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Defining Duke, Episode 183 | Wowed By Avowed
🕑 Added 2024-07-04 16:00:12 +0000 UTCIt's finally a slow news week which means we get to settle into some stories that we'd typically breeze over! Leading the charge this week is Avowed which continues to sound amazing! With new details from director Carrie Patel, the Dukes settle into a discuss about character building, choice and consequence, and the oft-debated romance. Alongside that, rumors of Activision games arriving on Game Pass are starting to percolate to the top as the Transformers games have been relisted. At the same time, we are hearing how games like Crash and Tony Hawk are due out on Game Pass shortly. What does the cadence of release look like for Activision's catalogue and how does Xbox handle the licensed, backwards compatible games? There's plenty of room for a discussion there, so let's have one! Plus more Xbox's handheld UI, Assassin's Creed Remakes inbound, Xbox Cloud Gaming arriving on Amazon Fire TV sticks, and much more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro and write-ins
0:32:37 Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Amazon fire TV Sticks
0:37:53 Activision Transformer games relisted, currently unavailable for purchase
0:46:32 Lost Odyssey remaster dream is dead
0:51:47 Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster release date
0:57:37 A new Resident Evil is in development
0:59:45 Dragon’s Dogma 2 performance update
1:02:16 Ubisoft is remaking multiple Assassins Creed games
1:07:44 Star Wars Bounty Hunter is coming to Xbox
1:12:57 Shadow of the Erdtree has sold 5 million copies
1:15:04 Flintlock Siege Of Dawn has gone gold
1:17:00 Crazy Taxi update from SEGA
1:21:59 What We’re Playing
2:00:56 Avowed interview
2:17:42 What's this Xbox mobile dashboard?
2:24:01 Activision Games to Game Pass soon
2:30:39 Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass
2:36:19 Game Pass Pick Of The Week
2:39:12 Another Mt Rushmore
2:53:31 Wrapup
Comments
Trill Spencer
To push back against Matty’s romance stance: I have never played an RPG that I thought was worse for including romance options. On the contrary, they tend to be some of the best parts of games like KOTOR, ME, DA, The Witcher, even BGS games like FO4 and Starfield have decent romance options that enrich the “story” of your character quite a bit. I don’t really understand why he thinks it’s a good thing to omit, unless he is concerned about Obsidian’s ability to pull it off, in which case I might agree because I found the companion writing pretty subpar in Outer Worlds. Yes, including Parvati’s quest, which I wasn’t impressed with.
Matty LSM
I have stories! Write in if you'd like to know more. - Matty
Owen S
Not gonna lie, Matty’s sports fan hood drives me crazy. Mets are fine but the Falcons??? 2 NHL teams?! What are we doing here!! How could this combination of sports teams possibly be constructed. No answer will satisfy me, and I will continue to judge through the phone
Mr. Scott If You're Nasty
Neither have I lol!
NeO JD
Cog never played a Tony Hawk game?! #WriteInDD
James
I assume if people can’t afford a console they probably won’t have good enough Wi-Fi to stream it to a fire tv stick.
Mr. Scott If You're Nasty
Whats there to say, ya think ?
DeucesBruh
I believe most of the Star Wars tv shows use unreal engine now for the backgrounds in the volume. Same with masters of the air.
Viktor
I was so surprised to see the Xbox app on the new Rimac Verne self driving car. Especially since the car will roll out in a couple of years here in Zagreb, Croatia where almost nobody plays Xbox.
Jeff in NOLA
Interesting. Looking over the time stamps, no mention of the network going dead for a large portion of a day this week?
NotSkyWalker
The Black Rock, in Carrie Patel we trust
