Hey, I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to a very special road to Gamescom episode of podcast unlocked

IGN's dedicated Xbox show. Gamescom hasn't officially kicked off yet, but of course Microsoft

decided to get the party started. A little early with that Xbox showcase, there is plenty

to unpack from that. We had what? About 80 minutes worth of content there, almost 90. So,

wanting me to talk about that very Xbox game showcase, our DesiNlegary and our friend

Cam Hawkins, welcome gentlemen. Hey, how's it going? Yeah, we came out of that a little

unexpectedly. We thought maybe it would go the full 90 minutes there once it blew past

the hour, but they surprise us a little bit. But I want to start, of course, with overall

reactions. So, I went on our E3 live post show. I thought E3 was the best showcase Microsoft

has ever done. It was tight. It was full of amazing games. It was well paced. This,

I did not feel the same way about it. I thought they got, they fell back into a lot of their

old bad habits of just airing things out for segments for way too long for the littlest

things like with all due respect, in exciles, wasteland DLC, things like this. I thought,

I thought this could have been a lot shorter, but there was still good stuff. So, before

we get into that, the sort of deeper dive criticisms and the good things, Cam, let me go

your way first here, your overall thoughts. Yeah, I got an echo a lot of what you said.

This show should have been 45 minutes to an hour max. They, like they deep dived on games

that, well, I understand their first party titles. I feel like, you know, as someone who

plays niche games, their games under their first party lineup that are more niche that

have smaller communities that I know, like, want to see the love given to them, but like

just the amount of content that they're, that they were being presented with. It just

didn't justify a five to 10 minute developer interview on it. And I think that they're,

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