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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.

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?"