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I fell right for Microsoft’s vision when I got my first Windows Phone 7 device. My little Avatar lived in my phone and my mobile gaming counted towards my profile. I bought a 360 a bit late in the day and never looked back. Games like Fable 2 and Forza Horizon 1 I replay at least once a year.

I stuck with the Xbox One because of backwards compatibility and the promise of new Fable and Forza. Horizon has gone on to become Microsoft’s tentpole franchise and they made a dumb mistake shuttering Lionhead.

I stuck with the Series S out of price, legacy purchase access and its physical dimensions. It’s a lovely little console with some great games.

@rustyduck It’s a human killing other humans.

Maybe they’ll finally get around to releasing Final Fantasy X on the iPhone!

If Xbox became Steam and suddenly every purchase I had made over the years was compatible with the PS5, Steamdeck or perhaps my iPhone, I’d be very happy.

I can see them quitting hardware because it’s a loss leader. Or rather a future Xbox console will just be a small PC made from off the shelf parts rather than some custom silicon.

To play devils advocate it may be that HiFi Rush just didn’t do very well at all from an engagement perspective.

$60bn for a match-3 mobile game and an FPS designed by an intern with a set square.

So… don’t bother? Warzone is F2P and nobody cares about the campaign. The older games are cheap as chips. Nobody is calling for COD on Game Pass and it’s not going to tempt over any PS5 owners.

And yet whoever made Starfield stays open

@Fiendish-Beaver I would happily buy a Switch-sized console that could play all my old Xbox 360 purchases. Fable 2 and Forza Horizon would make wonderful portable titles.

@Fiendish-Beaver Xbox could just become a PC you stick under your TV that happens to play games. Microsoft could then open it up to 3rd party storefronts like Steam, GOG and Epic.

If they did make it like a PC it would then be compatible with all Sony’s PC releases. There’s definitely a market there.

“Dammit, Microsoft: we want more something for nothing!”

Some sort of planetary vehicle and expanded ship combat. The mechanics are really good yet there isn’t enough of it!

A rejuvenated skill tree would be nice. Not having simple stuff like a large ship crew locked behind hundreds of hours of grinding would be better.

At first I was on board but their comments are hypocritical. They claim to want Xbox on every screen and yet won’t release an xcloud app for iOS despite this being unrelated to the EU stuff.

Basically they admitted that they only released xcloud on Android to crush Stadia because otherwise why bother at all?

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See Metroid Prime?

Do that, but Halo.

I am here for a Series S-powered handheld.

I reckon this will be further reaching than expected. I fully expect every 360-era exclusive to launch on PS and Switch. A portable Fable 2 would be sweeeeet.

1. Do I need Xbox live?

2. Can I use my PlayStation login on the beta?

Whilst as gamers we do week out exclusive titles to give our purchases meaning and let us be ‘one of the tribe’ this hasn’t been true of the Series X since launch. Against Sony’s lineup of exclusives and variety of titles for the PS5 the Series X had….. nothing.

@XboxistheBestBox Microsoft would do well to listen to the complaints about the PS5 from gamers and get more single player adventure titles and weird Japanese curio titles out the door asap.

Sony are spacing out the single player games but the PS4 existed on a diet of PSP ports for its weirdness. Sony have since closed their Japan Studio

Honestly if we end up getting an xcloud app for the Apple TV I don’t think I’ll need a console at all.

I imagine he doesn’t want to be in a Pedro Pascal position where they just use your voice and get stuntmen to do all the acting. Fair play to him I say. It really doesn’t matter if he removes his helmet, boinks or even laughs at a joke because it’s an /adaptation/ of another piece of fiction. If it were the same fans would moan about that!

@BIG3 Don’t get me started on the camera resetting every time I sit down.

@Raw_Dawg Summing you’re a few dozen hours in your ammo stockpile should be massive.

You’re in for a treat, Xbox players. It lacks all the F2P trappings games like PSO2 use. There is an online store so you can level skip to miss the first part of the story or buy some cosmetics but it’s on a web page and not accessible in-game.

The base game includes the Heavensward expansion. The rest are extra and include a few classes.

I really wish Microsoft would use Azure to back it up so you can stream it on any platform.

I wonder if we are due a developer direct soon? We don’t really have much information about what is out and when. Some concrete releases and a few surprises can’t hurt.

Wow, all that money for a few more shooter franchises? Really?!

Forza Horizon.

I have never seen a game nail it's aesthetic and theme like this first try. It set the bar so high that none of the sequels have come close to matching it's festival atmosphere, appearing more as maps for MMO racing instead.

A decade later the map is still fun to drive and has those trademark 360 sunsets that come very close to matching the haze of Fable 2. And the soundtrack is an exquisite mix, with repeated plays on Radio X in the UK and my car stereo.

Second would be Fable 2, a game that truly allows roleplaying without the game.mechanics getting in the way of every NPC conversation taking 10 minutes. (See: Bioware)

I am enjoying Starfield a lot more than I did Skyrim.

I just wish simple game mechanics (like say having a full crew complement) are locked away behind a ridiculous amount of grinding at attributes you might not even want.

Wait, people actually use the newer uglier Avatars?!?

Now then, maybe Jedi Survivor might make it too?

I've nothing against whoever is playing the character here but it would have been nice to get Wesley Snipes back to do the voice acting.

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I went to a lecture by the director of Fable 3 and Fable: The Journey and he showed off some internal videos of Milo that had to be seen to be believed. It wasn't that the tech didn't work, it was that they had no idea how to turn it into a playable game. So it was that Milo was canned and The Journey was born.

At the end of the day exclusives push sales and Xbox just hasn't had enough. I have a Series S because the PS5 is too big to go under my TV and I value access to my back catalogue, not because it has the best games.

Microsoft have history here. I have some great memories teaching Kodu game lab to High School kids.

Forza Horizon 2 is one of the greatest racing titles of all time with considerable post-game depth if you want to do all hundred+ tours. How that missed out on GOTY over tripe like Dragon Age I will never know.

I can understand Starfield because they released it half-finished but no love for Hi-Fi Rush?

There is a strong case that the Xbox 360 is the greatest console of all time. It might have piggybacked a few ideas but it not only ushered in the proper modern era of online gaming but it also had the best selection of system exclusives of any Xbox console.

What started with PGR3 was finished with Forza Horizon. Let me.put this another way: if the Series X wasn't backwardly compatible with all my old 360 purchases I would have sold up to PlayStation years ago.

All I really want is some music!

I'll throw another one out there: Perfect Dark, the best local multiplayer FPS ever made is also on Game Pass. 23 years old and still no game has come close to rivalling it's depth of options.

Forza Horizon 1. Easily my favourite of the series, this is confounded more by the fact that I can never start again or I will lose all my custom car paint jobs. Microsoft turned the servers off and so my copy of them is the only one that will ever be there.

It's like modern developers don't study game design theory at all. Surely game design 101 is just the Miyamoto quote about delayed games?

Axis Football sounds far too much like a WW2-era FIFA game between the enemy powers.... Unfortunate choice of name!

Once Again showing that Larian were the problem, not the Series S.

I think it's one of the finest roleplaying games I have ever played.

It's not an RPG, mind. That is a great story to play through, characters to level and fall in love with along the way.

But a ROLE playing game? Where does one begin at how wonderfully open ended the game is in playing as whoever you want to be and taking the side missions as they come. That's Starfield.

If they did a scale model with a lamp in the light that switches between green and red I'm there.

@AlwaysPlaying I'm not sure. I'm sure this guy is a really talented guy and allbut for me what made Fable was it's refusal to bow to the conventions of regular western RPGs by concentrating less on tedious stat management and more on building a memorable world full of humour and grace. Now from the trailer it looked like this was the direction Playground are definitely going

There is a reason I still play Fable 2 every year; I think it's the greatest western RPG ever made.

I’d argue this year has made up for it. Starfield is immense. Forza looks a lot better than GT7 and personally I’d put HiFi Rush as my GOTY.

It’s exactly what a I want: stealth skills that scale with player skill instead of level gating, a bustling metropolis to protect and classic parkour.

The best AC map is still Unity. It looks gorgeous on modern consoles.