to Horizon 2 it is running at 60fps, but even so the Series X has a 12TF GPU, it should be doing a lot more.

There should be shitloads of enemies coming at Master Chief, with awesome particle effects, and exciting moments, what they showed was current gen (Jaguar CPU) stuff, less than a handful of enemies on screen at a time, and a sparse environment.

Was really underwhelming.

 

[J_Gamer.exe]

Everything was running in real-time on PS5.

What was even running on SX here they didn't say and showed on pc previously so.... not good.

 

[Roman Empire]

At the end of Destiny for XsX showing it said 10th November, did I miss something?

The DLC has been delayed to 10th November. Bungie made an announcement 2 weeks ago about this.

 

[Kagey K]

Aaron dodged the Xbox Live Gold question. The mystery remains.

 

[CatLady]

I don't get it? Why can't they fund big games like sony, what's up with the story and cinematic crap?
Halo is the biggest disappointment so far, look so samey and the graphics are on par with this gen, not a leap or anything. Plus "we have a really really big game" is such a turn off these days.

What big games? A Spiderman expansion and Astro, a ftp cartoon game with bad graphics and a few timed exclusives for launch? Horizon 2 was the only big 1st party game I remember Sony showing and it was just a CGI trailer and it is NOT a launch game.

 

[Jtibh]

I went into this all excited.
Then halo started and i was like is this 360 gameplay? The fuck is this shit?

Right out of the gate i was let down.
The rest of the show was garbage .

The words world premier was so fucking cringe.

I dont even know what to say about this show as there is nothing to say.
Not even a fucking hellblade 2 trailer or some gameplay.

Or gameplay in general of anything here.



The whole show was utter shit.

Only 2 games stand out and that stalker 2 and the new remedy game.

Nah man xbox is already fucking weak from the start.

And with all games on gamepass and pc what do i need the xsx for?

You only buy an xbox if you have no pc. Buy gamepass and you play virtualy for free but that "free" comes at a hefty price and that is content and quality.

None of the games shown screamed aaa big budget and thats probably due to gamepass.

I am not drawing comperisons between ps5 and xbox show.
I rate this show as xbox only and i have to say i havent seen such a poor showing from them in years.

Can they go any lower then this? Did ubisoft set the bar for the industry and everyone is following their marketing?

Honestly this is the first next gen cycle where i am not excited for the release of any new console.
And i am in this since the 2600 .

What a waste of my time

 

[Thirty7ven]

The worst part about Halo was just how boring and lifeless it was. 343i is one dud of a studio.

 

[Jtibh]

Haha

What big games? A Spiderman expansion and Astro, a ftp cartoon game with bad graphics and a few timed exclusives for launch? Horizon 2 was the only big 1st party game I remember Sony showing and it was just a CGI trailer and it is NOT a launch game.

Haha you blind fool cgi trailer....stop spreading bullshit

 

[Self High Five]

Didn't catch the conference. Flight Sim or Forza Horizon make an appearance?

No for flight simulator. You can play FH4 best on Series X

 

[Aggressive Carrot]

Can't say I was totally disappointed. It would have been nice to see more gameplay in the trailers though.

 

[MasterDerico]

Was expecting at least a date for Cuphead dlc...Nothing!

Man, that show sux, next gen kind sux.

Why they rushed, a new gen in the end of 2021 would be perfect. More time for games and no pandemic crisis. Damn.

 

[hemo memo]

Neither Sony or MS have made the argument for an IMMEDIATE hardware purchase.

But I'm probably going to get the Series X because there seems to be a growing list of optimized games.

Assuming the PS5 will have greater demand and less supply, I can put it off for now.

Other than Gamepass as a great deal to try different games. No reason to buy this console. Playing the same games “better” is not enough. It’s a new gen so I want new gen games. If you have an Xbox one X you could play the same games. If I want to play games “better” I would build a PC. I want what can’t be done on a previous gen.

 

[KAL2006]

After Sony have released Last of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima. This was Microsofts moment to show and not tell. They spent the entire generation beating we promise we gonna have quality exclusives. The moment has arrived to show that and they failed. To show CG trailers and not even know the genre of a game (I'm looking at Everwild), this ain't the time to just show CG trailer or in engine trailer. We have been shown games far off from Microsoft for those games to either be cancelled (Fable Legends, Scalebound, Phantom Dust) or hyped but turned out to be B tier or average game (ReCore, Crackdown).

We needed a moment like the first gameplay reveal of Ghost of Tsushima where you introduced to the game in the form of gameplay.

How am I supposed to be hyped for Everwild, Fable or Avolved. What if Everwild is a Animal Crossing type game or strategy game I'm not interested in that genre, what if Avolved is a Outerwilds version of Elder Scrolls, smaller in scope. What if Fable is a flop like Fable 3. These ain't sequels to games that have already been successful in their previous entry. So for a first showing they should have shown mind blowing gameplay.

This was Microsofts time to say look we have a AAA new IP, or we can reinvent our old IP and get you hyped. Instead we got a bunch of VG trailers and Halo that looks like more of the same with basic graphics.

 

[Kuranghi]

Oh lord look at this:

What are they DOING here, this looks like the same fidelity as an X-Com game when you zoom in on the units.

 

[Steve.1981]

That was a good show, I thought. Didn't blow away the PS5 showing completely, but was better. For my tastes, anyway.

New Fable from Playground is real, so I'm delighted. Halo looked really good, confirmation of open world has my attention. Everwild looks a bit different & a bit special, I really want to see some gameplay from it. Avowed was a very nice surprise for me, as I thought it would be a possible mid-gen title if real, so that was a real bonus.

I'll be checking out the Hellblade 2 dev diaries. Looking forward to the Outer Worlds expansion. Keeping an eye on a few more titles after today as well, like Stalker 2. I know nothing about that one, but it was intriguing. In fact after today, I'm feeling really good about both PS5 & Series X to be honest. Think this next generation is going to be an absolute blast. So much to look forward to. Happy days for us gamers

 

[GeorgPrime]

Wrong, but keep believing that.

Ok i just checked it

"Console Launch Exclusive" means that the game is coming to Steam and when the game launches on the console side of things it's coming only to Xbox and not PlayStation. ... If all those games are exclusive to Xbox and PC then that changes things.

So still no reason to buy an Xbox for it when i have a good gaming pc. Additional i can get a shit ton of Mods for a bad game to turn it into a good game.

 

[azertydu91]

Wrong, but keep believing that.

Oh no he is right we happy few was console launch exclusive and came out on ps4 even after MS bought the studio same story for a lot of other "console launch exclusives"

 

[Moses85]

Microsoft showed me, I don’t need a Xbox Series X at Launch. Man, this was weak, so disappointed.

 

[AV]

Back and not trudging through 30 pages, so... underwhelming, right?

Stalker 2 and Fable confirmation is about as exciting as it got. That's it. No solid dates, just tons of trailers for stuff that could arrive at any time in the next 2 years. Am I missing something big? Did we get a solid list of what's gonna be available on XSX when it launches? I'm sure it said something like 22 launch games but they weren't exactly clear on what those were.

 

[hemo memo]

Microsoft showed me, I don’t need a Xbox Series X at Launch. Man, this was weak, so disappointed.

Exactly. You can just wait for it to get cheaper. You can still play the same games.

 

[Kerotan Frog]

A Hellblade 2 gameplay demo/trailer would've saved this for me, but we didn't get any new footage, dates, info.. wow this sucked.

 

[GlockSaint]

What big games? A Spiderman expansion and Astro, a ftp cartoon game with bad graphics and a few timed exclusives for launch? Horizon 2 was the only big 1st party game I remember Sony showing and it was just a CGI trailer and it is NOT a launch game.

I'm not comparing it to the ps5 reveal, they said they have 15 studios rn, they don't have that many established ips like sony. They have the money to fund AAA or AA games but they churn out this crap. They don't have gow, uncharted,tlou like games. I genuinely want them to make good games and take risks because I'll buy their stuff on pc if it's good but sadly it's not.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

All the games are on GP.

Really? Didn't know that. Even better.

 

[Redlight]

Probably because you don't get to show trailers for an event that was hyped up for 2 months without disappointing people. That's what they've done here.

22 timed exclusives literally mean nothing, that time could have been dedicated to the other 6 studios or full on gameplay reveals, and Fable may have been announced too early when they could have planned all of these games years ago for the first year of their console's lineup. Face it, Microsoft blew it only for them to announce announcements at yet another event, but then again... they acquired mostly Indie studios.

Nothing? If you have an Xbox you get to play virtually all of those games for the monthly price of Gamepass.

That's virtually nothing.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Haha

Haha you blind fool cgi trailer....stop spreading bullshit

I mean, you really see how amazing Sony's 1st party games are visually when the haters think it's CGI.

But to be fair, Hellblade's 2 engine is also phenomenal. I can't wait to see how much or how little will be sacrificed visually in the actual game. It was such a letdown to not see anything Hellblade 2 related.

 

[Nikana]

Really? Didn't know that. Even better.

I could be wrong but im pretty sure Booty said that. Id have to go back and check.

 

[scalman]

whi its not 4k , and why its not forzais not releasing in autumn as allways . ?

 

[GermanZepp]

Grounded looks very fun. I liked.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Weird gen... I like what PS and Xbox are doing with the actual boxes for the most part yet at the same time I'm not seeing any reason to buy them. I didn't feel any different watching this compared to watching Sony, aside from the Bugsnax meme factor and the Volcano High cringe-factor.

Stupid as it may sound the most interesting thing here for me was Destiny 2 coming to GamePass, just because I have GamePass for like 2 more years, I (sort of) play D2 on PC, and because Bungie is being total shit about crossplay if I want to play with Xbox friends I would have needed to buy content a second time which I just am not into (I used to double dip on so many multiplayer games and I'm totally over it in the crossplay era). In theory this could bridge the gap but without real crossplay I might not even bother playing D2 in the next year anyway.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

For reference here is Sony's ps5 exclusives and console exclusives shown during presentation

PS5 exclusives:

Astro Playroom (anyone played Astrobot knows even a pack in will be brilliant)
Demon Souls (need I say moree lol )
Gran Turismo 7 (looked gd and actual gameplay with raytracing)
Horizon 2 (cream of the crop in any showing BTW)
Spider Man(awesome and hyped)
Ratchet Clank (next gen all the way with gameplay)
Returnal - looked fire imo)
Sackboy big adventure (looked fun and good)

Console exclusives

Deathloop (looked gd)
Ghost wire Tokyo (looked gd)
God Fall (have high hopes looked gd)
Kena (looked great)
Jett the Far Shore
Oddworld
Project athia (looked so good)
Solar Ash
Bugsnax (looked meh but u never know)
Volcano High (only trash looking game imo)

There were more games but thy are multiplat.

People say Sony's show was mediocre? Smh thk God the consensus on internet has spoken and gamers to professionals have stated it was a Sony solid to great massive showing with gameplay as well. Compared to what was shown today Microsoft show was a travesty imo of course.

LOL.

OK, your List War in an Xbox thread is the best thing ever. To make you feel wanted and loved, all games on your list are 10/10. Even Volcano High.

 

[TheGrat1]

uh rift apart was just jumping though, nothing more. did you see the gameplay trailer? not talking about the announcement trailer, which was very misleading, talking about the GAMEPLAY trailer.

Yes. Yes I did. Ratchet was swapping out entire levels. Geometry, lighting, NPCs, environment scripts, enemy AI, the works. PS5's SSD can completely saturate it's game-use RAM pool in under 2 seconds with compressed data and we saw that in Rift/Apart. The Medium showed two versions of a level running simultaneously and allowing you to trigger a palette swap. Meaning both are in RAM simultaneously and there is minimal RAM swapping. TitanFall 2 did this back in 2016. If what Sonomashine said was true then TitanFall 2 did it first and all of these devs have been excited for SSDs for nothing.

 

[Kagey K]

Interesting that Geoff just said there are a bunch of games that he knows about that were supposed to be already announced or shown, but haven’t been because of the difficulties of working from home.

 

[Dory16]

For reference here is Sony's ps5 exclusives and console exclusives shown during presentation

PS5 exclusives:

Astro Playroom (anyone played Astrobot knows even a pack in will be brilliant)
Demon Souls (need I say moree lol )
Gran Turismo 7 (looked gd and actual gameplay with raytracing)
Horizon 2 (cream of the crop in any showing BTW)
Spider Man(awesome and hyped)
Ratchet Clank (next gen all the way with gameplay)
Returnal - looked fire imo)
Sackboy big adventure (looked fun and good)

Console exclusives

Deathloop (looked gd)
Ghost wire Tokyo (looked gd)
God Fall (have high hopes looked gd)
Kena (looked great)
Jett the Far Shore
Oddworld
Project athia (looked so good)
Solar Ash
Bugsnax (looked meh but u never know)
Volcano High (only trash looking game imo)

There were more games but thy are multiplat.

People say Sony's show was mediocre? Smh thk God the consensus on internet has spoken and gamers to professionals have stated it was a Sony solid to great massive showing with gameplay as well. Compared to what was shown today Microsoft show was a travesty imo of course.

Somebody put the Xbox lineup next to that. It seems to me that the Medium takes the cake here. Silent Hill is back. Avowed, Fable, HB2 all look super next-gen but we'll have to wait years for that gameplay.
Sony is expert at pacing a conference, I think that's what they did better than MS.

 

[Mass Shift]

Lets be real here. For the long run we know who's killing it

Everwild actually looked fantastic. I'm looking forward to that.

 

[The Alien]

For reference here is Sony's ps5 exclusives and console exclusives shown during presentation

PS5 exclusives:

Astro Playroom (anyone played Astrobot knows even a pack in will be brilliant)
Demon Souls (need I say moree lol )
Gran Turismo 7 (looked gd and actual gameplay with raytracing)
Horizon 2 (cream of the crop in any showing BTW)
Spider Man(awesome and hyped)
Ratchet Clank (next gen all the way with gameplay)
Returnal - looked fire imo)
Sackboy big adventure (looked fun and good)

Console exclusives

Deathloop (looked gd)
Ghost wire Tokyo (looked gd)
God Fall (have high hopes looked gd)
Kena (looked great)
Jett the Far Shore
Oddworld
Project athia (looked so good)
Solar Ash
Bugsnax (looked meh but u never know)
Volcano High (only trash looking game imo)

There were more games but thy are multiplat.

People say Sony's show was mediocre? Smh thk God the consensus on internet has spoken and gamers to professionals have stated it was a Sony solid to great massive showing with gameplay as well. Compared to what was shown today Microsoft show was a travesty imo of course.

Every single "console exclusive" that you listed from Sony's show is a timed exclusive and will be available at a later date on XBox.