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Xbox Games Showcase July 23 - Ready to get back to work Chief?

Are you ready


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SegaShack

Member
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What's the point here? They both have long hair?
 
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SpongebobSquaredance

Unconfirmed Member
Yeah. Sony started the conference with the best selling game of all time, by dollars sold.
Still a game released for the Xbox 360/PS3 generation and not a new game at all.
To suggest Halo still has the selling power it once did is ludicrous.
Which I didn't do. I said Halo is a big IP. With exception of Forza its still the biggest fish they have. No matter how much it faded in relevance in the last 10 years, there are still more than enough people excited for Halo, which is proven by the success of MCC's PC release.
Keep making fun of Sony. They at least know which end is up.
I am not making fun of Sony. I liked their conference. I am making fun of you.
 
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SpongebobSquaredance

Unconfirmed Member
it means that it xbox is not competing with sony but with nintendo(graphics)
Aight. Any game with colour and non realistic asthetics is competing with Nintendo. Gotscha! Makes sense!
 

SegaShack

Member
It's insane to me that Battletoads was shown at E3 2018 as just a logo (kind of like Fable), and then a year later they showed actual gameplay. Now its been two years since Battletoads was revealed and that game is nowhere to be seen? Somehow we had a new Streets of Rage announced and come out in the time between now and the last Battletoads news we got.
 

dalekjay

Member
It was good, diversity of games, and with game pass I want a lot of small experiences conjugated with big experiences, it sold me on gamepass, also in the future it will make more sense than now for some people, because that was a shift for a Netflix-ish model and people where expecting E3 model in a sense of big hitter after big hitter approach
 

magaman

Banned
Aight. Any game with colour and non realistic asthetics is competing with Nintendo. Gotscha! Makes sense!

MS may as well be. Their disjointed messaging and shitshow-quality showing can't hold a candle to what Sony brought to the table. May as well play in the same sandbox as Mario at this point. At least they're targeting the same demographic.
 

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I'm looking for new exciting next gen games!
Where are they? Trailers not up yet?
 
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SpongebobSquaredance

Unconfirmed Member
It's insane to me that Battletoads was shown at E3 2018 as just a logo (kind of like Fable), and then a year later they showed actual gameplay. Now its been two years since Battletoads was revealed and that game is nowhere to be seen? Somehow we had a new Streets of Rage announced and come out in the time between now and the last Battletoads news we got.
Hopefully it got redone or canned.
 

SegaShack

Member
Hopefully it got redone or canned.
I have to agree with this. If they redid it then I'm happy to wait. Would just like an update on what's going on with the game at least. MS has so many valuable classic characters and properties with Rare and hasn't used any of them since Banjo in 2008, unless you count the rerelease of old games via Rare Replay.
 
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SegaShack

Member
I'm not the hugest Halo fan but I do enjoy Halo 1 and 2 and have good memories of them. This game looks fine but once again, we were hearing for years how this was this HUGE game and the most expensive game ever made. I'm not seeing where all the budget has gone to.
 

ZZZZ

Member
I'm so fuckin disappointed, holy shit.
I'm not even going to talk about Halo.
The 3 interesting games that could have saved this horrible conference, Fable, Avowed or Hellblade.
There wasn't even 1 whole minute of footage of them combined.

What a complete shitshow, and i thought the goodbye Volcano High was trash.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
That was alright. Game Pass just gets better. I don't have it, but I appreciate what they're trying to do.

Halo looked good, but I expected more. This is supposed to be a flagship title.
 

Nickolaidas

Member
If you’re MS you don’t let a game like Halo come off as a disappointment. It’s pretty much their flagship title for launch.
Oh, no arguments there. I'm just saying that the conference had some good stuff in it, just not where the majority of people were expecting.
 
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SpongebobSquaredance

Unconfirmed Member
We agree on this one. Battletoads deserves so, so, so much better than what was shown.
I have to agree with this. If they redid it then I'm happy to wait. Would just like an update on what's going on with the game at least. MS has so many valuable classic characters and properties with Rare and hasn't used any of them since Banjo in 2008, unless you count the rerelease of old games via Rare Replay.
I feel like Streets of Rage 4 already filled up the itch for a sidescrolling beat em up. Give me 3D-Battletoads and make it a hard as balls with fun combat and coop. Can't be that hard.
 

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
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We gonna get 5 new threads from Lady Bernkastel in the next 2 days
 
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Jokerevo

Banned
I really can't believe that MS signed off on Halo and they allowed Hellblade 2 to even appear and yet have nothing to show. Some of the decisions in this showcase are really showing how broken MS is right now.

Halo finite is literally being dragged to its knees by lockhart. That's the real narrative here. Those 12 flops are being downclocked by lockhart. Jesus christ.
 

Venom Snake

Member
Well, Everwild looks interesting.. Waiting for some actual gameplay.

I have no experience with Phantasy Star, it looks like I have a lot of catching up to do because I like the art style. A lot.

Forza will be awesome as usual, no doubt about it.

The Gunk? I don't know right now but it looks nice.

Halo Infinite? Let me put it this way:

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Klayzer

Member
Omfg. Just got around to this.... where are all the posters insisting the games were gonna curb stomp the PS5 showcases graphically ? You guys look like tools now 😅😅
There were quite a few posters that were absolutely insistent that Microsoft had something that was going to put Sony to shame graphically wise. I'm excited for quite a few of the upcoming Xbox games, but nothing was shown that's superior to what Sony has shown so far.
 
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.
All? Lol, not if they remove 22 other games first. If all it does is promote Game Pass then the deals really are nothing and the only thing they do is hold this industry back.

sony is competing with pixar.
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Made by the same one(s) who made that cool Majora's Mask trailer. But Everwild is no slouch, there just isn't much they can do with a cel-shaded art style. I don't know if they can have PBR or RT but it's still a pretty game, I just hope there's more to do than in Sea of Thieves where there's no story or any sort of progression. No leveling up, just exploring... very boring concept but fun at times.
 
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SpongebobSquaredance

Unconfirmed Member
sony is competing with pixar.
They are good at doing so. Still I don't get the comparison with Everwild. It obviously tries to be something different with its asthetics then Horizon and Kena.
 
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