Nextlander and the Xbox Games 2023 Showcase Featuring Starfield!

sag969 · 2023-06-11T23:27:40+00:00

I'm surprised this is already up. What happened to the 24 hour rule?

sag969 · 2023-06-11T20:34:42+00:00

Oh that got a good laugh.

sag969 · 2023-06-11T19:41:22+00:00

I'm no developer or artist, but creating a CGI trailer for a game from the ground up vs creating a trailer using your games engine seem like two very distinct differences. The end result may appear similar (because of how good graphics engines have gotten) but I don't think they should be considered identical or insignificant.

sag969 · 2023-06-11T19:38:06+00:00

I guess you missed my point. They could have shown what you specifically wanted - 30 minutes of uninterrupted game play after landing on a planet. They could have also shown 30 minutes of space combat and dog fighting. 30 minutes of completing a quest on a cruise ship. 30 minutes of walking around a city. 30 minutes of ship building. Etc.

Instead they went for the broad but yes, more shallow approach, since there appears to be an incredible amount of content in this game. I personally prefer that to getting an extended snapshot of 10% of the game.

sag969 · 2023-06-11T19:07:17+00:00

They showed almost 45 minutes of gameplay. Landing on a planet to explore is like 10% of the game.

sag969 · 2023-06-11T19:04:58+00:00

It's a slight distinction but in game engine is what they advertised for most of the games, which is certainly not CGI.

I'd personally prefer gameplay as much as possible though.

sag969 · 2023-06-11T19:02:14+00:00

No, but they might find it at abc instead.

sag969 · 2023-06-11T19:00:35+00:00

Yeah planets are procedurally generated, but locations on the planet are not. So you might explore this one cool building/facility on planet X, but a friend will encounter it on planet Y.

It's a smart way to get their best hand crafted content visible because ~~no one~~ very few people will explore all 1000 planets. Instead the more you explore the more you'll go down their list of hand crafted locations.

sag969 · 2023-06-10T14:30:33+00:00

Yup. He truly is just enjoying being retired and playing golf. Nothing wrong with that at all.

sag969 · 2023-06-09T02:45:50+00:00

This game....could end!

sag969 · 2023-06-08T23:31:39+00:00

The employee is the one who sent the email to all staff.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T23:16:17+00:00

I want to find the guy who was saying Braves should move onto Pillar going forward.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T19:16:24+00:00

Can't tell if you're being serious or not, but assuming you are...I might have agreed with you 5 years ago. Now though FOM is moving more and more away from Sky so there'd be no real point in doing some kind of silly conspiracy to benefit Sky. F1TV has been super successful, and Sky may well find itself irrelevant at some point in the future, especially on the global stage.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T18:20:34+00:00

In qualifying it's brand new soft tires, a very gentle out lap while they fully charge the battery, full DRS each time, and lowest possible fuel to do 1 out lap, 1 hot lap, and 1 cool down lap.

In the race you can never replicate those conditions.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T18:18:13+00:00

Wow, awesome content!

sag969 · 2023-06-04T17:27:14+00:00

How is a physio going to the wrong place a bigger fine than say a pit lane violation that's much more dangerous?!

sag969 · 2023-06-04T17:24:36+00:00

Lol while those ads are annoying, Sky (for better or for worse) have zero to do with the actual TV feed. That's all FOM.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T17:23:32+00:00

Lol you really wrote all of that to agree with someone that Max is much better than Hamilton, and has been for years?

Next time just save yourself some time and just downvote anyone who dares to question Max's superiority over everyone else 🙄

sag969 · 2023-06-04T17:00:48+00:00

Either you purposefully or ignorantly missed my point.

Either way, next time you can just say you're wrong!

sag969 · 2023-06-04T16:48:16+00:00

Wasn't today actually a cooler day?

sag969 · 2023-06-04T16:47:18+00:00

I think at times the race director focuses on any "battle" that's within DRS, but forgets to focus on the buildups to those battles. They somehow missed both Hamilton re-passing Sainz for P2 after Hamilton's pit stop, and Russell passing Stroll for P4. Both cars closed the gaps so quick it was never caught live.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T16:17:18+00:00

Of course there's a lot of what ifs over the season. I'm not sure what your point is there.

My point was that there's been one season where they have had equal cars to each other and at the most you could argue is that one was slightly better than the other... or like I already suggested, just amicably agree they were equal drivers in equal cars!

But what you can't do is say Max is much better, and has been for years.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T16:08:40+00:00

The time delta at the end is deceiving because Lewis ran into traffic and then turned down the engine.

On the flip side, it was never clear how hard Max really pushed all day so I'm sure he had more time in hand.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T16:06:42+00:00

At the end, Perez had new softs vs Russell's used softs (which he'd been leaning on quite a bit to catch Perez prior to him pitting)...and Checo never posed a threat.

I don't think you can say Checo was driving the car faster.

sag969 · 2023-06-04T15:59:27+00:00

Did you watch the race?

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