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@pfhor said:

I think that Jeff made wayyyyyy too big of a deal over the whole Halo 5 esports segment. Sure it was kind of lame that they were commenting over a pre-recorded game, but it was still an opportunity to see the game in action and see some high-level play between two great teams. I don't particularly care for esports or ever watch any of it online but that segment was far from being as terrible as Jeff made it out to be.

Agreed. Although as someone who has been into competitive Halo for 7 years it still felt awkward but it was cool to see those people featured in a press conference. I think the main reason they felt they had to do this was because the entire scene imploded when Reach was released since it was so terrible for high level play. Halo 4 came out and that failed for competitive play too. Pretty much at this point like half of the really dedicated fans that were into the competitive scene have completely given up on Halo and haven't been paying attention to H5. Because of this the only way to tell those people "hey we are really supporting this esports thing now" is to put it directly into promos like this and at press conferences.

They could have used this as a chance to talk about things that are important to super competitive Halo players but also effect regular players like balance. They could have talked about the tools that were going to be available. Instead they wasted a significant chunk of press conference time on a badly conceived, canned esports segment that conveyed very little info. I'm not saying the esports guys shouldn't get any time, but for gods sake don't make the entire Halo 5 segment just about that.

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I feel like this was a better showing than e3 for them, personally though Crackdown's showing was a big letdown.

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My country is topical!

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Not bad, Microsoft... Not bad.

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Anyone notice the music playing before the conference starts is like a remix of the XP set-up music? Sick jam.

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Well, things happened there. Crackdown 3 being called Crackdown 3 is a sensible move.

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Ok so they changed the main character in quantum break?

Or multiple characters?

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@prokofjev said:

GiantBomb staff laughing at Europe and football, it never ever gets old.

I feel they will be very confused and disappointed if and when they do take a trip anywhere over here and find that it's nothing like this strange version of reality they have constructed in their minds. And that each country is different!

In a perfect world they would get a crazy budget to do some kind of summer roadtrip visiting interesting dev studios in say the UK, France, Netherlands and the Nordic countries. And go to football games. And the location of Contradiction. Can you imagine the videos Drew, Vinny and Jason would make? That won't ever happen of course!

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You're concept of what a schnitzel is is bizarre. Wienerschitzel the hot dog chain is in no way related to schnitzel.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL UNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSS

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Igarashi with the hat and whip on stage is the best.

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Tribes didn't work for making CTF into an esport. Halo should stick to more DM or control point type modes for their esporks push, flags do not mix with a slow console shooter.

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I don't get the warm drinks thing. You usually get shit ice cold in Southern Germany, especially in the summer. Maybe it's a Cologne thing?

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ALL UNITS!!!

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"Fighters Megamix 2!"

Glad I went back to watch this lol

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FYI that first shot after Halo guy shooting, the one where an Elite is holding up a Spartan, is from the Halo Wars trailer.