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TheLegendaryBigBoss said:

shikamaru317 said:

That was an underwhelming showcase by Keighley, following up an underwhelming Sony showcase recently. I would give it a 5/10 but it loses a point for that way too long mobile game live action trailer, so 4/10. The loss of E3 has badly damaged summer game announces, Keighley's show is a poor substitute for all that we lost, while Sony seems content to do shorter State of Play's now instead of proper, big summer showcase events. 

Hopefully Xbox does better than both, but I'm skeptical, will be hard for it to be good if they are announcing games for rival platforms on the show, it will take the wind right out of alot of Xbox fans' sails if they do. 

Geoff clearly said don't expect big reveals.

I don't understand what people want from these shows, GTA 6? Half life 3? There was a good list of games shown, not sure why there's so much complaining

The kind of experience we used to get from E3. Summer Games Fest was one of several shows that was designed as a replacement for E3 after ESA started struggling to do E3. In the E3's of old, we'd get probably 10 big games announced per year between the various shows, spread out over a period of just 4 days mainly, plus numerous AA games and a few indies. Most of the shows that made up the old E3 week have been lost, Sony no longer does big summer showcases but only a small State of Play that doesn't even have half as many games as their old E3 showcases, EA show was lost, some years Square would do an E3 show of their own so that is also lost now.

Xbox+Bethesda, PC, and Ubisoft are the only 3 traditional E3 shows that still feel like they used to feel during E3 week, while Summer Games Fest feels totally different, less big games, bigger focus on indie/single A tier games (even though there are about 5 other indie/single A focused shows on the Summer of Gaming schedule such as Day of Devs, Future of Play, Future Games Show, Guerilla Collective), and some years Keighley even does mobile games on there like that cringe 5 minute long Chicken game live action trailer last night.

Between longer dev cycles for AAA games and more AAA pubs holding back their announcements to announce on their own outside of Summer Shows, the so-called Summer of Gaming now feels lackluster compared to the heavily concentrated E3's of old. It's just hard to feel excited about Summer of Gaming in the same way we gamers got excited about E3 week in the past. That is why each year the majority of gamers rate these Summer shows poorly in Keighley's polls and such, like both the Sony State of Play and Summer Games Fest getting a D or F rating by around 40% of voters so far this year, and around 70% giving them a C, D, or F. 

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 08 June 2024