Forgetting for a moment Jobs is probably rolling over in his grave, MS wasn't joking about putting GP out there. Sony is slowly being out maneuvered.

@InterceptorAlpha if it's a "new" character then there isn't really a reason for the debate.

If only people devoted this much energy to issues that matter. 😂

If ya don't like it, don't watch. Personally, I loved it. I played the games and I like getting a deeper look at the character.

Internet would need to be more readily available at faster speeds. The GForce app is a solid look at what MS could become. They would need to reduce wait times to get online for sure. Even now there can be significant delays getting an xCloud game running during peak hours.

I doubt they'll try to go software only for the immediate future though. Sony isn't likey to let MS eat at their PSNow revenue stream by allowing GP on the PS.

Before reading the article I was thinking the image was some sort of horrific stereotypical display. Nope, just Karen's/Chad's pissed that they used AI instead of a human? 🙄🙄🙄

The sliding UI on the 360. It was the best.

The answer is still no.

I try to avoid Ubisoft in general but luckily I have none of these games.

I guess I don't understand why devs don't patch out the online items so games with solo content can continue to be enjoyed? I get the desire to "encourage" players to move on the newer games, but if you're always pissing off the same players they tend to shop elsewhere.

I never understood the hate for this game. Sure it was buggy at release but what game isn't these days. I think they over sold it. It came out right as we were exiting the more severe COVID drama as well. I think expectations were too high TBH.

I've definitely spent well over 100 hours on it. I played solo on GP. It felt like a XOne game carried over to the XSX, but it was oddly engaging and kept my interest the whole time.

The game had its issues, but the devs have definitely made it better. Its worth playing IMO. I'm sporadically replaying on hard mode again. The patches keep tackling glitches, issues with in game spawns, etc. Get in on GP or on sale and I doubt you'll regret it.

It was obviously fun banter, but...I'm still playing NMS. 😜

It looks almost like a prequel to NMS. You can definitely see the influence. It looks good. Here's hoping they learned their lesson from the original, albeit disastrous, release of NMS.

I love his work but Death Stranding pushed the limits of cinematographic cut scenes. The game had almost 30 mins of cut scenes just in the beginning.

I guess I'm in the minority thinking Sony taking control might be a good thing. Bungie seems to be continually losing talent and making bad decisions. Maybe Sony needs to take over and get things back in order. They definitely spent a lot of money for the IP.

They could also cut off their nose to spite their face, but they really need their big multiplayer games to be cross platform. Time will tell.

I honestly barely play Destiny 2 anymore. The seasons are just a grind and no amount of new story will change that without new content. I'll probably buy the last dlc, mostly to get closure on 1000s of hours of playtime, and to see the end of the storyline. I'm pretty much done with Bungie after that. I don't trust them enough to invest in their new multiplayer games.

I don't honestly understand why folks keep supporting Rockstar. They have repeatedly shown how little love they have for gamers. The entire franchise is a rip off. Not upset at all if it does come to Xbox anytime soon.

So...people are upset they can't cheat the system? Oh no... 😂

That's slang for, "we're sorry we got busted sneaking ads into already paid content."

I honestly try to avoid Ubisoft games as much as possible. This does not surprise me in the least.

Sure, but devs that aren't getting paid to maintain an exclusive aren't willing to forgo that much of the market share just to make development easier. I'm not sure what your GOTY reference is for so no comment.

Seems like he's trying to shift blame for the game doing poorly to the console differences.

Considering the S has far outsold the X so far, the S isn't going away anytime soon. Devs have known far in advance they have to design for X and S. Stop whining.

I've actually tried the lowest paid tier of GNow and it's good. The lag is all but nonexistent. I'm sure on the higher tier it's probably not even noticable. Not t having a PC, it gives me access to games on GPU that I can't currently play on console.

Also GNow is supported on more TVs, especially older models, than the Xbox app.

I bought it and l still playing, but I'm a bit disappointed. The "mind rooms" are annoying as hell and completely ruin the flow of the game. I like the style and progression but it feels more RPG and less FPS now. The first one had a great balance between the two and just seemed to flow better. I'm loving the story progression but kind of wished if waited for GP.

I've sporadically been replaying in a mix of games I play often and always glad for a new update. The last update made some much needed changes and the game plays a lot better now.

I too enjoyed the first one immensely. It was visually stunning and some of the puzzles presented a real challenge. My only beef with the first was after a while the puzzles felt a bit stale. Hoping for a tad more diversity in this one but will definitely pick it up.

I know Im supposed to care but I don't. It seemed overly generous and from the comments I guess I wasn't far off. The occasional free Starbucks card was nice but never something I strived for.

They are probably phasing it out form abuse or just feel it no longer adds value to the system. On a couple other forums the teeth-gnashing was epic. "I'm going to quit Xbox now.." or "Xbox just lost a customer..". Gurl, bye. Seriously. 😂

Lol Maybe they should add support for bluesky instead.

That creative license will hopefully be equally focused on new games vs just rehashing old games "now for Xbox".

It's been said repeatedly this was a large DLC packaged as a new game. Seems like this falls in line with that. Maybe MS can do some quality control now.

I like CoD only for campaigns. Knowing this one is short, I'll definitely wait for it to hit GP sometime next year.

It's like people forgot COVID happened.... lol

I was waiting it to hit GP so looks like it was a good call.

As a once die hard Destiny fan, it's all become quite stale and cluttered. I'm begrudgingly committed to the last expansion simply to finish the story, but I'm pretty much done with the "seasons".

I'm curious to see if Sony tries to gobble up Remedy now that they have 2 successful IPs, with more on the way. I hope not but wouldn't surprise me

Me thinks EA is wishing MS had bought them instead. While i think regulators would definitely block it, EA would be a good fit under MS. They would move to a close 2nd behind Sony and really put the heat on Sony to be more competitive. IMO EA is more likely to merge with Ubisoft before being acquired by Sony or MS. The latter I definitely feel would be bad for gamers though.

The audio is the only bug I've noticed so far. I'm enjoying the game overall but the mind board is annoying AF.

@Feffster no. But not terrible usually.

I would love a reboot but not necessarily like God Of War. While the new version of God of War was fine as a stand alone game, it was nothing like the original games. I only bought the PS5 for God of War and was so incredibly disappointed. The ridiculous introduction of a child character as a side kick was dreadful and completely ruined the entire feel of the game. Don't even get me started on the axe. I never regretted buying a game so much. I doubt I'll ever buy another God of War game based on its current "reboot."

A Gears reboot would need to focus on the core of the original 3 games and go back to it's roots. There are so many directions they could take to continue the main story. While I tend to loathe prequels, a prequel could easily be a nice addition to the franchise in this scenario. Get rid of the silly bot upgrades and get back to the hardcore scare, gore, and killing.

All of the companies potentially up for getting banned can avoid the ban by completing the license process to avoid it. Why is MS the bad guy for enforcing it's existing policies for devices that claim to be "Xbox compatible?"

You should be asking why your 3rd party accessory maker is trying to avoid doing the right thing to ensure their products are guaranteed to work properly.

If your 3rd party accessory maker claims it's Xbox compatible then they just need to pay the licensing fee. These aren't low dollar companies.

It was clarified they are mostly going after 3rd party's claiming to be compatible without going thru the process to confirm that. Legit accessories will most likey end up getting on the white list.

The subscription numbers tell it all. GP is going gangbusters compared to PSP. And considering MS is #3 in market share, you'd expect PSP to easily have surpassed or at least be even with GP in subscriptions. They aren't even close.

Sony is still primarily focused on trying to squeeze as much money out of exclusives as they can. They spend a sh*t ton for exclusives, which would take longer to recoup on PSP. Having both consoles, I still end up on Xbox more often.

MS appears to be making many of their newly acquired solo player games exclusives and keeping many of the multi players cross platform. While I hate exclusives, it certainly edges GP that much further ahead.

I'm working thru the first one and oddly there have been a couple times where audio cut out. Funny that it has carried over to the 2nd one. I was going to wait for AW2 on GP, but hearing so many good reviews has me reconsidering.

I'm just now playing the first one on GP. Was thinking of waiting for it on GP but now having second thoughts. 😂

I am very curious for Control 2 to see jow they blend the storylines together more.

I loved Control but never played the original AW. Would this still be a good buy?

I don't ever remembering MS offerongy this as a feature. I do remember reading about it but none of the official announcements mentioned it. Or did I miss that? I dunno, to me FPS seems like a bigger focus. Also, wondering if HDR had any impact on their plans to push it forward....

Some of y'all need to learn to ignore the trolls...lol

I doubt it will be a No Man's Sky redemption story but I'd definitely come back for more updates or DLCs that continue to improve the game. I'm still going strong with NMS and I originally just put it down and walked away at the release. GP changes the playing field for the success of games in the long term.

I think it's obvious he would say this fresh on the heals of the merger closing. Duh.

He definitely knows having future CoD games will sell more consoles, but console sales are no longer the primary focus for MS IMO. Streaming is the future and MS has seen the writing on the wall. GP will become the focus and he's already dropping hints about trying to get GP on as many screens as possible, including PS consoles. (Imagine for a moment, a future where there is no console battle. You buy a PS console, but play mostly GP games on it. 😂)

Nvidia could have become a much bigger competitor, but MS is already bringing GP to their platform. I'm guessing we'll see maybe two more console generations before they are obsolete. MS will continue to beef up it's streaming catalog and I'm betting they'll start offering similar back end services like Nvidia to guarantee fast streaming and lower lag.

My guess, MS will continue to lock down solo player games as exclusives, while allowing multiplayer games to be more cross platform.

This article is timely. I've been replaying the entire Gears franchise myself. I just finished off 4 two nights ago. I never thought of the game as a horror game but it would be cool if they went that way. Five was good in its own way but it's starting to add a bunch of unnecessary "upgrades" that just end up being annoying. I too want them to get back to their roots. I hear rumors they have 1 more in the works before moving on to a new game.

My 1st one did, but much later after the issue was well known. The 2nd never one did, presumably it was from a batch that didn't have the defect. I sold both and they were still going strong.

MS made it so easy to send in and get a repair. I had my replacement in just over a week. They actually sent me a different one as a replacement. I remember there being a mild scandal as two of their distribution sites were inadvertently sending out new replacements with the same glitch that hadn't been repaired yet.

I've been replaying since the patch and the AI is definitely better. It could still use some work but definitely better than before. (Less respawns right on top of a enemy or in the middle of a fight.) The randomness of enemy spawns missing in the original release seems better as well.

Overall, it's a solid patch and if you liked it before but were frustrated, i recommend trying it again.

The 60fps helped as well. I'm close to finishing the hard mode which can be quite challenging at times when you're in lairs.

The publishers comments make me less interested than the critics I've heard so far... Doesn't seem like they're even vested in their own game

@JokerBoy422 I am not sure what you're referring to but I still have game captures on my XSZx console from day one. If I go into the cloud I see stuff from years ago but I don't care or want those anyway so it's not going to bother me if they get deleted. But all of my captures seem to be present on my hard drive on my Xbox

I toi am replaying. The patch is a definite improvement. The AI with enemy spawning seems to be improving as well.

@JokerBoy422 they do. This only affects uploaded content.