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@LonglivetheKing Exactly! Then you have super thinly vieled ones like the box for one of the character called SCOUT TROOPER.

Then when you take a look under unlockables, you have a skin and helmet that makes him look like a scout trooper from Star Wars lol.

Been having a huge blast.

Between the four player split screen, humor, and a fun, retro feeling, campaign with level selects, the game has just about everything I wanted and expected.

The brand references are amazing as well. You have ones like the "OP" brand with the tagine "NERF THIS" all while being presented in nerf colors.

Even the multi-player has been going great with plenty of servers to hop in across the several game modes.

Definitely a great game to buy.

Breaks my heart every time I see a cool release like this only for it to be wired.

@Widey85 You mentioned running. If either of the mentioned games launched on Playstation or Xbox it would have been dragged through the mud.

The Switch builds are totally different builds. Like how back in the day the N64 version of a game and PS1 vediaon of a game, were totally different despite sharing the same name.

The Series S coykd easily be holding back a traditional build. Especially since we know of Microsoft's parity requirements that they only waive in very specific situations.

Funny you should mention the PS5. Why would anyone need to optimize for it? It is the lead platform on any hardware intense game. The PS5 has a unified memory pool at 16GB running 480GB/s. Oodles faster than the Series S. Though a bit slower than the Series X's fastest.

Not having to manage different pools in itself is an advantage. That combined with the larger install base on Playstation results it in being the defacto lead platform for development. So anything in excess of what Playstation offers generally just smooths things out a bit.

@Jenkinss You're not the only one. Absolutely ate that game up back in the day.

@endlessleep My best guess was cost saving measures. Slower RAM is cheaper, especially when you think in bulk.

So provide enough fast RAM for things that actuary need it, like the GPU. Then save a few bucks by using slower RAM to fill out the pool for expected slower processes.

@Widey85 On Kingdom Come the Switch struggles at 720p when docked and drops all the way to 540p when in handheld. All the while regularly dropping to frame rates in the 10s when anything aside from walking through a field is occurring.

And, yea, Hogwarts Legacy works on Switch. At the cost of one of the biggest features, a seamless, open, world. Instead the Switch version is a collection of areas you have the load through each time.

I would only ever advise someone that only has a Switch to get it there. Because it is a pretty awful port.

They simply get passes because they're on the Switch and nobody expects it to be able to run things reasonable. Myself included.

One of the most iconic video game ads published.

Only other thing like that was Halo 3's Believe campaign.

Wild what Microsoft did for gaming back when they were heavily invested in it and actually put time and effort into advertisements.

What's worth mentioning as well is the smaller the RAM pool size isn't the only difference in RAM.
The Series S's RAM is significantly slower across the board as well.

Series X- 16GB total
10GB at 560 GB/s
6GB at 360 GB/s

Series S- 10GB total
8GB at 224 GB/s
2GB at 56 GB/s.

Series S has 60% slower high speed RAM.
Series S has 84% slower low speed RAM.

Really hoping for some great announcements to change the tone that's been set for the year so far.

@oopsiezz Why do you seem to have a personal vendetta against Hypercharge? It is one thing if the game had issue. But your sole complaint is that it didn't launch on Gamepass.

I can say for 100% certainty I will not be touching this free to play shooter at all. Meanwhile I have the founder's edition with about a dozen hours in Hypercharge already. And it has 4 player split screen which already makes it a ton better.

FSR is great for intermittent things, but hopefully they don't use it as a crutch.

FSR supporting a 60fps game with dips is great.

Using FSR to boost a 30fps game to 60 looks like dog water.

There was so much hype for this and they shot themselves in the foot by delivering a buggy, sub 30fps, mess.

Really sad to see. But then again, seeing what they did with the original's release, like letter boxing, to reduce tie resultion to try to gain frames, doesn't surprise me.

@oopsiezz I guess you missed the part where pre-orderable games have been getting pre-order discounts recently.

You seem to be extremely salty about it not being on Gamepass. That's a you issue. Not every game has to be and that's fine. The model doesn't work for everyone and that's fine.

Marvel Rivals isn't even targeting the same demographic as this so it won't have any part. But it also cute you think another free to play shooter is going to have any staying power. Rivals is just gonna be another tax write off.

Not a game I predicted. And not one I see with any staying powers. Looking to be another Gotham City Imposters.

@oopsiezz Weird. I must be hallucinating the receipt for the founders edition I'm looking at here for Series X.

@LonglivetheKing
You and me both! I do a game night every other Friday where we either do VR or BLOPS4 Zombies since they never made another zombies with 4 player split screen.

You better believe we're playing Hypercharge tomorrow.

How, and I mean this I the most courteous way possible, THE HELL, did I miss that there was a Wizardry remake?!

I am not a pre-ordering person. But this game stuck out enough, and the repeated dev streams on TikTok gave me confidence to go ahead and pull the trigger on it. Can't wait for release.

@Kieduss Would have been wild of this game had blown up enough to be able to license real action figures and brands from back in the day. Flashbacks to Toy Soldiers is the exact reason this game calls to be so much lol.

All I need is confirmation of if the game has 4 player, split screen, Zombies.

That makes or breaks it for me. Still playing BLOP4 for that very reason.

Cool. Now how about confirming 4 player split screen zombies?

@dreadful I agree with you for the most part. Start with 60fps as the goal and work out from there.

However, things like VRR, freesync, gsync, DLSS, FSR, 120/144/288hz etc. have always been a premium features as it requires specific hardware.

Even something like having to buy a new screen for higher resolution to take proper advantage of modern hardware hardware.

@BBB Not really. Especially in the case of the Series S, with how under powered it ism. At 30fps, with FSR boosting frames to 60fps, you're essentially getting a fancier version of turning on "smooth motion" or whatever your TV's equivalent is. All it is doing is blending every other frame with the frame before and after. Looks pretty awful IMO. And lends to that Soap Opera effect.

For things like FSR the more information you have, higher frame rate in this case, the better FSR will work. Ideally you want somewhere in the high 40s for 60fps reconstruction.

343i has had 12 years to put out a competent game. Yet somehow squandered that over 4 releases.

They even somehow botched the RE-release of games as old as 13 years old at the time of release.

Even with Halo Infinite, that was supposed to be THE Halo experience, they launched with broken multi-player. Plagued by bugs, hit detection issues, and desync. The latter of which only recently has shown any improvement, though still way too high to be acceptable.

It is mind blowing to see how Microsoft has let Halo flounder in 343i's hands. Then again, we also see how Microsoft handles studios and their IPs in general. So not much surprise.

As much as it pains me, I think it is time for Halo to die along with all their other IPs they've allowed to.

@StylesT Agreed. The whole reason I own a PC, Xbox, Playstation, and Switch is because of their exclusives.

Why would I bother a spending money on hardware if all the software can be used elsewhere?

@cburg Enjoyment and criticism aren't mutually exclusive. Nothing stopping you from learning that.

Hopefully this means they're trying to incentivise burning through old stock to replace with the supposed new revision.

Looking forward to checking this one out. Everything I've seen looks like silly fun.

@Grippie What is getting old? People blindly defending a company, Microsoft, that doesn't care they exist? Or Microsoft having a rich history of closing successful studios like FASA, Ensemble, Lionhead, Press Play, DA, Aces, etc.

And that's to say nothing of countless hardware divisions they purchased, canabilized, then shuttered, thereafter.

@Sifi Ninja Theory is one of my favorite studios. Your comment seems to be aimed at someone that dislikes Ninja Theory. Not sure why you're brining up Sony though. I have several decades of investment in the Microsoft ecosystem, not Playstation. Couldn't care less what they do. Yes I have a Playstation, but at the end of the day, nothing Sony does really has an effect on me.

@AverageGamer Who is joking? Seems like you're conflating a cynical prediction, based off historical examples mind you, with a comment made to create a laugh.

I'm not laughing.

So, how many months until Microsoft announces Ninja Theory closing?

@Utena-mobile Definitely a huge issue for me. Nothing more annoying than trying to play a local game just to have everything locked. Grinding is the number one killer of a game for me. Same reason I quit Helldivers 2 after having such a blast initially.

One of the many reasons I see this game failing to find an audience, much like the beta did.

Wonder how this will be. The private build was nice.

But once it went public the ramped the grindiness of everything to 11.

Maaan. Here I was hoping finally to get Total War Warhammer 40K.

Though I guess if rumors are to be believed, CA is working on Total War Star Wars. So there's that.

Avalanche are the one of my favorite developers. Been as such since I played the first Just Cause on the OG Xbox. The checked out the 360's next Gen version there after.

What he says here lines up with a lot of the same issues I heard about movie tie in games back when pretty much every movie got one.

I am guilty of having never played their Mad Max. I may fix this after I finish my first run of Fallout New Vegas.

@GeeEssEff I'd argue that reloading while aiming is less QOL and more balance/feature. Forcing you out of sights while reloading can help make a player focus on when to reload instead of constantly spamming reload after dropping a round.

Personally I've never been of a fan of reload when scoped in unless you're prone.

All they need to do is include 4 player split screen, zombies, and I'll get it.

@HonestHick @OldGamer999
Likely what you will see is what they already did with Gamepass from Gold.

A new Gamepass tier will be added. GPU+COD or something succiently named like that.

It'll be a more expensive package. And likely have something similar to where you could trade so many months of Gold for GPU, you will trade so many months of GPU for GPU+COD.

4 player split screen zombies or bust.

Does firefight still crash with 4 player split screen?

If so I'll just stick to real COD zombies.

@BigBobEnerG Couldn't disagree more. I took a break after 250 hours because of absolutely how much there was to do. I burned myself out chasing every new thing I found. Never eveven went through the first playthrough despite all those hours. And that is with only having finished 2 factions.

@NEStalgia I'm know it was a joke. But this is something so misquoted it hurts.

The games ran at 60hz, matching the refresh of CRTs so you pretty much never had screen tearing. But not always 60fps. And less so as you moved from the Nes to the SNEs then to the N64.

Quite a few games even rendered into to 10s. 3D games running at 60fps, on consoles in the 90s, was extremely uncommon as well.

When it came to 2D games they were only 60fps by technicality. Due to the interlaced nature of the screen, it used even lines to draw one picture, and odds to draw another. Ultimately this either doubled the same frame, or have you two different frames at half the resolution. IE 640x240 instead of 640x480.

I still have a Panasonic Tau CRT that does 1080i and even has a HDMI input. I use retro consoles on it all the time and it is wild how much this gets misquoted.

Almost like 60FPS is important. We're not living in the 90s anymore.

Enslaved. Hands down.

Immediately bought it after playing the demo. The mocap and voice acting are what drew me in. And boy was it a fantastic ride.

One of the few games I'd buy a remaster of.

Exclusives like Halo and Mech Assault and Splinter Cell.

You know, games you don't get anymore. Or atleast good versions of.

I can't be hype until I know the release format.

Anything aside from a traditional buy and play release I have no interest

If they release it in any this rumored pay to play, or any of the other things, gonna be a huge skip from me.

@OldGamer999 I'd extend that so far as back to the beginning of the Xbox One days.

All it was was bad press, reversals, and no clear direction aside from "game box with XBL subscription".

The only direction they had was removing the Kinect(should have sold Kinect SKU only, and at $100 cheaper.)

Then putting out the One X to keep up with the Joneses.

Yearly CoDs without the yearly CoD price? Meanwhile still sporting season passes? CoD fans will eat that up.

If they add it to Gamepass day one, Gamepass subscriptions are gonna explode.

Such a shame. Had they added split screen I have bought it day one, even with it being on game pass.

Part of me wants to go ahead and buy it with how cheap it is, but when I've got split screen games like Cod BLOPS4 Zombie with 4 player split screen and Left 4 Dead 2 with two player split screen, almost feels like a waste

Remember when Ubisoft was good? Splinter Cell and real Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. Even games like EndWar were a blast.

And the cross overs where'd you'd be playing jg one game and gear a character form another because it was a shared world.

Now we get whatever modern Ubisoft is.

@Lanmanna If you didn't read my comment, why did you respond? That's not what I said at all. 😂

@Tasuki I avoided COD fatigue thankfully.

Most of the time I just played the campaigns, I didn't do much online with it. Was always more a fan of the pace of Halo back in the day.

Then when Halo turned into CoD with Halo 4, Battlefield was all I played lol.

Black Ops 4. It is the last one with 4-player, split screen, zombies. We play it every week at my friend's house.

Been saying this since Satya axes Windows Phone despite grown, especially in places like India.

Satya simply wants Microsoft to be software only and is slowly gutting hardware.

Definitely check out SD Gundam Battle Alliance. Worth every penny of the purchase.

It is a great hack and slash with RPG elements with all kinds of mobile suits to use. Really good time.