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@JON22 That might have made me burst out laughing🤣😂

Well done

@Balta666 Same this was my 1st as well.
Was so excited to play Halo..... that was uh, a little underwhelming. Okay, super excited about RedFall- oh my goodness....
K fine, Starfield might still be brilliant..... I think I'm starting to regret this. Well at least their point rewards system is pretty sweet... oh they are stripping that big time? Going to release games on PS and i can just keep adding to my PS .. okay maybe I'll wait and see if games i want will just come to PS. Okay, uh....... I'm just not touching my Series X until ALL the dust settles.

Look ma, more Bethesda incompetence!!!

When do we get the news story that ALL Bethesda senior management has been fired???

I'm going to continue making this argument, Bethesda management is abysmal and has been for years. It doesn't matter if it's the developer or publisher side.
Microsoft got hosed financially with the Bethesda purchase and we are seeing the fallout.
Add on MS inability to have a streamlined publisher division that is always teetering on chaos and this is the result......

There is a reason I have not touched my Xbox in 5 months.....

Based on how painful it was to wake up this morning, I thought "man I feel old."

"Red Dead Is Now 20 Years old "- Yep... I'm old....
Remember loving this game, thanks for memory

@Bobobiwan Man, theThe Order 1886 was really brilliant. It could have been such an amazing 1st party tentpole series. Such a shame

@abe_hikura I... actually want this to happen now. The backlash would be utterly brilliant

I'm sorry, but it really seems like Bethesda/Zenimax are not the most well oiled machine.
They seem to be badly run at times, with organizational development and key leadership stuck 15 years in the past/ while trying to implement changes to meet market trends.

I'm still really miffed Redfall was a disaster, was so excited to play Salems Lot the video game

@NEStalgia
Everybody always forgets the rest of his quote,
"It just works, when I lie.... every single time they eat it up"- Todd Howard

@Romans12
I've just stopped believing anything he says. He's been spinning words for so many years now , he's become " The guy who cried wolf"- by the way ever notice how many leather jackets he's got......

Isn't this a recurring theme it seems like for Remedy. I could be hilariously wrong and be thinking of another company.
Their games seem to be really adored by a hard-core small market, but they always seem to fail to hit that homreun

I really wish we could get an insider look at the developer arm of Bethesda. They keep doing things that are borderline incompetent.
How is it that such a long tenured company like Bethesda can be so grossly inept?

I would love to see the business plan that preceded this whole snafu.

The Financials have to be fascinating, especially hinging so much on billion dollar Saudi investors, with no fail safe in place.
They tried to copy Tencent without an underlying mobile game safety net

Really bizarre

@fizban3332 He had been pretty universally panned. He's a pretty bad fit/ actor

I wonder if this version comes with fixed looking acceleration. Still busted on PS5 as far as I know.

I'm just glad this isn't a GP article.....

@GuyinPA75 People Can Fly have made some real gems. It's a shame they've never had a game just explode and earn them a healthy nest egg.

@Tomato_Goose
I didn't grab Outriders until it was finished and I got it for less than a 10er brand new from Amazon. One of the funnest experiences I've had in a while. I loved it, really had a blast. I was desperate to find out how I could pay People Can Fly devs back. There wasn't an obvious bundle of DLC that I could splurge on, and I was worried that it had been long enough that I simply wasnt sure they were under the same Publisher, where any bonus might make it their way.
I sincerely wanted to reward the devs

@Fenbops The endless chorus of ' Its Activision that are doing this not Bungie, you'll see once they break from Activision........"
🤣🤣

@Sol4ris 🙄🥱 Doesn't that fanboy rationalizing get old?

I very much remember these exact same complaints around the 1st game.

@ZuneTattooGuy Yes, but as mentioned in my previous comment GP isn't free unless........
Such an inane claim to make otherwise ya

@ZuneTattooGuy
For those that put in daily rewards max work, it sort of was.

Man, to be a fly on the wall in those senior leadership meetings.........

As far as I know, none of the Pure Xbox community are in charge of multi billion dollar companies- so joyfully hopefully he's just smarter than us and has a plan????????

Have not turned on my Xbox since the end of December, not bought any 3rd party on X. I really am concerned about ecosystem investment, their business plan is a tad confusing

@EquiinoxGII Took the family on vacation last year to Poland, Austria, Prague.... Guess who I saw awesome adverts for everywhere, Nindy and PS. I don't recall a single MS decked out tram, bus or otherwise

@rustyduck I'll be honest, I've stopped buying 3rd party on Xbox just because I'm wondering if it's worth the investment.
There has been some WILD left hand turns lately, and I know the Xbox faithful like Spencer but I don't trust himwith this being my 1st Xbox..
An actual used car salesman, butters everyone up so when the hidden fees show up you are too surprised to be mad.

After falling in love with the Steam Deck, and PS Portal, I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

It makes it a lot of fun to be able to play anywhere, or enjoy it bigscreen.

For the love of pete, DON'T USE SONYS BATTERY SUPPLIER!!

@Jonnybekeww 3 was fantastic, despite me wanting rip out Jason Brodys tongue so he could never speak again.

It's a close second

Far Cry 2

For all those who didn't like Far Cry 2, well you're wrong.
You have terrible taste, cause Far Cry2 is brilliant.

I bought this for the Deck, there is a good game there but I'm not sure why it just was hard to play on such a small screen.

The UI is far and away my favorite thing, it absolutely blows PS out of the water. Also Far Cry 2, because Far Cry 2😁

So far the 1st party stuff has been just okay, but they've got some exciting stuff in the pipeline

I'm genuinely curious to see if the senior Bethesda staff have learned anything.
If they just plod along in identical fashion to Skyrim and Fallout 4 in how they approach post support, I think it will speak volumes........

@OldGamer999 Nintendo is gonna Nintendo, they are far too stubborn/protective of their brand(wii u disaster made that obvious- don't think it ever went on sale). I think Sony will further embrace PC quicker. It's a bizarre time in gaming for sure

@OldGamer999 As the exorbitant costs of game developing keep rising, what Xbox and Sony are doing makes sense. Honestly the alternatives are a lot less appealing.

I just enjoy watching it burn, the current Dice and Battlefield developers are an insufferable bunch.

@ParsnipHero That would be them...... and they tied that to the star powers......

@rustyduck I havnt completely lost hope in Redfall, still waiting and hoping, thanks for the tip though!

@FarmDog08 It seems like such a petty thing, but it's THE reason I can't go back. It was probably one of the worst game mechanics I've ever experienced.
I have a feeling ill need to wait for a mod, the archaic game design, the LAUGHABLE patches. They are absolutely stuck in 2009 and refuse to change.
Bethesda(including Redfall) has left me disgusted...pissed off actually

@GuyinPA75 Her sarcasm is brilliantly written, agreed she's hilarious!

@eire-shabba I figured the VA was actually Irish, cause if she's doing an accent it's even better.

As an American it has been a blast to play as Dani(Irish?), her voice actor is fantastic, seriously she is really good!

The game is just really fun

I'm an grabbing this though, the art is brilliant

@InterceptorAlpha I'm really worried as well, I just can't unsee an Outerworlds reskin, even the melee animations looked ....... way to similar.
I so badly want to be wrong

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I honestly forgot it was in Beta, and I know it's not an exact 1-1, I just think the crusade is a tad silly.

Was there this same level of interest in seeing Palworld on Playstation? This is a 2 way street.......

@STX I laughed out loud at this, that would be great😂

I can't recall Patel doing much on the communication side of things, but I am getting old. She is pretty terrible at it....... Really not doing Avowed any favors

EDIT: The combat is woefully bad, the ai didn't appear top notch either. I'm very very worried for some reason. Like this is their 3rd rebuild and let's slap a game together in 14 months, this is the vibe I'm getting

"We may even see story campaign expansions or PvE/PvP sort of additions. So many different ways this could go."

See this would be wicked, it might even be fairly easy to take Warzone updates and plug them in with AI from the campaign, heck I'd even pay for it if it was meaty enough

@Banjo- I think MS has backed themselves into a bit of a corner with GP. Development costs keep ballooning and ballooning, it's one thing when your market share can offset that and turn revenue into actual profit. MS has absorbed an insane amount of overhead with its spending sprees and they are not recouping full game sales in their ecosystem but monthly payments at 1/4th value spread over so many games. Those valuations of the companies bought change dramatically when they are no longer selling full priced games

@Kaloudz I think having a sandbox COD campaign could be pretty fun, just to mix things up. Could still have c those bombastic set piece missions baked in

I have major concerns, reservations with this game. I'm not sure if I just set my expectations too high or......I, I don't know.
Everything they've shown seems
"Off kilter"
The combat, the characters, the Ai the hammed up developer walk through.
It all appears hastily glued together

@GuyinPA75 I might have noticed that, but I thought him calling out the article for something the author didn't present was a bridge too far.

Also don't get his hatred for physical, misplaced a bit i think