Has anyone been watching the documentary series for Obsidian Entertainment? I just finished Part 3 and it's almost exclusively about the first Pillars of Eternity game lol. I don't mind it though. It was such a great game and reminded me that it kind of helped revitalize the CRPG genre. It was more or less a dead genre aside from the likes of Larian, Obsidian, and inXile. So much of a dead genre that Josh Sawyer said he partly credits the success of the first Pillars of Eternity game on nostalgia lol.

So it's sort of a miracle that Baldur's Gate 3 is even happening! Apparently years ago, Obsidian was given the chance to make Baldur's Gate 3 back in 2009 by Atari, but the budget just wasn't there and Atari ended up being sold to Bandai Namco leaving the deal dead. But I'm really happy that Larian was given the opportunity.

I'm looking forward to Part 4 that I'm assuming will pick up with Tyranny in 2016.

Are updates like this common (like every few months) or is this the first time in a while?

I'm planning to do a Halo marathon once I'm done with my Gears of War marathon.

You're making the big mistake of assuming that the average gamer out there is like us. In reality, 90% of gamers don't buy more than 20 games in an entire generation. None of those will ever own the complete collection of any publisher out there so it really doesn't matter if a Mega Man game skipped Xbox or not, Capcom fans will still buy an Xbox for Capcom games.

But it's true. If you're an ultra Atlus fan, don't buy an Xbox. However, ultra Atlus fans only make up .001% of the market, so no company other than Atlus should even care about them. Xbox now has P3P, P4G, P5R, Soul Hackers 2 and soon P5 Tactica and P3R. That's enough to draw in any person that has played at least one Atlus game before and who is deciding between Xbox, Nintendo and Playstation.

They are not. They used to be, but for the most part, MCC is pretty content complete. They've mainly been adding stuff that's entirely new or was originally cut.

At the most you'll get two updates a year. But I honestly don't know what else they can add that isn't already there. 

Splitscreen on PC is something they've said to be working on, but there's already hundreds of hours of content in MCC now.

Nice.

I'm guessing if you play the Xbox One/Series version - the achievements will automatically unlock on the Steam version like Gears 5?

I'll play MCC on my Xbox first if that is the case.

Yes! You're required to login to your Xbox Live account when you launch the Steam version of MCC. So any achievements you have in MCC, will automatically unlock the corresponding achievements on Steam. That's what I did! It was like 5 minutes of achievement pop ups lol

If you don't have MCC on Steam yet, the entire collection is only $10 for the next 3 days it has native Steam Workshop support as well and mods are as easy as pressing the subscribe button! My personal favorite is a bikini bottom map for Halo CE with Plankton as the announcer

EDIT: Here's the link! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900261691&searchtext=spongebob

You do know that there was a change in direction between where MS and gaming in general was going compared to when Don Matt was sent packing and Phil took over.  First, MS was actually getting out of PC gaming as they dropped a number of studios.  The concentration on non gaming iniatives like the Xbox one and the direction it signaled to a lot of gamers and developers at the time.  The lax in relationships that happen during the late 360 early XBox one era.

It appears to me that you have not paid attention to developments maybe because they are not moving fast for you or your expectations are out of line with how business work. Xbox one and Don direction killed a lot of momentum that MS had coming into that gen and it put them behind as we have noticed.  Those relationships do not just come back out of no where, it takes times to gain that trust back and also gain momentum when you have very competitive environment.  

So to boil this all down is that from what I have seen and what a lot of people have noticed is that nothing is ever good enough for you.  You seem to ignore progress, you ignore wins and you ignore anything that shows that MS continue to build and prosper relationships.  I on the other hand see MS trying to fill a diverse profolio of content for GP and games to the system in general.  A lot of these moves do not move the needle today because it takes way more than these moves to make any immediate change but in business you cannot always change the current but you can build to the future.

Even with your last statement it shows that you just have pretty much put up blinders on and fail to see the foundation that is right in front of your face.  Maybe you feel that MS has some magic wand called money that can solve all their problems but true relationships and gaining support is never solved by money.  You have to get on the ground and work those sources everyday in order to get true support.

Awesome!

I have MCC on both Xbox and Steam - got them for both $10 or $15 each in the past year or so lol.