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Impressive that this is running on og ps5, not even a pro.
Nanite foiliage is a game changer.

@FatalBubbles lol, my wife plays ps5. I cant use a pro and leave her without, especially as she loves Forza 5 and that runs so well on pro 🤣 It does mean our living room has two good tv's, but I use one as a pc monitor as well, so it all works out nicely 👍

@themightyant We are allowed to be fickle, we're gamers!

Im delighted 😀

@themightyant I doubt its age mate! I still watch it all live and I realy am old enough to know better 🤣

@themightyant I was about write almost the same post when I reached the end of the comments and saw your post.

My only other hope is that we get a new glimpse at Everwild now they are happy with how its progressing..
I have zero interest in the badged Assus handheld or an Elite 3 controller. Given now many studios are now owned Im sure they can and will put on a strong 1st party software lineup.

I've such a large backlog, that now Ive finished with Doom Ive unsubbed for a while.
Nothing wrong with these titles at all, but they are not titles I feel compelled to play, so Im going to remain unsubbed for a while while I catch up with some of my backlog.
Plenty here though for anyone needing a new title.

Like everyone else, Im intrigued to see how mindseye turns out!

Wow... Hardcore users only at that price, but 4tb is expensive even for unbadged ssd's.
I do have 4tb in one of my pro's 2 internal + 2 expansion ( 3 tb on the other pro).
I do like to have a lot of games installed at once, but $430 for memory is too much, even for me 😀

@themightyant Delighted you have enjoyed Blue Prince so much. I got obsessed by it too. Theres still whole layers beyond what Ive done. It gets in your head. It will be a goty contender on my list for sure..

Fantasy Life i has got its claws in me and its hard to play anything else. I might take a few breaks to do a Forza Horizon 5 race or two, but I doubt it!

Whatever you are playing this weekend, I hope you have fun.

Ive thought the same since its announcement. Nice to hear him give an honest opinion without dressing it up with political naunce, its seems a genuine opinion..

Thats really excellent news. QA testers in particular have taken the brunt of almost exploitative practices for too long.

Kudos to MS for staying the course and negotiating an agreement!

If you are looking for something a bit different, dont sleep on Dredge. I found it very compelling when I played it on release.

Doom is not typically my style of game, shooters are rarely my thing, but it was really good fun and I didnt have too hard of a time with it..

Ive always agreed with this outlook. But Im only human, so when people offer me such a fantastic deal as GP, its hard to not just take the win and flow with it....

@Coletrain Yes mate, I use steam for my PC gaming, so I might see a steam machine more favourably myself if that rumored box becomes a reality. Interesting times!

You could see that coming for ages. Current technology to run xbox native titles on a portable for any more than 5 minutes is just not there. By the time it is starting to be a possibility, those games will be last gen only. I dont ever use handhelds so Im not mourning its loss at all.
What it does show is just how quickly MS can change its mind despite people clinging to the idea ' but they said they would'.
Badged or not, I want a pc under the telly with bestoke OS like a console, and if MS deliver on that Ill be happy to be onboard. But we all know they could drop it on a whim. They are a software company and always have been, and if they have the outlets to capatalise on thier dev houses, eventually they will ask why they are building hardware at all...

With my wife, its always fun for us to see whats coming. 👍
We will watch with pure of course 😀

@AverageGamer I have no issue with anyone hiring her on the basis of needing someone with a fine understanding and insight of afro culture.
I'm just saying that when one of your games has already been attacked for ' wokeness' to the point where it was a commercial failure, that hiring a self confessed racist, formally of sweet baby inc, to write your script is weird move.
I despise those who attack inclusivity myself, and I loved dragon age veilguard, but EA are chasing money, not a moral high ground, so I find her appointment very strange and not a choice I would have made myself given the current climate of the industry. However, my two decades in the biz were developing technical art pipelines and I rarely made hiring decisions, so maybe there are valid reasons and chief among them may be the lack of narritive designers with insight to Afro culture as you suggested.

Edit. Ive just found an article that expresses pretty much what Ive speculated above. Ill post the link here for info:
https://thatparkplace.com/black-panther-game-canceled-by-ea-team-included-former-sweet-baby-inc-dev-who-bragged-about-not-hiring-white-people/

@AverageGamer Thanks for the extra info, i should know better than to trust comments on n4g and a video from Asmond to inform me.
Following your post I can now see she was 'Associate Narrative Designer' for Cliffhanger, who actually consist of 74 people and not the hundreds you stated.
Given she's not top of the chain though, you're right to suggest that others dont deserve her karma for her blatent racist comments in 2021, though I wonder at the sanity of those that decided she was the correct hire for that post.
I hope the others are ok. In the short term, many are likely to be folded into other teams within EA, as IGN are reporting this is current practice at EA. Having worked at EA myself for many years, I would hope they get new positions quickly as EA stifle creativity in their internal teams.

Sorry for posting incomplete information, its the dangers of the net, you check a couple of sources and think you have the crux of the matter..

Im delighted this has happened, and I dont say that lightly.
This dev openly admitted to not hiring white people as a policy. I despise racists of all colours and creeds, no time for them and Im glad karma bites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmEBz1Y6Nfs

Edit: Please see #12 for better and more correct info.

@Kaloudz lol mate. There are some who attach great import to his speculation. Im glad Im not the only one who takes what he has to say with a pinch of salt (do people still use that expression?)!!!

Metaphor is a great addition. When I have the time to play it I'll likely pick it up in a sale. My GPU sub is up in 7 days so not much point in me trying it on GP!

It would be nice to hear anything about a title thats been cooking for so long. Im hopeful it will be something I like, but its all guesswork at the moment! 😀

This release drops everything I liked about the ' explore and level at your own pace' gameplay I loved about Elden Ring. In doing so, it has absolutely zero interest to me. I only gave it a 1 as there was no 0 option..

Good ad, they should reach out to more people.
That being said, Doom was the last title I wanted to play on the service, having bought Expedition 33 and Oblivion remaster. So I actually cancelled my sub yesterday.
As theres no option except monthly, I can simply drop it till theres new games on the service I want to try but not buy.
Still the best deal in gaming if you dont buy lots of games and want to try everything...

@MaseSco Have you seen the state of Test Drive and what they did to it? That is supposed to be their magnum opus.
For what it's worth though, I enjoyed the hot wheels game, though thought WRC was a bit 'meh', played it a little but never went back to it. But having read a lot of deep dives and pieces about what's gone wrong with Test Drive and the developers response to it, I have very little faith in them.
If I read glowing reviews of incoming WRC games, then I'll have a reason to check it out of course, but from everything I've seen with regards to Test Drive, I have no faith. In this case though, I'd be happy to be proved wrong 👍

It's a shame that this valued licence has gone to such rubbish devs.
Another franchise to scrub off my 'interested' list unless it ever goes elsewhere...

I'd almost forgotten about this little gem.
I wish we had more titles of its type these days, this and PGR are well missed.

I've only just started Space Marine 2 - it will be good to see the original game!

Lots of games I've yet to finish, but Im going to play Fantasy Life i after the F1 today. I cant resist a new level 5 rpg! Also bought Spacemarine 2 in the sale.
Quite how I can put down Expedition 33 to play Fantasy Life, and shelve Doom to play Space Marine 2 will be a quandary to many I'm sure, but I can't help my own tastes and just want to have fun.

No matter what you are playing this weekend, I hope you have fun!

@demian The fact it uses a lot of direct x libraries and has some common code simply makes the job of conversion and recompiling easier, but doesnt stop it needing recompiling for a new target machine.
I too hope they are finding a good solution, but the issue is uncontestabley present. Current xbox code will not run directly on PC.

It is quite clear that with xbox transitioning to being a PC, that a lot of games currently backwards compatible, and with no PC release, will simply not work.
Suggesting that being able to stream these is ' backwards compatibility ' is a serious reach I dont buy at all, but it will allow MS to save some face when they switch systems and the majority of peoples back catalogue no longer work.
I read an article on windows central from Jez Coldren just three days ago raising this fear...
Whilst streaming something is better than nothing, its not backwards compatibility at all and will offer a much poorer way to access your old titles, and I cant see them keeping all titles available either.
Im genuinely not up for acessing games via streaming unless its to test the title prior to download. The ecological consequences of dilivering games this way is not insignificant and running them locally is not only technically much better, but also ecologically better to.

@GeeEssEff I didnt get to play the first, its one that past me by.
I dont intend to make that mistake with no 2!

@Millionski Yes Im getting used to it. Its easier for me as my investments are in Steam and PS anyway and we have two ps5 pros.
I just had a lot of time for xbox and enjoyed the time I spent working with them. Those I worked with had a passion for gaming and an attitude that didnt rate profit margin above all, and while it might have been inevitable that this would change, you cant help hoping it wouldnt.
Whilst Sony may feel the pressure to follow suit one day, their business is currently very different. With less than half the dev studios of Microsoft, it's being a platform holder that generates the bulk of their revenue and profits and they typically start making money from the hardware much quicker.
Ive watched this buisness, from within and out, for many decades now and I guess the one thing thats consistent is that the twists and turns of how it works out always suprise me! Its been fun trying to guess though....

This looks like a really good match, I might have to give this a look. Its probably more than my poor brain can take, but I really like the idea and I hope it does well..

I guess anything that helps you see the background better is good, but it shows the advert real estate off more doing this.

I like the PS welcome hub screen you land on on a PS5, with its customisable widgets - and no adverts. A simply glance gives me the info I need regularly, like controller charge state, online friends status, current storage availablity, wishlist games on sale etc.
Can we not get something similar on Xbox? I appreciate you don't need to look or scroll too far to get this stuff on the Xbox dash, but seeing it all in a glance as soon as you boot up is more useful than I thought it would be...

It's a sweet design, I can see why they are popular!
The MS store should do more to ensure they go to fans rather than scalpers...

Really enjoyed the games back in the day, but I'm not up for a remaster, I wouldn't consider getting that.
Hopefully this refers to more than another remaster....

It's good that farce has finished.
But its bad that the deal happened imo.

Xbox itself is in a worse place now in my estimation with no reason to buy into the eco system and the next hardware being a PC.
I guess MS can make a mint. If you are a shareholder there's reasons to be very happy. But if like me you liked the autonomous Xbox division and wanted a console with distinguishing features and software that would help define it, that's all going fast..

I think this is very unlikely to sell much. There's so little actual game it's difficult to see why people would want to spend cash to buy it... but I guess any extra funds are better than none.
Xbox loses nothing by porting this imo - there no one looking at this and considering buying a series machine to play it.
Good tech demo though - if it gets patched to play @60hz.

Well it's all very interesting and as per usual we are left guessing.

If the next Xbox will be a PC though, then what about your current Xbox libraries? Xbox games are not all likely to run on a PC.
Indeed Jez Corden himself has pointed out this potential hiccup in an article two days ago:-
"For example, Microsoft has been hiring to beef up its forwards compatibility tech for Xbox consoles only recently. On paper sounds like a good thing, but if you extrapolate a little further, it could be that they haven't solved full compatibility with previous Xbox games on the new systems out of the gate.

Given that Microsoft was at the forefront of cross-generational compatibility, the idea that Microsoft may sacrifice full compatibility with libraries millions of existing Xbox users to chase a potentially imaginary casual PC living room audience isn't fun to think about."

I don't have much of a stake in that as my libraries are Steam and PS, but I'd be gutted if they screwed over those with large Xbox libraries..

Does anyone have any further insight into Xbox games running on windows?

Im not sure there is any title I'd pay that for, I'll either wait for a sale or not get the game.
I suppose never say never, but its hard to think of a game Id pay that for.....

@themightyant
I wholeheartedly agree! I think it's great that they came up with this tie in, but streaming old games like this is huge waste of energy and resources and the games should be downloaded and run locally.

@RiverGenie I hear you mate. I'm probably older (60) and just as tired.
I guess those of us that appreciate ID and the games they make want to see solid engagement and sales numbers because they are part of an organisation that tends to take action if they don't generate the money or funds that cover the investment plus a good return. As an ex dev, I am interested in the business of games as well as the playing of them, as my living depended on them doing well for so long.
I do get that it's often used as a tool to try and bash others too. It's been going on since PS1 vs Saturn days and likely beyond that. Its stupid and tiresome and unfortunately a reflection of human nature, we will never see the back of it.
Have a good day mate and I hope you are enjoying the game, it's a good one 👍

Well that's encouraging news for a game I've been enjoying on GP.

@RiverGenie Whilst I have some sympathy with your viewpoint, this entire article is precisely about how well the game has done and celebrating a metric you don't care for. Why read the article and respond if you have no interest in what the article is about?

Good luck to her. 11 years in one studio is putting down roots in this industry. She's young enough she will relish new challenges and I hope it works out.

Classic on the N64 - but that was a long time ago. Wasn't so keen on the follow up.
Not so sure the 'franchise' carries a lot of weight with modern gaming audiences, but a good reboot might change all that!

@HonestHick I definitely agree with you that a hole has been dug and making a PC for under the telly with Steam would be a very compelling offering I would love to see.
I still don't know how that would work for them financially, and expressed that several times in the hope someone else understood and would let me know. But there's tons I don't understand - doesn't mean it won't happen!
Once this gets some kind of confirmation, I'll be cheering along with everyone else👍

@cragis0001 Thanks for looking it up - I was too busy following bread crumbs on the steam rumour!
They are quite right, allowing CD keys to be sold help consumers a bit. I don't remember seeing such sales a few years back, but they are clearly allowed now. Here's CD keys for instance and there's loads more sites:
https://www.cdkeys.com/playstation-network-psn/psn-games

Like you, I'm wondering if they relaxed their stance on this due to the potential outcome of an investigation, which would show that the laws work, eventually! As someone who buys a lot from PSN store, anything that helps make it more competitive is very welcome!

I loved this game, what a joy to have a reason to go back!

Here is an article about how the rumour and speculation of MS buying valve came about, with links for varification of tweets etc.

https://80.lv/articles/no-microsoft-is-not-buying-valve-for-usd16-billion

As the Verges editor states: To set the record straight, Tom Warren, an industry insider and Senior Editor at The Verge, has taken to Twitter to dispel the rumors and confirm that there is no such deal in the works, nor does Microsoft have any plans to acquire Valve in the near future.23 May