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I have the 360 and PC version. The game is almost great. The main thing that holds it back imo is the wonky character progression and atrocious UI (on 360). If they clean both of those up I might take another look. I think I've spent maybe $10 total on both versions so it's not like I've invested much $$ on them.

I'm always willing to give battlefield another chance. The problem is, if nobody else is willing to give it a chance, it's pointless.

Graphics will be great but I don't know if I trust them to design intricate levels like they used to.

It didn't leave the fan base "partially polarized," it left the fan base completely

Fans of Saints Row were pretty unanimous in their feelings, which is why you're in the pickle you're in.

I would buy one just to watch TV. Right now I have my old One X in the living room so we can stream tv and play the odd game or two. But I would love to replace that with Keystone so I could put my One X back in my game room.

I've almost bought Insurgency a few times on sale, but since it's a MP game it's always been a bit of a crapshoot I'm not willing to risk, especially since I'd be playing it without any friends. Now I at least get to not only try it out, but play it with a buddy since there's no entry fee for either of us. Looking forward to it.

GDmit I'm gonna have to play thru this game a third time aren't I...

I don't know how to work the word "broke" into February, but good lord my wallet is already crying in the shower.

I mean, didn't we all know this was coming the moment EA bought Codemasters? I personally poured one out for the studio the second I heard the news.

It's a damn good thing that Microsoft has the Forza franchise and that Sony has.... Gran Turismo..... because if not EA would essentially own a racing monopoly on consoles.

Need For Speed, Dirt, F1, GRID, Burnout, Project CARS.. all under one roof, and we know EA isn't about comeptition, they buy up competing franchises just to kill them off. We all know we'll never see another Burnout, and we just saw whatever the **** they turned NFS into.

I don't think they'll outright "kill" Grid, but I'm not holding my breath on seeing anything else from that series any time soon.

One day these publishers will realize that these basic remasters will sell faaaaar better at $20.

My "impulse purchase" limit stops at $20. At 30, I start to question if I really want it, and the answer to that most of the time is No.

Even if they don't own ActivBlizz by that time, there's still nothing to stop them from working out a Game Pass deal. Especially if they fully expect to have them acquired eventually.

It still looks like they used one texture for every object in the game.

"10-15 hours" = about two months.

For me.

It was there one time. The next time I booted up it was gone.

Sucks for Japan but kudos to Glen Schofield and the dev team for sticking to their vision and not giving in to the almighty dollar.

This looks like they have the engineers doing the design. Engineers are not designers. They take the designs and make them work. MS needs to get an actual graphic designer in there and stop letting the engineers make the UI decisions, because they're obviously terrible at it.

This is why MS needs to get ActivLizzard. Toys for Bob should be working on anything but Call of Duty.

@Titntin MS isn't making these public statements for the CMA, they're making them for all the other governing bodies that are following this closely, like the FTC. They're making the points the CMA should be making so that when this is done and they move on to the next phase, those points are already inserted into the minds of the other committees they have to go through. The last thing MS wants is to deliberate with the CMA in private, so that the CMA can decide whatever they want. IF the CMA tries to block this, they're going to look like biased and "corrupt" (i say corrupt in the sense that they're not being objective like they're supposed to) to all the other governing bodies in the world. Essentially, MS is trying to make the CMA look bad by doing their job for them. This is obviously just speculation by me, but it's the way I'm seeing it.

The stuttering got noticeably worse on the PC as well, but I just thought it was something else on my machine that may have been causing it.

MS could shut a lot of these people up if they'd start cranking out first party games that look and run incredible on Series S.

Horizon 5 looks amazing and runs fine.
Gears 5 looks amazing and runs fine.

I'd be willing to bet that Modern Warfare 2 will look incredible and run at 60 and it's not even first party (yet?).

The key word here is "redundancies." They're not downsizing due to closing departments or dissolving positions. But when you have 100 people doing work that can effectively be done by 75, that's bad news for 25 of them. It's unfortunate but it happens. Also, "less than 1000" in a company as gigantic as MS is very little.

Looking forward to this. I still need to get through the Amnesia Collection. Scrounging for matches though.. ugh..

I'm also kinda curious how the introduction of new characters is gonna go. It's gonna get real crowded real quick unless they add additional biomes.

Your move, Sony. Imagine how many sodas we could fit in a PS5 minifridge! Even if it was at scale!

The art style was never the problem. The problem was that it was always the same old Street racer cringe that we've been playing for 20 years. And that doesn't look like it's changed.

Well they've already oversaturated the video space, time to move on to gaming!

I just want COD to go back to not taking up half my hard drive

Considering Skillup said it ran like hot garbage on his PC even with DLSS, it sounds more like a dev optimization thing than a console spec thing.

Congrats, they didn't know who they were making the game for, and in effect, made a game for no one.

The only obstacle to success that Battlefield has is EA.

@BAMozzy I think FSR is what I was thinking of. I guess we'll have to wait for Digital Foundry's analysis to see if they've implemented it in the Xbox version yet (because I think that was supposed to be the case).

Isn't this supposed to be implementing DLSS or whatever Nvidia's version is? Perhaps they're still working on that and will come via a performance patch later.

This is one of those cases where I can see them wanting to get the port ready the nanosecond the contract expires and worry about the bells and whistles later.

It would be great if they weren't there at all, but since GP is MS's bread and butter right now, I doubt those ads are going away.

What if, in the event a profile IS a GP Ultimate subscriber, one of the benefits is a minimized dashboard? What if one of the GP features was a dash that has NO ads for GP and maybe only one or two for the Xbox store? It would be nice if we were able to cut all that garbage out if we're already subbing to their service.

I liked it better the old way, where you paid once for the game and all the fan created mods and content were free, and anyone with a little bit of graphic design or 3D modeling knowledge could put whatever they wanted in the game.

So if I'm understanding this correctly... Assassin's Creed Infinity is just a ****ing launcher?

I hope they keep the scale. Would be fun to go to Toy Story world and have everything be big, but I want a toy-sized Woody and Buzz running around my village.

"We want to be able to see the wallpaper on our home screen better."

"What? You want MORE tiles on the home screen?"

Super Mario Bros... Before that I had an Atari and most of those games couldn't be "beaten"

Usually these kinds of things are half-baked or shallow at best anyway. I'm glad they made the decision to just not **** with it. It was my least favorite part of past HP games anyway.

Meanwhile, Sony buys a portion of FromSoft and partners with Kadokawa, which will almost definitely result in games like Elden Ring 2 skipping Xbox, and nobody bats an eye.

I used to really like Sony but they're being a bunch of two-faced a-holes this gen. Cry about one thing then turn around and do the exact same thing somewhere else.

Kind of reminds me about that time back in 2004-ish when EA got served by NFL 2K5 so they went and locked down the NFL license for all eternity. And it's been a blast ever since!

Hallelujah it's about ****ing time. The prompt works well enough when using smart delivery but if you're installing from a disk, having the external as default will install it to the external whether it's Series S/X optimized or not. Then when you try to play it, it tells you it requires the faster storage, so you have to move or copy it. It'll be nice to have this straightened out.

I'm totally gonna get this on PS5!
Looks at blank spot on shelf between the Series X and the PS4
Ooooohhhh that's right.... I can't actually find a PS5. Oh well!

I had to force myself to start Plague Tale Innocence. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Looking forward to Requiem!

So it's like when we would build a clubhouse at my grandma's when I was a kid, and then I'd go back a few days later to see my cousins had gone over and f*** it all up.

Can't wait to relive those memories!

I am so down for this.

If they're just now starting it (which we don't know) that's only a two-year dev cycle. Hopefully it's not a mobile game or card battler or something.

I would personally be 1000% ok with a linear hack n slash like the old movie games, but with current gen physics, graphics, lighting, etc.

Saints Row 2 was the best in terms of content and story... but it ran like garbage.

Saints Row 3 had a more optimized game engine and ran much better but it didn't have nearly the amount of stuff to do that SR2 did.

I would personally love to see a SR1+2 remaster, but I don't think the world today could handle the OG Saints.

So is this what Dangerous Driving 2 morphed into? A little disappointed to be honest, I was hoping for a spiritual successor to Burnout 3, but it looks like we're getting a spiritual successor to Burnout Paradise instead. Sad face.

Also in the time that they've been working on this, Playground has released FH5 with the editor and the Hot Wheels expansion. That had to hurt

That still doesn't sound like a story campaign, just another mode. It honestly sounds like Battlefield 1's "stories," which in my opinion were kinda crap.

Honestly though, I just played through BLOPS3's campaign and... Eh... I dunno what Treyarch was doing with that one but I wouldn't have been very excited for BLOPS4 after that mess.

I find it interesting that they will consider 2023 a "gap year" considering it's the 20th anniversary of the franchise. Of all the years to NOT release something lol.