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Josh Sawyer Obsidian game details from Grubbsnax : GamingLeaksAndRumours

• Focusing on experimental mechanics and interactions.
• It's still being developed by a small team.
• 16th century Europe setting.
• Still planned to have no combat.
• Murder mystery RPG. You will be investigating a murder by talking to people and building a case. You can accuse people of murder. You will possibly continue to play even if you get it wrong and see the consequences.
• Planned to be coming out in 2022.

So it begins.

I was more referring to the recent Sega and Microsoft partnership with Azure. I haven't paid the closest attention to Game Pass for PC as my PC is outdated and stuck in Windows 8.1 until I upgrade it. 

Elden Ring definitely looks extremely outdated graphically. I'll tell you what it reminds me most of, is Shadow of Mordor from 2014, which was of course 7th/8th cross-gen, held back by 360/PS3. Not only does it artistically remind me of Shadow of Mordor, but something about the quality of the ground textures and the character models and the amount of ground cover (grass) and such. Pretty bad look for From Software if going open world screwed them up so badly that it looks like their game is from 2014.

Overall ratings are important sure, but they are likewise sometimes irrelevant.

Take 2020: the nominees for GOTY at TGA included GoT (86), FF7 (88) and Doom (89). Returnal has an 86 average. 

Likewise, P5Royal, Half-Life, Flight Simulator, and Crusader Kings 3 are all higher rater than Animal Crossing, but none of them were up for consideration and yet AC was. 

Just to put Sega's support of Xbox into perspective.

• Let Xbox use Creative Assembly for Halo Wars 2.
• Let Xbox use Relic Entertainment for Age of Empires IV.
• Phantasy Star Online 2 is only on Xbox in the West and using Azure.
• Streets of Rage IV in Game Pass (and xCloud)
• Pretty much the entire Yakuza series is on Game Pass (and xCloud)
• Two Point Hospital on Game Pass.
• Football Manager 2021 on Game Pass.
• Football Manager 2022 is launching day one into Game Pass.
• Humankind is launching day one into Game Pass.
• Sega is using Azure for its next online focused titles.
• Total War: Warhammer III is launching day one into Game Pass.

I think they may be the best Japanese publisher in terms of supporting Xbox, it's hard to tell whether this Azure deal will result in anything further or if what happens next is just a continued commitment of Sega's support, or the Azure deal is another example, Sega and Xbox have been close for a few years now.

At this point, I would honestly almost assume that anything from Sega Europe will be launching into Game Pass, Lol, from their Western studios at least; Amplitude, Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive all have day one launches confirmed, Relic has just finished Age of Empires IV, Hardlight doesn't have anything announced and Two Point Studios has Two Point Campus which I'm expecting to be confirmed for Game Pass eventually.

Seems the only real holdout is Atlus but I've heard that Atlus has a lot of independence, sounds almost like Mojang, Lol, so they'll have to be convinced separately from Sega.