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Smaller games (within larger overall game) with more intense, concentrated story telling, less padding, sounds good, giving this a chance!
Maybe like the matrix, you could wake up out of the animus, surrounded by 1000's of others, and nip one for a different timeline etc

Never played a FIFA before, will easily wait until this is free with the ultimate pass.
As for the reveal trailer it seems to be fantastic at motion capturing for the the CGI movie intro, but as for actual gameplay I'm not so sure how they use it...

Just grabbed it, installing, it'll be ready to play tonight !

@BrilliantBill Phil could carry that role no problem, if he couldn't, he wouldn't be CEO ! The man is a Dude of the highest degree.
A Legend
We need CGI to get him in, just on one screen shot. Please someone lol

Yeah, might be all right, would prefer them to make the game payable and enjoyable for the fans, and ignore the flack that is not as good as the latest and greatest AAA game.
Hope that makes sense lol

Absolutely brilliant, shared that with a few mates. Well done Green Team.
But could they not have shoe-horned Phil Spencer in there in the background somewhere? Can we get a petition going?

Last Stop looks interesting, looked good back when the announcement trailer was released, (wasn't that during the next gen games before XSx XSs was released?)

I really do like MS, such a change from the disappointment at the beginning of last gen.
As for comparing to Sony, imho there isn't a comparison to make. It's hands down MS, and hope that more people see this week by week, and console sales increase accordingly.
Funnily enough, I'm wondering about how streaming cloud to XSS !? Does that even make sense lol?

Watched it streaming in local GAME - there was such disbelief, even horror, as events unfold. TV and not one mention of games!?

Totally agree with good to see "Ronald engaging with the community on social media to help rectify these issues."
I'm sure they'll look into this and do whatever is necessary

Going by what digital foundry said, they are too happy with the detail that is lost from native 4k, it is an upscale of some description after all.
Would be nice to see as being included in menus as another option in addition to eg performance (60fps or 120fps) vs resolution (30fps)

Xbox team need to do this every month!

All these way way way out of my price range

@Kramlar I think this will be my next TV, lighting looks amazing.
However if the price is right on this monitor...
Oh, is this monitor in the article variable refresh rate too? Or does that not matter on 120hz?

Hard to choose, so many great titles, but went Flight Sim, just choose it's so different to pretty much anything that's came before, let alone the other 5.
Gotta love Psychonauts 2 though!

@FraserG any links to some memes please? It would run off the article

Well one thing is for sure, no, two things...

• I'll not be able to afford one, even if stock does reach Northern Ireland, and
• Sony have no chance of making a fridge out of that monstrosity of a design

The fact that the phrase "In Phil We Trust" is something we say shows just how far this great man has bought the Xbox brand.
I know that I'm generalizing, but without trust, there isn't really any foundation in a relationship (of any description, at any level)
So those 4 simple words, for me, go much further than just some throw-away meme.
Full credit to the bosses, who likely saw the need of a change (in the past), and put their trust in this guy.
I hope that he is with the Green Team for a long time to come, as losing him would honestly hit the reset button on the MS stakes.
Presumably he's also quite a nice person, lol

It's such a fantastic product, BUT I must admit I usually just get a little anxious when I see a game appear, because I've no clear idea when it's going to leave
That's why I usually don't start playing the game in case I don't get finishing it (despite e.g. discount)
Because I have a PlayStation 5 as well as the XSX, I'm only really going to be using PS5 for exclusives, the Xbox is definitely my place for anything that's released on both consoles.
But I have put off getting game pass for the minute until I've cleared a little of the backlog I have

How be RT for me, first time jumping in on this title

This has intrigued me since that first show. Could be a standout title, especially if you've seen the effort put into the voice work by the great actors

You know, I logged on here especially, so late at night, just a comment and say that I think that was one of the best trailers I've ever seen.
There's no doubt the game is going to be as great, let's face it, greater than the first one (which I did love)
But to frame it in such a hilarious way shows a real understanding, tapping into the industry, the gullibility, the predictability of marketing, just getting it right on so many levels, including the way that brands are criticized and ridiculed in the first game.
Brilliant

I'll probably watch both, I'll do the 4k the next day

Interesting to think that you can:
1. Stream a game demo of level 1
2. Like it, so Buy it
2. Continue to play it, while it's downloading
3. Once it's downloaded, just pick up the save game 'locally' where you left off 'remotely'
This obviously covers

Just got hold of an Xbox series X finally, so once I get game pass sorted this will be one of the first ones I fire up

I didn't know this points thing existed for quite a few years.
So at the end of the last year to discover that I had maybe 6500, from memory, I just quite chuffed.
I play every single point that I had over the course of 45 minutes and some one-armed bandit game (with emphasis on the word BANDIT) to try and claim an XSX !
Do I really need to tell anyone here that the endeavour failed?
Lol

Not s huge fan of sending links but this YouTube is titled "Xbox Series X Only Console With Full RDNA 2 Features Confirmed | AMD RDNA 2 Presentation breakdown"
https://youtu.be/iEENsSUbFKI

Fun what I understand, MS held off on production of next gen to make sure they got the 'full' AMD implementation of RNDA2
And Sony went ahead when the full hardware was not quite in place
So it this part of the full RNDA2 ?
I know above someone said it's software, but maybe that software is using certain instructions that use the hardware (a bit like nvidia's CUDU cores that only the newer cards at the time had) ?
Just wondering if the is an MS exclusive?

I've never played any NFS... Not a huge fan of teaching, but did play the burnout games especially burnout revenge and paradise, they were the only racing games I really played...
On saying all that, that was a long time ago, and more than prepared to give this genre a rattle

Guessing it will arrive when it arrives... I look forward to it, but I can wait no problems

I really enjoyed the first game so to find out there's a sequel is very welcome news.
There's been a lot of discussion on this site and others that Microsoft need to start doing more exclusives, the way that Sony has been doing, and I would say this would be a good place to 'start'.

The Far Cry games are always in my list, along with Assassin's Creed, usually day one, or close to.

@LtSarge yup, that while thing was memorising! I watched it streaming at the local Game store, wasn't it about 11pm gmt, and we were all in a state of... Shock probably the best word

Gotta be Keanu Reeves, obviously not used to as huge crowd, trying to stay on script

6 - the rest were one year out !

Looks very nice, had wondered what Square Enix were going to do after trademarking hd2d and hd-2d in 2019

It will be a poke in the eye for Sony when the series X runs it better fps, better dynamic resolution... Shane they didn't share 4k of the 'Sony demo' on both machines (latest build on both of course)

@zoomzeta thanks for the link, didn't see it until after, but decided to leave original comment. Guess see what the future holds, but guessing not too many will boycott the games (not that you suggest that!) So wonder what will really change!? Maybe it's just good marketing and PR, but to gullibile me, seems as if effort has been made

Seems as though they have done a good job on this, easy to pass it off as a marketing ploy, but let's see

Played all in order, one 3 was out. Loved them, done annoying sections (the lift loading screen, lol) but, yes, great.
Not going to revisit this though, to much else going on

@Dezzy70 afraid not - Harry Grout has retired, (the old dog), Lukewarm is a no show.
Private Joe Walker would sort me out, but he left for the smoke to do a deal and ain't been seen since...

Yup, 20 years!
Oh, 19, as traded the XONEX last year and haven't got hold of the XSX yet, lol

In Phil we trust. That phrase will live forever

Having the stock as all access only is a little unfair on UK residents living in Northern Ireland as due to some arrangement, (financial regulations?) that package is not available here...

Played single player, then that was it. Enjoyable but all that MP afterwards?
I got stung with Anthem, and that was never gonna happen again

I liked the premise, the controls, graphics, the single player aspect, but quickly went down hill into transactions (buying and selling, never did micro-transactions!) then grind, then sponge monsters and 45 minutes on those boss battles
Balance was totally wrong to begin with, a patch or 2 made things better (equipment screens)
Glad to see the back of it
It was a digital gift, if I'd have had the disc, it would have been traded a few months in to catch a good-ish price on the hype
Wondering what will happen if I boot it in a year?!

At 200 per spin, there are lots of 200 and 500 point rewards, to win along the way, but 15 minutes later, and starting off with 6700, it's all gone lol. No matter, was a bit of fun.
It's fine, never used them before, don't miss them !

@fraserg thanks for this list - hoping you're keeping it updated as we get more news of other games

Woah, that's a lot of update right there!
Nice one

RE4 was definitely my favourite in the series , well re7 on the psvr are was pretty amazing experience too!
So to hear that village is a similar vibe is fantastic news !