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NathanSSSS on 12 June 2020
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padib said:

Here is how it played out for me. The beginning was great (except for GTAV, that was just weird), the face shots of execs and devs talking minimally and solemnly, and then going quick to the games was a good move. The first few games left me impressed (Spider Man, Gran Turismo). Then things started getting boring a bit, starting from R&C which didn't seem so interesting to me in terms of gameplay, then it felt like I was watching movie trailer after movie trailer, with the epic music we hear in movie trailers and the well-chosen shots. Some even had two trailers, like R&C and Hitman III, I thought that was weird. During that time, some big gems shone, like Project Athia, Stray. Only at the very end I started tuning back in, esp. with the new Horizon, I was blown away.

For the boring parts, I give a 6.5, for the good parts a 10. So I'll go with a 8/10, respective to how long each part lasted for me.

But I will say this, Sony pulled punches at everyone: Nintendo and Microsoft both. Competing with Nintendo, they had games that look like Mario 3D World (Sackboy, Astro's Playroom), Metroid (Returnal), Smash to a certain degree (Destruction ALLSTARS), Zelda & Pikmin (Kena, Little Devil Inside) and Animal Crossing (BugSnax). Competing with Microsoft they had Oddworld, major 3rd party games presented as PS exclusives (Village/RE8, NBA2k21, Hitman III). And of course some games were just pure Sony like Solar Ash, Godfall, Jett, ...

I also felt like the general message was that Sony feels like they will dominate the market, with the way the music was constructed and the general God-like feel they pushed through the video, the way it presented the console and the brand in general. With self-assigned qualifiers like "the future of gaming", it's hard to see how the competition will compete. But be sure that they will, Nintendo always finds a way to sell, and Microsoft will have excellent 3rd party support and will be pushing their internal studios. It will be a very fun gen to watch :)

Agree on the boring part, I felt they just put too many indie titles in a row for too long, most of them are not bad though, but that period of time really didn't create enough excitement even though putting the best ones in the last is understandable and expected, so in the end of the show case, the reveal of Horizon 2 and Demon's soul didn't really surprise me. Just the majority of time in the middle of the show made it kinda plain.