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With them delaying other games and canceling projects this game is becoming the poster child of "sunken cost fallacy".

@InheritNegative the animation got me too, if you're going to put all that effort in to the graphics, demand a premium price whilst gutting the original, maybe rework the animation a little.

C. It's largely what I expected from what they said, I gave it a C because it felt light on gamepass or "xbox stuff" this could have easily been one those presentations from smaller publishers.

I do think not having Ark remaster on gamepass is a missed trick by wildcard, the trailer looked nice but not "ignore the fact this isn't free, will be premium priced, and we'll be killing OG servers" nice.

@InterceptorAlpha Like Lamplighters their Trek game really needed delaying, multiple reviews citing game breaking and save ending bugs, features and systems outright not working, and all sorts of "this should not have been released in this state" nonsense.

As @JustinSane and @awp69 noted, they simply don't need to lure those CoD gamers with exclusive stuff. That concerning number of people on Playstation who just play CoD will naturally drift to wherever the "best deal" is and a sub that gives them all the CoD games, all year and every year, is just going to make so much sense to them.

Give it a generation, maybe 2 and Xbox will "naturally" be where CoD gamers play.

I reckon some, not many but some, of them might even be sold on cloud streaming via Gamepass (assuming their internet or local infrastructure means it's viable).

I'm enjoying Ishin but man it has to be slowest, driest start of the franchise. (I get it's doing its thing)

They couldn't do remakes because that would mean diverting resources from the CoD churn machine.

Less COD games, I don't mean this in a "COD SUCKS" way, Acti-bliz devoted so much resources to keep the COD machine churning out games they would reward non-COD studios who did well elsewhere by making them make maps for COD.

Oh you managed to make the first Decent Tony Hawks game in 15+ years? make CoD maps.

Brought back Spyro and Crash? make CoD maps.

CoD has Warzone now, it doesn't need all these resources to producing new games every year.

We saw what giving the franchise time to breath did for Assassin's Creed, it's time CoD and it's studios got that.

@Odium with door knob "poorly" placed

Not the way I'd like him to be gone, I'm sure he's going to be leaving with a nice little reward.

But hey, gone is gone.

It'll be like Bethesda, the games with the easiest licences will appear in the first month or so, and the rest will filter in as and when the licences get sorted.

I'm hoping gamepass helps breathe life into the various cod communities.

Assuming they aren't cheat-infested hellscapes.

I'm not sure what they were expecting. They released it not only at a regular busy time but also with giant releases sucking all the oxygen out of the room. — That was foolish

And to make that more damming the game needed more time. They could have delayed it and given it the polish it needed instead of throwing it half drunk and naked against a pack of roided up raptors — that was pants on head stupid.

who else is concerned this game is being roasted by its own publisher a WEEK after release, bad Netflix shows last longer.

@JayJ that'd what Activision dose, they let you make a name for yourself, then as a reward lock you up in cod map making dungeons.

@GamingFan4Lyf don't get me wrong you are right, but my (poorly made) point here was more along the lines of dev intent and those Souls games were made to be 30fps, as this was intended to be 60fps (as it's the default setting).

Again choice is generally good, my personal preference is for solid FPS over higher unstable FPS, but I think devs should be allowed to say "We're only offering X graphics/FPS for reason Y" if they want.

This is the kinda thing that makes me wish this didn't become a standard thing.

This game is clearly meant to be played at 60fps, this entire genre is built on precise timing for both attack and defence, so why have the option of making the gameplay worse?

Don't get me wrong there are plenty of other games where it's very much your "flavour" go fps or go graphics, but here seems like it purely exists because people expect it.

@PhilKenSebben @Cherip-the-Ripper Good to know, my first reaction was "sure it is".

ISHIN!

Been a while since I finished off all the Yakuza and Judgement games.

Also, I haven't even been able to get the store page to load since the game was first popped up, just "something went wrong"

I get that people sau this looks like Shelter but to me it looks more like that Dragon Age web/FB game.

I had a feeling this would happen, not entirely sure why just a "console version will be late" feel.

I've used the sideloaded app before, it worked well enough to sell me on this native app.

It is weird MS doesn't add the VR titles they own to PC gamepass.

The only reason I opted for early access for Starfield was that there was simply no way it wouldn't be spoilt for me during that week.

That simply isn't a concern for Forza

Wonder of absorbing Ubi+ into gamepass ultimate, like EA play, is on the cards.

Because 'oh look at that the acti-bliz titles cloud streaming are back on gamepass'

@Kaloudz yeah there is too many options to play this during its buggy wonky phase.

@Kaloudz Yeah. I wasn't going to touch PD3 because of what happened with 2, it being on game pass is the only reason I'm prepared to give it a shot this time.

In a normal year it would easily be my personal GOTY but its been one heck of year for just banger games (and expansions to games). It's hard to say but certianly top 5.

Don't get me wrong interacting with other players and the potential chaos that happens is very much part of the game.

But sometimes I just want to enjoy the sailing and get some s...tuff done.

Well that's great news about LAD:TMWEHN. And easy pitch for GP. It's not a "full fat" Yaluza/LAD title.

Glad I'm resited buying ishin last sale.

I remember how people thought it was going to be a "reskin of Divinty 2".

Sounds great, is pretty much all I would want for an upgraded controller.
Just a shame it wasn't here for launch (saying that as some one who loves their series pad.)

@BAMozzy The "parent leak" to this did mention a new gen elite controller, probably the elite version of this thing.

I get why planets dont have a map, its generated but the cities is just baffling to me.

@somnambulance Most people I see who connect the two put ES as the far future of Fallout.

The only way this could be done and make any sense is that Fallout's Earth isn't Earth but a really early colony that tried being "new Earth" and through its conflicts the "truth" was lost.

Mine was almost exclusively FarCry

I am sure they Howard said they had it running in the 40-60 mark but opted for a stable 30 instead of having it bounce all over the place.

@Sakai I wont do every planet, because I'd like to finish the game at somepoint BUT what I will finish a planet if do enough when I'm doing the "reason" i'm there, I will also explore other planets near my objectives.

So sometimes I fully finish a system, sometimes it might only be a planet or two.

I spend far too long being over encumbered to be able to use fast travel.

I did notice there seems to be a way to directly go from one place (like orbiting planet A) directly to another (like a settlement on another B)

Early access, already seeing spoilers and guides pop up there's just no way anything major won't be ruined for me before the 6th.

The offical plan is to get up early tomorrow, but... if I so happen to be awake at 1am... who knows

@Tharsman Don't get me wrong, you have a point but as far as I'm aware there isn't a bespoke "Steam deck" version, it's just that the Steam version will run at a certain spec level.

Part of this will no doubt have to do with licensing rights. Like any licenced musical tracks will need to be addressed before they can be added to the service. The more complex the rights situation of a game the longer it will take to hit gamepass.

I wonder what this means for an release date. Previous reports had the game ready to go outside of the splitscreen issue, I'm sure there's more to do than just disable the menu option for series S,l.

Then again Starfield is going to dominate my play time in september and just as I'm finishing up, Cyberpunk DLC will launch. So my RPG dance card is full to October.

I don't see a decent "out" for the series S. They can't drop support because they'd never be trusted again. Hardware revisions won't solve the issue with the existing series S owners.

The only vaguely workable "fix" is to release a handheld Xbox with series S performance. Plays the same games but certain features aren't workable (such as splitscreen) and the S gets rebranded not as "HD series X" but has a "TV version of the handheld".

It would still suck for series S owners but it would at least look more like restructuring than outright abandoning Series S

Looks very interesting, hopefully it'll still have an active player base by the time I get it. (The price vs features is a little off)

Whilst not quite the same, this isn't the first time a game has had different MP "rules". Ark tethers coop players UNLESS they are on Series X.

For me I'm more interested in "what gave" and why. Larian was adament they wouldn't ship without coop on any platofrm and MS certain this was a tech problem with a tech solution.

Did the idea of Sony having BG3 make Xbox throw enough cash at Larian to make them give up, or did MS discover splitscreen wasn't going to be possible.

As someone who spent years with other crowded around a screen with friends, I have to admit there is a certain joy in splitscreen toppling Microsofts series S plans.

"Should we give the S more CPU power?"
"Nah, it's just enough"
"What about splitscreen games?"
both guys laugh

And here we are, Halo Infinite/Forza/BG3 either dropping splitscreen or holding release until splitscreen is ready.

Got to say wired AND PS layout makes it a hard pass for me. Hopefully I'll see this hardware on another controller down the line.

Oh, I was expecting to buy Steamworld Build on Switch. Guess I'll be playing it on Xbox first, will no doubt pick up on Switch down the line (so it can sit next to its siblings)

FPS' without guns tend to get mixed reviews.

One critique that seems to pop up with these games is the "repetitive combat", it makes me laugh like military FPS aren't hurling bullets at different rates.

Screen seems fairly consistent with all their other start screens