Benjamin

I stopped playing Infinite to continue playing MCC. New version of old maps wouldn’t really tempt me back. There’s just nothing quite like Halo 3 multiplayer.

Fingers crossed.

@Ralizah I think the hype has died down and people have changed their minds.

343’s Halo games have been all over the place. The studio hasn’t been able to maintain the flair and sensibilities of the Bungie era games. I played Infinite for a number of hours and bounced.

It seems Xbox has a problem with its big studios. However, The Coalition, Playground Games and Turn 10 have been very consistent.

The problem is that MCC is available for the older fans and Infinite has finished being flavour of the month(s) for new fans.

The show looks like a bad episode of Doctor Who.

They have a great sailing system but the game is structured around repeated A to B side-missions and during these missions, the on foot combat, the puzzles and interaction with the environment is very poor. The world is barren with very little narrative or lore, the menus are overly complicated as is the process of starting a mission. Progression is slow and the game sticks a store-front interface in front of you in which you can spend real money on cosmetics. No update has addressed these issues.

It’s a great machine if you just want in. If you want clean and crisp next-gen visuals then it’s a little underwhelming compared to the PS5 and SeriesX. But there isn’t much on the SeriesX that offers that anyway.

As an Xbox owner I gain nothing from these acquisitions.

Timesplitters 2 baby

Loved the first so really looking forward to this.

I think this is a really cool selection. I've re-discovered 2D games recently and GWG is likely the only way I would download these. Radiant Silvergun looks great.

I think this is a really cool selection. I've re-discovered 2D games recently and GWG is likely the only way I would download these. Radiant Silvergun looks great.

Either disable online voice/text communications or accept that people are sometimes crude.

It’s the first DLC campaign and new area for Infinite. Think Destiny’s Taken King expansion.

I would like to know how many iterations of this game there have been since Halo 5's release. From pre-production to release, how has Halo Infinite changed. The finished game barely resembles the announcement trailer. How much did they actually have when that released?

These games just need a better art style and better thematic levels.

I think January, February and August were good. That’s 3/12 or 1/4 that were good. Using your scale I would say F is 0 and A is 1. The rest would be as follows: [A=1, B=0.8, C=0.6, D=0.4, E=0.2, F=0.] 1/4 would be 0.25 and fall between D and E on the scale. So I would say D minus.

Hopefully they've been reading my snarky comments on this website. If that's the case I'll say again, Capped at 1000, separate entry for dlc achievements, make all achievement information visible from the Guide, no more bland screenshots- we all loved unique achievement art. And of course, the Platinum. (Medal)

Can a Live-Service game every really go Gold?

@Raffles CEX sell it for under £5

I would like achievements to be refreshed. I have 3 beefs.
1. The way they are displayed and buried in awkward menus.
2. No separation between main game and dlc achievements.
3. No upper limit or 'platinum'.

Where are the other locations? Snow? Desert? Jungle? Are they going to patch those areas in?

Jet Set Radio Future
Silent Hill 2

Why are we continually surprised when people born today are not immediately familiar with yesterday?

Not the best way to promote a game. But I agree with the developer, it’s a game and it’s ready when it’s ready.

The first gears is still my favourite. I liked the horror tinge. So atmospheric and the narrative had a good amount of mystery.

I still don't know what to make of this campaign. Will wait for release coverage. At the moment I suspect this isn't going to be what I want out of a Halo game.

Chaos Theory
Splinter Cell 1
Double Agent (360)
Pandora Tomorrow

@Michu2951 Give the old ones a go and see what all the fuss is about! MGS almost turned into Splinter Cell with Ground Zeroes.

A consistent UI across generations is something people actually appreciate. The clean UI of the psp, ps3, ps4 and ps5 are familiar and tinged with nostalgia. They didn't change mid generation and they all evoke a Playstation aesthetic.

As a soft-reboot that is trying to figure out what people loved and do that again, I can't get excited for this one. Maybe Staten made big narrative changes but so far it doesn't seem like the franchise has an authoritative original vision. Force Awakens vibes.

The Final Fantasy name used to evoke a rich, high quality, original experience with characters to gravitate towards and a world to get lost in. The video-game equivalent to a classic novel read by a campfire. Nowadays it just evokes traaaaash.

Ownership of games and preservation of games that are no longer supported by modern hardware are two different topics.

Preservation in Phil’s context is ‘the ability to play old games’.

Get back to me when Xbox is ‘releasing’ more narrative driven games than ever. Smh

@species8472 Exactly. I visit this site because it’s usually free of that stuff.

The only opinion pieces I want to see on PureXbox are other visitors' comments. Just throwing in some feedback.

Ok I'll be that guy. It's bad because there is no unified visual brand for this generation of Xbox which is evident from the cover.
Series X is written on the box twice. Once in the white tab and again as a logo on the right. The text in the tab is.. is that Ariel?
For comparison, the PS5 box has the name of the console and it's logo both in the unified style that is seen on anything PS5 related.
Why are the xbox logo, the console logo and the written name of the console given three seperate styles?

It was a great show for Game Pass owners. But for AAA-Exclusives it was the same old story. Halo and Forza out this year, anything new is nowhere to be seen.

Games should be announced within 2 years of release. Make it LAW.

We might get some more details at E3. Hellblade, Avowed and Perfect dark sounds like a pretty great 2022 lineup to me. Wishful thinking maybe.

@JetmanUK I kinda love it for the reasons you don't. It reminds of Ico, but more generally. I think the slightly off-walking style is charming.
Compare this one to something like Alpha Protocol's crouching animation - which is hilarious.

@JON22 Multiplayer > Social Games > Lone Wolves (or maybe just 'Slayer')

None of those updates will fix the mission design, barren world or lack of a good story. No matter what they do this game won’t be what anyone hoped.

Sounds like a great mix of Halo CE and Halo 3 to me. Hopefully these are legit.

Banjo-Kazooie.

Look to your left, Mario. Look to your right, Ratchet & Clank.

I say again, Banjo-Kazooie.

Cool. I will wait for that version or for confirmation of a free upgrade before I get the game.

My Xbox is the 'Halo and other classic games' machine with the occassional third-party release.

I think Sony worked out an exclusivity deal for this first part. Perhaps the sequel will be multiplatform.