My bingo card was way off, I was thinking they'd show more third party stuff than they did. But I guess that's a good thing, it means they have enough studios now to fill a showcase up.
Halo looked amazing. I'm playing through the entire series right now so I am a little Halo'd out at the moment but that looked very fun. Open world could be good depending on design. I can't imagine they'd make you embark on collect-a-thons or anything. Grappling hook worried me but it looked fine in gameplay. So many different weapons and holy shit the sounds, especially when they fired up the Warthog.
Forza was a trailer so idc. But the trailer made it seem as if they are focusing way more on the motorsports part of the name, could be a cool shift for the franchise. Everwild looked very good but idk what the game is. New RPG from Obsidian? Yes please. I'll take some Outer Worlds DLC, too. My card did have an Undead Labs trailer on it and I am stoked that it was State of Decay 3. A more open game incorporating weather and zombified wildlife would be great but also a big departure from the resources management survival game the first two were.
Didn't expect any Fable gameplay. Wasn't expecting much gameplay from Microsoft studios to be honest. It's just too soon for many of these. Was bummed we didn't see a Hellblade II gameplay sequence though.
Overall I greatly enjoyed the show. I missed the preshow, did they show any Wasteland, Bleeding Edge, or Gears Tactics?
Also it was very interesting that after all the talk here and worry about cross gen, a majority of the games MS showcased seemed to only be coming to Series X and PC.
