Microsoft Xbox Series X | S OT - Power Your Dreams, update: FTC case unredacted documents leaked, including XSX mid-generation refresh, new gyro/haptic-enabled controller, and next-generation plans for 2028

[crispy4000]

21 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said:

Probably a good thing its not a long Gameplay demo.  We all know basically what AC is about, so not point in waiting 10 minutes of a show on it.  Show us a quick in game teaser of it then move on.  

Put me in the opposite camp.  It’s super disappointing that they can’t deliver gameplay demonstration yet with the 11 studios they’re throwing at it.  They did it with Unity last go around.

[Duderino]

What was the last first party Xbox game to show a live on-stage gameplay demo at E3?  I honestly can’t remember.

[Firewithin]

im mainly just looking for a few unannounced games and hopefully a price

[crispy4000]

20 minutes ago, Duderino said:

What was the last first party Xbox game to show a live on-stage gameplay demo at E3?  I honestly can’t remember.

It certainly wasn’t Gears 5.  They panned down to a play area underneath the stage then showed a 5 minute cinematic promo for a multiplayer mode.

 

Last year’s E3 was pretty much apex of that shit to me.  I remember FF7 and Star Wars being two of the only stage demos the entire conference.  They weren’t bad demos, but they get all the more credit for showing up.
 

Even CD Projekt Red didn’t have the guts to show their Cyberpunk demo initially.  They delayed it for the public so they could get a second wind of coverage.  So in the meanwhile, they shove Keanu in our faces and the crowd goes wild.

 

Speaks for the industry as a whole, really.

[Firewithin]

oh and even though im sure it would be shown at a sony show i really want something from Elden Ring 

[JPDunks4]

EA supporting Smart Delivery is good news

[TwinIon]

That vampire game was not very impressive looking.

[JPDunks4]

Nothing so far has looked all too impressive so far from a graphical standpoint.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I'll post the videos in this thread when I get the chance.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, JPDunks4 said:

i havent been paying close attention, has anything shwon the optimized for Series X thing on it?

Call of the Sea had it 

[Dodger]

The Medium had it

[Spork3245]

That first game they showed is what happens when the dev sends an HDR video and it’s being streamed in SDR  

[TwinIon]

2 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said:

Nothing so far has looked all too impressive so far from a graphical standpoint.

The very first game with the titanfall-esque movement made by the one Chinese guy looked impressive. It's the one so far that I thought would not look like that in gameplay.

[Firewithin]

AC here we go

[elbobo]

none of that looked particularly next gen to me 

[chakoo]

Well that was a waste of time and not the best thing to start off with MS. It pretty much looked like what they would have shown at E3 for XB1 that will also have some improvements on X with only like 1/2 games really showing off actual improvements. 

 

I think the only cool thing for me was seeing that XB fans will get Yakuza 7 which is great as a long time fan of the series. Yet I hate how that trailer did it's damndest to hide that it's an RPG and made it out to look like a brawler which this game is not (but previous ones were). 

[Firewithin]

i gather so far that "next gen" is just for better load times lol.  nothing shown has screamed i need to upgrade my console

[Dodger]

So AC was the only heavy hitter. It seems like every time they do these game show cases they are smaller scale "indie" games where maybe 1 or 2 look interesting and the rest is filler. Though they did get 2 Japanese games in there. 

[Spork3245]

8 minutes ago, elbobo said:

none of that looked particularly next gen to me 

Yea, outside of some reflections or light sources being ray traced here and there along with some improved depth of field in some brief moments, it mostly looked like current gen being rendered at 4k with proper textures.

 

BUT, keep in mind that this is all third party with cross-generational games. First party is likely to show off graphics.

[Mercury33]

I’m thoroughly embarrassed for MS by that “presentation”

 

Someone wake me up when Sony shows up. 

[Spork3245]

18 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

The very first game with the titanfall-esque movement made by the one Chinese guy looked impressive. It's the one so far that I thought would not look like that in gameplay.

It looks fun. That’s the one I was talking about with the HDR/SDR - my fiancé said “...why are the colors all weird?” I said “I think this is an HDR video that they’re showing in SDR...?”  

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

Kinda disappointed. I was thinking we might see some games actually running show why SeX is a worthwhile upgrade. Maybe not on every game shown, but at least one game. 

[Firewithin]

guess we are waiting until July now to see if first party stuff looks any better

[stepee]

Honestly would have been better off just not having this show and waited until the 1st party reveal and tacked these on in the middle somewhere.

[Mr.Vic20]

If you had taken that presentation and shown it at E3 LAST year, I would have said, by and large, yup those sure look like PS4/Xbox One X games! 

[Bacon]

lol at the AC:V "gameplay"

[JPDunks4]

Yeah, horrible show.

 

Don't advertise it as "First Series X Gameplay", and its hardly any gameplay at all if any, and everything looks like regular current gen games, even a lot of bad games by today's standards.

 

I went in with low expectations, and even then was still disappointed.  I knew AC Valhalla wasn't going to be real gameplay, and even then it was still disappointing. It showed nothing much more than the initial trailer.

 

The entire way it was presented was just poor.  If this was a showcase done as a middle event during these monthly events, then it'd be fine.  Advertise it as, we are getting a lot of support from all types of developers, big and small, working on Series X games, then it'd be fine.

 

As your first coming out party for your new Hardware, very very underwhelming.

[Firewithin]

 

[Pikachu]

 

 

[Brian]

Once it was announced to be on Inside Xbox, expectations erased completely. That show is the worst 

[AbsolutSurgen]

Wow.  That was a huge disappointment.  Anyone who thinks AA games no longer exist should watch that video.

 

First impressions are huge -- and my first impression of Xbox Series X "gameplay" is 'meh'.  That box should be capable of great things; MS should be showing them.

 

(Note:  Did you notice how careful MS worded all of their comments on what hardware they were running the trailers on?  Not once did they say that any of them were running on SeX hardware.)

[Dre801]

Meh.  Nothing I saw impressed me.  Madden?  Really?

[Dodger]

It does seem like every time MS does some games blowout it's mostly AA fodder where a couple look interesting and the rest is meh. While it's fine they support these games, it doesn't really dispel the "Xbox has no games" stuff. It's getting to the point where they say hey we're going to do a games blowout next week and instead of being excited I"m going to think it's another 30 AA games. 

[number305]

As an xbox homer - I have to agree with everyone else.  That was just a really bad show.  I'm pretty sure the problem was the game selection.  The only games from that list that I will probably ever play will be Madden and AC.  And as has already been said - nothing they were showing didn't look like what an xbox could already do.  Gears 5 on a One X right now looks better than any game shown today (maybe with the exception of AC - but going off the footage shown my statement stands).

[silentbob]

Only that opening game cinematic looked close to be being next gen. Everything else was a big nothing burger for me. Feeling better and better with my recent PC purchase if this is all we are getting at the start