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@Kaloudz if 1047 meant what they said when they claimed they wanted to make first-person shooters good again with Splitgate 2, Quake III is exactly the game they should have chosen to ape, instead of shouting "FPSs suck now, so here's a battle royale mode!" like a bunch of idiots.

I do wonder how much of an audience Quake III will garner, though. Single-player FPSs aren't nearly as prevalent as they once were, so Quake and Quake II were kind of a breath of fresh air when the remasters came around. But Splitgate 2 showed for the thousandth time that multiplayer FPSs face stiff competition and most of them just don't take off. Maybe Quake IV does make more sense.

@Fiendish-Beaver Good. I thought I was being really, really stupid for a moment there. I mean, given the context of the story, the headline saying "don't get your hopes up"? That should go without saying. Jumping to the conclusion of "OMGZ XBOX DAYS GONE PORT!!!" just because someone from Sony Bend tweeted "🧐"? That's pretty damn moronic.

Anthem in a way was a proof of concept for how an Iron Man game should play. But, y'know, make it good.

My absolute dream game based on a Disney IP would be Daredevil. Something that plays similar to the Spider-Man games by Insomniac but with a lot more tragedy and brooding 🤣

I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? How exactly does posting 🧐 with no words and no context equate to hinting at an Xbox port of Days Gone? Am I being dense or what?

@somnambulance fifty quid says it is.

@Fiendish-Beaver mate 🤣

Absolutely not. Microsoft has enough trouble selling hardware as it is - hence the multi-platform strategy - without pouring more resources into limited edition consoles that even fewer people will buy and will be overpriced compared to the standard editions. They should concentrate their efforts on making good games and maybe even keeping people employed and their studios open, if it's not too much trouble.

@Ricky-Spanish cheers my guy. 😁 19 years together today, 14 years married tomorrow. And still gaming together 👌

@Ricky-Spanish it's one of the things that we initially clicked over. 19 years ago today, in fact.

@Ricky-Spanish I didn't play the DLCs, but since I played the main game, my wife really got into first person shooters so I did end up watching her play them.

@Scrubchub @Ricky-Spanish Bioshock Infinite seems to be looked back on less than fondly nowadays, which I personally don't understand. Yeah, there are hints throughout at what could have been - a larger scope, for one thing - but it's still a really good game with a bonkers story, good gameplay and a cool aesthetic.

@Kezelpaso when Bioshock 4 eventually comes out and PX reviews it, if it's not great you can title the review Bioshock 4 Review - Plas-Mid. You're welcome.

@Balaam_ the same reason almost every article on Pure Xbox has either 'Xbox", "Game Pass" or "Xbox Game Pass" in the title: search engine optimisation. You'll also notice how that's not nearly as prevalent on Push Square and Nintendo Life, and I assume that's because PlayStation and Nintendo platforms have a userbase that dwarfs that of Xbox, so those sites don't need to be quite so heavy handed with the SEO.

WWE 2K25 has a free weekend on Steam, so I've been messing with that. I haven't gelled with a wrestling game before but for some reason this one's clicking. I might even buy it.

Rumours about Xbox and PlayStation games coming to their competitors' platforms are 2025's Activision Blizzard buyout news cycle. We're getting almost non-stop rumours, reports and "updates".

I can't wait until this situation is the new normal, so we just hear when a game is actually announced, instead of every rumour or report. I mean, for god's sake, this report doesn't even mention specific games; just "yeah, they might be coming".

I have almost no interest in either game. Not because I think they'll be bad - they'll cater to who they need to - but because I'm over trying to get into online FPSs. I don't have people to play them with, so I'm just sat there in silence, being s**t 🤣

Nadella should ask AI how to read the f**king room 🙄

I'm so in. Unless EA borks it up with micro-transactions and its usual ******t, of course.

This PC Is An Xbox™

@Kaloudz Admittedly I only have second-hand experience with Bloober Team's games; I've watched my wife play Layers of Fear 1 and 2, Blair Witch, The Medium and Silent Hill 2. Until Silent Hill 2, I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly, but that game seemed to catapult Bloober onto a different level, like given the time and budget they are capable of truly great things. Whether they're actually past their sporadic output era remains to be seen, but I think that they're now definitely a developer to watch.

Putting out its games on PlayStation is probably the most sound business decision Xbox has made since 2013.

@Ricky-Spanish it's for the exact reason that @Philly and @themightyant said: to inflate player engagement numbers. It's the same reason why PlayStation were once so adamant about their PC ports - even single-player only titles - requiring a mandatory PSN sign-in. It wasn't for "safety" or whatever other nonsense they spouted at the time; it was so they could turn to shareholders and say 'look at these engagement numbers'.

Longtime player of Destiny here, who stopped back in October 2024.

Don't.

It was bad back when I stopped and from everything I've seen/read recently, it's even worse now. Bungie only keeps Destiny 2 going because they've got nothing to fall back on. If (and that's a big if) Marathon or whatever else they've got in development ever takes off, mark my words Bungie will drop Destiny 2 like a sack of sh*t.

Marathon, Fairgames (RIP $), Destruction All-Stars, Concord and MAG.

@Fiendish-Beaver just to clarify, Arrowhead might not be a Sony/PlayStation-owned studio, but Sony does own the Helldivers IP, so absolutely they would have had a say in Helldivers 2 being ported to Xbox.

@Kaloudz

I didn't know it was that well regarded to spark a remaster

It's peak PopCap, from back before EA bought them and ruined them and PvZ.

@shoeses Fair. I played a bit of GW1 and it's... fine. GW2 was kind of naff though, yeah.

@Kaloudz No, no, no, NO!!!! The original Plants vs. Zombies. The tower defence one. Y'know, the good one.

Would the change in engine have made the open world any less bland and samey? Would it have meant that Forge and campaign co-op were included in the game at launch? Would it have changed the broken-arse multiplayer progression system?

There's your answer.

Sony has been making plays to get its fingers in more pies with regards to anime and manga for years, so this isn't surprising.

Side note: I was originally going to write "fingers in more anime and manga pies" but that felt... icky.

@Kloppo anyone who pre-orders any game needs their head checked. Nothing is guaranteed.

@Tasuki Fortnite's creepy uncle. Fantastic 🤣🤣🤣

@Kaloudz

I'm keen to see what they've learned from the mistakes of their last few releases

I'm going to hazard a guess and say: it's EA, so not much.

The one thing about Smart Delivery that was iffy was when DLC was involved. Trying to install Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate (off the disc) on Series X nearly had me tearing my hair out. It would install the game fine, but the console would sometimes not clock that a lot of the heaps and heaps of DLC needed to be downloaded as their Series X versions, which resulted in them being incompatible with the base game and not show up in-game. I got it sorted eventually but it really was a ball-ache.

This studio is probably not long for this world then. Presumably new content will dry up completely while they're figuring out what the hell it is they're doing, and the remaining players won't stick around forever; not when there are so many established alternatives readily available.

Either they'll stick it out and "fix" the game and see how it goes (and even then, that doesn't guarantee anything), or we'll be getting a news story in the next few months about how they're packing it in.

@NeoRatt by the power of Greyskull, you basically have the digital equivalent of Danny's DVD collection in Hot Fuzz. That is wild.

I'm not sure this will have a big impact on Xbox. Of course, it will most definitely have some kind of impact on a small subset of users (just by going on some of the comments here) but if it was a widely used service and worth the upkeep, they wouldn't be giving it the elbow.

I played Rogue City close to launch and for me it's the epitome of a 7/10 game. Parts of it look awesome (not the character models though, oof!), the gameplay makes you "feel" like RoboCop and it nails the aesthetic and vibe of the original film. But it had a few too many rough edges to call it great. I really enjoyed it though and will definitely be playing Unfinished Business.

In other news: Water Confirmed As Wet.

I jest, but it was going to be either October or November. It always is.

@ozkrmz

As you know, mixed signals keep coming and makes us look like group of kittens watching very long ping pong match.

That is the most spot-on analogy I've ever heard.

@Coletrain I haven't had a Series X for a few years now, not since I moved to PC, but yeah your mentality/setup mirrors my own. I have the PC for the 4K extravagant AAA experience and a Steam Deck for indies/less demanding games and (allegedly) playing retro games. 👍

@Bigcoffinhunter not even one? I smell something...

Microsoft might not have utilised the Series X yet, but there have been plenty of games that have. Looking solely to Microsoft to utilise - or, let's face it, what's really meant by that is: justify the purchase of - the hardware might have seemed like a safe bet 5 years ago, but asking that of them now is pointless.

The best way to look at owning a console (or PC, or handheld, or whatever) now in my opinion is: are there games I want to play? Be that first- or third-party. AAA or indie. That's it. Don't look to Microsoft to justify your purchase with good games, because they've proven time and time again that they're as prone to a miss as they are to a hit. And even if a game's good, you can play it somewhere else anyway.

@somnambulance precisely. Every year, it's "it's been hit and miss so far, but next year it's going to blow up!" and then that's not the case. As I've said above, it's best to just play games and not get hung up on the platform holder's output.

@IronCrow86 it'll be delayed and then Bus Simulator 27, Bus Simulator 28 and Bus Simulator 29 will all show up at once.

@-taco Yep, good old Humble Choice innit. It's the reason I own High On Life, Gotham Knights, and a bunch of farming games I'll never play 🤣

@-taco you would be correct. It was included in Humble Choice at some point, so I have it on Steam.

@SeaDaVie absolutely right. The reason Naughty Dog gave for cancelling The Last of Us live-service games was that they'd have to maintain it and be locked into solely focusing on it, leaving little to no room for other projects. I don't know if that was the legitimate reason for cancelling it, but the Rare/Sea of Thieves/Everwild situation certainly lends it credence.

@Kaloudz not forgetting that Phil Spencer said in an interview fairly recently that he was pleased with the game's progress, or something to that effect. I imagine that at this point, no amount of progress other than "we're ready to ship" was going to save it from getting the chop.

@Coletrain we see more of Halley's Comet then we do of Beyond Good & Evil 2 🤣

@Kaloudz Dragged their heels is putting it lightly. Everwild should've been cancelled far sooner than it was. If you spend 2 years making something, reboot it/restart development and still don't know what you're even making, then why are you even carrying on?

I own High on Life, but I've never played it and never will. Even before the accusations made against Justin Roiland came to light, I never found his stuff funny or understood the appeal. And from the moment the first HOL gameplay was shown and that gun (with the same irritating voice Roiland does in all his stuff) didn't shut the f**k up, I knew I was out.

Uh, it's a double sided monitor, obviously. AI is great.

@Artois2 Look, I preferred FH4 to FH5, but bland?! FH5 was vibrant as hell. FH4? Now that was bland; dull green meadows, grey skies, and the flat and slightly curved majesty of the M62.

My first thought was that maybe this remaster doesn't have multiplayer so that it doesn't cannibalise the few players Halo Infinite still has. But if Halo Remasterversary also comes out on PS5, It really doesn't make sense to ship it without multiplayer and take advantage of a potential Xbox/PS5/PC cross-play player base.

Then again, this is coming from the company that shipped a Halo game without campaign co-op or Forge, and was going to ship the game a year earlier with Craig the Brute in it, so who knows what they're smoking over there.