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"Amazing" sure is one word for it.

Looks like some awful AI generated stuff. It even needlessly lightens scenes that were intended to be dark.

If you like Jet Set Radio Future, check out Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.

Even got Hideki Naganuma back for some music.

Oh nice.

I just picked this up for my 3DS, so now I'm torn lol.

And before someone asks, yes I use my 3DS still. Just picked up a blue N3DSXL from Japan recently as well.

Why am I not surprised they didn't have any play testers when making the Xbox port?

@Papa_Emeritus Even if it is, with how key of a feature auto HDR is, a playtesters should have caught this with auto HDR on by default.

Checking this out. When it launches.

Wonder if the the 3rd one will end up being a Doom style Vampire Survivors.

I'd be okay with that.

Aww. Bummer to see. This one has been on my radar for a while now. Hopefully the end product will be worth it!

@BacklogBrad Transparency is certainly a word to use. Not the accurate one for the situation. But surely a word.

Microsoft is anything but transparent. They're playing reactively instead of proactively, as normal.

Additionally bringing up Nintendo and Sony as whataboutisms when Microsoft does not have remotely the install base to back up their behaviours is wild.

This amount of damage control from Microsoft so soon is not giving me any hope for the future.

It honestly feels like they're just trying to pull the wool over peoples' eyes while they sunset it.

@BacklogBrad A corporate talking head is a corporate talking head regardless of who it is

I would not be surprised if stories other sites have ran about her being brought in to sunset Xbox to be true.

People are really out in full force trying to defend another corporate talking head huh?

Where was that energy when anyone else was head?

This is exactly why Xbox will be gone in the next few years. I'm believing more and more that she is indeed there to sunset it.

And to no surprise, most of these accounts defending this were made this year.

Does this mean you'll actually have to work for your cars?

As in it takes more than 5 races after starting with a Golf GTI to get a Hurricán?

GT has this right with having wis qualify to unlock higher tier licenses then unlocking them to get faster cars.

@Vladspartan Should be fair to expect the same as the past couple. Online connection is required. But you don't need gamepass unless you want to do multiplayer.

Had my interest until I saw a lack of gyro.

I really hate how much Microsoft is holding controllers for their platform back.

If she has no tolerance for bad AI how is she still working at a Microsoft? They're notorious for their bad AI.

@Lysterao That's what I said.

Well of course you do. You're gonna be making money hand over fist at the expensive of the quality of the product.

You could see when his soul died back when they closed down the backwards compatibility program.

At that point I feel they took away a lot of his say on Xbox. And essentially made him a Major Nelson-light.

Xbox needs Nadella gone to thrive.

This looks extremely cozy and I'm sad I'm just now hearing of it. Will for sure be checking it out on Steam. Thanks!

Microsoft would just buy them up then close then down after their first game.

At least Sony let them do a few before buying and closing them lol.

Given Tencent's involvement, honestly hard to be upset

@AverageGamer To be fair, everything is an xbox. Which is why I still come here as it is still relevant and saves me from dealing with godawful sites like IGN. For now at least.

That fine and well, but does the rerelease actually make this game fun?

@AverageGamer Went PC myself. Games from both Sony and Microsoft while also being able to give them less money by having Steam rake a cut. All while having free online and sales that would make console only gamers blush.

@DennisReynolds That's exactly what I do.

I even only buy Microsoft games at a discount on Steam so Microsoft has to give a cut to Valve. 🤣

Xbox Rewards have been turned in to Xbox Chores.

If everything is an Xbox, then a Playstation is an Xbox, therefore it is already on Xbox.

Also on PC, another Xbox.

Another nail in the coffin. Online gaming is about socializing and they're stifling that further.

Not using Discord after their BS some time ago. And from what I've seen their BS hasn't stopped.

Can we just bring back forums? This is getting tired.

How about native VR support?

Don't really buy racers without VR support anymore.

I expect announcements for more Xbox content coming to Playstation and Sony putting more things on PC along with a Death Stranding 2 PC release.

@DiSCOKiNGZ Because that would involve giving Microsoft money more money.

Something I am no longer keen on doing after their laughable decisions with the Xbox.

GOG and Steam have everything I need.

Everytime Microsoft, I mean Nadellasoft, talks about something, it makes me glad I jumped back to PC and canceled Gamepass.

"Xbox Sparks Confusion"

Feels like it could be the headline of every Xbox News article for the last few years.

Nadella has not been kind to the brand.

Finally one with gyro aiming and haptics?

Maybe go ahead and throw in 4 programable buttons for good measure?

Absolutely.

The RAM I bought for my PC, 64GB, DDR5, CL30 was 147£/$200 at the end of last year when I got it.

It is now 883£/$1200 for that same set.

@Daffy-Duck Never played Atomic Heart, nor mentioned it. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

I already addressed everything else in my initial comment. Nothing more to add.

Leslie Benzies, director of the game, and founder of the company, has been accused of sexual assault. He then went so far as to threaten people because he was implicated.

Not touching Mind's Eye after that. It sucks for the people that worked on it. But I cannot in good faith support the company.

@fatpunkslim
I'm not betting on it because of the above.

@TheGameThrifter 100% loved the first. Skipped the second because of the price tag.

Will not touch it until it is dirt cheap on Steam with all the content. Microsoft is going to keep doing this and lose the faith people had in even their studios.

It really sucks Microsoft owns so many once good developers, because I feel like this results in them getting unfairly punished for their parent company. But what else can you do?

Wild seeing WWE2K24 shutting down so quickly.

Seems like it was just yesterday everyone was tlsking about it and that crazy free for all mode they added.

Still not played it.

Nothing really stood out to make me want to buy it.

And Microsoft has mucked Gamepass up so much I canceled that a while ago.

@Sakai PC alone out numbers cobsoles combined.

If you had limited resources to only develop for a single platform, as many small developers do, which option would you take?

Canceled Gamepass a while ago.

Space Marine 2 is great though.

@Gabrie If my practices are any indication, they barely see anything on Xbox PC. I only but their games on steam at discount now.

Been burned too much to give full price on anything to them.

Been skipping these since the original one released forever ago.

Will continue to do so until they're bundled and discounted. We're at over half a decade now of waiting and still don't have the complete FF7 story remade. And that's ridiculous.

Sitting at an Overwhelmingly Negative across 2,691 reviews on Steam right now....I'll probably save the bandwidth and skip it lol.

I'll check it out with a discount on Steam. Microsoft has lost too much goodwill for me to day and date it, regardless of how it looks. A hole of their own digging I'm afraid.

@fatpunkslim Until the clown Nadella is gone, expecting any sensibilities is a fool's errand.

I love the game. It is like a deeper Castle Crashers. Pretty endearing world all around.

I'd imagine the proper support they give it, even going so far as to have it support VR, plays a good part in this.

Motorsport just kinda released with half the expected tracks missing. And what, only recently caught up to what a race game should be at launch?

Microsoft is not doing a good job managing their studios.

GOTY? Nah.

E Day may take some awards. And Forza may in racing category.

No chance on the others though.

First half of the year played a decent amount because finally player cyber punk.

Second half I haven't played it at all aside for lock black ops zombies for 4 player splitscreen. The last one to support it. Mainly because I canceled Gamepass and went back to mainly playing PC.

@Rodimusprime13 let's not be disingenuous.

It does not have a turn based mode

It has an annoying half hearted mode that is like if you took Kingdom Hearts and made it worse. You just now have 3 Donald Ducks instead of 1. I'm sure they're talking of proper turn based combat like say, Expedition 33.

And accordingly you still have to take manual control of your characters because the AI is too dumb to handle a Digimon World-like combat system, despite classic mode being on Easy to help compensate, again, for how dumb the AI is.

Would be nice if Microsoft didn't push me away from Windows to Bazzite.