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I didn't get an Xbox until about a year after it launched. The thought that Microsoft (not a hardware company at the time) wanted to release a console next to Sony and Nintendo was laughable. I bought one out of boredom, got Morrowind and Halo used, and experienced what it was like to have a hard drive in a console and built-in broadband. It's been my primary platform ever since. 20 years! (minus one lol).

The Xbox and Gamecube launched practically the same week, if not the same day, so of course I got the Gamecube, as Nintendo was the safe bet. I didn't regret my purchase, but I was looking at that Xbox a year later for a reason.

Motherf***ers at Xbox keep teasing me with these consoles I'll never have. First that horrendously wonderful Whataburger console and now TMNT?

Also... lol at "kids." I'm 41, dammit.

A next gen price that better be for a next gen product. Not paying 70 bucks for slightly higher textures.

So hyped for this. I've put myself on media blackout for it, as I soaked up everything I could in anticipation for FH4, and felt like I kinda knew everything already by the time the game came out. Going in blind on this one!

As an old fart who has been a GR fan since the original on PC, it's my opinion that GR2: Summit Strike had the best MP in the series. In GR2 and GR2:SS you could play a mission with 16 players and permadeath. The more players that died, the harder it became to complete the mission. Couple that with the non-existence of party chat, and it would get quieter and quieter as you went further into the mission and more people died and got kicked back to the lobby. Everyone in the lobby could watch the rest of the match and could talk to each other but not the living players. Going back to the lobby after dying/finishing the mission would get you greeted with either cheers or boos, depending on the manner of your return. It was some of the best online gaming I've ever experienced. The early days of XBL.

GRAW and GRAW2 had co-op with completely broken A.I. and spawn triggers, and didn't even launch with actual co-op missions until way later (after the GR community complained enough). Even then they were broken messes due to the terrible enemy A.I. that knew where you were at all times and the scripted events that practically forced you to approach the situation exactly the same way each time.

I don't mean to sound elitist, but if you're a GR fan that didn't come around until GRAW or Future Soldier, you really can't understand why some of us older guys have been asking for "classic" GR for years now, to which we have been completely ignored and the series continues to veer further and further away from what made it great in the first place.

My PC is a calculator.

Well that sucks. I intend to play online with friends, but that might only happen once a week. i would want to play a little on the side to get better upgrades. If none of us can progress solo, we're gonna be one sorry bunch of survivors.

It literally took me until the licker scene to realize that was Leon.

On one hand: It IS a beta. Weird graphical glitches and bugs are to be expected.

On the other hand: It's a pretty poor first impression. Why not wait till closer to launch and do a stress test with a later build?

On the.. third... hand?: I don't think I've ever played a Battlefield beta that wasn't dumpster fire.

It'll be fun to play through the story missions. I have zero interest in the multiplayer though.

Played a round. It's very Battlefield 4, which isn't a bad thing. Not a fan of cross-play with PC. It's not a problem right now, but I have a hunch it'll be an issue in the future. Played on a Series S and woo boy there are graphical glitches galore. Hopefully most of them will be ironed out for launch.

It's already being heavily down-voted on Youtube, and for good reason. This is about as far from Ghost Recon as it can get outside of being a kart racer.

It's weird that with the bajillion previews they've done, that the reviews are being embargoed so late. Either that or they didn't send out review copies, which is also kinda shady.

Will be totally into this as long as they don't rely on a matches/battery gimmick like Amnesia or Outlast.

Goldeneye was a great game for its time but there are some seriously rose-colored glasses up in here

Well, f***. I was about to start up Tales of Arise, but if Scarlet Nexus is on GP, that might get priority. Tales will be there.

Yeah because Nintendo is soooooooo in tune with what their fans want.

/extreme sarcasm

This is MS's fault. I know they wanted to keep things copacetic but we're starting to get into territory where this is going to happen more and more. Series X only games are going to have to be differentiated by something other than a little box with a very similar word on it. All a mom is gonna see is a bunch of X's everywhere and not know what's what. Hell I would probably even grab one thinking they're all the same and not even realize there are two different versions.

Would be pretty neat-o if they let me pin my Wish List to the home screen, so that I could see all the games on it displayed with their current/sale price and I didn't have to f*** with the store.

Part of me is still holding out hope it is going to be a third-person game, even more-so that that they're bringing in the CD team.

Also, "early in development?" Really? WTF have you been doing for the past three years? Is that why you had to bring in a third party? To actually get something done?

I need this. And #2 with bbq sauce and jalapenos.

BRB....

And Series S? If I'm stuck playing 1080p might as well slap some RT on it.

Metro Exodus took a hell of a resolution hit but it still has RT at 60 on the S so don't tell me it can't be done, Ubi.

I mean, these will never be cheaper than a bluray disc, but even still it would be kinda cool to buy compilations, like the Gears of War Collection or Halo Infinite. Imagine having Halo Infinite on a memory card like that, with enough available space to keep it updated. That'd be pretty f'ing cool.

With no disrespect to the PureXbox editorial team, that list looks like someone googled "great xbox games" and made a list out of it. Allow me to add a few of my own:

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Enclave
Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike
Flatout 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein

The art style kinda reminds me of Dragons' Crown, but without the weird disproportionate characters. I'll definitely check it out.

Battlefield.

But to be fair, I haven't been interested in CoD in years.

I have a feeling once i play Tales of Arise i couldn't go back, so i'm actually trying to finish of Berseria first. I had heard Berseria was one of the better Tales in recent years, but i'm not so sure i agree with that.

I'd be way more excited if it was a Series X/S version of GR2: Summit Strike. God, that game was so f'ing good.

I can wait for the XSX version, especially if they change the combat to something more like FFVII Remake. That said, it's cool to see that Jennifer Hale is reprising her role!

Amazing what actually getting with the times will get ya! I've always loved the Tales games (actually trying to get through Berseria before tacking Arise) but man they've needed a refresh for a while.

At the same time, there are games that are "optimized for Series S/X" that really don't need to be. I have a standard external hooked up to my Series S for Xbox One games, but sometimes I download a game like Blaster Master Zero and it requires the internal SSD. Like, why? What could that dinky little 2D faux-retro Switch port possibly be doing with it?

At this rate I'll own every SNK fighting game ever made, despite never liking SNK fighting games.

This is next on my list. EA Originals continues to crank out better stuff than the actual EA lol.

@Tharsman I think you're under-estimating just how popular of a character Wolverine is. Add to that the fact that there hasn't been a good Wolvie game in over a decade (and will be probably 15 years by the time the PS5 game releases). Don't be surprised if it also correlates with his introduction to the MCU now that Disney has acquired the rights.

I'm excited for this game to release because now Arkane can focus on creating some fresh first-party Xbox IP.

Honestly I don't even care if it's exclusive. If I could play X-Men Legends 3 or The Punisher on my xbox, I couldn't care less if Playstation gamers get to play it as well. That being said, I DO think MS is dropping the ball a bit on the comic IP's. Those are instantly recoginizeable IP's. I can guarantee there are people that are now considering a PS5 once they saw Wolverine.

Been looking forward to this one. Good to see it reviewing well!

I was actually a bit disappointed by the Sony showcase. The two games I'm really hyped for are SpiderMan 2 and Wolverine; two Marvel titles developed by the same studio. Everything else were multiplats I'll be playing on Xbox and God of War 2 which we already know about. The gameplay was very God of War. I'll play it and love it, but it's just not something I get excited for.

The good news for me is, by the time Spidey 2 comes out I MIGHT have found me PS5. At least I know I have some time lol.

@RavenWolfe81 Do you not understand what a rental is? That's all Game Pass is. It's a rental service, nothing more. I don't understand why people can't comprehend this. Maybe you're too young to remember Blockbuster and other physical rental stores, but they had the same kinds of promotions, pay a monthly fee and get to rent a game as often as you wanted. Only it was $20 a month and you only got one game at a time, and (obviously) you didn't get to keep it.

Hell, Gamefly is still around and you have to pay a monthly fee AND WAIT FOR THE GAME IN THE MAIL before you even get to play it, and THAT's if you're lucky enough to get a copy when a game comes out and aren't put on the waiting list. THEN, (and this is the kicker) you have to send it back (or purchase it)!

Game Pass is EXTREMELY consumer-friendly. It's just that we're now a bunch of entitled ****s that want everything for nothing.

Which brings me to the "deep discounts" you're comparing on PC, i've bought plenty of games on Xbox for less than $20, sometimes even as low as $6 or $7. How much ****ing cheaper do you want them?

@FatalBubbles Let's hope so!

Yep that looks like CoD.

Not wanting an easy mode in games is like not wanting handicap kids to be able to ride rollercoasters.

They are confined to wheelchairs, so rollercoasters just aren't made for them. They should just deal with it and stick to the kiddie rides, amirite?

I bought Control at a pretty good discount, about $20. Then they announced the upgrade and it bugged me enough to hold off until I could get it at another discount. All told I think I still paid less than $60 for both and I got the expansions, so I've made my peace with the whole debacle lol.

@RavenWolfe81 Except that logic is thwarted by multiple other popular games getting deep discounts. Ubisoft titles get 50% discounts after only a few months. Capcom has regular deep discount sales on most of its games. LOL at demanding Xbox be "pro-consumer" after offering all of their first party titles day and date for ten bucks a month. A third party store that cuts out the first party platform holder will never happen. Not on Xbox, not on Nintendo, or Sony, or Apple. The only reason it happens on Android is because it's an open platform. So don't hold your breath on that.

Asphalt 9 is basically a F2P Burnout. While I don't really like the way most of the events are broken up in to tiny little segments, it does make it pretty easy to hop in and just do a few in between doing other things. My biggest problem with playing it on my Switch was that when I usually play my Switch, it's cuz I'm on the road. No wifi=no Asphalt. Looking forward to trying it out on Xbox.

Double-Fine: "We don't have the budget for that right now."

Translation: "Can you please just let us be done with this ****ing game already?"

Will they change how i have like, five different gamerpics, depending on what i log into?

It has to be absolutely ****ing exhausting trying to keep gamers happy. It's no wonder Nintendo stopped doing regular Directs and MS dropped Inside Xbox.

Graphically impressive, but I don't have much desire to play as a five-year old.

The original Saints Row crew would give this new Saints Row crew a couple of Swirlies before trash-canning them and rolling them down a hill.

Also, I think I've seen enough of "shaved head girl" to last me a lifetime.