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Because nobody is using their mics in game. It is a waste land.

I'd far rather some "toxic" morons here and there than voice chat being deader than early 00's PC games. At least those had text chat.

@ParsnipHero Yep. Still discrepancies of up to around 4-5m , 12-15ft, at times, between our screens. Less than normal, but still extremely obvious. Only game we play that does this.

Gonna have to fix desync, that's been there for over 2 years, before I bother trying it out again.
Way too jarring a difference between our side by side Series Xs. Even as recently as this last winter event.

Really highlights a lot of the online issue including hit registration.

Honestly not had this much fun with a game in a while. If Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate were wake up calls for what well made RPG and TTRPGs could be, then Palworld is the same for monster collectors.

Nintendo SHOULD be watching this closely because they're giving what Scarlet and Violet under delivered so hard on.

@Moby We're not talking about new characters. We're talking about things like the titular Master Chief having a totally different origin story than in the games. They never had implants that suppressed emotions either. Spartans have emotions, they're just not controlled by them.

Cortana was rewritten too. She was originally an AI clone of Haley's brain made to help her with with research that ultimately chose John as the Spartan she wanted to work with

Soren isn't even remotely the same character. He was one of the unfortunates of the Spartan program and was disfigured beyond even looking human. And was relegated to a desk job with the UNSC before having an Ephialtes arc later on in the series.

The Covenant never took human prisoners either, let alone raise one, as the prophets were scared of them undermining their Great Journey.

I can go on all day, but I won't. None of this is a surprise though as the show runners admitted to never playing the games or reading the books.

@BrilliantBill I would definitely use "adapting" loosely here. Kinda of how the Eragon move "adapted" the book. Reach being destroyed was a small portion of the book.

Still have the non sensical Covenant adopted human. Still rocking the Spartan team from wish instead of Blue team proper. The thought of getting them axed on screen would be nice. Though I'm willing to bed their contracts are signed for more than 2 seasons which would prevent that. I will give that the cinematography looks a bit better. And no hints of that horrid CGI you saw when Cortana took over Chiefs suit in the first. But that's about it.

@Moby It takes no energy to point out the short comings of a half hearted TV show. You're not even getting a deeper look at the characters. You're getting a look a wholly original characters, some of share the same names with characters int he games/books.

you don’t like our show.

Why yes, yes you're right. But not because of the helmet. Because of the poor writing, and completely ignoring the plot of the games.

Only having the helmet on for a cumulative 20-30 minutes for the whole season is just an added negative.

If all they did was adapt Fall of Reach, not only would you see his face countless times, but fans would have been over the moon. But instead they gave us fanfiction that seems like some horny, 14 year old, wrote.

@kihaennem Steam is a fantastic marketplace. Pretty much -the- de facto game market place.

The Microsoft store also has its fair share of garbage. Not sure what point you're trying to make here.

@kihaennem I personally disagree. As someone that does a PC gaming a significant amount, the benefits of not having to deal with certifications outweighs the benefits of having to.

ESPECIALLY when time after time Microsoft has proved their "certification" process review is anything but. Countless times they've let game breaking patches through. Then you had to again, wait, for certification, for the hot fix that would resolve the issue. Way more of a hassle than it is worth and causes issues for games that could otherwise be cross play.

Does that mean Wild Rift is no longer coming to Xbox? There seemed some hype behind that.

@theduckofdeath Oh for sure. I just know there had been some games which would have easily fit on a disc in the past just essentially be keys to play a download. Can't trust anything anymore. 😭

Hopefully or Imma be going back to PC full time. Even the gaming PC I built and the gaming laptop I bought still have BD drives.

Now to wait for a 75-80% discount off this new price.

@kihaennem Odd statement about an Early Access game.

The only ones crying are the people playing it. The developers were simply providing an answer, likely falling in deaf ears.

This has been an issue since the 360 days of certifications holding things back. Still remember when some cross play games back then were broke for a short bit on 360 because of a patch being dropped on PC but waiting certification with Microsoft.

Very lame. Gonna have to see if the full game is on the disc, even if unpatched, so I can get a copy.

Between the modular thumbstick and then finally getting with the time adding an accelerometer/gyro alone has me over the moon.

Won't be buying this one, but will be plunking down on an Elite Series 3 with all the features whenever it releases. The back paddles are a must for me.

@oopsiezz having followed crafttopia, I don't remember them saying anything of the sort for that game.

What games have the abandoned by the way? Overdungeon(a 2019 game) was updated in August 2023. Crafttopia(2020 game) was updated in December 2023.

AI: Art Imposter is the closest thing to "abandoned", and that is due to Japanese legislation regarding AI art, a core part of the game.

Do you have anything to back up your claims?

Having a blast with it. So glad it seems viable to play single player.

Nothing is more annoying than playing on a server with a group of friends and one of them stop paying for it so you lose dozens of hours if progress.

@oopsiezz They've already said they're going to have a transfer tool.

This is all well and good, but desync still hasn't been fixed....

Please oh please. I miss the body horror that Quake was.

@JustinSane Someone else pining for more Towerborne?

Been interested since they showed it off. Than absolutely nothing. 😭

Assuming they both include the full game on disc, I'll definitely be looking at picking these upm

@oopsiezz I guess we just had different expectations then. From the onset it appeared to be a single player game with multiplayer functions back when it was announced in 2021. So that's what I had been expecting for the last few years.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ford or Disney had some stipulation that of "per-minute" compensation for every minute his face is shown.

Definitely disappointed. Had plans to own it as well. Guess that won't be the case and will be a "play on Gamepass and delete" type of dealio.

Hopefully this isn't a sign of their future releases. If they want to go digital only, I might as well just go back to Steam primarily. I trust Steam with digital only purchases way more than I'd ever trust Microsoft.

@AverageGamer Not quite. I rarely run into people on PC that are interested in anything Microsoft, unless it is something niche like Flight Sim in VR. Microsoft still tends to be the butt of most jokes on PC in my experience.

I get that Xbox is no longer just a console, but does anyone else get a little annoyed when a Xbox game show, shows things that that have no current plans for console release?

I have a gaming PC, but I guess I just still expect things at a Xbox show to, you know, release for Xbox. I can't think of any of my PC friends that are even bother watching this. Anecdotal as it is.

Kinda feels like watching an Xbox show and they announce something for the Switch or PS5. I'm watching Nintendo and Sony shows for that kinda of info, not an Xbox show.

@oopsiezz They already announced that they are planning a function to transfer your save to to dedicated servers. Though if Xbox is going to get dedicated servers is yet to be seen.

That said, I prefer it as is. I have borderline PTSD from people wanting to play games like these on dedicated servers, Ark, Valheim, etc. Only to abandon the server and stop paying on it resulting on dozens of hours lost.

@iplaygamesnstuff
Not only is the game early access, it is only $30. And if you have Gamepass, you can play it through that

So the question is: Does the disc contain the full game you could play without Internet connection if you popped it in? Or is a download still required?

I'd bet on the former but you can never be sure.

I'm excited for this. But one thing stands out as not metioned:

Is it strictly like Ark where you have an open world devoid of anything but the monsters? Or do towns and NPCs exist as well?

I feel bad for anyone that bought it when it was included on this last game sale.

@Goj What exactly is the Switch holding back? Most non-Nintendo AAA games don't even release on the Switch

Microsoft requires S and X games to release at the same time, with the same features. So if someone want to release in the X they have to do the S or not release at all.

Lame it doesn't have an H shifter. Kinda kills it for me.

Titanfall.

MCC would have been if, like everything else 343 does, it hasn't been released half hearted.

Progress and achievement issues galore. Coop didn't work right. And online, you might have not even tried playing because of the likelihood of a disconnect or desync issue.

That's awful easy for a developer that makes games that could run on pretty much anything under the sun. Of course it would be easy to optimize something, that would already run on the S without optimizations, for it.

BG3 is pretty resource intense game.

But when you're saying things like:
"If the developers always keep the slowest platform they are targeting in mind, first and foremost, then the other platforms should be easier to deal with,"

We've gone back full circle to platforms like the Series S holding games back.

The redone graphics look nice. And there's even a discount for preordering. Super hype for this.

Meanwhile I'm looking for websites that specifically list Series X games that are 100% installable and playable from the disc, even if you may not have the latest version.

I want my buying discs to actually have me owning them.

Meh. After tinkering with the first part, it kinda killed my hype.

The real time combat was a huge turn off for me. Same reason I've not been too keen on modern Final Fantasy in general.

Good to hear people seem to be enjoying it. Been looking forward to it since the original announcement in 2021. Just a lil bit longer.

Hopefully it includes console wide dead zone settings.

@Raw_Dawg People also complain about not being able to aim on Halo or CoD on Reddit so....Same thing here.

Again, I am one of the most critical people of Starfield. But I call out actual issues. Not issues that are the results of someone not being able to aim.

You get ammo in droves on Starfield.

Starfield gives so much ammo there are mods to reduce the amount of ammo you get so it is a bit more challenging.

When someone goes out of their way to make a mod to reduce ammo spawns, you know it isn't because there's too little. 🤣

@Raw_Dawg You're calling me, one of the people most critical of this game, a fanboy. 🤣

The game has many issues. Ammo is not one of them
Unless you just can't aim. Then say that.

@Raw_Dawg Ammo crafting? Why? I play on the hardest difficulty and am rolling in ammo. They might as well just have unlimited ammo with how much I have.

Ooh. Looks like there's a couple good things in here. Though I know some are gonna be missing their pet rocks.

Gonna have to redownload this just to check out Daytona.

Having walked on it, any game I play that features it just doesn't make it feel as massive as it is in real life.

Never heard of the manga. But saw the art and immediately though Toriyama. And sure enough it is.

For sure gonna have to check this out.

This is a blast to play. But weirdly I already felt the game had some of the lowest aim assist in anything I've played in console. Then again maybe different classes/guns have different amount? I play the heavy and haven't even noticed screen drag

I can't even begin to account the number of times I've commented on here mentioning the install base making it not worth while for a lot of ports.

When you have a smaller install base, especially to the level Xbox has, you have a smaller potential audience for a game. As that is a fraction of the overall install base. So why risk going negative? You're guaranteed profits elsewhere.

@InfamousOrange This is an issue that stems from the new way Xbox started handling saves starting with the Xbox One.

I've lost multiple saves across multiple games. Hell, I've even lost a save on Starfield recently. But I lost saves as early as Battlefield 4. Also lost saves on Shadow of Mordor, Rare Replay, Halo 5, Quantum Break, and others.

My best guess is an issue with authenticating. If you're connected online it pretty much exclusively uses cloud saves. So if there's a hiccup in the server, it creates a new save which overwrites the previous on file.

Worth mentioning is we're past the days of selecting "New Game" etc generating a save. It is generated the moment the game is started and the hand shake process starts thereafter.

Depends on the game. Something like Borderlands for example, I just skip the game entirely until they do a GOTY version with all the DLC bundled.

Something like Assassin's Creed? Never.

Things like Halo and Elder Scrolls, always bought the DLC day one.

The former stopped DLC so they literally get no money from me anymore.

We'll see what Starfield's DLC looks like. If substantial I'll get it for sure. But not any of these "OH HERE'S ONE DUNGEON" type things you see commonly on Japanese games.