Ya, the takeaway on the controller to me was definitely more about, "your current X1 accessories that you paid good money for will still work."

Apparently Control is coming to XGP. Good thing, was going to buy it around xmas!

I'd actually feel a little guilt playing that considering I've bought almost every remedy game since Alan Wake... So, alan wake with both DLC chapters, AW nightmare and Quantum Break.

Game pass needs some sort of donation function. Even if you could give a Dev $1-5, 100,000 people did that, it could really make an indie teams year.

Yeah I guess they don't want to see their sales being cannibalized during the holidays.

I don't see how Phil could have make a mistake like this.

Finished Gear 5 yesterday. Here are my thoughts:

The campaign is better than Gears of War 4, by a lot. Yet I still see some room for improvements. The final boss would be an example, but Gears isn't really known for amazing final boss fights. General Raam is still my favourite.

As mentioned earlier, the open world aspect could be improved by filling the empty landscape or simply scaling the size back a little.

I really like Kait as a main character but I feel that the connection to her mother, Myrrah and the Locust/Swarm could have been exploited a little more. It was well done in the first half of the campaign but not so much once you got to act 3.

Jack is a really useful teammate. Some of his abilities were life saving. Loved the Flash ability in combination with the Freeze power up. Sadly the other teammate AI is quite stupid. They managed to get stuck, barely killing enemies other than Juvies and didn't revive me when I was too close to a wall or other obstacle.

The visuals are great and the in-game cutscenes are fantastic. With a little more power the whole game could look like these. The realistic facial expressions are also some of, if not the best of this generation.

What else... pacing was much better in this game. They managed to create enemy encounters that didn't always have the same enemy types in it (looking at you Gears 4). Displaying health bars of tougher enemies is one of my favourite additions. I was never sure if I was even damaging them in Gears 4. I wasn't a fan of all these Horde mode encounters in the Gears 4 campaign but they could've added at least one of them for variety.

Overall the series is back to its former glory.

9/10

IF the pricing is right I might buy it. If it launches at $300, then I might wait for the holidays to get it at $200.

I voted no because unless something really bad happens in my life that affects me financially then I will be buying Scarlett day 1.

Pretty much this.

But at the end of the day, these are the answers we mostly have to expect from gaming enthusiasts on a gaming forum. Even the people here who are tight on money, are going to want the more powerful hardware, because all things being equal...of course that's what they want. The purpose of Lockhart, if it's to actually hit the market, is to be a compelling product to casuals, parents looking to get a console for their kids but save a few bucks doing so, kids saving up meager allowances to buy their own console, and perhaps it can be an enticing product to people looking to set up their home with multiple Xboxes (a Scarlett for their living room/main gaming area, and a couple of Lockharts for the bedrooms or something).

So Inxile are Working on a Single Player RPG game with “Action Elements” and a “PC-Focused Multiplayer Title” (this one is rumored to be Wasteland Spinoff).

Just hope that the Single Player game is 3rd person since Obsidians big RPG game is most likely to be in 1st person.