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They probably see Babylon's Fall is almost guaranteed to be a flop so are throwing out a SOS. It's a shame but with talk like this it feels like Platinum is borderline begging to be acquired by someone. Still looking forward to Bayonetta 3 though.

Ick not a good look for Sony. Especially after TLOU2 has some scenes of equal violence on display. Ratings boards are there for a reason Sony let them do their job.

I hope they don't delay the TV show because of this. Don't punish the people that worked on the show that had nothing to do with this whole situation.

Yeesh I mean I'd like new maps too but I'm sure they are coming. Just have some patience people it will come.

These are fair concerns to have. Perhaps Microsoft could have something like summer of arcade from the 360 era to highlight indies on the service that can stand out? Or kind of like how Playstation did recently with putting Sifu heavily in the spotlight in some of their recent presentations. Hopefully they will figure something out.

Looks at PC only to see it start sweating profusely. I say "Don't worry buddy. I'll have Xbox Series X by then hopefully."

PC let's out a big sigh of relief.

I'm still getting in matches super quick whenever I play so I'm wondering if it's as bad as people are suggesting. One reason could be a lot of people have maxed out the battle pass already and are waiting for either an event like the Cyber event or the next battle pass.

That's how I engage with it. I love Halo but I like to play other things too. I'm playing Sifu for example on PS5 and February is going to be pretty busy for game releases so I can't say I'm too shocked to see it's numbers drop a little.

All three companies have been in the industry for more than a couple of decades. I'm sure Sony and Nintendo will survive just fine.

They can take their time. I've had a blast with the game thus far. My only real issues I can think of would be that the bosses felt too similar to each other in the campaign and I do wish there were more maps but overall 343 nailed it in my opinion. Bring on the co-op when it's ready.

I personally like the less blue version for the show. It fits the look of the the show more than the heavy blue version that fan put out. If it was an animated show then I'd probably prefer the blue version but the current look fits a live action show better.

I'd be careful saying it's guaranteed they will stay multiplatform. Things change. Heck Bungie originally left Activision to strike out on their own just a few years ago. For the short term it's safe to assume multiplatform, in the long term...maybe not.

I was very pleased with the way it looked! You can definitely tell they are putting some good budget into it. Everything looks the way it should. Now we just need to see how it all comes together.

Oh dear I'm sure these comments will age well. These guys are cruising for a bruising.

@Vepra
Well yeah duh but I'm worried the Battle Royale would then get all the attention as far as updates go while the rest of the game would get left behind as far as support goes. That just happened to COD recently. We have so many other options for fans of that style MP while classic arena shooters are kind of a rare breed these days.

Maybe I'm just part of that dying breed but I just can't get into Battle Royale games and I'd like Halo to not go down that path.

I really hope it's not. I love Halo because it's not another Battle Royale. Halo is an arena shooter, keep it that way.

Definitely jump on Valkyria Chronicles 4 if you never played it. Excellent game!

I'd be cool with them making the old ones backwards compatible but that's enough. Do we really want to devote resources to a new one? Maybe they could do like a Master Chief collection version of these games or something but I'm sorry I've been over this series for a while personally. That said if a new one is announced I'll be happy for the people that want it.

@NEStalgia
I hate how right you are. 😂

Can fanboys and fangirls just go away? Nothing of value would be lost. Learn to take a joke people! Not everything needs to be taken up to 11!

Congrats to 343! Well deserved as Infinite was my personal GOTY last year. I'm still playing every week and having a blast every time. Heck I even maxed out the BP. The last multiplayer I ever maxed anything out for was Uncharted 2. That was over a decade ago!

I was one of the Steam purchasers! Mostly because the Xbox app on PC never worked for me and so I couldn't play through GP but oh well the game is well worth the price!

Yeah Gears makes the most sense here. It would be pretty awesome too to have all the MPs of the Gears series rolled into one package. Well assuming it works properly anyway. Fable wouldn't really benefit too much in any meaningful way that I can think of especially since after 2 the series seemed to lose its way(Though I never played any of them after 2 so I might be wrong but 1 and 2 seem to be the ones most talked about).

Though please if you do Gears let the added content to Gears 1 campaign be optional. I hated that section in Ultimate!

@JaneBear @stinkyx
There's just some bad apples over there is all. Most of the folks on Push Square are cool. It is kind of fun to read the shear hate some feel for Phil Spencer over there though. You'd think the dude was the spawn of Satan with how some of the fanboys talk about him!🤣

GUN is my favorite by a mile. I'd seriously lose my mind if that game ever got a sequel!

I actually really liked Playstation All-Stars and still want Sony to give it another go. I never understood the argument that only Nintendo can do this sort of thing. There's nothing wrong with competition. I love Smash but it's not a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination.

Imagine if we had this sort of mindset when Street Fighter 2 first busted onto the scene. We wouldn't have Mortal Kombat or Guilty Gear or...heck maybe even Super Smash Bros.

So yeah absolutely bring on a Microsoft Smash clone. I'd love to see Master Chief throw a plasma grenade on Crash!

Some nice changes here. I was fine with the way it was but these sound cool too. I'm more interested in when we will see some new maps though. Loving that Attrition mode though!

@somnambulance
Sure I would have given Google more of a chance had they entered the market with a plan. It just seemed like they had no clue what they were doing from the get go. Streaming only was a terrible idea and yeah the fact that they launched with absolutely no software of note pretty much gave them no chance. Streaming works best as an added feature like how Xbox does it.

As for Netflix I guess I just don't have faith they understand the game market based off their last few attempts at putting out games based on their shows. I tried the Cobra Kai game that came out with a friend and was absolutely appalled at what we played. Just a terrible game which is a shame because Cobra Kai should have been pretty easy to make a somewhat enjoyable game off of.

But hey I'll still listen to their pitch if they try to get into it more seriously. I'll just keep my expectations in check.

Would Netflix need to rename their games division? Netgamez? It makes more sense considering the flix part refers to movies. Either way the big 3 are enough for my gaming needs. Remember how well Stadia went?

You gotta give Phil some props he definitely has a very different view of the industry compared to most other CEOs in the industry. I don't necessarily agree with him all the time but I find his opinion on things to be very interesting at the very least.

Without a doubt my most anticipated Microsoft backed game. I've been a fan of every one of Ninja Theory's games since Heavenly Sword and Hellblade 1 was my personal GOTY for 2017 until I played Persona 5 at the end of the year. So yes very much looking forward to this one!

I love how every article I read about Bobby Kotick has the same picture in it of him just staring into your soul and smiling.😄

I'll never be able to unsee that picture!

Get me a Gun 2 and you will have my undying loyalty!

@abe_hikura
Seriously the only other devs that would be available that fit the Western RPG space I can think of would be Ubisoft to an extent and CDPR. Definitely not a lot of options.

To be fair I don't know if the second part of that quote necessarily referred to the time after contractual obligations. They could have just meant they have years behind the current contract and so we won't see exclusive COD games at least for a few years. Some day sure but I wouldn't expect it as soon as next year for example. I could be wrong though.

That's too bad but Attrition mode is a blast with friends at least!

Don't know who would work on it and I doubt it would have a chance of happening but I'd love to see Gun get another shot pun completely intended. I loved that game!

Wait... did people think this was a hostile takeover or something? I mean of course Microsoft would be interested in them as a major gaming platform but Activision is a publicly traded company. If it was a hostile takeover it would have played out similar to what Ubisoft faced a few years ago against Vivendi.

There Vivendi was trying to take control of Ubisoft by force by acquiring the most shares of the company. Ubisoft fought back by buying enough shares themselves along with Tencent and eventually Vivendi backed down. In this case though the board wanted to sell so Microsoft taking over would not be considered hostile.

I know it is easy to hate the big mega-corperation but Microsoft simply was interested, had the means to do so, and had a willing seller. It's as simple as that.

As I said on the other article I wouldn't hold my breath for Playstation only users. You don't buy a company for $70 billion dollars to be a nice guy. You buy a company for $70 billion dollars because you really want to have one of the biggest selling franchises of all time under your belt.

@themightyant
Oh no ugh no yuck! Lol🤢

I wouldn't hold my breath for PS only users. Warzone will keep being supported on PS but I highly doubt the new yearly COD entries or Blizzard stuff will be multiplat after the deals that are currently in place finish up.

I already played on Playstation so I'm good but I bet my brain would constantly get confused when I saw press X for anything on the screen! 😅

Anyway though hope the new players are enjoying it. It's a great game.

My top three favorites of the series are 2, 3, and then Infinite as far as campaign goes. As for MP though even in its early state I think Infinite is the best too. I really can't get enough I'm logging in to play at least a few days every week. 343 really knocked it out of the park in my opinion.

I'm sure it's still not going to be cheap enough for a lot of folks. Sometimes you just can't satisfy everyone but hopefully this will calm down some of the complaints.

Even as a PC user on Halo myself I definitely understand both sides a bit on this. I understand why console players want a choice for the reasons put in the article.

I can see it from the dev side as well though wanting to force it as it helps populate all the gametypes more with more players.

Hopefully 343's cheater fix next month will kick the problem to the curb all together.

I played a little bit last night. I really like the way they are doing these DLCs. The Rogue-like element actually works well for Far Cry and I enjoy the look into the back story of the villains. The Vaas one was really good but the Pagan Minn one was the one I was most excited for as Far Cry 4 is my personal favorite of the series and from what I played it didn't disappoint.

Sounds good. I don't really care for BTB anyway but good for the folks that do. As for the cheating I've been pretty fortunate in that I haven't run into too much of that lately but still interested to see what they have in mind to fight it come February. I'm most interested in when we could see more maps. Hopefully it won't be until May before we see new maps. Just two or three would go a long way.

@Carck
Agreed. They already have a setup for pro play and from I've seen the Mangler is popular but I wouldn't say it's too powerful or anything. It's just a good weapon is all and Cloud9 wants it just flat out gone? Get out of here! Leave the Mangler alone!

@stinkyx
If you choose unwisely for the different special roles in the mission I think you could still lose people. I could be wrong though.

I hope Bioware only goes up from here. Sure the Legendary Edition was an easy win since it was a just a remaster of the trilogy (granted a really good remaster), but they needed an easy win. There's not a game out there I'm rooting to be great as much as Mass Effect 5. Don't let us down Bioware!

The entire trilogy is outstanding. Still to this day the most ambitious trilogy of games I've ever seen but if I had to pick there's only one option, ME2 is still the best although 3 is damn close like just a hair behind it. ME1 is my least favorite but even still it's a fantastic game as well with the best villain of the trilogy.