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HIGH-BUDGET CASTLE CRASHERS SEQUEL YOU SAY??!!

My brother and I played like thousands of hours of that game back when we were kids!

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Almost as if some games improve in visual quality all the time up until release, which I haven’t been banging on for years.

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It’s why people should stop worrying about Avowed

The game is probably at least a year away from launch and the footage they had in the E3 trailer was already weeks, if not months and months old

Look at the jump Starfield had in the last year

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I think it was mostly just not optimised lighting in the open World bits because when it was showing inside that building it looked incredible, just as if it was a work in progress :sweat_smile:

Agreed. Plus, it’s Obsidian, and they haven’t let us down.

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https://x.com/inxile/status/1694733778282041726?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

These guys are treasure.

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My favourite Twitter account to follow.

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https://x.com/vgc_news/status/1694712901125501318?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

I think they announced it to please the fans. Maybe it was going to happen sooner but then Zenimax undergo difficultlies.

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Elder Scrolls with further Creation Engine 2 improvements that we see in Starfield gonna be something special.

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Wow. Leave it to the InXile guys to make a “faux Starfield” trailer that is actually a Hunter S. Thompson / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tribute. Classic.

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Did they confirm if Ara History Untold was aiming for a console release sometime after launch or no? The gameplay showings sold me on it, if I have to install it on my PC so be it but it would be nice to know if they’re going to do a console port at some point or not.

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I haven’t seen anything at the moment to indicate that, but it may depend on how well it does if they get the green light to spend more doing that. Kinda neat that it says several people at Oxide worked on Civ at Firaxis.

Just need Xbox to level up BGS’s mocap and facial capture. Environments etc are pretty great in Starfield. Imagine having Ninja theory like facial capture, would be insane. Elder Scrolls 6 alone could win the first 2 years of next gen for Xbox. That’s the power it holds.

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Think it’s just challenging to do at such a large scale. Hopefully advancements in AI will allow them to signifigantly improve in these areas at scale.

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Yeah, it won’t be possible for all the characters. but something like metahuman level in UE5 should be possible on a large scale.

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i have to imagine it will come a year later to xbox as that is what they have been doing to their PC games like AOE 2 & 4 and Flight Simulator

Probably shouldn’t even be thinking of Elder Scrolls 6 right now but damn. Just looking at all the insanity leading up to the Starfield launch, can’t imagine what it will be like for the next mainline Elder Scrolls game.

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Rockstar levels of hype.

Not GTA tier but certainly Red Dead Redemption levels of hype.

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BGS are certainly up there with Rockstar in terms of prestige and mainstream attention. Skyrim is the 7th best selling game of all time according to that GQ article.

Didn’t see this shared anywhere. Neat fairly long interview on porting Age 4 for console. There’s a fun quote in it:

“I was telling the creative director the other day, I can’t imagine us making another Age game without controller support.”

  • Chris Rubyor
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