[oldschoolcalgary]

watched the Xbox Showcase.

a few highlights for me on the exclusive games.:

- Fable looked pretty good... the graphics looked impressive...not a ton of game play, but I liked the tone, which is quite different than most fantasy games.

- Hellblade 2 remains the star of Xbox for me...I was a bit disappointed they didn't show more, because I thought the original trailer was actually better.

- Clockwork was a new game that look interesting...shades of Bioshock Infinite combined with time travel

- Starfield looks excellent in developer deep dive at least. The challenge with these huge universes if populating them with stuff to do... procedural generation is limited in terms of connecting to the deeper storyline.... Overall, I thought it looked very impressive after the deep dive..

- Flight Simulator adding missions is a neat idea. Having a Dune expansion was fun idea.

Games that I am not so convinced about

- Avowed. I was a huge fan of FO:New Vegas, but wasn't that impressed with Outer Worlds...in fact I didn't even bother to finish it. So, the trailer today didn't impress me that much.

- Fallout 76.. i think that this switch to live service killed the game for a lot of players...As a fan of 3, NG and 4, I didn't have any interest in 76 and still don't

I gave the PS show a 7...this show was better esp with the Starfield deep dive