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I'm really liking it, although I think that it was a game created for a very limited hardware, it's sad that they were forced to make a jungle based on small “rooms”. I'm sure that if this game had been designed for GameCube or the Xbox OG, with much more memory, it would have been amazing.

By the way, the remake runs very smoothly on Xbox Series X, not perfect, but I think this version is more solid than the others.

It makes sense that if you run another game without closing the previous one, both will share resources and perform worse.

The advantage of a PC is that, if you are an administrator, you can do whatever you want and run as many applications as you like in the background, such as modding games, streaming with third-party tools, or chatting with Discord or any other application you like.

I think the key is not to sell this as something it's not: an Xbox console. It's a PC, and as such it will have many advantages, but it will also require a minimum of knowledge so you don't end up with two games open because you didn't close the previous one.

@Banjo- I liked it that way, I enjoyed it in first person.

But I can understand that for someone more casual, who is not informed of the type of game it is and who downloads it to try it, the first person is not what they expect in an Indiana Jones game and can generate a bad first impression.

I think that many people will have abandoned this game in the first 5 minutes after seeing that it is in first person.

And I don't blame them, I think Indiana Jones fits better in a third person game.

If it needed another 80/90 million, there was no way to get something that had a chance of recouping the investment.

It's a legendary IP, I hope one day it returns in the hands of another studio.

@Trmn8r I started my game about a month and a half ago and this happened to me:

https://www.trueachievements.com/forum/viewthread.aspx?tid=1605214

My game is broken, it's been a few weeks since I haven't tried it again, but if they haven't released any patches recently it will still be broken.

I'm still waiting for them to fix the bugs in the base game, as long as that's not fixed I don't see the point of getting more content.

Any PlayAnywhere title is welcome, but honestly, they are almost all minor games, while major titles generally skip this feature: Metal Gear Solid 3, Mafia The Old Country, Helldivers 2, Wukong....

I think Microsoft has a serious problem there, for some reason this feature is not attractive to major developers, and therefore, it doesn't end up being a particularly exciting feature for users.

I think the need to release new hardware, in reference to consoles, is going to be less and less as time goes by. A few years from now I think most people will be playing the latest releases directly on their smartphone, on their smatTV or in the cloud.

They have to put it because European law obliges them to, they can't use your data for advertising without your consent.

If you choose no, you will see ads that are less relevant to you, but you also have the certainty that they cannot use your data.

No, as long as many games bypass the Windows Store and are not released with Xbox achievements and features, and it's not possible to play the full library I already have from Xbox, this is not an Xbox, and therefore I'm not interested.

They've done a great job, although I think games with rendered backgrounds had a unique charm that is lost in this type of remastering.

I have the PC connected to the TV in the living room, I use it similarly to a console.

Yesterday it was updated and now the letters appear giant, I guess they have done it thinking about the screen of the Xbox Ally, but it looks terrible on a big TV xD

Let's see if at some point they implement the possibility to turn on the PC from the controller, it is one of the uncomfortable points using the PC as a console.

I tried to play it on PS4, but it was very difficult for me, it had major control and performance issues. If in X Series the game get 60fps and they have polished the control and interface, I will complete it at last, it is a saga that I love.

Xbox Series X is a spectacular hardware, objectively much better than PS5, but managed by a terrible group of businessmen.

I'm sick of developers treating some gamers like second-class users.

A year ago I would have bought it, not now, if for them Xbox gamers are not important, for me, a Xbox gamer, their game is not important.

Honestly, at this point, I don't know what Xbox could do to get me excited. The brand is probably at its lowest point in its entire history, at least in the eyes of its most loyal users. I guess announcing many more first-party games from the competition.

In any case, guarantees that the Xbox platform has a future. What I would most like to see is more Xbox marketing, better Xbox Series sales, and fewer games that ignore the platform.

@Llamageddon I would say that at this point, they don't care about market share in Europe, the US, Asia, or anywhere else in the world.

They have to put order, the store is currently in chaos.

If they get serious and force developers to use SmartDelivery, PlayAnywhere, include Xbox achievements... the store will be a much better place.

The problem is that this contrasts with the other big problem of the store: many games don't arrive or arrive very late. If developers already have trouble including the Windows Store in their releases, imposing strict rules may make this worse.

I wouldn't know how to fix this, but something has to be done.

@Kaloudz yep, it's just permadeath, in the first Hellblade it was quite controversial because it wasn't optional xD

I think there are too many questions surrounding Xbox Ally that need to be clarified, especially the reason for calling the device “Xbox.”

I don't know what she contributed to Xbox, but something tells me we wouldn't miss her much either.

Basically yes.

I think this goes by fads, right now driving simulators, which was already a niche genre, are in the doldrums.

But the least expected day, when nobody remembers them anymore, one will appear that will make the genre popular again, as it happened with Flight Simulator.

I played it a while ago and I liked it, forgettable story and protagonist, but playably it's a lot of fun.

I would be replaying it again if it had achievements on PC, but unfortunately what they have put on Gamepass doesn't have any Xbox features

I see it like this: consoles are a device that is placed next to the TV to play games. They are the same as DVD players were a few years ago.

And the question is how many people still have a player next to the TV to watch movies? It's a question they have to be asking themselves at Microsoft, but by the looks of it at Sony as well.

@Weebleman For some of the things that were said during June this Xbox Ally should play the role of a lab for a while.

That is, being a bit pessimistic, I don't think we will see all the major performance improvements on Windows on day one, nor the “Xbox mode” on other devices anytime soon.

And well, I think it makes sense, first it will be released in beta and then it will be improved, something similar to what they have done with Xbox Cloud.

For those who love indie games, Gamepass is paradise.

@DonkeyFantasy Well, the Windows Store has improved quite a bit over the years, I think it's a decent place to start generating a library of games. I'm buying some games there even though they are available on Steam.

For me the Windows Store still has two major problems:

-Many games just don't arrive or arrive very late, this is something they need to fix somehow.

-Games that are released have to use Xbox features, there is no point in making a game available to buy if it then ignores achievements and all the features that define Xbox games as Xbox games.

If they don't even have Xbox achievements, I don't see the point in releasing them in the store. No one is going to buy them there if there's no incentive.

The JRPG genre, and especially turn-based combat, have not been able to reinvent themselves over the years, Expedition 33 has a great combat system, with a great use of parrys, but for years or there have been no great ideas, or has been abandoned by real-time combat.

I hope this studio never disappears, for me it was the best studio in the world in the N64 era, and it is an irreplaceable part of my childhood.

I'm very happy about the huge success of Sea of Thieves, but I think that success has also hijacked Rare a bit, I'd like to see them do more things, and I was really looking forward to see Everwild.

I think Xbox now has more important and serious problems and priorities than these.

They need to improve their platform in general, they are covering a lot (console, PC, cloud...) and they are not competitive anywhere.

It's important to improve marketing, Xbox is a colossal disaster in this.

And games, above all games, if almost everything on Xbox is going to be multi-platform the rest has to do the same, it's imperative that games from the rest of the companies don't skip the Xbox platform, they have to fix that now.

Then, if this is solved, we will talk about limited editions.

It is indisputable that Xbox is doing very well in terms of numbers, Sony or Nintendo would probably give their right arm to have a service where Gamepass is right now.

The important thing is that this translates into a platform that satisfies its users, and this is where Xbox has deflated, although services like Gamepass itself are great, losing first-party exclusives without winning those of others has left the platform in a situation of disillusionment and distrust very dangerous for its long-term future.

It's impossible not to notice the steady decline of Xbox hardware. The Xbox Series market position is sad, and honestly, I don't think Xbox Ally will change that. I don't even think we can consider it an Xbox.

However, the overall results look really good for Xbox. Gamepass has approached $5 billion for the first time, and that's a figure that's starting to become very significant.

@theduckofdeath Yes, I'm quite happy with the work they've done unifying achievements on Xbox and Xbox PC.

The problem is that Xbox and its features are limited to games from the Windows Store, and this store, frankly, is a disaster. Many games never arrive or do so very late.

They have to fix this. If they can't get developers to stop ignoring Xbox, developers who release their games on Steam or PlayStation without any problems, the future is complicated for the platform.

If we end up buying a device called Xbox only to end up playing with a Steam profile and Steam achievements because the games don't come anywhere else, then Xbox will be dead, except that they deceive us with the white lie of continuing to call the PC they sell us to play games “Xbox.”

I understand that for many people the achievement system is trivial, but for me, it's one of the things I like most about Xbox, and the idea of having an online profile with a score is one of the best things Microsoft has done in the industry.

@theduckofdeath Yes, Epic, Ubisoft, and maybe some of the other stores, have their own achievement system, although honestly, I think hardly anyone cares about them, really the interesting one here is Steam.

I think that if you call a device “Xbox”, the minimum it should comply is that it uses Xbox features, and one of the most basic is the Xbox achievement system.

For me it is important that they take care of these details when opening the platform so that it does not lose its identity, especially considering that the Windows Store is not very popular and misses many releases.

They still need to raise the stakes for me to be interested in this machine.

I'm particularly interested in how other stores will be integrated into Xbox and the new dashboard. If they simply go their separate ways, without unifying achievements and libraries in some way, then I'm not interested in this machine.

ICO, for me the best game that Sony has ever made, and they have forgotten it so much.

I'm not going to say what I think about this ***** because if I do, I'll probably get banned for using bad language.

I don't know the situation in other countries, but in Spain it is difficult to buy games at the current high prices.

Either you end up buying few games and squeezing them a lot, or you buy more indies, or you end up subscribing to Gamepass, not that we have more alternatives.

@Cakefish Series X is technically more powerful than PS5, if they have made a good port it should work better or at least not be so bad.

Another different story is Series S...

It bothers me a little bit when I play these games right after they're released, needing dozens of attempts to defeat a boss, and then they release a patch that nerfs it.

That's what they did with Elden Ring, and I don't know exactly why, but those constant adjustments ruined the experience for me. So I'll wait a little while, and when I see that the game is stable in this regard, I'll give it a try.

Well, just another day in the video game industry.

I think it's the best feature in years, not because it's absolutely great, but because since the console was released they've barely touched the dash.

I especially like it because it provides visibility to achievements and progress, one of the things I like most about the Xbox ecosystem.

More than being useful is that this should be the norm, it turns my stomach every time some developer wants to charge you again for running a game with more resolution or framerate. On PC it's the equivalent of going to options and changing the visual settings, it's ridiculous that they charge for this on console!

This game is a very long cinematic, it was not so essential to have 60fps, but they are welcome.

I think the big problem with this game is the painful contrast between expectations and reality. It was presented together with Xbox Series X in a spectacular trailer, promising to be one of the great exclusives, AAA and emblems of the new era of Xbox, and has ended up being a small experience, remarkable at best and multiplatform.

@Cakefish Well, I don't know how precious a single tile can be xD But hey, you can probably disable it anyway.

I think in this case it's simply that this game is going largely unnoticed and they are looking to be talked about.

@Cakefish It looks like all those recently played games will be grouped together in one tab, which shouldn't annoy or add too much clutter to what you already have.

It seems to me to be an interesting addition, although not a high priority. I'd rather they used the resources they have to improve other more important things, for example the achievement system has been in need of a renovation for years.

I think it has certainly been a great win-win deal for us users, I've been able to play titles like Dead Space Remake, the Mass Effect trilogy, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, It Takes Two... and many others!

For me the only downside is that EA hardly works on the PC versions that are released on Gamepass, they don't even have achievements, it's something they've been doing wrong all these years and they should improve.