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Re: EA CEO: 'Microsoft & Activision Is A Great Thing For Our Industry'

Stoned_Patrol

All you guys saying that MS wont be able to buy anything because they "barely" got the regulators to approve the ABK deal... You have to think of it like this. They got that giant deal to go through, so the chances of a smaller deal, (let's face it, any deal they make will be a smaller deal than that) are actually a lot more likely now.
MS still have a smaller market share than Sony does, specially in the japanese market (Xbox had like 4 or 5 percent market in Japan).
While PlayStation stubbornly fought to make it a point that Nintendo was not a part of the "high quality gaming market". That has completely backfired on them. Now instead of splitting the Japan market with them, they have turned it to where they control over 90%.
Xbox has already told everyone that they are not done acquiring yet. I would take them on their word on that... and not assume that it has to be only small studios going forward.

Re: BlizzCon 2023 Kicks Off Next Week, Here's The Full Broadcast Schedule

Stoned_Patrol

@BAMozzy
I feel you, but with Xbox owning Blizzard... And the rumored game that Blizzard has had in production for close to 4 or 5 years (a survival game is the rumor) was heavily hinted at by Jez Cordon that Xbox fans should definitely watch the opening of Blizz Con this year.
Sounds like they are going to be showing this Blizzard game off during part of their 2 and a half hour intro presentation.

He also said that PlayStation fans would not be excited for this... that intrigues me.
Intrigues me enough to actually give 2 ***** about Blizz Con lol

Re: Video: Senua's Insane 'Level Of Realism' Detailed In New Hellblade II Dev Diary

Stoned_Patrol

I think they have a legit gameplay trailer with combat n stuff in it, but are holding it until they give a legit release date. Then when the game is roughly 1-2 months out, they will start breaking down the gameplay mechanics. They have legitimate plans about exactly how they are going to market a game n what bullet points to include when.
By the way Ninja Theory has been consistently putting these dev diaries, I'm sure they will have some excellent marketing the closer the release date actually is.

Re: Less Than 1% Of Xbox Players Own The Coveted 'Day One' Achievement

Stoned_Patrol

@JetmanUK I agree on the every new generation thing. I definitely camped outside a Game Stop for the Series X haha. I tried so hard to get a preorder online. And all the websites sold out instantly or crashed, so I did it the old fashioned way haha.
My Game Stop only had 4 Series X''s too. So meand the other three guys became fast friends that night and one of them I still play games with till this day haha.
And his wife brought us breakfast burritos in the morning before they openeed!

LoL A true blue heart warming gamer story hahaha

Re: Less Than 1% Of Xbox Players Own The Coveted 'Day One' Achievement

Stoned_Patrol

I was so down for the Xbox 360 that I didnt even care about all the BS people were talking on the Xbox One. I got mine Day 1, and I still have the controller with the tiny inscription (definitely do not use it and havent in a decade lol, but its in the junk droor).

Sadly I am not like the people who keep their box all nice, and I rip it open and throw away the paperwork shortly after.... and there went my code apparently. I never knew or heard about scanning ***** for an achievement lol.

I would only actually be bummed now if it was like a thousand plus pointer or something

Re: Halo Infinite Spotlights Halo 2 And Halo 3: ODST Maps Remade In Forge

Stoned_Patrol

I still cant believe 343 did not remake popular old maps from the original trilogy of Halo when they were getting hammered for the lack of content.
If only they woulda done a Blood Gulch remake! That would have been very popular, specially with grapple now in the game. At the rate they put maps out... Why would they not be running with this low hanging fruit at least

Re: Talking Point: What Would Convince You To Use Xbox Cloud Gaming More Often?

Stoned_Patrol

@boatie
Thats weird, for all the crazy BS I have heard Ponies spew out over the years...I have never heard them even try and say that streaming, a perk to Game Pass Ultimate, is the same as paying full price to rent a game.

Seeing as that is the only way you can stream games through Xbox is by subscribing to Game Pass Ultimate, I have to assume that is what you meant when you said you weren't interested in paying full price to rent or stream a game.

But yeah, you should really look at streaming as a perk or feat, Ultimate was still the same price with the main aspect being that you get Game Pass for Console and PC.

They 100% need to create a Game Pass Streaming tier for like $5.... I feel like that is a HUGE reason why more people aren't using their phones to stream more games.
Putting Xcloud behind a $15 a month price wall is obviously going to push away your normy consumers instead of getting them excited to be able to play full fledged console AAA games on their cell phones (Even if that is somewhat stretching the truth, I personally am not into playing anything besides turn based games pretty much when streaming on my phone... Streaming on a console is way different. Its improved enough to where I could play MLB the show without noticing anything and forgetting I was streaming after a bit)

Re: Xbox Is Offering 'Buy Two, Get One Free' On Select EA Games This Week

Stoned_Patrol

GameFly is having a big sale right now too... And in case you are wondering, if you buy a game from GameFly they DO send you the case and manual if the games has one.

If you are renting a game through them and decide you want to keep it, they will send you the case and manual that comes in a couple of days.
They have a lot of Xbox Series and PS5 games for anywhere from $17 to $30 right now and pretty much all the time honestly.

Re: Here's Everything That Was Revealed At The THQ Nordic Showcase 2023

Stoned_Patrol

I feel like some of these games have been getting talked about for a LOOOONG time. This Game Showcase could have had the same theme as the Devolver one did this yer LoL... "Delayed Games Showcase".

Without a release date in site, I am not going to be surprised when the South Park game does not come out next year.

I remember that Outcast game being one of the big games they showed off last year or possibly the year before.
And they ended the show with Wreckreation I believe too.
It's nice to see that they are still working on them, but I really would have enjoyed seeing at the very least, a release year, if not some smaller windows or dates.

Re: Video: Payday 3 Beta Gameplay Is Here Ahead Of Xbox Game Pass Launch

Stoned_Patrol

This looks fun, but at the same time I could see it being pretty hard/frustrating.

That thermite took soooo long haha. Then one of the teammates grabs a bag of thermite and doesn't even throw it in the pile of burning of thermite haha.

Im sure the guy we were watching was like screaming into the mic to throw it in haha.

This footage/gameplay was played so optimally that it really felt like a lead dev was playing.

I am definitely going to give this game a go when it releases.

I some how didn't get into the Beta before it filled up, and I am in the Alpha Skip Ahead tier... Oh well, the full release is right around the corner

Re: Xbox Players Can Now Sign Up For Next Week's Free Payday 3 Beta

Stoned_Patrol

must have been very limited space available haha. I tried to join the day it was made avilable for Insiders, and I am in the Alpa skip ahead ring, and it said it was full already.

Even if I dont get in, I am not too worried about it seeing as it is only one map. I am for sure going to give the game a go when its fully released.

Going to be a very busy September/rest of the year for gaming!!

Squeezing Payday 3 in in between Star Field, and Lies of P, is going to show what game I actually think is the most fun. Because with so much quality, there is no reason to play something you aren't really feeling.

Re: Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Punches Its Way To Xbox This Fall

Stoned_Patrol

The fact they are putting in legit voice acting for the characters in this is at least something in my eyes. I always felt that was a huge reason of why people bounced off the first game so quickly, because once you were playing the game was so quiet and lifeless...
The voice acting was essential for giving the game the actual characters the fun uniqueness and much more "realism" to the fantasy of having any of these Nickelodeon characters fighting each other.

Nickelodeon has been cheaping out on effort and financially by leaving out voice acting in all of their games, the Kart Racers, ect. So I am glad they took the minimum effort in actually getting this done in this game...

Re: 8BitDo Unveils The First Official Wireless Arcade Stick For Xbox

Stoned_Patrol

The new fighting games are very much tuned for controllers. These fighting sticks are cool, and feel good at times, but even the new controls they have made for Street Fighter... It is completely tuned for controller play.
If you are looking into getting into these new fighting games, I would not suggest spending over a hundred bucks on one of these sticks and just try getting used to the games on controller and try the new control schemes they have now.

Re: Xbox Leak Suggests Two New 'Western Digital' Expansion Cards Are On The Way

Stoned_Patrol

@NEStalgia
It's kind of funny saying the product hasn't sold that well... If they would actually produce more Series X's then they would have more sold. They spent too much of the silicon on Series S and also contributing it to the cloud servers... That should have been by far the last thing to get resources... No one uses it, just ask the lawyers fighting the CMA.

Re: COD Going Xbox Exclusive 'Would Not Significantly Harm Competition', Says EU

Stoned_Patrol

@RadioHedgeFund

Also you pretty much called out the real reason why Square is not part of PS already.... Nintendo. Both platforms pretty much equally split all of Squares games. Square probably makes more money off the games it makes for Nintendo too actually, because they pretty much make games that must have a quarter of the budget as the big blockbuster games they make for PS

Re: COD Going Xbox Exclusive 'Would Not Significantly Harm Competition', Says EU

Stoned_Patrol

@RadioHedgeFund

Uhhh Final Fantasy has already been taken from Xbox. FF7 Remake Part 1 was supposed to only be a 1 year exclusive... Yeah it has been quite a bit longer than a year, Then FF7 Part two just straight up was announced as a Sony exclusive same with FF16.
So this deal getting made or not, PS already hashed out a deal to pretty much make FF a First Party game for PlayStation. FF14 was supposed to come to Xbox even, and the piss poor excuses for why it isn't yet... Square is probably under a non disclosure or at least publicly.
But honestly Xbox gamers dont even seem to care for Japanese games too much. 1,000% they would much rather have CoD exclusive than Final Fantasy. Xbox is the "Shooter Box".

Re: COD Going Xbox Exclusive 'Would Not Significantly Harm Competition', Says EU

Stoned_Patrol

Hahahaha Wow I seriously would pay to see Jim Ryans face when he saw or heard these exact words being stated by the EU today!!

Shoot If I was Xbox, Yeah I am sure they would make more money selling CoD games on PlayStation... But after how much extra money they just costs Xbox by making such a huge fuss over this deal... Then refusing to sign the above and beyond 10 year offer that included the right to let them pay to put the CoD games on their games service too (PS+). F them. I would continue to put the future CoD games on Nintendo consoles, but PlayStation can choke on a fat log of sh*t.

I would not even wait the ten years, It would be off PlayStation as soon as their marketing rights ran out in 2025. LoL

But that is just me being petty, Xbox just loves being "the nice guys" even if that means PlayStation is going to wipe their asses with Xbox's face, Xbox always will just take it with a smile as long as they come off as the nice guys. I am really getting sick of that p*ssy attitude.

Re: Xbox Is Going All Retro With Multiple '90s-Based Releases This Week

Stoned_Patrol

Yeah Chasm does look cool. It is a proper looking "Boomer Shooter" lol. I really like that new sub genre. As a 34 year old, It is funny to me that these are actually some of the style games that I played for the very first games in my life.

I wish these games would have just been thrown into Game Pass... Probably would have been better for the devs too.