Shaunodon on 14 June 2020
| hush404 said: I very much disliked it. I felt a number of the reveals were extremely underwhelming for a showcase of a new system. For a system reveal, I want to be shocked, I want to go "No way! My current system couldn't pull that off!", I don't want to sit down for over an hour and watch mostly indie titles that could certainly been done on the current gen (in this case PS4) and possibly even the generation before (PS3). I also felt the transitions took up too much time, the RockStar announcement was a joke and there weren't enough wonderful surprises. A look at Horizon II really is what I enjoyed (but I expected it) with a small handful of other titles getting a bit of my interest (I like R&C, so that's neat, teasing some new RE is cool, neat that Souls is getting a remake etc). Granted, yes, they hand some gameplay, which I know people made fun of Microsoft for not having, but a lot of it was gameplay for stuff I just didn't care about AND is small indie titles that'll likely end up being fodder that people play out of a desire for content at launch and easily forgotten. |
This conference was certainly a big step up from that weird MS showcase, but I feel people also have rather selective memory on these things. I never even watched the MS showcase live, but a week or so ago I figured I'd have a look since this PS5 reveal got delayed. It was mostly ho hum and never wowed me, but there were a few interesting titles, and they did show a bit of decent gameplay.
The Ascent was maybe the best overall, Scarlet Nexus was okay for us weeb game fans, Call of the Sea is a worthwhile mention, and even though neither The Medium or Scorn showed gameplay they're both very promising horror titles.
People just get these extreme narratives and run away with them.
