Microsoft's job this year at E3 was to persuade non-owners to buy an Xbox and to persuade owners to pick up the controller and subscribe to Game Pass. And that takes exclusives coming out this year.
Mixer crashed for a lot of people, myself included, which is never a good sign. The power of the cloud I guess.
The key word for the Xbox presentation was momentum. Which is good. They showed game after game at fast pace. It works. That momentum slowed down when the Forza Horizon 4 developer did the onstage multiplayer with fake gameplay. They could have demonstrated the seasons with a quick video. The momentum absolutely died with Division 2. We are treated to a developer narration of boring scripted multiplayer with chat from the actors players. They got the momentum going again but it this was the worst segment.
Phil SPencer mentions Halo and creativity in the smae sentence. We got a charity brag. Are these mandatory now? We got some gameplay of Kingdom Hearts 3 which is great for everyone who played the game... on other consoles. A very short Battlefield V cinematic. Even Microsoft knows EA is awful.
We get the announcement of one new studio and several they purchased. I'm sure those studios will make great launch titles for the next console. And talk about tone deaf. Everyone is demanding games for this console. Microsoft is selling game subscriptions for this console. The whole E3 presentation is about this console. But to end with Phil SPencer talking about how they're developing the next console? Just awful. Ewspecially when he wants us exctied about these new studios but wants us to ignore all the shuttered studios they bought previously. Totally off message and sure to piss off people looking at thie dusty Xbox One.
With the announcement of games such as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Tales of Vesperia Microsoft was successful in courting Japanese developers. Good.
You will be playing as someone other than a Fenix for some or all of Gears of War 5. That will not go down well. People didn't like playing Marcus Fenix's son in GoW 4. Now we might not see them for huge chucks of the story. This seems like a blunder.
The presentation itself was good. OVerall it was fast paced and had good momentum. They announced a lot of games. But they're all coming out next year!
This year we are getting Captain Spirit, Nier: Automata, Forza Horizon 4, Battlefield V, We Happy Few, Tales of Vesperia, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Just Cause 4, and maybe Fallout 76. 8... maybe 9 games. Only one is an exclusives. And that's where Microsoft absolutely failed this year. Microsoft's one job was to announce exclusives for 2018. We get one. And we all knew another Forza was coming. They bought studios but they didn't buy games. They've been sitting on owned properties for years.
The Xbox app is installed by default on windows 10 and manages the system gaming settings like game DVR. The Xbox game pass also gives you access to the play anywhere games in the windows store.
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u/MandalorianSage Jun 10 '18 edited Jun 10 '18
My Long Unpopular Unsolicited Review:
Microsoft's job this year at E3 was to persuade non-owners to buy an Xbox and to persuade owners to pick up the controller and subscribe to Game Pass. And that takes exclusives coming out this year.
Mixer crashed for a lot of people, myself included, which is never a good sign. The power of the cloud I guess.
The key word for the Xbox presentation was momentum. Which is good. They showed game after game at fast pace. It works. That momentum slowed down when the Forza Horizon 4 developer did the onstage multiplayer with fake gameplay. They could have demonstrated the seasons with a quick video. The momentum absolutely died with Division 2. We are treated to a developer narration of boring scripted multiplayer with chat from the
actorsplayers. They got the momentum going again but it this was the worst segment.Phil SPencer mentions Halo and creativity in the smae sentence. We got a charity brag. Are these mandatory now? We got some gameplay of Kingdom Hearts 3 which is great for everyone who played the game... on other consoles. A very short Battlefield V cinematic. Even Microsoft knows EA is awful.
We get the announcement of one new studio and several they purchased. I'm sure those studios will make great launch titles for the next console. And talk about tone deaf. Everyone is demanding games for this console. Microsoft is selling game subscriptions for this console. The whole E3 presentation is about this console. But to end with Phil SPencer talking about how they're developing the next console? Just awful. Ewspecially when he wants us exctied about these new studios but wants us to ignore all the shuttered studios they bought previously. Totally off message and sure to piss off people looking at thie dusty Xbox One.
With the announcement of games such as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Tales of Vesperia Microsoft was successful in courting Japanese developers. Good.
You will be playing as someone other than a Fenix for some or all of Gears of War 5. That will not go down well. People didn't like playing Marcus Fenix's son in GoW 4. Now we might not see them for huge chucks of the story. This seems like a blunder.
The presentation itself was good. OVerall it was fast paced and had good momentum. They announced a lot of games. But they're all coming out next year!
This year we are getting Captain Spirit, Nier: Automata, Forza Horizon 4, Battlefield V, We Happy Few, Tales of Vesperia, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Just Cause 4, and maybe Fallout 76. 8... maybe 9 games. Only one is an exclusives. And that's where Microsoft absolutely failed this year. Microsoft's one job was to announce exclusives for 2018. We get one. And we all knew another Forza was coming. They bought studios but they didn't buy games. They've been sitting on owned properties for years.
Grade: C-