Official Xbox July Showcase 2020 thread

[sales2099]

zealen said:

sales2099 said:
It’s weird how Nintendo “won” e3 by showing a logo for Metroid Prime 4 but Xbox gets nailed for CG trailers.

Since when did gameplay become a requirement? Horizon FW was in engine and I don’t recall much backlash as say Forza is getting. I didn’t need to see gameplay of Avowed to be blown away...because Obsidian is a master at their craft. Fable and Hellblade 2 gameplay would have been nice, but we know Hellblade 1 was awesome and Fable will at the very least have the charm of its legacy games.

It’s almost like people just buying themselves time to hate on Xbox, because these are all games that have a high chance to actually deliver once released.

How do you sell a new system if you don't show its capabilities? 

From a sales standpoint I think it was very weak. Didn't make me want to buy a new console, didn't make me wanna play almost anything. Halo showed us some minutes of gameplay which will be available on the current gen.

They marketed Series X as the most powerful console, where did they show that? They could've AT LEAST show some Hellblade 2 gameplay.

"But Halo was never about great graphics" "Halo is about gameplay". Ok, then why you need the so called most powerful console? 

CG or not they are enough to get people excited. Again I don’t see where gamers decided it’s a mandatory requirement to show gameplay for every reveal. Avowed is a Xbox exclusive Skyrim with LOTR elements, that’s huge! But nope it’s trash because it’s CG. That makes no sense to me. 

As for Halo, you need the most powerful console to make Halo open world while hitting those resolution and FPS benchmarks. The open world aspects is a dream come true, they traded graphical fidelity for scale, and of course the gameplay is tight. So the game not impressing “graphics whores” isnt a big concern of mine. We just want a great Halo game and in that regard the trailer didn’t disappoint.