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@K1LLEGAL It's probably the classic "it's not on my platform, so it's automatically poo" thing, once it's actually on their platform they give it a fair shot.

I expect the general tone around Starfield to shift when it goes MP.

@Kaloudz It might be because I already own AW2

Looks like it's fixed

We need a name for games like Sniper Elite Resistance, Farcry Blood Dragon/Primal/New Dawn, Spide-Ma: Miles Morales and the ACII sequels that are new games but not "ground-up new"

"Standalone expansion" is the closet we have but it doesn't feel right to call some of these games "expansions".

I think it would help with some people expecting this game to be full fat sequels being disappointed and sets a standard that could allow devs to not need to take 5 years to produce another game, maybe keep budget costs down a little

Is actually many people asking for 4k game streaming? I seem to recall people saying stadia Pro was only worth it for HDR, that streaming at 4k did more harm than good.

@carlos82 that's the issue with game streaming, too much outside your or even Microsoft's control will ruin it for you. I used to be able to use it reliably I could play "any game" on it but now in the same house, with the same internet, with the same devices half the time it's not worth playing anything isn't turn based.

see I didn't see how him replaying the games meant a trilogy remaster was incoming in the first place, surely he'd wait to play that instead?

Like sure its one thing to replay a series before a new entry but replaying a series so you can... replay the series seems weird

I wonder if any of the "missing stuff" will get added back in, it's weird that what should be the definitive version of an amazing game doesn't have all of it.

(I expected Co-op to be dropped, multiplayer always seems to be gone in remasters)

In the image in my head of that interaction is the two studio heads are talking about it and Spencer forms like the liquid terminator "did I hear new Ninja Gaiden?"

I wouldn't be suprised but I suspect it might be two generations before we see it.

They've already ported games to PC, some even on day one, if budgets keep going as they are the only growth will be all games on PC, and then once stips giving them growth the only other places is Xbox and Nintendo.

He's not wrong.

Take the Yakuza/LAD games. No amount of good review can offset their being 8 of the damn things. Even at discounted prices that adds up.

Flash forward to now after the games were on gamepass, I bought every entry since (except Ishin).

That simply wouldn't have happened without gamepass.

@AverageGamer I get that development has gotten "that" but I simply cannot accept that a series that is, as a huge fan of the series, a collection of corridors. Now takes two studios almost an console generation to produce 1 title.

Now I know games like the Like A Dragon (lot of reuse), or Sniper Elite (not AAA), and overlapping development of the CoD and AC games are definitely make it seem worse but "2 studios= once a gen gears" seems like it should be a massive alarm bell for the industry.

@Isolte @Cakefish Obivously they can't force publishers to go back and give us PC versions of games we already have, but Microsoft could do it with the games they own. Like I don't think Halo MCC is on there, Bethesda/Obsidian/Inexile back catalogue don't seem to be (despite being on both console and PC gamepass) and well Acitvision games don't even seem to be in a hurry to be on gamepass, so them not having play anywhere integration isn't a shock.

@Isolte Yeah I suspect you don't get to spend 70 billion of business daddy cash, then spend more fighting legal battles around the world without strings getting attached.

@FatGuyInLilCoat Agreed, though to be fair to them, the MP stuff they did with Judgement was the same thing I heard people saying they wanted when playing Gears 1-3 multiplayer.

They still should have known better, mind but it was ideas plenty of people seemed to have.

Dose makes me wonder why they are needed, is the collation just incapable of making a Gears game on their own, or are they doing something else?

Like maybe E-Day is more akin Wolfenstein Youngblood, where another studio makes a side entry whilst the actual studio is working on their next project (one assumes Gears 6)

@oopsiezz Normally I'd agree with that and this whole "Super Duper Deluxe edition being on sale but the base game isn't" needs to end.

But honestly, I don't think I would have liked the Night Springs DLC anywhere near as much if I hadn't played them as part of the campaign i.e. bought the DLC after finishing the game. They gave me much needed vibe breaks from Alan's section

Just finishing up AW2 now, really loved that the DLC integrates with the campaign, to me it helps both the DLCs and the campaign.
Slightly peeved that I bought it in the last sale and now they giving away AW-R with it. But hey that's how it works it's not like it's being added to gamepass after I bought it... right...?

"is my library of games safe, am I still going to be able to play the games?' and I think over the years, I'm proud of the commitment we've shown to respecting purchases on our platform through back compat, through Xbox Play Anywhere, through crossplay "

It's nice to know that has reached him. Except neither of those addresses the concerns people have about this direction and their existing libraries.

-Backward compat means nothing if there isn't a new console and the concern is if Xbox sales are in the floor "with exclusives" how much further they go without them, and just how far will it go before Microsoft doesn't want to make hardware. They didn't even want to pay to keep their sole Japanese studio, something they have spent their entire existence trying to get, so whilst it's good that he's confirming more hardware doesn't mean daddy MS doesn't pull the rug from under him (I'm sure Sega was working on new hardware too).

Play Anywhere is a perfect solution to that issue, of cause the problem there is that it only applies to a fraction of Xbox console games.

I hope they can do an official version of that fan app that lets you play X1 games natively in Windows, after all, they don't have to worry about protecting console sales anymore.

My concern is they are going to "protect" our libaries via the cloud.

@Cakefish them both being on the Player engagement too might suggest the former.

But the latter would explain why MS doesn't seem to care about Xbox consoles anymore. If people aren't buying as many games on Xbox then that's pretty much the traditional revenue model dead.

@Cakefish evidently most of DAv sales was on Xbox.

That or it shows just how few games are actually sold on the platform that the "low performing" games can make the charts.

Can't really express how much I'm enjoying Alan Wake 2.

I do think having the Night Springs DLC side stories integrated into the campaign has really helped both.

Great show.
I think having the mystery of the unknown game really brought together the dev direct formula.

Would explain why the first and this one felt better than the 2nd where we all expected a shadow drop/reveal and nothing happened.

@Kaloudz yeah I think they've really nailed down the core of it, it's time to expand and build on that.

The plague hearts are... Off, they feel like a solution to a problem that we don't see on our metaphorical side of the screen.

@Kaloudz I can not wait to play SoD3. I need to revisit 2 as everytime I finished it they did some massive update that overhauled it.

@Kaloudz I wouldn't be suprised if that was being kept for the summer showcase and then have a deep dive as part of the livestream afterwards.

Gotta say I do think promoting a mystery addition was a good call.

The "problem" with the Xbox Dev directs was that unless your interested in those specific games then there was no reason to watch or get exicted about it (or talk about it online generating interest).

It's nice to have some excitement outside the not-E3 season and game awards.

@Kaloudz I used to live in a sea side town, learnt real quick to never have open food containers. Think I was 5 when I first saw a guy get his burger ripped from his lips, then try and chase them down

@Kaloudz beautiful, intelligent and can hold a damn grudge/deliver shinny rocks.

The only GP Switch I'd consider making is to PC, it's cheaper but still has the new games.

@Kaloudz that they are but then again at my old place we had ravens that would scream down the chimney if the bird feeder was empty.

@Kaloudz Same here, I'm parked right next to the chimney and the temperature plummets the second the sun stops trying. I ended up getting one if those little tealight heaters. No idea if it's actually warming but I can pretend it is lol

@Kaloudz yeah apprently it's the mechanical part of modules. if they get dropped, clicked at a slightly weird angle, the pad gets left face down, too warm, too cold or basically anything and they just drift.

The hall effect pads use magnetic sensors instead and they can't fail that way (supposedly).

I'm not even sure how I'm the keyboard has changed but I'm hitting B and . When hitting space and spellchecker is apprently blind to rando Bs and .s.

@Kaloudz no slang just phone keyboard updating to be slightly off. Was supposed to be "Doing it"

From what I can tell the only DIY fix is replacing the whole stick module... that said my friend has a rubber band connecting the stick to his little finger that's just the right tension to keep the stick slightly off-center. Seems to work for him, though he dose have to take it off to restore blood flow lol

@Kaloudz that is kinda like doibit in real life with angry squirrels in your trousers.

That's the thing with stick drift it's not a issue, until your playing just the right game for it to be annoying lol

Other than the ammo/damage thing, I really enjoyed it, revisiting a map I knew devastated had a nice impact on me(I didn't even realise I liked Hope County that much).

I'm still disapointed that Farcry 6 didn't get its own Blood Dragon/Primal/New Dawn game. That expansion... wasn't the same.

Love it, shame that due to the pile of drifting Xbox pads I won't buy any that doesn't have hall effect sticks.

I don't see why he'd replay them "now" if a collection is round the corner.

Prepping for E-Day? But weird for a prequel but... well I've done that before.

I've always said RE6's "survival action" gameplay would be perfect for a new Dino Crisis

@IronMan30 I would that an Xbox handheld could play my Xbox library as well as my play anywhere titles.

A dual-boot device makes sense. Play your console library on one OS, play everything else on another.

I would be surprised if Starfield runs on Switch 2, well. With all that loading it could be a nightmare if the Switch 2 loads "much" slower.

Would be nice to get the rest of Elder Scrolls and Fallout on Switch 2.

@IronMan30 @Scrubchub at this point I expect the Xbox handheld to "just" be an Xbox branded handheld PC, not an actual handheld Xbox. So supporting Switch 2 wouldn't have effect as it won't have separate game sales to PC.

It'd be weird if Xbox is at the Switch 2 reveal. Like they do the montage of people playing the Switch 2 in it's different forms and then BOOM Halo MCC.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Series S isn't also helping games come to Xbox One/PS4 after their current gent launch (like Jedi 2)

@Deshalu agreed. MS buying them keeps it multiplatform (and MS regains the regional cloud rights to Activision titles) offers the greatest chance of making that money back.

Theres not really a while lot of options from within gaming. Sony or Nintendo buying them means making them exclusives and Ubisoft, who needs to rally, really needs a wide net to recoup all those dev costs.

EA, Valve and Epic are all doing their own thing. Take Two has GTA coming so isn't spending elsewhere. Bandai/Square have been slimming down.

@The-Chosen-one very very true.

Also gets it out the way of the new "Ghost of" on PS.

I use the regular dutchess every day, I love this green one but can't justify a second... Or can I?

I would love a refresh of their 360 one with hall effect sticks.

I'm hoping with Disney (reportedly) super happy with Indy and with Blade coming I'm hoping they let Microsoft bring back the Activision Marvel games, either as BC or Remaster (it'd be insane if there was a remaster of Spider-Man 2 GC).

@Banjo- there would have to be one hell of a price cut to justify me remaining subbed if they removed day ones.

@Coletrain I guess they pay different companies wildly different amounts and don't want them to know how much of a difference there is.

@electrolite77 yes, but if what they are paid is less than what they would have earned with the "80% lostvsales" the why be on gamepass? Which was my point, it's one thing to think MS takes a financial hit on a "per game on GP" but third parties? If being on GP is a financial hit, they wouldn't be on GP.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a side effect of low console sales interacting with 'healthy' gamepass subs.

@Coletrain yeah it'd be one thing for MS to take a hit having their games on gamepass, but if being on gamepass is such a hit then third parties would stay away.