Well I did it, played Late Shift last night, and for some reason I was totally shocked that I got through one playthrough in about an hour. And it didn’t go great for me, so I tried again. Then I was curious what the other possible endings were, so I used a guide to find out. This is a pretty cool little choose your own adventure, and like a lot of those books I read as a kid, they can actually spiral out into totally different outcomes. Pretty cool little experience.
Yessssss! I almost pulled the trigger on Outcast on the last two sales.
The others: Bleh. I don’t know about Tehcnomancer, but I hate the other two games.
The real thing that has me excited there is Outcast: Second Contact. I’ve been tempted a few times when it’s been on sale, but never quite but. Patience wins out!
Well, here’s something I don’t get. And yes, I could probably answer my question with a google search but I don’t feel like it. Star Wars Battlefront II is an online, Xbox Live enabled game right? But Xbox Live for the original console was shut down some time back. So what’s left to play in that game? It has some kind of offline campaign I guess?
I’m interested in Outcast also, played the original years ago and really liked it.
I played it a little when it came out on a friend’s PC, and it was cool. Then when it came out on GOG I bought it and tried to get it running, but it would only play in its original res (640x480) in the middle of the screen. So I’ve been looking at the remake.
I believe you could play against bots in the original Battlefront games. It was shit.
I just realized that Star Wars Battlefront II was made by Pandemic, so that’s three OG Xbox games made by them available through backward compatibility on Xbox One.
Yet two games they made for the 360, The Saboteur and Mercenaries 2, are not playable on Xbox One. Why? Why, EA, why? Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?
Oh yeah:
I’m happy. I forgot to go back to Technomancer before it was removed from gamepass. The first hours weren’t great, but it seemed interesting. It’s by the same group as Mars War Logs if anyone was into that.
Do Battlefront 2 & Warfighter 2 have good single player campaigns?
Cool - was interested in Technomancer but I think it got mediocre reviews so didn’t buy it.
Outcast - related to Outlast? Or the Outcast TV series? Never heard of it.
GRAW2 has a decent, but very short, campaign. If you liked the first game, then you’ll like this one too.
It’s a remake of Outcast, a game original made with a Voxel engine in the days of early 3D. It was notable because once you were on an alien world, you saw the alien villagers go about their daily tasks, getting up, having food, going out to till the fields, taking a break, going back to work, etc. Earlier 2D games like Ultima might have done this in the past, but I think Outcast was the first 3D game to do it.
The soundtrack was also notable since it was scored by a symphony orchestra, which was very rare at the time.
Note that even in modern times very few games since then have given the NPCs full daily schedules. I know Bethesda games have it, and the Gothic/Risen series does it, but not many others do.
My kids and I play it regularly. It’s got bots. But the best part of the game is split screen multiplayer. We have a ball with it and have done so since they played it as much younger kids on the original XBox.
Bought it a while back on sale, found it mostly OK but wandered away and played other stuff once I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do next. Old school gaming, I suppose.
Gamepass achievement reward points this month:
100 - Something from last month
200 - Absolver
200 - Operencia
200 - Elder Scrolls Online + Oblivion
300 - MX vs ATV Reflex + Moto 17 + MXGP3
500 - All of the above
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite is up for download now. 60 gb
I realize this is kind of a low content tweet, but good to see that MS is still going strong with their BC commitment:
Sending them my energy…
I’m not really a “fanboy” of any platform (I always own everything), but man, I hope Xbox comes out with a fiery vengeance next generation.
They’ve spent the last six years getting kicked around by everyone, often for valid reasons (such as a lack of marquee quality exclusives), but in the past few years have made a ton of pro-consumer moves, and have built back up their first party studios organization from the scorched earth Mattrick left them. Back compat, Game Pass, Play Anywhere, the embrace of “cross play”, the budding romance with Nintendo - lots of good stuff.
Phil Spencer seems like a good dude, and exactly the kind of guy you’d want leading the industry into the future. His E3 interviews are always a highlight for me.
Basically, while it’s hard to call Microsoft an “underdog” with a straight face for obvious reasons, they really do feel that way to me in the gaming industry right now. And I’d love to see them come out guns a blazing at E3 this year.
We all benefit from healthy competition.