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.
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.
Infinite has coop now??
As far as I recall, Infinite has had online co-op, just not local/split screen co-op.
But don’t quote me on that!
It did not release with co-op. I think they had to figure out how to make it work with the open world map and zip lining. When I had finished it, it still didn’t have it. When they added it, they also announced that they had stopped trying to make local co-op work.
The Master Chief Collection doesn’t have split screen campaigns on PC
So fucking upsetting getting it all set up only to be told it’s online only. It’s fucking Halo!!!
Then even more pissed off that it’s in the console version. Why cut features between the two??
Jeez, no wonder Infinite has always had such a bad reputation then!
As far as I know, they gave up on assassinations too. To be honest, by the time I finished the game, the missing features were at the bottom of the list of problems I had with it.
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.
They are, however, accomplishing the same thing as emulators, just with a different strategy.
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he followed through on that, but only because Xbox gave up and ported their slop over to Steam anyway
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!
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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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API wrappers are not emulators.
Anything that emulates something else is an emulator. That something else could be hardware, or runtime behavior, or services, or a combination thereof. (It could even be a turtle, although we’re talking about computers in this case.)
Wine is an interesting example despite that silly backronym that was abandoned years ago, or perhaps because of it. It not only translates system and API calls, but also provides Windows work-alike services and copies Windows runtime behavior, including undocumented behavior. If it were just an API wrapper or “translation layer”, a lot of its functionality wouldn’t work.
The shape of a business envelope might not be an equilateral rectangle, but it is still a rectangle.
But go ahead and believe what you want. I’m not looking for an argument.
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!
