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@Sindayl the problem is they're not just making their own games and franchises, they're taking classic ones and destroying them because it's just not organically done, it feels forced into it. It effects the writing and narratives, gives us shallow or obnoxious characters. The self insert problem is real. Hearing fantasy characters talk with the same tones and slang of modern people is also so jarring.

So yes, continue the purge of the industry and leave only developers who want to just make fun games and take my money!

Hence Veilguard, Shadows, Andromeda, Battlefield 2042 facing backlash and poor sales. Every time I'm like "make a fun game and take my money", and it keeps happening to my favourite franchises, so I just will not buy them, and thousands or millions of us aren't either.

Ubisoft has essentially died, EA has likely dropped Dragon Age permanently now. It used to be that developers were gamers, but too many seem to be activists using the medium to pose as gamers. Mass Effect had gayism in the early games and didn't shout about it. Veilguard then went cringe and everything else suffered as blooming heck the writers weren't any good at actually writing.

The backlash has destroyed franchises and is causing mass job losses. Now the result is Saudi and Chinese purchases, so I'm sure you'll enjoy the Saudis of all groups more and more controlling what our industry looks like.

Just a very childish review score

Went from years of ultimate to cancelled.

Re-release the same product 40 times. Up the price each time 🤣

Really wanted Avowed to be great, but it was just okay. They also sadly have racist devs working at Obsidian, so there is that.

I found GTA IV to be a masterpiece, but V to be as dull as anything, so 6 is of no interest to me.

If they were bothered about the anniversary, there could have been a 2.0 style update to Forza Motorsport, or make 4 backwards compatible; or they could shadow drop a 4k60 patch for an old Xbox exclusive like Lost Odyssey, but alas...

So how does the Playfab Save thing work, when will we get to use this as players?

Nothing that would draw me back to gamepass. After they destroyed Forza Motorsport by forcing live service nonsense upon it I'm not interested

@Tasuki absolutely. BO6 was fantastic gameplay, ruined by stupid skins and themes. An absurdity of what was supposed to be a MILITARY SHOOTER.

Does this mean the advanced shader delivery will make Forza Motorsport load faster on my desktop finally?

@nomither6 you think 4's campaign is better than 3? Only 5 was worse, though that was unbelievably dull 😁

Fire thousands of workers to then throw cash at unnecessary remakes when we have the MCC. Maybe just hurry up making the next game good?

Just not worth the amount gamepass is now, may as well just wait and buy games outright in sales now

Looks great. 105GB on my console though? No. 🤣

So many UE5 games (and some UE4 even ahem EA WRC) which run dreadfully even after release 😵‍💫

@NeoRatt but quarter to quarter, the Xbox division is all over the place with its strategy

What, do shareholders enjoy Microsoft being all over the place or something? 🤣

Just feeling like a Dreamcast owner right now, albeit without the amazing exclusives Sega had.

Still always online? Nah, I'll pass.

@Mincey0 eww what a weird reply 🤮

It's not just the games leaving gamepass this month, eh Microsoft? 😉 reap what you sowwwwwwww

Push Square hate everything haha. If it's like the first game, I know to expect some rough edges and I'm fine with that.

And still no 4k 60fps console update? 😉

Pax Dei sounds awesome.

*looks at thumbnail

Ohhhh no, it won't be, will it...

They finally just did all they needed to do after BF4 in terms of a modern day set game: BF3-4 with better graphics. Wasn't it easy, dev lads? You're printing money now.

So long as the gaming itself doesn't rely upon the cloud infrastructure to function...

Lazy gits, not even putting the full game on disc! It's why I've been digital since they made us start installing games anyway. GOG on the right track at least...

I will not comply with the current UK government's overreach.

Salt in the wound for Forza Motorsport fans though 😪

This is what we need on so many games! Optimised, well compressed and modular. The COD app does not do this anywhere near well enough.

I have 3 TB of SSD and it's full with so few games as they're mostly all enormous.

Looks great! Remaking ooooold games makes most sense

BO6 has fantastic gameplay. They should have somehow phased out the stupid skins or let you turn them off in settings or something and just kept that going another year.

Annualising (that's possibly an actual word) the same subseries of a franchise is a step too far from the more understandable alternating between MW/BO/WW2 each year.

Absolutely hate this

"Do you enjoy skateboarding games?"

"Tony Hawks originals were great."

"Skate?"

"Seemed I would have loved it in my skater phase, and heard people love the series."

"What if we took that but made it live serv-"

"HARD PASS"

Hey @Purexbox, will you be requesting comment from Xbox/Microsoft regarding gamepass changes backlash and whether they're backing off from the changes?

Why are Push Square always right on the bottom end with scores 🤣

Don't care, not paying these prices. My Ultimate sub cancelled as they don't deserve our money.

Lol no money for greedy corpo's thanks

My gamepass subscription is cancelled 💪🏻 no interest in those price increases. Absolute greed!

Ultimate up from 14.99 to 23 QUID?!

How bouncy is the ball though?

All I wanted was Just Cause 5

Is the ball a bit bouncier than last year's?

Assuming Keir Stalin has blocked it because of his censorship legislation.

Phil is a sellout to us all now

Is it at a point where it's more properly finished and polished? Is A-Life 2.0 working fully now?