i think the show was ok.
The real saving grace was the Starfield Direct portion.
Neither the Fable or Hellblade trailers did anything for me: for games announced in 2020 and 2019 respectively, they should have had better showings showing off more gameplay (though I believe that cinematic esque nature of HB2 is part of the gameplay loop).
South of Midnight looks cool, but impossible to tell what kind of game it is meant to be.
Avowed showed some cool gameplay, but graphically and artistically it looks very inconsistent: at times it looked like an MMO, at times it had this animation esque filter to it, at times it looked more realistic. I wasn't sold on it.
I also have no interest in 4 of their games being DLC update trailers. i appreciate that MS pushes this in their showcase but it feels like very blatant padding.
The other MS games looked interesting, especially the new Flight Simulator which looked awesome!
3rd party stuff was hit 'n' miss ai felt. Good that MS has pushed their relationship with SEGA. That will be beneficial to them.
Otherwise, I don't think the pacing was very good. The constant 'MS presents' and 'day 1 gamepass' for each and every trailer really slowed things down.
Anyhow, Starfield looked awesome. i think my kid will be very keen on that.
