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@SleeplessKnight I don't love everything about them but I am a fan of MS and most of their products as I work the MS stack for work. Prefer that to the other stacks (Oracle, AWS, Apple) that I am certified to work in. People had options even during MS’s worst monopoly days. Many still would have chosen the MS stack.

I still say this was the plan from day one. Xbox was never about video games. It was about getting an MS hub into as many homes as possible. Video games were just the medium they chose at the time.

Oh snap a “real” Ninja Gaiden game?! I respect the 3D ones but have always wished for a return to form. The DS game was the closest but still not the format (or control style) that I wanted. I’m hoping this will be good. 2025 is starting to feel like third party gaming I care about. Just need a TES6 surprise announcement at this point.

I’m so scared right now. This is either going to be amazing or the worst thing ever. Okami is probably if not my favorite game , one of the most influential on me after street fighter and Virtua fighter and LttP. I need this to be amazing. I am gonna go hug my statues now.

But either way it gives me new taiko music to learn lol.

Please be amazing!

Not an indy fan so i will play on game pass.

I hope the sale holds till Friday. Can’t pick it up before then. Excited for the offline mode.

Working the post game now. Loved it.

Age of mythology and figuring out how to pay half price makes gp worth it for me.

I’d buy it on switch first but hope the game becomes mutiplat for console.

Welp time to kick batman in the teeth!

Cool I need to pick up the DLC.

I’m a little tired of double dipping but if 4 gets announced/releases on xbox I would come back. Just like I did for Yakuza/RgG/LAD.

@Fenbops you are making an argument from an economic perspective for the consumer. But your comment doesn’t entirely feel relevant to mine. Consoles have always been closed ecosystems … the “console wars” are built on that.

Gamers have gone increasingly digital either due to convenience (I am in that camp) or price and despite that more and more games are digital only there hasn’t been a lot of price gouging that I have seen (and no games going up 10 dollars every few gens is not price gouging). Meanwhile Sony is slowly eliminating the disc drive altogether and since xbox wants to be device agnostic that is likely next as well. So you are trying to compare why PC gaming went the way it did from an economic perspective (consumer side) when that isn’t what happened. PC gaming unilaterally went digital only. Even with piracy and at the time with far less store fronts. Because it saved the companies money. And since the market didn’t buckle we know that people will bear it. So like I said gamers kept buying games.

The same will happen with console. A vocal minority will complain, some may exit gaming or switch to pc but most will continue on as normal. Which was my point. Economics really doesn’t change that. People will still buy games.

As I said. I welcome it. I have more furniture to keep my physical games organized than I want.

I remember when PC gamers sounded like this for a little while (myself included). Industry moved on and folks kept buying games. I have less empathy this time around.

Consoles are slowly becoming computers. Personally I welcome it. It is such a hassle moving a large physical collection (let alone the furniture needed to house/display it.)

Never played anything by this dev but I am assuming this game will be good (for those that want it. IJ is not my cup of tea. Never liked the movies.) as MS won’t want to waste the license cost.

That sucks. I guess I will take a pic of mine.

This is my last MS and Sony gen. PC will give me access to multiplats and Sony and MS games so I plus other PC only games so I will shrink back to Nintendo/PC. I will be buying much less for a while anyway.

Welp i will check and see if i am missing anything.

@RentedPanda You are thinking Shun Di. Yes he uses Drunken Boxing.

After what they did to Warcraft 3… miss me with that.

THANK HYLIA! That is glorious news! Just give me a date SEGA.

@Utena-mobile Seconded. I would love to see ReCore built upon and revisited.

Halo,Gears, Forza… all franchises I have no interest in (but have tried to be certain) fable (and sunset overdrive) is middling for me as well. I don’t play xbox for the exclusives (before the purchase of Bethesda… but I will get TES on PC so probably moot point). I play for the controller. PS controller hurts my hands and Nintendo doesn’t have parity. I have never been the intended xbox audience but I buy them all the same. So long as they keep getting mutiplats that Nintendo doesn’t, I will be here.

I suppose since AoM and AoE are on console I finally have xbox franchises I love but I will switch to PC once TES 6 comes out (redoing/possibly building a new gaming PC for TES6).

@InterceptorAlpha wait what? How am I treating a business like a person? Did I miss something?

@InterceptorAlpha OK, that’s fair. Like I said I am not really following the game and just going off of surface chatter I have heard.

DLC isn’t required for me. Many/most? Of my favorite games have self contained narratives. Sometimes I don’t want a game to overstay its welcome. Due to the nature of the story for dragon Age which is heading for a conclusion, no DLC makes sense to me to close out the story. If the are going to put out DLC matching the game they would likely have to introduce a new conflict/Villain and that would sorta upend the tea table. I never finished Witcher 3 (not my cup of tea) but to my knowledge it wasn’t focused on closing out the world narrative (as the book series is longer) so extra DLC fits just fine. There is more story to tell. DLC should always be made with a roadmap/plan and not just to extend the game for revenue (obviously that is a perk) imo.

@GamingFan4Lyf Wait what? I was really speaking in context to this long running series that according to bioware has a connected narrative and an extended universe. That imo is different that just judging a stand alone game getting DLC or DLC in general. That being said I do miss when DLC was just extra content rather than required to understand the story. Or needing to read a comic or watch a show to keep up with the game story. I got into games because the narrative was originally self contained. That being said I am assuming with all the games and books and comics and movies in the DA franchise that they can close out the series neatly without DLC (at least they should be able to). So I don’t see no DLC in this instance as a bad thing. Sorry if I didn’t make that clear but it was a small part of my post.

@InterceptorAlpha So I say this with the caveat that I am not really following the game but the devs seemed excited and were thanking the fans upon release. Could be PR but I assumed that meant the game hasn’t flopped out of the gate. Since I haven’t finished Inquisition I am waiting n Veilguard to get down to the bargin bin.

No DLC isn’t necessarily bad if they told a complete story. The series and its extended universe has been around for a while so they be done done. Honestly I wish more companies would do that instead of letting the story mutate and get stretched until it doesn’t connect to the original game anymore. (A complaint I have with DA as a whole.)

I haven’t played it so I don’t know.

@InterceptorAlpha While I am not a fan of the series past origins, I thought that veilguard was selling well…

So is this the end of Dragon Age?

That’s good for sub visibility. (I don’t play COD but glad it is in the catalog).

Can’t base a future paycheck on long past success. Their last active project flopped. That’s lost revenue. Hard to convince anyone that salaries should be paid when they don’t generate revenue.

In a vacuum I would say Mass Effect 1. Objectively though I would say Jade Empire. For me, Bioware doesn’t make good sequels so JE was a wonderful standalone game (even if they left some story threads. )

I’ll take it! Mostly playing AoM but I love AoE as well.

Love that so many A-AA games are coming back. Killer 7 next please.

Woo! Day one!

Mon and Samanun

Hmm. First off I am happy for the fans. However for me this clenches it as a wait for the bargain bin purchase. Origins is still my favorite and imo the most cohesive entry and I feel after that the lore went all over the place like spilled ink. I played BioWare games for the lore and the impact of your choices and I don’t feel that from this and other reviews I have read that this has truly been the focus. Seems to be a more character driven action set piece than not. Which is fine but means that for me it would be high a risk to pay cost of entry day 1. Will pick it up BF next year I expect. Most bioware games are good from a technical perspective even if I don’t enjoy the narrative. So they make good time wasters when the backlog is low.

While I do feel CEOs are overpaid in the west. Xbox is not a major pillar of Microsoft. Its implementation was to get the Microsoft ecosystem into more homes via a different product but people are not speaking at Ignite about xbox. Most folks that work the MS stack don’t care about a game system or the departments associated with it. Xbox’s woes don’t really erase the other profitable aspects of MS.

Inject it into my veins!

So what is the actual amount after taxes?

Good for the folks that wanted this!

I will stick with digital as I bought the physicals on PS years ago.

Agreed. I was only eager for Starfield to come out because it means that Bethesda can focus on TES6. I like Starfield but for me as a primary TES fan, franchises like starfield and fallout are speed bumps. They only make the game I really want take longer. Luckily I can still play Skyrim and Oblivion.

(That being said TES6 will probably be my last game. I just wanna go to Hammerfell.)

@BIG3 Ah. Thank you.

@BIG3 Question: does anything in Shattered Space push the main quest forward? Like explain who made the temples/artifacts/starborn tech?

I will get it next BF (2025) unless it goes on sale this year. Since there is more DLC coming it is better to wait for a definitive edition. Besides I am playing on series x now but will migrate to PC when I actually buy the game. So no point in buying twice.

Still waiting on a new Legend of Korra game.

Ouch. Well I will take this with some salt as I liked Starfield mostly from the jump so the complaints are probably not shared with me. But with a new Zelda out, reviews like this don’t inspire me to pick up this dlc. I’ll swing back next year or if a definitive edition comes out. Still awaiting TES6.

Exhausting Dialogue? I will never understand people that play RPGs and complain about the role play part. I mean there is bad dialogue in games and that is a different complaint but there are people that play RPGs and have no idea wtf is going on because they skip dialogue and cutscenes.

I will say I feel souls games always felt (to me) like they were designed for those people. As in atmospheric game and rpg style ui/system but the story is buried in optional lore (and is somewhat shoestring anyway).

Anyway i do hope the dlc pushes the main story forward.

I was super excited for this at first but now I think I will wait for a definitive edition to hit gamepass. Hope it reviews well.

@Ricky-Spanish The same way it isn’t a “10” that symbol is used for different things. PS buttons have always been shapes and while designed to be language agnostic they are made with the design view of the Japanese. “X” is used as cross very often over there. Look at the monster hunter xx games. (Cross and Double Cross).

But Phil made a joke.