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@BANJO I wish, well the Dreamcast is staying there until they do and at least there are some good Sega games coming this year

It's looking like Xbox is going to be my main gaming platform going forward for quite some time, some I'm looking forward to are

Sea of Thieves Monkey Island
Starfield
Forza
Sea of Stars
Lies of P
Like a Dragon Gaiden
Mortal Kombat 1
Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty

Picked mine up yesterday along with a Series X as that showcase finally showed the Xbox games I want to play. It's certainly one of the nicest controllers I've seen

This is looking really good, I've always preferred Gran Turismo's progression to Forza's but this looks to be addressing that balance and between this and Starfield it looks like I'll be gaming mainly on Xbox later this year

At what point do you not just get a Series X instead? If this is £300 in the UK, you can easily get a used Series X for £370

The game looks fine but that is a very bizarre choice of music which doesn't fit the theme at all

@NEStalgia you can use an arcade stick, whatever is set to controller one will be used for fighting and controller 2 can walk around

I'm playing Street Fighter 6 on PS5 where I'd argue the Dualsense is even less adequate for such games but I'll be looking to get another stick at some point soon so was curious about this. I currently run a Mayflash F500 Elite which comes with Sanwa buttons installed and that certainly compares favourably to the Hori Hyabusa I've had before

Can they speed it up on PC where its almost comically slow?

I've had a brief go with the Switch version of this and it's a pretty good stick. I currently run a Mayflash f500 Elite which I find to be quite a bit better with it's Sanwa buttons and stick an optional octagonal gate (which I've fitted). It also has great compatibility across PC, Switch, Xbox and Playstation, even PS5 with an adapter and it's been great for Street Fighter 6 and takes me back to when I first played the Street Fighter 2 World Warrior arcade machine. I did try the PS5 controller but it's a bit rubbish for these kinds of games, has anyone here tried those Hori Fighting Commader pads? As I'd quite like to have a 6 face button pad again

@clvr I'm with you, I enjoyed BOTW and TOTK even more so but AC Valhalla was just so badly designed and I got bored of its world pretty quickly. In Zelda there are meaningful and enjoyable puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty pretty much everywhere you go. In AC every area just feels disposable and not really important at all, there are some good ideas in those games but they get lost as Ubisoft throws everything at it and hopes something sticks.

In Zelda I feel constantly rewarded, where as a Ubisoft open world just makes me want to turn it off

@BAMozzy I've still not gotten over Arkane's Prey having absolutely nothing to do with the actual Prey and meaning we'll never see a sequel to it. That was such an amazing game and one I replayed recently on PC

Still the original Dishonored for me, overall I think its designed better than its sequel. I've still yet to play "Prey" well I've played the real Prey and it's awesome and by all accounts the 2017 game is good too, just a shame Bethesda felt the need to kill off the original game and stick its name to it

I tried it on PC so frame rate wasn't an issue but even on ultra settings it looks like a game from 2 generations ago and isnt particularly good to play. I had a bit of fun for an hour or so but it feels unfinished and messily designed, the AI is utterly woeful whether that be its inability of simply walking without getting stuck or the vampires which just walk in a straight line towards you.

If I'd have paid £60 on Steam, I would have refunded it pretty quickly

This and Zelda are the games I'm most looking forward to this year, Skyrim and the Fallout games (not that one) are amongst my all time favourites. So that gameplay, combined with Sci-fi and space travel is a perfect match for me

I've had a quick go of this on PC and quite enjoyed it so far, I can run it at over 60fps at native 4K and in general seems relatively easy to get over 60fps without upscaling, making the lack of it on Series X a bit strange. The AI could do with some work though

Even if the sticker is fake, putting 60fps on the box is just another huge misstep for the launch of this game. Its bad enough they regularly showed it being played at 60 and even had Xbox influencers showing it on their channels as such

The CMA are a joke, who gives a **** about cloud gaming? Most use it as an addition to their hardware. I doubt there's many who can't afford a £250 Xbox or £200 Switch who are spending money on cloud games and to play on what exactly? If anything this could damage the cloud gaming business

I can't say I've ever been hugely excited about this game but I'll be giving it a go on my PC where I'm sure 60fps and above won't be any problem

Really? So launching a game on a subscription service and not bothering to make physical copies for their console affected sales? I am surprised

Wow what an absolutely ridiculous price, not only more than Gamepass but Ubisoft games are perpetually on sale. You'd have to mad to subscribe to this

@BAMozzy I will say I was referring to Redfall specifically and they have been showing it at 60fps (albeit on PC) but also inviting Xbox centric influencers to try it out and effectively advertise it at 60 on their channels just 3 weeks ago. That's my main concern and they should be a bit more open with what they're showing to people amd the aims of the console versions

@BAMozzy I do agree for some types of game, I'm not expecting Starfield to have a 60fps mode but it'll be nice if it did. What I would say is that it's a bit disingenuous showcasing gameplay at 60fps and using Xbox influencers to do so, if the option isn't there at launch

I mean if having 2 SKU's to develop for isn't the issue when it comes to optimising Xbox games for launch then I suppose a third one can't hurt.

Redfall jokes aside, Xbox themselves are much more than just their console install base but without regular compelling exclusives, no amount of new hardware is going to improve their console sales

@Stocksy it was £4 for the unlock key (the deluxe edition stuff is broadly similar), thats said even if you were dumb enough to buy every ticket then that's a little over £45 and someone would have to be very stupid to do so. As realistically nobody is going to use all 22 guns and even then you have to actually play the game to both unlock them and upgrade their other stats as most will still be useless. By which point you'd have unlocked several of these tickets in game anyway.

So there is a difference yes and that's mainly that the dlc in RE4 is significantly less of value than that in RE2. I've come across a lot of games where microtransactions or dlc have degraded the experience of the player even when not engaging with them but this game isn't one of them

@SplooshDmg it's kind of funny to think of a 3080ti as a 1440p card, it just goes to show that 4K is an ever moving goalpost. I went for the 4070ti which is about the same performance as yours before SER for improved RT and DLSS3 and its weirdly one of the best value GPU's on the market despite being crazy priced for something called a 70

"Xbox WHEN?"

I'm sorry but there's no chance this is coming to current consoles and their incredibly limited ray tracing performance. Maybe when AMD finally get their act together in this regard for a future console 😂

Capcom have being doing this since at least the RE2 Remake, which allowed you to unlock all the weapons and Devil May Cry as well, so I'm not sure how it's suddenly news when they do it for like the 5th game in a row.

The strangest part about these is that they're actually pretty pointless to buy, on an average playthrough you can easily get a couple of them in game and in fact you don't even need them at all, as the upgrades are available without them anyway.

People just seemingly want to be upset about things these days

@InterceptorAlpha on PC you can also mod in as many of these tickets as you like, so you'd have to be especially stupid to buy them 😂

Didn't Suicide Squad get delayed?

Anyway for me this year it's Starfield that is the big game with Robocop and Forza also interesting and I'm looking forward to the Cyberpunk dlc

After Resident Evil 4 there is no game I'm looking forward to as much as this, Bethesda's single player RPG's are amongst my favourite games

I suspect there's a lot of stories on either side of the fence as to whether Gamepass is good or bad for their games. Ultimately for us as gamers it's a great deal and it's a service I'll be using for a long time

It only makes a difference to Xbox's own games for me as I don't need to buy them and its rare that I play anything from EA or indeed many games day 1 but I wouldn't wait for any of them to be on Gamepass if I really wanted to play them. Resident Evil 4 for example is one of my most anticipated games and I've already preordered it but that's pretty much the exception these days

@Kaloudz and that's just COD players, the vast majority of PS gamers don't even play COD, so overall that's a pretty small amount. Even if you removed COD today from Playstation I doubt it'd make much difference to their sales

@themightyant Sony themselves may not even want it on PS Plus, even if its on Gamepass as they still get a percentage of each sale of the game. Let's not forget that Sony's own MLB The Show is on Gamepass but not PS Plus, that just isn't their business model

I feel that way too much importance is put upon COD, sure its a huge seller but let's not pretend that God of War hasn't already sold 11 million copies with the upcoming Spider-Man likely to match or even eclipse that. With or without COD Playstation will continue to flourish on the strength of its own exclusives and the many, many other games

@Stocksy this is certainly the only way that Daytona USA can be bought on any platform (might still be on PS3 after this) most of the others including Jet Set Radio are on Steam I believe.

If there's any you want to but without using a 360 then search marketplace.xbox and the game and you should be able to buy it

@FraserG and for anyone wanting them, you can buy Daytona and Jet Set Radio off the Marketplace Xbox store from any browser, and these play great on the Series consoles, presumably this will be gone as well come February 7th
https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/DAYTONA-USA/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410b1d

Well if the Series X has 4K60FPS and RT then it should be happy days for my PC and its nice to have an Xbox PC game finally showcasing ray tracing

It's got to be Hi-Fi RUSH, nothing better than having a good game revelealed and launched immediately

I've spent a lot of time with the N64 version since it first came out and can't say I've ever seen it wobble like it does in this.

That aside its pretty good overall with the only real disappointments being the wobble, the low res text which would have benefitted from being swapped out and the 30fps cap. Overall its very good and better then playing on an actual N64, a shame we'll never see the superior 360 version officially but at least a new generation gets to play it and we can again

@Banjo- it's probably the Bond rights holders only allowed the N64 rom to be released and then its down to who's more familiar with N64 emulation. Each seems to have their own strengths and weaknesses with neither been as good as community emulation

@grumpypotato it literally is running the game on an emulator, I wonder if they were limited in what they could do with the licensing around it

@fox99 so you really don't know what you're talking about

@fox99 no it isn't, there are multiple store fronts that have nothing to do with Microsoft and you can use Linux instead of Windows

It's about time Xbox joined the party, this looks to be an amazing year for gaming

@UltimateOtaku91 it's single player

@FraserG I've just had a go through Xcloud (can't install on PC yet) and it's great fun, kind of like Crypt of the Necrodancer but you time your attacks to the beat and it looks fantastic, early days but I can see this being very well received

Edit, can install on PC now

This game looks like it could be great, I'll be downloading this as soon as I can

This looks incredible, I had a lot of fun with GT7 but it's racing can feel a little stale at times. This is going to be good