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All right, we're here in very chilly, indeed, L.A.

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seeing the fantastic, always classical, traditional Hotel Figueroa

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which doesn't have a video game ad this time around

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but it's, you know, it's kind of convenient

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Transformers looks poppy and culture-wise it fits

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and even though it's chilly, we are still warm, I would say

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from the Xbox showcase, which I think was really, really good, really solid

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even though I have some opinions to share

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but let's perhaps, first of all, give a headline

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which would be your headline of this showcase?

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Well, I mean, look, I mean everyone is going to say Starfield

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because of what was shown, we got to see a lot of the game

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but I think that's kind of a given, so I'm going to ignore that

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and I'm going to say, it's a toss-up between either Fable or Star Wars for me

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but we're going to go with Fable because we're going to see more Star Wars tomorrow

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at the Ubisoft Forward, that's when we're going to see some gameplay

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and that's when it's going to get really exciting, I think

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so I'm going to say Fable

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it's kind of an interesting one because there was that sort of promise

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that we're going to get a lot of gameplay in this showcase

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and for a lot of the big names, it wasn't really that

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it was in-engine footage, which is a different thing

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and it looks good, it looks interesting

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and I hope that Playground is a pretty excellent developer

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they've done a lot of great things in the past

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so I'm excited to see more of the game

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Richard Ayoade is in it and he's very popular in the UK

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so that makes it even more interesting for us

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with Playground being a British developer as well

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so I'm excited to see more Fable, I think that was one of the key ones for me

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but what about yourself, Dev?

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Yeah, for me, the headline of the show itself would be like

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we were discussing before

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Xbox is back into the game, but just not in 2023

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so it's what you were saying

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that most of the things we saw were either 2024 or no date given

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and, you know, I'm a Forza fan myself

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and it concerns me to not see the game playable at all at the show

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there's some fan fest going on now

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a lot of activities with the fans

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they don't get to play Forza, they get to play Cyberpunk Expansion

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Some people, some people, not everyone, some select few

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Very limited and, you know, you're releasing Forza on October the 10th

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it's June, mid-June

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normally we would be playing Forza

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we would be interviewing Dan Greenewald and the team at Turn 10

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that really concerns me in terms of

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has the simulation, you guys changed it all?

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Is it going to be good on controllers?

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Is it going to be good on a racing wheel like Citroën?

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And with Starfield, it's the same

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I was sold to the game, I'm going to play that game

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I loved the showcase, the video itself was fantastic, I enjoyed it

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but it isn't playable

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We cannot speak with Todd Howard here

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and the game is releasing even earlier

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so it really smells

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and I don't like that, this is not the way

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I don't mean it should be the way it was back in the E3 days

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but, you know, we are media, we are here to

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I won't say to tell the truth, we are here to share opinions

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Unbiased as best as possible, yeah

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I'll just nick that off you in a minute

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Yeah, that's the point, the showcase we were in

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you'll see various videos of it on our Instagrams

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and various other social channels and whatnot

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it was very active, it was very lively

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that's because it's packed with fans

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people who love and live Xbox

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that's not our job to just love and live Xbox, right?

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Look, Xbox has got a lot of things coming

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but we're supposed to be impartial

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we're supposed to be able to tell you honest opinions

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and it's difficult to do that

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when you don't get to play the things

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and that's the same with Starfield lately

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it looks fantastic

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the idea, the promise of what this game has in store

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is unbelievable

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if it can hit everything that it promises

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it's going to be revolutionary

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but the problem is, is that we've had games like that come in the past

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in just the immediate future you look at Cyberpunk

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and it rings alarm bells for me

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because I was at the last E3

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where they had this massive hall dedicated to Cyberpunk

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they showed the game off

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it was like, yeah, look, you bring everyone in

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show off all this footage

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and it's like, well it's hands off

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and you're like, okay, it doesn't matter

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it looks great, it's still really exciting

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and then December rolls around

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the next year, or whenever the game launches

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September, whatever it was

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and it's a completely different story

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so that's why I'm kind of having to temper my expectations

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with a lot of what we've seen here

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look, it was a great show

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it was really exciting

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it was better than Summer Game Fest

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it was better than PlayStation Showcase

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but until we get to play these games

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and be able to tell you truthfully

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how they feel in our hands

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I'm going to just keep my expectations a little bit in check

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I think that's the best way to put it

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Yeah, and it's coming back to Starfield a little bit

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I really love how it looks like

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the different planets have been designed

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like a multiverse of humanities

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that could have been living on Earth

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in other games

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but the big question here is

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which landing points are you going to have?

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How can you really explore the whole planet?

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Is it going to be empty?

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What other sort of activities are going to be repetitive?

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Is it going to hook me when I land on a planet?

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Or is it going to be like No Man's Sky at first?

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So, yeah, I keep my expectations in check

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but other than that, it was colorful

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To me, this show meant, of course

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we're starting to see the product

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the result of the studios Microsoft acquired back in the day

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Senua's Saga looks fantastic

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the new game by InXile

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Clockwork Revolution

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was something I wasn't expecting

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because these guys are into RPGs

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and it looked like a really fresh

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sort of Bioshock type of immersive sim

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The Capcom game was a surprise to me

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I was expecting one of their franchises to come back

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Onimus or something like that

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but it was something new

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a lot of colorful games

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Stoic, which apparently had some sort of deal

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with Microsoft going on as well

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and it looked fantastic

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it's not 2D anymore

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so we could mention several, several games

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and of course the little surprise of Star Wars

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which, you know, Ubisoft is tomorrow

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and we still had this to-be-announced-to game

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which was after Prince of Persia

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and we could sort of think it could be Star Wars

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but it could be also very early to be Star Wars

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and it was

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and that looks fantastic only from the...

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but you know, Ubisoft is showing gameplay tomorrow

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so it's more tangible

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so other than those

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which other announcements would you...

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You know, Fable wasn't shown either

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It was CGI

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It looked...

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In-engine

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The humor is great and it's there

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as you said, Phil said it too

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It's British, it's there, you can feel it

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but you don't know how the game is going to be

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No

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That's my entire concern with this show

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and look, they didn't do what they did last year

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right, the year before

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whenever the last one was

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when it was, you know, 12

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everything that's coming within 12 months

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they didn't do that

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and they didn't put any timelines when they didn't need to

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and I respect that

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you know, it's more just about

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this is what we've got coming

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it's exciting

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it gives people things to believe in in the future

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and I like that, I think it works

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but yeah, there's a lot of in-engine footage

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doesn't really give you an idea of how these things work

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and look, I don't want to talk about Starfield too much more

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but it's a game that...

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we've known about the macro of this game for so long

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about the massive things that it's going to offer

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it's the minor that concerns me

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it's the...

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when I go to a planet that's in the middle of nowhere

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or a moon in the middle of nowhere

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is there anything to do?

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because if there's not

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then the whole promise of a thousand planets

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means nothing to me

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and you know, you combine that with

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a whole bunch of other things like

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performance

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you know, it's a Bethesda game

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Bethesda Softworks game

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and they are notorious for being kind of shaky

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very shaky, one could say

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and then

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when you have so many things that one game promises

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I'm concerned about how big it's going to be

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Star Wars Jedi Survivor

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was 150 gigabytes

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of data

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and that was like three planets

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is this going to be like a two terabyte game?

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there's so many little questions that I have

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that didn't get answered in the direct

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and that's my thing with Starfield

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it's great that you can go and hoard sandwiches if you want

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but I'm not going to be doing that

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if that's your jam, go for it

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but there's a lot of questions that I want answered still

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about this game

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yes, look, if we could play it

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we could answer some of those questions

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but we can't

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so we've just got to wait until September

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it takes me back to the format

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we are here in LA

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you can see it

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we are here at the Microsoft Space

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it's not the Microsoft Theater

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but we are here at the Novo Theater

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and now we understand why

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because it has some space for the FanFest

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type of thing, etc.

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but they are not taking the chance

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not for us, not for any other outlet

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not for media

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they're not giving the chance to talk to the developers

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and not even

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you know, we watched a video

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that you guys watched at home

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the theater is fantastic, of course

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but we saw Phil Spencer come on stage

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you didn't see that

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right before the show

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to present himself

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and to sort of talk to the fans

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not to the media

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and then afterwards

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that wasn't shown

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I don't think that was shown on the video

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we saw Todd Howard and Matt Booty

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and Phil again, and Sarah

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and they were thanking

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and they were pretty emotional, etc.

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but during the show itself

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they didn't touch the stage

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no

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and now they're not around for us

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to speak with them

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and these games are releasing

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are around the corner

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so, yeah

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I can understand why this show is really good to watch

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it's colorful, as I said

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love the Sega Atlus appearances

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but I kind of, you know, I'm doubtful

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it was flashy

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but it doesn't exactly give me a lot of confidence

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in what's coming

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that's the best way I can possibly like it

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put it into a short sentence, shall we say

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that's my kind of stance on what we saw

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fantastic show

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they should go back to the showcase

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being a showcase

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normally after this

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we would go to a space

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we would try the games

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we would speak with the developers

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but, that's what it was

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we enjoyed it

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so, looking forward to learning more about Xbox

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if I say X

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you say box

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if I say X

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box