Recapping The Xbox Spring Showcase

[heirdeux]

If you missed our coverage from the Xbox Spring Showcase, here's a quick recap of the games we saw from Microsoft's first gaming event of the year.

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[seymoorebutts]

If Microsoft is gonna develop all their games and run them like apps on the Windows Store, it's gonna be a shitshow.

Look at the release of Gears of War Ultimate Edition for PC. Performance issues galore. Part of it is trying to port a DX9 game onto DX12 while working with UE3, which I've heard doesn't play nice in that regard. But the borderless fullscreen lock, V-Sync lock, and other configuration issues are because the game is an "app" and not a regular .exe program. There's no way (that I know of) to access config files that would otherwise fix these issues, and it's gonna suck for games down the line that are made like this.

And I bet it will be most new Microsoft games. They're looking to bond Xbox and PC gaming, look at Forza 6 Apex. I'm sure Gears 4 will see a Windows 10 release, maybe eventually even the Halo series.

 

[Nossy]

Basically they are turning your PC into an expensive Xbox One console.

 

[seymoorebutts]

I'll tell you now.

If M$ is gonna program all their games with their custom files instead of .exe programs, it's gonna be a shitshow. Look at the release of Gears of War Ultimate Edition PC. Part of it is porting a DX9 game to DX12 with UE3 not playing nice, but it's limited to borderless fullscreen, locked V-Sync, and there aren't and .ini files to work with.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

Basically they are turning your PC into an expensive Xbox One console.

Well it will mean more gamers switching to something like SteamOS or other linux variant. I bought an xbox one and i think its crap, huge updates of 20gb every time i decide i want to play something, lack of media playback options, games that are all just bland variants of each other nothing new and fun. Going to sell it and build a cheap HTPC.

 

[seymoorebutts]

Just to be clear, I'm not opposed to releasing games on both platforms, I'm all for it. I just think this is the wrong way to do it.