Stocksy

Don’t do it. Those of us that stupidly bought into the switch releases regret it. Honestly don’t get involved with LRG. Especially now a lot of the switch releases have got full releases. Don’t pay them extra for fake scarcity.

What is the solo player like on this?

To be fair this game has a massive amount of Content and modes. I’d go far as to say it might be the biggest leap a yearly sports game has ever made?

I didn’t think they could do anything to get me to buy it day one. Not after picking it up for a fiver within a year for the last few years…. But the revamped Jordan mode and the crazy Era mode makes this a monster for NBA fans.

I’d love an era mode in FIFA or Madden.

Pay for GPU get live service games. It’s why I don’t like the model. They aren’t interested in games you can complete. They want games people feel like they have to play and play and play. Everyone is chasing that fortnite addiction.

It’s a real shame

With all the moves Xbox has made the exclusives war will continue. I don’t get mad when Xbox do it so I can’t get mad when Sony do they same. I own both consoles for this reason.

I’ve ordered on ps5 anyway. Mainly coz my Mrs will play it.

Both Grid and Grid legends are both very decent games that were ignored for whatever reason. I’ve had a load of fun especially with legends. I’ve not done the story mode yet but the career is loads of fun.

Xbox fans on day of purchase “this is massive massive. Call of duty is THE biggest franchise, spyro, crash and massive names in gaming”

The deal gets questioned:

“These games aren’t anything special”

Lmao.

Have
A
Day
Off.

Of course this is as crazy deal. Same as Bethesda was.

I love Xbox but no other company has bought two monsters of this size.

EA buying codemasters is the closest.

@Tasuki there is artwork for switch and it’s quoted as same leak as this stuff so I assume legit

Day one. I’ll get on switch and flick a coin between XSX and PS5.

Can’t wait for this

Casual gamers that buy COD and only cod don’t care about GPU. That’s not the issue here. It’s the cut of the COD pie. Plenty of people buy cod and fifa and that’s it - maybe gta - look at the sales numbers. These people are gonna pay £100 plus a year to have GPU. They are gonna get COD at Tescos/Asda when shopping. Sales figures are crazy for COD.

I’d imagine the in game purchases are meaty too. Sony get a cut of that. They don’t want 25% even of the cod players going from them to Xbox. This is just common sense

It’s not the same and even close. More PR and spin. As someone else has rightly said….. subscription model killed blockbuster and GPU is subscription model.

Blockbuster had old movies new movies and you could pick what you wanted. It wasn’t heavily curated and movies wouldn’t suddenly vanish.

GPU is more like that dodgy little video rental section at the local corner shop…. The big new movies aren’t there day one and you end up with something just coz your there and it’s better than nothing.

Phil and the PR team at Xbox are amazing. They are very lucky to have them and the amount of good will they’ve created is almost unbelievable. Hats off to them.

No exclusives for a year in a strategy that is based one day one exclusives. The dude comes out and says the game I’m looking forward to most is on the competition and Xbox site says “we are lucky to have him running things”

Fair play that’s an amazing ability to have.

Of course his most anticipated game is not on Xbox this year…… that goes without saying

@XxEvilAshxX since posting I’ve been on two different sites and both first comments were along the lines “they’ve gone woke”….

Unfortunately some sad little people in society decide that anything that isn’t “white” and male is “woke”

Ridiculous but true. Imho GTA has always been about what those people would call woke. As in a story of an outsider. It’s just a strange time to be alive.

Also I’m fairly sure plenty of people unfortunately had issues with playing as Franklin.

Latino and female….. I feel the go woke go broke crowd getting upset and I’m all for that…

Haha

Miami is an ace setting.

@Savage_Joe @Kezelpaso thanks. I have my old Xb1 set up in front room and I think my Mrs would love this. It’s a bit like (gameplay I mean) until dawn? And she loved that. She won’t play it where I have my XSX set up.

@SoulChimera it had licensed cars I guess, so many of my fave OG Xbox games were driving games or licensed. I’m glad we got the Star Wars ones.

Project Gotham, Rallisport 1&2 and Midtown would all have brilliant….

And buffy. I loved that game.

Is it just series S/X or is there a xb1 version?

I will give this a go but I’m fairly sure from what I’ve seen the 77 is closer to what I will feel that 90…. 90 is GOTY and close to game of the gen territory…. I’m fairly certain it’s neither

@SoulChimera did it come to BC?!? I’d completely forgotten about that gem!

I’m not a fan of the hot wheels theme and I’d rather just a big expansion map and more of the same stuff in the main game. The snow part in 3 was the best expansion so far.

However this does look meaty. It won’t connect with me the same but I will have some fun with it.

@BeautyandtheBeer that’s not cool didn’t realise that. Makes purchasing the disk pointless. I own all the Forza games on disk for future playing reasons. Although tbh at this point most are patched so heavily a load of content will be missing or worse when servers are turned off the game won’t work anyway.

I think Horizon 4&5 fall into this category? It’s a real shame. Such good games that even solo player are brilliant and shouldn’t be lost forever especially as Forza games get delisted fairly quickly.

@NEStalgia true that mate. I’m always shocked how others respond to stories like this though. I’ve given up trying to working out other people logic I just sometimes forget how crazily people can interpret things.

@BeautyandtheBeer did horizon 5 not get a disc version?!?!?

I absolutely support him coming forward like this and he will have no trouble finding work. Being honest, admitting mistakes and pointing out why things could work better are all commendable. Add to that he clearly tried to discuss it with Sega and got nowhere.

Hats off to him. This is the sort of guy you want to work with and have work for you.

Sega are a company that have issues like this over and over. They ignore common logic and do what they like.

EDIT - I see we have some very old fashioned members here. “Accept whatever the overlords say no matter how bad their behaviour towards you or the customers are” those days should be behind us.

It’s not like these games and this collection have already made plenty of money.

Let’s shoe horn in MTX. Lovely.

Ha.

Terrible stuff.

Also funny how these days devs are proud to say their games include “a grind”…..

All a bit bizarre this. I expect better from Xbox tbh

Self hype specialists claim they have stuff “their fans” will be excited about…. NEVER.

So many more titles we can dream of but BC was the reason I got on back on board with Xbox.

I’m glad we got SSX3. Still play that on and off frequently. All the Star Wars games. Fight night champion. So many good driving games though BC. I still dream of Rallisport 1&2 and PGR - the punisher.

But we did get a load of rockstar classics and especially Max Payne 3. Masterpiece.

Thank you Xbox.

All the brand new XSX on shelves unsold (don’t @ me @ dezzy70) should have the controllers taken out and sold. Supply and demand.

I have both the 20th anniversary one and Forza so I’m set. Both are lovely.

Paramount plus is “free” for all sky cinema people and halo is on channel 5 every Wednesday.

Wasn’t sure what this was about…. Then reading comments it was a comment intentionally made to fan the console war flames.

How sad.

I love the Forza games and it’s a shame they have got involved in nonsense like this tbh.

I knew people would say it felt “dated”.

Agreed…..

No micro transactions, No DLC, was a complete game on day one, it allows you to play it and enjoy it and does disrespect your time. It’s fun and addictive and has that one more go feeling.

I wish it could have demanded more cash off me instantly…. Lol

9 out of 10 from me

@themightyant it’s a shame. I’d like to see Xbox embrace that side of him and let Xbox be represented in more of a straight forward way. It would be refreshing in the industry.

Really?!?!? There are many positive things to say about him but I would not describe him as no BS. It depends on your definition. He is a master at PR and Spin. I’m surprised anyone describes him as a straight shooter!

Why is everyone talking about loads of people being offended and wanging on in a gatekeeping fan boy way?

Someone pointed out a minor could be offensive nameplate. Immediately it was changed. Sensibly.

Pure Xbox have reported it.

There is nothing to protect or gatekeep here.

Something that could be seen as offensive was changed to be sensitive.

Not every story is a chance for you people to leap to defence and attack people for being sensible and sensitive to others.

The entitlement and privilege in here is unreal.

@mousieone you buy gold cheap. Stack for three years and pay 99p to upgrade to GPU and it’s works out at £3.40 a month. Anyone paying full price is bonkers. No VPN, no region swapping and not a loop hole - a legit and Microsoft approved way to get GPU cheap. Sony will charge you full price and no mistakes.

I own both and managed to stack now cheap and got upgraded for three years. No way would I pay for either at a tenner a month or whatever it is.

@Bleachedsmiles amen.

@Floki at least one or two a year would be nice though right? Especially in a subscription model. Hard to say otherwise

As a long time GPU subber and Xbox owner from day one of the Xbox OG.

That’s a lot of filler In the 22 list and no killer let’s be honest here.

I’m glad turtles is free this week. Nowt much on that list to get excited about. The XBOX PR team is amazing and worth every penny as they’ve hyped so many into being excited from what was a sparse offering and a lot of sorry nothing this year.

Next year looks good though

@Chaudy yeah their comments made me lol.

“Xbox have finally realised about release windows” is the most positive spin on no Xbox studio games in a whole calendar year 🤣

It’s simply unacceptable in the subscription model to have none. I hope they have a couple of things up their sleeves

Lovely. Was gonna buy digital on switch day one and phyiscal later. Will now play on Xbox and just buy switch. Thanks Xbox.

Has anyone got the GIF of that lovely Bristolian lady saying “not another one”

Honestly I’d much prefer a real world expansion. Bit disappointing for me. Great for those that love it.

I have the Forza controller and love this one too. I don’t need it and will leave it for others don’t need another controller but design is nice.

Lots of folk are triggered so easy. It’s not a recent thing it’s always been the way just with social media we see Stan from the red lion and his rants where before you had to be in the pub to hear his nonsense.

Old and young get all snowflakey about stuff and on left and right.

Live and let live. We need to learn to show more empathy and compassion and also own our own choices and the impacts they have on others.

Nowt for me. Never had anything from them. I suspect I spend too much so they don’t feel they need to stimulate me. Boo and hiss to them.

Smart delivery giveth and smart delivery taketh.

@StonyKL hahaha spot on

Lmao.

A man that works for a company advertises a game available on that service and uses a # to promote said service!

Well I never.

It MUST be a good game then

Lmao.

They are a terrible company. Truly. I feel for any Xbox owners that get sucked in like ps4 and switch owners did.

One of the worst companies I’ve ever had misfortune to be a customer of. Horrible grubby people that run it too.

The last couple of deep dives were not that at all more like extended recap with padding I hope this time is an actual deep dive

I’ve played it recently In its standard form. It still stands up and many FPS still don’t touch it…. Such a good game.

Don’t rename the Klobb!!!

Is super meat boy a duplicate?? I feel like that was on GwG before?