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Take Two can get bent honestly with all the underhanded things they've done. Nevermind straight up illegal things like union busting.

Couldn't happen to a better company.

@Markatron84 Right?

Every time I start a game first thing I do is disable film grain, chromatic abberation, DOF, motion blur, and vertical sync.

Bought it right before it was delayed. Hopefully can find some time this weekend to hop on!

Ooooh. First I'm hearing of this one. Gotta check it out!

@HelloCraigo Exactly. Just verified my PC is still set to metered connection so that should prevent any updates hopefully.

Not about to lose my playtime when the game runs flawless for me as is.

Ugh. Fantastic game. Had zero issues. Gotta fast track my playthrough now I guess.

They're gonna release an update that breaks my 100+ mods.

Gonna need the rumored gyro to be in it or it will be a pass.

This isn't 1999 anymore.

Why is the Series S running this at 1440? Come on now, it is a 360 game.

The part where Asha and ilk jut ignored it is honestly telling.

Meanwhile Pearl Abyss properly supports employees.

@VisitingComet1 Not on Nexus. Too big IIRC. It is called Tale of Two Wastelands.

@VisitingComet1 Because New Vegas was essentially a mod pack for Fallout 3 made by professional developers rather than an entirely new game.

So similar in fact you have user mods that combine the two games into one where you actually play as the same person across both games with new plot and dialog for why.

Check out OpenMorrowind. If you have a VR headset, OpenMorrowind VR.

Goofy pricing as expected.

So dumb.

They're just really just renaming 100% and it is second hand embarrassing lol.

We already had diamond achievements for.the rear ones. Less than 10% of players achieving them, iirc.

@Odium I don't mean this in any negative way, but I've had the opposite experience.

I'm playing on Legendary and feel like it has never been easier. At first I just chalked it up to having played the campaign a million times in the past.

Then it stated clicking the small things.

Marines are much more accurate with more health. I kept the same pair alive the entire level of Silent Cartographer, for example. They're normall.all dead before the beach is cleared on other releases.

Plasma weapons have more punch and make quicker work of things like hunters.

Swords? Swords. Being able to not only use them but to also sword clash means you never lose a 1v1 sword fight unless you mess up.

The new assault rifle absolutely pulverizes. It fees like they buffed damage on it proportional to the number of rounds the magazines were reduced by. Which in turn gives it much higher DPS. And the SMG is a joy to shred with.

I agree on the hints.

Playing on Legendary and was just looking around enjoying the scenery while constantly getting pinged on where to go though. Needs an option to disable or atheist disable it on heroic and higher.

Had one CTD when interacting with the Silent Cartgrapher toward then end of the same level. Crashed and didn't get to see the cinematic.

Overall I've been having a blast though.

@M20B25 best of luck. I bought GTAV exactly once. Now that I think of it, that applies to every GTA.

Not getting GTAVI until the PC release. And even then it'll be after a discount.

@Sol4ris I don't. The rating system thst has changed over the decades does. Where a 50 would originally mean it is average, literally in the middle of amazing and awful. Instead now it more follows the American schooling system where anything less than a 90 is looked down upon and 70s might as well not have ever been released. If you notice, this shift has occurred in every type of media including books, movies, and music.

Even ignoring the system, Avowed and Outer Worlds 2's medicoricty shows in theirnpoor sales acorss every platform they were released. Meanwhile those cream of the crop ones are selling like hotcakes with active engagement.

Baldur's Gate 3 currently has 45,000 online.
Cyberpunk 2077, a 6 year old has 40,000 people online on Steam at this very moment alone. more than a lot for multi-player games, and more than many games ever see in sales. Good RPS woth replayability keeps numbers and sales.

This is of course ignoring more recent, less replayable, hits like Expedition 33 that somehow still command daily player counts of 5500+, while Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 sits at a paltry 350....

Now if only they would finally add ray tracing.

So much for the "See you in the sequel" bit.

I'm throughly bummed. Really enjoyed Campaign Evolved.

@kuu_nousee If the system should not be used then it should not be present.

The review system is there so that average Joe's can get a feel. No for people like you and I.

Having the flagship of your platform with an poor review score, on the platform itself, is not a good color for the average person. Let alone potential buyers that may be interested in the system. Add that to the best performing console to play Halo being a Playstation, none of it really adds appeal to buy an Xbox or Halo.

@Sol4ris
This isn't any different than it has always been. Just more obvious now. The games you list didn't do good on any platform.

Back in the day for every Witcher 2 you had 4 or 5 Two Worlds that didn't sell well.

For every Morrowind you had you had 2 Advent Risings.

For every Mass Effect you had 3 Alpha Protcols.

Good RPS sell well. Mediocre ones likes those you listed generally do not. They're okay games but not something you ever drop full price on.

More something you pick up on a whim from the bargain bin when you're in your local game store. Though they lose that engagement from the whole digital transition.

The remake is lovely.

But they're honestly goofy if they thought a remake of 25 year old game, once already remade, was going to attract much more than established fans of the series.

It doesnt help all the negativity around it either. On the Xbox store it was rated 2.2/5 last I checked. How in the world does it get rated thet low on Xbox?

I'm going to forever appreciate having built my PC when I did.

What was once a £70/$90 part, half my RAM specifically, now costs £445/$600.

Let that sink in, only half the RAM in my PC now costs more than a Series S.

No signs of it turning around either.

Was actually looking st buying it.

Glad I saw these.comments though. Did not know ow they had objectively made parts worse like AI.

Will keep skipping it I guess.

Plays best on PC tbh.

Same way Halo has always done since the first.

@shoeses Not seeing your armor is a bummer.

I'll never understand prerendered cutscenes of a quality that can render natively on the hardware.

I can only imagine they did it for compatability with handhelds and maybe the S?

Love the 25th Anniversary armor. Matches my mouse, keyboard, and controller.

I'm counting myself lucky. Been on all day with no issues.

@ZeD
Categorically incorrect. The majority of my Steam games I can play without ever logging in to Steam. Mainly only multi-player games are the ones that require it. I can simply unplug the internet from my PC and I'm still good.

And if you buy on GoG, absolutely nothing needs a log in.

Homeworld and Witcher 3

@Fiendish-Beaver I can't agree.

If you're doing a remake you're taking the baggage of expectations of what should be there.

The Halo game feels feature incomplete without multi-player. People dogged ODST for the same thing when it came out. And that wasn't even a remake, it was a paraquel.

And FWIW, I certainly do hold Mass Effect 3's remake's lack of multi-player as a negative. Fell in love with it and knowing it wasn't coming back killed most my hype.

Crossplay play test, but am I reading correct that PC is omitted from this test?

Jez Cordon is one of the most annoying windbags I see repeatedly propped up. Never will understand why anyone gives him time of day.

The story is that somehow Microsoft, one of the largest companies in the world and proponent of AI, is unable to pay their employees enough to prevent poaching by other companies.

My current PC walks had a disc drive and walks the PS5 Pro. I expect it to remain more powerful than even pro models next gen.

That combined with multiple marketplaces to order from, like GoG that gives me a DRM free copy I can burn to a disc with my drive, and free online, they have a very valid point.

Y'all.will have a blast.

It such you kinda missed the week by week release, but still a great experience all the same.

""It’s not the experience we want anyone to have..."

Then be like Valve ffs. It isn't that hard.

AMD powered consoled.

Partnered with Nvidia on PC.

Make the BS make sense.

Right after I finally got access to my Xbox character on PC.

Uuuugh.

I guess that decides where I get Final Fantasy Resonance then

@Lanmanna To you? The person that made back to back comments of baseless conjecture insulting other people here?

Why no, no I won't.

Really sucks. Giving up some of the more attractive devs to me.

On the plus side, I guess that is extra reason to not need an Xbox. State of Decay 3 is probably my most anticipated game right now.

@demian Very weird for you to feel you know my thoughts. My wife's the only one to do that.

Anyway, you're wrong. It is indeed worse than I was expecting. Have a nice day. 😄

"3200 jobs lost"

"Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios."

It is worse than I was expecting.

@AccessibleDaydream Yep. Same type of game.

@Gabrie That's were Helix comes in.

Maybe.

I'm expecting same as GTAV.

30fps on this release.

Then 60 on Helix, PS6, and whatever insane rate rate you want on PC, when they do the second or third release.

Two day one Series Xs. $500 per.

Didn't realize they would be have a return in investment, let alone so soon.

@Prestige-worldwide They get a heads up to look for a new job instead of just getting let go one random day.

I just want an Enslaved remake or sequel.....

This should have been a launch option.

Tha fully this means transparent green cases will be available after market like everyone other one has so I cna swap my Xbox's guts into it for cheap.

I've not been this excited for a Microsoft game in some time.

I really hope it brings back the feeling of being a bad ass in the first while simultaneously worried about what's around the corner.

Looking forward to the Play Anywhere version of ESO to drop so I can pick up my Xbox character again without having to pay for Gamepass to play online. Already got it installed.

The irony of the comments here saying "Don't listen to people on Twitter, listen to me instead" is palpable.

Like it or not, there's a more even sample of people on Twitter than on sites like this.

And to take that a step further, Microsoft makes money in harvesting data. Do you really think small enough that you don't understand they've scraped tons of data on reactions and create responses based on that, to customer facing tools such as Twitter?