@ZYDIO Movies on disc still make sense. Game discs became pointless a while ago because of all the updates, servers, and DLC. Half the games don't work at all or are severely gimped without servers now. No point putting them on disc, and I hope they stop coddling the plastic hoarders in gaming soon.
@Rodimusprime13 Not just NIS. Namco has mostly written off Xbox too, and they own D3Publisher now. That's apparently the reason we stopped getting Earth Defense Force games after 360.
They can keep it. All the fans really wanted was a good pixel remaster in widescreen, not a completely re-imagined garbage story that takes them 15 years to release.
@Fishticon Why am I only seeing the SE in white? I can't stand white hardware. Wasn't there a rumor about Hyperkin making controllers with these sticks too?
I want to see MS actually "merge" with the companies they bought instead of this ***** hands off approach we've been getting. Why the hell do Bethesda accounts still exist? The only account I should need to play any game is the one I bought it with. MS owns Bethesda, so at the very least, their ***** should've been folded into the MS account system. Same with Activision.
@nomither6 It really shouldn't be that hard. All the games were Unreal engine anyway. It's still ridiculous they dropped all the content from 4 to release 5 so bare bones. It didn't have to be that way, but you know they'll pull the same garbage with 6.
@Zochmenos and that's why I hate RE4, 5, and Oblivion getting so much love. I thought they played ***** even when they were fresh, but everyone is still eating them up. It's crazy. I'm all about the gameplay. That said, Goldeneye didn't age well, but at least they fixed the controls in the remaster...unlike the PD remaster. ugh
@eire-shabba The only way a Gears collection would be good is if it's 1-3 ALL on Unreal 5 with no separation in engines/compatibility. Everything available everywhere. Like the ability to run the campaigns of 1 and 2 in "arcade" mode with mutators just like Gears 3. All maps, all characters, all modes universally available.
343 is so garbage they couldn't even add Firefight correctly. Even with the Composer thing to search, it doesn't match what Reach was. All anyone played on Reach was ARCADEFight. NOT Plasmafight. Nadefight, or any of the other garbage. They should've had just arcadefight and updated it to use saved loadouts like H4's SpartanOps so we wouldn't have to suicide to get our loadout the way we want.
Also, the skulls. Every Halo should have the same skulls and have them working the same way. Bandanna on H2 left out plasma weapons. WTF? I would've been much happier if every Halo ran on the same engine so we didn't have to deal with sniper rounds bouncing off banshees in Halo CE, etc. QoL improvements are better than accuracy, IMO.
@shoeses Except they can do digital only ports for peanuts now, so it doesn't make sense. PS5, Xbox, and PC are all the same core architecture now (Xbox even runs Windows), so WHY keep leaving out Xbox? Japan simply hates it. The EDF devs can't possibly lose money doing digital only Xbox ports of the games for the west. They just refuse to.
What's really insane though, is the EDF spin off games Yukes is doing. Everything else Yukes has made the past 20 years released on all platforms, Xbox included, even the AEW game last year. Yet, EDF Iron Rain, World Brothers, and WB2 skip Xbox. WHY? Who is telling Yukes NOT to port those? Is it Namco? D3Publisher? Sandlot? It holds no sense. Sandlot can make excuses about resources for porting the mainline titles, but Yukes not doing it either means there's something else at play.
@Nic-Noc20th-C According to the leaked info last year, they're going the opposite direction. All digital Series X coming soon. I want to know why there's no 4TB expansion yet. 4TB NVME drives have been out a while. Yet another thing PS5 gets that we don't.
Why doesn't Limited Run try to license some Earth Defense Force games to port to Xbox? They could do both digital and physical since the ***** Japanese devs don't like Xbox. This where I'd find them useful. Piss on Felix the cat.
The first thing they need to do is get rid of the extra accounts. Why the hell do Bethesda accounts still exist? They've owned it for years. The only account I should need on Xbox is my Xbox account.
Why aren't any of the gaming news sites asking MS/Phil Spencer why we're still being subjected to Bethesda accounts? The only account I should need on Xbox is my goddamn Xbox account. It's literally the sole reason I skipped Redfall and continue to avoid it.
So 343 just wants to ***** on the "firefight" mode some more instead of doing a proper one? H5's was terrible compared to ODST and Reach. Between reqs and bullet sponge enemies, the fastest way to kill anything was splattering it...but then you end up accidentally killing the garbage teammates you never asked for (since it never had a private/custom option either) and get auto kicked because the devs are too incompetent to prevent splatters when friendly fire is disabled.
The first thing to improve is to get rid of those ridiculous Bethesda accounts and whoever keeps ordering the devs to use them. They're owned by MS now FFS. The only account I should need on Xbox is my Xbox account. PERIOD.
Should be deducting another point just for requiring those stupid Bethesda.net accounts. Publisher accounts are ridiculous on console to begin with, but they're owned by MS now!!! WHY are they still annoying us with their own accounts???
Still not confident enough to stop gouging on expansions or reveal WHEN other companies will start making the expansions. The secrecy around that Seagate deal is *****.
@SmoothlyRough The only SW movie I really hate is Solo. I didn't like the casting for the 2 mains, and it leaves us without knowing what happened to Emilia Clarke's character. Are we just to assume Darth Maul killed her or what?
Always pulling out the old maps. Just don't bring back that lopsided ***** Hang Em High map anymore. The H2 remake of it (High Noon?) was tolerable, but that one never seems to come back.
I won't return to Halo until 343 gets their heads of of their asses and properly brings back firefight or multi-team.
Unless someone is finally going to remake/remaster SOTE or make a proper Star Wars game with dismemberment like most of the old movies had anyway, I'm not interested. They're lightsabers, not ***** baseball bats. One place people WANT realism and the devs are afraid to do it because it's owned by Disney now. FFS
Well, Platinum should be selling their engine the same way everyone relies on that Unreal trash lately. We need more games that play like DMC with nice fluid combat and less clunky messes. I never understood how Capcom could release DMC, RE, and Dead Rising all in the same gen but the other two games control like such utter ***** it's unbelievable.
I could care less about "original" games. Get EDF back on Xbox where it belongs. Xbox360 had an exclusive one, now they get ported to every platform EXCEPT Xbox.
Well, they could start by giving us a release date for the bloody Goldeneye remaster that we all know about through recent leaks. Wolfenstein 3 info would also be nice sometime this century, as well as Halo Wars 3.
So if the Banished are in Infinite, where does that leave Halo Wars 3 now? Looks to me like 343 completely failed at doing campaigns twice and had to rip off Halo Wars 2 to create a better story for Infinite.
If they wanted to combat gatekeeping, they'd stop allowing games on their platform to require separate registration to play. Anything licensed to my Xbox account should play with my Xbox account, NOT try to force me to register with the publisher. Screw every publisher that does it. They should be happy we buy their ***** at all. Instead, they have to keep screwing around and making things more annoying.
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Re: Limited Run Gets Brutally Honest As Xbox Misses Out On Two New Ports
@ZYDIO Movies on disc still make sense. Game discs became pointless a while ago because of all the updates, servers, and DLC. Half the games don't work at all or are severely gimped without servers now. No point putting them on disc, and I hope they stop coddling the plastic hoarders in gaming soon.
Re: Rumour: Xbox In 'Discussions' With Square Enix Over Final Fantasy 7 Remake
@Rodimusprime13 Not just NIS. Namco has mostly written off Xbox too, and they own D3Publisher now. That's apparently the reason we stopped getting Earth Defense Force games after 360.
Re: Rumour: Xbox In 'Discussions' With Square Enix Over Final Fantasy 7 Remake
They can keep it. All the fans really wanted was a good pixel remaster in widescreen, not a completely re-imagined garbage story that takes them 15 years to release.
Re: Xbox Insider Update Adds Controller 'Thumbstick Calibration' Tool
@Fishticon Why am I only seeing the SE in white? I can't stand white hardware. Wasn't there a rumor about Hyperkin making controllers with these sticks too?
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Hoping To See Over The Next Year From Xbox?
I want to see MS actually "merge" with the companies they bought instead of this ***** hands off approach we've been getting. Why the hell do Bethesda accounts still exist? The only account I should need to play any game is the one I bought it with. MS owns Bethesda, so at the very least, their ***** should've been folded into the MS account system. Same with Activision.
Re: Talking Point: 10 Years Later, What Do You Think Of 'The Master Chief Collection' In 2024?
@nomither6 It really shouldn't be that hard. All the games were Unreal engine anyway. It's still ridiculous they dropped all the content from 4 to release 5 so bare bones. It didn't have to be that way, but you know they'll pull the same garbage with 6.
Re: Talking Point: 10 Years Later, What Do You Think Of 'The Master Chief Collection' In 2024?
@Zochmenos and that's why I hate RE4, 5, and Oblivion getting so much love. I thought they played ***** even when they were fresh, but everyone is still eating them up. It's crazy. I'm all about the gameplay. That said, Goldeneye didn't age well, but at least they fixed the controls in the remaster...unlike the PD remaster. ugh
Re: Talking Point: 10 Years Later, What Do You Think Of 'The Master Chief Collection' In 2024?
@eire-shabba The only way a Gears collection would be good is if it's 1-3 ALL on Unreal 5 with no separation in engines/compatibility. Everything available everywhere. Like the ability to run the campaigns of 1 and 2 in "arcade" mode with mutators just like Gears 3. All maps, all characters, all modes universally available.
Re: Talking Point: 10 Years Later, What Do You Think Of 'The Master Chief Collection' In 2024?
343 is so garbage they couldn't even add Firefight correctly. Even with the Composer thing to search, it doesn't match what Reach was. All anyone played on Reach was ARCADEFight. NOT Plasmafight. Nadefight, or any of the other garbage. They should've had just arcadefight and updated it to use saved loadouts like H4's SpartanOps so we wouldn't have to suicide to get our loadout the way we want.
Also, the skulls. Every Halo should have the same skulls and have them working the same way. Bandanna on H2 left out plasma weapons. WTF? I would've been much happier if every Halo ran on the same engine so we didn't have to deal with sniper rounds bouncing off banshees in Halo CE, etc. QoL improvements are better than accuracy, IMO.
Re: Limited Run Gets Brutally Honest As Xbox Misses Out On Two New Ports
@shoeses Except they can do digital only ports for peanuts now, so it doesn't make sense. PS5, Xbox, and PC are all the same core architecture now (Xbox even runs Windows), so WHY keep leaving out Xbox? Japan simply hates it. The EDF devs can't possibly lose money doing digital only Xbox ports of the games for the west. They just refuse to.
What's really insane though, is the EDF spin off games Yukes is doing. Everything else Yukes has made the past 20 years released on all platforms, Xbox included, even the AEW game last year. Yet, EDF Iron Rain, World Brothers, and WB2 skip Xbox. WHY? Who is telling Yukes NOT to port those? Is it Namco? D3Publisher? Sandlot? It holds no sense. Sandlot can make excuses about resources for porting the mainline titles, but Yukes not doing it either means there's something else at play.
Re: Limited Run Gets Brutally Honest As Xbox Misses Out On Two New Ports
@Nic-Noc20th-C According to the leaked info last year, they're going the opposite direction. All digital Series X coming soon. I want to know why there's no 4TB expansion yet. 4TB NVME drives have been out a while. Yet another thing PS5 gets that we don't.
Re: Limited Run Gets Brutally Honest As Xbox Misses Out On Two New Ports
Why doesn't Limited Run try to license some Earth Defense Force games to port to Xbox? They could do both digital and physical since the ***** Japanese devs don't like Xbox. This where I'd find them useful. Piss on Felix the cat.
Re: Microsoft 'Doubling Down As A Game Producer' After ActiBlizz Deal, Says CEO
The first thing they need to do is get rid of the extra accounts. Why the hell do Bethesda accounts still exist? They've owned it for years. The only account I should need on Xbox is my Xbox account.
Re: Xbox Announces 'Partner Preview' Event Taking Place This Week
Why aren't any of the gaming news sites asking MS/Phil Spencer why we're still being subjected to Bethesda accounts? The only account I should need on Xbox is my goddamn Xbox account. It's literally the sole reason I skipped Redfall and continue to avoid it.
Re: Halo Infinite Season 5 Brings Firefight Back To The Series
So 343 just wants to ***** on the "firefight" mode some more instead of doing a proper one? H5's was terrible compared to ODST and Reach. Between reqs and bullet sponge enemies, the fastest way to kill anything was splattering it...but then you end up accidentally killing the garbage teammates you never asked for (since it never had a private/custom option either) and get auto kicked because the devs are too incompetent to prevent splatters when friendly fire is disabled.
Re: Xbox Fan Sparks Huge Debate After Receiving First 'Strike' For Bad Language
It's the 21st century. Words are ***** words. Nobody was being attacked. It's beyond ridiculous.
Re: Redfall Dev Says The Team Is 'Continuing To Improve' The Xbox Title
The first thing to improve is to get rid of those ridiculous Bethesda accounts and whoever keeps ordering the devs to use them. They're owned by MS now FFS. The only account I should need on Xbox is my Xbox account. PERIOD.
Re: Review: Redfall - Arkane's Undead Experiment Brings Mixed Results To Xbox Game Pass
Should be deducting another point just for requiring those stupid Bethesda.net accounts. Publisher accounts are ridiculous on console to begin with, but they're owned by MS now!!! WHY are they still annoying us with their own accounts???
Re: Despite A Quiet 2022, Phil Spencer Says He's 'Incredibly Confident' In Xbox's Future
Still not confident enough to stop gouging on expansions or reveal WHEN other companies will start making the expansions. The secrecy around that Seagate deal is *****.
Re: Review: Vampire Survivors - One Of The Best Indie Games Of The Year
My first thought looking at those screenshots is that it reminds me of the old Gauntlet on NES. lol
Re: Disney Reportedly Aiming For New 'Star Wars' Titles Every 6 Months
@Korgon I'd rather the market be flooded with games and maybe get a couple good ones than go 10 years without a new game like ***** Bond did.
Re: Disney Reportedly Aiming For New 'Star Wars' Titles Every 6 Months
@SmoothlyRough The only SW movie I really hate is Solo. I didn't like the casting for the 2 mains, and it leaves us without knowing what happened to Emilia Clarke's character. Are we just to assume Darth Maul killed her or what?
Re: Classic Halo 3 Map 'The Pit' Is Coming To Halo Infinite Later This Year
Always pulling out the old maps. Just don't bring back that lopsided ***** Hang Em High map anymore. The H2 remake of it (High Noon?) was tolerable, but that one never seems to come back.
I won't return to Halo until 343 gets their heads of of their asses and properly brings back firefight or multi-team.
Re: Disney Reportedly Aiming For New 'Star Wars' Titles Every 6 Months
Unless someone is finally going to remake/remaster SOTE or make a proper Star Wars game with dismemberment like most of the old movies had anyway, I'm not interested. They're lightsabers, not ***** baseball bats. One place people WANT realism and the devs are afraid to do it because it's owned by Disney now. FFS
Re: Microsoft Is Looking To Bring More Original Japanese Titles To Xbox
Well, Platinum should be selling their engine the same way everyone relies on that Unreal trash lately. We need more games that play like DMC with nice fluid combat and less clunky messes. I never understood how Capcom could release DMC, RE, and Dead Rising all in the same gen but the other two games control like such utter ***** it's unbelievable.
Re: Microsoft Is Looking To Bring More Original Japanese Titles To Xbox
The only thing IO is working on is a Bond game using the Hitman engine.
Re: Microsoft Is Looking To Bring More Original Japanese Titles To Xbox
I could care less about "original" games. Get EDF back on Xbox where it belongs. Xbox360 had an exclusive one, now they get ported to every platform EXCEPT Xbox.
Re: Xbox Wants To Provide A 'Steady Flow Of Great Games' Moving Forward
Well, they could start by giving us a release date for the bloody Goldeneye remaster that we all know about through recent leaks. Wolfenstein 3 info would also be nice sometime this century, as well as Halo Wars 3.
Re: Video: 'The Banished Rise' In This New Story Trailer For Halo Infinite
So if the Banished are in Infinite, where does that leave Halo Wars 3 now? Looks to me like 343 completely failed at doing campaigns twice and had to rip off Halo Wars 2 to create a better story for Infinite.
Re: Xbox's Comments About 'Gatekeeping' Are Met With Heavy Criticism
If they wanted to combat gatekeeping, they'd stop allowing games on their platform to require separate registration to play. Anything licensed to my Xbox account should play with my Xbox account, NOT try to force me to register with the publisher. Screw every publisher that does it. They should be happy we buy their ***** at all. Instead, they have to keep screwing around and making things more annoying.