Xbox Showcase 2024 + COD: Black Ops 6 Direct, Sun 9th 6.00pm

Have to say, that was utterly stacked as far as games I might actually be interested in. Guess I'll be keeping my *cough* son's Gamepass going for another year

It looks pretty typical 1st person action-adventure. Other than the record voice/use recording bit, it shows dodgy movement, dodgy shooting, and a canned takedown. It reminds me of the Syndicate remake, which isn't a great comparison. I'm hoping it ends up more Butcher Bay/Dishonored though. It really does look very proof of concept atm.

The Fable bit also, looks like a CGI trailer interspersed with 5 second target gameplay demos rather actual gameplay. Here's what walking though a town will look like. Here's an example interaction with a fan, and one with a hater. Here's a weapon takedown. Here's a what ranged combat could look like.
It doesn't feel like there a game behind it yet.

I'm seeing a lot of praise for both of these all over the place and I'm obviously just not seeing what everyone else is.
I hope Fable pulls it all together as I'd like to see that one come back strong. There's a lot of opportunity for a fun, light-hearted open world RPG again.
Although it feels like Dragon Age might be trying for it now too :/

Didn't watch this live, but watched some last night and finished off over lunch. Thought it was a good show. Xbox always does seem to have the best show though, likely because you know that all these games can easily be played with just he cost of a Game Pass sub rather than £50-70. The price of admission means I'm going to be much more happy with a "that looks worth a go" and not looking out for the must plays as much.

Personally thought Perfect Dark looked excellent and don't really get the naysayers here. Looked like they were very much going for a Deus Ex or Dishonoured style free form play style that allows multiple approaches. Of course, that could all be a lie and it will just be a linear experience where you have to use specific tools at specific points, but if it is an immersive sim mixed with Mirror's Edge movement then I'm really looking forward to it.

Avowed looked fine to me as well. If it weren't from Obsidian then I would like not pay it much attention, as it looks very generic, but I certainly wouldn't say it looked bad. Waiting on reviews to see if it is worth the time, but I'm not dismissing it at the moment.

Full remaster of Age of Mythology is cool. I have a memory that the Atlantian race added in the expansion were kind of broken and overpowered, so hopefully they will be tweaking them to be more balanced (I could also be misremembering and/or was bad at the game and they were fine).

Thought the Indy cutscene was fun, but want to see some more extended gameplay. Seems to feature a bit of first person fisticuffs, which is tricky to get right. Hopefully it will lean more into being a puzzle game, but I am surprised that they didn't go third person for this, as surely the running, jumping, punching and whipping we associate with the character would be better served from that perspective.

Metal Gear Solid, Atomfall, Expedition 33, South of Midnight, Flintlock, Stalker 2, DOOM, Wuchang and Mixtape all looked varying degrees of good to great too.

I hope id took note of the split in opinions between Doom16 and Eternal. Was quite a marked distinction between between people who loved the additions in Eternal and people who loved the simplicity of 16. Personally fall in the latter camp, so I hope Dark Ages has less micromanagement, or there is less sense that one must pay attention to that stuff instead of just killin'. Dark Ages trailer looked gorgeous though, with Doom's beautiful weighty combat.

State of decay had gameplay integrated into the CG didn't it? Looked very much like some of the shooting bits were gameplay.

It's not fluid. It's not really dynamically shooting multiple enemies, it's one shot, pause, re-aim, one shot, pause, etc. Starfield looks better and that's more of a hybrid than this. Compare it to Dying Light or any other modern 1st person action adventure. It does look more Dishonored, but the shooting in that is also pretty shit
I'm hoping it ends up more Dishonored in the gameplay choice, not mechanically.

The movement is the same. For a parkour-style thing it doesn't flow very well. Or it's not presented very well, but it's sort of the same thing when you're advertising movement in your game via a trailer.

I dunno WiP(work in progress)gameplay trailer is WiP gameplay trailer. It's not a surprise.

People are picky fuckers

Anyway, I got none of the things I wanted. 1/10

I'm really surprised there's still fuck all from the Activision merger apart from putting Diablo on Gamepass and the questionable activity of putting the latest CoD on there.

Didn't they scrap everything and start again on it? It feels like one of those games that was announced far too early.

I read this as piggy fuckers and just sat giggling in my chair

But that's the same as Killer Instinct, that's their baby and it was done two other devs who made a fucking awesome game. I dunno, I feel like they have a choice and they chose not to make those games.