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This is fine, everything is fine.

Dragons Dogma 2 was my GOTY last year. Really hope we get a DLC like the first game did.

I learned nothing this week. If you're of the opinion that MS is stringing along what is left of the Xbox fan base to get a few more years of sales out of us while they transition away from Xbox and towards mobile, nothing this week was substantial enough to change that. It's going to take a piece of hardware and a real plan, not word salad.

No thanks, I'm good.

Back when I played Ark it was on Ragnarok. Very cool map.

Both of these guys are wrong all the time

@Fiendish-Beaver I know I'm not the one you asked, but I'm going with 3rd party hardware as prophecized by the incredible discord leak from Feb of last year. It's been wrong about nothing.

Haven't tried it. My weekly co-op group is going through Towerborne (and pbem Age of Wonders 4). I don't think we're gonna get to this one.

We're more likely to go back to Darktide with the new Arbites class, I think.

I play a ton of esoteric games so as always, these projects are all or nothing for me. Xbox's current backwards compatibility program does nothing for me, I need to keep my old hardware if I want to play the bulk of my games.

My litmus test is if I can play Culdcept Saga natively, it's a worthy back compat solution.

I have the same feelings about their "play your own games on the cloud" initiative. Sounds exciting until you see them putting 10 games on there at a time. The games I play are never going to make their way there.

@GADG3Tx87 Geforce Now is a platform. Steam is a platform. A PC running Steam isn't a platform, Steam is the platform. This is not a comparison even worth talking about.

Valve is in the drivers seat here. If you think they're going to allow games sold on their platform to work on some PCs but not others, you're crazy. They'll have to start putting an asterisk next to every game saying what hardware configurations are blocked and which aren't? They'll tell Sony to take a hike. I'd take that bet 100 times out of 100, it's easy money. Sony doesn't make Valve a fraction of the money it would require to strongarm them into a change like that.

@GADG3Tx87

1) I have something like 800 games on Steam

2) there are still games coming out that don't have cross play that id rather have on Steam. ER Nightreign and Jump Ship off the top of my head

3) no, Sony can't easily block Steam games from some Windows devices running Steam. You would lose whatever money you're putting down. This isn't something I personally care about since FFVII was the only PS exclusive I felt I was missing.

This gets asked absolutely everywhere, no one has solved this puzzle... except me. (joking smugface here)

Adding Steam etc generates a TON of excitement. Xbox goes from dying to everyone is excited for it instantly with the word Steam. Everyone gets this. The downside is, all those game sales are going to be on Steam, right? Microsoft loses all that money! Again, everyone gets this.

Here's what everyone is missing: Xbox gamers don't buy games. They've been conditioned to stop buying games for many years now. Once again, this is going to be a game pass machine. What Microsoft loses is beans. They're not going to cry when they lose their 30% of the 22,000 copies of FF16 sold. They are however going to totally rejuvenate the brand because hey, you CAN play Helldivers 2, God of War, and DOTA2 on it!

Having Steam on an Xbox console is a huge press win and a minimal revenue loss for Microsoft.

And is the next Xbox going to be manufactured by Microsoft or farmed out to 3rd parties? She certainly doesn't differentiate their console and handheld in that video, and it's widely believed their own handheld has been dumped. Many outlets wrote articles this week saying the Asus ROG Xbox is the future of Xbox consoles and this video IMO just added fuel to that fire.

Has there ever been a word salad video like this released about a console that hasn't been announced in earnest and is likely years away?

This brand's stock is so low right now that they feel the need to just put out a 1 minute "hey we're still making something, seriously believe us" video so that their few current customers don't completely abandon ship.

@Wizzle8899 I'm in the minority but it's certainly a large amount of people.

I'm not going to play this game because it's not really my genre and I have no time, it's just not on my radar. I'm just here to say that over polished games suck. You can polish the fun right out of a game. I fell out of love with Blizzard when this happened decades ago. A lot of people don't just accept jank, they prefer it, and even seek it out. An easy example is all of us excited for the Gothic remake aren't here despite how unpolished Gothic was - we're here because of it.

Some more Xbox related examples:
I loved the first Two Worlds, and I bounced off the second
I loved Solasta, and seeing how the budget for the second looks many times bigger, I'm a little worried it will lose its charm.

@Questionable_Duck that's sort of exactly what happens. Sony can buy exclusivity for pennies on the dollar. Xbox stopped being able to long ago without a massive bag. It became untenable and so they started buying studios. The position that Sony has been in for a while now is why monopolies are illegal.

So, is this a case of Xbox players not wanting to buy Final Fantasy games, or Square Enix waiting too long

It's the former. Microsoft had full marketing rights for FF15 and the game still bombed horribly on the platform. Xbox gamers don't buy games in general since game pass and they really don't buy Final Fantasy games long before that.

Horizon but go back to the tone of Horizon 1. The last 2 games are ultimate cringe with an incredibly fun game underneath.

@TruestoryYep

It's a handheld with the horsepower to go with it. The CPU lags well behind the current gen home consoles including the underpowered, 5 year old Series S. Don't respond to me and start with "Correction," it's a clown move and not appreciated.

@RadioHedgeFund 3DS didn't eat the Wii's lunch.

As Xbox fans, we will talk about "next year" until the bitter end.

@RadioHedgeFund Nintendo sells a handheld. They're not eating anyone's lunch because their graphics are a**, that's ridiculous. Nintendo gave up having dedicated home hardware when 2 of their last 3 were miserable failures. Meanwhile they never miss with handhelds.

Microsoft pushing hard to sell Nintendo Switches with these numbers.

People still figuring out what is happening to Xbox hardware like it's February 2024.

"But they SAID there's another console coming! The biggest leap EVER!!!!"

We're getting a ****ing PC with emulated/streamed Xbox games. If you pray to Phil hard enough, they'll release an optional disc drive. Otherwise physical gamers, to quote a head of Xbox, they've "got a console for you"

FWIW I'm not against this idea even though it's fun to clown on. In fact it's the only reason I'm considering getting an "Xbox" next gen, I'm going back to PC anyway, might as well see what they're cooking. It's the people still eating up the obvious lies that I'm really dunking on. The only 4 games people

Konami showcase? I can't believe it's been 15 years since Tak Fuji's 1 million troooops. EXTREEEEEEEME hack and slash title.

@Lup It was Xbox has no exclusives, which was hyperbole before and is now almost literal. In October playstation will get Ninja Gaiden 4, The Outer Worlds 2, and Ghost of Yotai. I'd be happy to bet that they'll get Keeper as well afterwards.

Xbox's library was always 95%+ the same as playstation's.

@Dan1283 wow ps plus must be really bad if microtransaction sim 25 with a soccer skin on it is better than what they got.

I didn't make predictions but in hindsight, I'm very surprised we didn't see Contraband.

Has there ever been a sale that didn't include XCOM2? I hope everyone has it with even a slight interest in TRPGs because it's the king of the genre.

And while I'm on this tangent I'll also say I normally don't play games with mods (I'm a big "as the devs intended" guy) which makes it easy for me to play everything on console these days, but XCOM2 was an exception, I had so many voice packs. My favorites were the entire crew of the Normandy and the whole cast of Gears 1-3. Optimus Prime as SPARK was also incredible. Made the game go from a 10/10 all timer to a 20/10 for me.

@RentedPanda I'd buy that for a dollar

It's far from the only reason. I feel for fans of 4 and 5, but an overwhelming number of us felt they (the campaigns) were dogs*** and the series was inarguably fading into total irrelevance. They clearly did the math and felt it was more important to bring us back than appeal to fans of 4 and 5. And as far as PS5 goes, Kait as a protagonist vs Marcus would go over with them just as well as it has with us.

@NEStalgia came here to say this.

There is a contingent out there who think JRPG is a geographical label. They will argue Dark Souls is a JRPG. Those people are wrong.

FFXVI and Dark Souls are not JRPGs, Battle Chasers and Expedition 33 are.

@stefan771 yeah. The UE comment takes the cake here combining hatejerks.

I have zero interest in the game so this has nothing to do with me defending it

My top 10 for e3 season

1. FFVII Remake
2. Expanse Osiris Reborn
3. Clockwork Revolution
4. Outer Worlds 2
5. Atomic Heart 2
6. Keeper
7. Beast of Reincarnation
8. FFXVI
9. Grounded 2
10. Chrono Odyssey trailer (lots of Chrono games)

@Kaloudz Hey sorry, what do you mean flashing, like could it set off an epileptic? I'm not really sensitive to that sort of thing so it would take something really egregious for me to take notice and I don't remember anything like that.

@Jlesamiz Blatantly untrue unless you consider PS5 a lower spec console. It's well documented the game couldn't run for any normal amount of time without crashing. The only console you could even come close to arguing in good faith was acceptable was Series X, and even then, eh.

@K1LLEGAL

This puts those full sized Series X fridges they shipped to celebrities to shame.

FF7 is an automatic A for me. It's been 28 years... If nothing else was shown, A. I'm not grading for anyone else.

Clockwork Revolution also looks amazing, I love the (new) Wasteland games. inXile's humor on full display, I'm so in.

Keeper and Outer Worlds 2 also both look great

Honorable mention to FFXVI, Grounded 2, and Beast of Reincarnation. Seeing Game Freak on the screen made me sit up really fast.

Out of my top 10 moments from this year's "e3" season, the only things that weren't from this show were Expanse Osiris Reborn (from Owlcat!!!), Atomic Heart 2, and a trailer for Chrono Odyssey.

I don't know who runs these smaller shows, but the Future Games Show leapfrogged the PC show by miles and I would argue was on par with the doritopope show, unless you really like Resident Evil.

I mean... alright but if you aren't turning the volume back up every time Grimskull is on screen, you're doing it wrong.

@Kaloudz no one ever makes this comparison, but the new DOOM games took a lot from this game in terms of combat flow. DOOM 2016 was fantastic but it gets a lot of credit for innovation it doesn't deserve.

The entire announcement reeked of deceptive advertising. Rename the PC store to Xbox. Come play your Xbox games!! Just another step in actual Xbox erasure.

Well I have nostalgia for only 2 games in the entire history of playstation, FFVII and FFT. Needless to say I'm having a good week.

@Ricky-Spanish when I play solo my ceiling is getting to the last boss. I'm just not great at souls games despite so many hours in the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring, and lots of others like LotF and Remnant. I get through them through patience and sheer force of will, not skill.

I've beaten 3 night lords now in co-op with randoms playing ironeye. I'm still learning what to be targeting, how fast I need to be moving, etc. I do find the average skill in this 100x higher than the beta. It's all people who plunked down money for the game, not an open beta. Everyone is at least a little serious. You still run into s***ers but less frequently.

Most of my gaming is co-op with my wife or my friends, but I couldn't get any of them to bite on this with me despite several of them including my wife having beaten Elden Ring. I would definitely be a diff experience on a mic with people I know.

I'm pretty addicted to it.

Putting your games on other platforms is really good for your own platform. That's why Sony and Nintendo, both with platforms several times more successful, put their first party games on all platforms. It's the path to success, not a way for a company to give up on their platform and its fans and still make some money.

ER Nightreign and Oblivion

@TapeLoader Loved the Grimrock games, the first one really brought blobbers back after a very long hiatus, sort of like PoE did for isometric crpgs. The first Wizardry got remade and I really want to find time to play it. It inspired pretty much every RPG that's come since, even JRPGs, Yujo Horii himself has said so. Deserves way more recognition. Tangent over

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A few games I'm interested in. Hoping Mundfish knocks it out of the park with the atomic universe.

Atomic Heart 2, The Cube, and Chrono Odyssey for me.