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Love my X, but the build quality is kind of x questionable.
Constant Wifi issues, controllers crapping, out after a year of normal use. Randomly doesn't read disc's, and weird issues of tiles not doing what they are supposed to, have to find different ways to open games or tiles.

@TheGiraffe I, I....... don't get it? Huh?
If this is sarcasm, I don't get it. If this is something faith based, I still don't get it....

I think we tend to forget just how small of a minority we are, those of us who frequent gaming sites as one of the regulars noted on PushSquare, we aren't going to really move the money needle
Even behemoths like IGN aren't going to sway the casual market that much.
Near perfect or not, it was a niche productmuch like Hi-Fi Rush.
To top it off, we are absolutely bombarded with games, more choices than anyone can possibly get through

Always enjoyable to come to an article to read honest opinions, on games I don't follow because I'm curious what people thought......
Can't say the eye rolling slap fights are though, all of you doing it are ridiculous

I am so excited for this game, really looking forward to it.
If it reviews well with no major bugs In heading straight of out to grab it!

@johndoe89 It really sucks, and as I'm not a dev, I have a hard time understanding why this has become so damn hard.
Basically Every Single game is not going to be the same as Day 1 after 6 months.
Sure maybe they fix a good portion of it, but most games don't seem to hit their final versions until a year after release.

By that time most of my interest has probably waned, and I might give them 15-20, 2 years later

Just sick of it

@Mrzoomer Absolutely well played😆🫡

With Concord there was mention of
" positive toxicity culture", where despite some obvious issues no one in house was speaking up.
I can't help but wonder if that's an issue at Bethesda right now. 🤔
I didn't hate the game at release, and had it downloaded again hoping this 1 year DLC would be a must play.
I tried playing yesterday, and ran into the same POI I've seen on almost every planet, gods the exact same again 🙃

Man the price on these suck. I world really like one, but even with this I'm looking at 134 $. Got WD PS Branded 4TB for 280

"Can Bethesda even make a good game anymore?"
I realize this is only one game, but I think there are concerns, especially with the LENGTHY dev time this game had.
There are some game mechanics, that I would factually consider the worst I've ever encountered, the Temples..... how does that make it into a core game design. To actually double down on years and years worth of atrocious UI that everyone and their uncle has complained about since at least Oblivion

I downloaded the game again, excited about them hitting that DLC goodness and....

What the hell are they doing.....

@Syndrome
"No effort to dazzle or convert naysayers"

What? That's been the hope for a lot of DLC's, the whole redemption arc.

Starfield is extremely devisive, and with new, F76, Cyberpunk, NMS, the're were distinct points made to whether it made games worth revisiting.

I really don't get why people insist on living in Echo chambers..... people have differing opinions 🤐

I'm sorry, but you have to be absolutely irrational if you think an Xbox fan site is intentionally disparaging an Xbox branded game because Sony.

Most of the fan reviews I've seen that think it's brilliant have 350+ hours and adore Starfields base game. Or feel the same way as PJ and are devastated with how lazy it is

I'm just waiting for Xbox to get hacked, and Sony to get hacked for the 3rd or 4th time.
Nintendo is probably safe as there is probably not many alive that want to risk Nintendos lawyers

The hacking " seems endless"

So far trying to get perspective from fan reviews has been pointless. It's either ,spectacular, or a monumental let down.

Emils truly horrific writing I guess it's a problem again and reskinned guns?

Weird to wait on reviewers for perspective

@HonestHick Love my XSX, but the wifi issues were a bit ridiculous

Very regular drops, or needed to restart the X. I wasnt alone either I guess, a lot of complaints.

Crappiest part is remote play when it drops the wifi, so I just went wired. Need a long CAT cord though

I don't often buy dlc so maybe I'm out of the loop.
Do companies not usually give early access for DLC reviews?

I re-downloaded it so I could get the new rover stuck on top of a building in preparation, but I'm waiting to hear dlc impressions. I don't have much faith in Bethesda anymore

Look I'd like to see MS do really well as much as the next Xbox owner, but some of you really need to dial back expectations.
Starfield and Bethesda was supposed to make Gamepass irresistible and it didn't really move the needle. A huge base of CODs fan base are just COD and Live2k/Madden folks who could care less about GP and pay just enough to get online services.

Wonderful idea in theory, but I sadly doubt it

It does have a glimmer of hope as Dan led some really good projects with Far cry

The next console cycle should be a gaming Nerds wonderland.

I'm kind of hopeful that both Sony and MS find a way to provide under the TV powerhouse consoles, deliver SteamDeck levels of " I can't believe how well this runs" in a handheld and further improve remote play. Graphics are already great, let's drive home the perfect gaming experience

PC Gamer has a preview of this, and it sounds borderline terrible.

I feel like Treyarch has lost their touch when it comes to MP, but if the campaign is as good as Cold War, I might use points to get Ultimate and sneak in Senua too

Astounding how badly run the Xbox side is......
Thank goodness for 3rd parties and bottomless MS pockets I guess?

@KvallyX Well except for some of their skybox renderings name one thing that was exceptional.
I can't think of a single example, but I can give you lots of " it was okay"

@AllAroundGamer I havn't purchased a single 3rd party game for Xbox in 2 years because I don't understand what they are doing over there. Stalker 2 might change that, we'll see....
Playstation has at least made an effort, even if they are price gouging every single thing they do. Raising controller prices was absolutely taking the piss

It's okay to love Xbox and be pissed at em too

I know this won't count, but easily FH4. I've enjoyed the heck out of it.

@NEStalgia They have definitely improved it through patches, really is at a great point, put crazy hours into my backlog finally, bright and clear visuals, no pacing issues, or I'm not picking up stutters and jumps.
I've got Chiaki/Greenlight running in Deck, I don't have an Oled Deck so Portal screen is a good bit better. Love Greenlight though and that's why I'd love a dedicated handheld from Xbox with a bigger screen

@NEStalgia @HonestHick
??? Stream quality is near perfect on a Portal, it does take some tinkering though, plug and play is not entirely true.
I won't argue the the completely idiotic proprietary Bluetooth though, sheer stupidity ...... but you can always buy a dongle for cheap to make Bluetooth work for wireless

@jikflet If your upload speeds are robust at home, grab a deck or ally and Greenlight it, or buy the play anywhere versions of digital Xbox and download natively. Cherry on the cake is you also get Steam/GoG/Epic stores and can always get a dock to play on the big screen. So so worth it.

If your home upload speeds are above 25/30 mbps it workss really well for a lot of people.
Could also get a travel router for about 40 or 50 which solves a lot of public wifi whitelisting issues

@Banjo- Why not? The PS Portal has been an incredible option. I've got a SteamDeck, and Greenlight works incredible as well. The Portal is lightweight, nice big screen and great image quality. The Deck gets heavy, and can run a bit hot if playing natively, actually bought a Steam dock for it but still haven't used lol.
Portal was also 400 less, a dedicated Xbox branded Portal would be freaking great@200 or less

Gears 5 has been on sale a lot, pretty cheap to.
Every time I think about it, I'll take speak at reviews....... They are not kind....

I enjoyed 4s campaign, was fun. Seems like 5 is extremely divisive, hmmmm

The movie industry is hilariously creatively bankrupt to a degree that's staggering.

Got to love the "creatives" that take a brilliant idea and " make it their own" to disastrous results...

I shouldn't have watched that, it was really discouraging

The " burning spider web",....uh

Oh wow ......... That was massively underwhelming. It didn't look like it was holding 30fps the whole time either.

Why can't this run at 60? Nothing looks like it's resource heavy.
Textures are very average
Particles effects very ho hum
Low enemy numbers

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AT XBOX????.??....????????

@eduscxbox What universe were you living in saying g nobody complained. Pushsquare communitu alone whined about FF and it's framerste/ along with DD2/ Ronin endlessly

Nintendo Fandom is surreal, they basically never complain. They let Nintendo pee in their cereal and steal their wallet while asking " please sir, may I have more"

Very well said, even as a physical collector these very things leave me hesitant

So not only are you paying more for Ultimate, but now you can pay even more for 3 days early.
It was gross before, and it's still gross.
Bethesda can really be a despicable company

I simply want to know if building a library on Xbox is a sensible thing going forward.

A year has gone by and I still have no clue.

Ok........ guess I'll just continue not buying anything for Xbox, unless it's getting delisted

That journal looks pretty cheap, like an afterthought to fill out a thin CE. I've seen those at Art Supply stores for 12 buying papers.
I don't understand how ANYONE can have faith in Bethesda CE's- famously terrible to deal with if your stuff turns out to be broken or wrong

I'm curious if Phil will lay out really awesome sounding news, inflate the hype balloon
As the Xbox community turns to high five each other, Phil runs up and pops the hype Ballon, gives everyone a wet willy and teieports back to his office not explaining a thing and being not heard from until the next Xbox Fest

This is Activision we are talking about, did anyone think this would actually be allowed?

@GuyinPA75 Activision carries the hate pretty well, I doubt MS gets much of the blame

@x3King84 You could always check
" ProtonDB" for Deck compatibility, it's pretty good resource
I've not played it in Deck but I've seen plenty of folks mention it runs great.

@Ricky-Spanish I'm not picky in FPS vs 3rd, and I'm old, I had watched all the Indy movies 20x over, adored Young Indiana.
Some reason it just doesn't look like my cup of tea, agreed on cutscenes🤌

As long as this reviews decently, day one purchase for sure, damn the backlog😵‍💫

It was my main reason for joining Xbox, I was not going to miss Starfield....... boy it was disappointing...
Still so worth it, Far Cry 2, got to finally play Gears and Halo Infinite was certainly, um no comment.
Looking forward to Indy, and hoping Avowed turns out great. Doom looks okayish

@Frmknst I've got PS, SteamDeck as well, so I'm my case Gamepass isn't useful for me in my situation

@Pabpictu That's certainly an opinion....

Below are the top 10 companies by gaming revenue in H1 2023:

Tencent — $15.4 billion (-3.6% year-over-year);
Sony — $8 billion (+8.7% year-over-year);
Apple — $6.9 billion (+3.2% year-over-year);
Microsoft — $6 billion (+3.5% year-over-year);
NetEase — $5 billion (-3.8% year-over-year);
Google — $5 billion (+2% year-over-year);
Activision Blizzard — $4.4 billion (+35.5% year-over-year);
Electronic Arts — $3.8 billion (+5.5% year-over-year);
Nintendo — $3.1 billion (+3.3% year-over-year);
Take-Two — $2.4 billion (+26% year-over-year).

The user reviews are not kind, guess it's a pretty game, but controls are really bad.

Ah the memories, watching Xbox get all the best ports, 1st dibs on COD maps. The absurd console wars, E3 goodness.....

@EVIL-C It was so wonderful playing Bond, huge thanks to the Pure Xbox community who mentioned Replay was on sale when the Goldeneye news came out.

My teenage daughter actual came in and watched me play for a bit and she said
" I wish they still made games like this, just looks simple and fun"

@__jamiie I truly have no idea how you came to the conclusion you shouldn't say you enjoyed it.
I'm talking about the eye rolling conspiracy that ANYTHING negative is some underhanded ploy to demean Xbox, it's exhausting