I had a post, but I felt it was too rant-ish. I got too riled up thinking about the digital landscape. The whole idea of getting digital copies from physical ones you own is great, I just know that it'll be screwed up. Because at the end of the day, consumers aren't viewed as some symbiotic requirement for business, they're viewed as a resource that can be used and replaced. As a result, the only models we see look less like cultivation and more like gouging.
Anyway, the conference.
Microsoft showed Hololens for real, and I liked what I saw. It's a neat device, I hope it gets hacked so it can be used for something useful. (Tabletop simulator with it at an actual table would be fabulous.)
Cuphead still looks great. I really want to play it.
Tomb Raider looks good. Feels a bit more fresh. Sequels in snow are usually a good thing.
They showed a lot of other games that I really couldn't care less about.
The games Microsoft showed off are just more of the same for their own fans. And I guess that's fine, but I don't know. I've always felt that most of what Microsoft puts out, the Halo, Gears, and Fable felt like really decent ... non essential side catalog games that you could play while you wait for the stellar games to come along. And they didn't do anything to change my mind on that.
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Did we really need to see a car drop down from the ceiling for Forza?
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I really hope other publishers really bring stuff out ... because if all we're looking forward to are sequels that just go a little further, I'm really having doubts about this generation of games. As much as I enjoy Wii U, I think I'd include it in that category (a handful of titles withstanding, of course.)
