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"Aw, man." -Somebody, somewhere.

To be honest, I was all for this game when it was going to be Dangerous Driving 2. Then they said they were going open world, and I groaned. Then they said it was going to be a build-it-yourself open world game, and I checked out. They should have stuck with what was working for them. Dangerous Driving was good.

That said. I'm confused. I thought a publisher's job was to pay for stuff. If they were funding it themselves? Why have a publisher take a cut?

But I thought Xbox dead????

I played through Avowed and it wasn't nearly as bad as some people would claim. Some of those character designs were dumb as hell though.

I play video games to play them. Not have them play for me. I also don't need game advice or insights. That's what sites like this are for. I really feel like these corporations use and development of AI is somewhat misplaced. What they should really be working on is AI that can cook my dinner, mow my lawn, and wipe my ###. Let ME do the fun stuff.

Is every episode going to be them re-capturing the same outpost they just captured the previous episode?

yeah it has. I am slowly trying to phase out my consoles and move toward PC. But my PC at the moment is average at best. So it's great to be able to buy games and play them on console now, and have them for PC later when my rig is a bit more capable. Plus, if the future Xbox is a hybrid, then all Xbox games going forward are going to essentially be PC anyway.

South of Midnight had fantastic art direction and a kickass soundtrack. The level design, while absolutely beautiful, was simple as hell, and the combat was bad. I liked the game a lot, but it was not GOTY material.

That said, I absolutely think it should have gotten recognition for art and sound.

I could totally understand the need for a re-release of Graces f and Xillia... this one is... less important. Other than the fact that it never released on Xbox. It is still readily available on PC and PS5, and probably looks the same.

I will say that Velvet was one of my favorite characters from the series though.

Dropped down to Essential, because I still play games online.

I don't believe half of the poll numbers that say they outright canceled, for that reason alone. They just gave up on playing any of their online games? I don't buy it.

Forza Motorsport was half-baked at best. They focused so much on the physics and the graphics, they forgot to make fun tracks. Racing on Laguna Seca for the billionth time is fine (i guess), but they left all the fun fictional tracks on the cutting room floor, while at the same time the only NEW tracks they offered were just more boring licensed tracks, some of which are barely distinguishable. It got real boring, real fast. I played the **** out of every FM before that, and I could not stay interested in this one at all. I played about ten races and I was done.

I own GT7 as well, and honestly I don't think it plays nearly as well as FM. But that game has a style and a soul that keeps it interesting, and FM was just lifeless.

I'm not going to reward Sony for their sloppy seconds.

Truth is though, I have a PS5 as well and I didn't buy it there either.

@MetalGear_Yoshi I'm okay with it. Let the people looking for "that kind" of experience go have fun. That'll have the remaining audience in Conquest being the ones that actually want to play Conquest.

@Coletrain You also reply to articles on video game websites. You're not the person they're trying to attract. They already got you. And me. And everyone else on this comment board. Their "competition" is short form video because the audiences of potentional NEW gamers, the ones that are not gaming (and not growing the market) are the ones glued to their phones.

Short-form video has created an entire generation of ADD and people with extremely short attention spans. Which is bad for gaming and audience retention.

Don't care. Seriously, literally, do not care.

That's the cost of doing business. They can write it off on their taxes like every other expense. Why is this even news?

Why does anyone care?

Literally... why?

I've been playing on Xbox since 2002. I literally couldn't care less about any of this. Maybe I'll buy one. Maybe I won't. I honestly couldn't give a rat's furry *** who made it or what it's called. The fact people are debating this so furiously is... sad.

Why would I care what the sale price was the last time I missed it? It's not like I can go back in time. If the sale price on something isn't currently to my liking, I'll just wait until the next time it's on sale to see if it's any lower. Simple as that.

Yes but will it consist of a train that is traveling at 100 miles an hour for like, three hours, yet crashes a half a mile away from where they started?

Arrr, ye mateys. I be decidin' whether I own somethin' or not.

Only in gaming would having the option to try many different types of things to see if you like them be considered a "bad thing."

lol this industry.

I play most games on Easy difficulty these days. I ain't even sorry. I'll play this on normal until it annoys me then I'll activate the 9999 HP damage and call it a day.

I liked the first Dying Light and The Following way more than Dying Light 2. So if they go back to what worked, I'm down.

Interesting that Team Ninja is heading up the Fatal Frame II remake. Hopefully it doesn't turn out like the last two Fatal Frames, which were.... Eh...

I personally hate it when air succumbs to gravity. Always picking my air up off the floor.

Adult Children 19+??

Am I missing something here?

I played a few rounds with my friends last night and it was fun. It reminds me of an old OG Xbox Live game... which can be both a good thing and a bad thing. We did enjoy it, though there were some things we had to figure out on our own. We thought the Warbonds were microstransactions so we literally played the first five rounds without unlocking any new weapons or anything. It wasn't until we started to suspect something was off. That's when I noticed that the first one didn't have the "Premium" banner next to it. After that it was more fun.

Also, completing a mission and seeing that your efforts contributed a whopping 0.0004% doesn't exactly give you the warm fuzzies lol.

Then the Final Fantasy boss needs to make sure his games don't run like ass on the current gen consoles.... looking at you, FF7 Rebirth.

"Charming jank of yesteryear"... As opposed to the broken jank of today?

Cold Fear could be worth a double-dip at the right price. I have it on PC but I don't think it ever got controller support and KB/M is funky as all hell.

I Am Alive was terrible. Must've been a package deal lol.

This may or may not replace my SteamDeck OLED. I love my deck, but the unified launcher is mighty appealing. Having to jump through hoops with side-loading stuff on the SteamDeck, with no guarantee the game will even work, kinda put me off to the customization side of things. I just stick to Steam games, even though I have a ton of GOG games and even a few on Epic, not to mention my Xbox Play Anywhere titles. The fact it's Windows-based should make loading third party apps a lot easier. I do wish it was $200 cheaper, but that's just where we are now, unfortunately.

@Vaako007 What if everything Playstation was available on Xbox?

If it reviews well, sure. I'm actually more looking forward to the "scaled back" idea. The Mafia games always had big maps with nothing to do in them. They were linear story-driven experiences under the guise of "open world." I'd be much more interested in a story-driven game that didn't require me to drive back and forth across a boring city.

Did Sacred 2 really look all that bad to begin with? I played it not too long ago and thought it held up pretty well.

Go back to the mission based co-op setups of GR and GR2. GRAW2 was great once they added in the co-op missions, but they didn't come till later and the game wasn't designed around them. Please god no more Wildlands or Breakpoint. Wildlands was fun, but it wasn't GR, it was Mercenaries 3.

I ONLY buy games when they're on sale. When MS and Steam and Playstation all have Spring sales, Summer sales, Winter sales, Chinese New Year sales, Labor Day weekend sales, sales during Summer Games Fest, sales during Gamescom, weekly publisher sales, etc. etc. etc., it would be absolutely silly to pay full price for anything.

That being said, I will buy games if the price is to my liking, even if it is currently available in Game Pass.

You know what... it should've been. Kojima announced that **** BEFORE announcing Death Stranding 2. And DS2 has released already. wtf is he doing besides milking that MS money to make other projects.

We haven't seen anything more than some cryptic video with people talking. Cancel it already.

I couldn't care less whether it was profitable or not. I couldn't care less if PS Plus Plus was profitable or not. You know who I DO care if they're profitable? Me. As long as they offer services that allow me to enjoy my hobby and keep MY bank account in the black, I couldn't give two ****s what a trillion dollar company's profit margins look like.

It's hard to feel bad for the devs when the last Forza Motorsport was a soulless, boring shell of what the series used to be. I was a huge fan ever since the first one on the original Xbox, and I played a few hours of it and was bored to tears. It offered literally nothing you couldn't get in Forza 4, a game that was released 14 years ago.

Well I can't speak for anyone else, but I got the first one on a pretty deep discount, and I was bored to tears. I got about halfway through it before I just couldn't do it anymore. I haven't even bothered to play the sequel even on gamepass.

I kinda wish Capcom would throw us a bone and re-release Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 so that we can play a version that doesn't run like ****.

I have about 0% faith in Netflix to pull this off.

That's the dumbest metric I've ever seen. I played Oblivion for like, five years before I beat the main quest.

I swear to God if they swap out the OG Disney with the "live action" Disney....

Leave it to WB to have some of the biggest franchises in pop culture and still be failing.

While they're at it, they should include a way to block Roman's phone number.

@Gooseuk Yeah it was due to the game having to keep track of where every single item in the game was. It's baked into the original engine so there probably isn't a way to address it.

For example if you take a mug off a table and drop it on the floor, it's gonna stay on the floor til the end of its days. If you run through every house you enter like a bull in a china shop and leave the place a wreck then your game is gonna start running like crap real fast.

I don't understand how this is still news.

How do people think a 120 GB game is going to fit on a 40-50 GB disc? Does it matter how much of the game is contained on the disc? You're still going to have to connect to the internet, you're still going to have to download extra data, and guess what? That day one patch will likely be a re-download of the entire game anyway.

And for you "physical only" gamers, I'm going to tell you something that nobody else seems to bring up. As a guy who has been gaming since the 80's, when EVERYTHING was physical, take it from me, you're going to reach a point in your life when all this **** is just cluttering up your house and you just want to be rid of it. What is important to you now is not going to be important in 20 years. If you're already into your mid-40's / early 50's and your life still revolves around this "stuff" then I don't know what else to tell you.

I realized a long time ago that all this crap is just old junk that is absolutely worthless to everyone else in my family. Nobody gives a **** about it, and the minute I die, it's all going into a yard sale or a donation box.

I stopped buying physical years ago, and at the same time, came to accept that if I ever lost access to the 1000+ digital games I have across my consoles and PC, it would suck, and I'd be mad, but it would also be a great excuse to get away from this money pit of a hobby and do something else with my life.

Just remember, at the end of the day, all your treasures will be just a dead person's crap. If you think your wife/husband/kids are gonna want it, think again.

Don't bother replying to this comment, I'm heading out for work and will likely forget I ever posted it in the first place.

I realized the only ones I have a problem charging $80 is Nintendo. Everyone else's games go on sale all the time. I haven't bought a game for full price in literally years.

@Dampsponge Considering it will probably be provided as a title update, it will probably upgrade when you install it. Calm down.