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Glad I'm not the only one who thought this, what a truly dreadful interview, fair play to Greenberg for staying professional, the interviewer was clearly trying to bait him with those shitty questions.
Posted in the next-gen thread too but I found this to be the most interesting part of the interview:
I don't really care for framerate, 30FPS has never been a problem for me. But I'm really excited to see Forza, Gears with raytracing
I don't really care for framerate, 30FPS has never been a problem for me. But I'm really excited to see Forza, Gears with raytracing
Y'all replied too fast too keep up on the phone lol - agreed on all counterpoints/additions!
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this, what a truly dreadful interview, fair play to Greenberg for staying professional, the interviewer was clearly trying to bait him with those shitty questions.
Telling everyone again, 120fps will be used as a selling point. Especially for FPS Infinite Arena - probably during HCS when infinite does it.
If it was announced on stage at e3, pay attention.
If it was announced on stage at e3, pay attention.
Eh, I don't mind a spicy question or two in my interviews, and that specific question produced a good answer from Greenberg with regards to how they are doing both marquee AAA titles and broader AA stuff.
At times I am perplexed to the comparisons to Sony titles, like do we forget that Halo & Gears have a strong Single Player component? Or are we now just lumping them into a GAAS bucket because reasons? Gears 5 just came out, yet here we are asking MS about Death Stranding.
waiting 2 years from announcement to seeing what Halo is even gonna play like would really really suck
I was actually a bit taken aback but how terrible some of those questions are. You have one of the few big events, even more so an Xbox focus event, where you can essentially ask anything and that's what they come up with? Yikes.
So much in today's media world makes no sense (beyond video games).
Spicy is good; however, some of these questions made me react "what does this have to do with anything?" versus "oh, now that's a good question!"
Narrative innit. Some truth, a lot more abstraction, generalisation and the like.
I do feel there is a tendency to overstate some of Sony's achievement and understate some of MS's. It's certainly true Sony has done extremely well, made some super games, and Xbox has done less well and not had any zeitgeist hits this gen, and in absolute market terms there's a clear 'winner'. But if you boil things down and stop looking at stuff through the lense of 'AAA=a very particular set of features' and engage with the strengths of some of MS's games, the distance isn't so vast, imho, in terms of my enjoyment and my thoughts. Of course, a lot of this is about personal preference, and that's cool, but I do feel when one is immersed in this stuff relatively small differences become magnified, and tendencies become clear directions - e.g. Sony being described as having 'arthouse' games (I think this was the Guardian), which isn't exclusively true, and also significantly understates the inherent conservatism of something like Horizon Zero Dawn. It's a great game, it's beautiful, but it's not in a million years 'art house' (ditto God of War: stylish, but also a well-made hodgepodge of numerous popular gaming systems. That's it - which sounds dismissive, it's not, but that is what it is - so is Gears 5, each building on their core stylings by adding in 'What's Popular Now' systems).
Death Stranding is more radical in some senses, so of course there's currents going that way, but again, deviations become paradigm changes when we obsess over the minutiae. MS by comparison don't really have such games (yet - Everwild may be, who knows; + I will always maintain SoT is much more radical than many people give it credit for, and I love and admire it for resolutely sticking to its guns and being decidedly bold), and thus in relation the qualitative differences become exagerrated.
I don't really know what I am saying.
Oh, also, I am perenially puzzled by the conservatism of the enthusiast. It makes sense (fans like things a certain way, that's why they are fans), but it's so limiting. 'Our' games as 'gamers' have to be just so else I'm not interested. Que? This is the downside of the personal preference bit above.
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Yeah, it seems like the moment a game has some sort of online mode, it's suddenly immensely devalued if we follow the behaviour of some people on this site. Which is kind of a bummer since Titanfall 2 and Gears 5 have my two favourite campaigns of any current-gen game.
I mean, there's plenty of reasons not to read that site. But yeah, that interview was cringey as hell.
LOL You are greatThis is impression I have reading some posts in Xbox Game Pass threads:
Pretty much.This is impression I have reading some posts in Xbox Game Pass threads:
Halo 4 and 5's campaigns have been nowhere near the calibre of Sony's blockbuster single-player only games like God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, etc. Even just comparing scope to this year's Death Stranding and Days Gone - the Halo campaigns are like 10 hours. Sony's games are often 2 or 3 times longer and obviously a lot more acclaimed too in the case of their many GOTY winners and nominees over the past 10 years.
Gears 5 was a step in the right direction, but its campaign still wasn't anything special and wasn't very long either. The difference for single player fans is that Sony's games feel like large, impactful, filling experiences. Most of Microsoft's games have a single player campaign that just feels like a fun romp but that's about it.
This is impression I have reading some posts in Xbox Game Pass threads:
Well made! Saving this one for future threads :)
You're entitled to your opinion, but I wish you could see how your opinion is coloring your entire statement. I don't play many single player games. My fiance and I LOVED gears 5 because we had story to playthru completely together. Last of Us doesn't let us do that. Uncharted doesn't let us do that. Gears is better, in our opinion, *because* it's a co op story and world we can get lost in. If you're only interested in single player games, then sure, right now Sony's better. But their multiplayer and co op offerings are *paltry* compared.
That's totally fair. Of course. Like I said, I'm speaking to the differences for SINGLE-PLAYER. If you prefer multiplayer and co-op, Xbox is better for sure.
My favorite thing about that question is that Gears 5 has a higher MC score than Death Stranding. I feel like some people are all about Metacritic, until it disagrees with them and then they're like "oh reviewers just don't get it"
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this, what a truly dreadful interview, fair play to Greenberg for staying professional, the interviewer was clearly trying to bait him with those shitty questions.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the interview. Journalists are not the PR departement of big corporations.
Their job is to get the information behind the pr talking points for their readers. And it's the job of a PR person like Aaron Greenberg to navigate through these tough questions without loosing their cool. Both partys were just doing their job, there is nothing unprofessionel about that interview.
You really want journalist to just ask the same fluffy questions and get the same pr answers all the time? Why have an interview then? Just copy & paste the press release of those corporations.
Many gaming magazines are far too compliant when they have an interview with an important person.
Lmao... Spot on.This is impression I have reading some posts in Xbox Game Pass threads:
You couldn't be more right, and that couldn't be more sad.
I have a feeling that shorter and laser focused single player components are preferred nowadays unless it's MS game. A game doesn't need to be 20+ hours to have a fulfilling campaign and to expect that from franchises with huge multiplayer like Halo and Gears is ridiculous.
There are ways to ask tough questions that still foster meaningful/worthwhile discussion, like Jeff asking Phil what it will take to stop shipping broken games during Giant Bomb's E3 show a few years back. And then there's cringey questions meant to generate clickbaity headlines, like this article comes off as (to me at least).
DirectX is software based no? or is that in addition to the hardware RT they have?
The shorter games are generally embraced when there is good storytelling or a very unique experience.
Good interview questions that are not fluffy are from the likes of giant bomb. This ain't it chief.
It's been under primary dev for Windows since announcement. It's windows first until otherwise stated.
True. See Hellblade. Can't wait to see what Ninja Theory's main team is cooking up. Nice, juicy exclusive single player game. Just like y'all like.
Not really. Looks at Giantbomb. These are plain rude. And then come up with that terrible title also wich he never says is crazy unprofessional.
Crazy and unprofessional sums Kotaku up quite well I'd say.
Absolutely! That should be awesome. I realize that I'm rightfully critical of Microsoft's single player output this gen, but will be fully on board when/if they start to reach their potential with single player games moving forward. The future does hold lots of promise.
Gears 5 campaign was amazing, a joy to play. And it was 15 hours long, which is a perfect lenght.
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