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Finally found some of those Halo Infinite Rockstar Energy cans after a month of searching. Only had a half a can a few hours ago but I am crashing hard now, lol. How do people drink this stuff regularly?

@Spade 

Sigh, I can't resist, I'm going to buy the add-on for FH5

It's pretty bad from what I saw. I saw no graphical improvements at all in the trailer compared to the already existing Xbox Series patch for Skyrim. It seems like you're pretty much just paying $20 for a bundle of premium mods that Bethesda paid modders to create. Super lazy. The game deserved a proper graphical overhaul for it's anniversary. 

I guess the new box art format is official now, starting with Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite. I hate it. Looked much sleeker with the thin black header from before (ignoring the big green sticker which was never actually used)--

Spoiler!

The big blocky white header stands out too much.

Yeah but the time issue is still there. It's very hard for those who arent full time gamers to catchup. By the time i unlock season 1s stuff season 3 will probably be starting. Halo Infinite system is better than others for sure but older ways of unlocking content were way better.

Based on what I was just reading about how the voting works on TGA's (ratio of 90% critic jury/10% fan vote for most awards, with 100% fan vote on players choice), I am modifying my predictions somewhat. 

My early predictions for the 2021 TGA's:

GOTY Nominations (winner in Bold)

• It Takes Two
• Metroid Dread
• Ratchet & Clank
• Psychonauts 2
  
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Deathloop

Player's Choice

• Monster Hunter Rise (by far the most played game out of all the above GOTY nominations)

Best Game Direction

• Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)

Best Narrative

• It Takes Two

Best Sports/Racing

• Forza Horizon 5

Best RPG

• Tales of Arise

Best Action Game

• Deathloop

Best Action Adventure

• Monster Hunter Rise

Best Simulation/Strategy game

• Age of Empires 4

Best Family Game

• Mario Party Superstars if it qualifies since it's a remake of older Mario Party games, if it doesn't qualify, I have no idea what will win this

Best Art Direction

• Tossup between It Takes Two, Psychonauts, and Tales of Arise

Best Indie Game

• Death's Door

Best Multiplayer

• CoD Vanguard

Best Performance

• No idea on this one, on some years it is obvious who will win, because there will be some big actor who does voice and mo-cap for a narrative heavy game, but this year is unique in that there aren't any big narrative heavy games with big actors voicing and mo-capping a character. Going to make a random guess and say that it will be Jason E Kelley who voices the main character in Deathloop. 

Best Score/Music

• No idea, I haven't heard any of the music from the likely GOTY nominated games this year. If Halo had made the cutoff this would be an easy prediction.

Best Audio Design

• No idea, maybe Deathloop?

Best Ongoing Game

• Sea of Thieves deserves it for the Pirates of the Caribbean DLC, but will probably go to Fortnite or some other shitty battle royale

Most Anticipated

• Tossup between Elden Ring taking it a 2nd year in a row, or Horizon Forbidden West. Both games have the virtue of releasing early 2022, in February, giving them an advantage over later 2022 releases like God of War Ragnarok, Starfield, BOTW 2, and Bayonetta 3.

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.

Lol, I can drink monster and never really crash, though I don't get much of a high either. Coffee meanwhile which I rarely drink can easily give me the shakes.