Xbox's First-Party Masterpiece Is...Flight Simulator??

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Microsoft's first 10/10-rated game from IGN in quite some time comes from the most unexpected place: Microsoft Flight Simulator! Reviewer Seth Macy joins us to discuss the next-gen brilliance of the first-party masterpiece. Plus: taking stock of Xbox Game Studios' impressive 2020 output, the teaser campaign for the Batman Court of Owls game, Gotham Knights, has us exhausted and annoyed, and more!

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0:00.0	What's happening friends welcome to podcast unlocked episode 457 for August 18th 2020.
0:27.6	I'm Ryan McCaffrey and I'm joined as usual by the bandmaster himself, Destin Lagary.
0:32.2	Bam, hey everybody doing a little technical direction work this time.
0:36.3	So if I'm more distracted than usual, it's because I'm doing more than usual.
0:41.3	Yeah, it's I appreciate it because it's sort of a bit extra busy week around IGN as we prepare for games.
0:47.0	So usual production not available, Destin kindly filling in and making his unlocked actually to both of these other guys making their long awaited
0:56.6	unlocked returns the beloved the only podcast unlocked panel member to ever have a perfect curating with the audience and IGN.
1:06.5	I see Seth thinks I'm talking about him, but I'm actually no, Martin Medina.
1:11.3	Sorry, sorry. Yeah. I'm just off today. Destin's wearing his glasses and I, I don't know, today's a weird day.
1:18.3	It's a weird day. It's all right. No, it's a good day. What are you talking about?
1:23.1	Yeah, no, it's great to be back. I don't think I've been on since the pandemic.
1:26.8	So it's great to see all you guys. Hello, I'm alive still.
1:30.5	Yeah, you've been drooling over the PlayStation 5 on Twitter. So I've been like, I don't know if I should have marked back on.
1:36.0	You know, it's a little, it's a little like wipe the corner of your mouth, my friend.
1:41.3	I've been playing a ton of outer worlds, a ton of grounded and a ton of micro, Microsoft flight simulators.
1:48.1	Or the latter of which we're going to talk all about. In fact, that is the one of the, the primary reason,
1:53.3	other than the fact that we like him a lot, that Seth Macy joining us from IGN main, the main office
1:59.7	population one. Good to see you, my friend. It's great to be back. It's good to see you all as well.
2:05.3	Excited. Yes. In fact, let's just jump right into it because it is, you know, we were talking about
2:12.2	this on a recent podcast like, you know, it's the at the end of the day, Sony, their exclusives to their
2:18.3	first party studios keep pumping out by and large nine and 10 out of 10 rated games. They just have
2:25.2	earned that incredible track record. And Microsoft, I mean, yes, you have Ori in the will of the
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