@Grumblevolcano same I don't want any her I'd chi trailer of a game 3 years off. but still Microsoft's shows are usually 90 mintues and Bethesda range 60 to 90 mintues a large chunk of the show. I also like seeing partner games some mid range ones usually appear and loosing those just wouldn't feel like a Xbox showcase
Huh... This is either gonna be a 2 1/2 hour awesome conference or one really packed 90 mintue conference were I feel some of the smaller games that always ended up catching alot of people's radars will not be there (looking at you tunic and cuphead)
@InterceptorAlpha I agree it won't but it's a easy way to get some developers to get dev kits. Which with what happened with the Xbox one we got a few Indie Games from the area we normally wouldn't.
"The recommended retail price of the Xbox Series X will be $3,899 in the country, while the Xbox Series X will retail for $2,399" Haha I know you meant series s but made me laugh
Edit: I hate it went they do say this stuff like I don't think I saw a mind blowing game in around 10 years. But I get it. They are doing a interview they need to feed the hype beast. Just irks me
Exactly alot had obligations to work on stuff
I also think people forgot how games Xbox did release last year.
Bleeding edge
Battletoads
Gears tactics
Flight simulator
Wasteland 3
Grounded went into early access
Not including re-releases of
Bards tale (the original Xbox one)
Wasteland remastered
The old Tim Shaffer games like from Fandango
Most are not bangers or big games (the re-releases do take resources)
But I feel with this kind of drops to keep the game pass machine fed every month made the start of this year bare where they propped it up with outriders and such
But I keep seeing Xbox didn't release any games last year when I think they dropped more then they ever have
@Kopite I feel they will be separated but be back to back. Due to the physiological thing of like hey tuned in for a 3 + hour can make people not want to watch either
@Murray Yes and no. If the engine isn't designed for what you plan to do it can make huge delays. Especially if tools are not in place for it. A great example of this was frostbite where ea stated all studios had to use it going forward. Outside of battlefield the engine wasn't designed for it and caused huge issues with mass effect Andromeda and caused a ton of issues in the sports teams.
There is very few universal engine like unreal and for some smaller projects unity. Also the teams using the internal engines are taking alot longer. Forza with just updating the enginre had gone from bi annually to 3+ years. Fable using the Forza engine is looking like a 5+ year project . Halo using the new slipspace engine 6+ years. Outside of them most are using unreal
@Would_you_kindly 100% right. But what you going to do . There is like 4 public engines you can use and really only unreal is the one with a mature suite of tools that can handle large games. Or build your own which is insanely expensive and can cause issues Ala what is happening with halo right now.
@Grumblevolcano thank you for reminding me of this. As I was thinking the only other dragon quest is heroes 2 and don't think we would get a Omega game on gamepasd
@KilloWertz Strange I just rewatched the announcement ( this was announced back at xo19 feels like forever ago damn covid) but I guess I don't get the confusion the square rep just states and names every FF title ( post 7 minus 14) will come to game pass starting in 2020, nothing about them staying or all being in at once
But I agree there should be some way to tell when a title is set to leave game pass outside the generic 15 day timeframe.
@Grumblevolcano I would say they are people who knew this prior to cyberpunk. Remember they delayed Halo infinite after marketing it for there big console release title. Them not announcing a release date or mentioning suggests that they are waiting closer to e3 to see if it is possible to be out this fall.
Also everyone mentioning crunch you maybe right. But also it may justmean putting internal groups behind to help speed it along.
@Tharsman don't forget alot of companies in most sectors take loans for acquisitions, but Ido agree with what you are saying.
Even if square does sell I am unsure who would take them as a whole. People forget they have a manga line, and a pretty big merchandiseine of action figures and other stuff. Not including a bulk of revenue comes from mobile gaming
I do hope, they come up with something competition is always good. But the news that naughty dog is just doing a last of us remake and bends second team is just in a multiplayer last of us or uncharted seems like they are doing what xbox did during the xbox one generation of halo, gears and forza
@StonyKL My understanding is exactly that the sales for ds were not what sony wanted /needed Then Rumour was his next game was suppose to be a big cloud game and sony didn't want to invest in cloud tech, so he was working with stadia but as we know that isn't happening now.
@InterceptorAlpha I am not gonna sit here arguging with you but if you need some information on a recent podcast 2 jez even heard that internally they planned to delay halo before the showcase. Also phil told Ryan from ign in a interview back in April 2020 that covid was making game development more challenging and ryan asked if halo could be delayed.he said there was always a possiblity of this but it wouldn't delay the series x launch as that is set.
Game development is really messy and most projects look way worse then that demo until finished. Why you see amazing game play reveals are normally pieces of vertical slices or what they hope projects look like. And when titles come out they don't look nearly as good. Sure by the showcase I agree they should have state the delay. But there is way to many variables to say because fans call them out they delayed it. If that was the case right now sony would be giving mlb also in ps plus as fans are freaking out about that on twitter as well
@InterceptorAlpha you mean they should have seen a global pandemic had wfh development all set for that?
You should look up how much this has hurt the games industry some projects are delayed years. Think halo and alot of others we know about were already well into development. To get battlefield out this year they had to scrap/pause the nfs title expected to hit this year to just try and help the development Some developers were saying things that would take 5-,10 mintue to fix by sending files in the office now take hours to send back and forth
NFS was original due out this fall.. so it is possible that come November if they move them back to NFS they could have it out in 2022.. But again covid has messed up alot of things with gaming and if EA say was planning fallen order 2 for 2022 and fallen behind they could be shifted to whatever project is there. It's scary to think but we may not see nearly as many AAA titles for tbenext 2-4 years due to how covid had stalled gaming
I know alot hate the gwg lineup but I like them putting in the oddb tier /medicore games as we're gamepass it's a nice way to get a few smaller games that gamepass skips over
I think indiana jones is multiplat I cannot see lucas games signing a game over for one platorm and the deal was probably struck for that prior to the purchase
@TheFrenchiestFry I agree on the wolfenstein thing. But all early development for games is on pc so the development wouldn't matter for any titles outside of near completed ones.
Again they didn't clear anything up just hint that some titles will be exclusive in the future..
@elpardo1984 true in the resell market but again that's not making the original companies Money that is just hey I want this weird bad part of gaming history. But those are still massive flops. It won't be any difference say if stadia shuts down (like it will next 2-3 years) 15 years later there controllers even though will be worthless will net a small profit for people to just say they have one
Honestly I just want the deal closed and them to say straight this is how things are working like this is exclusive or not.. just lay it all on the table as the sheer amount of articles , tweets is getting crazy.
@Bdbrady I think even if they just say hey it's a gaming update for the next 3 months people will post wild expectations. It happened to sony as there event wasn't bad as it focues in the bigger titles hitting the next 3-4 months
@Krzzystuff most from what we heard has been great, like not forcing mp in dragon age so dropped. And my understanding is outside there sports teams to work on projects they wanna work on. This is been 6 years and still not coming together... So you want another duke nukem forever.
@abe_hikura they are using the original announcement of a season pass were they said all bethesda add ons are included in the season pass.. Which isn't wrong as all major updates where but using the smaller things a few people did in the community creation
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Re: It's True, Xbox And Bethesda Will Host A Joint E3 Showcase
@Grumblevolcano same I don't want any her I'd chi trailer of a game 3 years off. but still Microsoft's shows are usually 90 mintues and Bethesda range 60 to 90 mintues a large chunk of the show.
I also like seeing partner games some mid range ones usually appear and loosing those just wouldn't feel like a Xbox showcase
Re: It's True, Xbox And Bethesda Will Host A Joint E3 Showcase
Huh... This is either gonna be a 2 1/2 hour awesome conference or one really packed 90 mintue conference were I feel some of the smaller games that always ended up catching alot of people's radars will not be there (looking at you tunic and cuphead)
Re: Mini Review: Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance - A Barebones Re-release Of A Classic
@SegataSanshiro exactly I want to play this for the nostalgia trip but it's 34.99 which is insane. I'll grab it in the dlprice drop bound to happen
Re: Xbox Series X|S Will Launch In Mainland China This June, Confirms Microsoft
@InterceptorAlpha
I agree it won't but it's a easy way to get some developers to get dev kits. Which with what happened with the Xbox one we got a few Indie Games from the area we normally wouldn't.
Re: Xbox Series X|S Will Launch In Mainland China This June, Confirms Microsoft
"The recommended retail price of the Xbox Series X will be $3,899 in the country, while the Xbox Series X will retail for $2,399"
Haha I know you meant series s but made me laugh
Re: Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance Arrives This June On Xbox Game Pass
@UltimateOtaku91 that sucks you thought this. Sorry
Yeah dark alliance has always been the action RPG series of the dnd gaming universe
Re: Xbox Exec Teases Unannounced IP That Will 'Blow Your Mind'
@NEStalgi
Edit: I hate it went they do say this stuff like I don't think I saw a mind blowing game in around 10 years. But I get it. They are doing a interview they need to feed the hype beast. Just irks me
Exactly alot had obligations to work on stuff
I also think people forgot how games Xbox did release last year.
Bleeding edge
Battletoads
Gears tactics
Flight simulator
Wasteland 3
Grounded went into early access
Not including re-releases of
Bards tale (the original Xbox one)
Wasteland remastered
The old Tim Shaffer games like from Fandango
Most are not bangers or big games (the re-releases do take resources)
But I feel with this kind of drops to keep the game pass machine fed every month made the start of this year bare where they propped it up with outriders and such
But I keep seeing Xbox didn't release any games last year when I think they dropped more then they ever have
Re: Rumour: Xbox & Bethesda's E3 Event Will Feel Like 'One Big Showcase'
@Kopite I feel they will be separated but be back to back. Due to the physiological thing of like hey tuned in for a 3 + hour can make people not want to watch either
Re: The Coalition Is Moving To Unreal Engine 5 To Focus On Next-Gen Development
@Murray
Yes and no. If the engine isn't designed for what you plan to do it can make huge delays. Especially if tools are not in place for it.
A great example of this was frostbite where ea stated all studios had to use it going forward.
Outside of battlefield the engine wasn't designed for it and caused huge issues with mass effect Andromeda and caused a ton of issues in the sports teams.
There is very few universal engine like unreal and for some smaller projects unity.
Also the teams using the internal engines are taking alot longer.
Forza with just updating the enginre had gone from bi annually to 3+ years. Fable using the Forza engine is looking like a 5+ year project .
Halo using the new slipspace engine 6+ years.
Outside of them most are using unreal
Re: The Coalition Is Moving To Unreal Engine 5 To Focus On Next-Gen Development
@Would_you_kindly
100% right. But what you going to do . There is like 4 public engines you can use and really only unreal is the one with a mature suite of tools that can handle large games.
Or build your own which is insanely expensive and can cause issues Ala what is happening with halo right now.
Re: Is Xbox Hinting At More Dragon Quest Coming To Game Pass?
@Grumblevolcano thank you for reminding me of this. As I was thinking the only other dragon quest is heroes 2 and don't think we would get a Omega game on gamepasd
Re: Spotify Premium Is Returning As An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perk
It is official just 4 months and new users only
Re: These Nine Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (May 4-13)
@Flurbdurb my exact reaction
Re: Another 12 Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (May 2021)
@KilloWertz I do get it and agree with you on the not enough time.
I am hoping the hotline Miami Xbox collection hits game pass
Re: Another 12 Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (May 2021)
@KilloWertz
Strange I just rewatched the announcement ( this was announced back at xo19 feels like forever ago damn covid) but I guess I don't get the confusion the square rep just states and names every FF title ( post 7 minus 14) will come to game pass starting in 2020, nothing about them staying or all being in at once
But I agree there should be some way to tell when a title is set to leave game pass outside the generic 15 day timeframe.
Re: Another 12 Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (May 2021)
@KilloWertz
All square games sense they started putting into gamepass are 12 months.
People confused they just said all final fantasy be in game pass. But not at once so ff15 was in and gone and now 9.
Re: Konami Isn't Attending E3 2021 But Has Some Key Projects In The Works
Sounds like plans fell through. Changed or possible there gameplay demos are not gonna be ready for the June date
Re: Outriders Has Received Its Biggest Patch Yet, Here’s Everything Included
The fix for not loading on retry in coop is a God send happened to my team on every retry
Re: Midnight Club: LA Surprisingly Returns To The Xbox Store
I am going to say no it isn't an error as this just reappeared on steam
Re: Rumour: Starfield Will Be An Xbox Exclusive, Could Release This Holiday
@Grumblevolcano
I would say they are people who knew this prior to cyberpunk. Remember they delayed Halo infinite after marketing it for there big console release title.
Them not announcing a release date or mentioning suggests that they are waiting closer to e3 to see if it is possible to be out this fall.
Also everyone mentioning crunch you maybe right. But also it may justmean putting internal groups behind to help speed it along.
Re: Here Are Your Xbox Games With Gold For May 2021
@abe_hikura I really enjoyed dungeons 3 me and my friend played it in full coop
Re: That House Of The Dead Remake Is Probably Also Coming To Xbox
@Ralizah yeah as unless they partner to use that light gun that is used by like 3 Games and pretty much is doa.
Re: That House Of The Dead Remake Is Probably Also Coming To Xbox
@Beermonkey was thinking the same thing thing until someone said. What about handheld mode which is how most switch users play.
So I think will just be that move joystick to move aimer on screen kinda game
Re: Several Parties Interested In Buying Square Enix, According To Report
@Tharsman don't forget alot of companies in most sectors take loans for acquisitions, but Ido agree with what you are saying.
Even if square does sell I am unsure who would take them as a whole. People forget they have a manga line, and a pretty big merchandiseine of action figures and other stuff.
Not including a bulk of revenue comes from mobile gaming
Re: God Of War Creator Says Sony Will Have A Response To Xbox Game Pass
@Bmartin001
Haha I kinda fell the same thing.
His entire thing is I heard stuff. They have a counter don't worry.
But unless it hits soon it may be to little to late.
Re: God Of War Creator Says Sony Will Have A Response To Xbox Game Pass
I do hope, they come up with something competition is always good.
But the news that naughty dog is just doing a last of us remake and bends second team is just in a multiplayer last of us or uncharted seems like they are doing what xbox did during the xbox one generation of halo, gears and forza
Re: Rumour: Hideo Kojima In Talks With Microsoft About Publishing His Next Game
@StonyKL
My understanding is exactly that the sales for ds were not what sony wanted /needed
Then Rumour was his next game was suppose to be a big cloud game and sony didn't want to invest in cloud tech, so he was working with stadia but as we know that isn't happening now.
Re: Crysis Remastered Has Received An Xbox Series X Update
@TownYsend
My only guess is less chance of frame rate drop.. but was thinking the same thing
I plan to try ray tracing mode myself
Re: Halo Infinite's First Esports Event Has Been 'Locked In'
@InterceptorAlpha I am not gonna sit here arguging with you but if you need some information on a recent podcast 2 jez even heard that internally they planned to delay halo before the showcase.
Also phil told Ryan from ign in a interview back in April 2020 that covid was making game development more challenging and ryan asked if halo could be delayed.he said there was always a possiblity of this but it wouldn't delay the series x launch as that is set.
Game development is really messy and most projects look way worse then that demo until finished.
Why you see amazing game play reveals are normally pieces of vertical slices or what they hope projects look like. And when titles come out they don't look nearly as good.
Sure by the showcase I agree they should have state the delay. But there is way to many variables to say because fans call them out they delayed it. If that was the case right now sony would be giving mlb also in ps plus as fans are freaking out about that on twitter as well
Re: Halo Infinite's First Esports Event Has Been 'Locked In'
@InterceptorAlpha you mean they should have seen a global pandemic had wfh development all set for that?
You should look up how much this has hurt the games industry some projects are delayed years. Think halo and alot of others we know about were already well into development.
To get battlefield out this year they had to scrap/pause the nfs title expected to hit this year to just try and help the development
Some developers were saying things that would take 5-,10 mintue to fix by sending files in the office now take hours to send back and forth
Re: Xbox Game Pass: Coming Soon & Leaving Soon In April 2021
They haven't given the upcoming march games
But looks like destory all humans will be hitting game pass shortly for both xbox and windows 10.
Re: Balan Wonderworld Is Getting Some Pretty Suspicious User Reviews On Metacritic
@Bmartin001
Ride to Hell redemption would like a word
I am curious how low of a budget this game got. Or is it really they yujis vision has not really caught up to the times
Re: Talking Point: What's Your First Resident Evil Memory?
@TuckNorris85 haha 10 year old me when that first happened shut off the PlayStation and didn't touch re again for a year
Re: We'll Hopefully Get A Look At The Next Battlefield In May
@chicken_chaser
NFS was original due out this fall.. so it is possible that come November if they move them back to NFS they could have it out in 2022..
But again covid has messed up alot of things with gaming and if EA say was planning fallen order 2 for 2022 and fallen behind they could be shifted to whatever project is there.
It's scary to think but we may not see nearly as many AAA titles for tbenext 2-4 years due to how covid had stalled gaming
Re: Talking Point: What April 2021 Xbox Games With Gold Do You Want?
I know alot hate the gwg lineup but I like them putting in the oddb tier /medicore games as we're gamepass it's a nice way to get a few smaller games that gamepass skips over
Re: Surprise! Undertale Is Coming To Xbox Game Pass Tomorrow
Yes!! I finally can see what everyone is talking about for this game haha
Re: Poll: Do You Think The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Be Exclusive To Xbox?
@UltimateOtaku91 I doubt any contracts in play for eso and it was pretty clear I found myself.
I think things like indiana jones where it's not there ip maybe multi platform
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Think About Certain Bethesda Games Being Xbox Exclusives?
I think indiana jones is multiplat I cannot see lucas games signing a game over for one platorm and the deal was probably struck for that prior to the purchase
Re: Xbox Has Confirmed 'Some' New Bethesda Titles Will Be Exclusives
@TheFrenchiestFry I agree on the wolfenstein thing. But all early development for games is on pc so the development wouldn't matter for any titles outside of near completed ones.
Again they didn't clear anything up just hint that some titles will be exclusive in the future..
Re: The Studio Behind Disintegration Is Officially Closing Down
Really was a pretty well marketed campaign. From one of the original halo designers. Was even featured on ign
Re: Yes, Google Stadia Works On The New Microsoft Edge App For Xbox
@Tharsman I forgot about the ouya man that was a flop.. just out of the box ...
Remember the ad campaigns it's gonna change gaming forever!!!
Re: Yes, Google Stadia Works On The New Microsoft Edge App For Xbox
@elpardo1984 true in the resell market but again that's not making the original companies Money that is just hey I want this weird bad part of gaming history. But those are still massive flops. It won't be any difference say if stadia shuts down (like it will next 2-3 years) 15 years later there controllers even though will be worthless will net a small profit for people to just say they have one
Re: Yes, Google Stadia Works On The New Microsoft Edge App For Xbox
@UltimateOtaku91
Even as a console over the years we had alot of flops just non inthe last few gems
But things like jaguar , or the 3do.
But even recently it isn't a "console" but like the udraw tablet comes to mine that killed a entire large publishing house
Re: Yes, Google Stadia Works On The New Microsoft Edge App For Xbox
@UltimateOtaku91 whoa whoa whoa... I mean it never succeed but there is way bigger flops in gaming ..
Re: Insider Advises What To Expect From Rumoured Xbox Bethesda Event
Honestly I just want the deal closed and them to say straight this is how things are working like this is exclusive or not.. just lay it all on the table as the sheer amount of articles , tweets is getting crazy.
Re: These Six Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass Soon (March & April 2021)
Squadrons.. I enjoy watching sports but hate sports games. I get it though it is march so sports are upon us
Re: Microsoft To Reportedly Host 'What's New For Gaming' Event Next Month
@Bdbrady I think even if they just say hey it's a gaming update for the next 3 months people will post wild expectations.
It happened to sony as there event wasn't bad as it focues in the bigger titles hitting the next 3-4 months
Re: EA’s ‘Highly Ambitious’ Game Gaia Has Reportedly Been Cancelled After Six Years
@Krzzystuff most from what we heard has been great, like not forcing mp in dragon age so dropped. And my understanding is outside there sports teams to work on projects they wanna work on.
This is been 6 years and still not coming together... So you want another duke nukem forever.
Re: Bethesda Lawsuit Could Slow Down Microsoft’s ZeniMax Acquisition
@abe_hikura they are using the original announcement of a season pass were they said all bethesda add ons are included in the season pass..
Which isn't wrong as all major updates where but using the smaller things a few people did in the community creation
Re: Bethesda Lawsuit Could Slow Down Microsoft’s ZeniMax Acquisition
I doubt this delays it...my guess is they are hoping bethesda/ms just pay up to drop the lawsuit...