Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022 Impressions!
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.
If grading... perhaps a C, but only a D if on a personal level. A lot was shown and the focus was great but very little for me. I’m very surprised that Bright Memory Infinite’s console announcement wasn’t featured here, given how Microsoft was pushing it before. In any case, please tell me what you thought of the Xbox & Bethesda Game Showcase 2022?
