I was still using my Xbox One until about...7-8 months ago? Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, they were like, we're not even bothering with the Xbox One, it's only on Series X. That's when I started to get the message that it's time to scan that card and get a Series 😂
Jurassic World Evolution 2, Alien is Dark Descent, Armored Core 6, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, etc? Those are my Series X games transfered over and upgraded from Xbox One.
Tekken 8, Iron Harvest, Classified France '44, Company of Heroes 3, Sonic X Shadow came after the Series X.
Xbox One...wasn't quite the "revolution" to my gaming habits that 360 was. 360 was, " get over that corpse that is Sega, that the Sony monopoly operation left behind, and you're a strategy gamer now." 😂.
360 had a giant influx of, what was at that time strictly a PC genre. Halo Wars, Command & Conquer, Universe at War, Supreme Commander, Red Alert, on and on. Microsoft at the time probably just thought it as a content dump 😂. But it introduced console players to awesome game genre that they had limited access to at that time.
Xbox One kicked it off with Halo Wars 2, Gears Tactics...it was basically the system where I continued my transformation into 90% Strategy. It was also the birth of Gamepass.
Personally, I think Series X is gonna wind up being more fondly remembered than Xbox One! Granted it's been slow in ramping up 😂...but Series X is looking to have a furious finish!
@gollumb82 Well 😂...if you're not into RTS, this game probably won't change that 😂...its pretty tough. It's played more like a survival-horror game. If you're detected, you're swarmed by Xenos. If you want my spoiler strategy 😂...
Classified France '44, I blew up a Nazi bomber plane in a hanger, and two fighter planes. Then I had to hightail it out of there, as an elite GESATAPO squad stormed the grid 😂. Dark, shadowy figures.Im guessing that's my end boss 😂. The Chick is wounded, she goes to the hospital.
@Markatron84 It's my go to "break" game, when I'm taking a break from a game that's frustrating me 🙂. Its the ultimate chill out game 😂! If you got all the Dinosaurs needs met, set the jeep on auto-check, you can multi-task while playing 😂! Check your phone, while the scientists are researching something, grab some water out the fridge!
I was about to pull the trigger on Guardians of the Galaxy at Walmart for $19.99, when I got word it was only $11.99 on Xbox Store 😂! Downloading it now...
Got caught in Jurassic World Evolution 2 for a spell, but back to Classified France '44. I got a chick in the crew now 😂! After I beat supply defense level.
There's this level where you have to plant explosives on an important bridge. I snuck around the Nazi guard, planted the bomb, and got off the bridge. I was then spotted, and the firefight began.
The AI usually is good at avoiding timed explosives. I'm looking at the Nazi guy on the bridge. He's still standing RIGHT in the blast zone, aiming at me! BOOOOOOOM 😂😂!!!!! All that was left was smoke billowing from broken bridge 😂!
@nomither6 I was more of a Sega AM2 fan (Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally, Fighters MegaMix, Virtual On), Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, Sll Japan Pro Wrestling, that stuff. Sonic was the system mascot 🙂...
I liked THIRD PARTIES too 😂! It was nice to see them again on Xbox! Sega's picking up the pieces from the Sony monopoly operation, Halo happens, Strategy happens, I sorta moved on. All Sega really does now, since the Sony monopoly operation is Sonic...not nearly the creative force they used be.
At that time, the Sony monopoly operation was well underway, starving competing systems (smaller, overmatched)out of the market, with mass third party exclusivity.
Well, being a Sega fan, I certainly wasn't gonna then turn around and buy a "Namco" Playstation 🙂. Nintendo...just wasn't my style, the IP cutesy...Xbox became my default console 🙂.
Sega to this day had never recovered from the Sony monopoly initiative. Xbox, I'm introduced to Halo, and at the time that "PC thing", strategy 🙂. These strategy games are pretty cool, Command & Conquer, Universe at War...Sega does something BIG, I'll still buy it, Sonic X Shadow...but they're famously the first victim of the Sony monopoly operation.
MS brought competition back to the console market. Balance. This was a competitor too big for Sony to simply bribe third parties away from. If your competitor can spend more on publisher purchases in one year than you made in TOTAL revenue 😂...its gonna be hard for you to keep third parties off their system 😂
@MeanBeanEgg I guess MS was worth about 2 TRILLION back then 🙂...I guess it's didn't hurt them to bad 🙂...I guess if they were worth about 100 billion like some other guys 🙂? It woulda been devastating, but I'm pretty sure MS made out okay 😂
About 3M more at the end...but it's like an NBA team that's getting blown out by 30 in the 4th quarter.
The winning team pulls their starters, puts the bench guys in, and is already looking ahead to the flight out of town, and the next game (generation). The humiliated losing team leaves their starters in the game, in order to score meaningless points, to make the result less embarrassing.
@Balaam_ um...there was a console after that called the 360 🙂? Arguably the lone console to win a generation from "Rockstar" Playstation? That dominated "Insomniac" Playstation 3 for most of that generation? My transition from Sega fanatic to strategy gamer 🙂?
Yeah, I just signed back up to Gamepass, the Verizon promotion expired. Actually was looking for an old Series X RTS release, Warhammer: Age of Sigma, something...on the search, one of the Warhammer games was like 2.99 😂. 85% off. Of course the Warhammer RTS I was looking for is still full price 😂
I had Gamepass for a while through a Verizon promotion, where I was paying it with my Wireless bill. That expired, and I forgot to re-sign. Just put it on the card, directly through my Series X 🙂.
Indiana Jones, Stalker 2, Mechwarrior, Age of Mythology, Gamepass is really heating up!
Each Island has about 3 sections. One power station has a set capacity. So my plan is, one power station per section. That allows me to put as many dino pens, operation buildings, shops, restrooms, movie theaters etc per section, without pushing the capacity of the power station.
I gotta go deep into the research tree to get a second ranger jeep. So I'll get around that by building another response center at one of the other new sections. Now I got enough "task slots" to handle the dinosaurs welfare checks, and hurricane damage repairs. Yeah, there's category 5 hurricanes 😂. None of the Dinos come out the broken fences though, to terrorize the guests 😂! They stay in! I guess that says a lot about me keeping their comfort if not at 100%, close to it, LOL!
Sheesh, just had one of this MASSIVE dino disease outbreak 😂! Seemed like the biggest one yet! Its like they throw a cruel game of whack a mole at you 😂! Another one catches the disease...Got two med-vans, go nuts shooting the med darts 😂. Under control...two winged guys need medical care...on to the next part of the island...
Know what, I'm gonna put in that Sonic X Shadow I just bought...need a little break 😂
Jurassic World Evolution 2, San Albertas...its a lot less headaches, if you research and build the power station, and run a network of power lines 😂. Completely ditch the backup generator, that you have to constantly refill, with a half million dollars of fuel.
I see the backup generators pre-built. I research the power station. Put the telephone pole next to where the backup generator is providing power. Attach the power line, and hit "demolish" on the backup generator 😂.
Watching the Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs swimming around in the lagoon, they did a wonderful job with the animation...
Picked up Sonic X Shadow, relive my pre-strategy, Sega fanatacism days, before the Sony monopoly operation.
I'm a former Sega fanatic...Sega...hasn't been the same since the Sony monopoly operation, to hold third parties hostage...
I'll still buy a Sega game here and there...Sonic X Shadow, the odd Sonic game on Switch, Company of Heroes is published by Sega...but let's be honest, theyre a shell of their former selves.
Besides the Sonic games, they've slipped back into a middle of the pack publisher...360 hit, HUGE strategy boom, its now my favorite genre, and I kinda moved on from Sega...
If they can get back to the Virtua Fighters, Panzer Dragoons, Virtual Ons, Sega Rally...it still wouldn't pull me away from strategy 😂...but I would get back on board with Sega in a heartbeat.
Yup, I was gonna get it for Switch, for portable pick up and play...but I got suspicious of the lack of Switch footage of the game being put out there 🙂...a youtuber confirmed those suspicions, compromises to the Shadow campaign graphics. So I went with the Series X version. I wanted the same dazzling cityscape graphics I saw in the teasers 🙂
I guess they didn't want that physical or download money...or they went for the guarantee, rather than test the market. If you put Metal Slug Tactics on Gamepass, that's where I'm playing it. I'm not paying $20 a month for nothing 🙂
My decision to go Series X or Switch usually comes down to factors such as how much do I want to play the game, and its...graphical worthiness.
This is a game that can work on Switch without any significant reduction in quality.
I WAS gonna get Sonic X Shadow for Switch as well. Until I saw the graphics on particularly the Shadow campaign. Not much transparency from the Switch version...I decided on the Series X. A reviewer confirmed that the Switch version had compromises.
Yet, I bought the Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 😂. The worst version by far, but I wanted more time to play the game, on the go. For all the additions to the franchise, like extra modes, at the end of the day, it's still a fighting game 🙂.
Civ 7 is another one in which I'll have to decide between portable, play anywhere, or Series X only on the couch and home theater.
@abe_hikura Yeah, did they realize this was a day one purchase for a lot of people, me included? Strategy, turn, real time, city builder, is almost all I do. But if it's sitting right there on Gamepass 🙂...
I was dead set the Switch version...not graphically advance enough for Series, but as a fun cartoonish turn based on the go, like Advance Wars 1+2? Absolutely. But if it's on Gamepass...I guess these guys aren't worried about physical/digital purchases. Maybe I'll get it on Switch anyway.
There's a story behind this game 🙂...years of delays. You know that kind of stalling, where it 2022, it says "coming 2023". You check back on the Gamefaqs page in APRIL..."coming 2023" 😂...November 2023, "coming soon"...you check back in May 2024, and there's digital cobwebs forming on the "coming soon" font 😂...
Water under the bridge, just glad it's finally out. BTW, it's "cartoonish" only in the sense of the sprites. It not only looks graphically superior to what I was expecting the Advance Wars reboot to be...but it's also more graphically VIOLENT 😂😂...guys got a meat cleaver, blood splatter 😂.
Someone is buying Series Xs in my neck of the woods 😂. NOT Series S...X! ONE physical copy of Black Ops AND Sonic X Shadow is left, dangling from the Walmart glass case shelf 😂
@ChrisR89 I completed Aliens Dark Descent some months ago. Want this spoiler tip 😂? Game is pretty tough until you realize this 😂
When you pull up your weapons menu, you go into a slow motion state. Choose your action, drop the menu and continue.
The key, in tough situations, such as waves of Xenos, corridor sections, and alerting them to you, is to STAY in the slow motion state 😂. Don't pull the menu down.
The AI is disoriented, and a lot less tough in slow motion state 😂. Also, equip ALL of your men with Sentry Guns. This ties into the slow motion mode, stay with me 😂
Xeno are alerted/bum rush-the SECOND you accidently alert them, pull up the action menu to go into slow motion. RUN, in slow motion, to a strategic corner, you get some distance from the chasing Xenos. At the right spot, a corner where they can only come from your front, unpack ALL 4-5 of your sentry guns(slow mo), like a wall in front of you, aim them in the direction of the Xenos! Pull the menu down to go back into normal speed 😂😂! You essentially have the overwhelming firepower of TEN men, with the sentrys and will MOW down the Xenos, until you go back into "undetected" 😂. You'll get the hang of this, and do it in ONE motion! Throw a grenade launcher is there, a shotgun blast...its like the slow mo from the Dredd 3D movie 😂
Youre hiding in a safe room, you go out in the corridor, the Xeno detects you. Slo mo RUN back to the room! You now have a spot where you can ambush them. Set up the 5 sentrys, aiming them at the door 😂. Your 5 men stand behind them, with whatever weapons they have. Trust me, in slow motion, you'll have time to do all this! The Xenos come through the door, barrage, bye-bye
Corridor-run through the corridor in slow motion, firing grenades and making flamethrower barriers behind you.
Get through room of enemies-I kid you not 😂...in slow motion, I was able to run to the back of the room, past THIRTY disoriented AI cultists, get to a strategic spot, unpack the sentrys, turn slo mo off and slaughter them 😂
The final boss has to chase you through corridors...okay 😂? The big swarm at the APC before the boss fight? Slow mo all the way!
@Decimateh I dunno if you realize it or not, but COD franchise is now owned by MS...meaning they have every right to declare one of the MOST COVETED franchises in gaming EXCLUSIVE to the Xbox brand.
See God of War, Gran Turismo, Spider-Man on anything ELSE, other than a niche PC platform a million years after the release date?! How about Nintendo?!
Series X has 33% marketshare. As well as DOOM, etc. Does that increase to 50% TOMORROW morning, as these guys seem to expect? NO...next month, like, PRESTO?! Thats not how it works...a couple Christmas seasons go by, youre at the end of the generation, and Series X now sits at 40-45%! THATS how it works! You ride the MOMENTUM as still the loser, INTO the new generation hardware! It would actually be a GOOD IDEA to have a new COD ready for that launch! DOOM, Elder Scrolls, Halo...come out HOT!
I'm bracing for it...loyal Xbox consumer, but...I still don't want to believe that MS is pulling a Sega...but that's exactly the road they appear to be headed down. In calculated steps...
I'll be left with my Switch...PC too, if I want that rout...my guys Samsung, Sony's conqueror in the home electronics market...
My TV has a gaming hub, with Gamepass and other similar services installed...but Samsung doesnt...YET...seem interested in taking on Sony with a dedicated gaming console. Hopefully they're seeing something with these gaming smart tvs. That would REALLY have Sony execs crapping their pants 😂
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Re: Roundup: Avowed's Latest Previews Are In, And It's Already Being Touted As 'One Of 2025's Best Games'
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 23-24)
,-Classified France '44
-Advance Wars 1+2(Switch), finished the original, doing part 2
-some Jurassic World Evolution 2, Chase Theory levels.
-some Tekken 8 online
Re: Talking Point: Looking Back, What Are Your Fondest Memories Of The Xbox One Era?
I was still using my Xbox One until about...7-8 months ago? Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, they were like, we're not even bothering with the Xbox One, it's only on Series X. That's when I started to get the message that it's time to scan that card and get a Series 😂
Jurassic World Evolution 2, Alien is Dark Descent, Armored Core 6, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, etc? Those are my Series X games transfered over and upgraded from Xbox One.
Tekken 8, Iron Harvest, Classified France '44, Company of Heroes 3, Sonic X Shadow came after the Series X.
Xbox One...wasn't quite the "revolution" to my gaming habits that 360 was. 360 was, " get over that corpse that is Sega, that the Sony monopoly operation left behind, and you're a strategy gamer now." 😂.
360 had a giant influx of, what was at that time strictly a PC genre. Halo Wars, Command & Conquer, Universe at War, Supreme Commander, Red Alert, on and on. Microsoft at the time probably just thought it as a content dump 😂. But it introduced console players to awesome game genre that they had limited access to at that time.
Xbox One kicked it off with Halo Wars 2, Gears Tactics...it was basically the system where I continued my transformation into 90% Strategy. It was also the birth of Gamepass.
Personally, I think Series X is gonna wind up being more fondly remembered than Xbox One! Granted it's been slow in ramping up 😂...but Series X is looking to have a furious finish!
Re: Review: Stalker 2 (Xbox) - GSC Game World's Long-Awaited Sequel Is A Mess
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Re: Roundup: Avowed's Latest Previews Are In, And It's Already Being Touted As 'One Of 2025's Best Games'
This an exclusive, or was it given to "Tecmo" Playstation 5?
Re: Stalker 2 Already Has A Respectable Player Count, Despite Some Launch 'Issues'
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Re: These Five Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (November 20-27)
@gollumb82 Well 😂...if you're not into RTS, this game probably won't change that 😂...its pretty tough. It's played more like a survival-horror game. If you're detected, you're swarmed by Xenos. If you want my spoiler strategy 😂...
Re: Talking Point: What Have You Bought In The Xbox Black Friday Sale So Far?
Guardians of the Galaxy so far...if I can get a deal on Space Marine...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 16-17)
Classified France '44, I blew up a Nazi bomber plane in a hanger, and two fighter planes. Then I had to hightail it out of there, as an elite GESATAPO squad stormed the grid 😂. Dark, shadowy figures.Im guessing that's my end boss 😂. The Chick is wounded, she goes to the hospital.
Re: Xbox Fails To Make GOTY List, But Still Gets 11 Nominations For The Game Awards 2024
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Re: These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (November 18-22)
Stalker 2, and I like any mech game, so Uragun 🙂
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 16-17)
@Markatron84 It's my go to "break" game, when I'm taking a break from a game that's frustrating me 🙂. Its the ultimate chill out game 😂! If you got all the Dinosaurs needs met, set the jeep on auto-check, you can multi-task while playing 😂! Check your phone, while the scientists are researching something, grab some water out the fridge!
Re: Lots Of Games Are Reduced By 90-95% In The Xbox Black Friday Sale 2024
I was about to pull the trigger on Guardians of the Galaxy at Walmart for $19.99, when I got word it was only $11.99 on Xbox Store 😂! Downloading it now...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 16-17)
Got caught in Jurassic World Evolution 2 for a spell, but back to Classified France '44. I got a chick in the crew now 😂! After I beat supply defense level.
There's this level where you have to plant explosives on an important bridge. I snuck around the Nazi guard, planted the bomb, and got off the bridge. I was then spotted, and the firefight began.
The AI usually is good at avoiding timed explosives. I'm looking at the Nazi guy on the bridge. He's still standing RIGHT in the blast zone, aiming at me! BOOOOOOOM 😂😂!!!!! All that was left was smoke billowing from broken bridge 😂!
Re: The Original Xbox Is Now 23 Years Old, But It's Still Relevant In So Many Ways
@nomither6 I was more of a Sega AM2 fan (Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally, Fighters MegaMix, Virtual On), Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, Sll Japan Pro Wrestling, that stuff. Sonic was the system mascot 🙂...
I liked THIRD PARTIES too 😂! It was nice to see them again on Xbox! Sega's picking up the pieces from the Sony monopoly operation, Halo happens, Strategy happens, I sorta moved on. All Sega really does now, since the Sony monopoly operation is Sonic...not nearly the creative force they used be.
Re: The Original Xbox Is Now 23 Years Old, But It's Still Relevant In So Many Ways
At that time, the Sony monopoly operation was well underway, starving competing systems (smaller, overmatched)out of the market, with mass third party exclusivity.
Well, being a Sega fan, I certainly wasn't gonna then turn around and buy a "Namco" Playstation 🙂. Nintendo...just wasn't my style, the IP cutesy...Xbox became my default console 🙂.
Sega to this day had never recovered from the Sony monopoly initiative. Xbox, I'm introduced to Halo, and at the time that "PC thing", strategy 🙂. These strategy games are pretty cool, Command & Conquer, Universe at War...Sega does something BIG, I'll still buy it, Sonic X Shadow...but they're famously the first victim of the Sony monopoly operation.
MS brought competition back to the console market. Balance. This was a competitor too big for Sony to simply bribe third parties away from. If your competitor can spend more on publisher purchases in one year than you made in TOTAL revenue 😂...its gonna be hard for you to keep third parties off their system 😂
Re: The Original Xbox Is Now 23 Years Old, But It's Still Relevant In So Many Ways
@MeanBeanEgg I guess MS was worth about 2 TRILLION back then 🙂...I guess it's didn't hurt them to bad 🙂...I guess if they were worth about 100 billion like some other guys 🙂? It woulda been devastating, but I'm pretty sure MS made out okay 😂
Re: The Original Xbox Is Now 23 Years Old, But It's Still Relevant In So Many Ways
About 3M more at the end...but it's like an NBA team that's getting blown out by 30 in the 4th quarter.
The winning team pulls their starters, puts the bench guys in, and is already looking ahead to the flight out of town, and the next game (generation). The humiliated losing team leaves their starters in the game, in order to score meaningless points, to make the result less embarrassing.
Re: The Original Xbox Is Now 23 Years Old, But It's Still Relevant In So Many Ways
@Balaam_ um...there was a console after that called the 360 🙂? Arguably the lone console to win a generation from "Rockstar" Playstation? That dominated "Insomniac" Playstation 3 for most of that generation? My transition from Sega fanatic to strategy gamer 🙂?
Re: We've Found Some Amazing 'Just For You' Deals In The Xbox Black Friday Sale
Yeah, I just signed back up to Gamepass, the Verizon promotion expired. Actually was looking for an old Series X RTS release, Warhammer: Age of Sigma, something...on the search, one of the Warhammer games was like 2.99 😂. 85% off. Of course the Warhammer RTS I was looking for is still full price 😂
Re: Surprise! Xbox's Avowed Has Been Confirmed For Another Platform
@MeanBeanEgg A SEGA avatar, and you're seriously wondering where my nick comes from 😂😂??
Re: Surprise! Xbox's Avowed Has Been Confirmed For Another Platform
@MeanBeanEgg LMFAO 😂😂!!!!!!
Re: Surprise! Xbox's Avowed Has Been Confirmed For Another Platform
Pretty sure it was "RockStar" Playstation 5 🙂
Re: Xbox Drops Extended Indiana Jones Gameplay Ahead Of Game Pass Release
I had Gamepass for a while through a Verizon promotion, where I was paying it with my Wireless bill. That expired, and I forgot to re-sign. Just put it on the card, directly through my Series X 🙂.
Indiana Jones, Stalker 2, Mechwarrior, Age of Mythology, Gamepass is really heating up!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 9-10)
Each Island has about 3 sections. One power station has a set capacity. So my plan is, one power station per section. That allows me to put as many dino pens, operation buildings, shops, restrooms, movie theaters etc per section, without pushing the capacity of the power station.
I gotta go deep into the research tree to get a second ranger jeep. So I'll get around that by building another response center at one of the other new sections. Now I got enough "task slots" to handle the dinosaurs welfare checks, and hurricane damage repairs. Yeah, there's category 5 hurricanes 😂. None of the Dinos come out the broken fences though, to terrorize the guests 😂! They stay in! I guess that says a lot about me keeping their comfort if not at 100%, close to it, LOL!
Sheesh, just had one of this MASSIVE dino disease outbreak 😂! Seemed like the biggest one yet! Its like they throw a cruel game of whack a mole at you 😂! Another one catches the disease...Got two med-vans, go nuts shooting the med darts 😂. Under control...two winged guys need medical care...on to the next part of the island...
Know what, I'm gonna put in that Sonic X Shadow I just bought...need a little break 😂
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 9-10)
Jurassic World Evolution 2, San Albertas...its a lot less headaches, if you research and build the power station, and run a network of power lines 😂. Completely ditch the backup generator, that you have to constantly refill, with a half million dollars of fuel.
I see the backup generators pre-built. I research the power station. Put the telephone pole next to where the backup generator is providing power. Attach the power line, and hit "demolish" on the backup generator 😂.
Watching the Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs swimming around in the lagoon, they did a wonderful job with the animation...
Picked up Sonic X Shadow, relive my pre-strategy, Sega fanatacism days, before the Sony monopoly operation.
Re: SEGA On Reviving Its Classics: 'We Have Another Virtua Fighter Being Developed'
I would say VF is easier to get into. Less weird button/stick inputs.
Re: Stalker 2 Breaks Down Its Weapons Of The Wasteland Ahead Of Xbox Launch
Good narrator 😂😂
Re: SEGA On Reviving Its Classics: 'We Have Another Virtua Fighter Being Developed'
I'm a former Sega fanatic...Sega...hasn't been the same since the Sony monopoly operation, to hold third parties hostage...
I'll still buy a Sega game here and there...Sonic X Shadow, the odd Sonic game on Switch, Company of Heroes is published by Sega...but let's be honest, theyre a shell of their former selves.
Besides the Sonic games, they've slipped back into a middle of the pack publisher...360 hit, HUGE strategy boom, its now my favorite genre, and I kinda moved on from Sega...
If they can get back to the Virtua Fighters, Panzer Dragoons, Virtual Ons, Sega Rally...it still wouldn't pull me away from strategy 😂...but I would get back on board with Sega in a heartbeat.
Re: Sonic X Shadow Generations Impresses On Xbox In Latest Digital Foundry Tech Review
Yup, I was gonna get it for Switch, for portable pick up and play...but I got suspicious of the lack of Switch footage of the game being put out there 🙂...a youtuber confirmed those suspicions, compromises to the Shadow campaign graphics. So I went with the Series X version. I wanted the same dazzling cityscape graphics I saw in the teasers 🙂
Re: Xbox Game Pass: All Games Coming Soon In November 2024
I guess they didn't want that physical or download money...or they went for the guarantee, rather than test the market. If you put Metal Slug Tactics on Gamepass, that's where I'm playing it. I'm not paying $20 a month for nothing 🙂
Re: Metal Slug Tactics Is Launching Day One On Xbox Game Pass Next Week
My decision to go Series X or Switch usually comes down to factors such as how much do I want to play the game, and its...graphical worthiness.
This is a game that can work on Switch without any significant reduction in quality.
I WAS gonna get Sonic X Shadow for Switch as well. Until I saw the graphics on particularly the Shadow campaign. Not much transparency from the Switch version...I decided on the Series X. A reviewer confirmed that the Switch version had compromises.
Yet, I bought the Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 😂. The worst version by far, but I wanted more time to play the game, on the go. For all the additions to the franchise, like extra modes, at the end of the day, it's still a fighting game 🙂.
Civ 7 is another one in which I'll have to decide between portable, play anywhere, or Series X only on the couch and home theater.
Re: Metal Slug Tactics Is Launching Day One On Xbox Game Pass Next Week
@abe_hikura Yeah, did they realize this was a day one purchase for a lot of people, me included? Strategy, turn, real time, city builder, is almost all I do. But if it's sitting right there on Gamepass 🙂...
Re: Metal Slug Tactics Is Launching Day One On Xbox Game Pass Next Week
I was dead set the Switch version...not graphically advance enough for Series, but as a fun cartoonish turn based on the go, like Advance Wars 1+2? Absolutely. But if it's on Gamepass...I guess these guys aren't worried about physical/digital purchases. Maybe I'll get it on Switch anyway.
There's a story behind this game 🙂...years of delays. You know that kind of stalling, where it 2022, it says "coming 2023". You check back on the Gamefaqs page in APRIL..."coming 2023" 😂...November 2023, "coming soon"...you check back in May 2024, and there's digital cobwebs forming on the "coming soon" font 😂...
Water under the bridge, just glad it's finally out. BTW, it's "cartoonish" only in the sense of the sprites. It not only looks graphically superior to what I was expecting the Advance Wars reboot to be...but it's also more graphically VIOLENT 😂😂...guys got a meat cleaver, blood splatter 😂.
Re: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Will Run At 60FPS On Both Xbox Series X And S
They're saying that they're going with the "Marvel Studios" strategy of targeting their...overly ticklish 😂...fanbase with comedy .
Re: Xbox's Avowed Is A 'Meaningful' RPG With Plenty Of Choices, Says Obsidian Dev
This looks more like an action first-person than an RPG!
Re: Poll: What Do You Think Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 So Far?
Someone is buying Series Xs in my neck of the woods 😂. NOT Series S...X! ONE physical copy of Black Ops AND Sonic X Shadow is left, dangling from the Walmart glass case shelf 😂
Re: Review: Sonic X Shadow Generations (Xbox) - Shadow's New Chapter Shines Bright
@Reptilio Got it for Switch...thought it was kinda lazy...
Re: Review: Sonic X Shadow Generations (Xbox) - Shadow's New Chapter Shines Bright
Someone is buying Series Xs 😂...there was only ONE copy left in the Series X section at Walmart 😂
Re: Poll: What Do You Think Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 So Far?
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 26-27)
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 26-27)
@ChrisR89 I completed Aliens Dark Descent some months ago. Want this spoiler tip 😂? Game is pretty tough until you realize this 😂
When you pull up your weapons menu, you go into a slow motion state. Choose your action, drop the menu and continue.
The key, in tough situations, such as waves of Xenos, corridor sections, and alerting them to you, is to STAY in the slow motion state 😂. Don't pull the menu down.
The AI is disoriented, and a lot less tough in slow motion state 😂. Also, equip ALL of your men with Sentry Guns. This ties into the slow motion mode, stay with me 😂
Xeno are alerted/bum rush-the SECOND you accidently alert them, pull up the action menu to go into slow motion. RUN, in slow motion, to a strategic corner, you get some distance from the chasing Xenos. At the right spot, a corner where they can only come from your front, unpack ALL 4-5 of your sentry guns(slow mo), like a wall in front of you, aim them in the direction of the Xenos! Pull the menu down to go back into normal speed 😂😂! You essentially have the overwhelming firepower of TEN men, with the sentrys and will MOW down the Xenos, until you go back into "undetected" 😂. You'll get the hang of this, and do it in ONE motion! Throw a grenade launcher is there, a shotgun blast...its like the slow mo from the Dredd 3D movie 😂
Youre hiding in a safe room, you go out in the corridor, the Xeno detects you. Slo mo RUN back to the room! You now have a spot where you can ambush them. Set up the 5 sentrys, aiming them at the door 😂. Your 5 men stand behind them, with whatever weapons they have. Trust me, in slow motion, you'll have time to do all this! The Xenos come through the door, barrage, bye-bye
Corridor-run through the corridor in slow motion, firing grenades and making flamethrower barriers behind you.
Get through room of enemies-I kid you not 😂...in slow motion, I was able to run to the back of the room, past THIRTY disoriented AI cultists, get to a strategic spot, unpack the sentrys, turn slo mo off and slaughter them 😂
The final boss has to chase you through corridors...okay 😂? The big swarm at the APC before the boss fight? Slow mo all the way!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 26-27)
Gonna get back on track with Classified France '44...I got caught up in Jurassic World Evolution 2, and how to make money with amenities 😂
Re: Black Ops 6 Campaign Review (Xbox) - Supernatural Surprises Elevate This Year's Call Of Duty
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Re: Black Ops 6 Campaign Review (Xbox) - Supernatural Surprises Elevate This Year's Call Of Duty
@Decimateh I dunno if you realize it or not, but COD franchise is now owned by MS...meaning they have every right to declare one of the MOST COVETED franchises in gaming EXCLUSIVE to the Xbox brand.
See God of War, Gran Turismo, Spider-Man on anything ELSE, other than a niche PC platform a million years after the release date?! How about Nintendo?!
Series X has 33% marketshare. As well as DOOM, etc. Does that increase to 50% TOMORROW morning, as these guys seem to expect? NO...next month, like, PRESTO?! Thats not how it works...a couple Christmas seasons go by, youre at the end of the generation, and Series X now sits at 40-45%! THATS how it works! You ride the MOMENTUM as still the loser, INTO the new generation hardware! It would actually be a GOOD IDEA to have a new COD ready for that launch! DOOM, Elder Scrolls, Halo...come out HOT!
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Re: Microsoft CEO Gaming Division Update: 'We Continue To Extend Our Content To New Platforms'
I'm bracing for it...loyal Xbox consumer, but...I still don't want to believe that MS is pulling a Sega...but that's exactly the road they appear to be headed down. In calculated steps...
I'll be left with my Switch...PC too, if I want that rout...my guys Samsung, Sony's conqueror in the home electronics market...
My TV has a gaming hub, with Gamepass and other similar services installed...but Samsung doesnt...YET...seem interested in taking on Sony with a dedicated gaming console. Hopefully they're seeing something with these gaming smart tvs. That would REALLY have Sony execs crapping their pants 😂