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@Fishticon the two games are like complete opposites.

I actually liked Maid of Sker quite a bit, and was briefly excited to see Sker Rituals.

But it looks like it's basically just horde mode. Bummer.

I tried playing it several times, and it's not that it was bad, but I just could never stay interested in it, which was weird since I played through the trilogy multiple times.

With digital distribution, does it even matter anymore?

Can't wait to get my hands on it and see what the next big controversy will be!

Car packs are nothing new to Forza Motorsport. They've been around almost as long as the series itself. Why anyone would be surprised by this revelation is beyond me.

Mikami made his mark. He helped shape an entire genre. For someone who has accomplished so much, it has to be difficult to stay motivated. That said, he wanted to make something different and his studio got to do that with Hi-Fi Rush. He could've intended that to be his swan song all along.

I think Tango will be fine without him, but it's always sad to see such an influential person leave.

They can "feel" all they want. Facts don't care about feelings.

Well Free Play Days gave me a zero investment opportunity to try out that new Saints Row game. It wasn't as terrible as I expected it to be (that's not to say it was great) but I will probably pick up on sale at the right price. I would've avoided it entirely otherwise. So there's that I guess.

I buy fewer third party titles because I'm a broke mother****er.

Wait... EA? is delaying a game? FOR POLISH???

waits for meteor strike

Good. They need to start over from scratch. Then they need to ditch this open world Games As A Service bs and create a tightly written, exciting, epic LINEAR showcase that the series used to be. I think back to the "holy ****" moments in Halo Reach and Halo 3 and I miss those days.

If there isn't a nod to Jurassic Park in there somewhere, I'm not interested.

Literally all of the "just for you" deals are for games I already own

So... I've never heard of this game. I clicked the link to the game in the article, and PureXbox has literally no information on it. It's still listed as "coming soon" and there are no critic reviews, user reviews, or anything else. I wonder if by "what should have been" they mean actually marketed and advertised? That affects business, no?

JFC Ubisoft just isn't gonna learn, are they.

Lol why would you not trademark the name the second you decided on it?

FatShark's gotta see that window closing.

@themightyant Elder Scrolls Online might seem pretty niche if you're not a player, but there's a reason they keep featuring it in their E3 presentations and this dev direct. It has like 200k daily players and something around 20 million total. It's still quite successful, AND it's coming up on its 10-year anniversary, which is likely why they're building hype for an announcement right now.

And the "reworked" maps are still pretty bad. I went back and played some of it when came to EA Play but it still wasn't very fun. They really do need to cut their losses and stop sinking money into this trainwreck.

That actually bums me out a bit. I was hoping they were going to alleviate some of the repetitive, formulaic parts of the game (grab keycard, activate lockdown, kill waves of necromorphs, rinse, repeat) and that absolutely awful chapter where you have to stop moving the marker every ten feet to kill monsters.

I already own the original so if the only major difference is a graphics boost, I'll wait for a sale or EA Play.

The five people looking forward to this will be thrilled.

Looking forward to Forza Motorsport. Turn 10 does amazing things with their usual two-year cycle, I'm interested to see what they've been able to accomplish with the extended dev time.

This the same Nvidia who charges $1200 for a video card?

Finally... though I really don't understand why they insist on having these things in the middle of the day during the work week. It's all pre-recorded anyway, so why not Prime Time?

It's a whole different ballgame when you don't have MS paying the bills.

MS has to be aware of the rumors circulating regarding this "showcase event." If they didn't have anything planned, you'd think they would say so. If this month comes and goes without a peep from them neither confirming nor denying, I think it would look worse than just saying they don't have anything planned.

@Justifier It's one of the games in my backlog. It's not bad, but it's not amazing either. I do think it was a victim of being one of the first "next gen" games that released. I think a lot of reviewers were expecting it to be some innovative game-changing revelation, when in fact it's just a basic shooter. If that's what you're in the mood for, you could do worse.

I have a wish list of games that never get a sale. But hey, Assassin's Creed for the 10th week in a row!

This won't affect EA or Criterion in the slightest. These individuals weren't being allowed to do what they wanted anyway. I can't help but wonder if EA kept telling them behind the scenes that if they just did "one more NFS" they'd be allowed to work on a new Burnout or something, but of course it was always "one more" and they finally got tired of it.

I personally hope they left to create their own independent studio and will take some of the talent from Codemasters with them. EA will never let them make anything other than Need For Speed. That's never really been a secret, and the fact that EA now owns almost all of the third party racing developers has always kinda bummed me out.

FF7 has a heavy nostalgia factor going for it. It was the first FF with 3D characters. It was the first with cutscenes, orchestrated soundtrack, etc. It held many "wow" moments back in the day because nothing like it had been done before.

But FF6 is still the better rpg. But it's not on Xbox. So FF7 wins by default.

I wasn't as big a fan of the muppet baby storyline of FF8 and (hot take) I hated FF9's characters.

Well now that that argument is being made, I guess we won't be seeing a huge number of exclusives coming in the next year or so. Wouldn't want to deflate their own argument.

We have to keep in mind that this is the same FTC that is supposed to protect consumers against a monopoly, while also letting Ticketmaster unabashedly abuse its monopoly.

The VGA's themselves: B

Microsoft: Incomplete (you don't get a grade if you don't turn something in)

Let's gooooooooooo!

A price increase on anything is never fun, but it was inevitable. At least we do have Game Pass to soften the blow; The price increase on Playstation has removed a bit of the urgency for me to get a PS5. Perhaps by the time I do, they'll have some of their newer releases on PS Premium Plus Plus.

*Waits for those devs to explain to me why the series s is holding gaming back

Somebody probably read the dates wrong and jumped the gun on a licensing deal. They probably have to wait until a previous agreement or promotion is over. Or maybe the publisher wants to wait until after the holiday shopping season. Who knows.

What about the part of the game where I sit in a lobby by myself for 10 minutes before turning the game off? Even with cross play enabled?

Skywalker Saga would be a pretty good get for the holidays, especially with all the kiddos getting a Series S for Christmas.

@prestoadam It was one of my favorites, but man them aiming controls did not age well.

Too bad EA is too stubborn to admit that a new Burnout would absolutely bury their beloved NFS. They have a weird dedication to that series even though it's been more miss than hit for a long time.

On top of that they just killed off Dirt and Project CARS. Its like they want to force NFS to be popular by making it the only game in town (coughmadden).

Fortunately for us, Turn 10 and Playground can keep that from happening. And Polyphony, well they... exist.. also.

@BBB I wish I could say the same. But I don't want to just play the same map over and over, so I've been trying regular Conquest and it's been a bust so far.

Considering I refuse to enable cross play so Conquest is essentially useless... 1/10.

The 1 is because I can play against bots.

Hey Google, remember that time MS tried to have a phone?

Considering how anti-consumer Sony has been lately, I'd say they're already like Nintendo.

Here's the thing about stats; they can be skewed to make your point.

Sony continuing their "woe is me" strategy. Anything to make them look weaker than they really are. Weren't they the ones saying that MS's Game Pass model wasn't a viable strategy for them?

Need for Speed is forever stuck in the underground street racing aesthetic, which is fine I guess... but its always so cringe. The character art looks awful, but if they can avoid the cringy dialogue I at least might be able to enjoy the racing. So glad this will have a trial on EA Play.

Ya'll say the Series controllers are superior, but I have an o.g. 360 controller that still works like a beast, while all three of my year old Series controllers have stick drift.

I honestly hope it's ESO2. I love the first game but it's almost a decade old now and there's so much more they could be doing with it.