Silent_Buddha
Legend
Just got done watching the show finally. Erm, wow. First off, PS4 is now the haven for COD? Anyway where to start?
Backwards compatibility? Fan freaking tastic. They better have Dance Central and Halo: Reach on that BC list when it launches to the general public this Fall. Those are the only reasons I'm currently keeping my X360. Absolutely love this. Reminds me of when I got a PS2 and was still able to play my PS1 games.
That controller is sexy as hell...
Yup. For the same people that spend 150-250 USD for a quality mechanical keyboard. And 100-200 USD for a really good mouse. Or people that spend 300-1000 USD for a good racing wheel. Or 150-200 USD for a good arcade style controller for fighting games. I'll probably be getting one as well once I see some reviews on it.
So many exclusives. And there are MORE unannounced First Party Exclusives they are saving to reveal at Gamescom in Germany later this year! What?!?! Seems Microsoft is going whole hog on the exclusives front and investing heavily in first party developers. It reminds me of when they were the underdogs back in the original Xbox days. Then they got very popular with the X360 and started closing down first party developers. Now they are the underdogs again and heavily investing in first party developers and courting PC developers (1000+ indie devs in the ID@Xbox program) just like they did with the Xbox. As well as investing more heavily in the PC again (again like before the X360).
And free user made mods for Fallout (and potentially other games in the future) on Xbox? The exact same mods as exist on PC? Mind blown. I wish I was 10 years younger (when I still used mods). How is this not being remarked on more? This is absolutely fantastically amazing even if I won't be taking advantage of it.
Stuff like this actually might make me turn on my XBO for the first time in months (right now I use the X360 more than the XBO).
Oh and Cuphead! I'm not one for side scrolling platformers usually, but I want this. Same as with Ori and the Blind Forest.
And for people that say this has a bit more of a NA focus, well duh? It's in NA. Gamescom will be where they focus more on the European market. Quantum break will be shown there. As well as more first party exclusives that haven't been announced yet.
Oh and ReCore. Can't wait to see more of that. This makes the 2nd XBO exclusive developed by a team lead by a Japanese developer. While not specifically targeted at the Japanese market, it seems they are still investing in developers who might make something the Japanese might want to play.
It's strange that so many people focused on the shooters when those were the least interesting parts of the conference. There were so many amazing games shown that weren't shooter's.
It's crazy that I see some people that loved the PS3 game Journey somehow weren't impressed by all the non-standard out of the box thinking games that focused on atmosphere and exploration...similar to Journey. I suspect that if they were revealed on the PS platform the reception may have been different.
Anyways, now off to watch the Sony Conference. Hopefully it was as good as the Microsoft one.
Regards,
SB
Backwards compatibility? Fan freaking tastic. They better have Dance Central and Halo: Reach on that BC list when it launches to the general public this Fall. Those are the only reasons I'm currently keeping my X360. Absolutely love this. Reminds me of when I got a PS2 and was still able to play my PS1 games.
That controller is sexy as hell...
Yup. For the same people that spend 150-250 USD for a quality mechanical keyboard. And 100-200 USD for a really good mouse. Or people that spend 300-1000 USD for a good racing wheel. Or 150-200 USD for a good arcade style controller for fighting games. I'll probably be getting one as well once I see some reviews on it.
So many exclusives. And there are MORE unannounced First Party Exclusives they are saving to reveal at Gamescom in Germany later this year! What?!?! Seems Microsoft is going whole hog on the exclusives front and investing heavily in first party developers. It reminds me of when they were the underdogs back in the original Xbox days. Then they got very popular with the X360 and started closing down first party developers. Now they are the underdogs again and heavily investing in first party developers and courting PC developers (1000+ indie devs in the ID@Xbox program) just like they did with the Xbox. As well as investing more heavily in the PC again (again like before the X360).
And free user made mods for Fallout (and potentially other games in the future) on Xbox? The exact same mods as exist on PC? Mind blown. I wish I was 10 years younger (when I still used mods). How is this not being remarked on more? This is absolutely fantastically amazing even if I won't be taking advantage of it.
Stuff like this actually might make me turn on my XBO for the first time in months (right now I use the X360 more than the XBO).
Oh and Cuphead! I'm not one for side scrolling platformers usually, but I want this. Same as with Ori and the Blind Forest.
And for people that say this has a bit more of a NA focus, well duh? It's in NA. Gamescom will be where they focus more on the European market. Quantum break will be shown there. As well as more first party exclusives that haven't been announced yet.
Oh and ReCore. Can't wait to see more of that. This makes the 2nd XBO exclusive developed by a team lead by a Japanese developer. While not specifically targeted at the Japanese market, it seems they are still investing in developers who might make something the Japanese might want to play.
It's strange that so many people focused on the shooters when those were the least interesting parts of the conference. There were so many amazing games shown that weren't shooter's.
It's crazy that I see some people that loved the PS3 game Journey somehow weren't impressed by all the non-standard out of the box thinking games that focused on atmosphere and exploration...similar to Journey. I suspect that if they were revealed on the PS platform the reception may have been different.
Anyways, now off to watch the Sony Conference. Hopefully it was as good as the Microsoft one.
Regards,
SB
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