"The smallest Xbox ever"
GOD the Xboner would have been perfect for that.
Aw damnit, you're right! And with all talk of how fast its processor is, just
think of all the premature ejactulation jokes it could've mustered!
...on second thought, I think I see why they voted against that name...Xbox One X is still a mouthful, though. Guess we just gotta call it the XOX?
...Also, too bad we're back at $500. I guess I'll be waiting 2+ years for a pricedrop, unless Microsoft gets desperate again.
Anyways, I'll admit that Microsoft showed off a lot of interesting games, at least:
Crackdown 3 had a funny trailer (though it could've used less hamminess from Terry Crews). Doesn't answer the most important question, though: Will it have an omnipresent narrator, like in the first Crackdown???
Ashen looks pretty awesome. Like a more stylized Dark Souls with NPC allies, I guess? Could be fun.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps looks beautiful, but I would've liked to see some gameplay, too, so I knew how it was supposed to be different.
I'm glad to know that Life is Strange: Before the Storm is only 3 parts instead of the usual 5, if only because that's something different. Seriously, just because Telltale had been doing 5 episodes for a good long while doesn't mean everything episodic has to be divided into 5 parts...sheesh...also, good to know there's a sequel at all, because I just downloaded the full first season. Guess I'll find out whether or not a sequel will be worth paying attention to soon enough!
Sea of Thieves still continues to be the only co-op-focused game I give a damn about, as well as being the pirate game of my boyhood dreams! =D
Super Lucky's Tale looks like an awesome Mario/Banjo-esque 3D platformer. It's attempts at looking cute with the NPCs don't really strike my fancy, though. Everyone just looks kind of hideous, except for Lucky...hopefully I can get over it, though. It's giving me early Yooka-Laylee vibes, but hopefully with less suckiness overall.
Metro Exodus made my nipples hard.
I want to like Assassin's Creed Origins, but most of what we saw were cinematics & the devs working on art assets. It's slated for October, yet they didn't have more to show? That's...giving me Unity flashbacks...
Arc Systems Works + DBZ is a match made in heaven, and a dream come true...literally. I had honestly wished for it the day before it was announced! =D Which means I wasted my Dragon Wish on a video game, instead of having a successful career, or world peace, or an attractive girlfriend with the libido of an African Lion........Fuck.....at least the game looks good.
Black Desert actually makes me want to play an MMO, which makes it the....5th on a console to achieve that. =D It's definitely the prettiest I've seen, though. Now I just need to find out about its price-model...no way is a game like this Free-to-play, not without a boatload of strings, at least...
The Last Night is giving me the best kind of Flashbacks...as in it looks like Flashback, the old cinematic platformer from the era of Prince of Persia, but maybe with less bullshit. Fingers crossed.
Even The Artful Escape looked cool, and normally I despise artsy, psychodelic stuff. I dunno, it really jived with me...maybe because it looked like there was at least an ounce of actual gameplay to it this time. =P
I think the only game that I have any complicated feelings about is Anthem. It looks like Destiny with Jetpacks. Which...might be cool, and it certainly looks a gazillion times better than Destiny in terms of art direction, IMO. If it can pull off a less pretentious story, maybe I'll be able to get into it, instead of getting bored with it during the 4th boss fight, and returning it to Redbox?
I guess I also don't know what to make of Tacoma. It's made from the developers of Gone Home, so chances are good it'll be outside of my usual classification of a game...but I'm enough of a sci-fi nerd that I might try it anyways. At the very least, its story setup sounds like Gone Home's schtick of piecing together events through random notes might fit the world more organically this time. But I guess that takes me back to the main problem: I didn't think Gone Home had a good story, and since there was nothing else to it, there was nothing for me to enjoy. At the very least, there's no way I'd get it without a steep discount, unless there turns to be more gameplay than they've let on so far.
Code Vein looks terrible, but I like the character designs enough that I would totally watch an anime adaption if one ever becomes available. Just sayin'.
Oh, and my
diggest biggest disappointment is Deep Rock Galactic Dive. You had me at Space Dwarves. You lost at the actual look of the game...I am so tired of these psuedo-old-school polygon games. I mean, those old 3D games never really looked good, they were just a promise of a better tomorrow. And that torrow started about a decade ago.
