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Headline should read "People want instant gratification, don't want to earn it."

Seriously though, was anyone expecting anything else when the mp was announced as F2P? I can count on zero fingers how many people are surprised by the pricing model. They don't want you to have everything up front, cuz you'll get bored and move on after a week. The drip-feed keeps gamers playing. How do people not understand this?

Game Pass is their best shot at getting people in. That reputation is so badly tarnished there's no way i'm paying for that game without trying it first. Even if they actually ever release the Series S/X version.

@oldgamerdave If you have Game Pass and can handle the hefty download, there's no reason not to give it a shot. Halo CE is worth a quick playthrough on Easy just to kind of understand the story and the purpose of the halo ring. That said, it's a lot of Halo and could very well burn you out before Infinite hits if you try to marathon it. No pun intended.

Kids nowadays don't know the struggle. Back in the 80's, not only were Nintendo and Sega exclusives strictly exclusive, but when we DID get multiplats, they were completely different games lol.

"Up to 60" makes it sound like it's not a locked framerate. Which, for Souls games, is kinda important. Hopefully these are conservative numbers like what Capcom released for RE Village ahead of its launch.

Framerate issues have always kinda been a thing for Souls games and I'm hoping they clean it up at least on the next gen consoles.

@FraserG If you're looking to Microsoft for clear naming conventions, you might be barking up the wrong tree

@FriendlyOctopus I'm going to assume so. MS is selling the premium add-on pack for Forza Horizon 5 specifically targeted at Game Pass subscribers. I think this is going to be a thing going forward.

What's so confusing about that? To buy the add-ons, it's $20. To buy the whole package, it's $50. Not sure how they could've made it simpler than that, aside from just making the whole thing free (which wasn't gonna happen).

They took a developer known for their single player, linear, narrative driven games and ham-fisted them into a multiplayer GaaS.

Literally everyone questioned that move, and now a few years later, Squeenix is saying they "might not have been a good fit." I think we can all file this away into the "No f******* s***" category.

I put about 100 hours into Breakpoint. It was a guilty pleasure for a while. I'm not gonna say it was a great game, but it scratched an itch.

I've been wanting to see what the next gen upgrade looks like, but I have a physical copy of the game and own a Series S, so I'm gonna use this free-play weekend to see what the differences are and what the new mode is like.

@OliverOwen An opinion cannot be correct, sir. That's why it's an opinion.

I didn't say I never used them, I still have a lot of games that have never been re-released. I definitely use them a lot less since my CRTV crapped out. But the fact of the matter is, I'm not going to keep them hooked up indefinitely, and playing a version of an older game on a newer piece of hardware, with a better controller, higher resolution and frame rate, and faster loading times will always be preferable to playing on one of the older systems.

I buy new consoles, especially Xbox, not just for those new, next-gen games, but also to play better versions of old games.

Not gonna lie, Master Chief's swampass is probably more legendary than he is.

I bought an Xbox as a "why not" because I was bored with my PS2 and Gamecube (lol wtf MS making a console). It's been my primary console ever since. 4 generations and counting.

@OliverOwen I have a shelf here in my computer room that has an Xbox, Gamecube, N64, PS2, PS3, Wii, and a Dreamcast sitting on it. Hooking up one of those means dusting it off and finding some place to put it on my desk, digging the wires out of the closet, along with the rickety old ass controller, scavenge my memory cards from whatever dark corner they might be in, finding the AV adapter for my HDTV because they don't have composite inputs anymore, and hooking it all up, just so I can play a completely awful looking up-res 480p signal on my tv.

No thanks. They can give me all the remakes and remasters they want.

A lot of people are assuming this means cloud streaming or cloud-based services, but they didn't mention that in the article.

If anything, what I get from it is that post-pandemic, remote development is here to stay, and the challenges that developers have encountered is that of multiple people in multiple locations all working in sync. Builds have to be uploaded, shared, etc. before the next department can do their part. With a cloud based development environment, they could possibly work via the cloud and see the live results of everyone working on the project, similar to how it would be if they were all in the same office. I believe this is going to be 100% development, as opposed to hinting at what kind of end products we'll be playing on our consoles.

Resident Evil gets my vote just out of pure longevity. That series has some staying power (obviously). Silent Hill gets a nod but let's be honest, the first two games were great and then came a whole lotta 'meh.'

MS is pooling their resources into tent-pole releases for Game Pass. GWG is now the poor man's sloppy seconds.

In truth, GWG isn't any different than Game Pass, you still lose access to them if your sub expires. They should just retire GWG already.

Personally, I would've double down on old Craig. Remove most textures. Simplify the mesh a bit. Tuck him away somewhere secret on the Zeta Halo. Then have him jump out at Master Chief in all his OG Xbox graphics glory and scream "Craig forevah motha****as!"

But that's just me.

Wow these are overpriced. I bought a 40-inch Samsung for a little over 200 bucks. It doesn't do VRR or 120hz, but VRR will be less and less necessary as the gen goes on, and 120hz isn't important to everyone.

I'd rather just wait for OLED to get cheaper and more reliable.

Maybe it'll enhance my ability to stay awake while playing it.

With this, Tales of Arise, and FFVII Remake, it's nice to see JRPG's getting with the times in terms of graphics. They're finally not looking like PS3 games anymore! Now all Japan needs to do is evolve their anime style. I swear I've been playing as the same characters for 30 years.

Not to mention 16% of a few billion dollars is still a significant amount of money. It's not "just" 16% of the previous year's revenue, it's 16% MORE.

I've been pretty happy with my Series S, but I do still have my One X for the enhanced games (and my physical games).

I've been trying to sell my friend on the Series S. He's still on a base XBO console, so literally any of the new consoles will be an upgrade. He won't budge though; just knowing the Series X exists he's insistent on waiting. That's fine and all, he can do what he wants, but he's going to be getting more and more hard-pressed to stick to his XBO when we're playing the newer multiplayer games without him.

I have a feeling he (and the other holdouts) will eventually grab a Series S as a "for now" console until the X is more readily available. But right now we're still in the cross--gen phase. The FOMO will win out eventually.

Why even report on twitter comments? C'mon PureXbox, you're better than this.

@would_you_kindly Consider it a rental.

It's tough to say. Chaos Theory had the best over-all package, but Pandora Tomorrow offered some interesting twists (like staying IN the light to avoid the night-vision sniper, and the lightning flashes exposing you crossing an open area). Blacklist did a neat thing by combining different types of missions and giving Fisher better moves to counter certain enemies.

The series really did avoid cookie cutter sequels so its a shame its been so long (but its probably for the better considering Ubi's current direction).

Been playing it with a couple of friends. We have a few gripes but nothing that's killing the fun. It is what it is, we'll play through it and enjoy it and then we'll move on.

I stopped playing FFIV years ago. A monthly sub is so passe.

Evil Within 2 had probably one of the coolest looking final bosses in recent memory.

"Competition is so unfair."

Um, you're on Game Pass. That's about as much as two people from Brazil who made a videogame could've dreamed for. Stop playing victim.

It would be really nice to be able to replace the optical drive on my Xbox One X that just recently crapped out. Now I have two Xboxes that don't play discs!

I wonder if they're going to be unique products, like how Forza Horizon 2 on 360 was different from the Xbox One version.

I only ask 'cuz I want to double-dip achievements

I stopped buying CoD about six or seven years ago and every single year, instead of being tempted to go back, they just give me more reasons to be glad I left.

Still gonna give me motion sickness. But now it'll be 120fps motion sickness!

Hmm. Not quite sure why they showed us this. While I did see a few staples of the SR series that give me a slight bit of hope, this quiet, leisurely stroll around somewhat empty streets isn't exactly blowing my skirt up. I was hoping for some action. Was it meant to be a tech demo?

I'll be using it to try out games I'm not sure I want to download to my Series S. It seems to be the general consensus. I would definitely use it more though if I were still gaming on a base XBO.

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.