I meant the get hyped of the title as a joke, but I get the idea that people are getting it quite serious, I wonder if I should change the title 
Or perhaps Iâm just too dense to get their jokes too.
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First XCOM 2 got a cinematic trailer showing a ton of new content-- a Demolitions guy, the badass Ranger that brought back the X-COM Apocalypse Power-Sword, new Sectoids, return of the Snakemen-- uh, snek-ladies, the new Evac system, a glimpse of the new âAvengerâ (an awesome callback to classic X-COM), and a Techie with a drone⌠as well as a surprise/flank attack for the first time in modern XCOM. Later, they showed a live demonstration of Operation Gatecrasher (first mission in the game if you disable the tutorial), and sure enough, all features present.
Sea of Thieves got a big trailer of all in-game footage showing stuff thatâs actually in the game, pretty much a thirty minute tour saying âso yeah, thatâs a thing. Cool, an island. Thatâs a shipwreck. These are cool water physics. Oh f***, weâre being raidedââ It was a really great trailer and everything they showed turned out to be legitimate parts of the game. Unlike NMS, they didnât try to sell some metanarrative, it was âf*** around in Pirate-Land with friendsâ from the start. The Hungering Deep is also pretty good.
XCOM 2: Operation Gatecrasher
Sea of Thieves Pirate Shenanigans
XCOM 2: Cinematic Reveal
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It only starts when the indie titles are revealed
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Also, they only showed Unravel 2 today and immediately released it at the same time, so Iâd argue the game exactly reflects the presentation there too
in general, i do think the industry as a whole has learned certain valuable lessons these past few years and is steadily improving, and that goes especially for EA (and even Ubisoft)
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i remember a couple of times, have someone tried to sell me on a game, on what i learned to be the most insane ridiculous basis
e3 âawardsâ
first i was confused, because âhow can a game thatâs not even out yet, for months, (or years), get a freakin award?!?â
then i learned it was basically just marketing awards, dumbasses⌠
âprofessionalsâ/industry people, feeding the bs machine, by looking at a game for X very limited time/scope, not even having it in fckin hand! 
, and deciding to bestow an âawardâ on it on such âwhateverâ basis like some badge of fcn merit, (when it would be like handing out movie awards based on trailers&posters)
-basically pr awards under the guise of some product/related validity in relay to âcriticsâ
if a game then nowadays, decides to wear it like some fcn badge of honor, âwinner of 137 e3 awardsâ, itâs a good way to make sure i roll my eyes hard at your product pre-release, until someone actually gets a product in hand, to actually look at itâŚ
itâs okay inferry, iâm just ânaturally grumpyâ, and wouldnât want someone to get confused and actually get hyped for what is a industry/company marketing conference 
(in case people forgot, itâs not something they are doing âfor usâ, as goodwill towards their fans)
just have to make sure people really read my thick layer of grumpyness proper, (just to be safe that no ironical hipster gets accidentally hyped enough and buys into the spiel, âironicallyâ or even non-ironic) 
death to pr companies, death to marketing hype, viva la robolution! 
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â⌠at the very core itâs choice, itâs that you as player get to choose how you play ⌠that in making those choices you feel youâve been treated fairly, that no one has given an unfair advantage or dissadvantege for how they choose to play ⌠and that for every moment that you invest you feel like you are been rewarded, and that you have given value for that investmen, and most importantly that you have fun, that we move past the grind, and that these are experiences that truly enhance your lives âŚâ
Andrew Willson - CEO, Electronic Arts, E3 conference ~55:00min
If anything, at least they have been practicing how to word things nicely.
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As someone who stays FAR AWAY from yearly releases I have to say that Battlefield 5 looked pretty good.
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Iâm tuned in right now. I think Microsoft is already winning and they just started. Ori is looking good and if Halo is going to be on Win 10 I might have to get it. Weâll seeâŚ
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Right off the bat, I have to say: once again, Halo will probably be s___. My faith in 343i is⌠nonexistent. They killed Halo, botched a remaster, then killed it again, before walking over to the Halo Wars franchise and once again botching a remaster and killing a franchise. That in no way inspires confidence or trust that they can handle the brand well. Nonetheless, the promise of 50 new titles under the Xbox label (with 15 of those being exclusives) is quite a bold claim. Don Mattrick also had this going back in 2013, but unlike back then, I think Phil Spencerâs team has the competence to actually pull off such a feat.
Now, hereâs to hoping Gears of War 5 will be among that list of exclusives!
EDIT: THEY DID IT! THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!
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They are y, but i canât see them beat Playstation once they come with their own exclusives, which blow Xbox out of the waterâŚ
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Phoenix Point will be on Game Pass, day one.
Iâm buying a One ASAP, f___ it.
The conference overall was⌠okay. They made a ton of really cool announcements on the software side, but other than Saguki (probably got the name wrong) and Crackdown, they devoted their game-time to a lot of games I couldnât care less about. Iâll just have to take that indie montage and play it at half speed some time tomorrow. Also, someone tell Ubisoft that they really need to work on their trailers-- if youâre going to fake it, it should at least be convincing, and the fact that the crosshair color (turns red for enemies or destructibles) was almost ALWAYS incorrect during firefights. It didnât even feel remotely real.
Out of everything they showed, it was probably the acquisitions that caught me off guard the most, especially with Ninja Theory (the supposed âindie poster-childâ after Hellblade).
They announced Gears 5, but not before a nasty Funko pop psycheout. That was probably the strangest trailer buildup Iâve ever seen. Still, good conference overall. Canât wait for Bethesda to sour the good momentum of this yearâs E3.
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âFallout 76 will be four times bigger than Fallout 4â
Atomic bomb mind-explosion
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(sets World-Size to 4.0)
âWhy are all these buildings so large?â
âUh, I donât know⌠but 4X THE WORLD SIZE!â
(Fallout 76 title card)
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Devil May Cry is back with itâs 5th installment, with both Dante and Nero!!!
Also hella sick new Cyberpunk 2077 trailer from CD Project red! FINALLY!!!
E3 Xbox conference. What a palette cleanser after whatever EA did yesterday.
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@HouGuard One really great announcement for Battlefront II (woo!), one surprise announcement for Unravel 2, then a whole lotta trash⌠including a rather nasty Command & Conquer related surprise.
The only way they could make things worse is by making a Gears of War themed funko-pop game.
S***.
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MS had a decent conference. They showed more KH which still looks great and the Jump trailer was pretty dope. But the highlight of it all was obviously dmc5, real strong trailer and real bad English.
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Turned out to be a pretty solid showing. Color me impressed. There are definitely some games in there I want, but they wonât be released soon. Just waiting to see what Bethesda has now and then Digital Devolver later.
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Can we just take a moment to talk about Phoenix Pointâs day-one Game Pass release? I might actually buy a One now, like, dang.
I was trying to think of what else it was about the conference that really caught me off guard⌠Dying Light 2 looked amazing. Definitely keeping my eye on that one, especially if itâs just self-published/Microsoft-funded this time around instead of having WB Games to taint it.
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Literally almost fell outta my chair when Markus broke through the wall. 
Canât imagine how the Command & Conquer fans felt after their franchise got degraded to a mobile game.
Edit: Gonna get to bed now. But, iâll be back tomorow to continue the chat. 
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