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Xbox Game Studios |OT6| I'M BACK (TO RISE)
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Just like the good ole days of KOTOR, Morrowind and Jade Empire.RPG overdose.
It is on PC, which is even stranger. I wonder if it's because generally XBox players don't play as many RPGs? I wonder if they'll update the genres over time, as more RPGs are added and it starts to make more sense.
It's also such a perfect genre for game pass, you can play RPGs for years, and you can put them down and pick them back up when a big blockbuster or a charming indie comes out.
I don't play on pc so had no idea. Hopefully they do update the console with it. I kinda feel there is a weird consensus in the PTB that the RPG category isn't a big thing but to me it is, lol. Like in the Game Awards, the Best RPG award isn't even one of the main awards on stage, it's always awarded on the side. It's a little thing but it bugs me, lol.
Agreed with picking them up after a bit of away time. They are also great to replay too! I went back and replayed Mass Effect 2, 3, and 1 (in that order because I'm weird) to get the insanity achievements. And on a side note back compat is the best.
Goddamn, several different studios too at it huh? Have previous Halo games and just huge games been like that? Maybe not the right example but look at Crackdown 3, a studio for the SP and a studio for the MP. Isn't it better if just the main studio does it all? Why do they need the help of Skybox?
Yeah, I think they're getting bigger and have been for a few years now, and I love it. I know Xbox has said they don't have a shopping list, like "we need a platformer studio, two RPGs, a strategy and a shooter studio" but I'd imagine they have to be looking to put as many RPGs as they can on game pass, first or third party. It just makes sense. Subscribe for Halo or Gears, stay because you can't stop playing and replaying Bards Tale, Pillars of Eternity and maybe someday Fable and Lost Odyssey.
knightmawk yeah, definitely getting bigger, especially for Microsoft since they now have inXile, Obsidian, and Playground making them!
I'm playing Bard's Tale 4 and the whole time I'm imagining what it would be like with fidelity of Gears 5 for the characters. Gonna be glorious!
I'm playing Bard's Tale 4 and the whole time I'm imagining what it would be like with fidelity of Gears 5 for the characters. Gonna be glorious!
Scarlett being a super console too, I can't believe how much Xbox has changed since 2013. Massive potential for 1st party greatness. At a volume I've not ever anticipated.RPG overdose.
I noticed you seem to misspell 'of course' a lot. I wouldn't normally say something except that when you put the words together as 'offcourse' it can almost mean the opposite of the words 'of course'. I'm not trying to be a dick so I hope this doesn't come off that way. Please continue if you are doing it purposefully. :)
Western RPGs are one of, if not my absolutely favorite genres and Microsoft has assembled a dream team. Black Isle devs under the same ownership. Said devs getting the financial security they never had and being able to comfortably make AAA+ games. One of the most talented Open World Designers making what may well be Fable 4. It's a dream come true.RPG overdose.
Microsoft already has some of the best shooters and racers under its belt, and if it can corner the RPG market, I could easily see more join the Xbox infastructure. Game Pass, RDR2 and the (later confirmed) Obsidian rumor is why I joined.
That's what I was talking about.
Microsoft and AMD work together with co engineering on the CPU.
Microsoft does the same thing it does with the surface laptop 3 result it is the best perfommance of a CPU on a laptop.
Yes, sony works collaboratively with AMD but I do not think it's as advanced as microsoft. Because with Microsoft it is co-engineered with AMD Team and Microsoft Team.
I think sony will bet on raw power and Microsoft will really optimize the RT, CPU, GPU, SSD etc ... To have the ultimate console gaming experience.
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I don't believe that dude has ever been right, has he?
Maybe slightly off topic, but do we know when Xbox will have their digital black Friday sale? Google says black Friday in general is 29 November, but does that go for their sales too?
How many times Matt said to you this isn't true? You live in a bubble don't you?
It varies. Last year they went live 11/15, in 2017 it was 11/17, in 2016 it was 11/18. I'd say between 11/15-20
This is really great stuff to see it coming to pc gamepass next to steam
CK3 on PC Game Pass is bitchin'. The potential spread of stuff across PC and console in one service is ace. I can play Grand Strat and Halo on one sub. What else do I need?
He believes AMD favors MS for hardware because they have surface lol even though Matt told him Sony is a bigger client for AMD than MS and even then AMD doesn't favor any clients . So he is saying we should not listen to a proven insider but take his words for it instead "wait and see"
Just to confirm, you believe that misterxmedia and mrcteam stuff you are copying from twitter?
Nice! Hoping for Borderlands 3 to be there and maybe also Iceborne.
Don't do this to yourself man. The disappointment will only be bigger if Scarlett ends up being inferior to PS5, if these systems are on par or have a difference of like Xbox One - One S, that's good enough, it'll mean barely a difference at all. Superior to PS5 would be a nice bonus, but don't count on it and also not necessary.
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Man, really, don't. Those same guys said Xbox One had a hidden super-chip that Microsoft was just waiting to switch on and overcome power differences with PS4, during the early gen days when XO was showing to be clearly underpowered. Now the new secret sauce is co-engineering with AMD. Don't be too hopeful on this bullshit, you'll end up being disappointed.
I am not in a war of consoles.
I would be just disappointed with the Surface team because the xbox hardware is their only way to show their knowledge in terms of power.
I'm a big fan of their product, the hololens 2 is amazing, the surface studio is amazing, the surface neo is going to be amazing.
I'm just excited to see one of the best hardware engineering teams in the world at work on a next gen console.
That's why I'm surprised if the PS5 is technologically superior, especially after the merger of all the hardwares teams at Microsoft.
I was very disappointed when I learned that google was not going out console.
Have we seen a video before where Xbox Game Pass has its own logo like that before? Other than Gears 5, maybe. That's pretty neat.
I really think State of decay 3 will be a visual and animation showcase.
He hired very talented lead technical art, when we know the importance of this position.
The artists and designer will be able to realize their perfect vision of the game.
Tech Art will create many tools and solve the problems to make life easier for artists and they will be able to focus on the details of environments etc ...
He hired very talented lead technical art, when we know the importance of this position.
The artists and designer will be able to realize their perfect vision of the game.
Tech Art will create many tools and solve the problems to make life easier for artists and they will be able to focus on the details of environments etc ...
I would love that. I have said it before but more survival aspects and some RTS stuff would be awesome. Some of the motion matching stuff being shown off in TLOU2 would be cool.
I posted this in the next gen thread, but I will post here too given some of the performance talk.
One thing to keep in mind here particularly if the actual hardware being used is super close per the rumors is that Richard from Digital Foundry mentioned during that EGX 2019 talk posted yesterday that paper TF specs alone definitely do not explain how the Xbox One X can get 4 times the pixel count of base PS4 (6 TF versus 1.84 TF) and 2 times the pixel count of PS4 Pro in many games (6 TF versus 4.2 TF). Heck, Cerny himself said that he thought 8TF was necessary for 4K and we got native 4K on Red Dead Redemption 2 on the X. So we truly don't know much at all about eventual real world game performance a year out considering that both companies may be doing things in their architecture with cache, latency, draw call efficiency (the ultimate foundation of any graphics pipeline) and so forth. That is why consoles are more interesting than "off the shelf" PC parts.
Note that I do not believe that there is some crazy magic that will suddenly enable one or the other to have a huge performance advantage if the hardware is truly so close, just that eventual relative performance to each other cannot be credibly assessed a year out for the reasons I cited and final driver tweaks and everything else that can come (you see updated Nividia and AMD drivers all the time right when new GPUs launch that improve performance).
One thing to keep in mind here particularly if the actual hardware being used is super close per the rumors is that Richard from Digital Foundry mentioned during that EGX 2019 talk posted yesterday that paper TF specs alone definitely do not explain how the Xbox One X can get 4 times the pixel count of base PS4 (6 TF versus 1.84 TF) and 2 times the pixel count of PS4 Pro in many games (6 TF versus 4.2 TF). Heck, Cerny himself said that he thought 8TF was necessary for 4K and we got native 4K on Red Dead Redemption 2 on the X. So we truly don't know much at all about eventual real world game performance a year out considering that both companies may be doing things in their architecture with cache, latency, draw call efficiency (the ultimate foundation of any graphics pipeline) and so forth. That is why consoles are more interesting than "off the shelf" PC parts.
Note that I do not believe that there is some crazy magic that will suddenly enable one or the other to have a huge performance advantage if the hardware is truly so close, just that eventual relative performance to each other cannot be credibly assessed a year out for the reasons I cited and final driver tweaks and everything else that can come (you see updated Nividia and AMD drivers all the time right when new GPUs launch that improve performance).
-More survival/simulation aspects ( https://undeadlabs.com/jobs/ he recruit a character behaviors)
-More RPG system
-One big OW with deep narration.
-A much deeper bestiary.
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