I’ve never played Planet Coaster, but I have to admit this Ghostbusters themed DLC does catch my attention. It’s worth noting that while Planet Coaster is currently on Game Pass, this DLC is not and costs $14.99. Oh well.
I don’t put a lot of stock in PR.
So, what is the source of your knowledge?
I assume that is it just unadulterated pessimism, which is sometimes confused with Wisdom.
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Obfuscated file system, bad downloading/queuing/updating system and shit UWP app ugh. GFWLive2021 still sort of fucking sucks.
It’s speculation based on the history of the gaming market as well as looking at how the video streaming market evolved. Game Pass looks a lot like the early days of Netflix streaming right now and early Netflix streaming is very different from present day in regards to content etc.
And why is it pessimism about whether something is sold on Steam or not? Man I’m old enough to remember when people were outraged they had to use Steam at all…
That’s fine, but I would imagine that if MS were planning to stop releasing on Steam in the near future corporate would’ve said to not mention Steam once in the announcement.
I also don’t think Game Pass for PC is that much of a direct threat to Steam and vice versa. A lot of the MS games are selling like crazy on Steam despite people being able to access them via Game Pass. I am constantly amazed how often Sea of Thieves is on or near the Steam top sellers list.
Douglas Adams said it best.
“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Ding ding ding. Tell him what he won, Don!
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Microsoft currently lets you link your gamepass stuff to Steam, doesn’t it? I’m pretty sure I did that at some point.
rei
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These 2 Chrome (or Firefox) extensions are good to have:
LeeAbe
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Absolutely no one said that.
But developers aren’t getting to get paid more. It will be profit for the publishers. This will help some exec get a Ferrari.
I know a lot of indies self-publish these days using the ID@Xbox program for Xbox and Windows, and I’m sure on other platforms too. Right? I don’t know if this is the golden age of Indies or not, but it seems to be.
Weird Alan Wake is leaving. Didn’t MS publish it?
Final Fantasy X! Finally! They promised that one last year at E3.
Also, I wonder if that’s just the original Xbox version of Psychonauts that I already own, or if either the Xbox version or PC version is adding achievements?
Of course, going for achievements might lessen your enjoyment of the game if it’s like the Steam achievements, but hey, it will be my 3rd time through, so they can’t ruin it for me now!
Remedy got the publishing rights and the IP back from Microsoft in 2019.
I’ve been playing Second Extinction on PC and so far love the gameplay and shooting. I am actually finding it quite challenging (in a good way) as I have attempted the first campaign mission solo a few times now and ultimately failed each time despite being granted 3 revives per attempt. That said, I have been completing a lot of dynamic side missions and picking up all the bones and sinew that dinos drop which inform the meta-progression and let you upgrade weapons (with dino parts!?) and gain account experience.
Another aspect I like is the dynamic map that responds to player activity and success. The map is divided up in different regions that then show how well humans have been fighting back the dinosaur invasion or areas where we are failing and the dinos spread into other regions, become more numerous, or more dangerous with excessive mutations. This has a direct connection to in-match games. Playing the campaign mission I was forced to travel across several different regions so in some cases the threat was lighter and in other cases I was being swarmed with special types of dinos with powerful mutations and barely surviving. There are also dynamic optional objectives that spawn across the map, are shown during region-select, and appear in your matches like drones to capture or supply caches to liberate. That is all a nice touch.
This is still early access though and I have been frustrated by the graphical presentation a bit and I am not sure if what I am seeing is intentional or a bug. Despite playing with the video settings a lot the game seems to have a slightly blurry or unfocused presentation like a very thin layer of vaseline was smeared across my vision.
The other issue that feels more like a bug is that there are regions or areas that are covered in an aqua blue/green fog that is fairly thick. My sense is that was supposed to be more localized or present differently, but there may be something that is glitching here, not sure. I tried watching some YouTube videos to see if it was duplicated for other players, but haven’t seen it yet (actually saw some brief moments of it in a montage of clips). Everything is still quite playable, but the fog feels off. I will play around with settings again and might even reinstall to see if that helps.
So graphical issues aside I quite enjoyed my time with this, and I am eager to see how it develops.
So I guess I got into the Xcloud for PC beta last week. I tried it out this morning playing The Show and Control.
It’s pretty good, but it’s not as good as Geforce Now. It looks pretty low-rez on my 1440p monitor (not sure what rez they display at, but I assume 1080…it doesn’t look terrific and I don’t see any way to increase the resolution)
Also, often jumpy with quite frequent audio glitches. Latency doesn’t seem to be a big problem or, at least, they’ve figured out a way to make it seem like it’s not a big problem. I was able to gun down the Hiss and jump across chasms without any issue anyway.
They’re really going to need to fix the presentation issues if they’re hoping to make this a mainstream offering, though. GFN looks a lot better.
