Microsoft leak shows Fallout 3 and Oblivion Remasters, DOOM Year Zero and more

Dishonored 3?

Dishonored 3?

Yeah that's the only one (next to DOOM 'year zero' or whatever) that piques my interest; though I don't know how exactly to feel about it given that (allegedly) people who made the orig. Dishonoreds & Prey all left Arkane, and (as an undeniable fact) their latest Vampire game got an awful reception.

Dishonored 3?

Yeah that's the only one (next to DOOM 'year zero' or whatever) that piques my interest; though I don't know how exactly to feel about it given that (allegedly) people who made the orig. Dishonoreds & Prey all left Arkane, and (as an undeniable fact) their latest Vampire game got an awful reception.

How you can say that with Licensed IP Game on there!?

Dishonored 3?

Yeah that's the only one (next to DOOM 'year zero' or whatever) that piques my interest; though I don't know how exactly to feel about it given that (allegedly) people who made the orig. Dishonoreds & Prey all left Arkane, and (as an undeniable fact) their latest Vampire game got an awful reception.

How you can say that with Licensed IP Game on there!?

Dunno; I've heard that 'Licensed IP Game' will be pretty barren -- all the content will come in microtransactions from the 'Licensed TCP Store', or something of that sort.

I could go for a Fallout 3 remaster.

I honestly wonder how that Fallout 3 remaster will look like.
Starfield and all the bugs I've seen so far doesn't make me hopeful.

All exclusive, thank god they don't believe there's a console war and it's all a let's be happy together and enjoy gaming.

I honestly wonder how that Fallout 3 remaster will look like.
Starfield and all the bugs I've seen so far doesn't make me hopeful.

Have you actually played Starfield, or just watched click-bait YouTube videos? Because my experience in over 40 hours of play is that it actually has very few significant bugs, and the graphics are often quite gorgeous.

I decided long ago that Microsoft shouldn't get any of my money. Thanks for the list of stuff I don't need to spend money on :P

Curious what they could do with the Indiana Jones name... a Tomb Raider type game, or will they go the ScummVM route and make a point and click adventure... I'd be more tempted by the latter.

I still haven't beaten Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal, which is weird as I've won most of the Doom games... Skipped Starfield, I've literally seen videos saying No Man's Sky is way better (and that one is rather fun now they've added so much more to it.)

As a student of history, any time I see "year zero" I am reminded of the communist concept of year zero. This was actually enacted once, by Pol Pot, and contends that "all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and that a new revolutionary culture must replace it starting from scratch. In this sense, all of the history of a nation or a people before Year Zero would be largely deemed irrelevant, because it would ideally be purged and replaced from the ground up."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)

I decided long ago that Microsoft shouldn't get any of my money. Thanks for the list of stuff I don't need to spend money on :P

I would actually be willing to overlook my vindictive dislike for Microsoft, but what I won't overlook is that eventually they are going to tie everything to their "UWP" rubbish interfaces. We'll be lucky if they leave old Bethesda titles alone when they start converting games. I wouldn't trust them to be the gatekeeper of my snot.

Oh well, they can't touch my GoG Fallout 3. I'd otherwise love a remaster of that game, for me Fallout 3 was the best of them.

I'd love a remaster of Fallout 3, but beyond that I want them to never touch the franchise ever again. Fallout 4 was an okay FPS, but a trash RPG and a trash Fallout game, it comes off as if they have no respect for the lore and setting and make these games with only goal being to make a Fallout flavored rollercoaster.
What I really need in life is remasters of Fallout 1 and 2, not sure if I would want it to be an FPS... But a realtine combat option like in Tactics would be hugely appreciated. Frankly the main thing I can't stomach about those old games anymore is just the camera and how it moves tile by tile rather than smoothly across the screen, also the camera does not follow the player, there is a key that centers te player on screen and you can use an autoclicker to press that button frequently, but with the tile movement of the camera it's nauseatingpy choppy

I honestly wonder how that Fallout 3 remaster will look like.
Starfield and all the bugs I've seen so far doesn't make me hopeful.

Have you actually played Starfield, or just watched click-bait YouTube videos? Because my experience in over 40 hours of play is that it actually has very few significant bugs, and the graphics are often quite gorgeous.

I'm currently on Baldurs Gate 3 but did get Starfield as a gift recently , just have not had time to try it.
Haven't really watched youtube , just what i saw on some meme sites and those bugs were weird. Was planning to wait for a few patches to be honest but will see. Opinion was divided between it's good to it's empty/buggy.

I honestly wonder how that Fallout 3 remaster will look like.
Starfield and all the bugs I've seen so far doesn't make me hopeful.

Have you actually played Starfield, or just watched click-bait YouTube videos? Because my experience in over 40 hours of play is that it actually has very few significant bugs, and the graphics are often quite gorgeous.

I'm currently on Baldurs Gate 3 but did get Starfield as a gift recently , just have not had time to try it.
Haven't really watched youtube , just what i saw on some meme sites and those bugs were weird. Was planning to wait for a few patches to be honest but will see. Opinion was divided between it's good to it's empty/buggy.

I'm 20 hours into Starfield and... It's rather dry on the writing side, but the main gameplay loop is decently fun, just feels like more Fallout 4 just in a notably less interestingly setting.
Waiting on a ground vehicle mod, hell if Bethesda they just copied and pasted the horses from Skyrim I would've been happy. Running hundreds of meters from waypoint to waypoint when surveying a planet, constantly running out of breath, feels really silly.


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Just buy Activision and fix the old CODs and price them properly. That's all I want from Microsoft.

I wonder if the Oblivion Remaster is really in the pipe and what that would mean for Skyblivion?

That Indy game better be more like Fate of Atlantis and less like Crystal Skull or Destiny crap, Mircosoft!

I wonder if the Oblivion Remaster is really in the pipe and what that would mean for Skyblivion?

Came here for this comment. Would be horrible to see Skyblivion getting embrace, extend, and extinguish treatment.

Came here for this comment. Would be horrible to see Skyblivion getting embrace, extend, and extinguish treatment.

It would get the "cease and desist" treatment if Microsoft tries to re-monetize Oblivion.

Just buy Activision and fix the old CODs and price them properly. That's all I want from Microsoft.

They still want $20 for the original 2003 COD 1, which won't even work correctly on most people's modern systems (unsupported display resolutions, directx and drivers etc.)

That's worthy of mockery.