Reaction: Credit Where Credit's Due, We Got Plenty Of Gameplay At The Xbox Showcase

In agreement here. While there were no megaton announcements was great to almost see pure gameplay.

I like way more this type of shows. For me as an Xbox user even the last state of play (RE4, SF6, Callisto Protocol) was better than the 2021 xbox showcase, in that showcase we only got one new big game announcement that launched before this year showcase (Forza Horizon 5). I'm tired of CGI trailers for games that are coming in 3 or more years, I don't want to see avowed, hellblade, fable and all that until they have release dates. Yesterday showcase was awesome, sad about Forza going to 2023 but it looks incredible, Redfall and Starfield as well. Keep going in this direction Xbox, you're doing fine

Completely agree. In terms of how they presented themselves this year they knocked it out of the park

But ... Wo Long reveal doesn't have any gameplay in it 🤭

the polls after these events are pretty pointless. you KNOW there were Playstation fans going out of their way to say the event sucked, and the same will happen when Sony has their next big event. Microsoft showed off lots of gameplay, announced a lot of games for the next year, etc. yea maybe whatever game you may have wanted wasn't there, but what's the big deal?

When Xbox set up their show from the outset as a Showcase for the Games we can expect to be playing within the next year, you don't expect any CGi trailers and big game announcements of titles not due for many years to come. I didn't expect Fable, Perfect Dark etc because they are more than a year away.

With games that are up to 1 yr away from release, you really expect to see just Game-Play. You shouldn't be relying on CGi at all by this point in the development cycle...

What good is another CGI trailer for games we know are still in development or some 'token' Game-play example specifically built to give an impression of what they are going for but only going to change (or be cut) from the final release and then sparking criticism about 'changes' (size/lack of puddles, different Visual look etc) because its only a 'representation' of what they were aiming for and not a slice of the final product.

I have said for many years, I want E3 to show me what games I can expect to be playing before next E3 when they show me what the next year has in store. You only need more if the year ahead is a bit 'lacking' but E3 to E3, MS have released more 1st party AAA exclusives than Sony (MSFS, FH5, H:I vs GT7, H:FW) and look like they have more in the next year ahead too (FM8, Starfield, Redfall vs GoW).

Point is, I want E3 to set-up the next year ahead. I don't want/need CGI reveal trailers for something that's 5yrs+ away, I want Game Play video's of Games I can play before next years E3 event which will give me Game Play of the following years games. We all complain that games get announced too soon and then drag on drip feeding CGi, concept Art, snippets of info etc for years and years...

Watched it with my kids and thought it was a really really good show,some great looking games coming soon,really didn't get the negativity that I was reading on here last night.
On a side note regarding negativity Ive noticed that its usually the same people that are negative on here and then nip over to push square and post more negative Xbox comments.

It's true. I wanted to see more gameplay for Minecraft Legends, and specially Ara: History Untold, since it was a cool trailer, but I needed to see if the game is differente from Civilization or Humankind.

Yeah the production and pacing of the show was definitely top notch, one of the best we've seen in a while. Though 80%+ of what was shown didn't really move me, I appreciate how they presented it yesterday.

Not only did they have gameplay, they had SILKSONG gameplay.

Ya can’t top that!

Overall I think it was a great show with plenty of gameplay trailers and with the emphasis of what can Xbox gamers expect for the next 12 months. Could have been better? Sure, Hellblade 2 gameplay, a peek at Fable and Perfect Dark would have been fantastic, sadly it didn't happen. Plenty to look forward to nonetheless.

" but opinions further afield are more mixed."

Are you implying that Sony fanboys and the usual PushSquare suspects (visiting Pure Xbox) were not pleased with the Microsoft's showing?? I'm absolutely shocked, shocked to the core I tell you 😂😂.

I feel Microsoft still haven't gotten the balance quite right but they're getting there. If you took out Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 the pacing would've been better.

@SplooshDmg
Ya, I agree, but at the same time, I think gamers have been hard on MS about the studios they bought and also I think MS marketed the studio acquisitions with too much optimism.

You look at the acquired studios and really, the realistic picture was that most of them spent 1-3 years releasing games already in progress and then started work on what I would call completely MS games. Not to mention the COVID situation.

I would expect from next year forward for MS studios to be delivering more consistently every year, and have games more spread out through the year achieving their stated goal of a first party studio releasing a game in each quarter.

It is very impressive that they are going to release Starfield, Redfall, Minecraft Legends, and Forza in the first half of next year. Makes me think that they have a bunch planned for the second half as well. Maybe Fable, Hellblade II, and Everwild plus Halo Infinite, Sea of Thieves, and Flight Simulator expansions?

@SplooshDmg @armondo36 At the same token they’re giving their own poll to Xbox fans…the same one here that usually vote games with gold offerings an A…

I'm happy to see a lot more positivity in this thread. The harping on exclusivity and delays gets very tiring and doesn't even make sense to me.

It was a good show, lots of good games (including for PS, even Switch fans. Add in SF6 and some of the indies we saw at other shows and there's a heck of a lot of games to play this year), and a heck of a lot cheaper with Game Pass if any chunk of it interests you. It'll be interesting to see what gets added to PSPlusprem going forward in that regard as well.

I'll be rewatching it probably later, which is more than I can say for any other of the shows other than Devolver which had like 5 trailers and the rest was Suda51 ham acting. Tomorrow is the extended showcase, right? Looking forward to that as well.

I’ve been an advocate of gameplay over cg teasers.
What I’ve not been an advocate for is expansions for existing games, pc only and mobile games, filling up an Xbox box show in their place.

Show was far too long for what they had to actually show…especially when a lot of this (sea of thieves, grounded, fallout 76, flight sim etc) could have been shown tomorrow…instead of yet another year that should be showing us things we don’t already own. 95mins could have easily been compact to 45 and we lose much of nothing.

I’ve slept on it. Watched the show several times. Seen other peoples views on it. And even if I remove the reality of Xbox having zero first party games out this year. Still having no gameplay from 2018 studios to show us. And still had cg only trailers in there and a kojima game so far away it doesn’t even have a cg trailer… I just can’t see how people can vote the show itself as an A or a B… this wasn’t that.

I agree. I would love it if no one ever showed a cgi trailer again. At this point those all look amazing, gameplay shows what we really want to know.

Thanks to the internet there will be negativity no matter what. Did I see everything I wanted to see? No. However, I saw things that I didn't know I wanted to see (High on Life) as well as plenty of stuff that looks awesome! If you watch an entire presentation of this type there will be 3-5 things for you and a lot of stuff that simply isn't geared towards you depending on your taste. I thought the show as a whole was fantastic! I don't normally watch these shows when they're live but I did this year and I wasn't disappointed.

Let's hope for more at the extended showcase..

Isn’t there supposed to be some big show today for Xbox?

While it may seem like semantics, I feel that the most inflammatory aspect of commenting on these events (and gaming in general) is the inability of so many gamers to see that their opinion is not a definitive verdict.

It is possible that this was actually a perfectly good presentation despite the fact that they, personally thought, "Where's all the triple A exclusives then eh??!!!?? Waaaah! This SUCKS!!!!!!!"

@jcboyer515 Cheers. I did not know you could do that. I think, generally this is a great site. Aside from the occasional, "Is Forza better than GT?" baiting piece, it's a well written, good natured place. The writers seem like a great bunch of lads! It's nice to show some gratitude occasionally.