DennisReynolds

@OldGamer999 Look at the marketing, didn't see a single Starfield trailer on TV yet you can't move for Mario and especially Spidey 2 trailers on there to the point even my Mum is aware there's a new Spider-Man game due to the ads being constant. End of the day nothing about Starfield screams Xbox, its a great game imo and up there with my favourites of the year but it is just another Bethesda game while Spidey 2 feels like a Sony game and a game i could only play on Playstation. Sony and Nintendo treat the bigger 1st party games like the biggest thing in gaming while MS seem to treat 1st party games like anything else.

@ChromeMud Just checkout the reviews, public reception and sales, hell check out the user reviews on the games on your Xbox and you will the games aren't getting the same love that Mario, Zelda and Spider-Man 2 are getting. Redfall is ass, Forza is massive disappointment, Hi-Fi Rush while good is largely forgotten leaving Starfield as the only big win for Xbox and even then it doesn't have that 1st party gloss that Sony and Nintendo games have.

@TakeItEasy Of course not but Phil didn't want a 10 year deal he wanted a 3 year deal. Sony dragged it out to the very end to get the best deal they could.

End of the dude though what do you know? What do i know? What do the usual suspects on here know? If we knew how to run mega corps we wouldn't be on here we would be billionaires. People can hate Jim Ryan or Phil Spencer all they want but they have had more success and earned more money in the past 3-5 years then all of us will combined on here in are entire lives. Maybe instead of acting like you know better then Sony/Jim or MS/Phil you should remember where you are in life right now compared to them. This sites community really does like to think it knows corp business better then the actual billionaire businessman and CEO's. Honestly its why i rarely visit here because it gets so cringe on here with it.

@TakeItEasy MS offered a 3 year deal, Jim even spoke out publicly about that. The 10 year deal came after as MS's hand was forced.

Yeah Jim's retired good but i expect after a very stressful and busy year and a bit he's grown tired and weary especially when his job kept him from his family and him flying around the world constantly every month, the guy's nearly 60 no wonder he quit.

@Banjo- Sony and Jim got want they wanted a far better COD deal then Phil was previously offering before he extended it to 10 years. Sony knew it was a losing battle so they just dragged it on and on until MS were forced to make a deal that suits them. I'm shocked no one saw this common business war tactic, Jim has been in this game long enough to know it could never be stopped but he can sure as hell make it difficult and have MS make deals they never wanted to make.

@TheSimulator How about we stop cheering on mega Corps to become even more mega.

@Moonglow You mean the Zelda what will more GOTY awards then Starfield will get nominations? You mean the Zelda that has stupid amount of sales? The Zelda that is still high in the Switch charts?

Of course Pete cares about sales because bad sales impacts his studios. Also the game hasn't sold 10M as far as i know it just had 10M players but that 10M is a BS number because MS do what Netflix does and counts players who only spent like 10mins only with it. We don't actually know well its sold but the fact it left the top 10 pretty quick is not a good sign. Gamepass is killing sales.

@Moonglow I'm willing to bet Starfield would have remained in the top 10 charts for at a least a couple of months if it wasn't on GP and was on PS5 as well and Pete knows this, yeah he's retiring from all this for family but i bet the way MS has treated Bethesda was the tipping point.

I love Starfield but the fact its pretty much forgotten already shows how the Netflix module is damaging to well everything.

@Moonglow Yeah they do own D4 and MW3 now but let's not pretend they have any impact on those games.

Can't happen because of licensing issues but i would love to see remasters of the various Marvel games they made. Being more realistic how about Pro Skater 3/4 and Underground 1/2 remakes please Phil?

@Jimboss Scorn just hit PS5 a year after Xbox because it was timed. To be clear i don't have issue with timed deals but i do take issue with fanboys acting like their favourite corporation plastic box maker doesn't do them.

@cburg MS also done all those things during the Xbox and 360 eras and were constantly getting 3rd party exclusives or timed deals, hell MS even tried to nap Nintendo.

@Moonglow Quake 2 and Minecraft Legends are on PS and Switch and MS never funded or made Diablo 4 and MW3, in fact MS didn't even release D4 so that's a massive stretch. MS have had a decent year but its still amazing how little they put out despite owning so much.

Good riddance.

Foolish to expect MW3 but i wouldn't be shocked if MW2 is on it within the next few months.

@Dan1283 I'm playing on SS as well and i've put around 80 or 90 hours into it so far and i've had just 2 crashes. Have you thought about deleting and re-downloading it? Sometimes that can help with issues like this.

@ZuneTattooGuy AC4 was crossgen i own the PS4 version. Lighting, crowds, textures, the seamless world, animations, draw distance and so on are all way ahead of AC4 or even stuff like Far Cry 4, Ryse and Dead Rising 3. Also yeah Mirage would look like a X1 game because it is an X1 game, its a Crossgen release like Valhalla so it was never going to be jump in visuals like Unity was to AC4.

Yeah not exactly a shock going by how poor it was.

@ZuneTattooGuy You think this is equal to AC4 visually? Yeah your opinion kinda looses all credibility right there.

@Spider-Kev Watching a film at 24fps is very different to playing a game at 24fps. Modern TV's actually make lower framerates feel terrible, 30fps on a 120hz screen feels far worse then 30fps on a 60hz screen released 10 years back.

@OldGamer999 Yeah i've been thinking for a while that MS may go 3rd party like Sega while keeping Xbox as an actual Gamepass machine instead of a proper console. End of the day they're never getting a bigger game then Starfield until ES6 drops in 10 years time and like you said it didn't really do anything for Xbox, sure it increased console sales for like a week but as i said as soon as CP2077 2.0 update dropped everyone stopped talking and caring about the supposed biggest release this year that isn't called Zelda, hell even Baldur's Gate 3 stole Starfield's thunder. Personally i feel Phil's on borrowed time, his legacy may look very "pro-consumer" but i don't think its done much for Xbox and the likes of Gamepass and BC while great haven't really sold Xbox in the way a big 1st party PS game sells PS4/PS5's or Zelda and Mario sell Switch's. I hope things change but Xbox's fate was ultimately set in the stone with the X1 reveal/E3, they never really recovered from that and it tainted Xbox's image beyond repair.

@OldGamer999 To be clear right away i love Starfield and its easily in my top 5 games this year. I'm amazed at how forgotten the game feels all ready, like as soon as 2.0 dropped for CP2077 all the remaining hype for SF just went and i feel it really shows how little people care for Xbox, Spider-Man 2 is coming soon and it already it feels like the most hyped game since TotK to the point i'm already seeing ads on normal bog standard TV something you rarely see for VG's that aren't Fifa or Zelda/Mario. I think between MS's utter indifference to exclusives and Gamepass making gaming feel like Netflix the hype for Starfield couldn't last beyond a week or two. End of the day like Sony or not but they make games like God of War, Horizon and Spider-Man feel like actual gaming events you must be part off, they market the hell out of them and they keep that hype rolling after, is Starfield going to sell Xbox's this Xmas? Sadly no but SM2 will be making the PS5 to console to own this Xmas. I'm not being anti-Xbox here and i wish things were more equal but i really think the current course for Xbox isn't working, if Starfield barely makes a dent what hope does anything else have?

Too little too late.

@Alcatraz1763 Get used to it as the SS is going to get more heavily downgraded games and missing features the other versions have as time goes on.

Just give it up you lost, the deal is done.

@Moonglow Considering the sheer amount of success the PS5 has been and how much money he's made Sony i doubt he lost his job. The guy's nearly 60 and was travelling between NA, Japan and Europe every month so no wonder he retired.

@InvaderFromSpace I heard the Ada actress played her in that RE film they made a few years back and that's why Capcom hired her as they liked her performance in it.

@TakeItEasy I mean Xbox fanboys do the same you know, check any social media post about Spider-Man 2 and you will see brats playing console wars. Xbox fanboys aren't any better then PS fanboys or Nintendo fanboys you're all as bad as each other and quite honestly all you have done is lump yourself in with them with posts like these.

@TakeItEasy Interesting you're accusing PS players of being fanboys with BG3 even though you yourself are being a fanboy yourself with this post.

Really need to get back playing as Baldur's Gate 3 and MK1 have really been taking up my time. Glad its doing so well as its fantastic and the boost Xbox needed.

@Dm9982 Considering what MS done to Rare i want them no where near Nintendo. Anyway Nintendo will never sell especially with where they are now and Japan would never let a western corp buy them, Phil and MS would have been laughed out of the door if they offered to buy them.

As much i love my Xbox this very much reminded me on why i don't like MS and its PR man. Some of the leaks were good though but the bad stuff sure is bad and really shows what MS want to happen.

God this would be terrible and it would kill Nintendo. Thankfully Nintendo would never sell and Japan would never allow it. Yeah this is why Phil isn't the nice guy his PR side portrays.

I work from home and only need to dedicate a few hours each day for my job, i also don't have kids so its very easy to put a lot of time into gaming.

You see Phil this is the power of a fantastic AAA 1st party game. Well deserved as the game is fantastic and easily in my top 3 this year.

@tallythwack Interesting how you attack NMS players while doing the exact thing you accuse them off. The NMS community won best gaming community last year something the Xbox and Starfield communities will never win especially if you go on the Starfield subreddit right now.

@Darylb88 The two games are so far apart its pointless comparing. Both do things better then the other and both aim for different things.

9/10 for me. Has a few niggles holding it back from a 10 but despite that its still one of the highlights of this stacked year.

Had a couple of days off because Baldur's Gate 3 but i plan on giving a whole night to it tonight, fantastic game and well done Bethesda/MS.

Immature stuff from i'm guessing PS fanboys.

The changes MS have made to the Rewards has been pretty awful in my opinion, at this point they may as well drop it as they're clearly trying to move away from it.

@Nightcrawler71 Working from home 5 days a week when i only need to invest a few hours each day for my job gives me a lot of time for gaming.

@Deljo Sure but it crashed and burned. The 90's is when gaming fully took off and everyone wanted to be part of this booming "new" thing, the gaming world we have today is down to what happened in the 90's.

Playing both this and Baldur's Gate 3 is bliss.

@Fishticon I get what she's saying, the 90's kinda started what we think of gaming and she's a 90's kid who grew up playing MK.

@Reptilio Yeah i have triple digits game time in Zelda and i'm only around a 3rd into the story 😅

@Kaloudz Baldur's Gate 3 and Zelda will be the ones battling for the crown i can imagine. For me personally it will be between Starfield, Zelda and based on what i've played today Baldur's Gate 3 for my GOTY. I will say there is a small chance Spider-Man 2 could take it for me but we will see. No matter what though 2023 is one of the best ever years in gaming.

Yeah this is true and its why the bar is high for Sony 1st party games, if Spider-Man or The Last of Us was regular 3rd party the quality would be different. Starfield is better due to MS being so involved and funding it, it may suck for PS5 only players but it would have released too early and be in very poor shape if it was on there.

This is why i regularly save often and create new saves as well.

Its not perfect but for a Bethesda launch its pretty well polished, only had 2 crashes and some pretty minor bugs that easily fixed themselves on a restart. Clearly MS buying Bethesda was a great move for the game as the delays and MS getting hands on done wonders. Easily a GOTY contender for me based on nearly 30 hours of play so far.