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@Suda52 Make no mistake, I'm not making excuses. I just never believed them from the start. I have the choice to be ye noble seeker of truth and take it personally, or just play video games and not give a rats arse. I'll be playing Starfield on a 3080ti PC that I built a year and a half ago because I've been saying from the start Starfield was never going to be 60fps. So, I'm maybe somewhat less shocked and appalled than you right now. If anything, my assinine PC upgrade just feels more validated.

@Suda52 The difference being I told everyone before these consoles came out that most of the marketing beats were bold faced lies. Who cares? Enjoy good games, or don't.

@UltimateOtaku91 Zelda reminded everyone we don't care if it's runs at 22fps IF it's a certified banger.

@themightyant Eh, I'm not too bothered. They're giving me DLCs I'd buy anyway. I'm an accountant, I have to admire schemes like this. This is what we pay those guys in marketing for.

I think today painted the picture that the software cycles are finally getting to where they need to be. After a long series of L's Xbox has been catching, I was glad to see them do really well today. I just want to reach a point of doing well, and just stay there. No more of this 2022 stuff.

@themightyant That premium edition probably includes some free space horse armor. You know, as a kind gesture to remind us how this all started.

Fine by me. I will stare straight into the grimey jaw of capitalism and say, "Yes, Daddy, please. Let me have Starfield five days sooner. Just take my money."

I'm 100% buying that upgrade.

Def looking forward. I think today's show covered enough for two hours. I want to see more, but had it gone over the two hours I think thats just TOO much info at once. People don't have time for that.

This is a day one buy for me. Gotta support my boy Ichiban.

@BrilliantBill Eh, I'm not worried because there's currently nothing to worry about. We'll just wait and 'in due time' we'll see what happens. I think it looks promising at the moment. InXile is def one of MS's pickups that has a lot of room to grow as a developer.

Definitely a rock solid showcase. Would've liked a little more Fable, but at least now we have an idea what it looks like.

I'm gonna snort Starfield up my nose.

@BrilliantBill It is supposedly an RPG FPS. The rumors up until now have said as much, and the rumors have been proven spot on. I'm sure there's plenty more to see. This is a massive leap for InXile in terms of scope and the type of games they've historically made.

I trust InXile to make a new Bioshock. Fine by me.

I'm cautiously optimistic, but man, this show has to hit hard.

I finished Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. It was solid, but I think the franchise is begining to show its age. The rift mechanic was definitely not enough to set it apart from some of the franchises best entries. I also thought the story was a bit of a letdown as it sort of just ignored a lot of Ratchets character development from Into the Nexus.

Might peruse the ole PC Game Pass now and see if anything can catch my attention from otherwise just playing more Zelda.

@Casco Quake 1 dark gothic fantasy reboot. That's what I want. I want id to just forget about the Strogg. Imagine how terrifying current gen Shamblers could be. 😀

@Casco I have to veto your request for DOOM... Only because I want Quake instead.

@NEStalgia So long as Phil says the word TV fifty-four times, Xbox will win the not-E3's.

@UltimateOtaku91 Oh, no. That means they're going to sell us Persona 3 Reloaded: FES in two years... But I suppose in a sense don't they often say that the extended versions actually aren't canonical? They're basically just developer fan fiction?

@Ralizah Xbox has to get a win at least every once in a while. Lol

I'm also glad there is another soul living that is glad the Persona Q art style didn't die with the 3DS.

@UltimateOtaku91 Wouldn't that make this a double updated version, though? P3 was already updated on PS2 with FES. I mean, I'm sure this has massive QoL improvements compared to the original, as it looks like a ground up remake. I'd have to think a lot of gameplay systems will probably be further developed on naturally just by nature of less hardware constraints today.

With as mid as the last couple shows have been, Xbox has a real chance at stealing the thunder this not-E3 season. I will have to wait and see, because I will never question Microsoft and their ability to screw up an easy victory.

I was going to hold out for this to possibly come to Game Pass, but I learned that the PC version doesn't have local co-op. Which means, I guess I'm buying the PS5 version. So I'm def glad to see that the console versions are really good offerings.

@Spider-Kev This is the only correct answer. Once you hit the ripe ole age of 13, you get the honor to finally become corporate cannon fodder. Oh, boy!

Honestly, I think this is kind of stupid. Doesn't a kid simply have to click that they are over 13 to make an account without consent? It's not like these companies are checking ID's at the door. But hey, this is the government we're talking about, they're here to help us. /s

@Scummbuddy SEGA does what X-dont!

@NEStalgia It's obviously Tell Me Why by Penpals that was featured in the opening of Berserk.

So, like I said post release... This game should have been canceled. People at Arkane have now said as much. Redfall is about as appetizing as a hotdog smoothie.

@Tharsman That's what all this merger talk is all about. MS doesn't care about CoD or Candy Crush. This is about Big Bumpin' 2!

The end of the showcase better be MS announcing that they are acquiring McDonalds.

If I were in Vegas, I'd go ahead and bet my bottom dollar that CAT overturns this. I could lose it all, but I really don't think the CMA's block is going to stick here.

@NEStalgia I had to think about it. PS3, PS4, Xbox One and PC. So Switch would be five. I almost bought it for my Samsung refrigerator, but decided against it.

@NEStalgia I guess Skyrim on Switch has gyro support, and that alone makes me want to buy it for the fifth time.

@NEStalgia Seriously, though. Imagine how much better Bethesda games would be on console with a gyro?

@NEStalgia I hope a Starfield controller comes loaded with a patent Todd Howard Starfield gyro. So, a gyro, but it's mostly broken.

The PS showcase was clearly lacking a real demonstration of a trebuchet. That would have been the chef's kiss, and they forgot it.

@mousieone Making friends? I dunno know about that. Friends are kinda gross. Unless they're on the internet. They're okay that way.

@mousieone Where I come from, we call milking cows work. However, when my pappy was a kid, he tells me they used to roll katamari's down a dirt road with a stick for fun.

@mousieone I don't really get why you'd want to milk the cow when you could just roll it up instead.

@gollumb82 I hope all they announce at the showcase is fifty seven new controller colors.

Katamari is obviously the only correct answer

I will surely be playing Zelda for the next two months. Lol

@UltimateOtaku91 I can get away with a lot in this office, but they'd probably catch on quickly that I was playing Zelda.

I would really, really, really like to go home and play more TOTK.

And they told me the perfect game didn't exist.

@BeerIsAwesome The CMA's job isn't to "stop one entity from getting too big". That's politics, which they aren't supposed to be playing since they are independent. The CMA's job is to address anti-competitive mergers in the market, and the CMA determined there would not be a threat to console competition. So, you have the CMA saying there are no concerns about consoles, then saying it's a threat to the cloud market (that doesn't actually exist, and might never really exist), even though all of the cloud service providers are in favor of this. I'm having a really, really hard time buying their argument as anything other than, "We don't like big tech, so we just made up a reason to block it, and now everyone else is sitting around wondering what the heck we're doing." I just really fail to see how this is truly "squeezing out any potential competition from a sector of the market" outside of just 'The Console Wars'.

@NEStalgia Does Solaris come with Open Office preinstalled? Or is that a separate download now that Oracle donated it to Apache? Asking for a British friend.

@NEStalgia I like it enough to let my parents meet it.