@Dezzy70 maybe the Series S did not take off in England, but in the devoloping world it's the best thing ever. It's been on the headlines recently that the Xbox Series S was the best selling console in India for two months in a roll. In my own country, Brazil, it's been the best selling console in Amazon for months (including Nintendo Switch and PS4).
The math is simple: videogame consoles are very expensive both in Brazil and Argentina due to high taxes on imported electronics. The Xbox Series X officially retails for R$ 4599, which is equivalent to US$ 932 or £ 671. That's the official price, but since we're having issues with stocks as well, you won't find the Series X for less than R$ 7000 — do the math.
The Series S, however sells for a more sensible R$ 2799 = US$ 567 = £ 408. And that's usually the actual price you find in retail. Even the Xbox Series S is sort of a luxury product in Brazil, where people's monthly average income is R$ 893 = US$ 181 = £ 130.
Even in the developed world, the Series S is a great idea, since people who game mostly on Playstation may see it as a cheap gateway for the Xbox echosystem.
@Jslade does do Death Stranding IP belong to Sony or to Kojima Productions?
I believe Death Stranding is an ideal game to debut on Game Pass. I was curious about this game, but never bought it on my PS4 because it was unlike anything I ever played and I could definitely see myself getting bored with it and regretting my purchase. But on Game Pass pretty much everyone would just try it anyway.
This deal would be a big win for Kojima. He will be enabled to be as weird as he wants to without the pressure of selling millions of copies.
The videogaming community occasionally can be very toxic against queer people, women and people of color. Everyone should feel welcomed to play regardless of who they are. And for companies those statements of support just make business sense: the dollars queer people spend are just as good as my dollars or yours.
I'm sure that Xbox Game Studios is well aware that there is a lot of demand for the returnal of both Banjo-Kazooie and Conker.
Phil Spencer himself has already said that he wanted more family games, rated E, on Xbox.
I believe the case for Banjo and Conker is pretty much the same as Killer Instinct: no internal studio is available to work on it at the moment. Or even wants to. But when they find "the right team and the right opportunity", they will make it. Like they did with KI itself and Battletoads.
@Tharsman agreed, the main reason is to give consumers time to buy as a Chistmas gift. Specially during Black Friday.
Selling physical copies of Halo Infinite is not a major concern for MS thanks to Game Pass, but Halo is a system seller. The point is to use it to move Xbox Series X and S units.
@Kilamanjaro indeed, Tunic kicked my butt. It took a while until I figured out how to get past those goblins with shields.
Sable on the other hand is a very promising games. All the good parts of Zelda Breath of the Wild without the breakable weapons BS. But it's still very rough around the edges, I hope they can polish it enough before releasing on September. It could become something special with more work.
@Tharsman not many games release on December. If Halo doesn't come out 11/15 in order to celebrate its 20 year anniversary, I'd guess 11/23 would be a nice date — it's the same week as Black Friday.
@ThanosReXXX like most Brazilians, I support Portugal in Europe due to cultural ties and the fact that Brazil basically invented "drama queens that fall to the ground and roll around with every light tap they get". And Neymar is even more arrogant than Ronaldo even though he's not half as good as the "gajo".
For me it's Halo Infinite, but Psychonauts 2 is a very close second. But I'll play the heck out of all those games (with the exception of AoE 4, since it won't make it to consoles). Can't wait to full around in Mexico with Forza... and in the whole world with Flight Sim.
I'm replaying Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I platinumed it on PS4 and might as well do it again and get 1000G on Xbox.
I'm surprised that I barely lost any muscle memory from playing it one year ago. I could beat in the first try a few bosses that demanded dozens of tries when I first played.
Also playing Control Ultimate Edition and Forza Horizon 4.
I hope they can consistently hit the 60 fps target on Xbox Series S, otherwise I'd rather have it capped at 30 fps.
Resident Evil Village with Ray Tracing on feels very janky on the series S with the frame rate all over the place between 30 and 60 fps. RT off was a much smoother and more pleasant experience.
@trev666 the powers do add some depth to the gameplay, but I believe my biggest gripe with Mass Effect 2 is the level design. Every level is just one big corridor with waist-high cover speckled around. As bad as the Mako is in ME 1, at least it adds some variety. ME 2 has that other vehicle that only shows up in optional assignments, but is even worse than the Mako.
Gears has good level design, more gameplay variety with actually good vehicle sections and the combat also makes melee and grenades viable. The only downside to Gears is the complete lack of Tali, my beautiful quarian...
@Nikolaidas yup. E3 is not the same without all three console makers showing off and the pointless debates on who "won" E3 later. Even though I don't own a PS5 and don't intend to buy it anytime soon, the show would be way cooler with Sony.
@LtSarge thanks for the feedback! I will take some time off from Mass Effect now, since I played 1 & 2 back to back, but you've encouraged me to play ME 3 later. I totally agree with your take on the story in ME 2.
I played ME 1 as vanguard. For ME 2 I switched to Infiltrator — I'm playing on Insanity difficulty and vanguard was not working for me in ME 2. Maybe I could be enjoying myself more at a lower difficulty, but we gotta unlock those cheevos, you know?
E3 was very disappointing in my opinion. I'm obviously not talking about Xbox's presentation, which was fantastic. Ubisoft and Summer Game Fest were okay, but everyone else sucked. They just had too little to show, which might be yet another unfortunate effect of covid-19. The only games shown outside Xbox presentation that picked my interest are Elden Ring and Guardians of the Galaxy.
As for Nintendo, well, I do own a Nintendo Switch and I enjoyed Breath of the Wild and Mario Odissey, but I eventually got pissed at Nintendo for a number of reasons, including controller drift and some weird issues with the software of the console that prevents me from updating and downloading some digital games. My Switch is currently retired, back in its box, and I don't intend to buy anything Nintendo ever again.
So I'm bitter and salty and completely biased against Nintendo. I watched their presentation for two reasons: (1) I had a sliver of hope that Hollow Knight: Silksong could show up and (2) my brother is a big fan of Nintendo and I wanted to watch with him. It's funny that my brother hated Nintendo's show. The only thing that pleased him was Metroid, but he was very disappointed on how little Zelda's trailer showed and it looked more like DLC for the first game than a sequel. And most other announcements were either underwhelming or remasters or things that were already announced before somewhere else.
I'm surprised at how many Nintendo fans seem to be pleased with that presentation.
I just finished Mass Effect 2 in Legendary Edition and I'm a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, this game has a very good story and great characters (I'd kill for my gal Tali). However 95% of the game is a mediocre cover shooter taking place in corridor after corridor. Gears of War does it much better.
Does it get better in Mass Effect 3 or can I expect the same boring gameplay?
@lokozar you know what? I care for exclusives less and less. What I care for is: "is it coming to Game Pass?" Even better if it's day one. Xbox 1st party games are great because they're always day and date on Game Pass, and they just happen to be exclusives. But I'm equally stoked for Back 4 Blood. The fact that it's on Playstation doesn't devalue it. Actually, it's the other way around: I feel I'm getting a better deal than other people and that's a weirdly satisfying feeling
@Olliemar28 or Microsoft could make its own "Xbox Xbrawlers Xtreme" videogame. It surely has enough IP's to build a huge roster.
I'd rather have a third Forza series that was more like Mario Kart, though. Imagine a track based on "The Milkman's Conspiracy" level of Psychonauts, for example!
@nofriendo or you could not do that and make Playstation fans:
a) buy it on PC instead
b) buy an Xbox
c) subscribe to Xbox Game Pass and play it on Xcloud
d) do not buy and cry me a river
There's no lack of options for PS fans and either (a), (b) or (c) are huge wins for Microsoft anyway. (d) is unfortunate, but that's a wager every game company makes — you don't see Sony releasing Bloodborne on competing platforms.
@carlos82 @nessisonett Metroid has never been a huge seller for Nintendo. It does have a rabid fanbase, but I believe that's an aging demographic, since the franchise has been nearly dormant for years now.
@LtSarge good point. However, I got curious about whether Forza Horizon 5 is more popular than Halo Infinite or not and made a search in Google Trends. Halo has been consistently more sought in Google for the last year, but if you look at the past 7 days, Forza got slightly ahead, perhaps due to being a new announcement. However, it doesn't come near the amount of interest that Halo Infinite's 2020 trailer sparked.
@Chaudy @DDJT you know, in Brazil the official price of both the Xbox Series X and the PS5 is R$ 4599,00. In a direct conversion to dollars, that's US$ 903,38. Remember that we're talking about an emergent country whose average income is about US$ 270 per month.
So I can think of many people who cannot own both consoles all over Latin America, Eastern Europe, India, Africa, etc.
In fact, the Xbox Series S is a godsend. It costs "only" US$ 549,81 down here. That's the console I purchased and it's been the #1 best selling videogame console in the Brazilian Amazon store for quite a while, even beating Nintendo Switch.
@LtSarge keep in mind that the awards were not based on popular vote, but a panel of editors of gaming sites. That explains why Halo Infinite was chosen the most anticipated Xbox/Bethesda game whereas Forza Horizon was chose the most anticipated overall. They simply wanted to highlight more than one game from Xbox's presentation, so I wouldn't read too much into this.
I bet those Game Pass "news" are about the demos of Tunic, Sable and other indie games. It's been announced in Summer Game Fest. Tunic drops tomorrow, but it will be a very short demo.
@Bmartin001 I did enjoy Doom (2016), however Doom Eternal did not click for me either. I appreciate that that's a very unique FPS, focused on moving into combat head in, unlike games like Wolfenstein or Halo, where you need to be more careful and deliberate. I can totally understand why people love Doom Eternal, but it's not my cup of tea.
@UltimateOtaku91 currently Xbox is 3rd place in the console game market, hence I don't think we're anywhere near a monopoly.
However, if videogames move towards the cloud and subscription services like Game Pass, Xbox could very well become a very dominant player — and Microsoft is definitely striving for that. It's a shame that Google Stadia is not trying to seriously compete on that area.
I want Microsoft to acquire IO for one simple selfish reason: there are so many versions of Hitman 3 in the Xbox Store that I simply don't know how to purchase them (Free Starter Pack, Standard, Deluxe, Trinity Pack, Access Pass for Hitman 1 & 2, separate DLC's for each level... WTF!). Going straight to Game Pass would surely make things easier.
@Dezzy70 it's a different deal for each game and for each publisher. Some games get a lump sum, others are paid based on how much they were played by users, others yet get a combination of both.
Why 16 months in a calendar? Could that mean that Halo Infinite will release on SEPTEMBER? 12 months of 2022 plus 4 months of 2021: September, October, November and December.
@Az1ner well, Capcom does not own dinosaurs®, any studio could just make their own dino survival horror game. A new Jurassic World game has been teased, for that matter.
I love Machine Games' new spin on the Wolfenstein franchise, and I'm really looking forward for the third game in the series. I believe that game is not too far away, maybe even due to 2021 or early 2022.
I've been waiting for Sekiro to either get a discount or head to Game Pass. I've platinum'ed it on the PS4 and I'm willing to do it all over again on Xbox!
"* Reduced the max credits that can be carried from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2 down to 100k for more balanced early-game progression"
I'm glad I've already started ME2 carrying 1M credits. I'm currently doing the loyalty missions, could have started the endgame already if I wanted to, but money to buy whatever I want has never been a problem
Last gen is not holding back current gen. Some current gen features, like FidelityFX are just starting to get available for developers, who are not yet familiar with new tech and engines like Unreal 5 anyway.
In the meantime, while devs are still learning how to develop for next gen, it's totally natural that most games will be cross gen. That's even desirable, since in the consumer side, shortages have prevented people from purchasing the newest consoles.
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Re: Phil Spencer Thanks The Fans As Xbox Game Pass Trends On Twitter
@Igorfgon https://exame.com/economia/renda-media-mensal-do-brasileiro-caiu-para-r-893-diz-fgv/
Re: Phil Spencer Thanks The Fans As Xbox Game Pass Trends On Twitter
@Dezzy70 maybe the Series S did not take off in England, but in the devoloping world it's the best thing ever. It's been on the headlines recently that the Xbox Series S was the best selling console in India for two months in a roll. In my own country, Brazil, it's been the best selling console in Amazon for months (including Nintendo Switch and PS4).
The math is simple: videogame consoles are very expensive both in Brazil and Argentina due to high taxes on imported electronics. The Xbox Series X officially retails for R$ 4599, which is equivalent to US$ 932 or £ 671. That's the official price, but since we're having issues with stocks as well, you won't find the Series X for less than R$ 7000 — do the math.
The Series S, however sells for a more sensible R$ 2799 = US$ 567 = £ 408. And that's usually the actual price you find in retail. Even the Xbox Series S is sort of a luxury product in Brazil, where people's monthly average income is R$ 893 = US$ 181 = £ 130.
Even in the developed world, the Series S is a great idea, since people who game mostly on Playstation may see it as a cheap gateway for the Xbox echosystem.
Re: Talking Point: What FPS Boost Games Do You Want Next For Xbox Series X|S?
I'm playing Dishonored 2 now. Sadly it supports neither FPS boots nor Auto-HDR at the moment.
Re: Xbox & Kojima Reportedly 'Close' To Closing Deal For Upcoming Game
@Jslade does do Death Stranding IP belong to Sony or to Kojima Productions?
I believe Death Stranding is an ideal game to debut on Game Pass. I was curious about this game, but never bought it on my PS4 because it was unlike anything I ever played and I could definitely see myself getting bored with it and regretting my purchase. But on Game Pass pretty much everyone would just try it anyway.
This deal would be a big win for Kojima. He will be enabled to be as weird as he wants to without the pressure of selling millions of copies.
Re: Xbox Is 'Committed To Creating' A Safe LGBTQIA+ Community For Gamers
The videogaming community occasionally can be very toxic against queer people, women and people of color. Everyone should feel welcomed to play regardless of who they are. And for companies those statements of support just make business sense: the dollars queer people spend are just as good as my dollars or yours.
Re: Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Still Wants To 'Do Something' With Killer Instinct
@BlueOcean @Dezzy70 @Chaudy
I'm sure that Xbox Game Studios is well aware that there is a lot of demand for the returnal of both Banjo-Kazooie and Conker.
Phil Spencer himself has already said that he wanted more family games, rated E, on Xbox.
I believe the case for Banjo and Conker is pretty much the same as Killer Instinct: no internal studio is available to work on it at the moment. Or even wants to. But when they find "the right team and the right opportunity", they will make it. Like they did with KI itself and Battletoads.
Re: Talking Point: What July 2021 Xbox Games With Gold Do You Want?
Just kill Games with Gold already.
Re: EA To Reportedly Announce The Revival Of An Established IP This July
Dead Space hasn't aged a day gameplaywise. It's so much better than Mass Effect, and yet it doesn't get half as much love.
Re: Gallery: Here's A Look At Some Of The Armour, Maps, Weapons & Vehicles In Halo Infinite
@Tharsman agreed, the main reason is to give consumers time to buy as a Chistmas gift. Specially during Black Friday.
Selling physical copies of Halo Infinite is not a major concern for MS thanks to Game Pass, but Halo is a system seller. The point is to use it to move Xbox Series X and S units.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (June 19th)
@Kilamanjaro indeed, Tunic kicked my butt. It took a while until I figured out how to get past those goblins with shields.
Sable on the other hand is a very promising games. All the good parts of Zelda Breath of the Wild without the breakable weapons BS. But it's still very rough around the edges, I hope they can polish it enough before releasing on September. It could become something special with more work.
Re: Gallery: Here's A Look At Some Of The Armour, Maps, Weapons & Vehicles In Halo Infinite
@Tharsman not many games release on December. If Halo doesn't come out 11/15 in order to celebrate its 20 year anniversary, I'd guess 11/23 would be a nice date — it's the same week as Black Friday.
Re: Hands On: PES 2021 Is An Enjoyable Compliment To Euro 2020 On Xbox Game Pass
@ThanosReXXX I despise Neymar as a person, but I'm happy to have him in my team
Anyway, I wish luck for the English team. Everybody loves an underdog story.
Re: Hands On: PES 2021 Is An Enjoyable Compliment To Euro 2020 On Xbox Game Pass
@ThanosReXXX like most Brazilians, I support Portugal in Europe due to cultural ties and the fact that Brazil basically invented "drama queens that fall to the ground and roll around with every light tap they get". And Neymar is even more arrogant than Ronaldo even though he's not half as good as the "gajo".
Re: Pick One: Which Of These Six Upcoming Xbox Games Are You Most Excited For?
For me it's Halo Infinite, but Psychonauts 2 is a very close second. But I'll play the heck out of all those games (with the exception of AoE 4, since it won't make it to consoles). Can't wait to full around in Mexico with Forza... and in the whole world with Flight Sim.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (June 19th)
I'm replaying Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I platinumed it on PS4 and might as well do it again and get 1000G on Xbox.
I'm surprised that I barely lost any muscle memory from playing it one year ago. I could beat in the first try a few bosses that demanded dozens of tries when I first played.
Also playing Control Ultimate Edition and Forza Horizon 4.
Re: Poll: How Would You Grade The 'Xbox Games Showcase Extended' Event?
Psychonauts 2 was partially funded in kickstarter, it would be a very controversial move to make it exclusive to Xbox.
Re: Lovely Stuff, Hades Will Target 4K, 60FPS On Xbox Series X|S
@John117 I don't think my TV supports that.
Re: Lovely Stuff, Hades Will Target 4K, 60FPS On Xbox Series X|S
I hope they can consistently hit the 60 fps target on Xbox Series S, otherwise I'd rather have it capped at 30 fps.
Resident Evil Village with Ray Tracing on feels very janky on the series S with the frame rate all over the place between 30 and 60 fps. RT off was a much smoother and more pleasant experience.
Re: BioWare's New Boss Is Aiming To 'Rebuild The Studio's Reputation'
@trev666 the powers do add some depth to the gameplay, but I believe my biggest gripe with Mass Effect 2 is the level design. Every level is just one big corridor with waist-high cover speckled around. As bad as the Mako is in ME 1, at least it adds some variety. ME 2 has that other vehicle that only shows up in optional assignments, but is even worse than the Mako.
Gears has good level design, more gameplay variety with actually good vehicle sections and the combat also makes melee and grenades viable. The only downside to Gears is the complete lack of Tali, my beautiful quarian...
Re: Reaction: This Year's Shaky E3 Was Held Up By Xbox And Nintendo
@Nikolaidas yup. E3 is not the same without all three console makers showing off and the pointless debates on who "won" E3 later. Even though I don't own a PS5 and don't intend to buy it anytime soon, the show would be way cooler with Sony.
Re: BioWare's New Boss Is Aiming To 'Rebuild The Studio's Reputation'
@LtSarge thanks for the feedback! I will take some time off from Mass Effect now, since I played 1 & 2 back to back, but you've encouraged me to play ME 3 later. I totally agree with your take on the story in ME 2.
I played ME 1 as vanguard. For ME 2 I switched to Infiltrator — I'm playing on Insanity difficulty and vanguard was not working for me in ME 2. Maybe I could be enjoying myself more at a lower difficulty, but we gotta unlock those cheevos, you know?
Re: Reaction: This Year's Shaky E3 Was Held Up By Xbox And Nintendo
E3 was very disappointing in my opinion. I'm obviously not talking about Xbox's presentation, which was fantastic. Ubisoft and Summer Game Fest were okay, but everyone else sucked. They just had too little to show, which might be yet another unfortunate effect of covid-19. The only games shown outside Xbox presentation that picked my interest are Elden Ring and Guardians of the Galaxy.
As for Nintendo, well, I do own a Nintendo Switch and I enjoyed Breath of the Wild and Mario Odissey, but I eventually got pissed at Nintendo for a number of reasons, including controller drift and some weird issues with the software of the console that prevents me from updating and downloading some digital games. My Switch is currently retired, back in its box, and I don't intend to buy anything Nintendo ever again.
So I'm bitter and salty and completely biased against Nintendo. I watched their presentation for two reasons: (1) I had a sliver of hope that Hollow Knight: Silksong could show up and (2) my brother is a big fan of Nintendo and I wanted to watch with him. It's funny that my brother hated Nintendo's show. The only thing that pleased him was Metroid, but he was very disappointed on how little Zelda's trailer showed and it looked more like DLC for the first game than a sequel. And most other announcements were either underwhelming or remasters or things that were already announced before somewhere else.
I'm surprised at how many Nintendo fans seem to be pleased with that presentation.
Re: BioWare's New Boss Is Aiming To 'Rebuild The Studio's Reputation'
I just finished Mass Effect 2 in Legendary Edition and I'm a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, this game has a very good story and great characters (I'd kill for my gal Tali). However 95% of the game is a mediocre cover shooter taking place in corridor after corridor. Gears of War does it much better.
Does it get better in Mass Effect 3 or can I expect the same boring gameplay?
Re: It's Official, Microsoft Is Bringing Next-Gen Games To Xbox One Via The Cloud
@lokozar you know what? I care for exclusives less and less. What I care for is: "is it coming to Game Pass?" Even better if it's day one. Xbox 1st party games are great because they're always day and date on Game Pass, and they just happen to be exclusives. But I'm equally stoked for Back 4 Blood. The fact that it's on Playstation doesn't devalue it. Actually, it's the other way around: I feel I'm getting a better deal than other people and that's a weirdly satisfying feeling
Re: Halo Dev Says It Would Be 'Amazing' To Bring Master Chief To Nintendo's Super Smash Bros
@Olliemar28 or Microsoft could make its own "Xbox Xbrawlers Xtreme" videogame. It surely has enough IP's to build a huge roster.
I'd rather have a third Forza series that was more like Mario Kart, though. Imagine a track based on "The Milkman's Conspiracy" level of Psychonauts, for example!
Re: Todd Howard Suggests Bethesda Leaving PlayStation Behind Will Make For A 'Better Product'
@nofriendo or you could not do that and make Playstation fans:
a) buy it on PC instead
b) buy an Xbox
c) subscribe to Xbox Game Pass and play it on Xcloud
d) do not buy and cry me a river
There's no lack of options for PS fans and either (a), (b) or (c) are huge wins for Microsoft anyway. (d) is unfortunate, but that's a wager every game company makes — you don't see Sony releasing Bloodborne on competing platforms.
Re: Xbox Scoops 'Best Presentation' At E3 2021, Forza Horizon 5 Wins 'Most Anticipated Game'
@carlos82 @nessisonett Metroid has never been a huge seller for Nintendo. It does have a rabid fanbase, but I believe that's an aging demographic, since the franchise has been nearly dormant for years now.
Re: Xbox Scoops 'Best Presentation' At E3 2021, Forza Horizon 5 Wins 'Most Anticipated Game'
@LtSarge good point. However, I got curious about whether Forza Horizon 5 is more popular than Halo Infinite or not and made a search in Google Trends. Halo has been consistently more sought in Google for the last year, but if you look at the past 7 days, Forza got slightly ahead, perhaps due to being a new announcement. However, it doesn't come near the amount of interest that Halo Infinite's 2020 trailer sparked.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=halo%20infinite,forza%20horizon%205
Re: Todd Howard Suggests Bethesda Leaving PlayStation Behind Will Make For A 'Better Product'
@Chaudy @DDJT you know, in Brazil the official price of both the Xbox Series X and the PS5 is R$ 4599,00. In a direct conversion to dollars, that's US$ 903,38. Remember that we're talking about an emergent country whose average income is about US$ 270 per month.
So I can think of many people who cannot own both consoles all over Latin America, Eastern Europe, India, Africa, etc.
In fact, the Xbox Series S is a godsend. It costs "only" US$ 549,81 down here. That's the console I purchased and it's been the #1 best selling videogame console in the Brazilian Amazon store for quite a while, even beating Nintendo Switch.
Re: Todd Howard Suggests Bethesda Leaving PlayStation Behind Will Make For A 'Better Product'
@blinx01 I think those games won't get any marketing from Xbox/Bethesda. Casual games will not even hear about them unless Sony themselves promote it.
Then, next year, we will get Deathloop Ultimate Edition with exclusive DLC and Microsoft will make a big push for it.
Re: Xbox Scoops 'Best Presentation' At E3 2021, Forza Horizon 5 Wins 'Most Anticipated Game'
@LtSarge keep in mind that the awards were not based on popular vote, but a panel of editors of gaming sites. That explains why Halo Infinite was chosen the most anticipated Xbox/Bethesda game whereas Forza Horizon was chose the most anticipated overall. They simply wanted to highlight more than one game from Xbox's presentation, so I wouldn't read too much into this.
Re: Xbox Has More Game Pass News To Share With Us This Week
I bet those Game Pass "news" are about the demos of Tunic, Sable and other indie games. It's been announced in Summer Game Fest. Tunic drops tomorrow, but it will be a very short demo.
Re: 343 Industries Has Released An Incredible Deep Dive Into Halo Infinite's Multiplayer
@CrazyJF we caught a glimpse yesterday. Just enough to see that the graphics did improve a lot.
Re: 343 Industries Has Released An Incredible Deep Dive Into Halo Infinite's Multiplayer
@UltimateOtaku91 the usual 4v4 in Arena and 12v12 in BTB.
Re: It Looks Like These Three Bethesda Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass Very Soon
@Bmartin001 I did enjoy Doom (2016), however Doom Eternal did not click for me either. I appreciate that that's a very unique FPS, focused on moving into combat head in, unlike games like Wolfenstein or Halo, where you need to be more careful and deliberate. I can totally understand why people love Doom Eternal, but it's not my cup of tea.
Re: It Looks Like These Three Bethesda Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass Very Soon
Nice try, Xbox, but Wolfenstein 2 is the one I want to replay.
Couldn't get myself to enjoy The Evil Within 2, sadly.
Re: Rumour Mill Continues To Suggest Xbox Might Have Acquired More Studios
@UltimateOtaku91 currently Xbox is 3rd place in the console game market, hence I don't think we're anywhere near a monopoly.
However, if videogames move towards the cloud and subscription services like Game Pass, Xbox could very well become a very dominant player — and Microsoft is definitely striving for that. It's a shame that Google Stadia is not trying to seriously compete on that area.
Re: Rumour Mill Continues To Suggest Xbox Might Have Acquired More Studios
I want Microsoft to acquire IO for one simple selfish reason: there are so many versions of Hitman 3 in the Xbox Store that I simply don't know how to purchase them (Free Starter Pack, Standard, Deluxe, Trinity Pack, Access Pass for Hitman 1 & 2, separate DLC's for each level... WTF!). Going straight to Game Pass would surely make things easier.
Re: The Dark Pictures Anthology: House Of Ashes Descends Into The Underworld This October
"Play online with a friend or up to 5 friends offline"
I suppose that's the other way around, actually.
Re: Sony's MLB The Show 21 Has Been A Massive Success On Xbox Game Pass
@Dezzy70 if you want all the details, there is a very in depth article about that in Eurogamer called "Is Xbox Game Pass too good to be true?".
Re: Sony's MLB The Show 21 Has Been A Massive Success On Xbox Game Pass
@Dezzy70 it's a different deal for each game and for each publisher. Some games get a lump sum, others are paid based on how much they were played by users, others yet get a combination of both.
Re: Xbox Boss Congratulates Sony's Insomniac Games On Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
It's about time Xbox gives Sony more chances to reciprocate all those compliments on the quality of their exclusives.
Re: Halo Infinite 2022 Calendar Reveals Never Before Seen Artwork
Why 16 months in a calendar?
Could that mean that Halo Infinite will release on SEPTEMBER?
12 months of 2022 plus 4 months of 2021: September, October, November and December.
Re: Capcom Reveals The Timings For Its E3 Showcase And What To Expect
@Az1ner well, Capcom does not own dinosaurs®, any studio could just make their own dino survival horror game. A new Jurassic World game has been teased, for that matter.
Re: Feature: Here Are Our Xbox Predictions For E3 2021
I love Machine Games' new spin on the Wolfenstein franchise, and I'm really looking forward for the third game in the series. I believe that game is not too far away, maybe even due to 2021 or early 2022.
Re: Xbox's Huge E3 2021 Sale Begins This Week, Over 500 Games Discounted
I've been waiting for Sekiro to either get a discount or head to Game Pass. I've platinum'ed it on the PS4 and I'm willing to do it all over again on Xbox!
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition's Latest Patch Fixes Xbox Wireless Headset Issues
"* Reduced the max credits that can be carried from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2 down to 100k for more balanced early-game progression"
I'm glad I've already started ME2 carrying 1M credits. I'm currently doing the loyalty missions, could have started the endgame already if I wanted to, but money to buy whatever I want has never been a problem
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Cross-Gen Games?
Last gen is not holding back current gen. Some current gen features, like FidelityFX are just starting to get available for developers, who are not yet familiar with new tech and engines like Unreal 5 anyway.
In the meantime, while devs are still learning how to develop for next gen, it's totally natural that most games will be cross gen. That's even desirable, since in the consumer side, shortages have prevented people from purchasing the newest consoles.
Re: Psychonaut 2's Release Date May Have Been Discovered
The Ascent in July,
Psychonauts 2 in August.
I guess we'll also get
MS Flight Simulator in September,
Forza Horizon 5 in October,
Halo Infinite in November.
Re: Random: An Among Us Shaped Chicken Nugget Has Sold For $100,000
@phoenix1 not many exciting news recently, game companies are clearly saving it for E3 next week.