Ammogeddon
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Oof that’s a pretty meaty delay. Oh well.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 delayed until December 8th (Up: Confirmed)
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Javthusiast
Banned
Release dates.
Stop believing the first announcement, probably even the second.
Stop believing the first announcement, probably even the second.
Guilhermegrg
Member
Good. Make it right
kingfey
Banned
They delt with Halo delay. Stalker delay wont hurt them, since gamepass exist.
kingfey
Banned
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Topher
Gold Member
And feel that dirt. We have no shortage of games, brothers. Time to calm the fuck down.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
I bought XSX's for a backlog of games? I could of played those games on a One X if it was a backlog I was interested in.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
How without 2022 games?
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Backlog doesn't necessarily mean last gen only games lol.
Anyway, we're all bummed out at this delay but it's better the game got delayed than release in a broken state. But to say there's no games to play is just a massive overstatement.
Crossfire is releasing in a few weeks, that's your next Xbox console exclusive.
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kingfey
Banned
from november 2020 to july 2021, xbox didnt have any 1st party games. and the only timed exclusive game was the medium.
Xbox guys have gamepass. and gamepass have day1 games. Their 1st exclusive game is this summer redfall. Stalker 2 is just 3-6 month timed exclusive. It wont change their line up.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Exclusive lineups is why I buy different gaming devices. If they didn't matter I wouldn't game on more than one device.
No exclusive games releasing any time soon isn't a massive overstatement.
Well yeah ultimately if the extra time is going to help than it had to be done.
No reason now that multiplayer shouldn't be in at launch(was delayed)
Well crossfire looks like shit but I am hopeful.
kingfey
Banned
you need to look at the long term, when you buy a console. not just the current lineup. We are 1 year and 3 month in to this new console journey now.
Xbox long term lineup is interesting. Same thing for nintendo and playstation. We are glad, its isnt like last gen, when nintendo and playstation were firing all their games.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
Well this is kind of ridiculous because the delay is so late. Also why not just delay a year? This will be less than 1 month after Starfield releases. Do they really expect the same level of engagement that they would if it is not coming so soon after people just finish a major RPG? I tend to want something lighter after spending the equivalent of 1-2 work weeks playing a game.
Lognor
Banned
Oh really? SP is not part of GP? Fuuuuuuuu! Well that stinks. Hopefully MS rectifies that.
Lognor
Banned
Yeah, I guess I'll do the same. It's funny that it is still showing up under Coming soon, but they've updated the release date already.
Lupin25
Member
Likely. Day one on gamepass as a next-gen timed-exclusive?
…yeah it’s safe to say they’re probably not too concerned about sales, unless they’re greedy.
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Just recently put $200 on my account for the Ultimate Edition.
Thank goodness I didn't add it to my cart.
Looks like I'll consider Dying Light 2 instead.
remember_spinal
Banned
Soon in dog years
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Welp. That sucks.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
You didn't understand my post or something?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bruh you already replied to the same post earlier on this very page, with less snark even, lol.
Someone's celebrating the weekend a little too early
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
LOL that explains it!Bruh you already replied to the same post earlier on this very page, with less snark even, lol.
Someone's celebrating the weekend a little too early
Oddly got it like a new notification.
My apologies.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
It's not enough for "most people", yet they've essentially sold close to 12 million units between the S & X so far. Yep, "most people" definitely aren't satisfied, apparently.
Again, if it's your own personal, subjective opinion, then fine. But going by objective measures of quality such as review scores, your opinion is objectively incorrect. As in, in terms of objectivity.
I wonder if the NFTs stuff was more ingrained than some are thinking and they have to rework big parts of the game to take that out? Just a thought...
Kagey K
Banned
Around here people only play exclusives or on PC 3090XXX pc.
You have to learn to ignore the bubble, as most of Gafs tastes rarely align with real world gamers.
remember_spinal
Banned
Why do people keep bringing up cyberpunk when it got almost exactly the same delay from April to december?
Yeah + you can really see who here is a casual Xbox player who knows nothing about the series.
The original STALKER was delayed like 5 to 10 times and released 4 years after its original launch date (I am not exagerating), and still it released totally broken beyond what anyone could imagine (Cyberpunk was in a polished state next to it, believe or not).
I could totally envision a similar state of affair for the second one. This series is like ultimate eurojank.
Mercenary09
Member
The previews for Crossfire X Campaign weren't good and the people who played the MP beta last year said it played like ass so good luck with that.
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Mercenary09
Member
Just LOL at anyone in here who thinks Microsoft magically has something planned for Jan-May this year. That isn't how things work. Big games don't just shadow drop like that. It's going to be a repeat of last year where you get nothing from them until at least July. Those assuming Redfall is coming this year may want to shut up before it's the next game delayed. We haven't even seen a single frame of in-game footage from it yet but sure automatically assume it's coming this year. Some people never learn.
I also don't know why people in here are acting like Sony had nothing after Ratchet last year. Not true at all. They had the Director's Cuts for both Death Stranding and Ghost last fall and they had secured other big titles as exclusives too such as Deathloop, Kena, Solar Ash, and Five Night's at Freddy's Security Breach. If you think those games weren't big deals then go look at the PlayStation Store sales charts where most of those did very well.
As for the first half of this year we know Sony has Horizon, GT7, Uncharted Remastered, Moss 2, Forspoken, Ghostwire Tokyo (which should be getting a date soon). Then the second half will likely have God of War or something from Naughty Dog plus potentially PSVR 2 and games for it. Final Fantasy 16 is also still a possibility for this fall as we heard it was supposed to launch in 2021. They aren't in Microsoft's position with nothing in the first half and questionable stuff that hasn't even been shown for the second half. We've at least seen in game footage already for God of War.
I also don't know why people in here are acting like Sony had nothing after Ratchet last year. Not true at all. They had the Director's Cuts for both Death Stranding and Ghost last fall and they had secured other big titles as exclusives too such as Deathloop, Kena, Solar Ash, and Five Night's at Freddy's Security Breach. If you think those games weren't big deals then go look at the PlayStation Store sales charts where most of those did very well.
As for the first half of this year we know Sony has Horizon, GT7, Uncharted Remastered, Moss 2, Forspoken, Ghostwire Tokyo (which should be getting a date soon). Then the second half will likely have God of War or something from Naughty Dog plus potentially PSVR 2 and games for it. Final Fantasy 16 is also still a possibility for this fall as we heard it was supposed to launch in 2021. They aren't in Microsoft's position with nothing in the first half and questionable stuff that hasn't even been shown for the second half. We've at least seen in game footage already for God of War.
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Papacheeks
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Yea, I mean what we saw of Stalker 2 was a monumental jump in fidelity just in animation, and in skill. They have beefed up in terms of talent. It sucks that this Unreal 5 delay is fucking a lot of projects. Surprised no one has covered it or has reached out to unreal team at Epic?
You wonder if this was one of the reasons Bend is not on Unreal engine anymore? Also I believe people like Playground Games use their own engine correct? Also have to wonder what else in Microsoft's lineup is being hit by this issue with finalization of the engine being delayed? Hellblade 2, Perfect Dark, Gears, New IP by Coalition could be all impacted. Only good thing is Bethesda uses their own engine so starfield and anything under Zenimax/Bethesda I don't think will be affected.
TrippleA345
Member
Can you eloborate what you mean with fake E3 footage?
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
The only thing i see is...shooters, shooters and more shooters. Crossfire is looks ass...easy forgettable, Extraction same shit, STALKER 2 looks great, but how much better will it compared to Metro Exodus? then we have Redfall that looks like to be one of those co-op shooters which we already have a lot of and in my opinion does nothing different than what all these other zombie like co-op shooters are already doing.
I'm only interested in STALKER 2 for the PC and maybe PS5 later down the road.
I'm only interested in STALKER 2 for the PC and maybe PS5 later down the road.
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Papacheeks
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Animations alone from facial on characters looks way better than anything metro. Same with the lighting itself and physics. So though aesthetically it looks similar because in terms of where it takes place and premise they are similar, the unreal 5 engine they are using is waves above anything 4A games has done engine wise.
Lupin25
Member
It will be on sale for PS by the time the 3 month exclusivity-period runs out anyway lol
skit_data
Member
I don’t think they can be counted as ”under the umbrella of MS”, really
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Graphics is just one part of it. Gameplay and story or whatever is something else. Let's see if they can compete with 4A...
kingfey
Banned
That game is a pc. I would rather buy it for pc.
Papacheeks
Banned
Yea, MS doesn't own them. Just has a deal with them for Gamepass exclusivity.
kingfey
Banned
MS doesnt own that studio. Same as how Sony doesnt own any of square timed exclusive games. Its up the publisher of that studio, to fix their mess.
Gameplaylover
Member
Bad news, but it is what it is. Better a delay than full of bugs or cut content.
Papacheeks
Banned
One of those is bigger than the other impact wise. I hope Stalker gets its time to shine, because having it come after Starfield could work for it, but also could just be a fart in the wind compared to the impact starfield will have. I feel bad because we at least know from the snippets of gameplay on Stalker how its going to play how well it animates. We have seen a in-engine trailer for starfield and thats it. So in terms of gameplay we dont know? But it's Todd HOWARD so its probably going to slap.
