Geoff Keighley has once again returned to Gamescom to put on his own little show, premiering new games, trailers, and announcements. Branded Gamescom Opening Night Live, the European centric showcase did its usual thing of sharing a few big reveals alongside smaller titles. It might not contain the biggest and most surprising things, but at least it is almost always somewhat fun to watch.
This year's event saw the official unveiling of a Saints Row reboot, as well as Marvel's Midnight Suns. The delay was then confirmed: Horizon Forbidden West will release on 18th February 2022. JETT: The Far Shore was then dated for October, Call of Duty: Vanguard shared footage of its single player campaign, and Death Stranding Director's Cut had some gameplay to share.
Those are just a few of Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021's announcements, but now it's time to have your say. Was it worth tuning in for, or do you wish you'd been doing something else? Place your vote in our latest poll and share your full thoughts in the comments below.
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I just want some news on god of war it's obviously not coming out this year but would still like to see something from it
I thought it was okay. Not much of the new stuff interested me too much but Halo Infinite and Horizon Forbidden West got release dates out of the show so I'm happy.
Also the Death Stranding gameplay just made me miss Metal Gear even more than I already do somehow 😩.
I loved the show format but I hated the disappointing delays. They should have announced the delays in advance of the show and then showed us an update on the gameplay etc to soften the blow. Announcing the delays in the show is a bit cowardly really and just sours/overshadows everything else.
I don't know if its just me or a widespread thing but I think i'm growing out of gaming after 36 years on earth. Literally 90% of that show was rubbish in my opinion and it's meant to be one of the biggest showcases of upcoming stuff. The biggest thing I was excited for was a 60fps patch for a game thats already out just so I can play the DLC 😂
Good not great. A few games added to the buy list and some release dates we've been waiting for. Nothing mind blowing and probably should've cut half an hour off but I thought it was decnt as a whole.
I thought it was alright. Not every show is going to be the best show ever. Some decent reveals but honestly nothing that I'm personally excited about.
Thought it was odd to have an entire trailer for a custom Xbox controller, and then ANOTHER trailer for a custom console. Kind of concerning there wasn't gameplay footage of Halo.
The cuts to the "awards" for games that aren't out yet were super weird
Geoff managed to turn yet another show into an advertisement for Death Stranding. How many times is that now? How does he keep getting away with this?
Could be worse! Tbh right now the only thing I care about is installing my SSD and speedrun the games I have on my backlog because boy oh boy from September onwards it's going to get wild lol
It was ok. Some of the smaller games were kinda interesting. That cult of the lamb one seems crazy in a good way.
Still, it was "2022 The Show". I'm looking forward to Far Cry 6, really liking the vibe.
My favorite part of the show was when Deadmau5 told everyone the proper way to pronounce his name and then immediately pronounced it wrong.
Oh and Sifu continues to look cool! Rough that it's releasing so close to Horizon though.
It wasn’t awful but it was pretty bad.
@ShogunRok he doesn't need to advertise it though. It's an awesome game and I'm looking forward to the director's cut.
It wasn't too bad; I'm glad it wasn't all a 2022 releases fest.
Sidenote: The world premier title card music kept reminding me of 'Hell March' from Command & Conquer.
I thought the announcements were decent. Nothing crazy, but decent.
The bit I watched was pretty bad.
At least Horizon Forbidden West got a solid release date. That's... something.
I think even drying paint would've found that dreadfully dull
Already pretty set for the rest of 2021 and got 1 more solid date for 2022 (HZD)
Gets my wishlist with actual dates to March 2022 (Wish CHORUS would get a date)... so I am 7 months ahead.
Do not need each show to be crazy, if it fills in dates on a few big games on my list. I am happy 👍
I'm normally very critical of these Keighley hype shows, but I thought it one was far above average. I don't know how anyone can say this show was bad or awful. They clearly don't remember how atrocious last year's ONL was.
Geoff's passion for our favoured industry is commendable, he did his best, bless him. But yeh I think it's us Team Blue lot that are feeling underwhelmed. As we've just come out of the PS4 generation, where we were insanely spoilt by incredible announcements and releases consistently for years. It's all gone very quiet.... (Returnal was great though ey!)
A standard Keighley - lots of ads, cringe, Kojima promo and some gaming news.
Can’t believe Sony doesn’t appear to have any release set for holiday 2021. Could be wrong, of course, but it seems weird to have nothing announced at this point. Was surprised to see Horizon at all though. Lol. Honestly the presentation was a bit disappointing… TMNT’s delay hit me hardest… but! The Death Stranding portion was absolutely thrilling. Bless Geoff for being team Kojima!
Way to long. Cut some of the interview segments. Might as well do that since we learned basically nothing from them they couldn't tack on to the end of a trailer.
@Smash41 I feel the exact same way. Every year there is less and less that I get excited for in gaming. I miss the PS3 days when I wanted to play everything.
Was expecting to see rockstar title or two.
@F1at8mot0 @Smash41 I'm 38 and I can tell you that most of what was there is absolutely not for me. There was a lot there that was aimed at younger demographics, but that's okay too. We don't have to play everything. Just the stuff we love.
Thoughts of Elden Ring and Horizon are what will get me through the work day in the middle of winter.
But, I had a conversation about this with someone on this site not that long ago.
I burned out on gaming in my 20s because I thought I wanted to play everything, and it genuinely took a lot of effort to just get back to playing what I love, rather than picking up every chart topper or 8/10 rated game.
Even now I still find myself feeling compelled to get a game because someone is talking about it, but then I have to seriously check myself.
Diablo IV, for example, as far as atmosphere and setting are concerned, it's the perfect mix for me. But that gameplay isn't for me. I'd just be bored, but a few weeks ago I was convinced I wanted it.
In my 20s I'd have gotten it anyway, and forced myself to play through it. Then I'd come away from it feeling unrewarded and immediately repeat the process with something else. It got to the point where nothing excited me anymore.
I had to stop playing games for a year before I could just go back to the stuff I loved with excitement again.
My point is, don't quit or become disillusioned with gaming. Just detox for a bit, then come back to it and see how you feel.
Of course if what I've described isn't you, ignore my ramblings and have a nice evening. 🙇♂️
This, btw, is one if the reasons why I stay away from Now and Game Pass - I don't want to experience that burnout again.
Seemed better than E3
It's between good and okay, DS director cut and tmnt got a good trailer, and 60 fps horizon zd patch is a nice surprise.
It’s was okay. That all to say about it really.
The show was just OK/good, anyone putting anything else set their expectations far too high or had none at all
It was ok. I wanted to see more of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands since the release date is early 2022, but there were a few cool game announcements.
It was good but I fell asleep during Riders republic part. Need to start again from there.
Almost every single major game is a 2022 title
@fR_eeBritney Why im happy we got some form of a releasedate on HZD 2 i rather have some clearity then nothing. This and TMNT where the things i cared about the most to be fair.
@F1at8mot0 Really the PS3 era? I found the PS3 most dissapointing there where some fantastic games but the PS1 is legend to me and tied for second is PS4/PS2. PS3 had some great games but for me it wasnt the best by any means.
This isn't Geoff's fault but where are the next-gen JAW-DROPPING games??? You know the ones that you look at(R&C gameplay is the only one so far that I said that looks AMAZING + Horizon 2 looked good to and the other PS5 games so far. But not JAW-DROPPING tho) and say 'F-me I have never seen anything like that before'??? The bit in COD when that woman was running and all those planes where bombing the place looked good tho. Oh well maybe next year then
@Smash41 you're right. I've been feeling this for a while now, but it just seems that everything is either online multiplayer, yearly iterations, or stuff I'm just plain not interested in. It's got to the point where I haven't bought a PS5 yet as there's just nothing I can be bothered playing on it.
Not amazing overall but I was pleasantly surprised by ONL this year, definitely better than usual! If it improves from here on every year then it could become something really cool. Fingers crossed.
Surprised to see HFW and while it's good to see a release date, it does likely rule out a big Sony event happening in September given HFW seems to be the next big Playstation console exclusive after Death Stranding Director's Cut.
@Neoguardian86 i know right , i wonder how many were delayed
It was good to get a date for SIFU and Horizon and I enjoyed the Death Stranding breakdown along with the Lego Star Wars and Lost Judgment trailers.
So was an ok show for me
@ShogunRok Hopefully this one was the last time. Funny how every addition to Director's Cut is a way of avoiding the game's actual gameplay of walking and delivering things.
@Flaming_Kaiser PS1 is also my favorite system followed by the SNES. But the PS3 just had the right games at the right time for me. It was also dominated by some great single player games and some great early indy games like Shatter and PacMan Championship addition DX.
Geoff just barely avoided going back to gamer jail if it wasn't for this morning's Elden Ring info dump.
I thought Gamescom was super great! Looking forward to playing the below list of games, in no particular order.
Horizon: Forbidden West
Death Stranding: Director's Cut
Saints Row (2022 Reboot)
Marvel's Midnight Suns
DokeV
Sifu
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Cult of the Lamb
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania
Midnight Fight Express
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
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