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Makes sense to me. Why port it to Series X and S if the next Xbox can play Steam games?

Thomas the Tank Engine of Skyrim fame? Cool!

I will be taking the fight to Cyberstan in Helldivers 2, solving splodgy puzzles in Picross S8 and breeding weird gross cats in Mewgenics. I've been binge watching Superman & Lois most of the week so I haven't done much gaming.

Helldivers 2 in three of the four categories? Nice. Managed democracy reigns supreme.

I've played around 7 hours so far and Mewgenics has already joined my small batch of forever games, alongside The Binding of Isaac, Vampire Survivors and Helldivers 2. God help me when I get it installed on Steam Deck.

@AccessibleDaydream my absolute favourite error message ever was back on Xbox 360, sometimes you'd put a disc in and it would pop up with "please insert this disc into an Xbox 360".

@FraserG is that your setup? If so: Pepsi Max, you're a man after my own heart.

@Royalduder yeah, it's quite sad. If someone doesn't like the look of the gameplay loop or the mechanics of the game, then whatever; that's their perogative. But the comments here have been quite an eye-opener.

If it's at least as good as Horizon 4 and 5, I'll be happy. The new features, cars, etc, are all good points and I'm personally not looking for a seismic leap forward in innovation with this game (although I suspect that I might be in the minority?).

This looks cool. I'll check out that demo, for sure.

I predict The Last of Us: Part I Remastered (a remaster of the game they already made, remastered and remade) and The Last of Us: Part Deux (a remake of the game they already made and remastered). They'll be released on PlayStation 5, PC and Playdate.

@FatGuyInLilCoat @Elbow Ricky-Spanish was my guy. I also miss him.

@Daffy-Duck Operation: Valid Pretext must succeed!

@themightyant do you have any food or potions?

I had a lot of fun with the last Captain Tsubasa game so I'm in.

@eduscxbox almost every news story about Epic over the past however many years has been about their ongoing battle to not give platform holders a cut.

The article mentions how Steam has a Big Picture mode and Xbox has a Full-Screen Experience mode that can be used to make their storefronts more intuitive on Windows 11 devices, but Epic doesn't have anything comparable yet, and the company is "investigating these new opportunities as well".

Epic itself has been saying for years that its store "sucks" (their words, not mine) and has done nigh on bugger all to improve it. Maybe learn to walk before you can run, and get the core user experience to not be so sh*t (my words, not theirs) first?

@Weebleman among other things 🙄

@Trmn8r yes

@Trmn8r it was pretty clear in my comment that I was referring to the goals of Microsoft as a whole - and its moving of goalposts - and not Urquhart specifically.

The hope, Urquhart says, is that Xbox continues to fund riskier projects and values achievements besides strong sales

But I thought Microsoft only valued strong engagement? I can't keep track of how many times those goalposts move.

I've never had this problem, as when I smoled (I actually stopped just over a week ago) I always went outside to do it.

I love how Deadlock is #6 in the Steam chart and Valve hasn't even officially announced it yet. They just refused to acknowledge it existed for months before slyly dumping the alpha onto Steam without a word. Only Valve 😂

@Weebleman

it wont be for everyone

Approximately how many dead grandmothers are in this game? Ballpark figure.

@RentedPanda have fun with Dispatch. I adored it and will be going back for a second playthrough at some point.

During the week, I finished up Gotham Knights and slammed through The Rogue Prince of Persia, the latter of which is one hell of a game. As a Dead Cells enjoyer I couldn't put it down. I did end up with a sequence break though, which rendered two of the Steam achievements unobtainable unless I start a new game. You know what though? The game's so good, I'm not even mad and I probably will start a new save file to get them.

So I might do that over the weekend. I'll also still be chipping away at Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, playing some Helldivers 2 and maybe pick something else out of the Backlog of Shame™.

@OldGamer999 Happy birthday!

@Jenkinss Not only that, but it's got one of the most welcoming and friendly communities, in my experience anyway.

@Weebleman ❤️

@Lup I would hazard a guess that there's not a snowball's chance in hell that all 400+ are included in the base game.

Well, that didn't take long. I guess it could be taken as a good sign?

@Weebleman please tell me it's what I think it is...

@abe_hikura you just need to wave your hands side to side and believe enough.

@FraserG you've basically just told us "I'm going away for the weekend. NO PARTIES." We're going to be straight in the liquor cabinet as soon as you're not around. 😁

@DonkeyFantasy Fraser has always looked shifty to me.

We're only looking at a group of just over 2,000 people that make up these results, so they're not necessarily representitive of the entire industry.

I didn't know you could get that much sugar on one spoon.

@shiningpikablu252 it's the wrong choice because it's like covering a room wall to wall and floor to ceiling in tinfoil and switching on the light. 🤣

@Broosh Back in 2024, for scientific purposes, I once switched to the white theme on a Switch OLED. The weird spots in my vision still haven't gone away.

@themightyant I made this point once. Got dogpiled for it. Best of luck.

@IronCrow86 from what I remember reading, Clockwork Revolution is more RPG than action game, so all going well it should be able to differentiate itself from Bioshock Infinite.

@Broosh Switch has had a grand total of two themes since 2017: white (the wrong choice) and black (the right choice).

And Nintendo fans have been totally 100% satisfied with those two options.

Honest 👀

@eduscxbox Steam takes the same approach as Xbox regarding achievements and I hate it. At one point I had all the achievements in Vampire Survivors (220+) and a cool ribbon next to the game on my profile. Then a new update and new achievements arrived and Steam's like "f**k you idiot, 94% completion".

The combat reminds me of Destiny's Crucible PvP mode

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

@RiverGenie absolutely.

I dipped into it when it released on Xbox. It was outdated and clunky when I'd last played it 15 years ago on N64, even more so now. Some games age well and some don't, and Goldeneye definitely falls into the latter category.

@FraserG @Lup I distinctly remember being able to go into the settings on Xbox One and Series X/S and choose where achievements (and other notifications) popped up on-screen. Some games, like Fraser said, override this setting though.

@ozkrmz you're right. The only real solution to this is to have John Cena's entrance music play every time an achievement is unlocked.

@FraserG That music is very Mick Gordon. Any word on if he's involved?

@swedetrap I couldn't get on with Redout either. I never felt like I was ever in control of the vehicle.

@LordDieALot

Like SIege and Apex combined and on a horse.

Sold.

Remember when Halo Infinite's multiplayer launched and everyone (myself included) rightfully proclaimed how great it was and that Halo was back? It had a healthy player-base and everything was going great. Then 343 s**t the bed entirely and the game never recovered.

Initial impressions mean next to nothing for a game like this. Even if players flock to it, something like not enough ongoing support or even one bad decision could have it all come crumbling down.

There, that's my optimistic glass-half-full comment of the day.

A second Developer_Direct this year couldn't hurt, especially if Microsoft has anything substantial to show off regarding Gears E-Day and Halo. If they can really showcase those games well, show us why we should be hyped and maybe drop in another Kiln-sized surprise, bring it on I say.

Having said that, the fact that this is coming from Jez "My Uncle Works At Xbox" Corden has me assuming this won't happen. That man gets way too much benefit of the doubt.

Let's not forget that I'm In Love With Your Dead Grandmother just came out. Bore off, GTA VI.

@FraserG the problem with a poll like that this early in the year is that at least a few of the GOTY contenders for 2026 might not even be announced yet 😂

@Titntin I turned the difficulty in Advance Wars down from classic to casual at mission 6 and it's still kicking my arse on the regular (I'm on mission 19) 🤣 I've taken to finishing a mission and then not touching it for the rest of the day so I don't get frustrated with it and bin it off; I don't want to do that because it is good.

Yeah, Gotham Knights is a decent action game. My main gripe with the gear system is that having to go through all your gear again and equip/craft new stuff any time you want to switch characters is a pain. It's made me focus on one character (Robin, my initial pick) so hopefully that doesn't bite me on the arse later on, as it's still aching from the kicking it's getting from Advance Wars.

I'm also enjoying the focus on the Court of Owls. Scott Snyder's run on Batman was peak overall, but the Court of Owls/Night of Owls arc was something else.

I'm chipping away at Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, which I'm enjoying but my god is it difficult. I feel like there's a specific strategy that's tantamount for success in each mission, and if you don't hone in on that strategy from turn one then you'll be decimated.

Other than that, I started Gotham Knights a few days ago and that game is way better than everyone said it was. It's no Arkham Origins/Asylum/City/Knight, but what is? The only thing I'm not really liking is the whole gear system; it feels superfluous and obviously a remnant of the game originally being intended as a live-service. I'm enjoying the game overall though.

@themightyant fair enough. I obviously need to Google harder in future 🤣