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Create free account[Music] what everybody welcome to recap we're live and I'm holding it down by myself today Brendan Fehr not gonna be looking at the microsoft press conference from this year's e3 2019 so if you're already at e3 or if you've got a chance to sneak into the press conference you already know a lot of what's gonna be going on today but what you don't know is what to actual industry game developers feel about everything that was said promised and I guess told to the audience as far as what our expectations are for projects scarlet what they're gonna be doing with games past and their online streaming services so we're really excited to get this content underway yes [Music] so yeah I hope you were here for yesterday's content we did a whole review of the Google Stadium presentation we offered our thoughts we offered our advice but then also talked about our expectations there and I guess
we're gonna be doing the same thing with Microsoft today so yeah so uh thank you everybody for joining us two games recap and today yesterday well yesterday he kind of covered it we looked at the stadia stuff and so today we're gonna look at the Microsoft press conference I assume that it's gonna take a long time because it's an hour and 30 but we're gonna skip past that we're gonna try to everything under an hour because there's a lot of fluff that we don't really need to watch so obviously all that is coming up but anything have you heard anything yesterday in particular I know everyone's talking about doctor disrespect like taking the piss here and there but I don't want to talk about so past that point I haven't really heard too much big big news any big news that haven't really happened so I think the biggest story for me that I've been
following miss mainly because it's also part of my childhood was knowing that the final thing is just having remake finally get a soft launch date they're saying 2020 but then there's other articles saying that like we don't know when exactly be finished you know there was talk about it being episodic you know like the old shareware days or basically like the life is strange model you can you know purchase it by a season or purchase it by each piece and so what well I'm looking forward to seeing is just even when the first piece is done because I want to get a chance to play it myself but that was probably the biggest thing that I personally been following there it's not I don't want to say it's a lackluster III this year but there wasn't any sort of like big boom franchise announcement you know gears v cool but the I've played gears all one through four it's story wise technology wise there's not much new there that I was from the little teasers that I saw it looked pretty outdated man like a lot of the like short teasers with the gears doing that little weird head transformation and then halo they're new in Halo
Infinite I didn't see that ago I think we're gonna see that we're gonna fast-forward pass that along to that and check it out and so might as well let's just check out all the things again if you like to support us throw the donation or you'll see little carts and making a comeback at any point of the stream will be really appreciating that alright aside from that let's go ahead and start you know alright guys so getting ready we're gonna hit that button and once we hit it you guys should be seeing video footage along with us on screen simultaneously going over what's been happening in the broadcast we're gonna rant we're gonna riff hopefully you'll have a lot of fun sit back and relax and let us take you through the Microsoft press conference okay so I just need a moment go ahead all right start playing this
oh my god I'm so excited to be here you always know how to do the motion graphics really well I mean this is what we missed from the heyday of III right the the big audience waiting for gaming news and all these people that we see once a year come out and stage as the mascots I'm gonna fast forward some hype reels it's like Marvel right leave it they're totally doing the Marvel a little you know inside the bevel of the logo they
have all their clips and then they pull out to reveal it says Xbox or Microsoft Studios game number one what do we get this from Lucasfilm and say I didn't see the company name now you should at the end so right now they kind of have like a fallout s is this race is it outer worlds oh that looks like outer worlds whoa check out obsidian yeah yeah check it out I can barely see I'm seeing it oh man ugliness is starting to come out if this is outer worlds I'm not gonna I'm proud of obsidian man I'm happy to see them doing like a top level triple-a game again I think the last game that I would say was like an own like Alpha Protocol right was probably like the biggest undertaking that I saw that company go through as far as making
their own game they worked on contract stuff here and there but now to see them doing like their own IP again shoutouts everybody end up sitting you guys did good I'm excited to see this I'll be the other guys since I haven't I so Citian it's not even the I'm just proud of them it's like seeing my friends succeed you know I'm not gonna [ __ ] on that dude I'm excited all right cool doesn't look great it looks like in the middle like I think this is the problem with like the Fallout franchise like I like the concept but it's trying to go I don't know where it lies in terms of trying to be stylized or not and it's kind of in the between and from what I've seen the outer why's it's trying to go for realism but at the same time it just looks half-baked the character art especially just is very unappealing to me and it just looks like noise okay that's unfortunate oh no this is a goodbye oh I give them
credit for hell-blade I was excited with what they did with hell-blade I really loved that piece of content right to have a small focused team make something that looks like feels top level but obviously your experience length is gonna be 40 hours you know what I mean so they're paving the way for more game developers who aren't as big as 200-300 person studios to still be able to make room to make noise in the top level so [Music] there is someone that you can really trust and get behind I mean they've been approving studio and all the studios that they bought us from Microsoft by far and into there is in the front I mean they just get consistently so Microsoft good ninja theory obsidian in exile double fine yeah double fine is actually announced later in this one I
believe but they bought up a lot so by my studio and you'll start one at the seed like it leave the difference in qualities it's kind of like the scene fanatically right fallout s stylized you know even as a designer or before get oh does this is like a battle mobile or something battle royale battle brawler probably makes it overwatch bakers Oh Heavenly Sword slave don't like rhino blade oh all these cool games we made now go buy our newest game there's so many games that are built around like building this world full of characters like they're stable and their roster
yeah there's not like if you start playing 2/3 of these games you have so many people yeah I like the fact that a lot of these games are taking hints from the watch it looks like not just overwatch but like the original fighting roster Tekken Street Fighter like casts of characters that have its own unique abilities and and then just throwing it on stage and and seeing what the outcome is like so I didn't I don't necessarily know exactly what that game is gonna do as far as my play experience other than I'll have three partners and we're gonna fight yeah I didn't get a good sense thing it's hard it's like the old heyday of like trailer releases where you used to be able to tease stuff but at this point like the pre-render and the you know game game render is so close together that people need more than just the graphics I need to have info on on gameplay this is a Microsoft exclusive no or I don't know I it on the Xbox
though myself but I don't know if the first one was exclusive but this one probably is if Microsoft is spending time advertising it how easy with Sony be also on the PlayStation 4 you know on Twitter waste all their damn money wow this is you can tell these guys made money on their first game oh my God look at this yeah but even keeping that side scroller right it limits how the 3d that you're making is being shown but it still comes on to super impressive very choreographed or in the will of the wisps so far so good who's hanging on this you see what we're all the press conferences have been
boring with Sony's absence in Microsoft 10 Estonian you know a lot of not because that's not exclusive right it was just available on their platform I think the formula of the press conference is super boring these days it's like hey bring out some people who had something to do the game they talk about the game show game bring out someone to thank those people to segue into the new people who are gonna talk about the new game but not doesn't involved anymore is it this is a case where minecraft was everything everywhere like not fortnight level but it was every kid was playing it it was like a Diablo minecraft minecraft' the RPG I'm glad that Microsoft's finally taking this branch
never because you were they were doing like really minor steps in like hey we changed the lighting system well not even that is more like educational program and like community based stuff nothing but I don't know if this is too hardcore for casual because before minecraft is all about the kids kind of exploring and playing Lego and exploring this doesn't look like you're building or discovering anything other than dungeon crawl okay okay right oh well there you go minecraft done fine pass it's all right it's if you like that art style and you like a Diablo game you know maybe give it a shot it comes off like it would be easy but I'm you know I'll hold that judgment later and now see look at that that's how predictable that's how predictable these things though spicy
you know just like halfway corporate halfway are friends with just and I'd say that he's doing a good job well you don't want to see somebody like me finish is looking at feel okay guys thank you for being here last conference Xbox is hedging their bets man they're the ones that play their cards the most for the very first time this it moment isn't just about it finding some new games it's about discovering your new games this decisive moment of discovery
is history talking to the father marketing jargon right now everyone the games they want to be discovering new ways this is why we're better than those early guys it's why we're uniting communities I'll say this the Xbox one X I love them console I want to have that thing free so it's more powerful but I'm running my games obviously much better than our television CNN sometimes you can get a full 4k experience but what I mean just mainly what I enjoy is playing my games with knowing that I'm having the much better visual fidelity excuse
me I'm like fun with this because I compared my original Xbox experience to the Xbox one X and it's it's instant rescue play forces especially play anything where you're gonna be streaming over a huge environment in a short period of time you notice the difference but I just love having the highest visual fidelity and that I do so I've been very impressed with the Xbox one I take over well that's mean that's gonna be a clip that's gonna be somebody's gonna catch that Forest Whitaker baby shout out to the og Ghost Dog on the roof the Star Wars thing uh okay so I had a lot of hope for the Star Wars single-player on battlefield 2 when they came out with
you know wasn't did they call it battlefield 2 battlefront to you screaming so I played the single-player they're the main character was like almost mute for the first 30 to 40 minutes and just made these dumb facial expressions but the reason why I bring that up is because I remember being so captivated so excited about everything that I saw in that presentation but then when I actually played it it felt like it was lacking in a bit this looks good I know it's coming from respawn and I know they're their resume right there prestige allows me to give them way more benefit of the doubt then I was expecting with the EA version of battlefront Stu's a single-player add-on for that part of the game what I'm seeing here is a way more personal storytelling approach which i think is actually cool because sure I don't care about this random Jedi white dude that they threw in my face but I always care about feeling a part of that world being connected to it and being and having a lot of freedom and agency to do cool things and not just physics display like
Force Unleashed type games you know to me so I don't know I'll check that one out I'll check that on there I'm not trying to sell anybody's games here today but I would check that one out big star Wars fan sure sure good Star Wars lies what I saw was that it reminded me a lot about force only when I saw the respawn duration and it kind of reminded me but respawn is not known for like these kind of third-person adventure games they're know for first-person so I hope it looked it feels better than it looks but my initial impression was it in terms of graphical fidelity is their verses other games right like the characters that again it's like in that weird like is it stylized or not but I feel like it's kind of trying to reach realism at least of the characters like a great example if I can jump in or spider-man you played a piece or they actually it's
very realistic looking but the cues that they took for a stylization like making the eyes almost exams bigger and that's like that's what I see what's right from the respawn in team a there looks very mannequin yes yeah okay right so that that that was my first impression with the Star Wars stuff a secondly when I saw it was that again the the strength the respawn isn't there person adventure type of game that's where I was hoping the Amy Hennig you know it's very it feels very uncharted right here you're like wait wait calling like you're you're moving around the environment swinging from stuff yeah from plateau above that so it's very Drake and with a lightsaber right all right it's true and then of course they have the titanfall stuff so they can wall climb and all that yeah I actually I'm not gonna lie well as soon as I saw the wall run I was like man it feels very arcade well that that felt like shoehorn from like hey we've got yeah yeah yeah so I saw a lot of Titan I don't know it's kind of I'm not I don't
think they're using the same engine they're probably using the Frostbite engine most likely because it is EA but who knows maybe they are using their engine someone can call me out right yeah I don't know if I've seen the wall run in the Star Wars universe or in other games use that way so like to see it in this game knowing that respawn used it and kind of pioneered it in their other that to me I was like I don't I don't appreciate that yeah yeah so III definitely I definitely know like respawn of anything or his gameplay first you want to make sure it's fun if they're going for the arcade II feel like if I went to Dave & Buster's and it feels like that it doesn't feel like it like the maybe the cinnamon of tog Rafi is off maybe the cow the camera is kind of set behind the player it doesn't feel as cinematic as it should but when I think of like a single player well Star Wars I want it to be basically uncharted really really up-close very cinematic texture quality has to be there if it's stylus has to be somewhere along Spider
Man yeah what's like realistic and there's a lot of facial animation towards it this one I saw it feels a lot like Force Unleashed updated yeah hopefully I'm wrong but like the lightsaber right it doesn't feel like you don't feel the boom when you hit someone right it feels like which is like the complaints with the prequels again sure know the benefits of being respawn is that they're good with gameplay and I'm hoping maybe upon playing it be different but I felt Force Unleashed sure I think yeah the hard part for me is like whenever you're introducing new characters or new main characters to the star world universe that I'm gonna take over and I'm going to play yeah you need some variety because the Star Wars universe is so colorful there's so much depth like way better than like mass I wish they showed less to be honest like I think I think if they did less of the acrobatic stuff like go back to the original trilogy where it's like more stilted fights or like really earn the ability to kind of
reflect like that's where it feels off right and I think that's why people have a problem with the last Jedi's because Ray didn't go undergo of course we're not gonna see this in trailer we're gonna see all the cool parts but I think for a first game player you know I think for me at least I would like to see the beginnings of how hard it is to do the half the [ __ ] they show yeah well that was my first impression it was kind of under well not this one I feel similar I just always worried that you know when I look at the character that I'm supposed to be in this game and then in the previous like Star Wars 1313 Star Wars portion at least they all could be brothers yeah yeah like this like the James brains like this game right here I want that kind of up-close Star Wars we're getting we looking at now I have no idea they're gonna explain it right
okay well look like kills for us hey look at that a dog but this is why I feel like this is where triple-eight quality is right now and I was surprised to see some games being below the bar from a really big company mmm it's like it's unacceptable RTX person it's unacceptable senex it but this is oh look at that you know this is what I want with the lightsaber you know I mean that's the type of Star Wars I've seen Force Unleashed I don't want to know the force on Oh jumpscares oh wait that's right the Blair Witch game all is the Blair Witch the Blair Witch getting my things as well there's like 30 years lately
can't believe it that's the power of like brandings like even if it's a 34 years later people still recognize it and it's better than just starting fresh man I wish I was those two or three people that were like hey let's take my camcorder put on night vision mode let's just film a movie all right it looks scary looks creepy CD Projekt RED cyberpunk alright this day won't buy from me here's why I'm getting a big expansive universe it looks fantastic and I haven't played anything like this is proposing in a very long time at this level like take me into another universe let me be somebody else give me some escapism I'm excited about this it's a lot of like backstory through they over worked there oh yeah deaths on this project we've been a lot of big high departures like leads and it definitely went through like a couple overhauls
on those Blade Runner the game cyberpunk is a trendy year now this is definitely he's all active he's all messed up and it looks like Mark Henry from double-double Yi the strongest man in the world ISIL since you're commenting on like the the look and visual appeal stylized versus realist is how do you it's beautiful so this this feels better yeah sure but it's still the same art style right like once the transitions and again all our Star Wars remember just I'm saying for this how do you feel
like they've done in oh they didn't greet job I talk not this is how you get excited or you get people this is where you me this is the bar now that's why if I see anything what just 2015 update your software man it so RT X cards the it's unacceptable they took out his chip and that's why we respond has never been like a leading studio for the graphic they've always been game played version yeah the feel I think the hard part is always there story of like how how many people they brought over and what they tried to do and you know they're building on their way story yeah no I'm just saying that as in like their it seems like respawn is building on their way up plus they had like their first two games you know they're fine now I mean that um but yeah but this is what
you can't put your game mixes wait the CD Projekt RED is going for the GTA throne man yeah let's see if this game can be GTA 6 that I moved until GTA 6 yeah to make the Winter Games and now inside once their second franchise though even though it went through a lot of trouble it seems like they're writing the ship that there's a lot of excitement behind it so maybe having the right people in place finally what I know those until he comes down you know how Oh crazy yeah you're gonna see some type of dysfunction because of all this departures well here's the thing right like I remember when I saw the e3 presentation for anthem and I was like oh man this game looks great it looks really cool like i'm so hype about it and then when anthem comes out to see like how under well that's gonna mean like being cut all on the cutting floor you can cut all the mess that they went
through but when the game is now it's alan you start to see the dysfunction yeah this is rarely a time he's getting every drop out of his brandon you know that for John wick he was doing like martial arts jujitsu gun training he was training like a stuntman so Keanu might certifiably be a badass now outside of the acting like he legitimately [ __ ] wanna go where do all the fun things you embody you carry chariots I think that's more satisfying than actually playing the role itself because when you're on set you're probably like 20 hours for like 20 minutes of footage or 10 minutes of footage a lot of sitting around a bit but like the training and like feeling like a badass your basic experiencing vacations do you think he dies in his
hair I'm sure he's got some Gray's by now his silky black John wig he's gotten older than that 50 I know maybe 50 a 50 year I found out Samuel Jackson 70 70 [Applause] still still dropping in by Stallone is 70 Stallone I want some of that I like that he should be the frontman for those commercials Arnold is getting back in shape [Music] we hope hope when I'm 70 I can still have 24-inch pythons nothing worse than than the NBA series start on this like Tarsus but I see them and they're like oh my god like Jordan the great is a lot of time is like the biggest long time it's like really you had like a
mentality of you can't tell him [ __ ] alright I won everything he could possibly win I know but like see the only thing that you know I just picture him on the [ __ ] now and his Michael Jordan a billionaire yet oh yeah no for sure no yeah he owns a basketball team he's for sure okay so then alright I was gonna save you at the moment I thought he was always like 800 million some yeah he's almost at two billion XP Michael Jordan is 1.9 billion Network Julius you billion won one business deal away habitat in to Billy bronzong what's Kiana promoting I forget where was I you know I mean is he still what didn't they just show a trailer what else is that where are they showing now I think
gameplay no this is a Lowe's it's still cyberpunk yeah also now we see the gameplay alright oh sweet yep key on I stole that from my game saw that hover bike sequence all my role do I can't wait to play this everything that I've seen about it has made me excited hey cedar project definitely has a reputation so I believe in that the one mosaic world open-world games and then with all the turmoil and trouble and departures instead of tells me that you know it's gonna let hover around 70 the hard thing for me though is its for 2020 is when it comes out and holiday season that same years when we're expecting scarlet to drop is when we're expecting a new playstation to drop so we're looking at what is that six six seven months of enjoying that game when
that game looks like it's supposed to be a two to three year enjoyment experience like how long do you play destiny right couple years so you know that's something to consider fans out there [Music] doesn't agree that dude he looks like a pear shape dude what does Kevin Hart said about Jars Barkley he made a you look like a someone set into bean bag I'll say this about Jordan I've looked what can I tell him about being in shape or like achieving any sort of greatness he's done it oh yeah foot seven buries it down you know how shitty would it be if like Jordan was still hyper-competitive down it like right and your best is why I know all about regular people I would be so sad to see when you wake up and you feel groggy and awful I can't how do you know
that that's how he feels he wakes up you know money's gonna save you from like if somebody comes up out of the water the Royal Blanc is clean your highness you know there's a difference I go for a jog and don't worry gonnigan do not have that feeling every day it's like it's a weight he sustained some injuries to through his career so like keep that in mind like we're not playing 83 games a year going at each other I've seen those shitty machines that people are getting half of working out you can still be mobile that's just like straight up eating well I'll put some respect on his name if if I was in Jordan was awesome no no I'm just saying awesome house in this position I achieved what he did and had what he had and I decided that I no longer sports and athleticism was not my highest priority right now who's gonna tell me [ __ ] you know that's that's where I would be I'm like hey whatever go enjoy your life man he did 17 18 seasons of entertaining basketball for everyone out there
yeah one championship started brands and I'm not even a Jordan fanboy actually he's not my favorite player I just I'm putting respect with respect his view he's definitely the greatest of all time there's no doubt about it it's always like constant comparison you put him in hanging here at basketball his personality type is like super competitive you will train to be the best no matter where he is he's called Oh was a cleaner they I was reading this thing about I forgot what book it was in they're saying like a cleaner somebody who makes everyone around them better and them and then as soon as you remove that person those people who we all thought was great like go back down to the million level because the amounts of the calling it a year will be the first time didn't go anyway or like with a cab or they'd ever on land well because like last please when the Cavs were talking about their plan after LeBron I I didn't even I mean I fast forwarded through it much like this clip this game looks cool I like
the fact that they're kind of going into a new medium and presentation yeah like a flipbook alright style like you're in detention with a lot of crayons it's what I feel like is what used to do in high school is you know come up with these little adventures so I think that's cool it's a cup head too it's like an extension of those kinds of ideas you can't stand back all right now it has to be if you're a small game you have to go insane if it's a size four league or the black horse you have to like pack you got to find a way to make a splash man yeah that's why I see one make sure blade quality and you can get the graphic up would be like if you're trying to go for it what's interesting is I do want to say this to people watching but also to developers everywhere think about how many new games your customer is exposed to every year right in 1990 I don't know 100 League games you'd be coming out on Nintendo like over all through that year
I'm talking like internationally maybe a hundred games total yeah your customers today are gonna get exposed to thousands of games in a year right through app stores through game pass through new games coming out through mobile games through computer games through it's just they're gonna be bombarded with new content availability knowing that you can't do run-of-the-mill anything anymore everything that you do you have to consider how you're gonna make some sort of a substantial impact or some sort of substantial noise because you are competing against thousands I gotta say I think that that game I forget what it's called as a killer queen or Killer Bee or queen or something it's like a four player verse four player three three victory condition game it's really hard to describe but it's actually a lot of fun I plated it up was it was like arcade it's like pixel pixel arcade gosh
I have the worst memory anyway great game if you can get a chance to play that game with seven of your friends young great time I saw like a blip of it on the ID at Xbox so what's the idea this is what we should be looking at man this is your indie creators on Xbox that have a game cool enough to get like a partnership with Microsoft to get their game on the platform but also promoters and supportive I see so this is there that's your creator portal that's the Mo's the old what was the old XNA Xbox Live Arcade that that's the new that is a suite I have Xbox game past I get to play with one of my favorite games and this is where I differentiate from the stadium dude on slaughter the best thing that ever happened to my whole Microsoft career is spending nine bucks a month to get game Pass
let me tell you I'm a proud moment right now for brown people way to go yes representation a C's in a prominent position by the way so brownish I'm gonna go follow I'm super excited passport these filled marginalization right there oh my gosh show me some slides she just did you saw like forty or fifty seconds of like the new games coming to game pass all right if anyone watching this is from Microsoft or has anything to do with Microsoft or if you just feel bad enough that you want to
send me an original Xbox as I don't have one anymore Microsoft please deaf Jim fight for New York needs to exist again not a new game but please give me a way to emulate it either through a mass or through backwards-compatible are they announced that's one of the best Xbox games I this is where I felt like Steam this could have been like the next evolution of steam a steam that allows you to have Netflix commercial type of pricing plan and kind of looped in more of the indie crowd that made them famous right but they couple you've been sitting on their ass enjoying all the 30 percent have not innovated anything and they're just slowly waiting to die if they're trying to cut themselves or like a private stock oh you think they're gonna go oh yeah they're trying to go like yo everything they're trying to do is
for what for what because they don't iron capital no like all that's gonna happen there is someone's gonna come in at this point wants to just give it away sure Liv is rest of his life you know at some point he doesn't want to handle anything who else is gonna give it to you he has probably a board of directors but I'm doing all I know is okay so here's what happens if steam goes IPO mark my words I believe everything that we hope steam would do to better itself will not happen steam is only gonna be worse for the consumer and they're gonna greed themselves into oblivion mark my that is my prediction of Steel's I know I don't have any faith in that company's business model being something that people who don't play games and enjoy gaming getting a hold of will treat it fairly in the way that will be better for their cause it'd be worse it's more nothing worse I'm just saying if we go up here it's going to be all these other developer public just trying to take up their market share at this for is anyway yeah I think it's just gonna be worse
[Music] dude gears one I still remember that announcement commercial well what would innovate gears right like the gameplay the world the grit everything about that when it first came out was cool but they also was like first time I'm seeing normal Maps they had like visual fidelity on their side as well so like it was a one-two punch it was stylized it was cool it was gory but they were also like this is like actually top-notch visuals for an Xbox 360 you know what I mean they don't have a lot of those same playing cards now they they look like a game that looks like any other game I've seen games so like a bigger a bigger the open-world that's what I expect from you for like years RPG style they have to because right now covered the cover third person is so overdone and not even by the conference
room by themselves like it's the fifth Gears of War with the same play v with errors plus they've had like the little but their eye primarily officer known for shooting but also at big monster battles the way Monster Hunter was able to kind of evolve become more like this open world that everybody can kind of participate in and then be like a biggest area like I can see that really successful with the kids franchise but they're not doing that yeah they're doing stupid let me fast-forward this stuff there was actually a big announcement that this job they're combining all their search so gamepads ultimate nice hey here's what you get already but we're giving you more for free yeah I hate these business subscription models that I had like five tiers per companies like dude you're not the only one in town you know
the descriptions we go alright way to go way to sweep up Xbox Congrats this is why I'm more excited about what Xbox is doing this Stadium [Applause] world premiere yeah I'm gonna start doing voice acting [ __ ] capture in real time for Canyon oh here we go captured in real time 4k means they're playing on the Xbox one s or really strong computer under the sea 4k skies and mountains baby can't cheat art now do [ __ ] movie quality let's go home this Mork a flight simulator yeah it looks great okay I just have to ask like is the
flight commute is the flight simulator community growing or slowing because I'm seeing less and less people interested in flying people are responding talking about flying or very cute yeah the flying simulator is great I think if I'm at all interested in flight Sims or flying look at that it looks it looks nice but have you ever been a day one flight sim player the first thing that happens is you crash you crash a lot all right this is Santa satellite data this is real it's no way this is mapped out world no designers never I think for sure pilots will probably play this people who people who make this a VR yeah right when I'm learning I'm never gonna come over your house and see you playing flight sim I know that rough fact I know for a fact I'm never gonna see mbaku this is gonna happen to you oh I need to get out of here and I'm only gonna learn through flight sim that was
pretty impressive Def Jam firefighter somebody yeah see I'm getting some agreements Gears of War worlds it looks better in real life this is great shout out to everyone on the twitch community keeping that loop going as we talk we hear from them and then we put that back in the stream all right so you heard it here first Brandon's gonna start playing flight soon I want to see this is another like outer world s art style that looks hard do you have something against them or use it are you legitimately no no no definitely are wise I never learned the city oh you should have seen the aliens game man the alien a game that we were working on and
I remember right when they cancelled it it was like this is the best thing I had seen at the time we had so much love into it dammit Sega I'm still I'm still salty about that the product again you know I found out so actually I shouldn't say it on the air I don't if I had trouble nevermind I was gonna say something pretty cool what is this is this borderlands [Music] just seeing Leben's doesn't sell games anymore show me how it works differently than other stuff that I've seen it's it is not 2000 so me in this game wasteland possibly in exile but I didn't
know it I didn't see their name but in exile did get purchased by Microsoft so couldn't possibly be I was just not familiar with all of their games I know they did mage tale Bard's Tale Forgotten wasteland that beauty I think Chris from obsidian went to work on wasteland I'm trying to figure out I'm trying in my head I'm trying to do the like red the red strings that attach the Orange County sector is very incestuous dude it's like people who work around and work around they don't want to go down have you done the Irvine the tour of the tour of Orange County give a little in exile a little obsidian you know pretty much yeah go see ready at dawn you know when they were there you know you can hang out a red five it's a couple good developers tucked into Orange County see we talked about highs yesterday there you know to see what he's halfway there but he's like
there's some one halfway genuine he seems like he has friendly eyes to me no no look at how tired and evil he's half half that we'll find just announced I think double surprise that was fun wasn't in the first one that got bought you know they it's I guess it's hard for me to see Double Fine bowing into this deal right away because they like so scrappy and so successful and they really know social media for a game company yeah like they they had everything going for them yeah I mean they started the whole crowdfunding and then so spending time to keep them painless Bay Area then they've got this darling right here this this wonderful human being Tim shaver he's got a lot of that Jack Black yeah or he might be older than Jack Black so I'll say they have a
lot of that same I love their Kickstarter video by the way it's just a great piece of marketing material and the nerds around the world rejoiced Psychonauts to saginaw s1 was ahead of its time I know I know it was funny I actually had one skein I turned it on and then turn it off because it was too out here it's gonna go into my friends brains real quick
you're gonna have to start fast 40 sorry hope people know second that's two is coming is this the Goku so I'll say this even though I've bought like three or four of the like Dragonball fighting games I think dragon ball z budokai is probably my favorite one he's like the first one that really got this series revitalized I'm super excited about this game because this is the game that I've wanted for a what feels like 20 years yeah I'm following just the story of Goku with fighting and RPG elements character growth and progression and all that I'm I'm hyped about this game I don't care about playing other people online I just like reliving that Dragon Ball Z story that I fell in love with when I was in the late middle school early high school
[Music] it's a movie about being lonely success panic room what is hitman hitman top-down 12 minutes bikini that's gonna be totally active thriller I am about that yeah that's the one I remember trapped in a time loop I'm down I'll check it out is it on game pass do I get it for air quotes free what are you to the woods I don't know why people were complaining there's a lot of did you stop it or did that just cut maybe that's just the the company that put that together dearest father let's react to this the facial
quality man not that great well you know what it's too clean and for Gears for the world that they've been building and promising it's like the last resistance of humanity against the locusts and as far as we've evolved to or from that like they had something they're seeing clean faced people and like pristine really cool-looking armor there's like I want to see like we're barely surviving yeah but we're gonna push through like that to me is like one of the like just statement pillars that I would always want to feel in a Gears experience that's brand and putting down some Brown yeah that's good Billy Eilish that I hear in the background I'm sure right demon out flush yeah that is ah so lame with the
phone biggest deals of the week such a lame trailer dude they'll go artsy fartsy if you have like if they were gonna do a close-up and only be able to show a character's favorite collection tell me some people it won't end it in 30 seconds let's look at it this way that was just a teaser so I'm assuming we're gonna see some more video footage now or at least gameplay duties off this guy looks like the guy have you ever seen a man have you ever seen role models yeah he looks like the big guy that was Ken Jong's like main security guard from
Urban Dictionary so this is like a big thing that I was hearing about like the the coop horde mode gears reimagining of a horde mode kind of thing come up with something you here's five you know what I mean just random game design question for you then like what do you feel like would be a cool something new like if you if you were given like 40 million dollars to well it's about social networking it's about twitch activity it's about me going into this killer or world together with my friends and takedown epic monsters we're raiding
it's like they taking elements of RPG and put it in the shooter turn it up it's like a like a more Borderlands kind of approach to more Borderlands approach would be the half in their art style but going full-on Monster Hunter would be I think appropriate and for what they're doing or even going towards more like destiny yeah I mean if it's like close quarter combat again and I'm hiding behind the trashcan and another trashcan and yeah the the staples of all the stables of what made gears good was so successful that too many other games like immediately started doing their stuff my gears 5 who played that game out of time cover mantle oh snap that's what like I'm in hell killing all these locusts I know what I mean
well half presents for pre-render sir good choices so let's go escape coming the gears 5 yeah it's coming out in September that's all the show which makes me kinda nervous why this time you get a show getting press did three months out well that's so that's something cool so I can build my own version of horde mode or whatever my own version of escape didn't make the full game we put the editing tools in the game ax but I'd like I'm like I'm not gonna lie yeah but I'm not versed there 1% no no no more people would like it if they knew that they had an option to do it like overwatch workshop is doing
incredibly well so well that people are using it to make other games completely separate from overwatch inside of overwash yeah like dreams on ps4 it's pretty much just a game editor yeah I'm so amazed at the stuff that I'm seeing coming through there somebody remade somebody remade Metal Gear Solid from PlayStation dreams right like that's the cool thing like a game like yours 5 alright they're gonna finally show something yeah it is terminated with the final answer oh they're really selling dlz our priori they haven't shown anything original about your side that like took it up and makes you want to buy it and it's always like reimagining here's terminator this is my favorite
part the new technology coming a year and a half from now damn you only have a year and a half folks that's the controller the scarlet will be here next next-gen is on the way or just next year I keep next-gen has reset once next-gen becomes current Jensen genican is now scarlet ps5 era stadia is this what is this beef dying right to another game I didn't play but cool oh nice Forza man I am all about anything about cars if we get even a little bit of money from doing any of the stuff that we're doing my garage is gonna go over overhaul I'm still gonna have a one-bedroom my garage is gonna be legit state of decay - I feel bad for
Stata decay - it always looked cool but I just it just underwhelming kind of performance no as in like how well like it was adopted by consumers and enjoyed Madeleine's it's like yeah yeah oh is that roller gym thing have we seen that that's not Xbox that's Ubisoft or somebody right blitzball this is where all the fillers shitty game sorry McQueen that's like some new oh snap that's right Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to Xbox pretty soon that's big for me so Phantasy Star Online was the first MMO I ever played if anyone still counts that as an MMO cuz it's like instance big it's like Guild Wars style MMO but everything about it was instant except for like the main lobby areas in I put
hundreds of hours into each of my Phantasy Star Online characters on the Dreamcast those were the days I'm super hype about trying the Phantasy Star Online 2 been waiting for that game Japanese American compression it's not racist I hope not it is I'm sorry already crossfire [Music] is this actually like crossfire like the game crossfire getting a game game but that's what Matt like do you know anything about that now this is first time me in this you brought your marbles I brought mine you brought yours yeah we're gonna shoot it out all right
I've got a shameful thing to admit s I'm a day one purchaser of Red Dead Redemption - and I still haven't played it so I bring that up as I'm watching crossfire I'm like oh snap it looks like a Red Dead kind of opening what is what is going on just like all the eras of technology right like I saw horses and trains was like a tank you know this is one of my biggest fears right here is like one day I'm just gonna be chillin walking down the street and see just some the chair craft in s Matheny flying through the slit oh man we're on the coast we're in California it's a lot higher this Orange County le gets the most when it comes to chairs
that's why waste your money on pre-render stuff now just show me gameplay Oh black desert that's the scene we expected from Game of Thrones my god here we got that [ __ ] this game looks really good if this is a new MMO I'll play it from one to ten I like any game that gives me progression that makes me look cool and allows me to be better than other people and rub it in that's my favorite gaming experience that's why I play MOBA last fall we announced our
ambition to empower everyone good memories through console streaming there's a reason why they scroll I would imagine that I mean we're too far away to really start that marketing train cuz they're still trying to sell Xbox one and One X Games they'd almost be disrespectful to those developers start saving your money folks the new shits on the way I really like what Xbox is doing I hate to be this person if not a lot of people are like hey I can just buy up everything I can get a PlayStation and
Xbox in the stadium chil that stuff look for us being game developers we do get a little bit of help from taxes but regardless of all that I always make sure I get Xbox and PlayStation at least and I can't wait to see what the next generation of gaming is going to [Applause] [Music] please Marcus off don't [ __ ] up your product launch next cycle you cannot don't do it don't let Sony clown you in social media do you know
anything about the scarlet yet I know it's like same process in part and it's basically the same machine with the defendant solid state drunk yeah both of them are solid state drives yep it's just standing now it's like the PC game you know it's a PC exclusives that makes it important it stands it apart this worst ad is you can tell who's reading and who's actually saying well the good thing is all these people I'm assuming are like engineers or creative and
technical minds this is the team he's like the same people that Maisie they all look like developers every single one of them now yes cackles no way there this is the team of people who made the box where's your name that Twitter handle Oh where they trying to hide everyone had a Twitter handle throughout this conference and then as soon as the team is up and going you don't want to give them there for me it's too soon for 8k amen if the ball T's well if it can do 8k cool right cuz then that's like future proof just Forza but if you're adding 8k now none of our eaters can run
a cage and they're like to 3k rate it's the main thing is like we're we're so far away from the machines that can actually display Apple made a 6k monitor and they're charging people no one is ready between facial dark are the one over here does imagine people sitting in
the toilet like what do you do you sling it over your shoulder you tuck it around your neck we split it up or if you're the urinal oh yeah it's like you're constantly like washing it with your it's not practical man like wake of what happens at the I know like a lot of black men and I won't generalize so I'll just say I know personally a lot of black men who once we start losing it up here and we start all growing yeah we started me no I'm a beard guy I'm a beard guy oh pardon scarlet all right I got to do something to let you know that I don't have cancer so that's it that's games we can't look at the Microsoft my over impression was see what my overall impression with it was it was a lot better than I thought they showed a lot of games it's actually pretty expanded and standard if I were to read all the headlines saying I was
boring it's not it's not true it's pretty much what they usually show it these type of things I'll say this I think the next two years of III presentations are this time of year for like not this year but next year and the one after will be great yeah because that's when you'll really start seeing those things all those music companies that they purchase like okay cool here's why we did it right now we were lacking in exclusives not anymore here are the six years we're gonna really be pushing it's a big bet for the double-a development studios also definitely a gamble well that you know he's always been double-a for a long time that's probably where I think our industry is gonna start getting some resurgence and growth right like hell-blade is proof to me that you could take 20 I don't know how big their team was but other than just like twenty two people yeah but how long did people make something that feels looks top level but maybe is not 40 hours in content yeah if we need gamers to appreciate that and like want more of that you're gonna see a lot more profitability in the game
space again because there aren't many companies that can three four five times a year bet three four hundred million dollars on a game and be wrong but if we can get 50 to 60 million dollar games to at least ingest or an experience feel like four hundred million dollar games for a while you know it's it's an opportunity to get some sort of traction going for a small game development again and by small I just mean not over-the-top triple a blockbuster size but still offering you similar or related to content just not as deep so I really hope that we do see a lot more of that because you're gonna get more variety you're gonna get more flavor in the game industry that's something that we're lacking significantly right now is just flavor it's as far as like the top most polished games go you know what I mean I think that we're really lacking innovations in a lot of areas and that's why I'm happy about VR and mobile because in those spaces I see people going crazy as hard as they can trying to come up with or trying to
push and then then triple-a I see people leaning on safety and security as much as possible while trying to be pretty and polished and presentable yeah so that's just my personal take on it I agree I definitely think it's a huge boost for our industry to have these guys around and survive the last console iterations and yeah it's gonna be a couple years to be first see what they're working on we saw some of it thankfully but caring forward hopefully they pay off man and make us proud that yeah we're small but we could do big things and um and as far as where the console is like you can definitely see the difference in the experience console makers versus stadia all right so that's it tomorrow let's uh we're gonna look in the data no direct feed and probably combine it with a couple other press conferences like Ubisoft and all these other guys to round up that hour see you guys next time peace you got to
do your ending your ending now all right consider yourself consider sales recapped official that's canon now [Music] [Music] [Music]
Microsoft’s E3 2019 presentation signaled a strategic pivot toward long-term ecosystem building, characterized by aggressive studio acquisitions and a focus on service-based growth. By bringing developers like Obsidian, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine under the Xbox umbrella, the company aims to cultivate a robust library of exclusive content to differentiate its platform ahead of the next-generation Scarlett console launch. While the showcase successfully highlighted the expansion of established franchises like Minecraft and the potential of the Game Pass model, it faced criticism for a formulaic delivery that lacked the high-impact, surprise announcements necessary to generate significant market momentum for titles like Gears 5 and Halo Infinite.
The broader gaming landscape is currently defined by intense market saturation, forcing developers to prioritize unique, high-impact experiences to remain relevant. This environment has fostered a shift toward double-A development, which offers a more sustainable financial alternative to the extreme risks associated with massive, blockbuster-scale projects. Within this context, industry observers remain skeptical of established franchises that fail to innovate beyond traditional mechanics. For instance, the aesthetic shift in Gears 5 toward a cleaner, more stylized look has drawn scrutiny for potentially alienating fans of the series' original gritty, survivalist tone, leading to suggestions that integrating user-generated content tools could be a necessary step to revitalize multiplayer engagement.
Looking toward the future, the industry is experiencing a period of significant consolidation, particularly within regional development hubs. While excitement remains high for upcoming titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Psychonauts 2, there is palpable caution regarding the direction of major projects like the Respawn-developed Star Wars title, which critics fear may lack the necessary cinematic fidelity. Ultimately, the industry is balancing the benefits of consumer-friendly subscription services against the potential pitfalls of corporate expansion, with a clear preference for models that support indie creators and sustainable development over the profit-driven pressures of public market transitions.
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