Nobody was missing out on anything.
The translation layer is awesome for every other game though.
After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all
Submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Halo 5 had a lot of problems. Bit it’s a damned masterpiece compared to Infinite.
Halo 5 had great gunplay, Warzone Firefight was a blast, the Guardians were a great stand-in for the Halo rings, Cortana was an intimidating enemy by the end of the game, the lootboxes were actually better than the armor cores and marketplace from Infinite.
There are A LOT of negatives in there too. But a lot of positives. Infinite is just a shitshow from the beginning.
BestTestInTheWest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do people not like infinite? A mate and I are playing coop currently and I’m really enjoying it.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 month ago
Them just retconning Cortana was such a letdown. Honestly while 5 wasn’t great, it did set up infinite to be really really good. Then they went with a really boring alternative.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Halo 5 is still the worst Halo game.
simple@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah there’s a reason there hasn’t been much interested in Xbone emulation, almost everything worth emulating has gotten PC ports over the years or is also on PS3 which does have a good emulator. Maybe if Sunset Overdrive was still a console exclusive I’d bother, but I guess this is cool for some peeps.
curry@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s still important for video game preservation, no matter how crappy the games themselves might be.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I was a big LAN player in the heyday of the original, even got through 4.
That trash game came with the xbone I bought for my wife and I still couldn’t play it.
Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 1 month ago
343 just sucks at making good halo stories, great gameplay (on infinite atleast), but they just don’t know where to take the story. I was disappointed in 4 skipped 5 and infinite was another halfbaked story that just felt empty.
TrustedTyrant@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Forza horizon 2 is the only game I can think of that I would use this for.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 month ago
I couldn’t get through Halo 4’s campaign when it was released as part of the MCC, nor was I able to get though Halo Infinite’s (it wasn’t bad, just… meh; nowhere near as good as the Bungie campaigns but not trash either, just not as good). I would still like the option to play Halo 5 on PC just so I have the ability to play the main campaign, plus I’ve heard it’s the best multiplayer Halo? But yeah. Even if I never actually play it, it’s nice to have the option.
On a tangential note, I think 343’s Halo games would have been considered good if it wasn’t for Bungie’s Halo. I don’t think their campaigns are honestly bad, per se (though again, haven’t tried to play H5), they’re just bad in comparison to the “OG” games.
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pew pew pew!
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
XWine1 is, again, a compatibility layer rather than an emulator.
chuckle
Author apparently thinks hardware emulation is the only kind of emulation.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wine is not an Emulator is not an emulator.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Gnu’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
API wrappers are not emulators.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
If Wine were just an API wrapper, it wouldn’t work.
But go ahead and believe what you want. I’m not interested in arguing with you.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They are, however, accomplishing the same thing as emulators, just with a different strategy.
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And I feel the hardware requirements end up way lower, when I had a bad PC I could play Burnout Revenge at full speed on the 360 emulator, but the PS2 version ran like a turtle.
tiddy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
A screwdriver can be a hammer if you’re determined enough
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t wait to play the proper Forza Horizon 2, and Crash Team Racing, curse you Activision for not bringing this one to PC!
MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I don’t know which one of the ctr games you are referring too, but you might be interested about this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwSkmAp7f8, there is an effort from ctr community to port the ps1 game on pc
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Am I crazy, or didn’t Phil in 2013 say something like “you can put an xbox game in your PC and it’ll play!” Yeah. Still waiting for that one.
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
he followed through on that, but only because Xbox gave up and ported their slop over to Steam anyway
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, of course not, because Wine Is Not an Emulator. Considering it’s called XWine1, would there be a Linux version too?
ATDA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think that’s called proton (jokes aside yes I know steam wouldn’t do that for obvious legal implications.)
stardust@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Hopefully I’ll get to finally play Gears of War 2.
Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes been wanting to play the og gears again for years now on PC I want a gears style MCC so bad
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
That’s already out isn’t it? Remastered and everything.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why would they, Xbox uses a version Windows and an x86 core + AMD GPU, bog standard parts, bog standard system, it’s easier to tap into the windows component on an x86 system and just use that to run the games. Making a proper emulator for games that would otherwise run on the PC natively just wouldn’t make sense.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I think this will become true for a lot of the new gen systems in the future (starting from xbox1).
Same for PS4 maybe running easier on OpenBSD/Unix-like systems by having a similar kernel.Will certainly be interesting!
smeg@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The rest of the article is mildly interesting, but if you just took the bait from the headline:
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So…software emulation…
BlAeQ8@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago