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@GuyinPA75 John Romero. Creator of Doom. Xbox pulled funding for his new studio’s project which essentially killed it. He said he has started up work on a new, much smaller project while searching for funding for the larger project.

Space Marine 2 is amazing. I will definitely be checking out Ragebound

@Jenkinss the problem with Scalebound was that it looked terrible graphically and I remember when people got to try it at one of the E3s, it was sad it ran terrible as well. The main character of the game was also pretty annoying if I remember correctly.

Blackbird was definitely up my alley, from the sounds of it. Contraband I thought sounded interesting as well but the one that hurt the most was the Romero game. I am still in awe that MS cut the creator of Doom’s new project. I really hope he secures funding to finish the game.

@swedetrap Scalebound looked awful.

This game looked cool and apparently played good. I think what did it in was that it was a live service looter shooter and those games have been failing like crazy.

They haven’t even gotten the 4k going for cloud gaming. How about that first.

@Scrubchub I have it qued up. Streamers pushing agendas get out of hand anymore, people are like sheep being led to their own slaughter. DA Veilguard was a fun game and did not deserve the hate it got. I’m not a big SW fan but Outlaws looks like it could be a good time.

@Fiendish-Beaver I’m liking it a lot so far. It’s got some good tension the story and premise is very interesting and graphically it’s gorgeous.

@Fiendish-Beaver hmmm I will have to look up some gameplay.

Absolutely loved the first High on Life so looking forward to part 2. Menace looks and sounds really neat but my pc is pretty old 😅

On Xbox Cronos The New Dawn.

On Switch 2, The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.

@Fiendish-Beaver yea you are a wildling for sure Mr Beaver lol

I will definitely be buying Gears collectors edition whenever they announce it. I definitely don’t need the best versions of all the games I play, just the ones I really, really love to play. I will be curious what we see for a Halo treats this year as well.

@IOI See, there is the truth. Nothing about time to money ratios but rather content and ownership, which is fine. The concept of spending $30 on a sub and thinking that you have to play games 24/7 to get your value back, which is what you said is pretty absurd.

@Fiendish-Beaver I am actually shocked you have Gamepass at all haha after talking to you so much on here you definitely have more of a collectors/owning vibe

I use Gamepass like how I use my Apple Music. I buy the vinyls of the albums I really love and the rest I use a sub for. Kinda like how I will buy Gears collectors edition even if I have Gamepass at the time. There are a lot of games I own that I just really don’t need to where as I don’t feel that way with my music and I imagine that is because Gamepass can’t have the entire industry in its library. 😅

@IOI Going out to see one movie costs as much here. I will never understand this mentality. I’ve seen people say this like if they spend 20-30 dollars for the sub they HAVE to be playing games constantly to get the value but turn around and buy a game for $70+ that they play for maybe 20 hrs. People are crazy.

I still use it. And there are a lot of games already lined up next to year, I don’t see myself leaving the service, but I’m also still paying $20 a month for Ultimate not the $30. See what happens when/if that stops.

@Fiendish-Beaver yep! Both can be played by yourself. When in co-op the other person brings one of their survivors from their community to help grow yours, it’s cool but the co-op partner doesn’t benefit as much but does get rewards and resources to take back to their community. They are designed to be played solo and co-op. I am really hoping they expand on it with 3 to where you can have true shared communities that are drop in and out. There were rumors of it going the mmo or shared world route where other survivors share real estate on the same server. Do you can set up trade and such with the other communities. I’m excited for it!

@Fiendish-Beaver although the sales numbers have dropped for the latest one, it seems to be more based on the latest game not being as good as last years which did very well. I’m not a COD player but I feel like this isn’t the first time this has happened to COD, they have their occasional off year and then bounce back. Personally I would be fine with COD disappearing completely and opening those studios to new projects but also see COD as a lifeline of funds for the Xbox brand so even if I am not a fan of the games I do want them to do well so we continue to get the Xbox games I do enjoy. If that all makes sense.

@Fiendish-Beaver I played a ton of the first two, more so the second one because the multiplayer was just amazing fun. You don’t need to have played through the previous games, they are more structured as survival, community games. So like you will find different people with different characteristics and you will grow and nurture the ones you like and outcast the ones you don’t. Also these characters are permadeathed if killed. So you swap between the survivors, it’s a very neat game that has its own unique twist to these zombie games that I have really been looking forward to seeing how they evolve it with the much larger budget and staff. Growing pains I assume.

@Markatron84 I did do a little digging last night before bed and there was a report that State of Decay 3 got more investment thrown at it last year to make it a bigger game apparently. So looking more like 2027. Hopefully they have plans for it to atleast show up at the summer showcase. I do miss the series.

@Fiendish-Beaver COD was just reported as the second most played game on consoles (only behind Fortnite) and number 1 on Xbox consoles, I don’t think they are as worried as the internet is about it lol

Also I don’t think they will see too many clashes over COD and Fable. Xbox did release Outer Worlds 2 and Ninja Gaiden 4 only a couple weeks apart last year. I think Xbox is more worried about releasing a full product that is launch ready and whenever that lands is when they will launch the game.

Forza in May
Gears in September
Fable in October
Halo in November

That would make sense. But I can see State of Decay 3 maybe finally releasing this year. It’s been so long.

@Fiendish-Beaver September it is for Gears!!

I will give Outlaws a shot.

I enjoyed both Hellblade games but that being said I would like for them to make a more fleshed out game and incorporate their amazing storytelling.

Finishing up Dragon Quest 3 HD 3D Remake, what a fantastic remake!

@Fiendish-Beaver it will probably never be ALL because of licensing. But, if they continue to make their Console/PC hybrids with their stores and other than there won’t be a whole lot of need for it to be all. They may just merge future purchases, it’s just the old ones and of course physical copies.

I went Fable, Forza, Surprise and than Beasts. Still holding out hope for E-Day to show up!

@Questionable_Duck Don’t feed the trolls.

@FraserG ahhhh good catch. They do say first party studio so that pretty much nixes Toys for Bob. I am going to check that link I don’t believe I have heard about Kiln before. 🤔

@FraserG doesn’t Xbox just claim all games published by them as first party? I know they were calling NG4 a first party title last year and they have always considered Gears of War first party even when it was being made by Epic. Regardless, if Obsidian has yet another game on top of the 3 they released last year what a beast they would be eh? I remember Ninja Theory had a smaller title, Bleeding Edge, maybe they had a smaller title they were working on alongside Hellblade. They were just teasing a new game as well not too long ago of the team sitting in front of a large screen watching the game. So many possibilities!

@FraserG hmmmm that really makes me think it’s either Toys For Bob or Double Fine. 🤔

Hopefully they either have a surprise showing by Gears E Day or they announce it’s going to have its own deep dive down the road. A whole Gen without a new Gears is not my favorite thing. :-/

@Fiendish-Beaver I won’t give up hope just yet. But if it’s not at the Direct and shows up at the summer showcase that will probably mean it got delayed internally. Although they announced Halo for this year at the Halo championships and that’s not at the Direct so I have hopes.

@Fiendish-Beaver Where our boys Fenix and Dom?!?!?! 😭

@Fiendish-Beaver that’s awesome! I also have a chainsaw lancer replica, it sits next to my Halo Needler and Energy Sword. I also have the collectors editions of the games, hoping there is one for E-Day as well. I also have a ton of figure, pops, full comic lines and autographs, controllers etc. I never did grab any of the consoles though. Those still working? The ones that you have. I love seeing other Gears-heads out in the world. Just the other day while picking my daughter up from school I was wearing my old Gears hoodie (I even had my Gamertag thrown on the back from when I did a local Gears tourney) and a guy walked by and gave a Fenix shoutout. Man I hope E-Day melts our faces! We call all raise 🥃 to Dom and shed a tear haha

Hmmmm I was planning on buying a Steam Machine this year, I passed on the Ally X last year because I had just bought the Switch 2. Unless the new Xbox console gets announced for this year it will probably be just the Steam Machine for me. Especially if the Half Life 3 rumors are actually true this time lol

@RentedPanda hopefully see something this year, if not the direct than the summer showcase. Schafer said a couple years ago that he is working on something new since being acquired by Xbox. It’s been cooking for a while if that is to be believed.

@RentedPanda Keeper was the sub team project. Tim Schafer is leading a different, larger project as he was not involved in Keeper. Keeper was led by Lee Petty, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the surprise reveal is indeed Schafer’s project!

@Fiendish-Beaver I am looking forward to Gears 6 whenever that comes as well! I love all the games but the core three hold a place dear to my heart and I’m not even afraid to shy away from the fact that I teared up when the trailer first premiered and Dom grabbed Marcus’s hand and Mad World played. So many great times with the game with friends and family, one friend that has left this realm years ago due to a car accident, Gears was always our after work game. Grab some brews, Taco Bell and slay! I miss those days! Now my wife will play through with me and have to experience all the emotions I go through playing E-Day lol some of my old buddies are already planning on coming back as well for Horde. There will be many a good times ahead this year with E-Day and Combat Evolved, just so many good feels wrapped up with those two IPs for me.

@VeganH I don’t think it has to convince single player centric gamers there are so many that prefer MP games (majority of gamers really) but you are correct it will have to convince a lot of them to pull away from their current games which is always the battle. There is usually one or two games a year that can break into the GaaS market successfully it seems anymore. These companies are crazy but really I think gaming overall is high risk investment regardless if it’s SP or MP, especially with new IP.

Having the four pillars release in the same year for the first time in over a decade is very exciting. Hopefully Xbox can hold the line and not have any games slip into delay. The surprise game could be Double Fine, Keeper was not a Tim Schafer project and he has been teasing a new IP for a couple years now. I would also expect State of Decay 3 to show up or maybe Clockwork Revolution as they did say they were planning on releasing more games this year than 2025. Hopefully we get a set date for the Direct soon!

@Fiendish-Beaver I can not even put into words how excited I am for E-Day haha

@Fiendish-Beaver Matt Booty confirmed there would be a January Direct just didn’t give a specific date. Supposedly the biggest one they have done (7 titles). It’s why I am optimistic Fable is atleast, for now, slated for 2026.

Dragon Quest was the RPG to get me into the genre. I am currently working my way through 3, 1, 2 and will grab this one after, love this franchise been waiting for the new one for a long time but happy we are getting all these in the meantime.

@Fiendish-Beaver if it’s not featured during this month’s direct it will not come out this year but if it is on there that means they will have it slated for this year so we should have an idea this month. Now if it holds that 2026 date is another question as they keep delaying it.

@Fiendish-Beaver I just can’t see them delaying it AGAIN. See what they say at the direct but Phil did say he wanted the four Xbox pillars to release 2026 for the anniversary and Fable is one of them.

@Eejay I definitely went a little crazy this year lol I was mostly looking for new stuff for the wife and I to play together (Sunderfolk has been amazing for us!) but also walked away with a bunch of SP games just for me! 😅😅

@Darylb88 man they delay Fable another year back there might be an online riot 😂

Cronos, Silent Hill f, Sunderfolk, Painkiller, Tainted Grail, Indiana Jones DLC, Nightreign, Cybercorp, Deadlink, Blades of Fire, Hell is Us, Little Nightmares 3 on Xbox, AstroBot on PS5 and Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, Dragon Quest 1-3 HD remakes and Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 2. Metroid Prime 4 wasn’t on sale but I bought it in the mess of the sale because I love the series so much and it’s a fantastic game so far.

Backlog. Not to buy as many games day 1 because I’m sitting on like 20 games I bought on this last sales between Switch 2 and Xbox lol