"pot committed?" 

huh.

If Bungie comes back home it need to come with a new game announcement from them.

Oh great.. fucking bees, can imagine giants wasps/hornets. We may need to change our base location pimp. 

Glad they sped up the combat on the toads. Probably won't be able to beat level 1 though

Wasteland 2 was excellent. What it lacked to be top notch was money. While Wasteland 3 didn't get AAA budget, Microsoft helped them a little bit this time around. They were able to delay it twice to improve the presentation. 

I think it will have an average of 85-90 on Metacritic.

While I enjoy the games, I always found the series over-rated. 

The way that it was looking they were probably going to release the campaign with several missing features like proper next-gen lighting, and the multiplayer with barebones features, modes and maps.

It would've been a bad look with people already trying to tag it with 'GaaS' and make it seem like they were cheaping out on certain aspects for launch, and just planning to fix it over time while also implementing unpopular mtx features.

For this game to really deliver as a proper Halo, it needs to release with the full Halo experience from day one. It can't skimp out on anything, regardless of what their plans are for future content and supporting it over time.

I'll also say that I'd be insanely pissed if they cut the Xbox One version after having just bought an Xbox One X. However, if that's the only way they can feasibly finish the game properly for next-gen (which wouldn't make sense to me, since it's basically fine in it's current state for Xbox One, with just a few little details needed), then I could possibly understand.

The game would have to really deliver though. It couldn't be another Halo 5 or even 4 type effort, if they're going to that length of broken promises. They're walking on thin ice as is, so it really would have to be a return to form, not just a solid or even disappointing outing.

If they were to pull that off though, I'd obviously have no choice but to get a Series X.

On the topic of what Xbox should do around launch without a big exclusive, my original thought when advocating for a delay on Halo was they should just write a check to CDPR to get Cyberpunk on Game Pass. I've come to realise that's fairly unrealistic though.

What they could do, is pay CDPR to finish the next-gen version of Cyberpunk sooner for Xbox, futher their sponsorship deal and make another exclusive bundle with the next-gen version and Xbox Series X a few months after launch.

As much as I hate this in general, they could even 'moneyhat' the next-gen version for a year of exclusivity. Especially since it'll no doubt look a whole lot better on next-gen. PS5 owners will still get the game through backwards compatibility anyway, so it wouldn't be that bad.

That would also help with the narrative of displaying the extra power of Series X, with a game that should look worlds better on the system.

THQ Nordic acquires 4A Games. We can cross them off the list of potential MS acquisitions.