The only game updated for MCC (including offline rendered CG cutscenes made by Blur Studios) was Halo 2 so I think you may be confusing Halo CE with Halo 2 there. Let's call it Halo 2 Anniversary. That game was remastered quite well and kept the artistic intent largely in-tact from the original.

Halo CE also received a 10 year anniversary "remaster" but that was before MCC in 2011. It was called Halo: CE Anniversary, was released originally on the 360, and it was included in MCC. I'm calling both Halo: CE Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary remasters instead of remakes because the graphics were fully redone but the actual game logic was running on the original engine so that the games played identically to their older counterparts. 

And yeah, the majority of the Halo community agrees that Halo: CE Anniversary was a poorly done remaster in terms of not paying enough respect to the original vision, design, and atmosphere of Halo: CE. So I can understand that fans of the original game wouldn't mind that one getting another shot. 

I'd personally rather they spent the time and resources trying to build a more exciting future for the franchise instead of squeezing the past for all its worth and potentially screwing up in the process. I know the executive team at 343 has completely changed but with how the series has been treated for the last decade plus, the doubt in my head going into anything they'd show that is trying to relive the past would give them quite the uphill battle in instilling confidence. 

Good thing this is releasing before Civilization VII does. Ara can use all the spotlight they can get. I'm excited to finally check this out. I played a couple of the closed alphas playtests, and it has incredibly strong bones. But I haven't seen yet what exactly propels itself in the 4X genre.

In Civilization I usually go with Communism to boost production early in the game until my population starts to fail and revolt then I switch to Democracy although I'm curious how a Dictatorship may work in my favor in Ara! Just how far can I go......

Either way I'm nuking the hell out of my foes @NobleTeam360 join me in my quest for world domination! Until you're my only foe remaining

Finally bought Starlink, I waited so long but 8 Euro is just a good deal (it is on sale right now) funny how I clicked on buy and it send me to the Ubisoft subcription that's more expensive than the game....

Anyway it is smooth and I guess some of the team helped with star wars outlaws.

Already finished it yesterday

Another Xbox play time update.

My last update was from February '24.

Played lots of long games in the past few months, so there are four newcomers this time around.

Persona 3 Reload made it to #8 after I got all of the achievements. No idea how long the DLC is going to be but it should rise a few spots once the DLC is out.

Fallout 4 joins the list on #10 with pretty much exactly 72 hours played. Got all the achievements here as well (including DLC).

Finally got around to play Red Dead Redemption 2 after realizing that a) there's not going to be a 60 FPS patch for Series X and b) even if they did the work, they would lock it behind a paywall (new version) as they did with GTA V. Full story playthrough took me 60 hours. Much much longer than RDR1 back in the days.

Lastly, Tales of Arise made it to #23 with 51 hours played (it says 61 hours on TA but I left the game unattended very often so I'm using the play time from the save file). Not my favourite so I'm not sure if I'm ever going to play the DLC...

The following games got kicked out of the top 25:
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (47h), Forza Horizon 3 (46h), Octopath Traveler (46h), Dragon Quest XI S (46h)
You'll all be missed.

Recent games I played that didn't make the list:
Brotato (37h), Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (31h), Chained Echoes (30h), Diablo IV (22h)

Confirmation that the first expansion will be the disliked community made Chinese pantheon. So they're completely reworking the Chinese. I'm guessing the second expansion will be the Japanese pantheon. I can't really think of many other civilizations with notable mythologies. Roman mythology perhaps?

My most anticipated game getting glowing praise though!

*flees in terror* 

I can't wait though!

Midori turned out to be some random white American dude pretending to be a Japanese female 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂