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The rest of the article is mildly interesting, but if you just took the bait from the headline:
On a technical level, Xbox One is essentially a PC using a heavily modified version of Windows, and this software simply translates native Xbox applications into a form that can run on standard Windows PCs
So...software emulation...kinda. I guess translation technically. Whatever lol.
Nobody was missing out on anything. All of 343s Halo games have been garbage, but Halo 5 takes the garbage cake home.
The translation layer is awesome for every other game though.
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.
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.
Do people not like infinite? A mate and I are playing coop currently and I'm really enjoying it.
It's in a more or less acceptable state now and I play it, but it sure doesn't live up to the original 10 year live service promise.
I have a lot of problems with it. Between the "story" and the copy-paste map. I would rather the game didn't exist, because at least then they could make a follow up to 5's end.
I really don't want to spoil your fun if you're enjoying it though. A lot of the gameplay elements are fun to play around with.
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.
This is my biggest complaint. Halo 6 was set up to be an amazing game. Then Infinite ended up with zero story. The most interesting stuff in Infinite were the little flashback sequences that bridge 5 to Infinite.
You can really tell that campaign took a back seat in the game. A shame because the open world was honestly a lot of fun, it was just empty and hollow because of such of a lame story. You could have been jumping between worlds fighting Cortana for the survival of the human race. Instead.... we're lost on a ring again, and we're fighting a brute guy we don't care about, while desperate for any actual story about what the hell happened
Halo 5 is still the worst Halo game.
I STRONGLY disagree. 5 was a letdown with some bright spots. Infinite is offensively bad with no redeeming value.
Even if you remove Infinite, 5's combat is better than 4's in every single way. I would split second worst between those two depending on what aspects you're comparing.
It's still important for video game preservation, no matter how crappy the games themselves might be.
Forza horizon 2 is the only game I can think of that I would use this for.
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.
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.
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Author apparently thinks hardware emulation is the only kind of emulation.
Wine is not an Emulator is not an emulator.
Gnu's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program
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They are, however, accomplishing the same thing as emulators, just with a different strategy.
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.
A screwdriver can be a hammer if you're determined enough
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!
I don't know which one of the ctr games you are referring too, but you might be interested about this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwSkmAp7f8, there is an effort from ctr community to port the ps1 game on pc
Hopefully I'll get to finally play Gears of War 2.
Yes been wanting to play the og gears again for years now on PC I want a gears style MCC so bad
Isn't it all on game pass?
That's already out isn't it? Remastered and everything.
The first is apparently remastered on the Xbox store for PC I had no idea tbh never used the Xbox store on PC.
Well, of course not, because Wine Is Not an Emulator. Considering it's called XWine1, would there be a Linux version too?
I think that's called proton (jokes aside yes I know steam wouldn't do that for obvious legal implications.)
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.
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!