I have waited for this E3 for a couple months in anticipation of the Xbox Scorpio…I’m sorry the Xbox One X (WTF?! Fire the marketing team seriously).
Before I throw my thoughts out there what did you all think?
Here is IGN’s write up of everything Microsoft Xbox.
I thought it was quite good. I don’t mind the name. Besides a comment on Polygon pointed out that Xbox One X = XbOX = Xbox. Clever.
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> I’m sorry the Xbox One X (WTF?! Fire the marketing team seriously).
Ahhh yes. The whole, “I don’t like it so everyone that came up with it after extensive research and deliberation should lose their jobs!”
That’s always a good argument to start your post off with.
I can say that I haven’t watch or read about it yet. It’s not really something interesting to expect from the E3 other than advertisement of future games. I may see what has been announced but not at this time.
I don’t know. Personally I wasn’t interested in much. I really only buy Xbox consoles for Halo these days. Everything else I like is on Nintendo or PlayStation. I keep expecting Microsoft to blow me away like they used to but their E3 hasn’t been good (for me at least) in a while. The last few years Sony has been killing it with great games. And Nintendo always has great exclusives. I just don’t know how much longer the brand will stay relevant with just Halo/Gears/Forza over and over again. Especially since fewer and fewer people are starting to care about Halo after they changed the gameplay and art style.
All that being said I think original Xbox backwards compatibility is cool. I hope Halo 2 becomes backwards compatible with functioning online and POSSIBLY added achievements.
I’d give Microsoft a generous 7 out of 10 this year. It was good, but nothing amazing. Almost all timed exclusives and not enough AAA exclusives. Crackdown looks good but I wish they had a demo. Anthem looked like it might be good. Lots of games (mostly indie games), no Halo 5 Xbox One X patch.
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> I’d give Microsoft a generous 7 out of 10 this year. It was good, but nothing amazing. Almost all timed exclusives and not enough AAA exclusives. Crackdown looks good but I wish they had a demo. Anthem looked like it might be good. Lots of games (mostly indie games), no Halo 5 Xbox One X patch.
Agreed. Sea of Thieves was really strong for me and a lot of the ID@Xbox Looked very cool.
Anthem looked to me like a Titanfall/Destiny crossover. No reason at all that it can’t succeed, but with Destiny 2 coming out sooner and potentially another Titanfall shortly after it it may get squeezed - as a launch game for XB1X I think it could have made a real splash. They have potentially missed their moment, though (or maybe they’re trying to stay away from Destiny 2 launch).
XBox One X looks great, but it’s definitely gotten stuck in an identity crisis: it’s not a new console, but it’s not just an XBox repack. It’s not got a massive amount of top drawer launch content, but loads of existing games get 4k updates for it. There’s also the issue of: anyone buying it really needs the screen to do it justice.
Potentially the original plan would have been for H6 to be its flagship, but quite rightly 343 haven’t done that as they need time to make sure H6 is right. I honeslty wouldn’t be suprised or disappointed if H6 launch slipped to 2020 as long as they get it right. They’ll have a hard job keeping the playerbase entertained in the meantime, but I’d rather the current Halo playerbase shrunk during 2018/19 and exploded again for 2020 than us getting a 2019 launch with too many problems/controversy a la MCC, H5 or HW2
I feel like the Microsoft conference was underwhelming this year. Apart from Anthem, Forza 7, and Terry -Yoinking!- Crews; none of the 42 games really excited me. It was just easily forgettable. The highlight of it was definitely the Xbox One X (am I the only one who likes that name? It could stand for so many things that begin with the X sound) with it’s small form factor and beautiful flat look along side extremely high quality hardware (especially for consoles) did impress me and its low price compared to building an equivalent 4K PC is also appealing.
The lack of Halo was also disappointing as the ‘little something’ was fresh in my mind; but I’m willing to take blame for that looking back onto it considering Grim himself said when everything will be in the last community update (although it was a very small section that was easy to look over).
So all in all it was a very ehh show, but out of the three we’ve had it was the best. EA didn’t have much new and Bethesda’s conference was uninspired. Bethesda really didn’t need a show this year. The VR games would’ve fitted in well with the PC Gaming show and Wolfenstien II (Hype!) could’ve easily been shown at the Xbox or the upcoming PlayStation event. E3 in general this year has been pretty low, but I have hopes that Nintendo and Playstation will bring something good to the table.
I really liked anthem and cup head but yes Xbox needs another big exclusives
The upcoming titles seem promising, but the Xbox One X was very underwhelming.
Was there ever any meaning given to why they named it Xbox One X? Like is it supposed to be the X-factor all in One Xbox? I just want to know why lol.
I feel like Anthem is going to be the game that kills Bioware for good. I’ve never really been into Forza. But Crackdown looked sick.
Definitely pretty underwhelming, especially considering Anthem won’t even be an exclusive.
The Xbox One X looks good but it’s the lack of exclusives coming this year that are going to hurt. Will have a total of 3 exclusives for the year. Halo Wars 2 which is out and then Forza and Crackdown 3. Microsoft should of really thought about doing a a complete fix of the MCC as a free update for current owners with H3A as DLC for it and a reprint of the MCC in stores and digitally with H3A included with 4K support for the Xbox One X. That would of sold a ton of Xbox One Slims and Xbox One X’s. Speaking of 4K patch for MCC please and I’ll buy a Xbox One X on day one.
KInda underwhelmed, alot of things that excited me were things i’ve heard of already.
There’s nothing really xbox exclusive that interests me, so I’ll just stick to my PC and get the PC versions. This isn’t me trying to be PC elitist, its just…why should I forkout another 500 bucks (plus whatever a 4k tv would cost) to play games I can already play on my current rig?
I noticed that in the Anthem gameplay we spent an outrageous amount of time staring at that guys face. Its like “see, see, we can do facial animations!” 
The issue is that instead of £450 plus a 4K television I could an absolute unit of a PC instead…
I was excited for MCC, all the hoop la. Now when they talk about anything new, i just can’t get into it…the nightmare of MCC Haunts me
I thought it was alright. They showed a lot of neat looking trailers for games but I was hoping for more first party stuff and I really wanted a demo on Crackdown 3 instead of 100 scenes of stuff exploding lol
Pretty solid conference all round. Lack of Halo was significantly felt but I was ready for that going in so, meh.
Phil Spencer’s Shirt wasn’t quite as silly as last year, and there was no mid-show change, so that was disappointing, but regarding what they showed;
I thought Anthem looked interesting. Sad that there wasn’t any Halo.
Scalebound really stole the show. I can’t wait to order it.
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Ditto. Exodus was one the few games to catch my interest.
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> Scalebound really stole the show. I can’t wait to order it.
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> Ditto. Exodus was one the few games to catch my interest.
Scalebound was cancelled. 