Julius

WAIT WHAT EDIT: NOOOOOOOO WHY SQUARE

We're nearly 20 minutes in, my optimism is slipping

Denial, anger, and bargaining. Nice to know I'm not the only one going through the stages of grief over Final Fantasy right now

Oh wow we're getting a look at gameplay for it too, good stuff. I've managed to convince myself that opening with this means we're ending on something Final Fantasy. Someone please talk me down from this ledge

Makes sense with that release date, damn that's pretty soon, nice stuff! No pressure on whoever is curating the tracks for this game, but hoo boy, this game could be a licensing nightmare in the future

Wow, starting with Eidos Montréal. This Guardians game better be single player... Also hell yeah, Matt Mercer as VO all day long

I absolutely will get back to this talk about Xbox, and I agree with a lot of what's been said, but I'm struggling to not have Square Enix on the mind right now, walked myself into a bit of a corner by asking that question but then needing to ravage some food before S-E Just one of XVI, that rumoured other Final Fantasy game you have in the works, or, the mainstay, a Final Fantasy I - VI Collection, will do for me here. Have me seriously concerned with XVI not being in the rundown for this, all fingers crossed!

Genuine question for those who feel this didn't move the needle for them in terms of getting a next-gen Xbox: what could Xbox's first party show that would get you onboard? I've been racking my brain the last 10 minutes and I'm drawing a blank, and I mean that as no disrespect to Xbox, but I just don't see them taking the risks I feel they should be at this point in terms of new IP. I think @Hero-of-Time is right when he points to the lack of Japanese games in the console as being a gap they've failed to address consistently, particularly in terms of exclusives. Nothing has really struck me as looking next-gen either, other than maybe Horizon 5, but even that is an open world racing game. There's nothing else that they have that comes remotely close to some of Sony's first party stuff visually, it all looks a little flat? Anyways, I thought Xbox & Bethesda had a really good show, but like others here, nothing really reaching out and grabbing me to the point where I'd buy a Series X right now. Of the games that I did find myself interested in, a lot of them are multiplatform or indie games, and not worth picking up a new console for in my eyes. That Starfield trailer was very disappointing. I understand that they might be going into alpha this summer (according to Schreier), but you absolutely could have put together a great CGI trailer for this game and shown off some mechanics that way. I came away from this not knowing anything more than the release date, and having a specific release date of 11th November 2022 seems very naive in these difficult times. I think the indie games were the strongest part of this show. Twelve Minutes still looks great, Party Animals looks like a whole lot of fun (I need to look it up, but probably by the Gang Beasts team? Seems to have the exact same mechanics at least), Somerville really grabbed my attention (though seemed desperate to draw INSIDE as a point of comparison), and I loved how Replaced looked with its pixel art against 3D backdrops, when that's pulled off well it looks fantastic. Highlights on the indie side of things for me were absolutely the new trailer for Eiyuden Chronicle (which we already knew about and which I'd already backed for a PlayStation copy of) and the spin-off side-scrolling game Eiyuden Chronicle: Uprising (which is the first time we've seen it). I love that art style, I love Suikoden and Suikoden II, and I trust that Murayama and the folks over at Rabbit & Bear will deliver. Forza Horizon 5 does look great, the Forza games are the biggest reason currently that I have to be interested in getting an Xbox (and it's not enough). And I forgot to mention it before, but A Pirate's Life, that Pirates of the Caribbean DLC for Sea of Thieves, looks like good fun too. Imagine it cost them a pretty penny, but absolutely worth it, glad that game has got the support it needed and those who stuck with it are being rewarded for it. Halo Infinite not having a demo drop here seems like missed potential, but not having a solid release date for Holiday 2021, when we have one for Starfield which is just under a year and a half away, is definitely cause for concern. The pessimistic take is that it needed major rework after its previous gameplay fallout and they're going to be grinding away until we get a release date a couple of months out, but what does it say that my optimistic take is that they're waiting to see what the plans of other developers are this Holiday before committing to a date? Still, it's by far the best overall show we've had at E3 from these last few days, better than many of their more recent E3 showings, but boy do they need to stop coming out and saying how great the show is going to be, how many games they're showing, how many of those are exclusive, etc. It's great for investors, but we don't care: nothing is going to sell us players on a game more than cutting to the chase and showing it to us. There's a reason that PlayStation and Nintendo have knocked it out of the park these last few years at events like these, and it's because they shut up and let the quality of their games do the talking. My Totally Official Score: 8.0/10

Not getting a Series X anytime soon but that Mini Fridge has me intrigued

No pressure Arkane, but you're finishing this show instead of Starfield or Halo, so...

I swear we saw that exact yellow painted church in Just Cause 3 getting flashbacks to the horrors I committed in that game... Yeah Playground are I believe, did they say if FH5 was Playground still like it was for the earlier Horizon games? Fable did seem to be early in the process from the CGI trailer to be honest

Forza Horizon 5. The Mexico leaks were real. The wait for Japan continues

Trailer for your perusal

Absolutely! Biggest hope for that game is that they modernise how the "Stars of Destiny" works, in that there aren't any characters that are permanently missable, and you don't need to seek out a guide for it. Still looks great though, hyped for it

I backed the Kickstarter so knew about the "delay" to 2023, but first we've seen of Rising. Looks sweet. Those sprites and animations, hell yeah, inject it into my veins

Yooooooo Eiyuden Chronicle!!! Was not expecting this, show me something Murayama and team

I mean, I think it's been the strongest and most consistent show so far this E3 (so far) - though I guess that's not saying too much this year - I was more speaking to what I know drahkon's tastes. Which I pray Square Enix will deliver on in 80 minutes

Far Cry 6. Time for a quick toilet break EDIT: Ubisoft giving Xbox the far superior trailer for their own game at E3 is the most Ubisoft thing we've seen for a while.

Not really? A pretty bad trailer for Starfield with a released date at the start (11th Nov 2022), some cool looking indies, Hades is coming to Xbox in August so maybe PlayStation then too? Oh and Halo Infinite MP will be free-to-play and a new story trailer for that too. EDIT: defer to @nekunando

Halo multiplayer being free is huge, but makes a lot of sense in this day and age. Hope it does well for them. Also that samurai helmet looked awesome.

Major Inside vibes, for sure, but it's not! We've already seen a few screenshots of their next game Also Halo now is odd, thought they'd close on this, at the moment we still have some 45+ minutes left. Hope they have something big to back them up at the end.

How do we add people on the forums to our Ignore list again?

No next-gen Skyrim announcement? Is...is this the good timeline?

Wowwwww. Got to wonder how much Pirates cost them. Makes a lot of sense though!

They did that stupid thing where they tell you how great the show is going to be before it starts, and how many games are coming up that are exclusive / coming to Game Pass. They really need to learn to let their shows and games speak for themselves.