It was all very underwhelming too me, no major surprises (which is what conferences should be about), I can understand why MS didn't show Quantum Break, Scalebound or Crackdown at E3, because they all looked very lackluster and really didn't grab me in the way I thought they would have.
Quantum Break all looks very samey, like you're going through the motions all the time, throw time attack, slow time, fire weapon at enemy of explosive thing, explosions happen, rinse repeat.
Scalebound, same deal, except you use your Dragon companion to throw a fire attack, direct him towards enemy, you fire attack, no real strategy, all very boring.
There wasn't even any interesting flight gameplay on the Dragon, like it's purposefully restricted because it's too much for the game engine to handle.
All very aimless and pointless really, like give me a reason why I'm working with a Dragon and why I'm fighting against these enemies and if you give me a Dragon to use how I want, then let me use him and my own skills how I want.
If it's meant to be an open world sandbox, then freedom to switch between ground and air attacks should be a given.
Crackdown, you can destroy anything, cool, but why?
Pointless without any reason behind it.
Also it looked very last gen, not really doing anything different which we haven't seen before, which would be fine if the core gameplay looked fun, but it doesn't too me.
It was great that MS used proper gameplay, but all of these games, the mainstays of XB1 for next year, alongside Gears 4, but we were already told about all of these games at E3 last year, there was nothing new in the way of Exclusives for XB1 and XB1 alone, by which I mean actual new games being announced and this was meant to capitalize on Sony not being here?
Sony showed 3 new IPs at E3, they have TGS right around the corner, will be showing new gameplay for Horizon Zero Dawn through Guerrilla handling a stream of gameplay this week and that game already looks 10X more compelling than all we had here today.
Loads of TV talk and XB1 OS stuff, they didn't even show an interesting new exclusive Xbox One indie game to make up for the lack of exclusives that were new from 1st party or just a general AAA exclusive of some kind.
Couple that together with very poor presentation, with way too much stuttering from the presenters and at best all I can give this conference is a 4/10.
My main issues here was that there wasn't a single new XBox One exclusive announced, MS are clearly scraping the barrel, I mean this was essentially what they should have shown last E3 in 2014, minus Phantom Dust, they should have skipped E3 last year and put all of this into their E3 conference this year, but then that would show they didn't plan very well for this generation.
