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Re: Carmageddon: Rogue Shift Is Bringing Its 'Brutal Roguelite' To Xbox Next Week

Sindayl

But where are the pedestrians? Carmageddon without pedestrians to run over isn’t really Carmageddon! That’s the whole point of the franchise… It’s like Mortal Kombat without blood and fatalities… Crushing zombies just sucks.

Btw 34BigThings never bothered to fix their last broken Redout 2 update on Xbox. They kept ignoring players asking for a fix, so I’m a bit scared with this one… I’ll buy it anyway because I’m a huge fan of the franchise.

Re: Two Games Have Quietly Been Cancelled For Xbox Over The Past Week

Sindayl

@Retrokingdan Yeah and it still blows my mind that rom based emulated ports are considered so costly and time consuming that devs skip an entire platform. It’s the smallest market for sure but it’s not like Xbox S|X sold only ten consoles.

Anyway, this is just another lazy emulation/port running in SD, without any enhancements whatsoever just like Tomba, Fear Effect or Metal Gear Solid 1.

Meanwhile, even on Xbox in Dev Mode, you can run all of these PS1 games in HD, with forced widescreen and texture filtering… (assuming you own the original game, of course )

Re: Fable Likely To Be A Huge Hit On PS5 As Sony-Hosted Trailer Hits 1 Million Views

Sindayl

@Naughtyottsel92 But? When did they say it, though? Haha. Apart from Hellblade and Tell Me Why (which was mostly well received by LGBTQ+ players), I can’t think of a cinematic Xbox exclusives. 🤔

@Fishmasterflex96 I don’t really get your point, I literally agreed with you regarding Xbox doing stupid things since the release of the SX haha (regarding third party locks, Sony has historically always been much more aggressive than Nintendo and Microsoft or even Sega, it’s a well-known documented fact and it always worked for them).

Re: Fable Likely To Be A Huge Hit On PS5 As Sony-Hosted Trailer Hits 1 Million Views

Sindayl

@Fishmasterflex96 Oh yeah, I misread your comment. Yes, the Series X lineup was a joke but third party exclusivity deals and locks on Sony’s side didn’t help either. I’m the first to say that Microsoft has been making terrible decisions one after another since the release of the Xbox Series consoles but Xbox has been a great brand during almost 20 years. Sadly, it’s obviously over now, thanks to a terrible management team (that is almost completely different from the one that ran the brand in the beginning).

Re: Xbox Exec Explains Why Some Games Are 'Day One' For PS5, And Others Aren't

Sindayl

The delusion is huge. It basically means that mediocre/risky games will remain Xbox/PC exclusives, while the good ones will get a PS5 release. WoW great for Xbox players.

And of course, the first batch of Xbox games had an « Xbox-first » delay simply because they changed their minds and decided to port them to PS5 later during the dev process, not because of some « let’s keep it exclusive for our 30 millions fans and to showcase our amazing system » strategy.

No one is directly asking them what the point of owning an Xbox is anymore. Being beta testers + Game Pass + Play Anywhere (which is just… play on your pc or laggy streaming) is clearly not enough.

Rant over

Re: Here's Your First Look At The 60FPS Far Cry 3 Upgrade On Xbox Series X|S

Sindayl

I haven’t tried it myself yet, but… wasn’t Far Cry Primal praised by fans for how good it looked with Auto HDR on the Xbox Series X, along with the 60 fps boost?

Now that the game is officially an Xbox Series X|S title, did it lose the Auto HDR option, effectively making the update… a downgrade? (This has happened before with other games, like Darksiders 2.)

Re: I've Never Played Final Fantasy 7 Before, But I'm Liking The Remake On Xbox So Far

Sindayl

Imo, they completely butchered the original story. The pacing really suffers because of it and it feels like they did everything they could to stretch the original RPG’s introduction into a 35 hour, beautiful but overly long interactive movie.

I didn’t really enjoy it on PS4… there were too many boring elements and weird changes, including the soundtrack. I’m not always against remakes that take a lot of liberties but for me this one is a failure. The original’s iconic atmosphere is almost entirely absent.

I haven’t tried the sequel yet though.

Re: Is It Worth Buying An Xbox One In 2026?

Sindayl

@Naughtyottsel92 except that most of these comments come from Xbox players who feel discouraged by Microsoft not from rage filled PlayStation supporters… and they’re right to be skeptical at the moment.

Re: Avowed Releases For PS5 Alongside Free 'Anniversary Update' On Xbox This February

Sindayl

We haven’t seen anything about the next pc/xbox. Those « solid » advantages are exactly what I point as weak points or at least as disadvantages/stuff that simply won’t appeal to the broader audience and now the ps5 pro consistently gets the best optimization anyway.

Add to that the current GPU pricing which has become such a joke that it’s hard to see it as an advantage anymore imo. Sony doesn’t do the same thing at all since they don’t put all of their first party titles on Xbox…

Re: Report: Xbox Working On 'Major Updates' To PC App For Next Console's Dashboard

Sindayl

Omg… this next « Xbox » will probably be a mess knowing Microsoft. Like others have said, you can bet you’ll have to switch between Windows and « Xbox » mode every time you need to fix something or activate a specific feature and accessing Steam will basically feel like using a regular PC.

They keep talking about backward compatibility but there’s still not a single word about physical media, which makes up the vast majority of my collection.

That said, since I own a ton of physical games, I can still resell most of them and rebuy them elsewhere, something that’s simply not possible with digital games, if I ever decide to completely walk away from Xbox and Nadella’s dumb little experiment.

Re: Today Marks 25 Years Since Bill Gates & The Rock Unveiled The OG Xbox

Sindayl

Dead or Alive 3, Jet Set Radio Future, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Shenmue II, Crazy Taxi 3, Gun Valkyrie, Phantasy Star Online ep1&2, Otogi, Outrun… all of these made the Xbox feel like a revival of the recently deceased Dreamcast. I simply couldn’t resist those quintessentially Japanese (mostly) exclusives and masterpieces.

Look where we are now… 🤡