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Nuts and Gum posted:God dammit Microsoft is so close to having this amazing Xbox+PC ecosystem but at the last mile they decided ‘eh let the developers choose’. If you built a game for Windows and Xbox they should be able to share saves. Whether or not it’s a ‘Play Anywhere’ title should have no bearing on this I don't think it's laissez faire about it. I think it's generally a part of agreement for game pass, but some games are incompatible with it, like Doom Eternal. They just aren't built to support it.
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MJBuddy posted:I don't think it's laissez faire about it. I think it's generally a part of agreement for game pass, but some games are incompatible with it, like Doom Eternal. They just aren't built to support it. Yeah, it seems to occur most often when a game initially launches on Xbox but not on the Xbox PC app and vice-versa, either due to technical reasons or the publisher wants an extra sale. Vampire Survivors comes to mind as an exception though (it first launched on Xbox PC app as a game preview, but shares saves & achievements with the console release).
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lets hang out posted:I play my xbox on a 30" 720p tv, what is that the equivalent to buying a ps5
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Kevyn posted:Lol EA doesn’t know what the gently caress they’re doing Actually the problem is that they know exactly what the gently caress they're doing, they just don't care about video games; it just happens to be the business they're in and they're more often than not pretty adept at minmaxing their revenue (see also: making salaried employees work 110-hour weeks with no OT pay or breaks). This was a very long time ago but before the full game of Battlefield 1942 released, EA released the free downloadable "Wake Island Demo" for it. This turned out to be a huge misstep for them because the demo was too good, it had what I think was widely considered the best map in the game without any other real limitations. People formed clans specifically around this demo version (the one EA made no money from) which I think were still somewhat active when EA finally made the full BF1942 a free game permanently on Origin. This is one of the big reasons why demos are far less common than they've been historically, and why when demos/betas do occur they are almost always time-limited (like for a weekend or two) and dependent on connectivity to the master servers.
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Guillermus posted:Question: can I just move my external SSD between my Series S to my soon new Series X seamlessly? Short answer is yes. Longer answer is "yes but a bunch of games will probably want to update in order to pull a build that has beefier textures", although this might depend on what settings you have on your Series S, I think there's a setting where you can tell it to pre-update if that's of interest to you. I know Halo Infinite and Sea of Thieves would do this if they were installed (e.g. Sea of Thieves will go from 20-30 gigs to 70-80, Halo Infinite's size also increases but less dramatically, like an extra 15 gigs or something like that).
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Nuts and Gum posted:God dammit Microsoft is so close to having this amazing Xbox+PC ecosystem but at the last mile they decided ‘eh let the developers choose’. If you built a game for Windows and Xbox they should be able to share saves. Whether or not it’s a ‘Play Anywhere’ title should have no bearing on this I agree that it would be way better this way, but mandating things like this to devs seems like a good way to piss some of them off. I hope that Xbox becomes big enough that they have the clout to push for a more unified approach to game licenses, especially with their cloud push.
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univbee posted:Short answer is yes. My Series S will end at my 2nd house (LG OLED 4k) and my X will be used on a 1440p 144hz monitor. Should it be the other way around screen-wise?? Yeah but the S will be used way less and fits the emulation/co-op machine role.
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Guillermus posted:Should it be the other way around screen-wise?? yes!
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First (p)reviews of Redfall are coming in, they seem to be very positive.
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still don't like anything i've seen on that game, but it's gamepass so gently caress it
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Guillermus posted:My Series S will end at my 2nd house (LG OLED 4k) and my X will be used on a 1440p 144hz monitor. Should it be the other way around screen-wise?? Yeah but the S will be used way less and fits the emulation/co-op machine role. If you can afford a second house equipped with an LG OLED then maybe you should just buy two Series X’s
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univbee posted:Actually the problem is that they know exactly what the gently caress they're doing, they just don't care about video games The thought of these companies having the final say and jurisdiction over the availability of these games honestly gives me the ick. Certainly more as time goes on. I thought they'd earned a bit of credit recently for keeping the original versions of Dead Space available beyond the release of the remake, but I guess that's on a ticking timer. EA burning down any good will following the release of a Dead Space game. Time really is a flat circle.
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i think the justification is to avoid consumer complaints when selling products where 90% of the features no longer work because they depend on MP servers personally I think they should just stick them up for $0.01, warn people that most of the game doesn't actually work anymore, and if someone wants to gently caress around in Battlefield 1943.exe, let them
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i think the justification is to avoid consumer complaints when selling products where 90% of the features no longer work because they depend on MP servers I think the problem is at scale you still wind up wasting resources. Some idiot will complain on the forums about the game not working on Windows 12 and refuse to take no for an answer and waste support's time, and I think this is complicated by things like EU regulations which may in extreme interpretations force a company's hand to do more than they really want to on "new" purchases, while they have better outs if they just nuke sales of a title entirely and maybe do something like turning a blind eye to people pirating the PC version and running custom servers.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:still don't like anything i've seen on that game, but it's gamepass so gently caress it I feel the same way. Nothing about it looks compelling. Not the gameplay or the art style
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arkane games are fun even "bad" ones like deathloop
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I wanted to like deathloop but something was weird with how it played for me like the controls or the graphics settings or whatever (this was on pc)
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I enjoyed Deathloop more then either of the dishonored games. (I'm very sorry, I know I'm wrong about this.)
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deathloop had some weird default controls but once you get them calibrated it's a fun game. its not their best but you can tell the arkane attention to detail was there. there may only be one "correct way" to destroy the loop but each level has lots of ways you can tackle it.
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Diablo IV Open Beta is up for pre-load. Approximate size is 92.59GB according to the store page. That's one thicc Lilith.
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Deathloop at launch was a pretty bland experience but the big content patch brought it up to a pretty okay game. I pity anyone who didn't get to play with the new Fugue power at the big party scene.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qG8pREfkA
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:I enjoyed Deathloop more then either of the dishonored games. (I'm very sorry, I know I'm wrong about this.)
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lol that is one hell of a flex
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We’ve done it. We finally have technology that allows a manager to say ‘make those graphics better on level 2’ and ai will do it.
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lets hang out posted:I play my xbox on a 30" 720p tv, what is that the equivalent to A fool.
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If you watched the live demo they even did a rough thing on stage with her. It's to demo the new animation capture technology for MetaHumans that you can do with just a phone. It's crazy good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjjmT3b3AM&t=4010s
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Pcgamer didnt like their 90 minute solo-only hands on with redfall
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https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1638699638684540928?s=46&t=36rNzOEGx40Ej2XR8t_CPw
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Real hurthling! posted:Pcgamer didnt like their 90 minute solo-only hands on with redfall I call it the Failing Pcgamer magazine
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priznat posted:It will be funny if the thing that finally kills live service gaming is the execs freaking out about how much it costs to keep the servers going I think they already know, they are just chasing that Destiny 2 / Fortnite money. Hoping to make a live service game that sticks, and if it doesn't then they just shut it down completely and move onto the next live service idea that they believe will get people excited. None of them realize that you need Destiny 2 levels of money investment to make a live service game work and get people excited.
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Real hurthling! posted:Pcgamer didnt like their 90 minute solo-only hands on with redfall Here is my complete lack of surprise. Not because PC Gamer sucks, but because I called it that Redfall wasn't going to be good. Everyone called it. Is Hellblade 2 ever actually coming out? 
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BurningBeard posted:When I was a broke college kid I had my 360 hooked up to a big loving CRT. I have no regrets and neither should OP lol what made me finally splurge $700 on my first 720p 32 incher was playing Dead Rising on a 27" CRT. I then spent time getting the cheevo that let you have the Mega Man gun so I could New Game+ it but was bored by then and fed up with the save mechanic so I never picked it back up
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Nice guy streamer Jackfrags had a (sponsored) video on redfall and his reaction to it qas so mid the game is probably a real chore. He loves fpses but did not seem excited at all.
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I watched Giant Bomb's video on it earlier and their reaction was also lukewarm at best, which, yeah, I wasn't expecting much from the game based on what was shown at that recent Xbox conference. Hopefully some people find it fun but it didn't look like my kind of thing whatsoever.
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