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While new hardware is always exciting, it really does feel like the XSX/PS5 just barely came out. The Switch on the other hand....

Likely the best in the series. Armageddon, World Party, and Worms 2 in that order. The best versions were always on PC, so hopefully this is closer to the PC version versus any console version. I'll pick this up on day 1.

You don't have to play #1 before #2 as they are mostly unrelated in story. The writing and general story is much better on the second, and the second is more balanced in several ways. The first has slightly better music (debatable for sure...). I'd recommend playing both though, as they are both great experiences. Must play games.

The landing page is OK, just not organized like I would want it to be. Go 'Up' to get to your games or gamepass, that's ok. Everything 'Down' is a worthless never ending trash heap.

I've seen Marty labeled as Legendary in more than a few articles. Legendary in gaming music to me would be the likes of Nobuo Uematsu or Yasunori Nishiki. Outside of the Halo soundtrack has Marty done anything to gain that level of reputation? I've never truly liked the Halo soundtrack-- the main theme is decent, but the rest is bland to me. I may just have zero taste though. I'm open to being an outlier in not liking Marty's music.

Thank you very much! I'll add it to the list of games to try then.

Is there free aiming? Having no vertical aiming has always put me off from some of the older games in this genre.

The market is over-saturated and has been for a few years. We've all got backlogs of great games that we can't get to. Great for gamers at this moment, but terrible for the developers. There is going to be a big reduction in big budget games going forward IMO.

Go back one dashboard. It was just about perfect.

Lost Odyssey is a game that will always be with me. The first few hours of the game are very text heavy, hardly any action, but from then on it becomes far more balanced. Wonderful game with an excellent story. I doubt they will ever make another one, but it's up there as one of the best 360 games for me. If it was a Final Fantasy then I would say it's in my top 3 of that series.

I'd bet the problem is with advertising. Most people have no idea what Alan Wake is aside from those that played the first game. A shooter? RPG? Visual Novel? The name of the game doesn't give any info whatsoever, so the only way for the masses to consider buying it is through more exposure/advertising.

Great list, I hope they keep improving the game. It doesn't look like they've added the ability to remap the shout button just yet. I just want to yell at everyone without needing to take my thumb off of the left joystick.

Embrace it, because this is a change that can't be stopped. Industry will never support paying more for a service that can be done easier and cheaper through a computer.

Rock N' Roll Racing is the only one that comes to mind.

Was excited to try this with a friend but found there was no couch co-op, it's online only. I wasn't expecting that for this type of genre.

Great news, just a bit late. I played through the first on Game Pass and loved it. Finally almost done with #2 on the PS5. Had this come out for Xbox a few months ago I would have played it on Xbox instead. Great game though for those that haven't tried it. It takes a few hours to get going, but it's all good from there.

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@LtSarge All of the EDF's are great, including the spin offs. IMO the best in the numbered series is EDF 5, 4.1/2025, 6, then 2017. Even though I think 2017 is the 4th best, it's still amazing and it is a great place to start. 2017 made me an EDF fan for life. EDF! EDF!

Ads give short term revenue to Microsoft at the expense of long term user base. They are going to push the user base to other platforms with this junk.

When the Xbox 360 came out it had the sliding tabs and was quite clean. Not perfect, but it worked well. They then updated the dashboard to the more current design, and everything was still great. Every dashboard after that point got more and more ads. Towards the end of the 360 lifecycle I counted the tiles on the dashboard and there were 30 something functional tiles, and over 110 ads. I was a huge 360 fan, but it was so maddening that I ended up skipping the Xbox one for several years to get away from ads being constantly pushed. Fast forward to the late 2010's and someone at Microsoft finally figured out that ads are pushing people away. The dashboard was almost entirely clean again, and Xbox became a more consumer focused platform than the competition (except for Nintendo...). Fast forward to today and here we are again. The ad focused anti consumer strategy has started again, and Microsoft won't figure out it's a bad thing until their user base is pushed away to the competition again.

The Expanse TV series was incredible. Most TV series become worse over time, but every season of the Expanse made the show better. Hopefully it will get renewed someday to finish it properly.

Thanks! Yep, I'll give it a go to see what else is there. I watched most of the initial cutscene and quickly decided against ever subjecting myself to that again. Every cutscene has been skipped since, but I wasn't aware of the "!"s. I'll start pushing the story along. Much appreciated!

@dreadful Thank you, I wasn't aware of that. Now the tough choice on whether or not to grind up to that point. The gameplay is decent enough, just repetitive and often times busy.

Put two hours into it and I don't think I'll continue. It's just a pure grind fest. Keep doing the same thing over and over to level up and eventually find how YOU can do the most damage. Once you do the most damage, the next step is to find four other players that will agree on a team strategy, then continue grinding with them just as you did before.

Thanks all for the replies. I'll give it another shot as I did want to try this game. I'm good with Capcom having access to things like friends list, activity, etc... Just don't really want yet another service to have real name, billing info, etc..

Was really looking forward to this game, enough that I logged in a few minutes after launch. It forces you to go through web forms to create a Capcom ID. After the Capcom ID is created it wants you to log into your Microsoft account to link Capcom ID to it, and that's one step too far. Immediately uninstalled the game after that. Not sure why Capcom needs to link or gain access to personal data in your Microsoft account.