I'm gonna be generous and give it a 7/10 since I think the games themselves that they had were good but the presentation around them was what failed them. The pre-show had some good announcements but I do think went on a little too long with the talking.
The problem is they repeated the same exact mistake they did with their May showcase, which was the lack of gameplay. The games they showed, just like in May, weren't the problem. Everwild, Avowed, Fable, etc all had amazing trailers and were big hyped showcases and announcements but the problem is we got nothing to know what any of them will look or play like. The fact that we still have no idea what kind of game Everwild is after two trailers now is absurd and who knows when we finally will at this point. And what the fuck was that Hellblade 2 segment? You could have literally removed that and it wouldn't have made a difference it was that pointless.
The fact that they said they took the feedback from the May showcase but then repeated the same exact mistake just shows me that they didn't learn anything from it after all. You're telling me not a SINGLE one of their other studios were able to show gameplay outside of Halo? You're gonna show a CGI trailer for State of Decay 3 which i'm guessing is years out at least, but something that is probably coming out sooner couldn't get anything? Didn't Turn 10 specifically take a year off for more development time with the next Motorsport but we couldn't get any proper gameplay with that? Hasn't Fable been in development since 2017-2018 and all we got was that incredibly short teaser which was basically a title card? If it was because they wanted the show to fit into one hour then that just makes it even more confusing because i'm sure more people would have been fine with a longer show if it meant better looks at the games? It's not like they were CONFINED to one hour, plus they even had an hour long pre-show before that where they could have spread more of this out so...?
Either way, I think it had good announcements, but those announcements were undercut by the lack of really knowing or seeing anything else about them which undermines the entire event and makes it feel disappointing because now we're basically just waiting for the next event to learn more. If they had shown gameplay, even just a few minutes for a few of these big games this would have easily been a 8 or 9 out of 10 from me.
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