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They run decently, but Larian clearly rushed it out the door to capitalize on the game awards hype. They clearly were fine with "good enough" for the Xbox version.

Id love for a collection just to get renewed life into Gears 3 horde and Judgement's survival modes. Those were the only multiplayer games/modes i really got into and id love to be able to easily find people to play them with again.

It's an obvious point that few people seem to get. I hate when devs say "if the fans want an Xbox version we'll look into it" cause the point of making an Xbox version is to make new fans cause existing fans can already play those games

343 needs to be shut down in the worst possible way

This is the real Xbox tax. Sony can have as many exclusives as they want and everyone is ok with it but when Xbox has one everyone crucifies them for it.

I don't think too many people care about Postal 4, but Microsoft should be trying to get as many games as it can on its platform.

If this is true, then Microsoft isn't putting it's customers first.

Anyone who saw the ending of Separate Ways already knew they were planning more remakes

This is what Phil Spencer has wanted all along.

"If you want to keep getting rewards you're gonna have to subscribe to gamepass. And then we'll take those away too."

Yea everyone knows the truth, it's because Xbox sales have been in the toilet compared to Sony and Nintendo. They only want to reveal numbers that make them look good and everyone knows it.

This is sad, they did the same thing with Doom Eternal too. Responding isn't gonna make anyone change their review, be proud of what you made and let people think what they want.

Recently used a bunch to get the Tales of Arise Beyond The Dawn dlc. Back at about 9,400 points as of now

Clock is ticking on Xbox. They're just waiting for the right time to pull the trigger.

I love how they talk about putting all the rewards in one central area and don't mention that all the rewards in that central area require a gamepass subscription to get any points

1.Make a game for dirt cheap
2. Every reviewer rushes to play it for easy clicks
3. Profit

@FraserG Don't get me wrong, Xbox has done a ton of good things since that launch. I loved my Xbox One and love my Series S! But Xbox is still being outsold almost 2-1, quality exclusives are still the exception, not the norm, and developers are still choosing to develop for everyone except Xbox.

I know console sales aren't everything anymore, but that's still the number everyone looks at. Double the players on PlayStation? Thats what consumers are going to buy, and that's what developers are going to develop for.

I really wouldn't call what's happened much of a turnaround. Things are better sure, but Xbox is still plagued with issues steming from the Xbox One.

@Camble_Refuge Absolutely true. I can't count how many times I've seen people say "I never pay for games". Gamepass is great for developers that get a gamepass deal, those who don't have to compete with it.

Unless you were there for the original Xbox, playing on Xbox Live, the 360 is the obvious no brainer.

New technology leads to lost jobs, its a side effect of progress. Imagine if someone said "We need to shut down this internet thing, it will cause people to lose their jobs!"

I've gotten notifications of someone trying to log into my Microsoft account a few times. I can only imagine what would have happened if i hadn't had 2FA on.

At this point it's like South Park's George RR Martin saying "They're coming!"

Halo is done for. Microsoft hasn't cared about it for a long time and now that they have all these other studios they're just gonna try and get as much money out of Infinite that they can before the series goes on ice.

Less of a strong week for Xbox and more an oddly weak one for PlayStation

Mad World is the most iconic, but all 3 of the original games had incredible trailers. Mad World, The Last Day, and Ashes to Ashes were all works of art.

The library might be infamous, but I've grown to really appreciate it. Some variation on the environment would have been nice, but it was as much of a test of endurance and skill under pressure for the player as it was supposed to be for Chief

How long before Activision/Blizzard games become Xbox's sole focus?

To quote the meme

[softly]
Don't

This is like that episode of Big Bang Theory when Sheldon said he wants to get Stan Lee to sign an issue of Batman.

And yet everyone still says always online isn't a big deal

That's it? Christ 🤦

The amount of whining in the comments you'd think this is a PlayStation site 😂

@Martsmall I was wondering about this, shame, that would have gotten me to sign up

Couldn't be more excited. Tales of Arise was my game of the year for 2021 and i never expected we'd get more.

Now it all makes sense why they keep taking away opportunities to earn Microsoft rewards points

Absolutely not. Gears 5 was as far as it should go. Those sections reminded me of driving the APC through town in Gears 1 or driving up Mt. Kadar in 2, just with more freedom which was nice, it still felt like Gears.

There is zero reason to do a fully open world Gears from a gameplay perspective.

I've been impressed with Microsoft's recent streak of Japanese content with the Atlus partnership, getting Neptunia Sisters vs Sisters, and FF14. Hopefully this leads to even more partnerships and strengthens their existing ones.

I'm still waiting for Ninja Gaiden 2 to go on sale

It all comes back to sales. Microsoft can say they don't want to be judged by console sales but the fact is if Xbox had sold as many consoles as the PS5 devs wouldn't be whining about the Series S.

But when your sales are so far behind the competition developers are gonna ask "why even bother?"

The Series S and Xbox's lack of sales are great scapegoats to get the Xbox version done later. They can easily focus on the PS5 and PC and delay the Xbox version, as long as developers blame the Series S no one will question them.

"New ways to play" just means new weapons, vehicles, and skill trees. Nothing that fixes the core problems the game has

All this talk about the Series S holding back games and Bandai Namco just drops this and walks away 😂

I'm honestly kinda surprised it lasted this long. It sucks but at least they gave an almost year's notice.

Now they just need to show the price for gamepass games

A studio not shoehorning multiplayer into a game? What a concept.

At this point id rather see a Series S with a disc drive and i think that would make more sense for the "casual" console

Communications director? So he's not even a developer? So why the hell does what he say on this even matter?

Is it a coincidence this news comes after Microsoft has the essentially all clear to buy ABK?

It's a cluttered disaster that was clearly meant to be more billboard than anything else