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The only thing on my wishlist that got discounted with this sale is Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. I hope I have more luck with the full sale.

game pass has gone from the netflix of gaming to the basic cable of gaming, over bloated with stuff very few people want and making everyone pay for it.

Middle school kids in shambles

My buddy lost his Forza Horizon 5 save due to a sync error and apparently it wasn't that uncommon. The more they can do to prevent things like that, the better.

Wow. So few voting for the obvious answer, removable drive for back compat only. Easy money.

Agree with the Infinite Wealth love in the comments here. It was my favorite of the big 3 JRPGs (it's a genre not geography) released in those 15~ months, edging out Expedition 33 (Metaphor Refantazio in 3rd). I liked the overall narrative in Like a Dragon (the first one) more than Infinite Wealth, but IW hit its stride and surpassed it in many other ways. I like the characters in this series more than any other game. Red Dead Redemption might be 2nd, would have to think about it.

For my money that was the best run of JRPGs since Phantasy Star 4 / Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy 3 (now called 6).

@Questionable_Duck Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

BG2 had that crown for me for 20 years before that!

I'm there for ANYTHING from Owlcat after they made my favorite RPG of all time, but The Expanse really looks like it's going to introduce them to a much bigger audience. It's amazing how their trajectory is 1:1 mirroring Bioware with Kingmaker and WOTR being their BG 1&2, Rogue Trader being their KOTOR, and The Expanse looking to be their Mass Effect moment.

First I've heard of this one.

Phil Spencer selling them for $350 with Diablo 4 thrown in couldn't generate an ounce of interest

Asha Sharma selling them for $400 - WOW XBOX IS SO BACK

I liked the first one, I'll play this with my 5 year old. She's starting to get pretty good at games.

Hopefully they absorb some T10 employees before the studio is closed.

Morrowind was by far my favorite as it was a real RPG, had the best setting, and made the player play the game instead of walking to map markers. Skyrim was my (distant) 2nd fav with the best storylines. Oblivion used to be a distant 3rd caught in a middle ground, like a worse Skyrim, plus its awful enemy scaling. The remaster was terrific and gave me a new appreciation for it. I still like Skyrim more, but it closed the gap some.

I really need to play this. I played through Tides of Numenera only getting into combat I think 3 times total, and loved it. This is probably up my alley.

@themightyant just look at market share from Gen 6 to Gen 7. Ps3 is one of the biggest failures in the history of game consoles. To compare raw sales numbers without that context is asinine.

I recently learned Mattrick was at EA in the 90s and his ***** corporate meddling was a big reason Ultima VIII sucked so much. What a f***ing disaster this guy has been for the video game industry. Phil Harrison has nothing on Don Mattrick.

Live service games age doing just fine, like Marvel Rivals and Helldivers. The ones crashing and burning are the ones designed for modern audiences, like Concord and Highguard. Stop chasing the ESG funding and you'll do fine. Single player games are having the same exact problem.

This is a must play for me. I'll pick it up down the road for 2 reasons - too much to play right now, and I have a feeling that the performance on Xbox is going to be shakey at launch and will benefit from some patches.

Starfield was simultaneously over hated by fans and over rated by critics.

It was just ok. It had the worst crushed blacks I've ever seen in a video game, incredible fail for a space game, but that's not why it wasn't a great game.

Whatever they come up with, we can all be sure Aaron Greenberg and the Xbox marketing team will knock it out of the park once again. Those guys just don't miss.

@GeminiX53 Elon would care about protecting Microsoft's video game profits as much as Google cared about protecting Garmin's GPS profits. "The corporations" are not a single entity - in fact, the exact opposite.

MS is sunsetting Xbox, they're making an emulator or 2nd bootable OS that runs on PCs to try to retain the few of us still here. They'll make 1 iteration of a PC, along side OEMs who also have the emulator/OS or whatever that runs legacy Xbox games. That will be the soft launch into the new future where Xbox is just a launcher on PCs and MS no longer makes any hardware. There will be no Xbox games going forward, just PC games. The rebranded Microsoft Games Studios will continue to nonsensically use the Xbox name and a few people will continue to pretend that means Xbox still exists.

The irony here is that being able to play your old Xbox games has been catastrophically devalued by game pass. Xbox gamers don't buy games in real numbers. Leaving your Xbox library behind is so easy when you've just been renting games for the last 8 years. Xbox's biggest enemy has been Microsoft for quite some time.

Crimson desert looks actually insane. Like almost palworld level is this a real game. Need to try it at some point

Replaced looks cool but doubt I'll find the time for it.

I should give it another go. I played it at release and it was pretty rough. A good while later I watched my wife play through and that usually says my desire to play a game like this myself. But I kinda want to, and the dlc looks great.

Anyone who didn't play it at release missed out on literally every single room in the game having at least one dildo. It was something else.

I must not be going to wherever this is a problem. I'm not sure if I've ever seen outbreak. I think usually just check the store for my wishlist deals.

My wife is playing Avowed so I shelved FF7R until she's done, I didn't like two story games being played at the same time. I dusted off one of my favorite games that I've never beaten - Darkest Dungeon 2. It's a real anxiety factory, which is both incredible and exhausting. RIP Wayne June.

Best dashboard ever, but it would lose a lot of its charm without the focus on avatars anymore.

I'll grab this down the road on sale. ACG said to wait on it, and it's hard convincing 3 friends to buy a game at full price.

Xbox under Mattrick and Spencer had no idea who the core Xbox gamer was, and neither tried to appeal to him. They both were corporate stooges chasing growth, sacrificing their core audience for it (and not getting it). Every single ad campaign in these eras was a disaster. This was no exception. This didn't damage the brand any more than the others. What killed the brand was putting their games on playstation. This ad campaign just happened to be at the same time.

I liked Mexico more than the UK, those are the only 2 I've played.

The best part of the UK was the roundabouts that id constantly blast at 200mph and I'd land in a different time zone.

Also, much to my dismay, Squeenix will put absolutely anything on Xbox except the remaster of Xbox 360 exclusive The Last Remnant.

Very good but not great game.
Totally agree with @TrollOfWar that last third or whatever it was was painful. But the battle system was cool and the music was great. The story was also good but not great, maybe a little better than the Tales series IMO. I never played the sequels.

F*** my life every time I see Outbound on this website I think it's news about Outward 2 coming to Xbox.

@carlos82 that has been the assumption for quite a while now. No one would develop for a hypothetical next Gen Xbox console likely projected to sell under 10 million units. By just making it run PC games, they avoid that death sentence. A few people were (still are?) in denial.

@AthleticGravy I'm not even sure if I missed it or if the early Alzheimer's is getting me.

Wow sin, haven't thought about that one in a minute. How about rise of the triad next?

My wife and I really liked Dome Keeper. I wish the multiplayer was out when we played it. Maybe I'll return to it.

Might try the 40fps mode. It's great in Valheim and Monster Hunter Wilds. Need more devs to support 120 hz displays.

Construction Sim might be a fun night of goofing off with some buddies.

Tldr I will never believe a word out of you or Amy Hood.

It's a shame for me personally that Vampire Crawlers is a card game. I love dungeon crawlers and blobbers, very underserved genres, but I really do not enjoy card games at all.

@Fiendish-Beaver I see your point but I also kind of like reading them, like a time capsule. Last time I even quoted myself from the time before 😂

@UnlimitedSevens also, plans do actually change. One example of a lie is "we bought Bethesda to bring high quality exclusives to Xbox.". But I actually do believe he was telling the truth at that time, and things changed after Starfield "bombed." There's also all the half truths, like pretty much everything said in the "just 4 games" special podcast. A lot of us saw right through it, but certainly not everyone.

I'm not convinced Phil knew when he'd be retiring. I think he's been in the passenger seat since Starfield. But I'm not saying he didn't lie, a lot.

@fizban3332 I've still got my Cudcept Saga disc, that was a pretty neat game. I understand it's a series but never played any of the others.

Not a big fan of Simpsons Hit and Run but seeing the spiritual sequels to the X-Men and Turtles arcade beat em ups recently I sure would love to see a new Simpsons one. That game ruled.

Love playing Golf with Friends, this looks like a nice change of pace for a night where we would play it

GPU prepaid through the summer, then I have another year Phil Spencer sent me for Christmas. I have no clue if I'll keep up my sub after that, entirely dependant on Helix.

I did see someone speculate a GPU sub would be required to access other PC storefronts on Helix. That would make a lot of sense and answers a ton of questions people have about its financial viability.

Without a total 180 on their direction since 2023, it will be niche regardless of price.

@Tasuki the steam machine is less powerful than the 6 year old Series X. Easy money says you're gonna pay a LOT less for a steam machine than helix.

I would gladly bet that the outcome is much more favorable to consumers than this. You haven't been paying attention to what's going on.

The rest is you parroting EULA nonsense which has already been addressed.