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@BattleMonkey I feel attacked.

I don't have any specific goals in mind because I'm boring.

@ZYDIO How's that going so far?

@nomither6 I'm 41, it doesn't take much to tire me out 🤣

I rolled credits on Pokémon Legends Z-A last night, so I'll be chipping away at Doom: The Dark Ages. Chipping away because, while I do like the game, it's so non-stop, fast and utterly relentless to the point that I can only play a chapter or two before I'm actually tired. I was the same with 2016 and Eternal.

Other than that, I have eShop credit burning a hole in my ePocket so I might see what else I can snag on Switch 2, and I might start The Rogue Prince of Persia.

Also, the citizens of Super Earth call for aid as always, so Helldivers 2.

@Weebleman that sounds pretty irreparable to me 😂

@Weebleman don't keep me in suspense. Did you look it up? Are you irreparably damaged?

@FarmDog08

Just having some good ol' New Year Fun!

Me too buddy. 😉 Happy New Year to you.

@RadioHedgeFund Gears E-Day isn't a remake.

@FarmDog08 that's pushing the limits of wishful thinking🤣

I'll tell you what I tell my line managers at work: if you want miracles, find Jesus.

@RadioHedgeFund one remake.

@Titntin I agree that Microsoft - as a first-party publisher, with more developers than you can shake a stick at - should be absolutely striving for quality. However, that Eurogamer list is nothing definitive. It's their list, their opinion and certainly doesn't warrant close scrutiny. PX just found a tenuous way to link it to Game Pass in order to write another article about Game Pass.

@cornholio005 ouch

@TrollOfWar that was deep, fair play 👍😂

@Weebleman I wasn't going to look up that game because I dreaded what I might find. Curiosity eventually got the better of me though. I'm actually none the wiser as to exactly what the feck is going on 🤣

Some cool looking games there. I loved Pragmata from my time spent with the demo, while the other big one for me in the first half of the year is 007: First Light.

Although, I still have unfinished business with 2025. I'm midway through Doom: The Dark Ages and Pokémon Legends Z-A. There are also a few things from last year I'm yet to get to, the big one being Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

the big quandary is whether "This is an Xbox" will ever resonate with those who believe "Xbox" should always mean "console" above all else.

I don't think that the "This is an Xbox" ad campaign is aimed at those people though, nor does it need to be. Those people are already entrenched within the Xbox brand and ecosystem and don't need convincing; they're going to buy the next Xbox.

@SuntannedDuck2 if you had your own Xbox news site, you could have reported on it yourself.

MONTHS AGO.

@SeaDaVie That was savage.

I love it 😂

@GoldenPants more like three times in a decade if GTA V is anything to go by 🤣

Out of those creators I only know of Luke Stephens. I have... opinions on him and things he's done.

Smarch. The weather's lousy but no one's releasing games then.

I once knew somebody who, in their mid-20s, legitimately thought and swore blind that Mount Everest was - and I quote - "somewhere near Birmingham", and until today that was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard.

@RiverGenie I'm still getting regular emails regarding that. And every time one comes through, I think "oh, didn't I verify my age?" and go to do it... and it turns out I've already done it.

@Tasuki it was the first DQ game I've spent any significant amount of time with. I'd played an hour or two of VIII on PS2 but never owned it. XI really is a wonderful game; I'll definitely be checking out VII Reimagined, and XII when it eventually surfaces.

I don't even want to know what's going on with I'm in Love With Your Dead Grandmother. Some things mankind just wasn't meant to know.

@Tasuki how are you finding Dragon Quest XI? It's one of the few JRPG's I've ever rolled credits on and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute.

I'll be working through the Christmas and birthday gifts, so Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dispatch, The Rogue Prince of Persia and Pokémon Legends Z-A.

Oh, and more Helldivers 2, I imagine.

@Stoned_Patrol there's a Contact button near the bottom of the page; you don't need to post the same comment in every article.

@Jenkinss exemplary work 🤣

@jesse_dylan there's no shame in that. If I'm not enjoying something, I leave it.

Cyberpunk was something I wasn't enjoying when I started it in 2023. When I went back to it this year, I started over and committed to a specific playstyle and enjoyed it far more.

None of them were on Xbox - it was a mixture of Steam, Epic, Switch, Switch 2 and retro - and very few of them came out this year, but:

• New Pokémon Snap
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
• Desvelado
• Little Kitty, Big City
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
• Guacamelee 2
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2
• The Last of Us: Part I
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Boxboy + Boxgirl
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Mario Kart World
• Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Game Boy Advance)
• Pokémon Scarlet
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear)
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Chaos (Game Gear)
• Rolo to the Rescue (Mega Drive)
• Death's Door
• Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Mega Drive)
• Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Mario Pinball Land (Game Boy Advance)
• WWE 2K25
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)
• WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (Game Boy Advance)
• WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$ (Gamecube)
• Monument Valley
• Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac
• Picross S Nanco Legendary Edition
• Vampire Survivors
• Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged
• Monument Valley II
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Dandelions in the Sky
• Doki Doki Literature Club Plus
• SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Picross S7
• Yooka-Replaylee
• Dispatch

@Lup I started keeping track this year. Thought it would be a fun thing to do 🙂

@smoreon I'll look into that. Thank you and Merry Christmas 😃

If the first game is anything to go by, then:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no!

@Banjo- be careful what you wish for. Running the game on PC at anything above 30fps literally breaks the game and makes certain sections impossible to get through.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to the team and the community.

I bought 0 Xbox games this year. 100% of those purchases were physical.

It was my birthday yesterday; I treated myself to Dispatch and my brother got me Doom: The Dark Ages. So those and the usual too much Helldivers 2.

I can't be mad, honestly. As much as I'm itching to play First Light, I'd rather play the best possible version that launches. It's not like I've got nothing else going on; Helldivers 2 plus a backlog the size of a small principality.

@wncc1701p precisely. How many games in the grand scheme of things even have specific release dates further out than March?

@Stocksy next they'll be saying that EA Sports games aren't live service 🤣

@Allenspurs I'm including PC in your prediction. They've brought a lot over. We'll have to wait and see. If GT7 hasn't come to PC by the time GT8 comes out, I owe you a pizza.

WWE games receive multiple roster updates and dlcs....they are not live service games

I've straight up just got to disagree with this though. Have you played MyFaction? It's so designed to make you spend money it's practically got it's hand in my pocket fumbling around for my wallet.

@Balaam_ and can you order warm beers and iffy pizza?

What a tragic and sad way for somebody's life to end. And right before the holidays too. R.I.P. Vince.

@Allenspurs

It will never ever be on Xbox or PC.

I'm screenshotting this 👀😜

@MrClump

I mean the Recycle Bin is an icon...

@FraserG Hookshot needs a Comment of the Year award so I can nominate this one.

Remember when first-party games represented the pinnacle of what a console had to offer?

@Weebleman "games" doesn't have the ring (see: SEO) to it that "Xbox games" does 😉

@Brigurugi

GT player base seem far more refined, polite, helpful and supportive. All I ever heard in FM was hate for the game, others and MS. The love Gran Turismo players have for the game is leaps and bounds ahead of Forza Motorsport.

You've just sold me on trying out GT7 if it ever comes to PC. Contact SIE and demand a commission.

In all seriousness, is this a Sony fan base thing? Because Helldivers 2 is the same. I have 500 hours in the game and out of the thousands of people I've played with, only a handful have been toxic The vast majority are there to help each other out, have a sense of humour if something goes awry and just have fun playing the game. I bet if Xbox released a similar game it'd be a different story.

I haven't played a GT game since GT5 Prologue on PS3. I didn't spend much time with it, especially compared to the amount of hours I spent with FM3 and FM4.

I did like this gen's FM, but fell off it after about 60 hours. By that time, I was trying out the multiplayer and found the community really uptight and snobbish. I'm not the greatest at driving games but I feel like I'm OK and I never race dirty; I have the achievement for maintaining an S safety rating across 5 consecutive online events and was on track for getting the achievement for a 10-event streak, so I can't be that bad. But I was getting berated so many times for any little mistake or any time somebody felt I had slighted them in some way, it really put me off.

@swedetrap you got tinfoil lining the inside of that hat?