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@Markatron84 I mean, all I use it for is Minecraft VR.

@MrFrosty Oh absolutely. If it is a game I strictly play on Gamepass and don't buy, I do buy any content for it either.

@Dimey That's honestly the main take away. Saying 3 days early access is just a way to try to skirt around that wording.

That looks similar to my VR controllers. Wonder if it has a gyro.

@WhiteRabbit I believe Pentament in 2022. Which then released on PS5 with a 120fps mode that didn't exist on Xbox. Then after enough complaining they released a patch to add 120fps to Xbox.

And before that was Halo Infinite in 2021.

It is pretty easy to set up. Just follow the set up process for OpenMW, which requires you own Morrowind and have it installed.

After that, you just drag and drop the VR mod into the OpenMW folder and launch the VR shortcut.

As far as launching, I use my Quest 3 as a PCVR headset. I can launch it either through SteamVR via the manually added shortcut. Or I can launch Virtual Desktop and just click the shortcut on the desktop or Steam. VR hooks immediately and it changes to VR mode.

The thing that makes Morrowind better to me is the writing in general, Kirkbride can get weird, and the world. Well as much as I love Skyrim, Morrowind is a lot less generic high fantasy.

Every time I do soemthing as simple as just walk up to a silt strider in the game, I wowed. Like who though "You know, what if people rode giant fleas to get around? Hollow out their backs, and manipulate their nerves to direct them."

They amount of drugs those guys had to have ingested when making Morrowind definitely helped with the end product.

The only important thing is if these are those updated controllers mentioned previously.

The revision that includes a gyro, haptics, and new stick designs.

@demian Gamepass is on PC. With free online, and costs less. If anything, Gamepass is an incentive to skip Xbox and get a PC.

@Fiendish-Beaver Agreed. If there is no incentive to buy Xbox, it goes away and Microsoft goes 100% publisher. Less hardware equals less completion and that is never good for a market.

Still waiting on them to bring back the Paladin since they decided to bring back every other boring class, especially the Barbarian.

@Retron Sadly most hardware investments on it are.

Up to this point I've been saying when Xbox launches and Elite Series 3 with hall effect and haptics I'd buy it day one.

But honestly, there are so many better, controllers now, that work on PC with these features that I am thinking about getting one of those instead.

@Ricky-Spanish I will. It is just, as with most games I like, or am hyped for, like Kunitsu Gami, I prefer to buy them regardless of of Gamepass.

@BAMozzy I'm strictly speaking hardware, and that should be obvious.

Without hardware competition Sony, and by extension, any business always behaves poorly. We saw that when Sega left the hardware market. Again when they had the advantage with the PS2. Again with the launch of the PS3. And once more still with the PS5.

To add to this, if Microsoft goes software only, they are in no way competing with Sony anymore. That's like saying EA is competing with Sony. You can't say they're competing when every game sold nets Sony money from licensing fees. Which was what, about 30% of a game's puschad cost?

I am not an Xbox customer. I am a video game consumer. I own every platform, and my VR treadmill alone is 3x the costs of consoles. Hell, even my last PC build build, about 1.5 the cost of a console out performed the 2.5 console generation.

I am purely concerned with preserving competition for a healthy market and your response shows you support anything but.

Xbox as hardware has no advantages.
So I'm not sure where you're getting that. You have a fragment ecosystem developers are hesitsnt to work in. You have poor support for indie developers. Everything that drops on Xbox day 1 I can get on my PC. Every game that goes on sale on Xbox I can get cheaper on Steam. I get better performance too, as well free online.

Xbox used to offer tangible benefits, particularly in he exclusives, and even quality online console gaming. However they squandered any advantage they have are are in their current position.

As history has taught us multiple times, when hardware has advantages and no number moving exclusives, they die off, and the market is worse for it.

You're free to feel how you want, however no amount of text will go contrary to historic fact.

Only reason I was going to buy this day 1 was on Xbox to support them competing. But if it is just gonna be on everything, I might as well just wait for a steam sale to buy it.

For a physical edition, this is the worst one I've seen since the Starfield one that had a watch that worked for a couple months if you're lucky. Meanwhile my 8 year old, Gear S3, is still going strong.

Couldn't even be bothered to give a physical art book.

Okay, sure, they're not running any business I'm interested in though. That's why the last game I recall purchasing from this was Halo 5 Guardians from nearly a decade ago.

And to be clear, that isn't because of Gamepass. I buy tons of third party games that are on Gamepass.

I have zero interest in a console market dominated by a single OEM, read Sony. We've seen how godawful they've been when they've had had sgiinficisnt leads. Going to be insufferable when they have no hardware competition.

The number of people that are too young to remember this are justflat our ignore it are baffling.

Thankfully that's where PC comes in to play.

@InheritNegative And I whole heatedly disagree. I generally clear all POIs at a landing zone in 15 minutes or less. Again, without a jet pack and I'm saying this as something that has ~300 hours and have visited every planet in the game.

To add, the entire game is designed to where a jetpack isn't even required.

I welcome options for other players. But I personally have no use for them.

All these comments of "more people being able to play is good" are missing the point.

Without exclusives Xbox as hardware dies.

If Xbox as hardware dies, Playstation has no competition.

No competition for Playstation is going to be absolutely horrible. Especially when we've seen how they've behaved in the past just from being ahead of the competition. If there is no competition? RIP consoles games. And before someone mentions Nintendo, they have a totally different market, and even micro-conomy for their games.

I guess that will be nice for people that wanted it.

IMO the areas are too small for it to be be useful. I don't even use the jetpack. That said, driving around in low G like on Elite Dangerous could be fun.

The Presequel pretty much killed all my enthusiasm to Borderlands to the point I've not even played 3 yet. Maybe 4 will have some enthralling reason for me to snag it.

@Xbox_Dashboard Muh old Kindle Touch is my best friend during these frequent outages we've been having. That and a nice cozy tea.

Part of me is considering finally upgrading to one with a light with some of the flying I've been doing recently. But I'm not sure yet.

At this point I'd be more surprised if it wasn't true.

I just want another turn based Final Fantasy.

JRPGs were where I always went when I needed to let my brain calm down from frantic, fast paced, games. And now they're just turning into generic action games.

@JenkinssMy My man. From Dust was an absolute gem.

If they finally let me play JSRF instead of JGR/JSR, I would be over the freaking moon.

And once again Microsoft ONLY got involved when the issue was mad public. Much like the Baldur's Gate 3 and parity fiasco.

Man... What happened to the corporate-counter-culture Xbox used to be. Now it is just the literal definition of corporate shenanigans.

@NEStalgia Pretty much any mod that works with OpenMW works. So all your beautification, things that use OpenMW scripting instead of MWSE, etc, will all work. Has controller tracking and all that jazz too. Hell, I'm even using my VR treadmill to play it.

The Better Balanced Combat(the mod even comments on the acronym in Nexus lol) mod I mentioned makes combat so when you swing you hit, instwad of heating 1 time for every 20 swings because of dice rolls until you level up. It balances the rest of the game too so that you're not just steam rolling everything.

@NEStalgia Morrowind VR is a better experience anyway. Especially with better balanced combat so combat feels better when you swing.

@IOI Agreed.

One of the reason so many people loved blades, myself included, is how compartmentalized everything was.

Store related things were only only seen on the store page.

All social things were on their own page, etc.

Not really. The a imatied bits are few and far between. And on some of the better backgrounds, like Pentiment's, all the nice animation is hidden by the godawful UI and ads.

@Liam_Doolan That is 100% fair. I just wanted to be clear because sometimes I can be argumentative, but that was not the intention here.

And I appreciate the response!

@Liam_Doolan Just to clarify, I don't mind the coverage.

That said, that isn't quite right though, is it? Their first Xbox release was in 2003, their most recent in 2014. That's 11 years unless we're splitting months. With nothing for the following decade.

On top of that they abandoned every Xbox release except Left 4 Dead, which actually got DLCs.

They flat out ignored CS, TF2, and CSGO, after releasing them and abandoned them as quickly as they released the next update for said games on PC

If anything I'd stay far away from Valve console releases as they tend to be little more than cash grabs.

On PC though, Valve is ace.

I was so excited when they announced they were doing a sequel.

Then they do this? No thanks. Guess Splitgate should have stayed dead after all.

@Ribbitsneed Because games like Pokémon, even opened, command hefty prices. Emerald for example sits around $250 for a used copy without box or instructions. More if you have both. Tons more if sealed.

Even Otogi 2 for the OG Xbox sits around 150-250 sealed.

Alot of games go up in value. Especially Nintendo games.

I found even jetpacks pointless because of how quick you get around already.

I feel they're kinda pointless unless they increase the area that is generated around your ship when you land.

Krafton does not have a good track record. So I'm not hopeful. Tenscent being involved doesn't help either.

Absolutely. I'm skipping Black Ops 6 entirely because lack of 4 player Zombies.

I use my Xbox for split screen parties biweekly so games that support it take priority over everything else.

@eastephens
Buncha people, 4 or 5 shots deep on Fuzion Frenzy is an absolute, unhinged, blasy.

Add too many more features and they'll have to rename it to just "Microsoft Sim"

Though if it does get that far, can I kindly request they bring back Mind Maze from Encarta?

@GeeEssEff @Old_Man_Harper
I know you didn't ask, but if it helps any at all:

Important thing is knowing your stall speed. Each plane will be different.

Throttle down so you're just a tad over stall speed. And most of the time you want to touch down rear landing gear first. Then nose down.

Aim for the start of the run way while staying above stall speed. When all wheels are on the apply full reverse thrust, or cut engines depending. Then steady on brakes till at 100%.

They need to bring back 4 player split screen Zombies. That was the only reason I played it.

ODST is one of my absolute favorites.

They don't even have to remaster it, but could they at least retouch the faces so they actually look like the actors? 🤣

I was so excited until they stated no 4 player split screen Zombies.

Immediately killed any interest I had.

@GuyinPA75 There was a time I'd agree with you, however now'a'days you're a modem's power cycle from a new IP.

I'm of the opinion that hardware and profile banning is the way to go.

It would be much more prohibitive for hackers if they had to buy a new console/hardware and game each time they were banned.

And if they have the kind of disposable income to load up on back-up consoles, well hey, more sold. 😂

This game is an absolute blast. Especially when you're two sheets to the wind.

It is just so fun in a "watching a train wreck" kind of way.

An add on? Like the Playstation portal?

Thats just goofy. I can do that with my phone. I'd rather it be able to be used fully stand alone, off the cloud, if they're wanting to drop a handheld.

I'm just confused how Halo MCC has devolved to Halo 2 on the OG Xbox level hackers.

Flying warhogs that shoot homing, scorpion, shells. Snipers that auto headshot, etc.

I thought we were past this. But no, now cas just and out temp bans too.

Interested in the campaign because it looks like a 1:1 remake.

Sadly seems aside from the campaign being remade, the multiplayer looks like another hero shooter like 2042. Something nobody wanted. Extremely sad to see given how amazing the Delta Force games of the 90s and 00s were.

Gonna need another grounded, class based shooter instead.

@FraserG Aww. The magazine yea, but even the thing about new episodes in November isn't a thing either? That's ad. 😭 What bit I got to see before work looked fun

For paper magazines though, feeling like Edge is our last bastion.

This is really rough.

Hoping Edge doesn't go the same way. I love their long form articles.

Just a shame it is locked at 30fps and already confirmed to not be getting a 60fps patch.

Especially when 1 modder made a nearly perfect 60fps mod for the PS4 version.

What I will say is this article turned me on to GameMaster. So that's actually pretty freaking cool.

Bring back 4 player, split screen, Zombies.

Until then, zero interest and will stick to Black Ops 4.

Thought for 2 seconds that was an image of a new Blinx the Time Sweeper game.

Sad it isn't.

Sounds like they didn't like the backlash they got.

Other developers do the same thing, they just don't say the quiet part out loud.

In reality though, they probably don't have much longer to deal with Xbox hardware the way things are going.

With how much they've been nerfing the rewards program, it is the the point that working for an extra 20-30 minutes is less effort than gathering up enough points for ganepass, or really any reward.

And IMO, that's when a program loses all value.

@Feffster For the same reason Microsoft though Halo Infinite was ready for release, two years before it actually was.

Then went ahead and released when it still had another year minimum to be worked on.

Microsoft has shown time and time again they can't manage their studios. Why would this be any different?