Got an Xbox Wireless Headset today after weeks of waiting and I'm pretty happy with it. I wasn't that impressed at first but once I downloaded the Atmos app it is amazing for the price.
Need to get in a game party now to see what the mic quality is like.
Apparently Everwild, Perfect Dark and Fable are years away according to an industry insider with connections to certain employees at Xbox Game Studios
I wasn't really expecting Fable any earlier than Christmas 2022 to be honest, given how big a game like that is gonna be. Perfect Dark I'm expecting even later, given that it was only just recently announced.
Everwild I had no expectation, or enthusiasm for at all, given that they've not showed gameplay.
@Dezzy Technically they've basically shown no gameplay for any first party title that isn't Halo Infinite to my knowledge
I'm mostly excited about Hellblade because I loved the first one, Fable because it's an IP they really needed to bring back, Perfect Dark since I think a more modern one could really stand toe to toe with Sony's first party offerings visually and narratively and Everwild because I dig the artstyle
I don't really have expectations for any of them except Hellblade given we haven't seen anything from any of them, it's literally just the prospects right now
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I wasn't really expecting any of these until at least 2022:
Hellblade 2
Forza Motorsport
State of Decay 3
Everwild
Fable
Avowed
Perfect Dark
Starfield
The most likely if any of those to be 2021 is Forza Motorsport given the playtest and the possibility that 4 year licensing continues resulting in Forza Motorsport 7 being delisted later this year. There's games that you'd think would be delisted by now given past franchise entry licensing patterns but aren't so it may be that companies are licensing differently so that their games can last longer hence I could see Forza Motorsport being 2022 with Forza Motorsport 7 still being around after this year.
@TheFrenchiestFry At the time of the second trailer, Rare didn't even seem to be sure what kind of game it would be, so it better be years away still lol
@Dezzy Technically they've basically shown no gameplay for any first party title that isn't Halo Infinite to my knowledge
Yeah true, but that matters a lot more when you're dealing with a new IP. Everyone knows vaguely what the next Fable, Gears, Forza and Perfect Dark will be like (given that those are all quite successful series, it would be kinda crazy if they massively changed any of them). In fact my whole hype for games like Fable and the next Forza Horizon game are pretty much based on the assumption that it will be more of the same.
Whereas I have no idea what Everwild or Avowed will be like.
@Dezzy "Whereas I have no idea what Everwild or Avowed will be like."
We kind of know what Avowed will be like because we know it's a Pillars of Eternity universe game (and PoE is itself a homebrewed take on a hybridization of D&D Planescape and Forgotten Realms). It's not a stretch to assume it's an AAA budget 3D PoE game. And that's an amazing thing if true. It's an Obsidian/Black Isle RPG in a known universe of theirs, not actually a new IP but a big budget 3D entry in an existing IP, albeit perhaps a new subseries in that IP. Baldur's Gate meets Elder Scrolls. They can take my money now...I know they're good for it.
Well these 60fps/120fps patches have been supremely disappointing so far. Not a single game I care about yet. I love Titanfall and Battlefield, but I don't have a 120Hz monitor, so that doesn't mean anything to me.
And Fallout 4 and Skyrim already had pretty adequate 60fps options through the mods.
Yeah, I have to wonder though. Avowed was started before they bought Bethesda. It's also going to arrive at a similar kind of time as Elder Scrolls 6, probably (around 3-4 years from now I'm guessing). I wonder if they'll deliberately adjust Avowed now so that it doesn't clash with Elder Scrolls too much. Maybe change it into more of a linear story-type RPG?
@Dezzy PoE already kind of is a linear story driven game, just like their old Black Isle games (and dragon age origins). It has quests and free roaming, to a point but it's still focused overall versus the meandering Elder Scrolls games that the story is almost secondary to the side quests, so they won't have to change it much I'd think.
Well I hope that's what it is. 9 times out of 10, I'd prefer a Dragon Age Origins type game over a Skyrim type game. Full-on open-world games are so hard to do well.
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