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Gears 6 that continues the legacy of split screen multiplayer. I will be incredibly bummed out if it ditches local coop like Halo Infinite. Playing Gears on the couch with my wife is peak gaming for me.

To me this looked like more of a tech demo than a full fledged game leading up to release and the reviews seem to concur with that sentiment. I enjoyed the simplistic gameplay in the first game and had hoped they would build on it but of course they opted to build on the technical side instead. I really hope we get to a point soon when developers stop prioritizing graphics over everything else.

I was/am a lifelong Nintendo fanboy but wanted to get an HD console to play the games that skipped Switch. I ended up choosing Xbox becasue the Playstation audiance struck me as especially toxic. I now own all three and still think PS has the most toxic audience.

@nomither6 If you play indies gaming is better than ever.

Even if this new studio predates the decision to close studios the announcement being made this week shows a lack of cohesion, leadership, and humanity from Microsoft gaming executives. This is such a bad look.

Is this supposed to be a video game or a tech demo? They should have put the resources that created this towards making a performance mode.

What the hell are these idiots even doing?

Considering that software sales have also stagnated year over year people really shouldn’t see this as an indictment of subscription services. Entertainment generally is suffering as a result of corporate price gouging.

All of the above. Quick resume is on par with having a controller with proper stick placement as far as the reasons why I use my series x way more than my ps5.

Whether you like games to look good or feel good the choice is obvious, performance. Quality looks choppy and feels terrible.

I am unfortunately one of the 5 million. I dropped off after the second level. The platforming feels so stiff.

@OldGamer999 Xbox doesn't have anythong on the level of GOW or TOTK but FH5, Halo Infinite, Psychonauts 2, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush are all as good as Mario Wonder and significantly better than HFW. The horizon games are the most 7.5/10 games ever made.

@ZYDIO nice! That recliner looks luxurious.

@ZYDIO That setup sounds amazing. I’m 11 ft from a 55 inch so 4k is especially meaningless for me. Sometimes when my wife is out I do set up a chair right in front of the tv and it’s great.

@ZYDIO I’m playing an older game at 30fps right now. It’s not impossible to enjoy but it absolutely impacts gameplay and makes it appear choppy. It’s mostly just a disappointing decision to go for cutting edge 4k visuals, which no human can appreciate at normal viewing distances, rather than prioritizing performance which doesn’t just make games feel better. It makes them look better too.

I prefer variety. My yop 10 games have the following hour counts 256, 83, 35, 15, 56, 155, 23, 25, 65, 14.

@Fenbops OMG there is a woman in my game! Somebody call the woke police. The story of Gears 5 is way more compelling than 1-3 and Kait is an infinitely better character than Marcus.

This is easily my most anticipated unannounced game! I love playing through Gears with my wife. Xbox better not screw this up and fail to deliver split screen like they did with Halo.

@StylesT There was a study released yesterday showing that some people cannot see more than 35 fps. I linked to a report on it in a previous comment on this article.

@StylesT On cue people annoyed that other people have better vision than them.

@ZuneTattooGuy Not really. I watch 1-2 per year but that has nothing to do with frame rate because it is not an interactive medium where lower frames impacts game play. I just think movies are boring. The only movie I watched in the past year was extremely low frame rate Miles Morales.

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-ability-to-see-the-world-at-a-higher-frame-rate-could-give-some-gamers-an-edge

This study released yesterday showed that human ability to perceive visual reality ranges from around 35 fps to above 60 fps. If you're critical of other people for needing 60 fps you're probably just critical of them for having better vision than you. Different people have different needs. I don't understand why this particular need continues to be controversial.

This completely killed my excitement for the game. 30 fps feels and looks terrible.

@smoreon I’ve seen similar data from several sources show that the average gamer is in their 30s. Most notably Nintendo has reported that the majority of switch users are between 23-35 to its investors on multiple occasions. It really seems like gaming is a millennial hobby.

@NEStalgia The data is a bit outdated by a few years so it stand to reason the average age has risen. I feel like a lot of people under 50 who grew up with the hobby are forever gamers.

@BacklogBrad The average age of console gamers was 33 several years ago so I think you're definitely right that big console games have older audiances than people think.

People are boring

I was very surprised to learn how little interest I have in the AB library considering I have eclectic taste in games. I would love to have Sekiro but I doubt it’s coming. I’ll probably play a couple COD campaigns but I would not say I’m anticipating them.

I feel like GP is doing a great job of keeping the best titles active. I always try to play one of the games being removed to maximize my GP value but there has not been a game removed that I wanted to play in months.

I've played a couple games with RT and 60 fps and it looks cool but I'm never going to trade off higher frame rate for RT.

To my eyes 60 fps does more for visuals than either 4k or RT. 30 fps modes look so choppy.

@Weapon_Wheel I think they have to tear down the line completely. It’s the only route forward with publishers putting more effort into PlayStation optimization and increasingly skipping Xbox all together. Make Xbox a launcher on a pre built pc and work with publishers to optimize games for it similar to what steam does with the steam deck.

The next Xbox should be a prebuilt PC with Xbox branding.

The next Xbox needs to be a prebuilt gaming PC that simply has Xbox branding.

Chapter/level based > open world

Day one purchase. I've been eyeballing the ROG Ally as a GP machine but decided to wait for the previewed annoucnement of new hardware later this year.

@RetroMan71 Sure, I’ve received rewards as well. I didn’t say you couldn’t. As a passive reward they’re great. The type of maxing out rewards that is being nerfed has never been a good deal.

Microsoft Rewards were already not worth trying to collect before this.

I had never really heard of Raw Fury before today but I've played and love a ton of their games. I'll need to keep an eye on them going forward.

Narritive and cozy games seem to have somewhat inflated scores. If you look through the top scoring games each year ineveitbly like 40% will be games from those genres.

I'm sure they're great games and obviously the people playing them love them but they do seem to be reviewed on different more kind scale than everything else.

@abe_hikura Yeah but what about a Series XXX? Would that get you excited?

I love anything I can play on the couch with my wife but I think we are going to have to admit to ourselves that we don't really like Baldur's Gate 3 before we can start this.

Series X is my preferred console but if AAA games are releasing at 30 fps on Series X and 60 fps on PS5 Pro then I will buy a pro and my Series X will be relegated to be a GP only machine.

That being said, I think I am a huge outlier here. I don't think this will hurt Microsoft but mainly because they're kind of already at rock bottom as far as console sales go.

Series X is easily the best console. GP, quick resume, upgraded backwards compatibility, and the best controller.

@ShadowofTwilight Game Pass is on PC and PS Plus also has ample popular stealth options. Most people only buy a couple of AAA games each year so I think subscription services are a smart move for AA games especially for somewhat niche genres.

@ShadowofTwilight The implication of my comment is very clearly that I beleive people will not buy the game. Given that might just be me but when was the last time a b tier stealth game did well? Why would someone pay for this when genre highlights like Assassin's Creed, Dishonored, and Hitman are frequently on subscription services or deeply discounted?

Dumb decision. This was the perfect type of game for GP. I was excited to give it a go but there is 0 chance I'm paying for this game.

I’m surprised by the lack of comments on this article compared to others. People are sleeping on this game. GOTY so far.