Great episode, man this still blows me away how this thing was not already in the game at first. Story still had flaws but no wonder the base game at launch felt rushed and empty towards the back third of the game.
I don't mind when you start the last DLC. It'll be a fun ride whenever you decide to play it. I do see why some people would prefer it last in order to wash the bad taste the ending leaves in your mouth.
@topcyclist: Sorry about taking a shit on your game of the century. bud. It's just hard to get excited about a game that looks like the old ones and the only new take being an open world angle that has been beaten to death by an endless list of other games. I'm currently replaying the Halo games through MCC and currently going through 4 and to see yet another grunt fight within the first 60 seconds of gameplay of Infinite didn't exactly have me doubling over in excitement. In truth, it's my mistake for expecting something more out of a new Halo game taking place on a new Halo that proceeds to be more Halo.
They could also absolutely show me more to justify why this game will become yet another open world experience and I'll be all the more happy for it beyond my current stance of "sure I'll play this game on Game Pass" /shrug
Maybe I'm jaded but open world halo with a grapple gun didn't do much for me. Especially when the game jumped immediately into a grunt fight. Hope they have more to show.
Rest of the Xbox show was mainly OK but nothing that screams next gen like ps5 stream was. Only thing I got from the Xbox show is that game pass continues to be very compelling and I look forward to playing some of the games on PC.
Looking over the livestream again quickly, I'm now wondering -- was I watching a stream for games to convince me to buy a Xbox Series X, or was I watching a stream to convince me to get PC GamePass? I'm not entirely sure what the value proposition here is.
Dude, you hit the nail on the head here on what this stream was gunning for. They mentioned the Series X a couple times about how it's the most powerful box but the vast majority of the marketing here seems steered towards selling Game Pass and treating the Xbox brand as a broad platform for you to pick where you want to play these games on Game Pass whether it be a PC, older consoles, or next-gen.
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