But if it does end up getting a date after June I just hope it will be July or August, not all the way to the end of the year. If what Rand said is correct, that some stuff needs polishing still, you’d think a delay all the way to November wouldn’t be needed.
True too. Although it did not shock me about Forza. Not after what the devs had said not very long ago. The way it was worded it just didn’t sound like a game that was a full lock for the first half.
I’m confident that Todd doesn’t want to come out on stage/in a stream and have another big deep dive and still no release. He’ll want to bring that news in the show for sure.
I’m by far the only person here who wants Starfield in November. lol
My first half of 2023 is packed. Excluding Mort, I don’t know how anyone could not have a stacked first half of 2023. June is Diablo IV month. I don’t want two gigantic games in the same month. If Hellblade 2 isn’t ready for the Fall, then again, there will be an empty gap. I don’t understand why people want everything bunched together and then will complain when there’s a massive gap.
Seriously, let’s spread the games out Phil. No reason to stack every game on top of one another.
There’s so many games this year it’s ridiculous, there will be no shortage of things of play, hell I had more than enough last year and that was with barely any big games compared to this year
and the more polished this game is at release the better so November is fine for me
Yeah, I won’t be playing Diablo so having Starfield before November would be great for me. Plus I guarantee no matter when it comes out it’ll get updates for fixes after release because it’ll be too complicated to have no bugs on release no matter how much time they have, time played by “real people” will surpass QA hours quite quickly due to having millions of people playing and trying stuff that no one in their right mind would test for
So even if it does come out before Nov, you could have it as a November release in your headcanon.
Hahaha. True but I would prefer it to be released in November. Don’t want any gaps plus when a new game that I want to play releases, I want to play it but im not Jesse, I can’t play a bunch of games at the same time. Hehehe.
I’m mostly bugged about the lack of shadows and the not so great anti aliasing, the latter especially stands out in the houses. I wish we could just have clean games forever now, damn. Gears 5, RDR2, Monster Hunter Rise etc, clean.
Well, they had me at the Far Cry/STALKER comparison. I still wouldn’t have jumped in day one if it wasn’t for Game Pass but the singleplayer looks good. Lots of exploration, maps to clear etc.
Haha. I don’t want every game to be realistic visually. I love Immortals Fenyx Rising and that’s not realistic whatsoever. I do want Microsoft to give me a few which they are (Starfield, Hellblade 2, Fable, Indiana Jones, Gears 6, Perfect Dark and The Elder Scrolls VI) and I want other games too.
I like Microsoft’s direction of more variety and more genres instead of just doing the same thing over and over. Don’t get me wrong, I like those realistic games too but im very happy with Microsoft’s direction thus far.
The Far Cry comparison is great for me since I love Far Cry. I never played the original Stalker but Stalker 2 looks great and I know 4A Games who made Metro were from the original Stalker game so im in with that too.
Back to Redfall, solo play looks great and I love that I don’t have any AI team mates with me as all they ever do is get in my way.
Wouldn’t it be beautiful if BGS was misleading some insiders intentionally and this February or March at the latest they have the show and drop a concrete June release date for the game? Ideally earlier, man I would have loved this as a March release.
Not sure that I remember this correctly, but I think one whole year ago people were saying that the game was already in the “polishing stage” meaning it was basically done and playable from start to finish and they were simply perfecting things or fixing bugs, pretty sure I heard jez saying something like that too.
Thats why I was actually surprised with the delay, redfall was pretty obvious but with starfield, j remember thinking if the game was finished basically 9 months before release how is it getting delayed? That’s why I’m still hopeful for an earlier release than most expect too.
Yep, same here. The delay surprised me too, of all games I really thought that was a lock, especially due to Todd doubling down about three times. That’s why I think it’s quite important that they manage to drop in this first half, otherwise words are just words. And I do realize that in game development anything can change, but man the wait has been so long.
Going by what Jez and Rand said it sounds like it can still go both ways, but then we had NateTheHate with being a firm believer of the first half now. At the end of the day it’s just rumblings and stuff they heard, but it’s all we got. Until the show happens, I’m sure. But fingers crossed for some good news, I need this to not get pushed again, Xbox needs it, it just would be a great look.
We’ll see. I think Starfield is gone to do some crazy shit. They are up to something. Todd now with Xbox money and backing might get his wish and release the game as close as possible to the announce release date.
I could be totally wrong about this.
I think Hi-Fi Rush shadow drop is them testing the waters for bigger things to come.
I believe they will have the show pretty close to release. My guess would be sometime in the spring and then release like a month later.
I would be very surprised if they delayed it by very much from the original release date, like @Staffy says they trippled down on that date so it shouldn’t be that long of a delay.
Good point. Howard likes a very short marketing campaign. So we possibly might not hear anything about a show in February, or we do, but they announce it will be in March or even April.
