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Spend $0 on marketing, get this article written getting their game's name out there. Nice move by the devs.

This is like a reverse-aroo of the devs who very loudly cancel their Xbox ports for free press

@Tenderkid it wasn't like that, at all, because it wasn't a sequel so it didn't have that kind of expectation. I was there, I remember the acorn too. Had you said GTA or Arena instead of Gta6 and ES6, then the analogy would make sense and you'd realize how stupid it is. Games change in development. That's life and the final product was great.

@Elbow I doubt it, I'm an old dude who's favorite genre is CRPGs. I played through Tides of Numenera engaging in combat I think 5 times total. My favorite game of all time is probably Outer Wilds which doesn't even have combat. This isn't an ADD kid issue. It just didn't grab me, the setting didn't interest me as much as I hoped and it felt kind of sterile to me I guess.

Edit: I'm playing Pathologic 3 right now. Nothing to do with quality, by comparison Atomfall is for small children.

Also, I hope this didn't come across as hostile. I've said nearly the same thing to people who haven't liked some games, like RDR2 comes to mind, so I understand the implication. Just making it clear that's not the case here.

Great article about a great game.

It's a shame Microsoft squandered having Peter Molyneux and Lionhead just as they did with Ensemble and Bungie. People always point at the xbone launch as the downfall of Xbox but it really started with the last few years of 360 where MS just stopped caring about the only thing that matters, games.

@RiverGenie I never bought Kingdom Come in all those $3 sales because I wasn't going to play it at 30fps. Let's hope it's not a "remaster" and just a curren gen upgrade that's free for owners (and game pass subscribers)

I tried Atomfall but couldn't get into it. Can't put my finger on why.

Every time I got a new gun in the first game, I used it for a few minutes, but always went back to Kenny because I thought he was by far the funniest. Im expecting the 2nd game with no Justin Roiland to suffer but who knows.

Well never know the numbers again but it's certain they're hemorrhaging users rapidly between the price hike and people abandoning Xbox hardware. I think the combination of the current user base evaporating, and their move to a "PC" next Gen which presumably won't need any type of sub to play online, means a total overhaul of game pass is absolutely necessary.

Wow I have Cudcept Saga for Xbox 360. Haven't thought about it in a very long time

Not interested in gimmicks like gyro or haptics but back paddles would be highly welcome.

@TheOldHunter4K there aren't"high end" battery packs that last anywhere near as long as my aa batteries. It's not a child's toy, so get some eneloop pros. They have 5 times the capacity of the dualsense edge. 3rd party sellers inflate their numbers and even their fake numbers don't approach eneloop pros.

Risk of Rain 2 is one of the best roguelikes of all time, highly recommend if you've never tried it. Great solo and coop. Try to unlock some other characters, the first one is kind of boring compared to most of the later ones. Loader is my favorite.

How could this possibly not affect the next Xbox?

I'm so ready, there's nothing like a Rockstar game. Always the highlight of every generation.

@themightyant it's obvious it's true just from Phil Spencers own mouth, he has alluded to it many times since things fell apart. There was a completely sudden emphasis on "we're a business, we need to make money" in nearly every interview. This was a subject never really talked about outside maybe him dancing around repeated questions of game pass 's profitability. You barely need to read between the lines.

These aren't the Chris Avellone written games of old. In terms of tone they're crappy MCU tier games oozing with the worst millennial crap, on par with something like Mass Effect Andromeda. Unlike Bioware, Obsidian is very fixable and I sure hope it happens because I loved obsidian going all the way back to Black Isle.

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.