Sony’s PlayStation 5 Showcase showed promise, but outside of God of War, there wasn’t much that really got my blood pumping.

Project Eve looks fantastic. I thought it was a new Parasite Eve game.

The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic rumors were true. We’re getting a remake, but I hope Aspyr doesn’t touch much but the visuals. The graphics need updating, but everything else about KOTOR doesn’t need to be remade.

Forspoken: A city girl who’s tired of living in the city and “tired of fighting” arbitrarily gets sucked into a magical realm where now she’s fighting dragons and sorceresses. The life she really wanted apparently. Sure, okay. This trailer was painfully generic.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction is so far from anything Tom Clancy would ever write, I have a hard time taking it seriously. Apparently, just putting military people with guns in a video game is all you need for the Tom Clancy brand now.

Blood Hunt might be promising if it’s not just a multiplayer game.

The main reason I’m interested in Deathloop is the developer, Arkane, who made the Dishonored series, which is fantastic. However, from the trailers, Deathloop doesn’t seem to be an immersive sim like Dishonored is. I’m sure it will be good, but I don’t know if it’s for me yet.

God of War: Ragnarok looks fantastic. Hopefully it will come to PC.

Also, it’s annoying when video game suits describe video game creators as ‘storytellers’. Narrative is not the strength of video games, and is not what sets it apart from other creative mediums: interactivity is. Gran Turismo 7 doesn’t have a story, yet it’s been consistently one of the biggest PlayStation IPs ever. Story is great, but video games are primarily about interactivity and mechanics.

Now hopefully we’ll get a Direct from Nintendo soon.