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@Nic-Noc20th-C if they actually do it right, Crackdown 4 could be awesome. No more broken promises though like last time.

@Scirius it's insane how true this has been on and off from the beginning. It's like Microsoft gets off on shooting themselves in the foot.

The games industry has become such a desolate and depressing wasteland behind the scenes. I miss the old days when companies still knew how to have fun with their customers. Now it's all just this crappy rat race to make the most money. The industry has no soul anymore.

Oh hell yeah! I don't even care about the game but this art is goddamn gorgeous!

How is it 2024 and we still don't have ports of the OGs on consoles? I don't care if they're not that great, I want them. Ill give them money.

They should have green lit a horror themed title the moment RE2Remake took off.

So basically the EXACT opposite of what the rumor mill reported lol!? This is great news!

Funny, just 2 weeks ago all the Sony Fanboys said Xbox had no good exclusives that they'd ever want to play lol

Spotify more than anything else. If the game doesn't require me to listen to any sort of story, I play music. Last night I played PalWorld while listening to the Silent Hill 2 OST. Odd choice but I make my own rules lol.

Jesus Christ... Just yet ANOTHER reason I'll be passing on an Xbox next gen. What a joke.

"Why don't consumers trust us reviewers anymore? Are we wrong and out of touch? No it's the consumers who are wrong!"

The utter irony in that statement... Wow

Haha right... The narrative.

@Kaloudz no but mine loaded up running around in a "T Pose" for a few seconds lol

@theduckofdeath wow. It worked! Now I can see the s**t I'm drowning in. Seriously, they need to fix this crap.

Do caves still look like I'm drowning in s**t? I've avoided exploring them cuz I can't see anything.

@Kaloudz that Silent Hill collection was awesome... IF you had the PS3 version lol. For whatever reason Konami patched most of the issues out but that patch never came to the 360 version. Which is really ironic in hindsight since the 360 version is the only way to play it these days.

@Kaloudz oh man, exciting times ahead

@Kaloudz Crash 4 would be amazing. I never even thought of that on Game Pass for some reason. Between that and Diablo 4 i will definitely be resubscribing once they're added lol.

@Kaloudz the collection isn't that bad. Everyone's overreacting because it isn't 4k or anything special. Its just rips of the old games but they've done some patching and the collection is good. If you can get it on sale it's a steal. However I've been playing on PS5 and I know Digital Foundry said the Xbox version WAS slightly blurry or had no anti aliasing or something. Not sure if THATS been fixed but it's still a good collection if you want those games on a modern system.

As far as my profile pic, I don't know exactly what it's taken from or who edited it... I just stole it from the internet lol

@Banjo- yup after I posted that I had other people tell me the same and I must've just misunderstood or misread. No, you're definitely right and it's good to hear they didn't axe the devs.

@Kaloudz lol yeah it's a tweaked Snake from that game. What a classic.

@Kaloudz bingo! All we can do is wait and see. Glad to hear it's not developers getting cut then.

@CallMeDuraSouka this is so dumb. Luckily that is what I did though. I bought a crap ton of games and it's now to the point where even if I played games all day everyday for the rest of my life and that's all I did, id never get through them all.

@Kaloudz lol it's edited. It's so creepy but hilarious so I use it

@Kaloudz well *****. I think you're on point here. I completely agree and never thought of those aspects.

Alright, well thanks for making my mind up for me next generation. Looks like I'll be going all in with PlayStation 6. I'll keep my Series X for my back compat and never give Xbox another dollar.

@Kaloudz i agree with everything you said except the freedom to pursue other projects that might have remained dormant otherwise. With almost 2000 devs now gone, who's going to be able to do that now? I hope I'm wrong but to me this reads that their use of the word "focused" means that they plan to just stay with the current hits and not stray from the already established path.

Now I could easily be overreacting and this could very well just be Microsoft getting rid of all the hiring bloat left over from COVID. These things also tend to happen after buyouts. However the bigger issue to me is Mike Ybarra leaving. I'm not a Blizzard fan but people always spoke of this guy as some sort of mastermind wizard. What does this REALLY mean over their? Are things about to get really bad or did he just leave cuz he doesn't want to go from being #2 to the bottom of the Totem Pole?

@Kaloudz I agree, let's hope for the best with them going forward.

@theduckofdeath Microsoft has that yes. Xbox doesn't. Satya Nadella ain't just signing blank checks for Phil Spencer...

@Kaloudz yeah I completely agree with everything you said. My worry is Xbox is wasting time and funding on weird little things that are only really done to boost social media standing through memes. Honestly I just want Xbox to kick ass as they once did during the 360 era.

@Kaloudz I'm not saying they don't have games. I'm saying they need more high quality big AAA games. They're in this odd middle space in between AAA and AA games. They NEED their own God of War or Last of Us. Avowed has already been admitted to be AA although shaping up to be a damn good one, Hellblade 2 team has admitted it to be short and much more like the first game than people had hoped. Not that Hellblade 2 will be bad by any means, but many hoped it would have a bigger scope than the original. Indiana Jones is a big AAA game though that they do need, HOWEVER it not being 3rd person is an issue for many and it's an IP that is debatably dead now so it's not going to draw everyone over to Xbox as much as it might deserve. As far as Ara.... I honestly don't see that as being much of a flex. I'm sure it'll be great for people into that genre, but I don't see it ever being in mass conversations with what people are really excited for this year. Again, Xbox REALLY needs to focus on big AAA titles if they hope to mass migrate people over to the system. A new bombastic Gears of War or Fable or something of that caliber could be that for them and that's what they need... Not Xbox refrigerators and custom spacesuits.

Jesus Christ... Why? What's with this incessant need for Xbox to put so much money into all these dumb products? First a fridge, then a toaster, now a spacesuit?! Stop it! JUST MAKE SOME GAMES!

Helmet or no helmet doesn't matter. It represents the fact that the show runners do not respect the source material and admitted so already in interviews. They laughed at the fans when admitting they they never even played the games or studied any material for it. They just wanted to snatch up an IP they could use to make trash content for subscription services. They don't care if the show is successful, as it's purpose is already fulfilled.

They kind of have to cater to physical media in some way or another. Many of their back compatible titles are only accessible with a physical disc. I'd be willing to bet the optional drive like Sony is doing with the newer PS5 model will be the standard for awhile.

Geez... Are we supposed to applaud this price drop lol? I couldn't justify it at $20, let alone $30. I'll wait til it's sitting next to their last critical hit, Agents of Mayhem, with the $5 price tag.

This game has me so stoked I can't wait to try it out! This COULD be what Xbox needed and Microsoft never saw it being as big of a hit

They should have gotten Anthony Ingruber to do the voice. He sounds better and would have been cheaper. He also wasn't dumb enough to support AI replacing voice actors in the industry. Troy should have been shunned from the whole industry after that stunt. Instead the industry has become way too incestuous with Troy Baker voicing 90% of everything all the time.

@vrubayka ironic because I heard the code was a nightmare from Digital Foundry. However if what you say is true then that makes Microsoft look even worse for not getting it to run at 60fps on their system. Especially since it's apparently so easy to do lol! Oh well, I have my copy on PS5 running at 60 and it's a blast. Maybe one day if Microsoft can pull their head out of their ass and FPS Boost the game on Xbox then I'll go back to the Xbox version.

@vrubayka you don't know that. That's pure speculation. More then likely the 60 fps patch was always planned because it's already been said in the past that RDR would be a nightmare to figure out how to make 60fps work since the games code is practically held together by glue and duct tape. They wouldn't have been able to just release that particular patch for "damage control" that fast. It's most likely they had been working on it for quite some time and weren't able to release it at launch. Nice try though. However even if you're right and they were able to just double the frame rate in a couple days, what's Xbox's excuse for not getting that game running with fps boost if it's so easy or working out a deal with Rockstar to get the newer version with the 60fps update on Xbox?

But even besides all that. I gladly paid the $50 to play it at 60fps on PS5. Worth it when the Xbox version is still stuck at 30 and will likely never be patched to run any higher.

Unrealistic of me to be sure but how about some good games? No more buying IPs and publishers and developers for awhile. Make some f**king games. The only thing my Series X has done this entire gen is be a glorified back compat machine.

@Retron bold of to assume the game will ever feel finished.

@GamingFan4Lyf we'll more than likely get this feature as an AI tool with the next Xbox.

Now that Xbox has ABK they aren't going to even try anymore. The money from King alone is enough to make everyone complacent over at corporate. The proof is somewhat in the pudding too as Rockstar gave Red Dead Redemption a free 60fps patch for PS5. Let that sink in for a moment.....................Rockstar....Free. They're asleep over at Xbox headquarters guys.

@RaZieLDaNtE dang... I might have to now and let it sit in the backlog like my copy of Lost Odyssey has since 2009 lol

The issue I find in most games (but not all games) is once you boot a game up from Quick Resume it can lag or have odd performance and sometimes even visual glitches. But upon app close and a clean reboot everything is completely fine again. So it's best to just close your game when you're done and booting up clean when ready to play again.

@RaZieLDaNtE Im so close, just not sure I have the time anymore lol

@Kaloudz I just hear it's really grindy.