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gotcha, thanks! was hoping it came out at midnight EST haha
I think with the addition of Staten, Halo Infinite will release in November 2021. This gives him and the team a good solid 1 year + 1 month before the game needs to go Gold and have a release for November 2021. This gives them plenty of time to tighten things up and perhaps modify some of the stuff they had planned and Staten improves on.
Wow, pretty mind blowing to think that Xbox's big launch game will probably miss its release by a full year.
While an even longer wait for Halo would be a bummer, at this point take the time you need to make it everything it needs to be, the worst possible delay (of missing the console launch) has already happened. This news is welcome and hopefully there's enough time and leeway given for Staten to make the changes that need to be made.
Seeing Wasteland 3 reviews gets me even more excited for InXile's next gen project. Similarly I'm ultra hyped hearing about a 3rd person game from The Initiative considering the talent they have acquired. Although those projects and my other most hyped XGS games (Avowed/Fable) seem far away, 2022-2024 will probably have some absurdly incredible XGS releases.
Seeing Wasteland 3 reviews gets me even more excited for InXile's next gen project. Similarly I'm ultra hyped hearing about a 3rd person game from The Initiative considering the talent they have acquired. Although those projects and my other most hyped XGS games (Avowed/Fable) seem far away, 2022-2024 will probably have some absurdly incredible XGS releases.
I think people are reading the Staten news a bit incorrectly. I don't think that he's joining 343i in a writing capacity, but more in a leadership capacity and likely only temporarily. It's really just a perfect storm with Halo needing some development help (and him existing within the XGS-realm as someone who helps teams get projects out the door), him being familiar with the franchise, and the previous project he was assigned to (Tell Me Why) releasing tomorrow. I think he will help in a leadership capacity on Infinite until the game is out, but then move back to the publishing team and continue to work with second-party developers. I think if he really wanted to be working on Halo at this point in his career, he already would be doing that.
Problem is he did the exact same thing with Crackdown also. :P
Just got the Xbox Game store Overhaul... Night and Day different. So much better, organized and much more fluid movement. This is how a games store should be done. Excellent job team Xbox. Now why can't Windows Store on Win10 do this?
And probably helped a lot with that game too, which might have been worse. But with HI is added value is that he's a Halo vet and deeply knows the saga.
Because the Windows team is always 10 years behind everyone within MS organization.
The Xbox app that can't find Minecraft :/
(and I mean Minecraft, not Minecraft Dungeons)
Seriously lol. The amount of time and money it takes to do mocap and VO is nuts. There is no universe where 343i reboots Infinite. It's crazy talk from people that think games are made super fast
I may be wrong, but the Xbox app is not only for Game Pass games?
If that's the case it's normal that it doesn't show it as Minecraft is only on console GP, not PC
I think it can be explained for a game that his as much spoiler sensitive.
I think this is right on. The impact is being overblown in the big picture. He's there to stablilize the ship and help them land. I don't believe this means reboot or 2022 release. Assuming this game is targeted for sometime in May, they need someone who can get the teams focused and move in a cohesive direction from here on out. 343 has historically been challenged in that area.
Because, as many articles stated before, working for Microsoft is like a Mexican stand off. Or used to be at least. Every team is at the throat of another and each department as well. That said there have been changes and now it seems that the culture is changing to a more shared thinking.
But the Windows team is still from the old times, so I think they are still thinking like that. They probably see gaming as a competition for funds and mind share, when really, they can really use their help about now with many ux related things.
But I could be wrong, and that they are nowalso catching up.
I love Dontnod games, and Tell me Why is my favorite game so far from them. If you like Life is Strange... BUY! Can say more later...
Joe Staten helping out on Infinite's campaign is good stuff! I really really hope they stick the landing in 2021. It's been soooo long since a massive Halo shooter.
Considering Sea of Thieves' success, I'd guess an early access release for Everwild next year would make sense (I know, SoT wasn't early access, but it was in all but its name and pricing - even the insider tests weren't that different from what we got on release). And Forza Motorsport seems to be heading in the same direction.
However, I can't help but be disappointed by that. I just hope that some devs actually want to release fully-featured complete games day one, because a lot of Xbox devs deserve to proudly say their games got an 85+ or something. Sea of Thieves released today would get 9-10s everywhere, and be a GOTY contender, but it never got that much praise. Just see what happens when games are released in a "full" state (Ori 2, Gears Tactics, Wasteland 3... All had great reviews).
Well, at least it seems they realised that for Halo.
Are reviews covering all three episodes or just the first one?
Considering Sea of Thieves' success, I'd guess an early access release for Everwild next year would make sense (I know, SoT wasn't early access, but it was in all but its name and pricing - even the insider tests weren't that different from what we got on release). And Forza Motorsport seems to be heading in the same direction.
However, I can't help but be disappointed by that. I just hope that some devs actually want to release fully-featured complete games day one, because a lot of Xbox devs deserve to proudly say their games got an 85+ or something. Sea of Thieves released today would get 9-10s everywhere, and be a GOTY contender, but it never got that much praise. Just see what happens when games are released in a "full" state (Ori 2, Gears Tactics, Wasteland 3... All had great reviews).
Well, at least it seems they realised that for Halo.
Are reviews covering all three episodes or just the first one?
These last 12 months have been really positive and diverse for XGS! Better not to make a thread though, I guess... :P
(Includes some ports and remasters)
Microsoft Flight Simulator PC (93 MC, 92 OC)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (90 MC, 90 OC)
Halo 3 MCC PC (88 MC)
Wasteland 3 (86 MC)
Gears 5 (84 MC, 84 OC)
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (84 MC, 83 OC)
Halo Reach MCC PC (81 MC)
Gears Tactics (80 MC, 82 OC)
Minecraft Dungeons (70-78 MC, 73 OC)
Battletoads (73 MC, 72 OC)
Bleeding Edge (62-66 MC, 65 OC)
Wasteland Remastered (62 MC)
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkeled doesn't have a MC score
Grounded (Early Access) has been very positively received as well, State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition received a significant update, Tell Me Why (which should do well) is coming in a few days, and some XGS games found their way onto Steam for the first time.
These games cover simulation, strategy, beat'em up, tactic RPG, shooter, RPG, dungeon crawler, platformer, narrative-driven immersive sim. Microsoft I believe is not quite there yet, and their investments from 2018 will only produce more bigger singleplayer titles starting in 1-2 years, but these are very positive signs in quantity and quality for XGS. They've had entire years with releasing less content than this August. Exciting times ahead.
(Includes some ports and remasters)
Microsoft Flight Simulator PC (93 MC, 92 OC)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (90 MC, 90 OC)
Halo 3 MCC PC (88 MC)
Wasteland 3 (86 MC)
Gears 5 (84 MC, 84 OC)
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (84 MC, 83 OC)
Halo Reach MCC PC (81 MC)
Gears Tactics (80 MC, 82 OC)
Minecraft Dungeons (70-78 MC, 73 OC)
Battletoads (73 MC, 72 OC)
Bleeding Edge (62-66 MC, 65 OC)
Wasteland Remastered (62 MC)
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkeled doesn't have a MC score
Grounded (Early Access) has been very positively received as well, State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition received a significant update, Tell Me Why (which should do well) is coming in a few days, and some XGS games found their way onto Steam for the first time.
These games cover simulation, strategy, beat'em up, tactic RPG, shooter, RPG, dungeon crawler, platformer, narrative-driven immersive sim. Microsoft I believe is not quite there yet, and their investments from 2018 will only produce more bigger singleplayer titles starting in 1-2 years, but these are very positive signs in quantity and quality for XGS. They've had entire years with releasing less content than this August. Exciting times ahead.
Don't forget Sea Of Thieves re-reviews coming in the 8 range! And Outer Worlds / Wasteland 3 if you want to be cheeky and include them!
Also worth noting that MC doesn't look like they've updated their roundup since those rereviews. But yea, for all the doom and gloom around Xbox this year, it's actually been a very good period for Xbox players. Game Pass, platform, games have all been coming through for us. Especially since 12 months ago, Game Pass was doing well enough but we'd only had CD3 out the whole year.
Only mind blowing because we know about it. I expect the same is true (and will be true) for several of Sony's games, as well. They just had the luxury of announcing later and not giving a date (not that Halo ever had a date).
It already is :p. Halo Infinite includes a fully fledged Nemesis system. But it's just Craig continually coming back from the dead.
Oo interesting, makes sense with the short delay. Appointment gaming haha. I wonder if that affects the way the story hits, since you can "binge it" all at once. I guess that's not all that different from how it is now with people who wait until all the episodes are out for these games.
Even before xCloud EA play on Xbox is the better choice, because you get some cool last gen (PS3/360) games.
You can install everything on the internal SSD or the official Xbox Segate SSD. You can't play Series X games on a external HDD. OG Xbox, 360 and Xbox One games work on a external HDD.
Horizon didn't show gameplay, thus I assume in engine, which shouldn't be mistaken with GCI, counts. To each their own, but I thought Everwild and especially Forza Motorsport looked awesome.
FM7 vs FM
GTS vs FM
The generation leap is crystal clear between FM7/GTS and FM. I was very impressed by the footage.
The app is great and I like the fact that Sony and Microsoft created the HDR group for this. This is the first step as both consoles now have the HDR setting implemented. Hopefully more to come.
That would be so frightening. Imagine running into the mouth of a snake in the dark and then you see the ground moving an realize you got eaten by a snake
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It is not unique to anything, my time with my company is about to come to a end and they are most likely going to fire me by the beggining of next year.
6 years is the max in my company.
Im sure, but all I know is IT. I know a project manager friend of mine has worked as a contractor going on two years.
There is basicaly no future for 99% of the workers and is a very shit thing.
It is the goverments fault for allowing this.
Just catching up, super pumped to see Joe back on Halo, even if it's only a temporary thing.
I have wondered before why MS never set up a new studio with him at its head, but maybe he just doesn't want that. As a writer it's probably more fulfilling to work on a number of different things.
I have wondered before why MS never set up a new studio with him at its head, but maybe he just doesn't want that. As a writer it's probably more fulfilling to work on a number of different things.
He works as a consultant basically across all the studios.
Yeah, I know, I just always thought it'd be good to have him head a new studio. But again, as I said, it's probably as simple as him just liking to work across a number of different projects.
I tried it out last night!!! Without spoiling anything, I'd recommend exploring the water by the bird bath...
Also, they added human shoeprints into the backyard and turns out someone stepped DIRECTLY on my main base!
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