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I'd prefer the game never go to third person at all TBH. Even in platforming.

Would be strange if he put Xbox in a potion he wasn't comfortable with. Especially if he's gonna make a public comment.

Nadella has repeatedly made it clear he doesn't like hardware going all the way back to Windows Phone. Should be no surprise the direction Xbox is going.

@Cakefish Agreed.

Quite literally the only reason I buy a console so exclusives.

If there are no exclusives, why would I waste money on the hardware?

@Fiendish-Beaver let's not forget about pricing. Think the newest PS5's revision price is goofy?

Just wait until they don't have any competition.

@ZYDIO I still have my 1520.

Had the 920 but man that was dookie. And sure enough, happened when Microsoft started meddling their team too much.

@Fiendish-Beaver
About the same for me. I only have Gamepass because I have a couple years stacked up because it was cheap as dirt. I see no reason to re-up once it expires though.

@Cakefish Sadly all you're gonna get close to that are your play anywhere games.

Not a publisher in hell is gonna agree to give Microsoft PC keys for each Xbox games they sold with a PC equivalent. Nor is Microsoft gonna foot it given their borderline contempt for their own audience

Another show of Geoff Keighley continuing to remind us what is wrong with video game industry personalities.

Good thing it'll be on Gamepass.

Exclusives are the only games I buy on consoles. And Microsoft doesn't seem too keen on those anymore.

More money for the others guys I guess.

I will be impressed if this isn't a Sony exclusive since they finally came out and said they were interested in buying Kadokawa instead of just rumors.

Sounding like Cyberpunk all over again.....they were just smart enough to not announce it for current gen this time.

Is it gonna be better than 3? Because that one was trash.

Nice to see Stalker 2 getting some recognition. It is punching for my GOTY.

Should have had it at launch. 🤷 I'll pick it up sometime after the servers go offline think they proved offline does indeed work. Just glad it was easy to refund.

Maybe they can get back to making proper games now because, Arkham Shadow, a VR game, is 100x the game Suicide Squad is.

@Bigmanfan Because sub 1080p resolutions with low settings hasn't been acceptable for a while now.

Fantastic game made only better by patches. And it is really nice they're listening to feedback and already providing requested QoL features to the game.

Definitely punching for my GOTY this year.

@PurvisP 30 hours myself and the only bug was someone getting stuck in a door pre patch. And a gun's physics glitching and launching it to the moon.

@StyleT are you using the sound meter and using things like storms etc for additional sound cover? For example, a silenced weapon will still alert people unless you have some decent background noise. And if you're using your light at all, the beacons are lit for all to see. Also some mutants hunt by smell, so the weird flower helps on these.

For example: I just went through and dropped half of Varaan's base before alerting anyone. And that was my own stupid mistake.

If you have to "make noise" to get something on your platform, seems like something is wrong.

Looks like it is out now on my Series X.

Just downloaded it. 12.69GB.

@Lucylu1983 @Reallynow33
Looks like it is out now. I downloaded it a couple minutes ago.

@oopsiezz
I can't agree. 30 hours in and biggest bug I ran into was someone getting stuck in a door.

Player numbers also indicate the population is healthy, especially for a single player game. So the anecdote of seeing people saying they're uninstalling doesn't carry much weight. Especially when you see such comments about the biggest releases all the time.

@JustCameHereToSay
I would imagine because most PC users, including myself, don't use Gamepass on PC and they are trying to attract business to it.

Console they don't need to try to get more people to subscribe to. Just like how people were all to happy to pay for online when it was free elsewhere.

Saw it dropped on PC. Nothing on my Xbox yet.

Edit: Just restarted my Xbox and got it.

@uberdaddypig If you're not familiar with game development. Sure. It is quite common for hundreds of fixes to be shadow dropped without even so much as a note. BG3 has thousands of bugs fixed in a single patch for example.

@Chaotic_Goat What seems to be the issues with stealth? When taking into account things like light, sound, and smell, as the game tells you on the loading screens, I've been clearing camps without so much a single alarm.

@dskatter Are you referring to the unrelated person from Arkane that said that?

I can't agree. It has been a fantastic experience and vying for top spot in games for me this year.

Even with the few bugs I've ran into, still somehow a better than most I play.

@StylesT What issues do you have with stealth?

Are you paying attention to your noise meter and using weather etc to conceal you? A silenced weapon will still alert people into is quiet outside, for example.

You also have your scent and hunger to deal with too depending on what you're going against.

They don't even have it running properly on PC.

Like Kerbal Space Program 2, with Cities Skilylines is it best to stick to the original, and get the DLC + mods.

Super excited.

The game is already fantastic despite the current issues. Seeing the fixes they bring, especially to the ALife system, will be added bonuses.

Absolutely Stalker 2. Been a while since I was so hooked on game.

I had always hoped they would bring back thinks like Avatar Awards ala 360. But like most things, they floundered.

@Dalamar73 Reading that I could instantly see the horse ragdoll ing and hitting the ground hitting. Then suddenly ragdoll disabling and it just kinda unnaturally pulling itself together and standing up. Good times, Skyrim.

This is impressive. I'm some dozen hours in the game and have not experienced anything like this at all.

The worst thing so far is some slow down in towns from the otherwise 60fps.

Only bug I've ran in to was I when I dropped a gun while a box was open and it got sent to the moon lol. Thankfully it was broken

It is sad that there still is not a system wide deadzone setting as part of the console itself.

@Bobobiwan

You say that, but this has pretty much been true since the mid 90s for PC. And for consoles the 00s.

In the 90s for example you could go out and buy the new Blizzard game you could either pick it up on launch. Or wait until the Battle Chest came out which I clouded the base game, all expansions, and even a strategy guide.

In the 00s even something like Halo 2 wasn't a complete package and you had to wait for DKC disc with all rhe maps if ya wanted to egt them at the same time.

Even Morrowind released without DLC, then had. GOTY version with all of it on the OG Xbox.

Then moving to the 360 era, pretty much any game that has any DLC almost always had a GOTY version including it all a year or two later

@fizban3332 @DarthCvrle66 Not like that is new. Phantom Liberty was nominated for awards last year.

@Deljo Just wait until you find out we're powered by Ryzen.

AMD just holding out the AI tier chops on y'all.

I know it isn't needed for me given my GPU already runs circles around the PS5 Pro.

@GamingFan4Lyf If there is something people less like than Microsoft store, it is the Blizzard launcher.

Only thing liked less is Epic Store.

So glad to no longer have to deal with a friend list that is 12000 people long and that's instead now strictly followers.

Like I've been saying for a couple years.

No need to make Xbox hardware when everything else is an Xbox.

I'd suspect one more gen of traditional Xboxes. Then either a mid-gen mobile, or the following generation switching to a mobile platform.

I remember saying they were going to do this, what, a year ago? Two years ago?

People thought it was crazy, now look where we are.

Death Stranding runs natively on iPhone.

I would have questions if it didn't run well.

Had it for years. Very frequently on sale too. It is a blast.

As much as I hate to say it, the key memories I have of these gen's consoles are pretty much all negative

Only positive thing was being able to secure two Series X preorders.

But even that, in hindsight, would have been better if I hadn't been able to. That way I could have seen the direction this generation was going before buying them.

Currently obsessed Batman Arkham Shadows and Metro Awakening.

Both VR titles.

Gonna be interesting playing Stalker after coming off of Metro.

They need to fix Warcraft 3 reforged first.

The game is an absolute mess. Embarrassing the state it has been in for years now.

@Fishticon That started around the time they started offloading support questions to Xbox Ambassadors.

Also around the time I quit with it. I was there to foster community, not be a free worker.

@Vordus You don't need it to come out, no. But when you look at it from outside the vacuum of yes or no to cancel, it is more sensible to release.

With how far the game was in development, it would be less detrimental to release and get something out of it instead of the bad press of canceling a marquee title.

And is one of the reasons you see it happen over and over in today's industry.

Just about the best Monster Hunter to date.

@WEB_78O Ah, so you have nothing to contribute aside from a lack of business acumen? Alrighty then. Have a nice day.

@WEB_78O If that is the case please provide information to the contrary.

@Vordus
That will vary depending on jurisdiction.

For example, Lamp Lighters League was $22 million that was written off.

In the US, provided they have the documentation to show the amount is reasonable, they can most definitely write it off as an expense on the 1120 form.

@Ryu_Niiyama I corrected the comment. Going back and rereading, I was attributing someone else's comment to you.

@Ryu_Niiyama And that is perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with you not wanting DLC for a good game just like there's nothing wrong with me for wanting a good game to have DLC. I'd rather buy a game once and buy a dozen DLCs than to buy multiple releases.

That being said, f they don't release DLC it is because they do not feel the cost of producing it is worth what they'd make back.

At the end of the day that is the only thing that fuels such a decision for a game managed by a board.

@GamingFan4Lyf this does not mean to sound facetious so I apologize if so. What generation was this? Only time that really ever applied was pre internet games.

Once we got to early internet days, they definitely were expected.

The amount of begging for them on message boards when the likes of say Diablo or Warcraft dropped was wild.

I was personally part of a huge forum on requests for the rumored Warcraft 3 expansion that eventually turned into 2003's The Frozen Throne.

When Morrowind came out, despite no prior Elder Scrolls having DLC, expansions were one of the most pined for things.

Few things were more exciting when the latest RPG or RTS dropped with their "battle chest" that included all DLC and often a strategy guide. And sometimes other goodies.

@Ryu_Niiyama

Thanking fans is general PR. Most developers do. Even those of the ill-fated Concorde. So that's hardly a metric to go by

Witcher 3 told a complete story and still had DLC. The DLC was harolded as better than the base game itself. As was Phantom Liberty, but the bas egame had a washboard of issues, so we'll ignore that one lol. The original Dragon Age did as well. So unfortunately cannot agree on this point.

If a game does well, a developers supports it. They don't abandon it.

And I don't know about you, but if a game is good and I like it, I definitely want more. Not to be told, sorry no DLC. But at least they had the decency to let people down at the beginning unlike Spiderman.