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It didn't look as better as I expected, but it wasn't bad. It definitely ain't a remake, it's what it says on the tin, a remaster. I'm guessing the delay to meet expectations is PR to cover for needed delays. There's no way they could overhaul the assets enough to make it look current-gen, but there is enough time to iron out any performance issues with the new lighting.

He's a great dude from when I met him. I don't watch basketball much anymore but I'm glad my hometown has him.

Had some good times trying VR at the MS store, and they had good service, but they weren't the busiest, so this is no surprise.

I don't think that FPS and resolution are necessarily a sign of optimization, so this logo won't last forever. 4K 60 FPS would be more jargon but realistic.

While I'm relieved to find it's not the kind of allegations Chris Avellone and Andrien Gbinigie got, he's still a jerk in his own right. Hopefully he gets his crap together.
Edit: Didn't know about the younger fans part until now. Ugh.

What I figured. That said if they avoided Facebook like the plague they would have avoided this mess. Twitch is awful in its own right but you don't think of them as awful and selling your data.

Whoo, I wonder if my Linux bedrock dedicated server auto update script already got it.

@duhsoares21 Cool, glad to see there are still options.

@BlueOcean I don't think they will give data, it's just not a good look.

@JON22 https://watchbeam.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208104776-Creating-an-Account

Mixer uses an Xbox/Microsoft account so I don't think there's anything to delete. Though the fact that they are teaming up with Facebook is sketchy. I assume the migration is for streamers on PC, and the URLs for their Mixer pages pointing to Facebook (and not Twitch interestingly). Streaming from Xbox is just poofing into thin air so I don't think we'll see Facebook software on Xbox (thank goodness).

Not like Amazon is a virtuous company (they're awful), but Facebook is the obvious greater evil. Maybe the Xbox-Oculus relationship had something to do with it. I never used Mixer anyways so I guess this doesn't hurt me, but even as a reluctant Facebook user, I avoid that company. There's a reason I went Windows VR and not Oculus.

It's not that different but it's a bit off from what we saw in trilogy. Reminds me of the character design tweaks in Half Life Alyx or Resident Evil 7.

I was hoping for a new Mirror's Edge but this is even more unexpected. And in a good way too. May it turn out well.

I want to see another Mirror's Edge but I'm being realistic. EA has already done good to make a Star Wars game in VR, not to mention the excellent open source Command & Conquer remake. But I know they can be evil, FIFA still has loot boxes.

Hopefully this benefits consumers with a better launch quality and devs with less crunch.

Looking forward to this, and the bug fixes it brings as well.

May Oddworld and Deathloop come soon. Such good developers.

I love how they're releasing on Steam. I don't even hate the Windows Store, I just prefer Steam. Steam has compelling features like Family Sharing and the Steam Link app for Raspberry Pi. Xbox Play Anywhere is cool, but is only a selling point if you have an Xbox. In addition while I have not been burned, I have heard of people having to reinstall games from the Windows Store because of update failure. You don't hear about that with Steam. I hope MS improves the Windows Store because it's important to take care of their platform, but keep that Steam support coming! It's my preferred platform, and for many the only one they will settle for (except DRM free ones like GOG/itch.io).

It was always on Windows 10 via Steam, but via the MS Store & PC Game Pass is new.

@ShaiHulud Good point, can't go wrong with no DRM.

@KelticDevil It was always on PC via Xbox Play Anywhere, it could even run on many potatoes. Of course, now that it's on Steam, it's a real PC title now.

Developer acquisition?
Edit: Persona?

@ShaiHulud Don't forget the MJOLNIR Mark IX nipples.

Jet Set Radio! I remember that was in a No Doubt music video, Hella Good.

Yeah, that was a bad decision. Supporting both Xbox and PS4 would have been optimal.

Nothing revolutionary, but cool that they were able to go all in, even on the cord color and sticker color.

I wonder how the demo performs on SATA vs NVMe SSDs. Probably much better on NVMe.

@sheady Yeah, while it was not the Titanfall team within Respawn that developed Jedi Fallen Order I assume they would get advice on using Unreal from them as they're both part of Respawn. I hope they get to avoid Frostbite, it's a very efficient engine with fantastic visuals, but a hell to work with. If EA wants their developers to use Frostbite so they don't have to pay Epic for Unreal, A: they should just pay for Unreal if their devs want it, and B: they should make Frostbite easier to work with.

I actually liked Battlefield V but Titanfall was so underrated. EA should fund another entry. Titanfall uses the Source engine, since Valve still hasn't released a Source 2 SDK I suspect Respawn would switch to Unreal engine. And that reminds me of another dormant franchise, Unreal Tournament. At least Half Life got a new release.

@Jslade Yeah, the characters looked really cool but the procedural generation sounded too ambitious for its own good. I fear it has been delayed.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is probably far far away right now isn't it? It was announced anyways.

@ThanosReXXX Their SSD is more than a little faster, it's twice as fast. Regardless the GPU is more important, the XSX SSD is already crazy fast, and the XSX has over 100 GB more storage than the PS5 (I expect storage space to be an issue next gen). Microsoft can always ship faster SSDs in later Xboxes, I suspect the user will also be able to replace it with a faster one down the road. I'm pretty sure the XSX motherboard can make use of a faster SSD. And of course you can just add more storage via the expansion instead of replacing your SSD entirely, the only option on the PS5.

@Vict33 Yeah, I said that. The PS5's inferior GPU will be the bottleneck. Never argued otherwise, merely stated the fact that the PS5's SSD is faster. It's also about 100GB smaller, which will hurt.
Edit: Derp, misread. The Xbox Series X RAM is a mix, some is faster, some is not.

@mousieone Their SSD is just faster, that would make dev easier not harder. The RAM on PS5 is slightly faster too. The PS5 GPU is slower, the CPU is too if I recall. GPU will probably be the bottleneck so I anticipate PS5 would be harder to dev for. Haven't developed games before so I have no idea how friendly the PS5/Xbox dev kits are to debug. Probably confidential info right now.

@ThanosReXXX I don't think 360 or OG Xbox compat is shipping consoles next gen. 360 support factored into me selecting the One this gen, but won't be as important to me next gen. OG Xbox support is a great novelty, it's so cool a 20-year-old disc can still be inserted. Glad MS supports it though, super cool stuff.

@nofriendo Sony at minimum has back compat. That's a big advantage with their market share, but if they had superior hardware they probably would have showed it by now. Either they're making last second changes or they're nervous they can't offer what MS can at the price point. MS could especially claw back market share if they were a loss leader. Not to mention the first party acquisitions.

Sony's faster SSD makes file compression/loading easier to work with, and Xbox's faster GPU makes fancy effects easier to pull off. I'm glad Sony has something sane, unlike the bad old days of the PS3. And Microsoft has always been easy to dev for aside from Xbox 360-era patch fees and whatnot.

I'm skeptical, but if Lockhart comes to market I think most gamers that don't mind 1080p will bite the bullet. If Lockhart doesn't have a disc drive though, that could change things.

An alt 5 minute startup sequence by Cyriak would be something. On a serious note this is great, I like chill startup sequences like the PS2/Windows 98.

That's a mess. Mick pointed out cuts that changed the time signature on some songs, which I would expect anyone to know better. On the other hand if all they were given was compressed that is also a problem, though Mick probably wanted to do it himself. While he would have taken more time it would have been better to wait. They could find a talented replacement but it's an unnecessary risk. Id's loss, sad time to be a Doom fan.

My cousin's old 360 Elite was overheating so I opened it up. I cut myself getting in and bled on it. I saw some dried blood that was too old to be mine, and when I took the heat sink off there was dried flux around the CPU and GPU. The X-clip said fixed 03 OCT 07, and it was clear they had reflowed it cause of red ring. I replaced the dried thermal paste and it runs cool again. My 360 Slim never had issues. My Xbox One's Wi-Fi got flaky and replacing the Wi-Fi board did nothing so that is my new hardware puzzle. My One never overheated though, even with the dry old thermal paste.

Skate 3. Bully is great from what little I've played and I've only played Left 4 Dead 2. Valve has had more output lately than they've had in many years, but I don't think we'll be seeing L4D anytime soon. There were leaks of a 3rd game, but development has been suspended as far as I know. I would not be surprised to see another Half Life game, though I suspect the next will be VR exclusive too. I wish MS supported Windows Mixed Reality on the Xbox. WMR is not as good as it could be, but it's good enough and cheaper than anything except PS VR. Pretty niche stuff but Half Life Alyx was a blast.

I haven't but stick drift is brutally common in multiple companies' VR controllers, as well as the Nintendo Switch. My best friend in high school lost a controller to this on his Xbox One, but I have 3 controllers that never had any issue, with its sticks or anything for that matter. My Xbox One Wi-Fi started having issues but my controllers have proven reliable, anecdotally. I have heard of the Elite controller having issues, I don't know if it's a result of more defects or purchasers being more vocal due to the controller's high asking price.

V was good but it was rushed. I'm skeptical EA will give the next one enough time either, and I still don't trust they'll stay away from loot boxes. I hope it's good though.

I'm not a big AC fan, and lack time to play games these days, but it is cool to see a game unveil that isn't a flashy trailer.

@BlueOcean I'd be surprised if the PS5 couldn't do ray tracing. It has the same architecture, the hardware is already in the package. On the other hand, if Sony's graphics API did not have ray tracing ready for launch I would not be surprised. They seem to be behind Microsoft this generation.

@Xbox4ever Series X is more powerful than the PS5 but the difference is only 20% better TFLOPs on the same architecture, it won't be that big a difference. The big thing about this generation is everyone says their console is better but Microsoft and Sony's tech specs haven't been this close to each other in many years. I expect slightly faster loading on PS5, and slightly higher resolution or a more stable frame rate on Series X.

He said on his own YouTube account that they botched the time signature on the soundtrack mix of The Only Thing They Fear Is You. That is one hell of a screw up.

4 campaign is a bit better, but 3 all around is my favorite. 5 multiplayer is also solid, and 2 is still so good.

Glad to see this, looking forward to additional polish and shaders for non-RTX devices they hinted at long ago. Old promises may pass by due to technical issues but it would be nice to see another solution.