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Re: Starfield Launch Set Record For "Most Game Pass Subscriptions Added On A Single Day Ever"

Aeula

@GeeEssEff Played for exactly the same amount of time lol.

I hung on hoping for that bethesda magic that kept me playing Skyrim for a decade and got at least one full Fallout 4 playthrough out of me.

But by the time I’d done the main quest, Ryujin, The uh, Marine guys? I don’t even remember the name. I wound up giving up mid way through the Space Pirate questline, uninstalled and haven’t touched it since.

I’d go so far to say I enjoyed my time with Fallout 76 more.

I was so bored the entire way through. But I didn’t have much else to do so I stuck it out progressing a few hours every day before getting bored and closing it…

Re: Square Enix Is Bringing Final Fantasy 14 Online To Xbox In Spring 2024

Aeula

I hope Xbox can get a foot in the door in Japan some day. This is a good step in that direction.

I enjoy FFXIV a lot on PC, look forward to getting some easy achievements with my progressed character. Though I can't for the life of me get used to playing it on a controller. Swapping between controller and KB+M in particular is frustrating.

Bit of a tip to Xbox players wanting to get into this though, you can use a Keyboard and Mouse with it! Hook your series x to a monitor and play it like a PC game for the best experience or find a comfortable place to put them in front of your TV.

Re: The Xbox Live Gold To Game Pass 'Conversion Ratio' Has Gotten Worse

Aeula

Figured they'd patch it up, I got three years while I still could thankfully but I'll be damned if I pay full price for game pass when I own -most- of the games I'd want to play on it. Especially when it feels it's been falling off a lot lately outside of that massive GTA V gain. I love Xcloud and all but it's kinda useless outside of my home.

Re: Video: 33 Things You Should Know About Starfield Ahead Of Launch

Aeula

Just hope the PC version isn’t locked down like the windows store versions of bethesda games are. I’d like a script extender for this one day, god knows it’ll need it.

I know the PC code is for steam but this is microsoft’s first time publishing a proper bethesda studios title. I’m anxious about what, if any, restrictions there could be because of that, even on steam.

Re: Best RPGs on Xbox Game Pass

Aeula

Chained Echoes was the first game I played this year and is an amazing RPG. It was made by ONE PERSON. Pretty spectacular and with a gorgeous retro art style.

New Vegas is possibly the best RPG of all time. But it's a very different experience to Fallout 3 and 4. I often struggle to play it if I've played one of those too close to it. Less of an exploration game, more of a choices, consequences and world building game.

Skyrim has one of the best open worlds of all time for roleplayers. Even if it suffers in other aspects. But mods can fix it! Not as well as on PC but don't sleep on how much a few simple mods can improve the core experience. Even then though, I just finished my Achievement run vanilla, the game holds up really well. Anniversary edition is absolutely worth the upgrade cost for that content, at least imo as a huge elder scrolls nerd.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is also a really, really good game. They should drop Assassin's Creed from the title of course but god damn as someone who really digs Greek history and mythos it was a treat to play through.

Mass Effect Trilogy is a really solid series of RPG's. Shepard's a great protaganist.

Dragon Age Inquisition's sadly a bit in the shadow of Origins, but still a very enjoyable experience. Certainly more modern. Some of the best dragon fights of any game I've played, I recommend tracking them all down.

Crusader Kings is more a grand strategy. I played it with the Elder Kings mod and got a good 32 hours of enjoyment out of it on steam.

Wasteland 3 has an amazing soundtrack, pretty compelling story, interesting choices and fun gameplay. Very old school turn based feel. Not quite as good as something like Divinity Original Sin but still good.

Outer Worlds... eeeh... probably one of Obsidian's more shallow RPG's. Stupid setting. Like literally, the entire basis is stupid for the sake of commedy. I played it once then never touched it again. I heard the DLC is better than the base game though sooo...

That's about all I've played. I'd recommend Morrowind ontop of that. I -presume- it's on game pass at least. As well as Oblivion. Both are a bit dated but if open world RPG's are your thing Bethesda is king.

Re: Poll: Do You Think The Xbox ActiBlizz Deal Will Still Go Ahead?

Aeula

I think it's very unlikely. If the CAT decide that the CMA reached their verdict irrationally and the EU agrees this month then yes, it'll still go through.

If the CAT rules against Microsoft it's over. The deal can't go through without UK approval as those were part of Activision's terms.

After Redall I mostly want Xbox to focus on the studios they still have. Actiblizz is fine on it's own, just sign some exclusive content deals for CoD like Sony's been doing the past decade or so.

Re: Bethesda Will Show 'Tons Of New Gameplay' At Starfield Direct Next Month

Aeula

I don’t have much hope as a long time Bethesda fan. Aesthetically it’s one of the weakest sci fi settings I’ve seen so far. NASApunk just isn’t interesting to me. Praying they at least have the decency to launch the creation kit day and date with the release.

At best I expect an even more mediocre Fallout 4 I’ll play once on game pass, shrug and go back to waiting for TES:VI while modding Skyrim instead.

At worst… I don’t know how many flops Microsoft can keep publishing before the division starts getting asked questions by management. And when that happens I just hope TES:VI will still come to PC and with modding allowed.

Re: Nvidia: Xbox's Acquisition Of ActiBlizz Would Be 'A Benefit To Cloud Gaming'

Aeula

I think it's worth noting here... Microsoft's cloud tech is used by Sony. As of 2019 I believe.

I think the CMA likely came to this decision about the cloud regardless of Sony rather than because of them.

A lot of their reasoning is strange but I can see the concern. This isn't a near-term 10 year thing. They're thinking 20, maybe even 30 years down the line if Microsoft is allowed to get such a strong stranglehold on cloud now given Google and Amazon are currently the only two who can reliably compete. And google failed. (Nvidia's cloud is an entirely different story and business model).

Still, ideal situation is they reverse their decision via the CAT declaring the CMA's findings illogical, if they don't the EU is very likely to follow the CMA's lead on this and the FTC soon after.

EDIT: And for those saying Microsoft could just 'leave the UK'.
1. It's their second largest market after the US
2. Their deal with Activision stipulates that it's all or nothing. The CMA, EU and FTC all have to agree or the deal falls through.

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