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i gave up and got it on quest not too long ago. probably looks better running off a pc but i figured for a tetris game it wasn't a bit deal
 
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Oculus' store won't even work for me because their installer can't even properly install my headset. I have a hackjob running it right now that I had to do. I would have bought it from them at least.

EDIT: Oh, coming to the MS Store? I'll buy it there unless it's included with gamepass.

Stupid question, maybe, but was it possible to buy a gift copy of Gears 5 + Tactics when the price error occurred? If so, does anybody have one in their inventory they're willing to sell?
 
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so made a few threads from the Xbox showcase news and few news around that


+ updated few others wih new trailers/news/release dates

and these two released yesterday
 

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new ID@XBOX vid News - ID@Xbox launches Spotlight! series to highlight Indies during pandemic | XSX launch lineup vid




Here’s the full list below of the games that will definitely catch your eye!
12 Minutes (Luis Antonio / Annapurna, 2020): A romantic evening with your wife turns into a violent invasion, as a man breaks into your home, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death. Only for you to wake up and find yourself stuck in a twelve-minute time loop, doomed to relive the same terror again and again.

Dead Static Drive (Team Fanclub, 2021): Dead Static Drive is about a nightmare roadtrip but it’s also about the extremes of personal circumstance the characters are put in and their emotional reaction to that circumstance. You have to choose who you can trust as you fight the horrors barely concealed underneath everyday domestic life.

Exo One (Future Friends Games, 2020): A strange signal… an alien craft… Exo One is a gravity-defying, interplanetary journey through space and time. Master a truly alien traversal system and move through enigmatic and desolate alien landscapes in ways you’ve never experienced. Use gravity and momentum to reach colossal speeds and exhilarating heights.

Lake (Whitethorn, 2021): It’s 1986 – Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It’s up to you.

Last Stop (Annapurna, 2021): A game about secret lives, the ties that bind and how magic can be found in the mundane, Last Stop is a third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Mad Streets (Craftshop Arts, 2020): Mad Streets is a quirky, physics based, multiplayer game which focuses on brutal hand to hand combat mixed with comedy and a vibrant art style but more importantly brings something satisfying and brand new to the table, in terms of how character’s physically interact with each other, in ways players haven’t felt before.

Sable (Shedwords / Raw Fury): Join Sable on her gliding, a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts, through landscapes littered with fallen spaceships. Explore the desert at your own pace on your hoverbike, scale monumental ruins and encounter other nomads in the wilds whilst unearthing mysteries long forgotten.

Shredders (FoamPunch BV / I-Illusions, 2021): Shredders puts you on top of the coolest slopes, freeride spots and snowparks. It aims to recreate the sheer joy of riding down a mountain. Shredders will bring you high-end graphics, next-gen physics and a perfect blend between fun and realism, all in a social context. See you on the slopes in 2021!

Song of Iron (Escape, 2021): Song of Iron is a moody and provoking action adventure. A dive into a dark Nordic world full of mystery and danger. Your journey will take you far across the land of myths toward the home of the gods. Fight your way through man, monster and nature itself to reach the end.

The Artful Escape (Beethoven and Dinosaur / Annapurna, 2020): On the eve of his first performance, Francis Vendetti battles with the legacy of a dead folk legend and the cosmic wanderings of his own imagination. Francis, a teenage guitar prodigy, sets out on a psychedelic, multidimensional journey to inspire his stage persona.

The Ascent (Curve Digital/Neon Giant, 2021): The Ascent is a solo and co-op action RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it? Stop gangs and hostile corporations from taking over and discover what really happened.

The Big Con (Mighty Yell Studios, 2021): Flex your inner teenager in The Big Con, an adventure game where you hustle across the country as a teen trying to save your family video store. In classic 90s con movie style, you’ll get to persuade and pilfer your way to greatness using a whack of potential grifts.

The Falconeer (Wired Productions/Tomas Sala, 2020): The Falconeer is an open-world air combat game, featuring frenetic aerial dogfights and deep exploration of the mysterious open-world of The Great Ursee. Generations of poisonous decisions and treason swirl in the deep, as factions clash in a fight to preserve the past or flee its terrible consequences.

Tunic (Finji/Andrew Shouldice): Tunic is an action adventure game about a small fox in a big world, who must explore the countryside, fight monsters, and discover secrets. Crafted to evoke feelings of classic action adventure games, Tunic will challenge the player with unique items, skillful combat techniques, and arcane mysteries as our hero forges their way through an intriguing new world.

🥚 Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy (Big Sugar, 2021): Unexplored 2 is an action-RPG that aims to capture the same sense of adventure and wonder as a tabletop RPG. Full of beautiful landscapes and hidden marvels, magical creatures and dangerous foes, mythical weapons, and historic items, Unexplored 2 uses advanced content generation to give every player their own world, story, and challenges to discover.
Thank you for putting this list together :photoblobheart:
 

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Stupid question, maybe, but was it possible to buy a gift copy of Gears 5 + Tactics when the price error occurred? If so, does anybody have one in their inventory they're willing to sell?
I checked. You couldn’t. It said you couldn’t gift it because it was “customized” for you or something. But regardless, I don’t think we’ve been able to buy gifts to keep in our inventories for a good while now.
 

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Well, I think Infinite looks pretty neat. :thumbsupblob:

No bombshell cinematic setpiece moments, but that's not really what the games were about was it. The moment to moment action looked good. Many of my favorite levels were the semi-sandboxy ones, so if this expands on that in meaningful ways, I'm all for it. I'd have preferred a classic campaign, but having an open world could be an interesting next step that I think could fit well with some of the strengths of Halo.

I'm a more casual appreciator of Halo though so idk.
 
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Oculus' store won't even work for me because their installer can't even properly install my headset. I have a hackjob running it right now that I had to do. I would have bought it from them at least.

EDIT: Oh, coming to the MS Store? I'll buy it there unless it's included with gamepass.
i believe they said every game in the presentation would be on game pass, so you are set. it should work with vr from ms store as well, at least that's how no man's sky worked.
 
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i believe they said every game in the presentation would be on game pass, so you are set. it should work with vr from ms store as well, at least that's how no man's sky worked.
Awesome.

Their store started out like garbage, but I'm okay with it now.
 

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I'm still catching up with the news of earlier today and I'm surprised by Obsidian developing a new game in first person and set in the PoE world, I'm cautiously optimistic towards it as now they must have a larger budget to work on.
 

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Well after sitting down to the trailers, of the ones I hadn't seen before Avowed looks like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic given a second chance, The Dark Tide, and The Gunkalso look fun.

I wonder if the Pyschonauts2 we eventually get would have been the same we'd have gotten if had just been the Fig/crowd funding money
 

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Really sad to see how obsessed console gamers are with graphics. Shitting on games and mocking them because something doesn't look next gen enough. I can already see so many devs lock games at 30 fps next gen so they can add in some stupid bells and whistles while sacrificing performance. The expectations put on them are ridiculous at this point.

I still don't get how graphics don't wear off on people after like 30 minutes of playing something. And why actually playing a game for hundreds of hours with high framerates is so much more important in terms of fun than visuals. The industry is moving in such a stupid direction. And ofc it happens as 144hz monitors become more affordable and VR is pushing high frames as well. :confused-face:
 

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While I love shinny graphics myself, I also think that the halo reactions are going to kill the "sixty fps on consoles" dream long term.
The problem for me with Infinite wasn't the graphics, but the Open World and Gameplay looking uninspired. It's more of the old same, which is fine in parts. What else are you going to do with Halo?

The show yesterday was good and had many interesting games. But it sold me more on Game Pass than the hardware. Which could be intentional.
 

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Opens MetaCouncil... DId something break? Why does every thread have the same... Oh.
I will spare you a rant but really, you are all wonderful people, our ratio of shitposters is incredibly small, we could be so interesting to browse outside of this thread... and yet no one create threads and go post elsewhere on the internet.
It then become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and I'm sad, motherfuckers.

We are so good and yet somehow we are our own worst enemy.

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Really sad to see how obsessed console gamers are with graphics. Shitting on games and mocking them because something doesn't look next gen enough. I can already see so many devs lock games at 30 fps next gen so they can add in some stupid bells and whistles while sacrificing performance. The expectations put on them are ridiculous at this point.

I still don't get how graphics don't wear off on people after like 30 minutes of playing something. And why actually playing a game for hundreds of hours with high framerates is so much more important in terms of fun than visuals. The industry is moving in such a stupid direction. And ofc it happens as 144hz monitors become more affordable and VR is pushing high frames as well. :confused-face:
It is not even that, it is just that the goal gets moved all the time. Who cares about framerate when it doesnt look good, who cares about graphics when it runs like shit, etc, as long as my team wins
 

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- samples of my reaction watching the event -


Everwild
Hey, it's... it's fucking wonderful. Diverse gender and race, original design, a little too much cuteness on the animal front maybe but great nonetheless, what a wonderful RPG this will b...
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It's gonna be a multiplayer or a 3d metroivania, isn't it ? :anguished-face:


State of Decay 3
Oh that is interesting. The lady looks to be in the wild, surrounded by supernatural beings, chasing cryptids, maybe. Damn, origi...
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Wait, a zombie crypt...
Oh, it's another State of Decay :suicide-blob:
 

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So let's settle this Meta, Dragon Quest XI, vanilla or S ?
I'm leaning toward vanilla.
The music is already moddable, QOL are cool and all but are just QOL, 2d mode is a thing granted, the only thing that at first glance really hurt is the bonus content, but I read it is very short ?

Could some people that have played the switch version chime in on the interest of the S ?
 

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Honestly after looking at those comparisons, I won't be buying DQ XI S. I played XI for 100+ hours. That game is amazing. But after they fucked with the orchestrated soundtrack (I modded it back in), and now they port a fucking Switch game to the PC? Just no thanks. No amount of extra content is worth that horrific downgrade in image quality. And its everywhere. All the models, all the maps. It isn't fixable. RIP that version of the game.
 

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Just how much extra content are there added in the S version anyway?

Just watch them on Youtube and be done with it. Nobody is going to bother to replay a 100 hour linear JRPG this early only for a few hours of extra cutscenes and dialogue.
 

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Really sad to see how obsessed console gamers are with graphics. Shitting on games and mocking them because something doesn't look next gen enough. I can already see so many devs lock games at 30 fps next gen so they can add in some stupid bells and whistles while sacrificing performance. The expectations put on them are ridiculous at this point.

I still don't get how graphics don't wear off on people after like 30 minutes of playing something. And why actually playing a game for hundreds of hours with high framerates is so much more important in terms of fun than visuals. The industry is moving in such a stupid direction. And ofc it happens as 144hz monitors become more affordable and VR is pushing high frames as well. :confused-face:
It is a complex issue that I believe has its roots in marketing and platform wars. The main thing, perhaps the only thing that console makers can use to entice people to buy into a new console is graphics. Launch games are typically lacklustre at best, outright bad at worst, so graphical prowess has to be the main selling point. Then you have an army of fanboys on both sides trying to prop up their side and belittle the competition so every reaction is exaggerated. This way a good-looking game becomes "phenomenal" and a decent-looking game becomes "garbage".

The show yesterday was good and had many interesting games. But it sold me more on Game Pass than the hardware. Which could be intentional.
I had the same thought. For a Seriex X games showcase the console was surprisingly de-emphasized while the variety of Gamepass was front and center. Even the event's name hints at Microsoft's direction, just a generic "Xbox" instead of the name of the new console. Microsoft is clearly on a different path than Sony, the console itself doesn't seem like the focal point of their gaming plans.
 

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It is a complex issue that I believe has its roots in marketing and platform wars. The main thing, perhaps the only thing that console makers can use to entice people to buy into a new console is graphics. Launch games are typically lacklustre at best, outright bad at worst, so graphical prowess has to be the main selling point. Then you have an army of fanboys on both sides trying to prop up their side and belittle the competition so every reaction is exaggerated. This way a good-looking game becomes "phenomenal" and a decent-looking game becomes "garbage".



I had the same thought. For a Seriex X games showcase the console was surprisingly de-emphasized while the variety lf Gamepass was front and center. Even the event's name hints at Microsoft's direction, just a generic "Xbox" instead of the name of the new console. Microsoft is clearly on a different path than Sony, the console itself doesn't seem like the focal point of their gaming plans.
I think they view the Xbox as an ‘Alexa’. It is not about the device, it is about pulling people into the platform (Prime, Video, Twitch, keep ordering shit, etc).
 
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So let's settle this Meta, Dragon Quest XI, vanilla or S ?
I'm leaning toward vanilla.
The music is already moddable, QOL are cool and all but are just QOL, 2d mode is a thing granted, the only thing that at first glance really hurt is the bonus content, but I read it is very short ?

Could some people that have played the switch version chime in on the interest of the S ?
I would be fine if it was a paid DLC upgrade, but not a full game at full price.

I considered even to buy the S edition. But now that I know that it is a straight port of the Switch version with downgraded graphics I will not buy it anytime soon. Will most probably buy if it's sub 10 euro

I guess I will be playing the original version instead
 

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I got the original DQXI in the Square Enix COVID-19 bundle, so I'll be playing that version at some point. I'd have considered holding off if they'd offered an upgrade, but here we are.

Then again, I can't talk. I'm first in line to buy a mainline Persona game then come back 2-3 years later to rebuy the enhanced version on console, and I'd do it on Steam too.
 
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