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@FarmDog08 Awesome recommendation, had me at turn based.
Thank you, genuinely don't remember this one from the old console wars so I would have missed it

Long shot:
I've still got about 50US sitting in my account.
Anyone recommend some backpat games/ gems from 360/X1 era a longtime PS only fan might have missed out on/I know about Frasers lists on occasion

Thanks in advance

Wow, I'd forgotten about this mode, think I put quite a few hours into it.

Genuinely really fun

Great article!

FINALLY started KCD1 after the update, holy hell I wish I would have stuck it out sooner. So freaking good, and now I've got KCDII waiting for me down the road.

I think I might have Kickstarted this game years ago and kind of forgot

Glad I did!

It was a little surreal to box my Series X up, it was pretty exciting and a fun closed unique ecosystem.

Really cool intro to being part of Xbox at the beginning of this gen.
So many great exclusive games...oh
The rewards program is so good.... oh
BC machine, it's great- still true

I have no reason to take it back out, yet.
Seeing as how MS can't tell me what the plan is for Xbox- no not optimistic

This game was an absolutely fantastic play through!

Killer price and so worth it

@Banjo- I was just joking, I was knew it was late in the UK and the news on Phil had just come out.

Sometimes it feels like that on Pushsquare, like T the Xbox fans spend too much time over there

Gotta love the console wars

What a terrible couple days for gaming....

Sombody aught to wake up the fellows at PureXbox....... missing all the fun

What the hell is going on??

Will that's really disappointing, Todd being blunt was a surreal moment in time....

Fun for abit, but ultimately a shallow empty shell of a game

I need to give this another go at some point.
Played it on GP release and....I hated it. I genuinely thought it was a terrible Doom.

Here's hoping they knock the DLC through and it's killer. Might go back to give it a second chance

This is......... just a pile of GAMES thrown into vague abstract lists....

Why does MS even bother anymore? Every thing they've done lately is terrible half-assed CRAP.

How the ***** do you make an awards list terrible???

@datamonkey Everyone has had that game where they think ' such gross pandering to land GAS money"
Horizon Hunters is that game for me, it looks like it was focus tested on Stock Brokers and the accounting department- Highly visible smooshed together popular genres....

Sorry, rant over

@FatGuyInLilCoat

Laughed out loud at that😆

Would have been a perfect time for the confused Farley gif too

@fatpunkslim
"the RPG depth in titles like Avowed or The Outer Worlds 2 is often very ambitious"

Oh boy....

In Avowed it is most certainly not..... not even close
OW2- I've read endless complaints regarding its very very narrow playthroughs,( have not played it)

Just because you spill bombastic word salads on These articles, that doesn't change anything

Ugh........... This is basically a laundry list of places I WOULD NEVER go to for a reliable review-

Interesting choices Fraser

I see the pearl clutching console wars are still alive and well......

I really thought we were past " insert bogus random inflated #'s"

Especially seeing as how tight fisted MS is with sales numbers, you folks confidently spouting this/ that= eye rolling absurdity

If i want frustrating rhythms, I'll just dig out the flamenco/ South American buffet of melt my brain and metronome music.
I will never understand how people enjoy these games

Neat premise though

Despite playing quite a few hours with my daughter, I never really enjoyed Minecraft.
This looks surprisingly well done, like it could be pretty fun
Excitedly to see how this turns out
Games like this are brilliant on SteamDeck and Rog like pc handheld

Such a strange state this game was released in, it's almost insultingly average.
I will say the magic and flintlocks were a lot of fun.
Everything else was so so sterile- it's great some folks have it GOTY, it was a HUGE disappointment for me

@Balaam_ pretty close to what i thought as well.

If Bethesda Studios is shadow dropping something..... it's to avoid early reviews saying don't buy it, it's busted

Avowed at #2?

That's kind of surprising to be honest....

Not a bad game, but shouldn't be anywhere near a top 10 list.

It honestly sucks voting such small numbers, at best 10%
2024 was almost all Xbox.

I just can't mentally get around the idea that buying on Xbox is an uncertain guarantee.

I'm curious as to why anyone thinks this will be anything other than a release on other consoles, with a small addition or two.

Bethesda the dev studio hasn't done anything right in 10 years

My god, if they shadow drop this on PS5 and Switch 2.................. before any reviews... and it's a broken mess

I might wash my hands off Bethesda Studios

This is why Todd's idea of MORE shadow drops is extremely discouraging- Bethesda taking the surprise and joy of a shadow drop and using it to mask FULL HALF ASSED realeases., that aren't reviewed and in the console realm there's no risk of mass returns

I LOATHE what Bethesda has become

@Smackosynthesis At this point, it might be a " new breed" , but by now hero shooters are all inbred/ all related and the offspring just come out worse....

Huge reason why I'm keeping my Series X, back compatibility rocks

Bizarre it took this long, especially with how bloatedly awful the web store is

Such a remarkably average game, offensively so.

It definitely deserved all the criticism, I'd have been livid if it cost me 60

Such a strange discourse around this one, at the same time I swear I saw 600,000+ reviews @4 stars on PSN for this- or it was a fever dream

This is the last developer I'd want shadow dropping anything, just an excuse to push sales before reviews trickle in and we find out it's busted.

As a publisher? Sure

@Chip-Douglas That sounds absolutely awesome, miss those days.

Cool on dad!

@Banjo- I'm guaranteed to hear the whining from the kids about Nindy sales ha ha.

I've got Xbox funds from the " sale" they had on points cards a month back, was hoping for good sales, 🤷‍♂️

That seems really really underwhelming....

Maybe I'm just too used to physical sales

@HonestHick I think its even more frustrating because they are using their own in house engine, this is their supposed bread and butter....

This " should" be a very streamlined process, but even after all these years, it's still not, and Todd has had the reigns for quite a lot of it

5-6 years for ES6, probably a safe bet, 12-15 years for fallout 5

I'm not sure how long they expect their core fanbase to live, but by then, I'm not so sure I'll still care.., I might still be alive, we'll see.....

Retire Todd, sell your pleather jacket and let competent managers take over

@Darylb88 Thanks a ton, I think that's what I was really curious about from that perspective

Cheers man!

If i was really disappointed with Avowed in nearly every aspect, is this just a reskin of Avowed( such as it felt like a reskin of Outerworlds 1)?

These are terrible " sale prices"

Geez there are a lot of C-Suite level market experts in these threads.

Let's hope the diehard faithful are proven right.

Long ways to go yet

I was already doubting id have need for the next Xbox, but having only started my Xbox library this gen, and it's almost exclusively physical... If this has any basis in reality it would be silly for me to stay.

This ***** sucks, at least I've loved my Series X and the 2 years of fun before it started imploding

How is TikTok engagement relative to gaming?
That's an absolutely squirrel brained statement.
So for the last 25 years gaming has been in a competition with TV sitcoms, not each other?
Gaming =/ other entertainment mediums, except perhaps books-

Unless Xbox is after a market that consumes in 2-3 min bursts 15x a day

I'm not sure how you focus gaming engagement around that

@IronMan30 I definitely wasnt getting 60, think I locked it at 40.
It still has enough jank, and with the smaller screen, 30fps is not bad at all.

Hopefully Bethesda delivers for a change

Didn't he same pretty much the same when they revealed Fallout Shelter?!?!?!?!?

Also Todd's dev studio seems to be really really poorly run, so I don't believe a damn thing he says

@IronMan30 You might be surprised, it looks fantastic on my Deck
Should look good on NS2 as well

@Fiendish-Beaver I honestly won't be surprised if it's 10+ years out at the very least.

There seems to be something fundamentally wrong at Bethesda Studios, they are so weirdly slow at anything

@Sol4ris 🤷‍♂️ I enjoy Pushsquares reviews, same reason I prefer PureXbox reviews.
They sound like they are written by lifelong gamers.

It must be that Xbox tax eh🙃

@Grippie I've got a SteamDeck, case is really good.
For such a pricey handheld, just seems weird there's no case. 🤷‍♂️

@fatpunkslim Curious where you get all your insider information?

Or is your uncle actually Micheal Prachter?

Is this all applicable to Nintendo as well?

@DennisReynolds So basically the illegitimate children of Micheal Prachter?