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@Cherip-the-Ripper someone recommended Andor, but I've ignored most post-Disney stuff, as what I have seen has been very disappointing

We never get new characters as cool as Lando or Han anymore 😭

Maybe in the next few months I'll complete Odyssey with all its DLC finally, then back to Origins to finish it all, then Valhalla with LCD, then Mirage and then I'll probably have had enough of AC in 2026-7 🤣

"Xbox first party."

Yet not on any actual Xbox consoles 🤣

I don't care in the slightest, you're there to bring us games, not pretend you're not a soulless corporation doing it all for profit.

@Vaako007 urgh, that's a lost customer and purchase for me too. Looked forward to it as well

@Fiendish-Beaver it's probably not helpful for developers, but I'm usually happy to buy a game 2-3 years after release, fully patched with any dlc for like £10-20. Just not willing to spent £70 on any game. Only time I buy full price is for smaller devs who are great and I want to support.

@GamingFan4Lyf honestly, play an hour or two for a few days in a row you tend to improve very quickly as your muscle memory and reactions improve. I'll admit that after 2-3 days off you do lose it haha, but the matchmaking has been generally good

Not much of interest. That's fine, I've an absurd backlog anyway 🤣

@GamingFan4Lyf it's just a perfected gameplay formula, and the meta for weapon and killstreak etc. upgrades is very enjoyable. The COD app is terrible though. Campaign? We'll see if it's any good.

Thoroughly enjoyed the beta. I haven't bought any COD new for many years, and never will in future as not paying £70 for any game, but since it's on a service I'm already subscribed to, I'm in. It's very slick and the gameplay is magnificent on BO6.

Waking up on Christmas morning aged 10 and going from Tomb Raider 3 to Blinx: Time Sweeper thinking it was insane graphically.

It doesn't help that I grew up in the 90s and 2000s when games were released finished and feature complete. Rated 6/10. Played about 40 hours 6-8 months ago, lost interest. Played recently for an hour, bored me. I may try again, but I was reminded I was in a game too often to be immersed.

Maybe it is exclusive, but that as an exchange for allowing parity with PlayStation for Call of Duty titles with the ActiBlizz court stuff, Sony agreed with Microsoft to not market a number of titles as exclusive after completing the exclusivity deals already? We'll see.

I'll be honest, playing the beta and really enjoying the maps and gunplay. So fun! I didn't bother with MW3, but since it's free to me with gamepass...

Woo, we can actually have interaction with the dev team finally. Glad they've not abandoned the game

Crash 5 cancelled, but gay Lara Croft goes ahead; it's like these studios hate money 🤣

Played MW3 on multiplayer through gamepass earlier this week and saw it wouldn't let you filter by maps, so it just kept putting me on MW2 maps, which is a game I already own? So I just thought I may as well delete MW3 and just play MW2 multiplayer again.

Be able to filter games. So DLC from actual games, as for example I don't wish to be spammed with Sims 4 pack nonsense.

Filter/sort films and series by decade and genre.

I could think of more if Microsoft paid me to 🤣

Eww mobile games

Looks more worthwhile than some other remasters or remakes or whatever they call these things.

Forza Motorsport 2.0 release to actually make it a complete and finished product?

Blooming heck, went on the blog and couldn't believe I kept scrolling and scrolling and still more features 🫡

Loved the first and really enjoying this one

£70? Haha no. I'll get it in a few months, I'm happy to wait.

3 wasn't even really Dead Rising, and there are videos showing the team didn't really stick to the originals with regards to story or characters, they changed too much.

I'm more interested in and hopeful for Just Cause 5 hopefully being a magnificent return to form.

Did they give us a timeframe?

With Xbox sharing more of their exclusives and missing out on PS5 exclusives, and even third party console titles missing only Xbox out, apart from my historically having Xbox's, it's seemingly more pointless really.

And getting rid of quality game studios, being more obnoxiously money-oriented with live service nonsense, I now largely just buy single player games with all content and patched for much less a couple years later. I know it's not just Xbox, the whole industry has become bleh, but I do miss the golden era of gaming in the 2000s. Finished games, complete products, worthwhile DLC etc...

Immortality and Raji: An Ancient Epic, Insurgency Sandstorm and Assetto Corsa Competizione are some of the few real highlights.

Is the art style changing at all for that hobbit game? Sounds a great concept, but last I saw it was, aesthetically, urgh...

Also, the music sounded like it was for a mobile game.

Marvels' destructible environment is very cool

@fizban3332 most real women aren't ugly and masculine

Forza Motorsport, Starpoint Gemini 2, and finally giving Elden Ring a go as it's been so widely recommended. It gives me the same feeling of captivating fantasy that Oblivion did, and the alienness of Morrowind.

One day I'll finish AC: Odyssey. 96 hours in prior to the DLC and still not finished the main game 🤣

@cragis0001 I remember reading magazines and hoping for the release update for BC, it looked amazing.

Why have they made Joanna's face ugly and masculine?

Oh awesome, didn't realise Cliffy Byro were into games development

@soyabean135876 'people like you.' Why is only one group allowed to exclude the other?

@Savage_Joe 'woke' designates someone to be 'awake' to the Marxist paradigm of the world being made up of the evil groups (was the religious [along with traditional or 'bourgeois' morality], capitalists [including the idea of private property law] and Jews [despite Karl himself being one, he absurdly painted Jewish people in much the way that later Austrian imbecile did], but now is white, or straight, or Christian, male etc.) and the oppressed class (was the proletariat workers, is now anyone contrasting with the preceding evil group, regardless of how much influence they now have on every institution). The paradigm is an incorrect and thoroughly bizarre one. We have on the one hand rampant hyper individualism within society, then we have the growing cult of group privilege dynamics and the sacrament of group victimhood, both of which are immoral. There is the widespread and incorrect assumption that Marxism in its modern form is the 'right' view, but it is still in fact wrong. There is tremendous bigotry and intolerance for example towards anyone with a biblical worldview who disagrees at all with these things, so there's no real inclusivity, it's an eventual complete tyranny.

The real point though, is why are political ideologies ruining everyone's down time in which they seek to escape the real world and relax by infiltrating more and more of gaming? Is this comment annoying? Yes, it is. I don't want to have to think about political ideologies on a gaming site or within my hobby either. I don't watch the news, please build a wall around America so we don't contract more of its ideological diseases.

Anyway. Hope the game is in fact good!

@GhanaViking just blandly sexualise everything apparently 🙄

@JokerBoy422 urgh why can't they just make good games. If people happen to look a certain way organically within the context of the game and plot, fine. Shoving colours and sexualities in as a first priority is just unethical, jarring and tremendously off-putting. One of my favourite characters ever is Lee from the first Walking Dead game. He felt perfectly fitting. They prioritised gameplay and story, engrossing characters. Now they'd have to make him tick enough identity boxes and change him

@Drnsnsr fair enough. @Kooky_Geezer feel free to just call them Marxists, as they are in fact 🤷‍♂️

What about the letting you download things at full speed while playing a game? They were testing that a few months back.

Quite enjoyed Inquisition's art style. This though, is cringe ugliness...

I've been with Xbox since the original.

Many exclusives have been pretty average, now they won't even be exclusive anymore. What's the point of my Series X now?

@Tasuki not to mention the lack of content.

@Captain_Chao5 yeah, new Battlefront is dull back to the originals for me.

Didn't think anything could make me hate Candy Crush more but, errr

@DRL in order from best to 'worst' campaign, it would be Halo 3, Halo 2, Reach, Halo 5, odst, Halo 4, Halo Combat Evolved. It only comes 4th as they were some damn fine campaigns.

Combat was great; best ever I'd say. Story, great. Nice pacing. Squad commands could be more extensive. Characters, pretty darn talkative for Halo. Guns, much more fun than 4.

Loved the campaign. Underrated.

And warzone= phenomenal.

I waited so many months after reading with trepidation of this game in my Xbox magazine. I so wanted it to come out. What a missed opportunity.