I have a feeling this Plague Tale is going to bomb.

There are far worse things to spend $4 on than Star Wars Squadrons

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Oh my God this made my week LMAO

Overall sales numbers are probably not far off from this. There are very few of us on Xbox at this point, and a huge portion of that tiny crowd just plays games on game pass.

I played a ton of MMORPGs in the 90s and 00s but never played Runescape, it never even came across my radar back then which is crazy because I was playing a lot of them. This game looks like it will be right up my wife's alley though being a survival crafting game

Somewhat related, we met playing Everquest.

Great list, especially interested in Dark Heresy and Dark Arisen. And of course E Day.

recognizing that they were there when it all began.

It all began in November 2001. This badge isnt for people who were there when it all began, it's for people who were there at the beginning of the end.

Space Marine 2 dirt cheap too. Great game.

@Fishysensei wow no love for Spider Pig

Yes, but of I'd much rather have the Simpsons arcade beat em up. Like not even close.

Would love to see new AAA games from
Shadowrun
Quake
Freelancer
RC Pro Am
Phantasmagoria
Arx Fatalis
Maniac Mansion (possibly not owned by MS after DF split, not sure)

Big fan of Mechwarrior but we've been pretty well served on that front the last 2 gens.

Mega fan of horde mode since its introduction in Gears 2 and I'm loving siege. The bones are here for what might be the best horde in the series. That will be determined with what it looks like at launch and what ongoing updates look like.

@oopsiezz I'm a long time fan and love it, speak for yourself.

Is grounded 2 still early access?

I've tried many times but just can't get into the Animal Crossing / Stardew Valley genres, same goes for my wife.

@RadioHedgeFund he says right here it doesn't fit on a disc, it's discs, and goes out of his way to re-emphasize discs, plural. He went out of his way to not be ambiguous.

Still early access?

This looks like it would be amazing with a VR headset, like Tetris Effect

So far, I like it. I don't know if I'm going to play a million hours with my friends like every Horde since Gears 2. I don't fully understand it yet. But from the little bit I've seen, I like it. I don't think it scratches the itch of classic horde though (or my preferred blitz mode). But, that's ok. I have guys on my friends list who still play Gears 4 horde all the time, because they didn't like 5. 5 isn't going anywhere either if that's your jam.

Tldr my interest is piqued

Disc to digital is offensively useless if it only starts with the generation that everyone stopped using discs.

I will always hype Remnant II when it appears on one of your lists. Favorite co-op game of all time and favorite souls-like outside Fromsofr

So I never played an extraction game before.

I was having some fun with the solo map, then I joined a team for the first time. We were steamrolling. Then we got to the bell and my team left and I couldn't leave? So I got left behind and died alone. No idea what I did wrong, kinda soured me on the game and haven't gone back since.

Why would PS gamers go out and buy Halo when MS hasn't committed to putting the rest of the series on PS?

This is like when Xbox got Death Stranding, or FFVII Crisis Core. Without a confirmation that we're gonna get the sequels, why would you buy them? (In FFVII's case we did eventually get it, but I'm talking about at the time)

Hate to think about people out of work, but this developer was handed the biggest franchise in gaming and turned it into what it is now.

The only people I genuinely hope are fired are the creatives there. On that front the games have progressively gotten worse and now the remake has a ton of modern audience energy. The next mainline Halo game will be another disaster without huge change.

The cloud saves thing is great

Recorded party chat will be fun too

Not my kind of month so far but that's ok. Might try Beast of Reincarnation but I already have too much to play.

I didn't play it, maybe someday I'll do a Gears series replay.

For me it's Mistfall Hunter, I haven't played a ton yet but I'm enjoying it so far.

For my wife it's easily Palworld, she flew through the whole game and only put it down because of the launch of Everquest Legends.

Gears 1 first, Gears 1 favorite

Siege looks amazing, I am so here for it. May it come out of the gate good, unlike 4 and 5 horde modes.

Tried it last night, definitely has potential. Got a few friends interested enough to try it with me this weekend. As someone who doesn't normally do this genre, the test is going to be how we react to getting wiped out and losing all our stuff.

God bless Tim Schafer.

@Balaam_ they're sunsetting Xbox my man. The sooner you come to terms with that the sooner you'll understand what is going on.

Plays better* on PS.

Plays best on a high end PC.

The Skillup review is the first real review for this game I've seen.

Age of Wonders 4 expansion pass 2
Golf with your friends
Ffvii rebirth

We used to develop consoles

Better days, how I miss you 🥹

Anniversary included the entire game and cost $40.

Campaign Evolved cuts half the game and costs $50.

Anniversary had an 82 on metacritic, Campaign has an 81.

Considering the standard set, I'd say these scores are inflated. And I'm someone who has said many times there is an Xbox tax.

Halo has a 97 on metacritic, and that will never change. No one should be reviewing this as Halo, they should be reviewing this as a remake of Halo - how does it compare to the original. If you want a review of Halo, there's hundreds of them and most of them are perfect scores.

@Fiendish-Beaver I just completely disagree here. The game is a remake/remaster. Grade the developer on how they did remaking the original, not on making a new game, because they didn't make a new game.

and if you have never played the multiplayer component, then you don't know what you are missing anyway.

In what world does that make sense for the many millions of us who have played Halo and want to know how this remake stacks up? This isn't a new game.

If someone is tasked to copy the Mona Lisa, you would grade them on how well they copied it. You wouldn't suddenly pretend the Mona Lisa never existed and no one ever saw it, and then grade the art itself as if it was new. You'd grade the person on how well they copied the source material and the differences.

@Millionski You're misreading what I said, this feature is useless, not Helix.

@Runex2121 Of course it's subjective, every review is subjective. If they released the multiplayer only and dropped the campaign, would you give it the same score? Or do you think it would be reasonable to drop the score in that case?

It absolutely should have been. And the Sacred 2 remaster, shame on the devs for not including co-op.

The way we judge things is by comparing them to our past experiences. How can you just forget that you played this exact same game but better years ago?

Regarding Mass Effect and Sacred 2, co-op was dropped to save development money. In Halo's case, multiplayer was dropped so they can funnel all Halo multiplayer fans into newer, cash shop infested games. Both are pretty cynical tbh.

Well done Craig, and let's be honest, no one else here could have reviewed Halo

@MrStark I've compared XSX to Xbox 360, the 3rd place console of the 7th gen, but still very successful and a good comparison point.

You've so far compared it to Vita, Wii U, Saturn, Dreamcast, and a console from the 80s when the market was a fraction of what it is now. I think that betrays what you're pretending you don't know. We both know, brother. Let me know if you need a hug. This isn't my first time going down with the ship.

@MrStark I'm GIVING you peak, lmao. I'm giving it to you. It's a gift. Even with that, your argument is totally embarrassing.

How many more times are you going to compare XSX's 6 years to consoles that bombed so hard they didn't even last that long? I just want to be clear, you think XSX belongs in a conversation with Wii U, Saturn, and Dreamcast, right? That's the group of consoles that XSX's "ridiculous success" should be grouped with?

@MrStark you called it a "ridiculous" number. It's 25% of their last successful console's average (peak would be much worse) and as we know Xbox's WW sales have fallen off a cliff even worse than the US sales in the last gen, so if we were to compare those numbers it'd look even worse. I'm giving the opposing argument every possible advantage here.

You are repeatedly comparing it to the Wii U. I think that speaks for itself, lmfao. You said ridiculous, and I'll reiterate, the only way this is ridiculous is ridiculously bad.

Xbox 360 sold and average (not peak, average) 1.2 million consoles every month in its 6th year. I honestly don't know how to respond to you guys lol. In what way is 125k ridiculous in any way besides ridiculously bad?

If Helix doesn't have a disc drive, this is completely useless and performative. These games did not exist as digital games until years after their console was irrelevant. As it stands this will help dozens of people.

I'm guessing the venn diagram of "Games for Change" and the Steam group "Sweet Baby Inc Detected" is just a circle.

@themightyant There is definitely a narrative being pushed. IMO this is all you need to know about how much BS is out there:

Sony said 85% of games being sold are digital. What they leave out is that includes a huge number of games that are only available digitally. This number has zero to do with customer choice or preference.

From the Insomnia leak we know that 76% of God of War Ragnarok sales were physical. To me, that's really all you need to know that you're being lied to.