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probably likely. my walmart, I only ever really see 1st party, capcom, bandai namco, or super hero (batman/spiderman etc) get restocked for Xbox AND Playstation. Its kinda depressing, because of this everyone is just being conditioned to order from online.

Switch on the other hand...their shelves are so full they have old stock with price tags sitting under the shelves.

@Rmg0731 man i know you like to crap on xbox or microsoft whenever you can at every waking moment but those people that are leaving have been in the business since i was in kindergarden.

People get old, let people rest without trying to spin it as the world's craziest negative. Its like people aren't allowed to just live a life when it comes to the internet...

Sea of stars, no question. Game has been an extreme joy to play through. doing all the end game stuff before finishing it.

wasn't interested at all in the open world segments of gears 5. all it ended up being was my friend being bored while i just drive us to the next spot to shoot things.

@Cashews ...ditto. i have all the classic controllers. nes, snes, n64, and gen/master. doesn't feel right otherwise considering i grew up on these things.

@Cashews and i'm guilty of being on a expansion pack family plan lol. we split the cost and i play them weekly.
but most people are still unhappy with their offerings because of how slow they even release them over there.

still. its all a matter of out of pocket costs for the few things we want in any of them. we're paying for the whole thing rather than the one or two things we want out of it.

kinda funny when nintendo has the best pricing for just wanting to play online with no other fluff really.

that price hike is steep...i haven't had PS+ for years and watching it just increase like that only solidifies me not wanting to ever go back to it. i play online more than i do offline because i only get so much free time a day and i tend to just do a quick something here an there till my days off so anything not F2P on my ps5 just never gets used anymore.

feeling like its about time to fully move away from playstation for me.

@Foxx_64740 Best to never take anyone like that seriously as they just want to clout chase in any way possible - even if none of it makes sense in any way.

This doesn't prevent online co op on the S where the vast majority will be doing their co op.

I have a friend that says the local co-op is extremely far from perfect as well. Its a mixed bag to be sure but not a deal breaker.

@DennisReynolds Nice. Just keep in mind you're not invincible most people tend to not pay attention to when they're taking damage in this series when newcomers.

@BAMozzy No need to be a debbie downer just yet, we haven't even seen the game in action on all hardware. I know fromsoft doesn't have the biggest trackrecord with framerate but we know it'll be fun. The (probably not maintained) 60fps is honestly the biggest plus current gen is gonna have over last gen.

....and honestly, I can't remember the last time a AAA console release ever had a stable resolution output with 60 or at all.

armored cooooooorrreeeee i can't wait, its been SO LONGGGG

love how everyone just insta goes to series s blaming nowadays rather than thinking maybe the devs are heavily taxing the APU in most scenarios making it difficult to scale it back enough for enough free cycles to run split screen on modern games. That really seems to be the thing nowadays. Devs just overtaxing the hardware.

baldur's gate really just messed with everyone's minds huh.

@Kaloudz i think you guys call them tracksuit bottoms or something.

No. I got tired of it extremely fast. It got in the way of me doing an action quickly and, many times, it just made no sense at all to even have it on. like in scarlet nexus, the heck do i want resistance on the trigger when i'm trying to just grab something to throw mid string.

edit: put gyro in these pads already.

these controllers always tempt me but i have my aqua shift and my design lab controller so i'm set for awhile.

I don't think I ever had so many people blow up my phone all at once when that image of XIV/Xbox went up.
was at work and my phone just imploded with notification noises.

armored core an sea of stars for me...

it wrecked my home screen, dumbed me down to two of my groups, splits them apart between gamepass/game recommendation ads and effectively turned my home screen into another PS5 UI.

nope....nope don't like it. i hate it. my layout is just gone. i'm having to go into my games, overlay or not, just to see my own shortcuts without bloat.

Feels about the same tbh. We got a pretty substantial hardware upgrade an yet every game is STILL cross gen nearly.

dev time just takes too long anymore.

@Darude84 well, that depends. ABK is much more than CoD after all. they have IPs in many other fields as well. xbox funding could give other IPs a chance to exist/shine again.

original halo with my cousin back when that came out.

the duke left lasting impressions on all of us. mostly that we couldn't hold the darn thing lol

@Utena-mobile its because this game wasn't adverised, period. hardly microsoft's fault when its on three platforms. the other issues was extreme MTX, not listening to players, an no easy way to unlock units without paying.

no adverts, not listening to player base, extremely after your wallet - not much incentive for new blood to stick around.
bamco dropped the ball. its a serious shame cause the devs themselves was very receptive.

friends an family keep bugging me to play it everyday so i'd say its found its crowd lol

@Kaloudz it'll always be the one that sucks the most so think of it like that and you have your canon ending lol

Good lord it really has been almost four years hasn't it..

@NoCode23 but the only tier that doesn't have online is gamepass for console tier, thats how its always been.

? gold is just being renamed to core. not too sure why its confusing people, its the only thing thats changing. the 'console' tier was just the game pass library (minus EA play) without gold.

reminds me of the wii u days when people thought the controller was an add on.

@Judas Xbox isn't leaving the UK. The issue would be ABK content in the UK and how it would be made available across ANY platform.

you'll still have everything else and xbox itself isn't moving.

We've had more powerful mid gen refreshes for one gen and i still feel like its a bad idea. This gen now more than ever. We still haven't actually gone into it fully yet, none of it actually utilized like it could be. something like the switch OLED is fine.

@Hellostranger that is definitely not something you want. what drives companies to do better is losing out.

everytime i see this, and see people's reactions, its like they haven't witnessed the last 30-40 years of gaming.

Midway? Liquidated
Atari? Bought out
Traveler's tales? Bought out.
Monolith soft? Bought out.

Rare? Bought out. People like to think they was in the best standing ever but the truth was, they was in the decline. All the big names left already and their last masterpiece before purchase was Conker's Bad Fur Day on N64 - Sold terrible.

Squaresoft and Enix? merged. couldn't keep up costs despite literally having IPs that set the RPG genre as a staple.

Bandai and Namco? merged. same thing as SE. had names and IPs that literally was unmatchable.

This is just the entertainment industry. Video games are highly volatile like movies. In every aspect of it, its how its always panned out. You merge to survive or liquidate and IPs fall into the ether never to be seen again.

REALLY looking forward to this. I hope they don't mess this up, perfect dark was a large chunk of my childhood.

To the shock of nobody anywhere lol

oh well. everyone's always online nowadays anyway.

I am so ready for this

was only interested in the sonic game...
learning FF7 Rebirth is gonna be >100 or 100+GB is disheartening.

niceeee i put an order in for the white one

Nice. Definitely will nab so long as its not utterly broken. Still wondering about the old collection though.

@Fiendish-Beaver thats really just it. sony now doesn't even need to do their own JRPGs because their third party hold is so strong that its already filled. All we see now from them is open world and marvel. which is an utter shame too. Its just weird too because in terms of how many first party have been coming out between PS an Xbox, xbox isn't actually all that different in that regard. It just feels like their variety is also lacking.
Only one that isn't would be nintendo.
The market really does need to level out.

we had one generation that had a hardware refresh introduce stronger systems rather than just part efficiency and now everybody sees it as industry standard... its not the best idea to make devs have to work on so many different hardware profiles as is. aside from nintendo, the output just hasn't been there on either xbox or playstation. We really don't need a stronger model of a generation we really haven't walked into yet.

I have so many good memories playing gears 2 with my best friend back in high school. wouldn't mind taking a trip back now and again.

45 minutes was about as long as my brother, my friend, and I could stomach the game. It was definitely....disappointing. I think the part where I was just walking on the water at one time really cemented for me early on how much work the game needed. That an the fact we ran a good chunk of the map with just no enemies. The broken animations. The utterly broken enemy AI.

I know other games are being compared but none of them was anywhere near as bad as this. Its my first real visible "ouch, this is a thing." i've seen on the xbox series.

I really didn't like the first octopath traveler. I had huge hopes after the prologue demo only to day 1 into....the most broken pieced, lore lacked, grindy thing i'd played since i was a kid.

it showed and taught me nearly everything i seem to like about jrpgs since octopath seemed to utterly lack it lol.
I have friends who adored it though.

I'm utterly skeptical and keeping my distance with this one for the time being.

@mousieone I feel like you're replying to the wrong person about this lol. Wasn't complaining, was explaining to the other one who was complaining.

Its all honestly moot to me. basing a game off graphics has never settled with me in any way.

@JustinSane That is not what you said but i'm going to go with this anyway.

What we got was the steam version. We don't have all options PC has available (for obvious reasons), but this is very similar to what PC is. This IS the best we could have gotten. This actually is using higher res textures, there is even a toggle for us to use them or not on console.

This is as good as its going to get. Doesn't make it lazy, this is just a port of the final product that already existed for years. Rise has been effectively complete for over a year now on switch with an expansion. There was never a chance for it looking any better than it does now.

Wait for the next release for something different. They may or may not be working on it.

edit: also 5 or so frame difference at 60 or 120 is literally negligable. if this was 30, yeah that'd be bad. If the framerate isn't tied to the engine, you are literally never going to notice unless someone tells you.

edit 2: (oh god that was a bad edit.)

edit 3: sunbreak isn't a year old its 7 months, my brain. game still complete though.

@JustinSane Its a two year old game built for the switch, what was you expecting in the graphics department.

Also, it looks fine. Maybe don't run it at 70% internal resolution.

I'd say to make it happen but we have goldeneye 2.0 (perfect dark) with online support already. It'd be neat to have though.

@GuyProsciutto Not....really too sure why that was necessary. Not really relevant to anyone but the user what they choose to do.

As far as testing the waters go, this was absolutely a strong way to find your footing to start it off. If the next one was like this with only a handful of things to show, it'd be a little disappointing but if they can shove more in there then, with more "SURPRISE!" moments like hi-fi (bar the unfortunate leak right before it) then it can only get better from there.

@Friendly Just ignore him. Hes only here to rile up people. He doesn't like phil, its plain as day an thats ok but he isn't going to learn that not everybody needs to have his mindset.
He keeps trying to pull the weirdest logic that just never makes any sense at any point.
Literally expecting a company to not have its studios make exclusive reasons to buy their hardware is really stretching it as is. Comparing it to 3rd party contracts is also really reaching too.

These people are living in some other time period cause it sure as heck isn't this one.

I will forever be for anyone and everyone to get to do what they want, play what they want to play an how they want to play it (besides cheating with the express intent on just ruining everyone else's experience).

....but that design is something else. its REALLY just something else.