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My take: John Wick is trying to be a videogame(shooters,action and less narrative). Last of us 2 is trying to be a movie(serious drama, narratively focussed).

I wanted to compare the last rachet and clank to the new rift apart game. So I searched for it on youtube. And I found a gameplay clip.

I was like oh yeah rachet and clank already looked pretty good on the ps4. Then I realized the clip I was watching was the new ps5 game. I literally thought it looked like it was on the ps4 because the encounters and gameplay look the exact same. Maybe a little better lighting.

This make the "we believe in generations" bs spin from Jim Ryan seem super gross. The game doesnt look that much better than a ps4. Also the controversy around the new spiderman being an expansion of the old one. Of course it could run on a ps4 just with less detail.

Wanted to vent about playstations marketing. Makes me feel gross.

Edit: yeah a demons souls remake could totally work on a ps4...

I was expecting more. But it's a launch, so, I guess its expected. Honestly Halo is more interesting than these games so, probably going xbox. We'll see what happens. Two launch games from insomniac? Those guys are amazing if that's true.

I heard that sony was planning on using the ssd to stream in models that had 1 million polygons last month and I couldn't really believe it and what it would look like. And we finally got a glimpse of it. I wonder, since sonys studios usually use their own engines, they might have their own games looking like this, already, if the game engine are meant to take advantage of the new ssd(just pure speculation). Also, since many microsoft studios use unreal, this might actually help microsoft because they don't have to build their own engines around streaming off the hard drive(I dont think they have started even thinking about it).

@csl316: Thinking about it, I'm kinda getting used to it. Like they didn't show any of the open world elements of gears 5 until it was on store shelves. Maybe it's just hard to get a good build of the games ready to show at these events.

@kingloo: yeah, I think I should have kept my expectations I check a bit. Just a bit frustrating. I know that cd project red, Warner brothers and ea etc... will all have their own reveals. It's just too bad that xbox just decided this was the first thing they were going to go with. Just underwhelming.

@brian_: I hope that the assassins creed trailer was all in engine gameplay. Would have liked to see some third person combat or just free roaming haha. I'm sure it will be a good game. Just hard to know how it will play based on what was shown.

@shindig: yeah, maybe. The covid 19 situation is probably making things pretty tough for launch. I just have to remember the situation we are all in and it's really rough probably to launch these consoles this winter.

I just wanted to be hyped for next gen haha.

I just had to say something about that event because microsoft has been driving me crazy with how bad they have been marketing these things.

Last e3 they had the chance to do something without sony there and they showed the cinematic for the "escape" mode from gears 5!!! Cinematic! Not even gameplay! When they should have been showing gameplay from the campaign, which was great!

Now we have their first marketing event for the new xbox, for next gen and they still haven't learned their lesson! They keep showing underwhelming cinematics or gameplay from AA game studios(no offense to these studios). But it just doesn't sell next gen and it doesn't sell this new console.

They even said there would be new assassins creed gameplay and they didn't deliver that! Like the gears 5 thing all over again! They need to get it together for their first party stuff. But I don't think they will. They will just show some cinematics from each of their games that won't be that interesting.

Just wanted to vent a little. Makes it hard to get excited about next gen when I saw this event.

Edit: Now, I came into this presentation with much too high expectations. Looking back at the games now, that they showed, it looks like they are running around 60fps(I think the stream was around 30fps) with ray tracing(maybe) and higher levels of detail(I like how "the ascent" looks. Could be a cool game at launch.

Overall, I was kind of disappointed but I still like some of what I saw and it looks like the footage from assassins creed was in engine gameplay, just not behind the back. And I'm pretty impressed by that.

Gears 5 and crackdown 3. Looking forward to trying borderlands 3. Maybe try control down the line.