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SPECIAL: Xbox Games Showcase 2023 reactions, Starfield impressions, and more!

The XB2 — A Gaming Podcast

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The Complexity of Skyrim and Fallout

Every object is interactive. It's not Starfield where you can fill up a spaceship with hand sandwiches as they're shown in the trailer. They've used the GPU to push the resolution to 4K, but just lowering the resolution, it's not going to give you the frames back. Maybe you could get like to 40 FPS unlocked or dipping between 35 and 40. But a lot of people don't have very refresh rates. The PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X would not be able to run this game higher than 30 frames per second. And then you layer on all the visual effects they're putting in like global illumination and all this kind of stuff. You arrive at an unfortunate reality that

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