On lunch day itself. I walked into Sears with no pre-order, they had it in stock but I had to buy a bundle. I got the console, a second controller, Halo, Mad Dash Racing, and NASCAR Heat.

Later I picked up PGR, Oddworld, DOA3, and Fusion Frenzy.

Zelda games are comically overrated

And you can do this for like 5 hours a month now with your game pass sub.

Gimme Warhammer Survivors

First of all, RIP the coalition

But lmao at the people coming in. Chris Dring who is Xbox hater #1, vs Jez who is on MS payroll. Shreir is a huge PS fanboy.

I actually believe this number is real, and probably includes the tiny marketing budget.

Motorsport is dead and not coming back. Lots of copium in these comments.

Xbox is done with niche games. The user base is too small to support them. And making it multiplat doesn't help when Gran Turismo exists.

I would 1k Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders because it's one of the few games I really want to replay all these years later

I would 1k Azurik for the memes

I can see where this is headed, and I'm glad for it

I'm at the"some men just want to watch the world burn" phase with this entire industry, and they more than deserve it.

Weaker year than I remembered

@AI-Generation 100 percent my dude

The rmasively expensive reset Xbox would need to continue to exist into the future clearly is not happening. It's been over since "it's just 4 games."

Looks babyfaced and almost feminine now. Thanks again millennials and gen z.

Microsoft is running out of time to save the rest of the 3000 jobs that Microsoft announced they would be cutting this year.

Like... What even is this headline, lmao

Neither Bioware nor MS is capable of making a good Mass Effect.

Saber is one of the few companies I can think of who would do it justice.

Where's Steel Battalion?

Shell of a company since the doctors left in 2012.

Asha: slaps roof of retro dashboard

We can fit so many ads on this bad boy

I have to wonder, are all 3 FFVII's coming to game pass eventually? That would track with Square in the past

Or, is this a new strategy, put the first game on game pass, and try to rope people in to buying the next 2.

I own the first 2 already. When the 3rd comes out, I may or may not buy it, depending on if FFVIIR2 comes to game pass before then.

I haven't noticed that because I assume that's a playstation website, and I don't own one.

I'm an ultimate subscriber currently.

My feeling here is there's a 99% chance I wind up worse off after whatever this change is.

@Sindayl The issue with 32 bit is the graphics aged like total ass. Every once in a while a game pulls off graphics in that style but it's niche (and not for me). It's the single reason the objectively greatest Final Fantasy game doesn't resonate with new audiences, it's a "you had to be there" thing. So if you're going to do retro graphics, it has to be from the 2D era, otherwise why bother, and just make something brand new ie Metaphor, Yakuza LaD, E33, etc.

On PSIV, I did replay it a few years ago, and still loved it. I'm also a huge fan of Might and Magic - I'm a sucker for fantasy worlds that have a sci fi backdrop. That said, PSIII is rough to play now.

"from the stellar We Were Here series."

SECONDED

Absolute best 2 player co-op series.

@Sindayl there have been great JRPGs since, obviously, but there's no world where you can pretend that even over 30 years later games like Phantasy Star IV, Chrono Trigger, and FFIII (VI) aren't still all timers. And they were not generic stories.

Might as well make it 1800 if it's going to be 1200-1800. The only people who will pay 1200 will also pay 1800.

What the f*** is going on in these comments

When you guys get a new TV, do you peel off the protective plastic and then stick it to the back of the TV?

Let's talk about mixtape's user score on metacritic

@Fiendish-Beaver It's been years, but my memory of it is, you just go into "Steam Workshop" for the game, browse to the mods you want, and click to add them. Steam does the rest, downloading them and putting them in whatever folder, automatically.

There might then be a step in the game itself to enable/activate them but I really have to stress that I'm not a mod guy, almost never modded games, and found it so easy.

I had no idea Day of the Tentacle was on console, love that one

@Fiendish-Beaver Yes, on PC. I haven't upgraded my PC in a long time and have solely gamed on Xbox for quite a few years now. I don't replay many games but XCOM2 is one of the few I have, once on PC and once on Xbox. AFAIK no mods on Xbox, and IIRC you have a PC I really highly recommend grabbing it and trying it with the same voice packs I used, pretty sure we have the same taste in that regard, and it's transformative how much better it makes the game, hearing Marcus, Dom, Shepard, etc voicing your soldiers.

And yeah, Long War is the mod you're referring to and it's amazing too. I played it before War of the Chosen came out (I played War of the Chosen later on Xbox) but I believe they also updated Long War for War of the Chosen so if you do another playthrough, I really strongly recommend going to PC and grabbing those mods, you're in for a ride. And again, this is coming from a guy who never mods games.

@Fiendish-Beaver I normally don't mod games, but XCOM2 using voice packs for the entire cast of Gears and the cast of Mass Effect, along with my Spark having the voice of Optimus Prime, made they game 1000x better than it already was.

Since we're listing our favorite gears campaigns,

1
2
3
Tactics
Judgement
4
5

Haven't finished Eday yet. So far I like it a lot. Unless it fumbles hard late it will be somewhere in my top 4. A welcome bucking of the trend where the series just got worse as it went on for the most part.

Bluey's Happy Snaps! Definitely playing that with my daughter, we played through the first Bluey game together and got every collectable, and even went back when they added Stripe and Muffin.

I'm one of the people spamming up the comments of every Big Walk YouTube video asking where the Xbox version is, wanted that one since its reveal. Sucks I won't get to play it, but good on the devs for taking a stand.

I have no interest in where gears 4 and 5 were going.

So excited to start Dark Arisen 2. DD2 was my GOTY 2 years ago.

Spitting facts

Can't wait to jump back into the new horde after enjoying it so much in the beta. I am a die hard fan of horde mode but also like what they've done here. You can love both!

Great news, this series is at its best when it has a big online community. The new horde will amplify that. I've been put in lobbies in the beta that didn't have 3 full squads and they feel less fun.

It's this why Fallout 4 doesn't work? Music licenses?

Anyone play Voidtrain? Looked kind of interesting, I had it on a list of games that might be fun to play with my wife, but never got around to it. Probably not happening now if it's leaving and Gears is imminent.

Aww man no trip to New Zealand

Wife and I are so ready to play through the campaign starting on release day, as we've done with every Gears so far. Didn't read, didn't want any spoilers even gameplay ones, but saw the score and I'm very happy.

First of all, Xbox is a console brand, not the rebranded Microsoft Game Studios that predated it.

Of course Xbox isn't for sale. No one would buy it, there would be less than zero interest from the very few companies that could afford it. If they were dead set on it, they could give it to someone like Asus for pennies. They themselves are certainly spinning it down... And that was before components became unattainable.

@Millionski you said it's not confirmed yet. Please, go on. Do you think there is a chance the next Xbox will have a disc drive after this? Because that's the implication. Be brave. Say what you mean

This is just 4 games all over again.

@Millionski what does ps have to do with anything? Are you calling me a ps fan? Please do it, I haven't had a laugh like that in a long time.

I come to this site to talk about the one console brand I've owned for the last 25 years, besides the ones I buy just for Mario Kart. You can see my avatar. If you know anything, it should tell you all you need to know about how I feel about ps.

This program, which could have been launched at any time in the past 12 years, launched right now to capitalize in the short term on the negative ps headlines. MS will do the exact same thing. There will be no physical next gen. MS would have announced this at some point to soften the blow. Instead they did it now to needle ps. I don't care about that, and the program barely benefits most people. Phil Spencer himself said it during his epic podcast meltdown. People built their digital libraries last gen, meaning they stopped buying physical. This has very little use for all those people, including me.

Deflect all you want. Bring up ps as if anyone cares. This move is step 1 in their plan to remove physical next gen. This doesn't happen if physical was going to continue to exist. Say it's unconfirmed again. Were you a just 4 games guy? There were a ton of you guys here.

Well I can scan in the Like a Dragon games now, which I got in disc for some reason. Good news.

Reminds me of the MMORPG that Microsoft canceled back in 2004, Mythica.

@Balaam_ surprising take from you considering all this is is just step one of ending physical media on Xbox.

Looks like a great time

If only the developer of Big Walk would do the same

I didn't understand the candle people hold for Banjo. There are so many irrelevant platformer mascots but this one gets all the attention. Like where are all the Voodoo Vince or Decap Attack or Vectorman fans?