EvilBear

@Markatron84 That’s been my approach. I know some folks don’t have a problem with it because of either reasonable or abhorrent reasons, but I’m also not a censorship fan. I like to allow someone’s actions to speak for them. Sadly, I loved HP growing up but have too many people in my life affected by the really predatory/creepy and unhinged war the author is on.

As for the game itself, it looks fantastic and I have friends who have procured it by less than scrupulous means tell me that it’s one of WB’s best in a while. I really hope that those who have played it do experience the joy I did as a young person with the series. That also being said, I would love to see WB borrow this engine and style for other fantasy games. It looks solid and could serve as inspiration for other franchises.

This is obnoxious and frustrating. Microsoft has really lost the messaging battle. It’s so hard to listen to their empty platitudes of good will and not roll my eyes.

While I think this strategy would be most effective by porting/developing ground up to Switch 2, Xbox and PC are the only comparable alternatives to PS5. With Xbox’s hardware future not completely made transparent yet, I’m starting to worry about huge AAA titles only seeing the light of day on PS5, or lazily ported to NS2 without polish while Xbox is ignored. I was console fanboy trash in the 90s when I was young, dumb, and susceptible to the lack of class SEGA had in its advertising back then, but I’m now platform agnostic because I don’t trust any one platform to be consumer friendly without real competition.

Microsoft has truly taken a once mighty developer and gutted it. After 20+ years post-Nintendo divorce, Sea of Thieves is really the only stand out for me and I’m not even a fan of games like that.

It’s really demoralizing. During the ActiBliz drama, I was really hoping that Xbox would be a new dawn for the employees going through all of the Hell Kotick and leaders at that company put them through only for Microsoft to promise them better then conduct layoff after layoff. The days of Iwata who took a pay cut during the WiiU fiasco are long gone.

Love a free narrative-based game when they’re interesting.

Would have made a lot more sense to do this with a chain that has more than 15 locations on a continent the size of North America but okay lol

Considering my Switch gets more love than my Xbox, PS5, and PC combined, I will be getting Switch 2. I simply enjoy Nintendo games. That being said, this is my first Nintendo system since GameCube that I will not be buying at launch. I’m hoping to snag a Black Friday deal.

I mean.. it is kind of funny seeing Xbox at the top of the PlayStation charts considering “Xbox has no games”.

Wow. The only things on here that don’t sting are Switch 2 because at least that’s something new and the Series S.

I’m a platform agnostic gamer and not saying this from any perspective of bias: Comparing these two statements is a stretch at best and disingenuous at the worst.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Are you suggesting that cardboard and instruction booklets that were included were worth $40- $70? I absolutely can, just like every other commodity, compare the prices on a dollar from that era versus now.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I agree. There have been some tone deaf and smug responses to this on PX and PS. If you look at SNES pricing in 1993 and adjust for inflation, games were WELL over $100. New PlayStation games in 1997 adjusted were close to $100. I’m puzzled as to why anyone thinks that this is somehow unprecedented. Not defending Nintendo, but this isn’t 2008 anymore. The world isn’t the same, the industry isn’t the same, and there are new waters to traverse. If you compare prices from the 90s and 2000s through an inflation lens, $80 feels generous. That being said, I still agree with everyone that it sucks. I certainly am not looking forward to that with Nintendo games and the INEVITABLE hikes coming to PlayStation and Xbox games.

Honestly going to need more details before deciding. Very disappointed with Xbox’s hardware this generation from a support/exclusives perspective but impressed with overall Microsoft Gaming software offerings. My biggest wish would be to play my Steam library on it though I understand that there are alternatives to that currently.

This game and Animal Crossing kept me sane (and probably helped keep me alive) during lockdown that year. Excellent, excellent title. I would love to see more.

I just can’t with Warner Brothers anymore. Mortal Kombat has been the only series of theirs I’ve been able to hold interest in. Everything else is either mediocre, has controversy, both, or raised my hopes and dashed them. I hope others are able to enjoy however.

@jesse_dylan Yeah, some really clueless and selfish perspectives for sure. It does matter what a major corporation does to our environment.