Jenkinss

Jez is right in this case but he doesn't know any more than we do. Obligatory:

well that aged nicely, playing Pathalogic 3 on Xbox now.

Ubislop star wars game leading Space Marine 2, what are we doing here.

Very millennial feeling.

Played the heck out of it at release, but I think I'm going to jump back in when they add techmarines in a few weeks

Truly one of the best games of this generation and one of the most fun coop games of all time.

That's a massive dropoff from 4 to 5.

Give them time, the ads will make their way there.

@Shinato2024 they're just releasing games that were already third party, though. Nothing changed in the cadence of game releases from existing MS studios. How does that benefit us?

Oh wow they were able to release Doom the Dark Ages but only since it's on Playstation, yay! How is that different than when id was 3rd party?

"The competition" releasing just a few games means they get everything here, plus those few games. You can't even call them competitors because Xbox threw in the towel and stopped competing.

It really smarts having to listen to Satya and Amy, the architects of Xbox 's demise, talk about Xbox being down.

Only somewhat on topic, Dunkey's video on this game made me laugh hard. He roasts Keighley as much as (or more than) the game.

@Fiendish-Beaver Totally agree. I hate how Microsoft invented this, Sony copied it and added a great addition, and MS said F*** it what we have it good enough. Instead they could have leapfrogged Sony back by adding platinum, and then an additional award for completing all DLC (if Sony has that feel free to correct me).

I think saying you got a platinum/1k in a particular game is more meaningful than "i have x hundred thousand gamer score!" Like who cares.

I remember when this released. I might check it out. Haven't really played a mmorpg since my kids were born.

@GeeEssEff show some respect, that intern's name is Aaron Greenberg.

The only thing I disagree with you on is marketing after ps6. If it launches to backlash and is DOA, there will be no getting momentum back even if PS6 is also expensive, imo. Look at Xbox One which a year in had decoupled Kinect and at that point was a perfectly fine console. It never recovered.

@Fiendish-Beaver you've got a good point about memory. Mine definitely isn't what it once was, lol.

@Fiendish-Beaver I'm the total opposite. This 100 hour game will take me ages to complete. Waiting for it to be a 300 hour game would take me a half a year for me to get through, and I don't want to dedicate that all at once to one game (series).

These tea leaves are awfully easy to read.

The smart move is to not be first. There's going to be crazy sticker shock ok the next hardware. Don't be first, let someone else eat that backlash.

Therefore Microsoft will probably go first.

@somnambulance yep and warcraft adventures, cancelled for quality reasons. Now they're owned by a company that released Redfall. It's coming.

@somnambulance they're making a StarCraft 3rd person shooter, it'll be announced somewhat soon.

Getting way ahead of yourself with this one. Let's hope the game is good.

Love inXile, they are left out of the conversation too often when people are talking about the great current CRPG houses.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner he's been a lame duck since the 4 games. Collecting a check until Xbox is fully sunset.

Forza for me but Fable moved the needle the most for what that's worth. There's nowhere left for Forza Horizon's needle to go, FH5 was the highest rated game of 2021. Contender for game of the generation.

@Questionable_Duck Not taking them at their word is exactly the point, they said there would be only 4 games and it was an obvious lie. There was no path that could lead to them keeping any sort of exclusivity, timed or otherwise. They were never (except in the extreme short term) going to market games for their console with 30m users, then after the buzz dies, release their games on consoles with 120m and 150m users. There was never a chance of that. People were in extreme denial and wanted to believe anything.

Action games like this don't usually interest me, but this was visually appealing enough to get my attention. I don't like anime but even I like Princess Mononoke.

@Questionable_Duck it's insane that we are still having this discussion. When they announced the "just 4 games," there was no path that didn't lead to this. We knew that day every game from Halo on down would be day 1 on Playstation. This isn't hindsight, I was fighting with people here back then about it - and I can understand people not getting it back then. But NOW? Unbelievable

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Looked much better than I expected. Gave me Molyneux vibes which is what I needed to get me in the door to try it.

@Kezelpaso I'm with you on not caring if they return to 4-5. 4 had an ok protagonist in a bad game, and 5 had a bad protagonist in an ok at best game - to say nothing of "the decision" which was the stupidest thing in gaming history that there was no way to get out of. I think that was all Rod, he promised everyone it was a good idea and he'd make it make sense in gears 6, and then promptly left the company.

Really hoping we will finally see a good Gears campaign without Cliffy because it certainly hasn't happened yet.

Yves should have sold when the market was hot, like Bobby. Now he's looking pretty stupid holding the bag.

My PC was, at one time, considered a gaming PC. It's still great for work. I think nowadays I'm more likely to work anywhere than play anywhere.

Played it at release as I was a huge fan of the first game (my avatar is still wearing the shirt lol). Awesome game with breathtaking set pieces.

@ILuvGames totally agree on Scalebound. Crap for weebs like everything Platinum makes.

This was one of the most interesting games MS had in development and the only one I was sad to see cancelled.

Since they usually do a bit of a studio tour for each game, it's going to be interesting seeing two games from the same developer this time.

RIP Orcs Must Die Deathtrap. Pushed out before it was finished, the performance was abysmal and I never found the time to go back to see if it was fixed.

Kings Bounty 2 might have had the worst voice acting of any game I've played in decades but it was so bad that it kind of became endearing. I heard many people say they played in Russian with subtitles in the same way people watch anime in Japanese with subtitles, lol

@FraserG seeing the orange box on here just reminded me the Xbox team fortress 2 community is still very active with a discord that arranges events several times a week. Just throwing it out there as an idea for a PXB story.

Enchanted Arms remaster when?

I am paid for ultimate through the summer. Then, I have a 1 year sub code Phil Spencer sent me with a Christmas card I can use. After that who knows, but I suspect I will probably downgrade.

After loving Remnant and then putting Remnant 2 at the very top of my greatest coop games of all time list, I'm finally getting around to playing the first game in the series Chronos: Before the Ashes. Hoping to finish it before Pathalogic 3 comes out next week.

I don't remember the last time I had 2 games pre-ordered the same week. Very excited for both Pathologic 3 and FFVII. Interestingly they are both sort of remakes.

Oh hell yes, especially columns and fantasy zone.

I used to swap games on and off an external SSD but stopped using it, it's almost as fast to just redownload games and I don't have a data cap.

First one by far, second was also great though, kinda hated the 3rd and I don't even remember why. It had something to do with the ending or a time skip or something.

@Llamageddon tough loss for the Eagles last week 😭

@Jenkinss It's a Korean RTS where you are also controlling a hero on the battlefield, a really neat genre blend with some properly epic moments as the armies get bigger and bigger. Mandalore reviewed it a few years ago when it got a really late PC port:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYTsnNPu-0E

I have always had a soft spot for east Asian takes on medieval European setting/aesthetic, fantasy or otherwise. I think it might be from growing up with the Phantasy Star games.

Europeans love soccer

@VisitingComet1 I loved the Oblivion remaster, but I played it a couple months after launch. I think it has some major performance issues when it first came out which thankfully I missed.