Watch the Xbox and Bethesda Games E3 2021 Showcase here
Here's how to watch the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase from E3 2021.
E3 2021 is in full swing with showcases popping off almost every hour of every day. On Sunday, June 13, 2021, it will be Microsoft and Bethesda that take the virtual stage in a joint showcase that promises to deliver loads of big gaming news that will massively impact must-play lists through to the end of 2021. Here’s how to watch the Xbox/Bethesda E3 2021 livestream.
Watch the Xbox/Bethesda E3 2021 livestream
Players can tune into the Xbox and Bethesda E3 2021 Showcase livestream by clicking on the embed above, or just enjoying the showcase directly from this page. You don’t have to go anywhere to catch all the announcements between the two gaming juggernauts. The show starts at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT.
What should viewers expect to see? Well, that’s a tough one because there’s a lot of guessing involved, but Halo Infinite should be there, as should Microsoft Flight Simulator on the Xbox Series X/S. There’s a chance we’ll get to see some Starfield, Perfect Dark, Forza Motorsport, and many others. We might even get to see something from Hellblade 2, but most of this is speculation. The best way to see what will be on offer at the Xbox/Bethesda E3 2021 Showcase is to tune in.
If you’re looking for a complete picture of what’s on offer this year, be sure to visit the Shacknews E3 2021 topic page and browse through our dozens of stories about all of this year’s big announcements.
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Should be some good stuff...1080p/60fps feed too.
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This is the big show!!!! The one I'm super excited for! WOOOOOO!
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Can’t wait for this one, should be good!
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Is there a good website that has highlights of all this stuff on a single page? The billion Shacknews stories are hard to follow, esp since Latest Chatty only shows you like the five most recent stories and that’s it
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You are a hero. Thanks for this!
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Any 4K streams?
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“Important note: the show will be streamed in 1080p at 60fps. For a more representative look at the visuals contained in the showcase, we recommend watching the 4K / 60fps rebroadcast of the showcase on the Xbox YouTube channel, which will be available after the conclusion of the premiere. “
Boo.
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Figured. At least we will see gameplay I think.
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Waiting for the MS twitch stream to start https://www.twitch.tv/xbox. Youtube Live streams are surprisingly low quality. Wonder when/if they’ll address that.
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This will be interesting to watch from the outside now :)
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Reflections!!
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damn... year and a half away... that stings.
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I feel like 2022 is going to be a huge year for games. So many Covid delays pushing them to 2022.
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Looks sick! My 3080Ti is ready
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next gen hair!
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Day one gamepass! Yesss
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8 actually...
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It’s crazy! So many good games.
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I'm all in on pirates of the Caribbean
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Don't really play much multiplayer games these days cause of being an adult. Is it an easily soloable game?
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Well damn, going to have to make friends lol thanks for the honest assessment, appreciate you!
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Been a long history between them.
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lets fuuuuckkkking goooooooo
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BF2042 looks fucking bad ass! I am hyped!!!!! I'll never learn my lesson!
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Ray tracing on Doom Eternal?! WOO
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I have actually since its free on Game Pass! I was mostly joking, though, anyway.
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Gang Beasts!
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It does. I thought it was inside 2 for a second
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It is a co-creation by former Playdead Dino Patti, hence the similarities.
https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-creator-somerville-coming-2022
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Hope to see Craig doing well
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https://rockatee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/redirect-560-600x600.jpg
hope he's getting a residual
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No ray tracing in halo yet. No reflections of cortana in his helmet. Why?!
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Halo graphics still look meh.
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It's never going to look groundbreaking due to the art style and open world requirements
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if they’re actually aiming for 120fps seems like compromises have to happen
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I think it's more than worth it.
Playing MCC @ 120FPS all the time (multi & co-op & campaign) is a great experience. So incredibly smooth.
When the game is moving that fast I stop caring about visuals provided they reach a certain baseline level of modernity and polish.
I would love a 120FPS Infinite. And it sounds like the game blends SP and co-op and multi all together.
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Why would they aim for that? 99.9% of gamers don’t have a 4K 120Hz TV. That would be silly if that’s why the graphics are lowered.
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The Halo MP looks more than the new BF somehow.
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Sold. I really enjoyed the first one
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quite the juxtaposition from stabbing dudes in the throat
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Is it silly that I am unreasonably excited about Slime Rancher 2?
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yay, blob internment camp simulator is back!
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No release date for you. NO.
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It look gorgeous, but the combat looked really bad in the earlier trailers. Hope they tighten it a bit.
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That looks fucking incredible! And if its the game I am remembering that dev was a huge POS... unless I am thinking of something else... either way WOW love the look!
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Oh ok, good., Haha, they looked quite similar in aesthetic.
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A ray traced pixel art game?
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Welp the show is tailing off a bit. Hopefully one more big annoucement?
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You jynxed us :(
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Age of Empires 4!
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Haha Fable's literal narrator.
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Ok maybe not Fable.
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The first was great for what it was. It’s probably the least buggy game Obsidian has launched. Beyond that it’s clear the studio didn’t have the budget anymore. Hoping Microsoft buyout makes a big difference
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At least they were honest.
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Top Gun!
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The only true open world game
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They better make landing on the carrier impossible.
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This is an overwhelming conference. So many games!
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And almost no annoying host banter
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Looks like gonna be in South America
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Forza Horizon 5???
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Yes!!!!!
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Hope they add Xilita
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Hope everyone will beware my Drivatar.
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I am aware :/
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I am really stoked for FH5. Glad they dumped the seasons stuff. I was hoping Japan was going to be the next setting, but Mexico is a great choice.
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Explore ancient ruins, leave sick tread marks!
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There's still mainline Forza if you find Horizon too arcadey.
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They added jump pads!
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This is the best MS E3 conference I think…..ever.
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Someone needs to map out these locations to see how it spans.
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Yeah, looked like a pixelated mess.
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Closest we'll get to another Viva Pinata =/
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how many are releasing this year?
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Yep. Feels weird to not have to pay full price for any of these huge games.
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Sony is going to give a similar presentation with 30 great games that would cost you $1000+ to play on release. And as a result you won't play most of them. GamePass is really a seismic shift in the industry.
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also another huge advantage of GamePass is it makes any co op or friend heavy mp so much more viable. I can relatively easily convince some friends to try GamePass for a few months and suddenly all my friends have the same mp catalog as me. Trying to convince a few friends to buy new $60 games regularly to see if you all enjoy it and have enough time to play together to justify the cost has always been difficult.
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Arx Fatalis 2!!
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But it's Carbon black...so boring!
The blue looks good but I miss all the crazy combos we got over the last couple years. -
Wish granted:
Xbox Design Lab is Back: https://youtu.be/-if1ib0C7kE
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Yup. 22 is going to have so many games packed in due to all the Covid delays.
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At least game pass will save me $$$$
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No need to save up. $15/mo gets you a huge potion of them.
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that one 2023 date fucked me up
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That was baller of a presentation, so good!
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Guys its happening: https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1404143234738135041?s=21
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It’s got it’s own trailer: https://youtu.be/MnIiRygj-nY
The Power of Emotion
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I'm glad The Ascent is gonna be on PC, that looks fun.
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They’re longer now, and include a Microsoft and Xbox logos. And also Clippy asking if you’re trying to play a game.
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Tons of crap that looks interesting, big and small.
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That was a banger of a presentation. Not sure what is says about Halo Infinite that they tucked it into the middle. I am guessing they are crunching on that thing like a mofo and didn’t want to repeat the mistake they made last time and give a bunch of meme-able material. Seems a little sus they said it would be out in the holiday season. So maybe that means November or maybe that means December.
27 of the 30 being on GamePass is fucking unbelievable. Patrick Klepek said on the Waypoints stream that MS is just writing people blank checks to get games on GamePass day 1. They’re finally solving the issue of not having enough games. I guess I finally need to start seriously hunting for a XSX. By the time November gets here maybe I’ll have one.-
At some point soon it will be $40. And probably higher if it remains successful :/
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Ultimate pass might jump to $20 at some point in the near future, if they want to keep EA on board. But they want to be on par with stuff like Netflix and other streaming services of that caliber.
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Yeah, Microsoft are doing a great job at becoming Netflix for games.
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Booting up a new XSX with GamePass and seeing this insane library and then thinking about how if I buy a PS5 I'll have to spend $180 to have 3 games to play is like... uh, not so enticing.
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$210.00 games are $70.00 now. Having said that you're only buying maybe one or two Sony games a year, I COULD live with that. But gamepass is a huge change in that there's games coming out every month that maybe I wouldn't buy them all, but I get to try them all. I enjoyed Medium never would've bought it, Ascent looks really good but I probably wouldn't buy it normally.
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Yeah exactly I’m playing tons of stuff I normally wouldn’t buy even though it looked interesting.
But with a PS5 even if I was only buying a couple Sony games per year I wouldn’t have played NBA2k21, Madden 21, etc from EA and others. I would’ve probably missed Control, Dishonored 2, etc which are all really good. I would’ve had to buy a bunch of indie games like Celeste, Ape Out, Outer Wilds, etc. There’s so much 3rd party content on the service.
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How is it confusing? Would you rather we have:
Xbox Game Pass - Xbox Series X|S Edition
Xbox Game Pass - Xbox One Edition
Xbox Game Pass - PC Edition
Xbox Game Pass - Cloud Edition
Seems to me like the clear indication of supported SKUs on all the marketing material, like they currently have, is far less confusing.-
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To me, at least, having two SKUs like that seems like would be more confusing to consumers, especially when it comes to PC-only titles. Not to mention the fact that it goes against the brand goals, which at this point seem to be letting you play Game Pass titles in some form on any device with an internet connection and a screen.
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but you also have to differentiate between what has xCloud access. I agree the overall UX could be better at helping understand what is and isn't in place but surely the long term vision is to have access to all the platforms pretty closely aligned at least insofar as where the games are actually available (ie an actual PC exclusive game obviously wouldn't be on the Xbox with GamePass but a game that is on PC and Xbox should be available on both and xCloud with GamePass).
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yeah it's definitely annoying reading the news headline of new GamePass releases and then having to go parse the actual source blog post for what's on PC vs Xbox. Like I said I assume the hope is that over time the assumption a consumer can make is that on GamePass means available everywhere (like literally everywhere via xCloud too)
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taking your marquee racing experience into a diverse looking open world with multiplayer seems like a real masterstroke for the series. They get to release twice as much Forza and access way more people who like racing games but aren't super into just basic time trials in very static courses like the old Forza/GT mold. Where GT once was a marquee Playstation experience I bet a lot of core Sony players aren't even really aware of it anymore since it so rarely releases and the gameplay is actually quite niche now.
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If it's even decent it'll do huge numbers.
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Reach. Fantastic campaign and production. Best soundtrack too.
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The books has always been shaky as Canon because they change even more between them.
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I'm finally getting around to finishing 3 with my nephew, I take it I should play those two next? Are the other mainline games worth checking out?
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Definitely play ODST and then Reach, it was Bungie's farewell to Halo. I didn't like the direction 4 and 5 took things but if you really enjoy the games and don't care about the story maybe. At this point I'd probably skip 4 and 5 and just wait for Infinite, I think it assumes you might not have played the last two. The story jumped the shark since 3 tied up so much and didn't really need to continue. Some of the new enemies in 4 felt terrible to flight. They adjusted them in 5 so there were easier to kill but that also made them feel a bit more generic.
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4 and 5 are inferior to Reach.
They may look prettier but they just lack the spark & soul. Reach was a great send-off.
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3 was the last great one, unless you count ODST
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How many good shooters from 2001-2007 are still relevant? Call of Duty is obviously the canonical example after leaning heavily into multiplayer and “progression” and has successfully reinvented itself in the battle royale era. Battlefield has struggled to be at its best regularly. Medal of Honor lost to CoD. All the old Valve stuff obviously died off or had no successor (L4D, TF, CS).
Really hard to keep a series interesting over such a long timespan. Halo seems especially difficult since it has such a specific aethestic and feel that you can’t really fuck with. Whereas CoD/BF can just go decades into the future or past and really mix things up for an iteration or two.-
CS has never been bigger than with CSGO, over the last year it became even bigger than Dota 2 was at its peak.
BF/CoD/CS all managed to stay vital while others like Halo and TF2 have stagnated for well over a decade. I actually think its impressive when a new shooter (R6 Seige, Overwatch) manages to break through among those decades long entrenched shooters.-
right I mean new games in a series that require people keep justifying $60 worth of upgrades. CS had very minor evolutions but it's basically the same game.
The fact that all the stalwarts (BF/CoD/CS) are modern military shooters suggests stuff like Halo has additional difficulty of just not being in a genre that's as broadly popular/relatable.-
Its certainly a factor, most likely helped R6 Siege out. That said, games like Apex, Destiny, and Overwatch are sci-fi shooters that are all thriving.
There's clearly a lot going on (some of those games are free-to-play, etc), I just don't think Halo failed only because of its aesthetic. Its a series that has completely stalled for the last thirteen years. People keep buying it and keep getting let down, tough to overcome!-
For sure execution has failed. But that was the other part of the issue I was trying to identify. I think the Halo brand really boxes you in gameplay wise. Like sure you can add some modes and items but your trailer is still going to show the floaty Halo jumping, the canonical Halo vehicles, sticky grenades, etc and feel same-y in a way that some other series can avoid like CoD can just be like 'woah future combat this year!'
Funnily enough Halo seems like an actual good match for a battle royale mode since it has a unique playstyle to it compared to other shooters and FFA/TDM where you try to gear up has always been the bread and butter.
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Certainly, but that moved over from mods to people using existing game engines instead and eventually moving over to developing games (ie - battle royales in ARMA evolving to PUBG to becoming an inescapable mode).
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No, mods and servers disappeared because game makers wanted them to because they affected sales of their next games. Counter Strike, Team Fortress and the Tribes modding community are responsible for every major FPS we have today. All the team play, load outs, special shields, abilities etc, all of it started with mod communities.
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No, it makes it easier to kill off the old game and sell the new shiny one. It's better for the bottom line. Or you can do what Valve did and just buy the best and micro-transact for profit.
If the community can change the game how are you going to sell DLC? 3 new maps! Bro we already made 276 of them. Get the battle pass! Nope, we already made our own.-
Relevance is largely defined by popularity and its ability to sustain itself. CoD's relevance is not defined by the ability or inability for users to make content, it is defined by the extreme number of players it has and its hold over broader popular culture.
I totally understand the importance of user content and how that petri dish can breed innovation, but that by absolutely no means defines a game's relevance.
The idea that CoD or BF, two series I don't play btw, are not relevant because people can't do mods or host their own servers is ludicrous.
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Reach, and 4 was decent.
Also CoD is stale as shit but millions play it.
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They were playing it safe. They didn't want to be fodder for more memes. Halo is long in the tooth. It's not a console seller anymore. 343, frankly, has yet to make a good single player campaign since they took over. Maybe this time will be different.
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Am really surprised we didn't see either Fable or Senua. But I guess they wanted to focus on 2021 titles for the ones coming from XBox Game Studios.
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Looks like MS is doing a dev stream later on the 17th that will probably include Senua 2.
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There wasn't a mention or just a passing mention of the previously announced Xbox games. Perfect Dark, Fable, Avowed, Senua, Everwild, Indiana Jones, Forza Motorsport, State of Decay 3, Project: Mara.
And we still don't know what a bunch of the Xbox studios are doing like Compulsion, Coalition (presumably the next Gears), inXile.-
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Yeah I wouldn't expect to hear from them for a bit since the last Doom Eternal DLC just came out a little while ago.
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I thought Hexen/Heretic is still in ownership limbo. Where Activision owns the development rights because they own Raven, and Microsoft owns the publishing rights because they own id.
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I'm sure we'll find out soon enough. But it looks like Microsoft may be able to do the whole "1 big Gamepass release each quarter" plan that is supposedly their goal.
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and like you said we have Gamescom, and the Game Awards for them to announce stuff this year. Never mind if they do any other events outside of that.
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Senua is still in pretty early days. But they’ve been putting out pretty regular behind the scenes mini-documentaries, via the Senua actress’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC8jU7Sj71cZmpkOLkb-Vc4g
There are dev diaries from Ninja Theory too:
https://m.youtube.com/c/officialninjatheory/videos
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But gamepass is the platform. Their goal is to eventually have every game on every GP platform - Xbox, pc, xcloud. That’s all that matters now.
For me, the style of ps exclusives passed me long ago. I haven’t seen a single game in two generations that made me want to buy a PS4 or 5. So I disagree with you.-
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Ultimately the cost of a Gamepass is pretty good considering even for someone who has a PS5 where they can also get a Xbox or a PC along with it. The GPU sub gets that money but more so their time.
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Arkane does Left 4 Dead with vampires... interesting. Not at all what I wanted from an Arkane vampire game. But interesting.
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No reason they both can't be true.
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I will say that it's nice that XB fans will finally get 3 AAA exclusives this year (Flight Simulator,Forza & Halo) I will say Halo Infinite looks better now & the multiplayer looks nice. For me..overall I thought the show was average. I didn't see any AAA exclusives that I would like to play including no showing of Starfield gameplay just cgi. The only games shown that I do want to play are Far Cry 6 including the indies Hades & The Ascent which are multi-plats. At this point in time there's still no reason for me to buy an XB console.
I love to watch releases and news in the gaming room. Today I read an interesting article about April 2021 Special Games: Top Mechanics from Developers https://www.tapscape.com/april-2021-special-games-top-mechanics-from-developers/
I have been following this author for a long time. I liked the article itself for its content, it describes various techniques and mechanics of the game, a lot of useful information that I can highlight for myself and apply in my experience.
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