New Xbox One Commercial

Further proof that the Xbox is not a gaming machine. o_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6gu3m2TSU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Saw this earlier. Pretty awesome commercial. got me hyped.

They could've released a Titan Fall beta at launch and it would've sealed the deal for many here.

Embed, Henry. Always embed. ;)

Yeah. Saw that. Didn't do anything for me.

Titanfall I want you now >:

Really nice commercial.

@Randolph:

I would but cannot on my galaxy S4

Ah. Well, regardless... you getting Killer Instinct on launch day? A Gamestop manager snuck me in for day one when the stores where authorized two more reserves because of shifting numbers thanks to some people canceling their reserves in the last few weeks, and right now KI seems to be my only game, until I get a formal list of whats going to be on offer from the Indie's on XBL day one. I'd love to whoop your ass if you do get it.

;)

@Randolph: Oh yeah....I m getting K.I. at launch...challenge accepted....I"ll need your gamertag again...my original one expired so I have a new one

@dvader654: Actually their is two now....This one is by far the best....It has SPOCK for crying out loud!

I liked the commercial. I thought it was particularly cool. Just wish that it was a little more diverse with regards to gamers.

I gave my 360 tag with 100+ games attached to my nephew for a birthday gift. (I'm the best uncle ever!) I'll have to make a new one on November 22, when I do I'll be sure to hit you up here on the forums.

Except for Steven Gerrard and Zachary Quinto it didn't to that whole much for me

Nice commercial.

It's interesting how both Sony and MS are using campaigns where the it's like they are bringing the games to life to interact with the consumer/gamer. I also think it's funny how Sony is using seemingly real people whereas MS just throws money at expensive CGI and celebs in their commercial. Still a good ad though.

That was cool. Still not much of a fan for the live-action stuff though. Man I so can't wait to play Titan Fall, Dead Rising 3, Killer Instinct, Forza 5, Ryse.

How nice did that McLaren look in the commercial!!!

Amazing. :)

i tend to like Sony ads more

The lack of crying baby dolls discourages me, though. :)

What :o? Where are those baby dolls :o?

Nothing wrong with that commercial.

Awesome commercial. From what I understand, the XBone is definitely a gaming machine. Forza 5, Dead Rising 3, Battlefield 4, Assassin's Creed IV, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Titanfall, Watch Dogs, Ryse...the list goes on. Microsoft is simply marketing it not only as a gaming console, but also as an all-in-one.

I can't wait for November 22!

Some people claim to be excited by the Xbone's launch line-up. I don't see anything to get excited about and apparently neither does MS given that they made March's Titanfall the game which the commercial revolves around.

Sequels and multi plats for the most......

Hmm, I feel like I've seen this before:

What commercial did you watch? Or did you only watch the first ten seconds of the commercial? You are wrong here chief as the commercial clearly highlights other launch games as well. Forza 5, Deadrising 3, and even Ryse are featured in the commercial. The commercial does not revolve around Titan Fall. And yes, many of our excited about the exclusive Xbox One launch titles, Forza 5, Ryse, Deadrising 3, Killer Instinct and Crimson Dragon. I guess you are more excited for just Kill Zone or Octodad on the PS4 launch. o_O

Never change your avatar Henry, you are always the spinning cat. ;)

@CarnageHeart people do not claim it, they are excited. I'm excited. MS has a shockingly solid lineup for day one in Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct '94, (If you buy the Ultra edition of KI anyway) Crimson Dragon, (Panzer Dragoon's spiritual sequel on steroids) Forza 5, and Dead Rising 3. Some people are even excited for Ryse, I would be too if I didn't hate the setting of the Roman time period. (I also hate the Spartan/Gladiator settings some games have)

Sony's day one lineup is just weak right now. Had they had Second Son ready for launch, I'd have double dipped. The day that game comes out, I'll have a PS4.

Speaking as a guy who has owned all of the Panzer Dragoons except the rpg Sega shipped 3 copies of, Crimson Dragon seems like it will be good though I'd be more interested if they remade the rpg I never played rather than a game which follows a formula I've already experienced repeatedly.

I can't say I care much for the rest of the line-up. Forza has always been a GT clone with inferior handling which focused on high end cars. Maybe the tuning is better, but adjusting gear ratios is frankly outside my interest or competence. Ryse is an action game with QTEs you can't fail because the developers are terrified of any gamer feeling a moment of frustration. Killer Instinct's dial a combo gameplay has a vocal following (of indeterminate size) but I've never been one of them (I'm more of a Virtua Fighter fan) and its being handled by a lightly regarded new team rather than the original developers. As for Dead Rising, it was an interesting franchise once upon a time, but this time around Dead Rising is going the CoD route. I rarely hide behind the words of others, but the guy below put it so well I'm going to quote him.

http://www.destructoid.com/dead-rising-3-designed-to-appeal-to-call-of-duty-fans-256136.phtml

It would appear the publisher learned nothing from Resident Evil 6, a game that also ignored everything its series was founded on in a desperate, blind, pathetic attempt to grasp for an audience that was too busy playing Call of Duty to notice a poor attempting at aping Call of Duty. This is a lesson major publishers seem to refuse to accept, as they perpetuate the same cycle of failure they're been spinning on for the past few years.

As I'm always frigging saying, companies will shoot themselves in the foot if they keep insanely believing they can photocopy Call of Duty's success by scraping pitifully in its shadow. They need to start leading their own markets, rather than grab slices of a market already conquered.

But no, that requires too much thought. Better to just smash existing games with their own unique appeal, and reconstruct them into some bastard mutant that is everything and nothing at once.

*Shrugs* If you are happy with the line-up, that's what's important, but you asked for my opinion...

Lightly regarded developers, with the right guidance and budget, can do great things. Sony's very own Killzone franchise is proof positive of that. Hell, so is Naughty Dog, anyone remember their first game?

They brought in a lot of talent for the development of KI, and Ken Lobb is heading things up. Anyone who goes in to Killer Instinct just "dialing combo's" is going to get obliterated. Ken Lobb is smiling like a goof in every video I see about it that he's in, he knows he's got something special here.

It's hard to explain beyond that, but ever since a few weeks ago, I have known KI is a game I absolutely need to play, and it happens to be on Xbone, therefore I am getting an Xbone. The only game I feel I absolutely need to have on PS4 right now is a launch window game, Infamous: Second Son, but not out on day one. (when does that come out... March? I'll have gotten my tax refund by then, and more of those delicious looking indie games S0lid hates so much will be out!)

They're actually working in some of the RPG mechanics of Panzer Dragoon Saga, Carnage, the one you missed out on. (I was able to get one of those three copies)

@Randolph:

I knew the dial a combo line would get a response from you :). Its nice for fans of the series that some of the old team is involved.

As for Double Helix, yes, not everyone starts off perfect (some start off pretty much the opposite of perfect), but DH is not a young team and that team and parts of it have been treading water for a long time. Remember the Earthworm Jim era when Shiny Entertainment was golden and they were the guys the Warchowskis (avid gamers) picked to handle the Matrix game? But yeah, maybe Killer Instinct will be their breakout game. I'm not a fan of the series, so I'll take your word on the quality of the latest game.

When I think launch window, I think within weeks of launch, not months, though it doesn't really matter.

Double Helix though, like I mentioned, is undergoing a lot of changes. The same people who made the last several titles for them are not the exact same team handling Killer Instinct. An awful lot of help was brought in from well known fighting game development personalities, and fighting game community members. Much in the same way that many changes were made to the teams at Naughty Dog and Guerrilla before their own breakout games, Uncharted and Killzone 2, were made. I have faith, at least, that I'll enjoy it tremendously, and that's good enough for me.

The critical reception I'm not so sure of, most of the critics at major media outlets have a shallow at best understanding of fighting games and their mechanics, so anything not carrying the overtly familiar name of Street Fighter has a tough road ahead of it in that regard. I'd love to see it work out though, if MS can become as efficient at taking lesser known teams and turning them into something special as Sony has become this last gen, we'll all benefit from it.

Unfortunately, in no small part thanks to Nintendo, "launch window" has become a vague and lengthy period of time.

Randy....You"ll be eating floor board in Killer Instinct....Looking forward to your return on Live. :-)

@Areez: I guess you are more excited for just Kill Zone or Octodad on the PS4 launch. o_O

You make that sound so unreasonable.

Personally, I'm excited for Ryse - only X1 game I have pre-ordered at the moment, but I can't deny that all the negative publicity from media outlets has been worrying.

Dead Rising hasn't been good since the original. The last game was a joke, with zombies that were almost completely harmless. I remember how harrowing some of the rescues were in the original, and I hated how watered down DR2 was. To hear that DR3 is even more watered down, and worse, to see the player kneel down right next to a zombie and build a car...I half expect the zombie to hand him a wrench, for all the threat he poses.

Titanfall looks genuinely fun, but if you want to bring that game into the conversation, you also have to bring in Infamous and Drive Club, as they will be launching shortly after.

By Nov 22nd, there will only be two platform specific titles available that have any promise - KZ and Forza. Many people will be equally unimpressed by both line-ups, unless Ryse and DR are much better than people who have played them are saying.

Crimson Dragon says "hi". It's crazy how far under the radar a continuation of the Panzer Dragoon Series is, especially considering what a huge deal Panzer Dragoon Orta was when it come out as an Xbox exclusive in 2002. Guess that just shows how increasingly small a niche that series of games occupies now.

Pat Mifflin is going to be tutoring me. In light of that, I do not like your chances. :) Just ask the guys who were playing SVC Chaos on XBL, and all that happened then was I watched a few of his match vids, went into training mode for about an hour, got online, and shot from the mid 8000's to the top 50 in less than three full days. I'm not just going to be watching his vids this time, and I'm going all in, arcade stick and all.

This time, I'm taking it seriously. I've watched too long, I want in.

Panzer Dragoon Orta going to the Xbox was a huge deal (like RE going to the GC) but as with the GC REs, PD on the Xbox (which was a fantastic game) was a commercial disappointment which is why Orta is the last official game in the franchise.

I'm not clear on how popular PD was on the Saturn. It was one of the best series but as I mentioned before, the final Saturn game was released in incredibly limited quantities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Dragoon_Saga

However, the game, coming late in the Sega Saturn’s life, was released in very small quantities in the US and Europe. Only 6,000 copies were first produced for the game’s American launch in May 1998, and many retailers failed to meet pre-order demand. Sega released a second batch of 12,000 copies the following June and then another 12,000 in the late summer.

Sega's decision to continue the series was cool, but putting an intensely Japanese game on a system without much of a fanbase in Japan probably wasn't Sega's brightest move (though it worked out quite well for Ninja Gaiden). It sold 50K in the US its first month and while I haven't been able to find global sales, judging by the comment below (which stated a sequel would happen if Orta sold well) they weren't enough.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3162611

1UP: Back in 2003, during an interview I did with you during the promotion of Orta, I asked about a possible sequel to the Panzer Dragoon Saga RPG. Your specific quote was, "We have a plan for the sequel to Panzer Dragoon Saga, but whether it happens depends on how people respond to Orta." Obviously that hasn't happened yet. Has Sega abandoned the idea of continuing the Panzer franchise?

TK: All I can say is we haven't decided on not making a sequel.

The mech in the beginning is just to grab attention.

Not a bad ad, not at all. If I had any interest in the Xbox One it might have gotten me excited.

One of the best commercials I've seen related to gaming, straight to the point.

@Randolph:

Well if Pat is showing you the ropes I am definitely in trouble. I remember Pat taking me to school on SF on XBL. Sheesh, I might need to pick up a pair of sticks!

Yeah, he dominated the DOA2 Ultimate Virtual Underground game nights as well. Dude had a beastly Ein.

@Randolph: Yeah Pat has mad skills. He is good.

When Killer Instinct was originally in the arcades, I tried to main Fulgore. But he was so slow. I liked the cyborg character model, but never could play him as well as I could Jago and Orchid.

Jago, to this day, is the only one I've ever managed to land an ULTRA combo with. I'm eager to see if my crummy old hands can pull off the moves or if this is going to be another frustrating round of me being too old for fighters.

Still, if you guys are going to be doing some online fights, I want it. :D

looks sweet