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The Summer Game Fest disappointed by the leak of its great final surprise

Goodbye at the end in style

The fact is that, as usually happens in these events, it is normal for the presentation to begin with titles that are not, a priori, the most anticipated by gamers, and from there, raise the bar to a tachan final focused on some of those franchises that move more players around the world. In this case, it all had to do with The Last of Us by NaughtyDogboth for the remake for PS5 (and PC) that was known but also for the series that HBO is preparing.

And of course, Geoff Keighley, the guru behind Summer Game Fest and host of the stream, the last thing he expected is that the name of that icing transcended before the festival beganโ€ฆ but that’s how it happened. Hours before 8:00 p.m. (in Spain) reached almost all timeline of the most gamers in the world the news that they had leaked the name of The Last of Us Part I, the release date and that there would be versions for console and PC. As it is.

โ€” The Snitch (@insider_wtf) June 8, 2022

You can see Keighley’s reaction right below, with the “what are we going to do to him” emoticon that was, implicitly, an acceptance that what was already running on social networks was true. There was an information leak. that the emotion of one of the great announcements that, at that time, were about to arrive was loaded.

a disappointing event

In the absence of a good E3 this year, everyone expected that this Summer Game Fest 2022 would allow them to discover new releases from the great developers. And there weren’t too many, especially those expected by fans. The almost two hours that lasted were full of titles that many had already seenothers who hardly woke up excessive hype and, above all, protected by too many intros. They were all cinematographic scenes from the games, so not a second of their gameplay was shown to us, which, in the end, is what really matters.

Perhaps among the highlights is the new game of Aliens Dark Descentwhich will be an ARPG, or Street Fighter 6, The Callisto Protocol (which we had already seen), flash back 2, Goat Simulator 3 either Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2who showed us a gameplay that seemed recycled from other titles in the saga: an assault by boat, then the attack on an oil platform to end up on the deck of a ship. All of them, commonplaces that always give the feeling of constantly playing the same thing.

In any case, the Summer Game Fest continues, and it will do so with an important appointment tomorrow, Sunday June 12, in the afternoon, when Microsoft presents everything it has in the works for Xbox, both its own and Bethesda’s, which is no small thing. So pay attention to see if the level rises.

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