Dezzy

It's fine for most games. Most games aren't really gonna be pushing the hardware to its limit anyway. You do want some games that would only work on the new consoles though. If not, why bother getting the new consoles in the first place?

Horizon and God of War do seem like the wrong choices for cross-gen. Those feel like they should be pushing the hardware as much as possible.

@Richnj

Probably 3 and 5. It's far from my favourite series though.

@Richnj

Well there are plenty of people who say they like Ayn Rand sure, but that's completely different than the actual ideas being used. They never have been in any western country. The spending of the federal government has basically increased every decade since World War 1, and increases just as much under republicans as it does democrats. So no-one has ever really tried those ideas in reality. Which is why Bioshock frankly comes across as more of a Sci-fi than an actual political criticism.

And when I said I didn't want them pushing contemporary propaganda, I did mean specifically in established mainstream franchises like Far Cry (i.e something that has an established audience who are not there for political propaganda). If you wanna create a new franchise specifically around some political issue, that's just fine. Then those of us who aren't interested can easily avoid it. It's only an issue when they try to inject it into pre-established stuff.

@Richnj

Sure, I would agree Bioshock is a good example of a game being fun whilst having a political message.
The major difference there is that Ayn Rand's belief system is extremely fringe. It's not a real world contentious political issue. It's kinda like criticizing the idea of an authoritarian monarchy. Well nearly everyone would already agree with that, so it's just not going to be interpreted as being about contemporary politics, even though you could technically call it a political message.
I mean I'm pretty libertarian compared to most people, and even I agree with the message that "Galt's Gulch" in Atlas Shrugged wouldn't actually work (which is essentially the only real political message of Bioshock)

@Richnj

You mean in the Far Cry 5 reviews? There were a whole bunch of them that gave the game a less favourable review because it hadn't "addressed Trump and the far-right". Something it had no connection to whatsoever, and had never claimed to be addressing. A whole bunch of games journalists simply decided to try and insert it as an agenda into the coverage of the game.

@Richnj

There are plenty of games about political issues or settings. No-one has any issue with that. But that's not what these games journalists are pushing. They want games to be actual propaganda that pushes their opinions on the audience. That was perfectly clear from the creepy group-think reviews to Far Cry 5. Almost no-one wants to play a game like that though, it's nauseating, so these devs would be far better off just telling them where to shove it.

They obviously just mean it touches on political issues, which kinda goes without saying. Games journalists desperate to try and inject political activism into things though, which obviously is not the main purpose of most games like this.
The games media reviews of Far Cry 5 were some of the most unprofessional behaviour I've ever seen in this industry. The same creepy people are obviously trying to do the same again.

Looks pretty good, although I've kinda got bored of this formula tbh.

@Krzzystuff

Yeah I did most of the ones where you can get loads of points in a small amount of time.
As well as stuff that was free that I just wanted to try out, like DOA6, although much smaller number of points available in a short space of time.

@Krzzystuff

Ha yeah I did. Loved the music.

I'm up to around 7000. Currently looking at some of the free games that you can do in like half an hour to finish it off.

They're absolutely vomiting out points at quite a rate recently.

I wish them the same success as Google

@InterceptorAlpha

They did remaster the graphics like a year ago, so this is not a 10 year old version of the game.

Anyone figured out if rumble exists for this at all? My controller seems to be doing nothing while playing ME1. Feels like it should in a shooter.

Yeah absolutely loving it so far. ME1 has been updated just enough to make it pass as a modern game, while still feeling very much like the original.
I'm surprised how much the gameplay still feels like the original. I thought they would've just used the mechanics from ME3 or something, but they haven't at all.

This just started preloading too, which is earlier than they were saying, I think.

How do they know the ad-time is for this game specifically?

It's 100% a real email. I got it, and it mentioned my order number in the email. No-one except microsoft would know that.

I got an email from microsoft saying it's launching on 13th instead. Anyone else get that?

I think people are exaggerating how bad it was. I mean they literally gave you the Mako to try and navigate mountains on barren planets. I'm not sure how much smoother you can really make that.

They could maybe do one series a bit like that, but they shouldn't go as far as Playstation, who have way too many of that genre.

@Xenomorph_79

I'd love to see them remake the first game. Still haven't played that, and it looks a bit clunky by modern standards.

At the moment I'm more excited about this than Cyberpunk, Lol.

@StylesT

The updates to the first game especially are quite huge. Also 4K and 60fps is pretty great for games like these.

How much do you need to play the first 2 games before playing this?

@Nalverus

I realize that, but I'm thinking in terms of the trade-off with frame rate. If it's routinely falling into 50fps because they're outputting at 1440p, but I only have a 1080p monitor, obviously I'd prefer they just do a 1080p version which could achieve a constant 60fps.

I wish they'd stop trying to make Series S hit 4K resolutions. Most of us who bought a Series S did so because we don't even have 4K screens, so the extra cost of Series X would've been a waste.

I'm hoping at the rate they're doing these, they'll end up having time to do the same with X360 games, which they said is probably possible. There are some games on there like Fable 2 or Red Dead, that have never had 60fps versions anywhere.

The 2 games that feel like they should be on this list, but aren't, are Gears 1 Ultimate Edition and Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Absolute legends. Now this is what I was waiting for! Are these all live now?

Will you get a review copy for this Fraser? If so, would you be able to confirm that the 60fps option is available on Series S? I'm assuming it is, but they haven't said it explicitly.

Lol I like how they reward you for not donating to charity. I'm not sure they thought that through.

Cool, well there's a pretty good chance it will include some I actually want to play then. I haven't played any of these so far (except Skyrim and Fallout 4 which you could already do 60fps with mods)

Ugh they did like every major final fantasy except the backcompat ones that I'm waiting for!

Hmmm the few youtube videos I've seen suggest this does almost nothing. Their patches are a bit disappointing so far. It's gonna take all year to get 30fps on Xbox One at this rate.

RE8 and Mass Effect are 2 of my most anticipated games of the year. This is quite the month! I'm still not sure which to play first.

You should probably get the previous gen version working first?

Is this the next batch from Xbox? Or something EA just did themselves.
Cos these are mostly already 60fps. Meaningless for those of us without a 120Hz screen.

That is pretty insane. I dislike subscription models, but clearly a lot of people disagree.

@Krzzystuff

Yes, they're in that same category as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Xenoblade. Usually like 50 hours for the main story, and then 100 hours to do everything.

They've finally made a game that looks current-gen. Well done Tales.

Wasn't expecting it. I played through 4 and 5 quite recently, so I don't really need any more for a couple of years.

They added those crazy claws because no-one would want to run away from her otherwise.

@PhhhCough

Dark Souls Remastered is already flawless 60fps on the Series S/X.

@gingataisen

That's on the X360. These are only for Xbox One at the moment.

@pepsilover2008

Yeah it's weird how they didn't start with the xbox exclusive games like those.
Maybe because the technique doesn't work on every game.

Far Cry 5, Red Dead 2, Spyro Trilogy, Shadow of Tomb Raider please.

@Would_you_kindly

They've already announced a next-gen version of GTA5 is coming later this year. I'm assuming that will include a 60fps option.

@Senua

Right, well that's all I'm talking about. I just want to see it in motion at 60fps and 4K, which I assume is the target for Series X.

@Senua

The screenshots they released do look quite different to the original footage we saw. They clearly changed the lighting style.