

Let me throw the little men into the ocean again.
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Maybe updating and mobilizing its entire archive of games fits into that ethos, too (see Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition).Īnd with strong rumors of a new Fable game due for reveal at any minute, what better way to commemorate the occasion than by making Lionhead's catalog readily available to everyone? Give Black & White 1 and 2 a facelift, bring Fable 2 to PC, and toss 'em into the Game Pass stew and on Steam, with Halo Infinite, Gears 5, and the whole crew.

It's not hoarding games on the Microsoft Store anymore, allowing future releases to at least hang out on Steam.
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Game Pass on PC is an excellent deal that's only getting better. The new Xbox app is simple, but works well, especially if you're a Game Pass subscriber. Microsoft's recent renewed focus on the PC gives me a little hope. The money and time required to put out an updated, stable version and broker a deal with EA likely hasn't made financial sense for Microsoft. A big obstacle: it was published by EA back when. Hard to say! Black & White was a fairly popular and critically lauded game back in the early '00s (PC Gamer gave it a 94%), but it's since faded into relative obscurity. Especially considering the sorry state of Molyneuxs latest. The consequence of your choices is immediate, often surprising, and extremely malleable. Black and White was a popular game, though, so its entirely possible that the gears are turning within EA to make it available again. I'd rather toss them at villagers across the way.īlack & White reflects your behavior in the quality of life of your believers, in the behavior of your monstrous pet, in how competing gods fill the gaps in your ideologies to steal away followers-its one of the few games to make the binary morality system work, because you're not making appeals to power based on Good and Evil. I just don't have the dexterity or patience to spin those plates. Shoutout to those good gods casting kind miracles to keep their believers happy and healthy, their pet well-behaved and saintly. I don't represent the whole of the playerbase. I'll never forget the first I picked up a villager and realized that they too were a simple physics object. Depleting your village's stocks to instill suffering and fear, or dragging unwilling villagers between buildings to assign jobs or promote love-making transformed flat, statistical decisions into godly labor, the barrier between your mouse hand and the world effectively invisible. The usual numbers and menu-based micromanagement was made simpler and more comical, too. They're welcome on all the furniture and get treats whenever they like. Good thing I'm not actually a god. I'd never hit an animal, digital or otherwise, so I'd pet them and feed them, reinforcing whatever behaviors they observed or were naturally inclined to, just like my real pets. X: Sludge exposed to X-rays from the moon transformed into Grimer. Black 2 White 2: Born from sludge, these Pokémon now gather in polluted places and increase the bacteria in their bodies.

My giant pet would observe and begin to think that suffering is good because daddy godhand sure inflicts a lot of it. Black White: It was born when sludge in a dirty stream was exposed to the moon’s X-rays.
