Despite the fact that Summer Game Fest 2022 felt worryingly flat at times, Geoff Keighley has somehow managed to promise a two-hour show for Gamescom Opening Night Live, which takes place on the 23rd August. The man himself also promises over 30 games on stage, and an in-person audience of thousands. It certainly sounds impressive!
Of course, our worry is that there won't actually be much to shout about during this show. As mentioned, the Summer Game Fest stream — and many of the individual events that surrounded it — lacked big announcements, even though it was meant to be something of a replacement for E3. We just don't see how Geoff can put on another show just a couple of months later and expect to blow people's minds — especially when publishers will surely be eyeing The Game Awards 2022 as the best venue for their most important reveals.
We'd obviously love to be wrong, but we'd recommend tempering your expectations for this one. And if you're still not keen on sitting through a two-hour stream, you can always just check out all of our coverage here on Push Square once it's over.
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I want Sonic Frontiers to feature spin dash, even if it’s not included.
To me it sounds way more interesting than State of Plays that focus on one game only. Hell, it sounds more interesting than State of Plays period. I actually enjoyed Summer Game Fest.
Oh and I'd much rather listen to him than Jimbo.
Im very skeptical about what Keighly has to offer after two Summer Fests. Its not fully his fault, the industry is in a pending state, and he tries his best to make it a show regardless..but there isn't content to showcase at the moment.
I hope there will be at least 1 or 2 kids games from the presentation.
Two hours long with over 30 games and still, somehow, you just know it'll be rubbish.
@gollumb82 We've found the one person who voted for Summer Game Fest as the best gaming show of June!
https://www.pushsquare.com/features/poll-was-sonys-state-of-play-the-best-gaming-showcase-of-june
On a serious note though, I don't think it was bad, but it was quite stretched, to the point where I don't see how Gamescom can have any real impact with its announcements so soon after.
Oh god I’m probably going to watch this as well. It’s going to be rubbish because it always is. Which abuser is going to be given a big announcement before Geoff makes a non-statement condemning such behaviour?
At least there's plenty of chances for toilet breaks for folks watching
@ShogunRok
Haha, guilty as charged! Seriously, though, call me old-fashioned but I miss this kind of buzz that E3 used to bring. Geoff at least tries to bring some life to the world of gaming, where safe sequels and leaked games abound and there's nothing to look forward to in terms of surprises. Also, I like the chats with industry guys and gals that he seems to bring to the table. Few people actually care and recognise them (yes, that includes me). In short, I'm eagerly anticipating the show 😉
I want new AAA games.
Not remakes, reboots or remasters.
Not sequels or prequels or either-side-of-the-originals.
New games.
@gollumb82 I know what you mean, the E3 excitement is something that hasn't been replicated in years. Definitely miss it sometimes!
I'm always skeptical about what Geoff says because he always seems to over hype. But two hours is a long time which will hopefully equal more chance of something exciting coming up.
One hour of ads?
Wasn’t it supposed to be 50 games?
Keeping my expectations pretty low for this. Hope to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not anticipating much.
More games is always welcome.word up son
I hope The Rock is there promoting a new energy drink
Two hours?!
@get2sammyb
Two hours !?
Please make him stop! Though, the worst part of the previous presentation was that Dwane wrestling guy’s bit. Truly awful
@JJ2 TWO HOURS!!
I won't touch it with a barge pole. Over-hyped, sometimes bringing in idiots from Hollywood that has nothing to do with games. These shows are cringe worthy at times...sorry but they truly are.
@JaxxDuffer Come on Jaxx, you know you want some Zoa! 😂
@JaxxDuffer absolutely agree. That was terribly bad and not needed.
So what I gather from this is: You all seem to hate these shows, yet watch them every time? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I'll check it out for a few minutes if I remember it's on, but I'm not spending two hours in the hope Warhorse rock out some live action Henry riding in on a horse for KCDII/Retribution.
YouTube highlights are your friend for shows like this 😁
There'll be some fun announcements, but probably not enough to justify the two hour runtime. I'll either have it on in the background, or just catch up on the highlights afterwards.
I just want a new Star Wars shooter akin to BF2 and nothing else.
It doesn't even have to be developed by DICE
I'm not going to bother with it it's been crap the last few years & I can see it being mostly indie games that I'm not interested in anything big Sony might might have would probably be saved for the inevitable state of play for god of war Ragnarok , Xbox would've shown any of its big games at their Xbox & Bethesda showcase & Nintendo have been due a big direct for ages
The whole year has been flat. On the back end of 2022 all Sony has is GOW that was supposed to release in 2021 and a remake of a remaster of a 9 year old game. Ive bought less this year than I ever have before. Only game that will probably get my money the rest of this year is Hogwarts Legacy (If it releases this year)
I am down to watch trailers, just please get rid of those interviews in between trailers.
Make that the aftershow.
@gollumb82
???
June's state of play was better than any Gamescom. Gamescom barely has one interesting game for the whole show.
@Ken_Kaniff
Expect less and less quality games from western publishers.
@MidnightDragonDX 15 Fortnite rip offs, 6 fighting games, goat simulator 3, an exclusive 10 seconds of hogwart gameplay.. Wizard running in a corridor. And the turtles collection.
It's 2 hours cause Jeff loves the sound of his own voice. Not to mention all the ads and fluff pieces that'll turn what should be a 30 min presentation into this 2 hour cringe fest.
No thanks. I'll just watch the trailers instead
@CapGod i believe it, im seeing my future in gaming will be leaning heavily on the indie side.
Two hours? That's gonna be padded and boring as F. Definitely will be skipping this and waiting for the highlights.
@Ken_Kaniff
Eh. Indies are just based on retro games.
I hope the folks that go in automatically saying that it's gonna be a rubbish show don't watch....oh wait, they're gonna watch anyway.
I know folks say those types of things to avoid disappointment...well, what about just go in with an open mind and whatever they show is what it is...not every game is gonna be for you and that's ok. OR just don't watch it.
29 steam games and 1 new trailer for Cod.
@CapGod Yea, im more into that than I am into all these live service games thats taken over the AAA market.
Jesus, as if these shows weren't drawn out and Long enough as a one day show.
I predict an hour dedicated to indies of which 3 seem interesting, 35 mins of remaster/remake cash grab trailers, no gameplay shown, then 20 mins dedicated to new games that we already know are in development showing cutscenes and cinematic trailers maybe one with actual Gameplay capped off with 5 minutes of new announcements cinematic or title announcement only (indies aside).
30 games sure, but will they be any good? Fingers crossed at least 10 of them are hype level.
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