Xbox 20th | Halo Infinite Campaign Preview | Phil Spencer Talks Xbox Game Pass - The Xbox Two 194

[@RandalThor19]

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[@andrewcullinane8112]

It's so strange hearing them say "Rand" in the show. It just doesn't seem right

[@chriscangelosi9438]

I have the limited white and black "team secret" secret labs chair lol

[@hazzadorgamin1219]

Timestamps Intro & Rand/Jez Playing 🎮 GameAwards FH5 35:22 Xbox 20th Anniversary Show/Halo Infinite Battlepass 1:18:45 Halo Infinite Campaign Impression 2:06:45 Phil Spencer Interview/GamePass/Gta Trilogy & Activision Debacle 2:32:40 Platinum Hideki Kamiya apologises to Microsoft for Scalebound problems 3:11:47 Another week of Xbox Two Podcast done! Later guys.

[@XOPNYE]

Spoiler alert

[@carolinagamer2874]

You tha man

[@hoofhearted2908]

The man! Thanks

[@RamssesPharaoh]

Thanks

[@bignutsmasterwarchief]

I want chief

[@cyrilA.]

It's my first Halo ever and I can't wait for the campaign!! Multiplayer is great

[@BasicDaD134]

You need to play the other halos. Story continues from each one

[@dreame4ter773]

Start with ce and GO!

[@illstylez4202004]

Same.. it’s my first as well.

[@JJAB91]

You poor bastard

[@Rand_al_Beta_Ray_Bill]

Jez... You need to keep closer tabs on Rand... Last week he got lost...he was then surrounded by a bunch of Spawncasters who tried to confuse him with their Nintendo chatter...it must have been traumatic for him...

[@snakepond2716]

I love Jez’s honesty. Straight up no bullshit.

[@MISTAPIP13]

Halo has probably eclipsed that. Microsoft is most likely letting F5 have it's time to shine. What a great time to be a Xbox gamer.

[@jmtomli]

Jeff should do the game awards in January so that way every game from the previous year has a fair shot

[@RayOid]

He won't, Game Awards is a marketing campaign before Christmas.

[@brighttundra1255]

Hearing you guys talk so good about the Halo campaign has made me soooo excited for the campaign

[@toxickittn7558]

Every time I realize Jez is playing while talking i am seriously impressed. I can not multitask like that.

[@alt7288]

Love the show, wish it would come to Spotify sooner, so I can listen while driving

[@frsx7974]

Hi, some of the 103 selecting the nominees are smaller than Windows central. Some are just a 1 man youtube channel. Thanks for the show

[@RadimuxCisco]

Santa hahaha. Rand, so glad you did the Ad this time.

[@valdal7679]

Am I missing something here ? Forza horizon 5 does not make it in the game of the year nomination because of not enough time to review it, but makes it in the best racing category ? What's gives ? If there is not enough time to review it surly it can't make it in any category no ?

[@maxdelpo5578]

Yeah, you are right. They don't care about awards it's just 3 second without any celebration for the categories. Fh5 absence, SoT not in ongoing and DLC nomination, Kanu Reeves in performance, Cyberpunk in narrative and so on...

[@cyrilA.]

It's not game of the year.. its game of the first 10 months awards 😒

[@AwwwBeanz]

It’s a shame. Guarantee if it was a Kojima game, or something along the lines of GoW that released the same day as Forza did they’d be goty nominated.

[@cyrilA.]

@@AwwwBeanz 100%

[@RadimuxCisco]

Got to love Jez comes about the bone hahaha. It reminded me of the Bonecream.

[@hamfromtswsgaming7781]

Great show guys!

[@malphas_777]

Dammit! Missed another stream.... glad you guys have dropped another audio log for me to listen to while playing infinite!

[@strongium9900]

Rand Rand Rand. The first episode was the best. It had something you could actually care about. A thing called action. The other episode was the dumb story building. Dumb things like stay together inside where it’s safe and don’t touch anything. There words. And what do they do. Each of them eventually Wonder off on their own after waking up. If I hear a noise and everyone else is sleep I wake up one or two people to tell them I heard something I’m going to investigate. Nope the person wakes up and just goes outside to look around and no one knows because he didn’t tell anyone or wake them up. I can tell it’s going to be a great story. And you’re worried about the action in the first episode. That episode made the most sense bad guys attacking people, fight. The rest are like we think we are cleaver. We’re going to stay don’t do something but they will do it anyway. Great story telling. Not. I’ll watch on to see if it gets better but I don’t have high hopes. Everyone wants to be a game of thrones, lord of the rings or a Harry Potter.

[@c.i.a.932]

Why do you guys keep using the same 90 minute Gameplay? Why don’t you use new games, or have longer than 90 minutes?

[@bignutsmasterwarchief]

Xbox idc

[@GrahamTarrant]

Can’t wait for Halo Infinite. Looks pretty easy from footage I’ve seen on Heroic. Hopefully bosses will get tougher and there’s no grind. Bring on 120fps goodness

[@sprungrobin9978]

Does it have 120

[@GrahamTarrant]

@@sprungrobin9978 according to digital foundry, yes on Xbox Series X

[@jelleriii]

What could happen is Microsoft buys Konami and have another studio make it like have inexile or arcane make castlevaina have the initiative or coilition make MGS etc.

[@kingg4068]

First couple days I didn’t mind the battle pass but after the first weekend I’m done playing until 343 respects my time and change the progression.

[@StillerGames]

Great Battlepass Take!

[@budge1972]

Some serious skillz there mate. Awesome

[@jelleriii]

Street fighter vs killer instinct

[@eugeniabergeron8987]

I think as far as Halo Infinity is concerned it would be better if they change the way you can customize your Spartan just a little bit differently for instance if you compare it to Halo MCC you're able to change your character Spartan gender male to female and back and forth I don't know why that's not even the thing they have a body type which doesn't really appear to do much of anything I don't like the fact that you're very limited to the colors of your emblem and how you can customize your emblem it's very limited compared to also Halo MCC I think that should change that I don't know why there's even a battle pass at all why can't they be there using the ranking system of Halo MCC as well but at the same time they can still give you the option to purchase it via Michael transaction the way that they already have that set up other than that for the most part I give Halo infinite five stars.

[@mdog86]

Haven't watched the wheel of time yet cause I think I want to finish the series first before diving in, idk. I only just started book 8 on audio version, so I'm kinda conflicted on that if I should finish it first before watching. Though by that time, the whole first season should be out.

[@tonys_write]

Metroid Dread getting nominated honestly illustrates how skewed the entire industry and jury are. By all accounts it's great game, and I don't dispute that.... But when things like Ori are overlooked or Idk... Hollow Knight it's pretty clear it should the jurors are voting based off nostalgia and preference for a singular type of experience.

[@matthewmedina6170]

Or maybe Metroid was an amazing game? Maybe it is better than Hollow Knight and Ori? Not trying to be rude or anything, but I’m not buying this narrative of “nostalgia” for Metroid that sometimes gets pushed from people. I love Forza, thought it should have been nominated, but this attack on Metroid Dread because it’s Nintendo just doesn’t make sense.

[@tonys_write]

@@matthewmedina6170 Not attacking Metroid Dread. It looks great, and as I said I haven't played it. (Yet) I only have secondary information, but everything I've seen read and watched on it shows that it's really just more Metroid. Which is great, but Hollow Knight actually pushed the genre forward as many other Metroidvanias have in the absence of Metroid. It's just a popularity contest at the end of the day. The Metroid name is bigger some more people played Metroid therefore more people voted for Metroid. I probably didn't articulate my point well and I'm probably still not, but I am willing to bet that if we took the Metroid Dread game and change the name to something else and changed the character sprite it wouldn't be getting nonimated for GOTY.

[@FabianWinkler]

It seems that Halo multiplayer and campaign are really great. The question for me is, how much does that have to do with Joseph Staten. Did he just make the cherry on top or did he change a burger into a cake?

[@AwwwBeanz]

I’d say he took a cake from your grocery store bakery and made it into a cake from an actual bakery. If I had to guess.

[@RayOid]

He was given a year to decorate the cake.

[@dageekynerd2898]

Gaming in general is a younger medium. But some games like God of War, Red Dead, & The Last of Us show what masterpieces they can truly be.

[@riskysoul7695]

Hi Rand the wheels of time TV series is awesome only watch it because how much you love it 😀

[@kieranbentley9520]

Who was in charge of the battle pass system? 😂. It's terrible. I've been sweating it because I want the cosmetics but it is truly awful. Challenges should be a side option to top up your core XP. How can you not be rewarded for winning games, completing objectives and getting kills?

[@alostcause4035]

Agree its terrible. Honestly cant believe this system even got out of the idea phase. Also, 343 knew from the flights that ppl hated the system and doubled down on it. Now, its going to take a good amount of time to fix this system if theyre going to. This challenge only system will probably remain for all of season 1 (6 months) bc im not sure awarding XP for all kinds of things like kills, objective, etc., is an easy fix.

[@ivankulola5847]

My next few month's 1. Halo Infinte 2. Forza Horizon 5 3. Elden Ring 👁👄👁

[@baundiesel]

Pretty disappointed that you all didn't call out Jc Carlamaroe's shitty superchat.

[@InguesMarduk]

Was that the first one about Rittenhouse?

[@ACESN1]

Halo campaign sounds epic but very short like 12 hrs complete short 😒

[@tonys_write]

You mean like Halo 3? Lol

[@ACESN1]

@@tonys_write True I hope not haha

[@Pudalump]

I’m bit sad that I’ll probably never get to play MagnaCarta 2 on Xbox series x :(

[@jelleriii]

How do we support your channel to get your emojis

[@mbuonaguro102]

Is it just me or does Jez look like Haley Joel Osment

[@matthewchang5701]

I haven't played halo for a while

[@potninja2524]

I hate capture the flag in any game so being forced to play it in Halo really puts me off playing as we can't choose what game type to play ( love all the other modes).

[@mdog86]

Wait, did Jez really play through the whole game?? How lol, I thought it was only a preview build of the game.

[@AwwwBeanz]

The people who were able to do the preview now have access to the full campaign I’m pretty sure.

[@salmark9080]

i don't think this is story is meant to be some mgs2 fable type of shit anyway. If villain is serviceable and gameplay loop is addictive that's all i want

[@kcwizard72]

Yeah, mentioning the boss encounter WAS NOT cool...ijs. NOT cool. I love your content nevertheless.

[@dageekynerd2898]

Windows Central gave GOTY to Resident Evil Village. Lol

[@Andry895]

bro i would love a game about what rand described. 😳😳😲 a dad racing in a festival to earn money for his kid or a dude racing because he owns million to a mafia but of course the guy that made the festival doesn’t know that

[@manwitheplan69]

Lmaooooo I'm working on it but this might not be easy.

[@RadimuxCisco]

FH6 should make a joke about someone not being a Sad Dad.

[@qiulet123]

love the shows as always been subscribed since 2017 but this time I had to stop listening to many spoilers, when i play the game I want to know the least possible. Next time warn us to stop listening pls.

[@ACESN1]

We need dating advice for sure….most women hate guys who play games 🙄

[@makkam454]

You guys forgot what Activision also did to Bungie. Even though I don't like the game, Destiny was probably the most popular shooter last generation. And it got ruined after one game

[@edwardlafferty8796]

I used to blame Activision as well. But seeing what Bungie have done with their independence makes me think they were very much a willing partner.

[@Zen_Ronin]

Don't forget, Xbox had a marketing deal in place with Elden Ring right up until it's debut, which mysteriously disappeared from an Xbox show and a few days later headlined a Keighly event. I do not like that dude, and I do not trust him. He's shady af and can't stop himself from plastering his face all over everything he can in the gaming space. He's also an EXTREMELY (and admittedly) biased Sony fanboi.

[@oldmanjaphy4194]

I haven’t been playing Halo multiplayer much because of the forced crossplay but the crappy battle pass progression hasn’t helped either

[@kron8418]

It's common knowledge that if you join Activision or EA your company will be chewed up and ruined just like so many before you. Damn shame that EA didn't let Viceral Games make Dead Space 3 like they wanted to with isaac and his paranoid imaginary self as player two. EA butchered that game and so it wasn't the grand finale game it could have been. DICE is now feeling what it's like to have EA destroy their once great company.

[@produktas]

yeah IBS is strange Jez, on paper you healthy but every 3 days feel like shit

[@aolanikainoa552]

Microsoft should boycott Geoff Keighley and his stupid awards show. The game awards is totally predictable and bias is really strong in these awards shows

[@RedTheVariant]

this didnt age well

[@james6818]

Just turned on my Series X that’s connected to my LG CX after the latest Series X software update 18/11/21 and I’ve got no audio and the settings are telling me my tv doesn’t support 4K. Why, why why why fucking why does this kind of thing happen fairly often with this console? Why can’t Microsoft (the software company) manage to produce a software update or actually fix their UI. I’ve had it since launch, I’ve also had PlayStation 5 since launch and not once in an entire year have I had to reset the PlayStation 5 after literally just switching it on. Not once has my PlayStation 5 turned on and displayed shit all squashed up in 144p resolution. Not once has my PlayStation 5 switched on and had no audio. Not once has my PlayStation 5 controller randomly switched itself off during gameplay because the firmware is royally fucked. So not only do Sony produce better first party exclusives than Microsoft, they also do software updates and UI better than Microsoft. A UI that doesn’t shit the bed every now and again. How is it that Microsoft, the software company, cannot do software updates or a solid and robust UI? It’s fucking insane

[@jimmyofwiltshire]

The fact you bring up about your ps5 leads me to think you talking crap. I have that tv and I'm in the alpha skip ahead,and it's not had any issues like you described for me. Try harder next time

[@james6818]

@@jimmyofwiltshire not sure why you think I’d waste my time lying about this but there we go. You gonna message all the people who’ve commented saying they’re also having one of these issues and tell them they’re lying as well? One of these people actually contacted Jason Ronald on Twitter about this issue and he responded to them saying him and his team are going to investigate it. I’m sure you know who Jason Ronald is. You gonna tweet him telling him he’s also a liar? Let me know how that works out for you

[@jimmyofwiltshire]

@@james6818 funny,cus I've just check the insiders app and nothing about the issue there. Back to your ps5 you go

[@james6818]

@@jimmyofwiltshire why are you focusing on the insiders app. Just because you’ve not personally experienced the problem, doesn’t mean other people don’t. So all these people on that forum at that link are lying. Jason Ronald is lying?

[@jimmyofwiltshire]

@@james6818 I just scroll through a bit of the reddit insiders pagers and nothing about it there. Link??

[@billymonaghan6031]

I love halo but I'm sorry call of duty vanguard multiplayer is way better then halo infinite multiplayer!

[@dariuszwilim7034]

Hejka xbox