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Never had that happen, but the game cheated me out of 3 achievements including ones for getting married, buying a plot of land and building a house.

At this point, I hope the deal goes through and Microsoft rips COD away from Sony as soon as it possibly can.

No mention of Beyond Good & Evil 2?

Remember dreaming of what the future held? The prospect of seeing Halo in live action on the big screen? The promise of what could have been makes reality all the more tragic. What we wound up with instead was a TV show that will always remain a soulless, irrelevant stain on the legacy of what Halo once meant to the world of gaming. A coughed up ball of phlegm, spit in the face of the Xbox faithful, arriving long after our youth and the spark of enthusiasm had begun to cool. Instead of re-igniting the passion of the fan base, it placed it's "left" boot on the embers in a calculated effort to smother them out. The message was clear, we who compelled Master Chief along his inaugural journey on the unproven Xbox, who spent long nights over pizza and soda playing against unknown adversaries in Halo 2, who ushered in the era of online play, voice chat and achievements, who rallied to the green banner in order to "finish the fight!", who remained to experience what would come next... this iconic property, we helped to flourish... was no longer for us. We are no longer welcome behind the visor. Tragic and short sighted. Remember dreaming of what the future held......?

Ezio Auditore!!

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.....BUT WHAT ABOUT GEX!!?? (Happy to hear about Legacy of Kain though.)

That's sad. CD Project becomes trapped within a single IP in order to remain financially viable. Then, when people tire of Witcher, what happens? I'm not saying it's the wrong business move, I just wish the situation with Cyberpunk had turned out differently so they could enjoy the freedom to be creative and explore new ideas. In turn we, as gamers would get to enjoy new universes and experiences. Oh, well..

@Dusk_Actual You get a like on the strength of your profile pic.

@BartoxTharglod Good choices there. Pretty much my list too.

Indiana Jones, Everwild, Kojima, Perfect Dark, ES6.

@Bleachedsmiles That would have been EPIC! (Kind of like what Sony Playstation did to the Sega Saturn.)

YESSSS!!! My favorite horror franchise! FINALLY!! I've been waiting soooooooo long!

@Markatron Definitions of 'bigotry and intolerance' vary wildly. Most of the time, if someone is not an avowed communist they are labeled as 'alt right'. So, unfortunately the ability for people to fairly enforce correct-speech cannot be trusted.

'Better Moderation'.... Right, control what people think, say and do, as long as it benefits you, right? GTFO. I don't think I'll be supporting this dev in the future.

My Series X is exclusively a gaming machine. PS4 and Switch handle the watered down stuff like streaming apps.

Of course the next game he wants to play is on Playstation. Thanks to him, we don't have anything comparable on Xbox. Way to go Phil! Nice to everyone except the customers who bought a series X/S for exclusive AAA content.

I want to see Sierra Online titles emerge from this deal.

Dusk Falls looks like trash.

Stray looks boring as hell.

Next...

Gotta be Monkey Island and it's not even close.

All I want from Ubisoft is Beyond Good & Evil 2.

@GunValkyrian Judging by recent trends, they are probably correct.

Warner Bros is advising on development? That will translate to a compromise of the original creative vision, and no tolerance for fan service. No thanks.

@NEStalgia ...and Reggie!

@Agnostic JBbWr5motzEfDIuu 2: The Price of Freedom

I bumped into Reggie in an elevator at a Gamestop Managers conference around that time. He was very nice and signed my conference badge. Later, Charles Martinet would also sign that same badge! I still have that hanging up in my office all these years later!

@CrazyJF Great take!

Exclusive games and IP are critical for the health of a console manufacturer and the games industry as a whole. If Nintendo didn't own so many beloved IP that have remained exclusive to their consoles, they wouldn't have been in a position to continue fighting (and sometimes dominating) larger companies like Sony and Microsoft who have alternative revenue streams that help to feed their console ambitions.

There would be no Switch system today and no promise of future innovations or gaming experiences from a company that would have been unable to compete as a hardware manufacturer, if their games were on all competing consoles.

Making a decision as to which console to buy is not just about specs and features. What happens when all three major console manufacturers release a system with identical specs, features AND games? .....why would anyone buy more than one? They wouldn't, which means the market shrinks, and the dynamic that currently exists where gamers buy more than one console to get at that companies exclusives, disappears. This means less dollars spread amongst the various manufacturers, which ultimately means you likely wind up with two of them going out of business, with only the most financially viable company remaining. In that scenario, Microsoft wins and the world of console gaming comes down simply to Xbox.

Believe it or not, exclusive games (even Microsofts ability to secure them for their own platform) is the bulwark that works against a gaming landscape that sees Xbox as the sole console option.

Exclusive titles are critical and help shape the value proposition for the consumer when deciding which console to buy.

Now that THAT'S out of the way, can we please get the true deserving platforming mascot back!?

BRING. BACK. GEX!

@SlySnake0407 Shoot! I missed it.

Blue Dragon! (Now if they could get Lost Odyssey on sale too...)

@munstahunta This describes me too. Nintendo main through all previous generations, jumping in with Xbox this gen. There is so much to discover in GP that I'll never have time to play it all.

Being a huge Suikoden fan, I was looking forward to Eiyuden Chronicle Rising. I got home from work on the day that it launched, having anticipated the game all week, and jumped on to the Xbox Store fully prepared to buy the game for $15. Surprise! The game showed that it was available on Gamepass. Instead, of paying $15, I was able to download and play it for "free". It was an awesome feeling to be able to unexpectedly hang on to that $15, and with that one game, Game Pass paid for itself for the whole month! I've put 30 hours in so far so I feel like I've got my moneys worth. I feel like that was a perfect example of the value of GP and just made me happier to be a subscriber.

Truthfully, there are more good options for games to play on there than I'll ever have time to experience with more dropping all the time. I would like to see those AAA games too, but I'm ok if they are a little spread out, as it gives me time to plumb the depths of the GP catalogue a little more.

@CrazyJF Yeah, good points.

@UltimateOtaku91 I don't agree that it would be a good outcome for any of those companies to buy EA. Sure, games would remain multi-plat, but none of those companies understand, or frankly even care about videogames. I guess the era when game publishers were passionate about games, is well and truly over. Just a bunch of corporate dollar generators now.

Favorite Frontier game? SaGa. SaGa Frontier.

Embracer Group, you now own Gex. Bring him back!

BRING. BACK. GEX!!

This show sucks.

WTH? Pure Xbox readers just came alive. Never seen this many comments for any other article on this site. Didn't think there were that many of you out there!

@Fath Well played.

Jaffe, is a jack@$$.

Cool. Bring back Breath of Fire.

There is no audience that wants to engage with advertising.

So, why buy a $500 Series X, if Microsoft is going to allow access to the same content on a $79 streaming device? Could this lead to the end of Xbox consoles as we know and love them?

This is actually the best possible news. Ubisoft Mumbai was a new studio, assembled exclusively for this project, with no prior experience in game development, hence the lackluster results we got in the first preview of the remake. Quite an insult to the Prince actually, as the original game and it's legacy, deserved much better than that. Ubisoft Montreal is one of the companies top tier game houses, and the Prince will be in much better hands. Hoping for something good from this now as Prince of Persia is one of my favorite franchises.

If Square gets sold, I hope it's to Nintendo. As much as I love my Xbox, we don't need a megacorp pushing their western "progressive" values on a Japanese developer. Sony would be just as bad as Microsoft, or worse, in that regard. Keep Square untainted.

The one question I have based on this news: Gex when?

Also, I really would hate for Sony to follow this up by buying the core of Square Enix, as I need them to retain a presence on Nintendo consoles, or the gaming world just won't feel right to me anymore.

In November... the empire strikes back! The console wars continue, with the fate of the gaming universe in the balance! (Cue dramatic music...)

We need more of a Japanese presence within the Xbox ecosystem. Something akin to what they accomplished with Mistwalker during the 360 era. I hope they can secure some exclusivity of some kind with Namco, Sega or Square. Although, of the three, Sega seems the most viable. (Namco and Nintendo have been cozy for awhile, and Square is infatuated with Sony.) Resurrect the Shining and Phantasy Star series and bring new, modern versions to Xbox!

Get your bodies ready!