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I paid $20 for this one a while ago. It was decent but forgetful. I have already forgotten most of the story. 75 to 80 seems about right.

Battlefield 6, forza motorsport, saints row 3, and the last couple chapters of Fire Emblem Three Houses.

Metro on Battlefield 3 was when online gaming peaked.

I really like this game. I'm trying to pace myself a bit so I'm not burned out by the time 1.0 or the next big updates drop.

Grounded has quickly become one of my favorite gaming franchises.

It's the way the industry is heading. If they want to continue to expand then they can't only focus on a singular console platform with exclusive games.

Xbox demonstrated that there is more profit waiting out there and Sony has to pursue that as well.

They have the game in a good spot right now. Hopefully the new content continues but if not, it is still a very good sim racer.

Not really shocking. It seems safe to assume this game was facing some serious development issues like the other cancelations.

It is another case of xbox needlessly showing us a tease for a game way too early. Hopefully now that they have a legitimate pipeline of games they won't ever be so desperate to fill out a showcase that we get concepts of games. Can't really blame xbox because they were hurting so bad for games at the time but they are currently sitting pretty on that front.

Sony is clearly seeing the results of xbox games on their store and seem to be very interested in getting in on that sweet multiplatform cash.

Hopefully it won't be too much longer until exclusives are a thing of the past.

Sounds promising. I will definitely pick this one up at some point, probably when it hits the $20-30 range.

Maybe its expectation bias but I often find the 70-80 scores on metacritic are more enjoyable for me than the 90+ scores.

I don't think people realize that they dont actually want this feature. Are you really going to fly all the way to the next planet instead of just fast traveling? Would you fly if it takes 10 minutes or longer? I think they gave us the preferred travel system the first time.

Once I got into tactical turn based rpgs like fire emblem I have had trouble getting into the stationary turn based rpgs.

I really like forza motorsport. It would be a shame if they only made horizon games.

I'm not too worried about how many tweets they send. I'm betting a lot of the noise on social media about this is from people who haven't thought about this game since it launched.

Age verification (if required by law) should be done on the platform once and cover all games. It shouldn't be up to each individual game to verify your age.

Hopefully this UK nonsense doesn't go beyond the UK.

Still waiting for a sale but very excited for this one. I generally don't pay launch prices for games, I have too many games in the backlog or wishlisted that I don't need the newest thing.

Conquering fomo was the best thing I did. I probably buy 4 times as many games with the same budget.

The franchise that Sony deemed unworthy of a sequel would not be the one Sony chooses to go multiplatform.

Grounded 2 by a wide margin. Great game that will only get better.

I always felt bioshock 1 didn't need a remake. It holds up great as it is.

Grounded 2 and forza motorsport mostly. Also still plugging away at fire Emblem three houses.

I am looking forward to Battlefield 6 but Black Ops 7 launching on gamepass is hard to beat. I know I will play call of duty on GP, not sure if I'm buying battlefield at launch yet. Depending on how i like the beta and how the reception is at launch, I might end up waiting for the gamepass addition whenever EA puts it in EA play.

Battlefield 2042 got to a really good place, it will be interesting to see where this one is at launch.

I am betting the older big titles come over sooner than others. Spider man 1 and miles morales would be the most logical choices but I could see last of us 1, uncharted collection, ratchet and clank, or Horizon zero dawn too.

It makes no sense to keep these older games exclusive at this point. They have run their course on playstation. Sell them for $70 on xbox and if even 5% of xbox users buy them you are talking a pretty big return. There is more potential for sales on xbox than there is in the endless remaster cycle they have had for these games.

If you aren't trying to get as many sales as possible then what is the point of doing multiplat at all? The big games are the ones that will do that.

His insistence that it is actually a game, hard to explain, risky, and now either love or hate makes me think this one will not be for me. Every word said about this game has been a red flag. All signs point to me watching 30 minutes of a live stream and never thinking about this game again but hopefully im wrong.

It sounds worse off the tongue but it implies more of what I want from xbox. I want the full xbox experience on pc not a separate pc xbox product.

Will this finally put the awful "its unsustainable" takes to bed?

I got it pre installed on my ROG Ally. I hope I can find time to play it while at the cabin this weekend but also hope it doesn't consume all my time while there. I'm really excited for this one, I loved the first one.

Yeah I'm a little worried about this game. It had a playable demo when revealed SIX years ago. Now we are supposed to treat news that the game will again be playable at a game show as a big deal.

I would love to get some details about the development of this game. What happened, what is the total cost up to, etc.

I would expect the ones that have the most potential to sell copies will be the priority. I would have to think spiderman, the last of us, uncharted, etc.

Their current pc approach will probably be the model for xbox/nindy eventually. Approximately one year alone on playstation and then a shift to everywhere else. They probably tighten that exclusivity window up as time goes on.

Souls-likes have reached the saturation point for me. I'm not interested in this one.

I tried oblivion remake again and it seems better now. I think its finally playable. I'm also playing some spiderman 2 and forza motorsport.

The multiplayer is perfect in that game. Any change would be a negative in my book. I imagine they had a good reason to not use unreal if it was being considered.

Halo infinite is an awesome game. I will die on the hill that Halo infinite and Starfield are two of the best games of this generation. I still play each pretty regularly.

2042 ended up being really good. Hopefully they can carry over the final product of that one into this new one. No bad start this time.

It seems like a waste to spend so much time and money on a 60fps patch releasing 1 year later. This game doesn't need 60 fps and doesnt have much for replay value if you already played it. I don't see many people on xbox or pc going back to this one.

They should have just done a simple port to playstation and moved on.

I hope wolfenstein is not too far off. Indy was a fun game but I prefer their wolfenstein games.

I buy xbox games that have the play anywhere functionality and are on sale. I'm not interested in games that are locked to the single console device. If all games were play anywhere, xbox would be my preferred store.

Otherwise pc is currently the preferred platform, i spend plenty of money on steam/epic and GOG. That's where I buy all playstations games too.

Gamepass doesn't prevent me from spending way more than I should on "owning" games

I would recommend Hot Wheels Unleashed 2. Great game.

Play Anywhere has me buying xbox games again. Awesome feature.

I don't expect it to ever get fully utilized. It will probably be supported far into the next generation as well. Games take way too long to develop and cost way too much to really push the boundaries of any system.

Add in the desire for developers to target handhelds like switch 2 and mid level pcs, we probably won't see much of a leap in games for a long time.

Limbo and Inside might be delisted soon too. They only announced the GOG versions are being delisted without giving a reason but all signs point to a legal dispute between the founders of the studio.

Something to keep an eye on.

I like the sound of this. I am always looking for an excuse to dive back into this game. One of my recent favorites.

@Millionski the whole "why would they even bother competing with (product x)?" is the most anti-innovation take ever. Thankfully xbox isn't thinking that way.

Having a better pc store where all the xbox store games are natively playable on a very capable console, pc/pc handheld, and streaming is a very appealing prospect. That is why gamepass is one of my favorite things in gaming, I can play the same save seamlessly in my office on the high end rig, on the sofa of the living room, in bed or traveling on my Rog Ally, etc.

They don't need to overtake steam (that would never happen) but they can live along side it just like Epic and GOG do. Just like they already do with Nintendo and Playstation, they dont have a realistic chance of overtaking either of them. It would really just be merging the gaming portion of the windows store into the xbox app and making the xbox games compatible which they seem to be doing.

Steam is rumored to be working on a "console" as well. I don't get why people would want xbox to limit itself to one device, give me as many ways as possible to buy games everywhere.

(Of course, the biggest threat to Microsoft is losing the windows stronghold as market leading OS. They need to fend off Steam OS, Linux, etc. Xbox can help them do that.)

@Fiendish-Beaver only the play anywhere titles and gamepass games can be played natively on the xbox pc app.

It's not actually microsoft or xbox sharing this image. Its one person on his personal LinkedIn account. Is it a bad pic? Yes, but we can't treat this dudes LinkedIn profile as an official xbox or MS ad. Honestly, doesn't sound too bad to work for this guy, he probably wouldn't notice you taking it easy on the clock.

This would have happened with or without layoffs. This is a pretty long reach to try to connect the two. It probably would have happened with or without the massive AI investment from Microsoft.

@Fiendish-Beaver you can purchase games there but can't play the majority of them.

I like where it sounds like xbox hardware is headed. I am hoping it gets to a point where the full xbox store will be there on any pc and any pc store will be available on the xbox hardware.

The recent steam reviews (over 21 thousand reviews) have it at "mostly negative" but the overall (over 200 thousand reviews) is still "very positive."

Apparently the console release forced them to censor the game on pc as well and pc players are considering this a worse version of the game. Im not sure if I will play this one yet but censoring a game everywhere because one specific region or platform requires it always bugs me.

I have been in a racing mood for a few weeks now. Usually I have one racing game installed to play here and there but the genre has taken over. I am playing need for speed heat, forza motorsport, hot wheels unleashed, nascar '15, forza horizon 3, aqua moto racing utopia, and far cry 4.

Skipping multiplayer would be a mistake.

This also screams free update to previous owners on xbox and an excuse to get the game on playstation/switch like a lot of their recent remasters.

It would be a really poor decision to take an exclusivity deal as a third party publisher in today's landscape. Those deals should be rare going forward. Good riddance.

I love Starfield. I have replayed it a couple times now after my initial barrage of 4 playthroughs. My 2023 goty and an all around great game.

I would like to see an update or dlc dedicated to base building/mining. That seemed like it was so close to being really fun. There could be a good story around building up your own space empire.

I disagree. If a game is still in a bad spot after 7-10 years it's time to cut the cord. If it is still in a bad spot after so long it will probably never make it to a good place. You can't just give them an endless time frame and budget on something that simply is not working.

I actually think xbox gave Rare a strangely long leash for a game that infamously didn't have a proper direction or gameplay hook years into development. That game never should have been shown and should have gotten axed a long time ago. It is surprising they were given so much time to turn that into something.

I think playstation realized that mlb forcing the show to go multiplat was the best thing to happen to the franchise. They are going to release more multiplat games going forward.

It is ironic that the company that "trains consumers not to buy games" is selling more games than anyone else.

I think the 360 hardware failures were more impactful on the xbox one's poor reception than any of the one's issues. They managed to convince the majority of console gamers to buy their 360 console then gave them the worst experience imaginable. Its not surprising that everyone jumped ship the next generation. The 360 destroyed xbox's credibility big time and it never fully recovered.