MinervaX

I am going to mention something I said before:

There is a high chance that player mods on the console version will be a thing, and a mod could potentially change the game enough to enable 60fps and disable X or Y to make it happen. Only issue there is that mods that are not part of the Creation Club tend to disable the ability to earn achievements in previous entries of the game.

I doubt it to be Hexen, the IP is owned by ABK and doubt they would agree to license it out pre-acquisition.

I am still expecting it to be Quake, hopefully its like Doom and entirely ignores previous games attempts at story and just comes up with something that is visually faithful to the first game, but with a much more interesting plot.

Now that you guys talk about button colors, it is now that I notice... usually every xbox controller that uses flat colors or the buttons also has color key in the middle to let gamers know what color correspond to what button if they feel the need to look at the controller. This variant is missing that. I'm fine with that, but interesting omission none the less.

@NEStalgia

if it doesn't cover home there's kind of no point. If I'm going to do wifi calling then I can just do voip and not bother with paying a cell company.

Then how you drag that voip to the store or while driving around? It might not sound like it, but I do leave the house often enough 😝

Edit: me spending most my time in my home office, in my basement, is likely why I dont get signal at home, though....

If you ask on PushSquare, this is nowhere near as evil as placing an embargo on Persona 3 multiplat confirmations.

Anyways, I don’t care about these cosmetics, but if I did, I still would likely rather pay extra to play on my preferred platform than get it on PS5. My PS5 is my third console, and I only play exclusives on it.

@NEStalgia the sad truth about US carriers: every single one of them has a place they suck at.

ATT does not actually cover my house, at least not indoors, but it does not have to since I get wifi calling. It covers my workplace perfectly (when I have to go there) when no one else gets reception there.

@Zoidpilot4 Dreamcast guy is indeed a clown. Anyone following my posting history knows I’m as Pro Xbox as it comes without being a blind fanboy.

At the end I think this game looks great, and I’m happy for anyone that is not bothered by the 30fps cap on consoles, but I am playing this one on PC. Already got me the constellation edition, the controller, and a rig that is well above minimum specs to install on my gaming room.

@UltimateOtaku91 personally, I had a hard time with Plague Tale requiem, and regretted playing it on that mode when they launched a 60fps mode later. But at least Requiem was 40fps on my TV, not 30.

Not buying that take. An option for the player would not sacrifice the 4k mode. I’m sure PC players will get a ton of settings they can adjust to get 60fps.

What I would buy is that other things going on at the CPU level, like physics calculations, prevent the implementation of a lower-res 60fps mode, but that is not what we were told. They specifically said “don’t want to sacrifice fidelity*.

Got the controller but that background is not moving me. I plan to pair this controller to my new gaming room PC.

@SplooshDmg yea ATT is doing some crazy trade in prices, over installments though, but it nets to zero if you also get your next phone over installments from them.

@Banjo- Crystal Dynamics is safe if only because they are under contract with Microsoft working on Perfect Dark.

Don’t shut them down!!! Find a new owner!!! Sell them for pennies but don’t shut them down!!! 😖

I keep most my junk… it almost always goes into my “mini” museum. I think the first decide I don’t plan to hold onto is this phone I’m using right now… I’m definitively trading this in towards my next phone. Phones are getting ridiculously expensive…

@SplooshDmg @NEStalgia I have a gaming laptop that is well above recommended specs for the game, it was also well above 2k when I bought it years ago, but still also ordered a new tower with a 3080gtx, i7 12th Gen and 1TB M2 NVME drive that I plan to hook up to my gaming room TV mostly to play this game. Not exclusively, mind you. I been meaning to invert on such a right to emulate PS3 games.

Also Nestalgia: I don’t trust just any sd card brand (one off brand sd card on my Wii once caught fire….) and a 1TB sd card can easily approach $100.

Edit: oh also: on the creation engine, anecdote: when Skyrim launched on PS3 it ran like hell after long enough. I remember an article explaining the reason was they found out for some reason the dragon scripts never stopped running after they got spawned, so if you didn’t kill a dragon, that dragon was “always running” and that killed the PS3 CPU. Think it was a bug on all platforms, though.

@SplooshDmg leaving a stick at the start zone and finding it again 80 hours later is more about memory and storage. In Zelda, yea things vanish if you move too far away and come back, because their position is not saved to disk after that area is unloaded.

Creation games save that to disk, can result on some absurd large save files. I recall back in the day filling my X360 HD with Oblivion save files.

Edit: also Skyrim toned down on this by resetting most items and containers after X amount of hours unless the container was marked “safe”, so you might not find that stick there 200 hours later.

@Green-Bandit @NEStalgia Another thing to keep in mind while comparing console prices: the Switch has barely any internal storage, even physical the biggest games require big downloads these days. If you buy one chances are you will want a large micro SD card and that adds a significant sim to the price.

@wazza99999 @Krysus @themightyant they might still provide continued support for the 2020 version via real time weather and other online features and minor patches.

Honestly, I would think a new entry would be better, especially if purchases carry over, since this means 2024 is free with Game Pass white a FS2024 expansion would had been likely an expensive paid DLC, and DLC are never part of GP.

Also, with a sequel, they can rethink internal systems, engine features and what not. Structural changes are usually out of the question when maintaining the same base core game. You can change and improve a lot more when you simply make a sequel.

Went for it and ordered the Steam/Pc version of that ridiculous constellation edition. Xbox version was sold out by the time I caved in. Hopefully the game has some sort of cross save feature with Steam, but highly doubt it.

Of course I also ordered the controller… skipping on the headset, though.

@Banjo- @PushButtons as much as I disagree with the FTC stance, I don’t think it has anything to do with Sony or even gaming.

The current FTC leadership is simply extremely anti-big-tech. They would had opposed the deal even if Microsoft was buying the last Blockbuster store, simply because it’s Microsoft.

@Green-Bandit @NEStalgia The price is not going up, the white model is still available (at least for the time being, I do think if we suddenly see supply dwindle and not getting restocks, it should be called out.)

Side note and a bit on topic, I ended up buying that dumb $300 collectors edition... for PC That actually means I’ll be playing it on Steam. It's an Amazon order though so I got until a week from launch to cancel it if I truly truly regret it.

@Belkan for better or worse, all that is usually needed to get a temporary injunction is have pending litigation on the subject. What I am not certain is if a federal judge will consider FTC internal courts to be "legitimate" pending litigation.

@NEStalgia

Carbon black though.... Is it $50 cheaper than PS5 or same price as a swoled?

A question that is only thought inducing in the US, thanks to PS increasing its prices everywhere else.

@NEStalgia Its rare for them not to be granted, though. It is possible that the judge insists an injunction be conditional to going to actual federal courts, but I doubt it.

Now, should the FTC lose on their internal courts, its possible a second injunction is not awarded.

@NEStalgia in this one I side with the FTC. Lets assume for a second they genuinely think they have a case, there is no point in litigating the case if you simply allow the merger to happen while you are litigating.

Forcing a split post merger, in the US, is the stuff of ancient history. I don't see the US gov forcing such a thing in my lifetime. Therefore, what happens instead, is that you file an injunction to prevent the action to occur while the case is still pending.

As I mentioned in Push Square, I expect this injunction to be granted. There is no point for legal procedures if there is no injunctions. That is one of the reasons they [injunctions] exist for.

There is a minimal chance that the courts might require the FTC go to proper federal court if they want the injunction granted, but I doubt it.

This wont hurt the deal, MS and ABK are very likely already negotiating an extension to their deadline.

@Green-Bandit the coverage I read and heard claim the OLED and the Pro were entirely different devices. I never seen "OLED was the pro with parts stripped" outside comment sections and forums.

@BAMozzy exactly. Not every game has to appeal to me.

@SplooshDmg Not sure how "feedback we're getting right now" changes his response. If they are working on a pro model, development started just as the Xbox Series shipped, if not earlier.

The truth is no one at Xbox will acknowledge any plans until they actually announce the thing. Unless Phil comes out and actually says "we wont be having another console until the generation is over" I am hedging my bets they are internally working on a refresh and ready to launch it reactively if Sony announces theirs.

We also know from devs that the Switch "pro" was real, plenty of devs had dev kits, Nintendo simply opted the logistics didn't work out. Same can happen here, but I think its a very safe bet to say they have something baking and near ready if they feel they need it. Making a mid-gen (or new gen) console isn't something that happens overnight, not even within a year, after all.

Edit:
I feel I lost track of what I was trying to say: my point is he didn't deny they will make a mid-gen refresh. All he denied is they need it.

@SplooshDmg

However, Phil is on record just today saying there won't be a mid gen upgrade from Xbox.

That is not the quote I read. the quote was simply "Right now, we’re pretty set on the hardware we have"

That is not "there wont be one", that is basically an evasive "nothing to announce at this time".

Very hyped for this. I do see now that "back to roots" simply means environmentally. There are still quite a few staples of recent games, like being able to sneak through tall grass (used to be hiding was a very still thing) and using a flying pet to scout the area for targets. Plus some, seemingly ungodly magical abilities like that multi-target assassination move.

This is not me pointing negatives, my main desire was returning to more urban nevironments with more opportunities for vertical movement, escapes and assassinations.

The game in isolation looks very cool. Always up for some metroidvania, and the combat on this looks amazing.

My one nitpick is that they gave the prince a name. As far as I know, the prince was never given a name in the 2D or 3D games, he was always just called The Prince. Other than this being related to a Persian prince (that we dont actually play as), it does not seem tied to the IP at all. Not a huge issue, though.

Not my thing, I'm not into multiplayer shooters unless they also happen to have a campaign (and then only for said campaign) but interesting to see the reactions so far.

I sure hope Ubisoft gets a hit in the service game arena so it can starts subsidizing the rest of their operations and I can stop worrying about the future of Assassins Creed.

Don't care for Avatar, but as a stand-alone gaming experience this sold me. I'm in. Maybe not day one, maybe yes. All depends how full my hands are at the time.

This looks fantastic and cant wait for it to come out. Hopefully its early 2024 and not, like, December 2024.

Mirage: hype
Codename Jade: open minded, will try
Nexus: I have no VR
Outlaws: hype
Avatar: I’m in
Prince of Persia: looks good
Skull and Bones: was open minded but not feeling it
XDefiant: not my thing
The Crew: not my thing
Riders Republic: not my thing

That Phil statement is avoiding the question. Nowhere there did he say there won’t be a mid Gen refers/pro upgrade, all he said is “for now”, and if the thing was launching this December we would already know.

Next year he will likely come around and reveal the thing. There is no way they will let Sony be the only one with a mid-Gen refresh.

@Cashews ah yes. Funny today the ideal place to play FF13 trilogy ends up being Xbox.... I did buy it for X360 too back in the day, and again digitally when it was added to xbox one bc. I never finished it, but someday...

@Cashews

They brought FF12 to the 360. It didn't move the needle then

FF11, 12 only came to Xbox when the remaster came out for all platforms.

During that generation, Xbox did pay for the entire development of a few JRPG titles, some they even kept ownership on.

Blue Dragon [Mistwalker, 2006]
Project Sylpheed [Square, 2006]
Lost Odessey [Feelplus, 2007]
Infinite Undiscovery [Square, 2008]
The Last Remnant [Square, 2008]

Since then, the only one of these to come out on other platforms has been The Last Remnant remastered on PS4.

These titles did help move the needle a bit in Japan. Not much, but XBox Series consoles are still just 27% of the X360 sales total. I dont think Xbox will ever dominate Japan, but they could gain a bit more traction if they had more jrpg games developed exclusively for the ecosystem.

@J_Mo_Money Hey, Sega still might be MS next acquisition target.

Nah. I have a Series X in my gaming room and a Series S in my living room. Personally, the Series S looks better in white, and just yesterday Bestbuy had yet another sale (24 hour over by now) of the Series S for $250. For $90 I can add a 1 TB storage card and end up with more space than this model. So even if I didn’t have an Xbox I feel going for the cheaper S is a better deal, if one waits for one of the nearly weekly Series S sales.

I don’t see this model going on discount soon, but maybe it will around Black Friday, making it a more interesting option.

My hope lies in mods. Else I will likely throw 2k at a new PC.

Where can one buy that Hexen T-shirt in 2023? Inquiring minds want to know!

Hopefully we will hear more about mod support on consoles in todays extended showcase. Fallout 4 and Skyrim both had console mods that enabled 60fps. Hopefully they trash the whole “can’t get achievements with mods enabled” thing.

Else I will likely be buying me a new fancy PC tower just for this game. I’m lucky enough to be able to have the spare budget to do that but it really sucks for everyone. Plus PC don’t have Quick Resume.

Square is… square. They are basically in so much economical struggle they will take any exclusivity deal that is dropped on their table with a high enough sum. Xbox no longer believes in paying too much money for exclusivity.

What I hope is that Phil does not sleep on this relationship with Sega: make sure Persona 6 is not locked by Sony as an exclusive. Hell, fight hard to get the marketing rights!

Also, expand your reach to Koei Tecmo and Gust to start bringing Atelier games over to Xbox!

@NEStalgia oh Sony exclusive third party stuff is all over the place, especially the Square Enix ones. Feels like they reveal those the day they sign the deal to brag, but few publishers take as long from announcement to release as Square does with FF and DQ titles.

Sony first party tend to be within 22 months, though.

@Green-Bandit I bet if we get a Pro Series X, Todd would simply insist to increase the resolution to 4k instead of allowing higher frame rate.

I mean, Phil had a Hexen shirt during the show. I have no clue where one can buy a Hexen T-Shirt these days. I have a feeling he had it custom made to send a message.

The more I look at this the more I think "this thing looks better in white"...

@Utena-mobile

I've never been a fan of Saint's Row and Grand Theft Auto, but I'm going to give Yakuza and Like a Dragon a try.

Good news: the game has nothing in common with GTA or Saint's Row. Not even its focus on "a criminal". Ichiban is the "henchman with a heart of gold" stereotype of character and is more a hero than anything else, and the games are not open world chaos simulators. Some of the earlier entries do have some small open-worldish elements, but they are confined to very small areas (like a neighborhood/turf) and not large cities or anything like that. You wont ever drive a vehicle (at least not on the last entry.)