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Zoombael on 15 November 2019
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Ryuu96 said:

Honestly it sounds like your expectations were way too high, I'm not sure what you expected for an end of generation X0 event. I wouldn't say it was long hyped either, Microsoft only recently started to hype it up, they said it would be the best Inside Xbox ever which it easily was imo. Prior to the event they announced how many games they would be showing along with confirming which ones some of those were, prior to the show we practically already knew they would be announcing 1-2 titles but it turned out to be 3.

The only thing which seemed to be expected but didn't happened was a studio acquisition, however as it got closer to X0 I saw peoples expectations for a studio acquisition diminishing which made sense as prior to previous events there was lots of rumours/chatter about studio acquisitions happening but nothing at all this time. You seem pretty eager to try to push your opinion as the 'right' one and dismissive that people actually enjoyed it.

It was a great show Imo.

  • New Rare IP.
  • New Obsidian IP.
  • New DONTNOD/XGP IP.
  • Release Dates for Minecraft Dungeons, Bleeding Edge and Wasteland 3.
  • Great Game Pass Announcements - Including Yakuza & Kingdom Hearts (Mistake - KH isn't Gamepass, but those titles announced are the first time on Xbox I believe).
  • Great XCloud News - PC Support, GamePass Support, 50+ Titles.
  • Good Gameplay Including the Gameplay Reveal for Age of Empires IV.
  • Some Nice Indies.

Obsidian & Ninja Theory are making what they want, Hellblade was also an AA title so I don't see why something being AA is considered a bad thing, especially when Obsidian and Ninja Theory have multiple teams between them, Obsidian IS working on an unannounced RPG which is rumoured to be AAA, Playground is rumoured to be working on an AAA Fable; 343 industries, The Coalition, Turn 10, Playground, The Initiative are all AAA studios. Everwild will very likely end up as an AAA production.

I for one like that Microsoft is pushing a healthy mix of AAA and AA, this assumption that a game is bad just because it's AA is ridiculous, beside the fact that Microsoft is not going to blow it's load before the end of the generation, you'll get your AAA titles at E3, also Gamepass is awesome so that's not really a dig, thanks to Gamepass Xbox fans are getting Yakuza for the first time, the service is amazing value even outside of that.

Yea, let's keep expectations low. It's just tiny poor mistreated Microsoft after all.

Hellblade was proclaimed as a AAA game by Ninja Theory themselves btw.



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