MasterLeePhD
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Would love this! I actually tweeted the same thing back when Gamescom was on.
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Phil says January is time to talk about games for Windows
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Would love this! I actually tweeted the same thing back when Gamescom was on.
ebullientprism
Member
Killer Instinct & MCC featuring crossplay with One
KI should be ok. MCC definitely not. Its insane how much of an advantage a mouse would have over the gamepad when it comes to FPS.
A lot of games really should have cross play though. Makes the community pool much larger. Especially for games that dont have that big of a player base.
TouchMyBox
Member
To the people talking about windows 6.1 and whatnot, read this article.
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ion-6-any-more-and-why-it-will-probably-work/
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ion-6-any-more-and-why-it-will-probably-work/
To provide the appearance of a strategy without having a strategy.
Killer Instinct & MCC featuring crossplay with One
hahaha, Yes as the way to help a console sell is to have them slaughtered by people using mouse and keyboard....
Maintenance
Member
Unless they revive GFWL, then I'll laugh my ass off.
LukasTaves
Member
Vista-8 remained on 6.X kernel because when Ms moved from 5.0 to 6.0 on vista it broke many applications that used kernel number to check if they were able to run on the system or not.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Ori will probably feature prominently.
I guess we might get a Killer Instinct announcement and hopefully there's a D4 announcement in there as well. This game deserves to be experienced by as many people as possible.
I guess we might get a Killer Instinct announcement and hopefully there's a D4 announcement in there as well. This game deserves to be experienced by as many people as possible.
Jaded Alyx
Member
"Gaming on Windows" sounds like PC to me.
It is actually crazy if you think about it- when the first Xbox came out, MS had one of the best hardcore PC line-ups of all big publishers. Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, MechWarrior, MechCommander, Crimson Skies, MS Flight Simulator... And then they went and killed three of the most prestigious PC development studios within three years -.-
I really hope that the recent success of some of their Steam remakes for AoE and RoN convinces them that they can be successful on both PC and console, and not just with quick and dirty ports, but dedicated games for each.
I really hope that the recent success of some of their Steam remakes for AoE and RoN convinces them that they can be successful on both PC and console, and not just with quick and dirty ports, but dedicated games for each.
Felix Lighter
Member
Valve is really pulling a fast one on all those devs and publishers. Taking a retailer cut for "doing nothing at all." They really should strap all their releases to a new PC digital platform, GFWL was such a smashing success for them.
gaming_noob
Member
Gears of War 1-3 Collection
Rare Bundle (Conker, Banjo Kazooie 1+2, Viva Pinata).
My wild guesses. That might get some people excited.
Rare Bundle (Conker, Banjo Kazooie 1+2, Viva Pinata).
My wild guesses. That might get some people excited.
I H8 Memes
Member
I'm going to echo some of the smarter posts in this thread and say I would rather get nothing at all from MS then to take the risk of having them involved in PC gaming again.
ChosenPredator
Banned
I expect to see alot of INDIE games like BELOW/ORI so on so forth
cyberheater
PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 Xbone PS4 PS4
I expect absolutely fuck all from MS when it comes to PC gaming.
Those are much more than wild guesses but I would welcome a Gears trilogy (even the raw, non remastered versions which will likely be Xbox One exclusive) with open arms.
Fantastic games.
ISee
Member
DX 12 exklusive to win10 so you have to upgrade. That will be all.
SerTapTap
Member
You know in your heart that's not happening. They killed it
On the one hand, yes. On the other, it seems they are setting up an all-new studio, "Decisive Games":
https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?jid=164301
"Team: The Decisive Games team is focused on world class strategy game development, and is building a studio that will bring the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise to the next generation of gamers around the world."
Ha, remember that scare of MS wanting to sell off the Xbox brand?, maybe with this Win 10 they are slowly moving it into something else until there is no Xbox and only Win 10.
Iirc didn't Phil also tweet something along the lines of thinking strategy games will be the genre that sees a resurgence this generation? I thin this whole windows 10 unified is for pretty much all their devices, as well as their "One Store", might lead to them creating "Xbox for windows" and trying to bridge the gap between the two in some way.
In any case, I'm steering well clear of any service they do towards pc gaming for several years till they can prove it won't be a collosal mess and completely unfriendly to the user
I would not mind Microsoft competing with Steam with a store of their own so as long as they have something valuable to offer.
So basically, we'll never get to play Xbox One games in 1080p?
If this was to happen (as i hope) think about the negatives over the positives. In a few years when hardware moves forward you would able to have an xbox one tablet that you carry around with a controller...awesome
I don't see them trying their hand at a new service of their own again anytime soon- they have released a few games that make extensive use of the Steamworks feature set recently, including the Age of Empires and Rise of Nations Steam Editions.
Miles Quaritch
Member
If it actually tries to be a proper twin stick shooter and not some crappy hybrid, it could turn out pretty great.
cyberheater
PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 Xbone PS4 PS4
The megaton to end all megatons.
I H8 Memes
Member
So many new pc gamers in this thread. On the one hand it's nice to see more people gaming on pc recently. On the other hand it fucking sucks to see so many people with no clue as to just how toxic MS is to pc gaming. We are only just now starting to get rid of these clowns.
I'm kinda hoping DX12 is a flop so I can stay on Windows 7 for a few more years [especially if it affects compatibility?]
Microsoft just for some reason can't make the OS I want them to make. I'm not going to learn another crappy one.
They could blow so many minds with cool OS options. Nope.
They'll probably find a way to sneak in ads too.
Microsoft just for some reason can't make the OS I want them to make. I'm not going to learn another crappy one.
They could blow so many minds with cool OS options. Nope.
They'll probably find a way to sneak in ads too.
We won't hear anything about it before Halo MCC is fixed, so late 2015 probably.
alexandros
Banned
With all their talk about being a software and cloud company first and the fact that they're making their services cross-platform across the board, I would hope that they'll take advantage of the W10 launch to commit to releasing all of their Xbox exclusives on PC and finally unifying the two platforms in a meaningful way. But, this being Microsoft, I expect at best a couple of throwaway games for the Windows Store and at worst the GFWL corpse somehow springing back to life.
Bright-Light
Member
Would be cool if they brought in cross buy like PS3/4 and vita has.
So any game bought for xbox, you get cross buy on pc.
So any game bought for xbox, you get cross buy on pc.
alexandros
Banned
There is a very, very slim chance that this might actually happen at some point. Rahul Sood works at Microsoft and he was one of the big proponents of the idea that the Xbox should have been every PC. Here's what he said back in 2010:
Microsoft Killed a Killer Project
I never thought I would be more disappointed in the industry then when Microsoft killed Ensemble Studios. ..however nothing surprises me anymore
Rumor has it that there was a project many many months ago at Microsoft that was under wraps. The goal was to bridge XBOX gamers with PC Gamers so they could play against one another in games like Unreal, or Gears of War. This was all part of their Live strategy, and had Microsoft just stuck to their guns and made it work PC Gaming might be in a much better position than it is today.
Not to say that PC Gaming is in a bad position, but it's not like it used to be. The PC is shifting, as I've said many times over the last couple of years. The need for multiple high performance graphics cards is all but dead. You can play any PC Game on an HP Envy at high resolution with high detail, for example. PCs are becoming more mobile, form factors are shifting, touch is being embraced as well as other technologies. The word "PC" is dead, but the concept of personal computing isn't. ..but this isn't the point.
There was a project that got killed at Microsoft. This project was designed to allow console gamers and PC gamers to interact and battle over a connected environment. Personally I wish it would have stayed the course. I've heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game... and guess what happened? They pitted console gamers with their "console" controller, against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse.
The console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative. Is this why the project was killed Who knows, but I'd love to hear from anyone involved --- what happened?
Those of us who have been in the gaming business for over a decade know the real deal. You simply don't get the same level of detail or control as you do with a PC over a console. It's a real shame that Microsoft killed this -- because had they kept it alive it might have actually increased the desire of game developers and gamers alike to continue developing and playing rich experiences on the PC which would trickle down to the console as it has in the past.
Instead they wanted to keep an old business model alive, and as a result they are (all) getting attacked by the most unlikely competitor.. Apple.
..had they allowed something like this to take place then perhaps the desire to have the best platform would still be there. Perhaps the scale of the PC would have allowed Microsoft to get away from the hardware business and focus on their core, software. Perhaps we could have finally integrated the XBOX into the PC...
Perhaps not, all of this is over now, there is no looking back.
The question is, do we want this to happen, now that PC gaming already has a caretaker of sorts?
dancrane212
Member
Up to 2003 MS was pretty fantastic on PC, which Phil Spencer was involved in as a developer at that time (I believe he worked on Rise of Nations). To bring games like MechWarrior, Age of Empires and the like back to PC would be anything but toxic.
GFW was bad, no doubt about that, but I won't write off all those years of great support because of it. Hoping for the best from this conference!
LukasTaves
Member
"Xbox is now a platform, an app you can install on any Pc. And xbone is now a Pc with the xbox app already installed, but that will run other Pc apps!"
Ingueferroque
Banned
That would be revolutionary, I just hope Gwfl won't have an actual client again.. We just got out of that ghetto with many games. I want Steamworks.
CecilRousso
Member
You should write off those years of support, since it was so long time ago, and GFWL really was that bad. You can only live on old merites for so long.
The one good thing they have done the recent years (well, the recent ports were nice I guess) is that they handled GFWL so bad, that a new attempt with something similiar should be impossible for them now. They really ran that crapfest into the ground as hard as they could.