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I hope it turns out well but it will be a while before I build a PC than can run this.

Looks good. Hope the Heroine is like Sparrow’s ancestor (like grandma or something) as I thought the fable 3 time skip was too much. Even though it was only a generation. Also I love her freckles.

As JE is my favorite BioWare game, it hurts that we never got to see a version built for the 360. Yet kameo (a good game mind you) went from game cube (my gamecube box has footage of it) to 360. In some other universe this is swapped. Although I wonder if the suggestion was made to make room for ME (if it had been pitched by then).

I am kinda glad Assassin’s Creed got delayed to this year now. Pokemon Z-A is probably gonna be my holiday game at this point. Too early to tell though.

If that is the case then it isn’t odd that companies are chasing the live service money cart.

@themightyant when I say devs I am referring to the full studio, leadership as well but I will amend my post.
Edit: done.

Kinda makes me wonder why people would want to go into game development.

Dev studios/publishers have got to stop announcing games so early.

Edited for clarity.

I’m a little bummed since I bounced off of Avowed, but this year is still stacked for me so no harm, no foul.

Ok…so AC Shadows, south of midnight and Ghost of Yotei are my tentpole 4K Twins games. Well, means I can focus on smaller games and try to take a weedwhacker to my Switch backlog. Delays can mean better product.

Good news for the devs!

Some folks simply don’t have the money right now. A lot is going on in the US.

Game’s gotta come out some time. Obviously don’t release same month but other than that it doesn’t matter as GTA is an evergreen title. But for the few of us with no interest in GTA (hi) then it means losing a game if MS delays it to avoid GTA. Avowed is already a miss for me (I didn’t realize it was a spinoff/sequel so I gotta go play those games ) so short of starfield, coral island and street fighter 6…not much on my docket right now.

Oooh tactics? I don’t know anything about warhammer but that is enough to interest me. Especially since I will put Avowed down now.

I’m gonna pass on this one as I am stepping away from the series but I am happy for those that enjoy it.

7 for me but I expected that. Hoping it picks up a bit.

Edit: I didn’t know this was part of the Pillars of Eternity gameworld. I may stop playing and go play those. Also now that I know this I better understand what this game is. I was expecting an interactive world like a Bethesda game which focuses more on you inhabiting the world and lore than individual story. Avowed is more like a JRPG or like original Fallout. The world is a set with limited interaction and the focus is the story. As such I may put this down until I am ready to invest in the story. The gameplay is still a 7 to me but once I understand the story better it may elevate the overall experience. That being said I was hoping for an immersive fantasy game so I will head back to starfield (trying to resist the urge to replay Skyrim again).

Cool. I am interested to see how it goes.

I hope so. I keep having to move or cancel preorders as no point in buying a bunch of games day 1 I won’t have time to play if I am playing this game. Looking forward to getting my CE sooner than later. I will be climbing and jumping off of everything! This is going to be my definitive AC!

Combat and movement feel floaty but I am hoping I get used to it. I have to break Bethesda habits as I am disappointed I can’t pick up everything and loot bodies like a graverobber. This is a personal gripe but the reactions to the godlike really, really annoy me. I’m not invested in the story yet as it feels like a retread of GreedFall. The world is pretty though. Not sold on this game but grateful to play on gamepass.

Technically I saw the first E3 showing but was both unimpressed with the games and too young to buy a console anyway. And my focus was on college prep in a few years. Didn’t get a xbox (360) or ps2 until college (needed a system to tide me over until the wii came out since I left most of my gamecube games at home to focus on the heckscape that was my studies. ). Only got my 360 because of VF online. Best and worst decision I have made as a gamer. (Best because VF version C is my favorite version. Worst because the 360 was the most defective game system I have ever owned. ) Xbox did get me more seriously into PC gaming though so I certainly appreciate that.

Xbox just needs to get as many games as they can. People have as much loyalty as their choices. For instance I hate the Sony layout but bought more PS4 games than xbone because my favorite genre (fighting games and at the time the Yakuza/LAD series) got more games than Xbone. Now this gen i am migrating back to xbox as my main secondary (Nintendo is always first) because I can play my favorite games on series x and if I have a choice I pick sony last. Game systems are there to play games. No games, no customers. Also why I am going back to PC next gen. I can get all my games on PC (minus Nintendo) so why keep buying 3 boxes?

So 2028/2029. I am using TES6 as the benchmark year of when I will start building my new gaming pc. Did just buy the chassis though. So it should still run anything the new console has to throw at it without a GPU upgrade.

But to actually answer the question I would like another game with the other Bats. Cassandra Cain would make a really cool single player game.

Don’t want the game, but I am willing to try the demo.

Ouch no enemy variety again? That was one of my issues with the outer worlds. Oh well at least I am only getting it via gamepass.

Mid 80’s. It will be good but not great.

Think I will buy this one, week 1. I usually just float on game pass but I really like how this one looks.

Oh look… the failure line. I am on my 8th 360 and yes, I am still bitter.

@IOI I do wonder about that. Many legitimate games don’t go to xbox or are delayed heavily and I can’t imagine that shovelware devs, who simply want the highest ROI would even bother at that point when mobile, steam, eshop and PS Store are low hanging fruit. I am not a dev though, so that is simply my hot take.

@BAMozzy Wow that escalated quickly. Yes, I am from the US so I use those grammar rules when reading text. I didn’t say you couldn’t use anything or express yourself so your reaction feels excessive, but you are welcome to feel how you wish. I simply asked why you used single quotes because it was distracting for me and I wasn’t sure if it was a formatting issue or not as we all use different devices. Also, since such punctuation isn’t used on this UK based site to the same extent you use it I was confused by your usage. Again, I didn’t know if it was formatting or not. Asking a question about usage isn’t a criticism. I would have asked the same question if I saw someone using a capital letter for each word.

Also I gave an example of how single quotes are used in US English. In US English an apostrophe is used to denote plurality or a contraction. And single quotes as opposed to double quotes are used to embed a quote in a quote. So it was honest confusion.

Nonetheless, I seem to have offended you so I will stay away from you and your comments. To lessen any further misunderstandings I politely request that you do the same. Again sorry to have offended you, won’t happen again.

An X-men game. Or anything not Batman really. But I would lose it with joy if we got a solid new x-men game.

YES! Glad to hear it as I am very much looking forward to this game!

@Rog-X Nintendo is in general “All sales are final”, but you can call and beg for a refund if your sob story is good enough. I have done it once but no longer remember why/what game it was (was during the early 3DS era).

@BAMozzy I am sorry but your post is a bit distracting. Why do you use single quotes so much? You aren’t embedding a quote so I keep getting confused. Is it a phone formatting thing? I am not trying to start anything, but it’s driving me to distraction.

Edit: Apparently my comment was offensive so if anyone is reading this please disregard.

Or Xbox are less of a target. Shovelware goes where there is more of a general audience in order to harvest on either lack of funds or lack of knowledge.

Have on switch but will get here on sale as my backup. Plus my better arcade sticks are on xbox and ps. Kinda wanna get back into stick building though. Make a really nice switch stick.

Hmm never played this series. Will try it out.

Nah. Not my kind of game and nothing about it seems interesting. I would be willing to try on gamepass but honestly my backlog is too big to play games I don’t care about.

I’m working through the Survivor Trilogy Tomb Raider games (my first TR! Quite fun!) but may give this a go next. Beat sigma 2 back in the day though.

Oh snap new content!!!!!

Looks cool but I am single player only so oh well. Games are too complex for me to play with my feet as well now.

I care more about a roadmap personally. Where is the big story progression DLC?

Glad this is going to game pass because this was a wait for deep discount for me based on the trailer.

So looking forward to this game. This and Assassin’s Creed Shadows are my most anticipated non Nintendo games this year.

Since most stuff doesn’t have a date and I wandered back into starfield, as of right now I am only getting AC:Shadows and Fatal Fury. Not a lot on this list I am excited for but that might be for the best. I am an American getting dental work done so I am pretty much bankrupt already. It’s the second day of the year. I hate everything right now. I am literally looking for a second job so I can pay for medical bills.

@Friendly NP. Honestly and this is my wild arse hot take opinion but devs have been trying to throw hardware at poor optimization for a while now. Instead of using tricks or lighter engines to make their game work or a different art style and scale it properly.

While not perfect that is why I respect Nintendo internally deved games (key word is internal though they have some good partners). BOTW/TOTK would have been a straight up powerpoint presentation if Nintendo hadn’t done a lot of tricks under the hood (and both games still aren’t perfect) but a lot of these devs, especially the ones used to working on PC, are not adjusting well. Even now devs are hyping up the ps5 pro because they want consumers to pay for more expensive hardware because they couldn’t get their games out in a solid state on base hardware. If you can’t get your engine to run well day one on base (series s in xbox’s case) console hw I am at the point that I wish devs would release on PC and then just wait a year or two until they figure out console. Or delay the games altogether. Because all they are doing is pushing for price inflation by complaining to hw manufacturers that they need beefier hardware. They need to scale back match both base hw specs and their skillset as devs.

I am defo going back to PC after this gen though. It’s not the console manufacturers fault imo but this is getting silly.

@Friendly the ram is split into two pools, and I believe that 2GB is OS reserved. Too low VRAM kills games all the time. Seeing as the devs aren’t specialists at optimizing for series s (which will just get the game out the door if they are mind you no telling what it will look like) and they have a low pool to start and depending the load on the ram pool due to how the game is built (I haven’t played it yet) it does make sense. Different example but I had texture mods for skyrim kill a gpu that ran the vanilla game on ultra. But trying to load that many cells in 4k nuked my card. Second I switch to a card with higher vram, game ran like butter. All mods on. Not enough vRAM can absolutely kill a game and a shared pool is even worse. It’s probably not worth the money for the devs to get an xbox specialist dev to strip and retool the game to get it series s ready.

Welp I was hoping the devs would figure this out. I will still wait a year after release because this has been the double dip gen and I hate it but will get on PS5 otherwise.

I’m a gamepass user so I only bought 4 xbox games this year. Half and half on digital vs physical as I buy based on price but prefer digital. Bought about 30-40 switch games though and 2 PS5 games. Nothing for PC because gamepass.

The creation engine needs an update (and has gotten one in Starfield ) but it is pretty versatile from a modding, and world building perspective (for queuing sidequests) and based on the games I have seen in unreal I think that while unreal can make pretty games I don’t think it will be as useful for Bethesda style games.

Modding has shown that the creation engine can render a beautiful game (all my mods are texture mods) but it would cook a lot of gpus. I literally had skryim force me to upgrade after my lighting mods were too much to handle.