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jlmurph2 on 16 December 2013
JoeTheBro said:
JayWood2010 said:
JoeTheBro said:

Without the 180s the XBONE was DOA. It's hard to argue otherwise. I'm not saying the DRM turnaround effected 343, but that the the thought processes behind the 180s did. You can see a perfect example of this with Titanfall becoming a lifetime exclusive. Microsoft will do whatever it can to "save" the system. That includes pushing a traditional Halo instead of taking risks.


this was months ago when it was taken down and TitanFall was an exclusive before DRM was taken down.  There was never any confirmation of it being a timed exclusive otherwise.  A business(not only MSFT) are going to do what is in their best interest to set them up for a strategic victory so if that means buying TitanFall then that is what they're going to do.  DRM has nothing to do with that.  Microsoft buys third party exclusives more than any other company simply because they can, and simply because it gives them an advantage.

Third party exclusives and first party exclusives really arent much different.  You pay a company to build a game for you and to keep it away from competitors for an advantage.

The turnaround or 180 (singular)  considering on what words you want to use and Halo have nothing to do with each other in any shape or form.  Games were already in developement before the turnaround and Halo 4 has already taken a risk and by playing it you should know this.  It also sold extremely well but the multiplayer crowd didnt stay as long as they did in older games.  That is the part that 343i will need to figure out, nothing to do with it being bad, turnarounds, or with the story.  The multiplayer just wasnt as addicting as it was when halo 3 came out, partially because more competition now.  

Halo set the world on fire and became the premier multiplayer FPS and story FPS.  Since then it has gotten competition with Battlefield and Call of Duty.  Each game plays differently and unique to their own but it also has split the multiplayer from Halo in ways.  

To add to that the Halo community did not like 343i adding instant respawns and ordinance drops.  This changed halo up a lot which is what they need to fix.

EDIT:  Just letting you know that Im not trying to be harsh with you, i just see you as wrong on this one is all.  You're a preet cool guy in my book :)

I wasn't planning to respond since I just seem to be the odd man out on all of this, but I can't resist a good old :)

 

Titanfall was confirmed by the developers themselves to be a timed exclusive. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with buying Titanfall. What's interesting is that Microsoft thought being a timed exclusive was enough, and then went back to buy the rest of it. The reversal of always online DRM and the other 180s are in a similar boat. Microsoft thought something was "good enough" but quickly changed it. They are far from clueless and realised things needed to be done.

When you're in that sutuation and know it, you don't take your largest ip and mix up the formula. They have only said a Halo is coming at 60fps. We don't know anything else. It could be Halo Wars 2! I personally loved the first, but everyone should find that idea insane. When your system is potentially going to need all the help it can get next Novemeber, you just wouldn't do that. Heck it could be Halo Spartan Assult 2. Similarily if the game was Halo Universe with an open world borderlands style, you just don't do that. Even if it includes normal Halo multiplayer, it would still be looked at as a spinoff like Halo Wars or Spartan Assault. Microsoft needs the full streangth of the ip and remesh it into Halo 5, even if it was originally going a different direction.


I'm gonna go ahead and say no. Specifically because we DO know that its a main game and that it's an fps. The trailer itself rules out ANY spin off because it takes place exactly after Halo 4 with Chief trying to bring Cortana back.

Plus the only thing I should have to mention is that Chief is the main character.



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JoeTheBro on 16 December 2013
Ryuu96 said:

So anybody else been having a issue with games crashing? Just been playing Ryse with another person online and it crashed and kicked me to dashboard, had to load the game again, it happened yesterday as well during online so wondering if it's happened to anybody else?

Try a hard reboot maybe? I haven't heard a lot of stories of Ryse crashing so it's hopefully not a problem with the game.

 

People have fixed other bugs by turning it fully off and back on so hopefully that works for you.



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GamechaserBE on 16 December 2013

Free game, shoot many robots' is fucking amazing! First time I hear about it and got I love it ^^'. Must try guys!!



Seece on 16 December 2013
Ryuu96 said:

So anybody else been having a issue with games crashing? Just been playing Ryse with another person online and it crashed and kicked me to dashboard, had to load the game again, it happened yesterday as well during online so wondering if it's happened to anybody else?

Yup, Peggle 2. Happened a few times now. Thought it was the game but obviously not.



 

Seece on 16 December 2013
Ryuu96 said:
Seece said:
Ryuu96 said:

So anybody else been having a issue with games crashing? Just been playing Ryse with another person online and it crashed and kicked me to dashboard, had to load the game again, it happened yesterday as well during online so wondering if it's happened to anybody else?

Yup, Peggle 2. Happened a few times now. Thought it was the game but obviously not.

Is your Xbox one on power saver mode aswell?

yeah. I did update yesterday and I can't remember if it's happened since. I will cold boot and log any crashes here!



 

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Nsanity on 16 December 2013
GamechaserBE said:
Free game, shoot many robots' is fucking amazing! First time I hear about it and got I love it ^^'. Must try guys!!

Played the trial and it played like a turd on a stick.



Jaywood2010 on 16 December 2013
shikamaru317 said:

I tweeted Phil some of the evidence we have of Microsoft Studios Osaka's existence, hopefully we'll be able to get to the bottom of this. I'm going to be so sad if it turns out that Microsoft Studios Osaka doesn't exist or exists but doesn't develop games and instead handles the publishing of 3rd party Japanese games on the Xbox One. The prospect of a 1st party Microsoft developer designing Japanese games for the Xbox One had me very hyped.


Yeah id like to hear more about this as well so share any info you get on it.




       

Jaywood2010 on 16 December 2013

Xbox One Indies Coming March

Microsoft's quest to get indie games published on the Xbox One began in August with the announcement of the ID@Xbox program. Today, the leader of that effort said we could start seeing the first Xbox One indie games published in the first quarter of 2014.

According to Edge, ID@Xbox’s director Chris Charla stated, "I think it will be early in the New Year, in the first three months. I would say closer to the third month." That would seem to indicate that Microsoft is looking to publish the first Xbox One indie game sometime in March.

A few days ago, Microsoft announced that 32 game development teams had been picked to participate in theID@Xbox program. Charla said, "Some developers started developing for Xbox One, others already had games in development and are working on Xbox One versions. I would say they’re at all stages of development, honestly." He added that it was "hard to say" just how many games would be released in the first wave of ID@Xbox titles.

As reported previously, the ultimate goal is to allow anyone with a retail Xbox One unit to use it as a development platform to make and publish games for the console. Charla said developers of all skill sets could, in theory, make Xbox One games. " ... from coding a game in C++, to someone who can’t code at allusing something like Project Spark." There's no word on exactly when this will happen.

Source: Edge

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-first-xbox-one-indie-games-could-launch-around-march-2014




       

Goatseye on 16 December 2013

It is on Wikipedia but we all know how reliable is that website.



Goatseye on 16 December 2013

Remedy would've been a good addition to this list.