Ecco The Dolphin soundtracks have been some of my sleepy mood music for like 15 years.

Do recommend. Very peaceful new-age music.

It's Final Fantasy 7. Not even Squeenix can mess it up. And you can tell they're putting a lot of love into it.

It'll be a day-1 buy once again.

Looks cool. Not sure if this is my cup of tea, but we'll see.

I really enjoyed stuff like Mech Warrior and Chromehounds. But this is very different. Never played an Armored Core game.

What an unmitigated disaster.

I know we tend to loathe heavy oversight from new ownership, and MS tends to try to be somewhat hands-off with developer studios...but sometimes projects need heavy oversight and changes demanded. For their own good.

Clearly MS' leadership needed to have closer eyes on this project. They can't afford black eyes on their new IPs. They don't have a big enough stable of new IPs to afford this kind of PR. I know Xbox appeals to the audience that never tires of Gears/Halo/Forza but the brand has to find a way to more reliably build trust in their ability to release new IPs from scratch. It feels like their golden age was the OG Xbox (because everything had to be a new IP) and the 360. Not sure what happened, but I'm not sure they've had new IPs that really hit it out of the park outside of Killer Instinct on the XOne, Ori, and Sea of Thieves. None of which are system-seller level releases despite all being excellent.

They still don't have their own Final Fantasy (could have been Mistwalker games had they kept them around). They still don't have their own Zelda (could have been Kameo if they had kept growing and iterating on that franchise). They still don't have their own Mario/Ratchet & Clank.

For the sake of their brand, I hope they figure it out a bit better.

because most people aren't terminally online. As such, explaining what's happening and why in detail becomes valuable for people who don't have all day like you do to inundate themselves with this information.

I mean, ultimately it's up to the developers to decide what FPS they target on a given console. There's no *requirement* for any game to target 60+ fps. It is, at best, a goal for internal studios, for which Starfield is only a new member of.

If Brad Smith isn't worried, they're good2go.

good call.

Is it that good? Do I need to turn on my PS5?

Give it to me straight

Expecting a good show. Capcom has been firing on all cylinders the last few years. A nice turnaround for them.