#not-e3

Having a job now unfortunately means that reaction videos are a little harder to do now, but as an alternative, I can always quickly relay my thoughts via a Tumblr post... except this isn’t exactly quickly. I admittedly needed some time to collect my thoughts after the showcase and even now, I still haven’t fully come to a conclusion on this Xbox event.

To start off with, I do love the idea of focusing on just games releasing within late 2022 and early 2023. Too many games have been announced too early and it’s nice to know what games I can look forward too in the near future. I’m sure this format will prove fantastic the following year but unfortunately it suffers as a result of how early games had been announced in previous years. For instance, it has been ages since Avowed was announced so I naturally expected it for a late 2022 or early 2023 release and thus to see it here... it wasn’t. There’s been a lot of games announced that I’ve been keen to learn more about and I certainly didn’t here.

Not many of the games announced also grabbed my interest, though that isn’t to say there wasn’t plenty of games shown off and of quite a variety. My two highlights was Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (or as I was calling it, the magical triangle game with the cute pet) and Ravenlok. I look forward to learning about both of these games. Otherwise... I’m somewhat curious about A Plague’s Tale: Requiem now and I did see both Party Animals and Slime Rancher 2 on a big slide of theirs but no trailer was shown for either game. I appreciate Forza Horizon’s continued tradition of wacky dlc, the new Minecraft game added some family friendly appeal to the showcase (and I appreciate that, despite not being a Minecraft fan) and I feel I know people who would enjoy Lightyear Frontier.