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I've only played for an hour or so but this game is great so far and on a high end PC looks stunning, it still looks very good for console players without RT. I wasn't the biggest fan of the original but did enjoy the story and Control was one of the highlights of recent years and this seems to be at least as good

It depends how you look at the numbers, we don't really know how many are playing on Xbox but looking at Steam this is well below the current players of both Forza Horizon 4 and 5.

I tried this on PC and it had quite a few issues even if the underlying game seems pretty good and I'll return to it when they fix its performance

Played the demo and loved it, can't wait for the full game

It's PC performance is pretty dreadful and very odd considering how well the Forza Horizon games run on PC, just changing a framerate setting caused it to lurch between 40 and 80fps almost corner to corner.

As for the game itself, I found the intro to be hugely annoying as the game constantly talked at me instead of letting me play it. That and the structure of the single player just isn't very good and I suspect the car levelling up system is the cause of cars feeling like driving on ice, at least to start with.

On a more positive note, an upgraded car felt quite fun to drive and the AI felt more alive than in something like GT and the game looks great, so if they can fix that PC performance it could be in a good place

Tried it on PC earlier and it's a pretty shoddy port, which is bizarre given how well the Forza Horizon games run and is one of the worst racing games I've played on PC in that regard.

I'll give it another go when it gets fixed

Both games look great, though GT7 is somewhat inconsistent with some tracks being plucked from GT Sport and others built specifically for it looking better, though apparently that's the same for some cars on Forza.

What Forza will benefit from is dynamic time of day and weather on all tracks and whilst I had fun with GT7, it's chase cam is beyond awful and its racing became tiresome just starting from the back forever and the less said about having cars out of stock, the better

GT7 is feature rich now? I thought its campaign was lacklustre compared to its own better previous entries, with the Cafe being no more than window dressing to cover up a lack of single player content and the awful way it handles how you can or usually can't buy cars.

Sadly it seems to be the way for modern racing games, I guess this is yet another that's probably best played in a year or two when it's actually finished. I'll still give it a go now whilst I still have Gamepass as the core racing does seem to be good

I'm playing on PC and Dogtown is far more demanding on the CPU than anywhere else in the game, especially near the roundabout where it sits around 80% usage on my 5800X3D even when I'm stood still. Which in turn is up from around 70% usage outside of V's apartment block, so hopefully this gets smoothed out

@Lightning720 I'm playing on PC and after 80 hours I haven't had a single crash. So far its been by far and away the most reliable Bethesda game I've played, the worst I've seen is a couple of npc's float away.

I'm kind of bouncing between the pair of them, with a greater focus on Phantom Liberty for the moment but don't really see them as similar games outside of being an RPG. If anything I'm happy they have very different strengths and weaknesses as I'd hate for all games just to play like one another.

Once I'm done with Cyberpunk's dlc I suspect I'll probably leave it at that, whilst Starfield like Skyrim before it, will be one I return to again and again other the years

Why is the only comparison development costs when comparing to old games? They always conveniently forget that cartridge manufacturing and distribution was also significantly more expensive than shipping a disc with no manual and digital distribution. Not to mention bigger games today regularly selling many more copies.

These days I rarely buy games day one or close to launch with Zelda, Starfield and RE4 being the only games I have done this year. Though to be fair to Capcom they are one of the last to increase their prices and RE4 is as good as anything I've played this gen, in fact it's better than most I've seen at £70

@S1ayeR74 Sony also manufacture many times more of the disc version, so it would be impossible for the digital to get even remotely close to its sales. At this moment the standard digital model is unavailable on Amazon and Playstation's own store.

Also last gen, the standard PS4 remained the best selling version after the Pro came out

@BAMozzy that how I've been with Starfield, I just don't want to play anything else at the moment. I did try the Cyberpunk patch and it's a huge improvement and looks stunning on my PC but I still went straight back to Starfield and have a crazy amount of things to do even after around 70 hours

I'm about 70 hours into Starfield and its easily my GOTY with RE4 in 2nd and Zelda 3rd

Good news and bad news, it's great that they've finally listened to player feedback but I see no reason why rewards and progression shouldn't be the same. A better solution would have been to add extra rewards for the high seas

£5 a month to play rubbish ports of classic GTA games 😂😂😂

I've been playing a bit with my level 50 character on PC and some of the new skills are so much fun, like jumping off moving vehicles or using a sword like a Jedi and the updated police system is great. Oh and on a high end PC it looks absolutely insane

The reality is most gamers don't care about having the most powerful hardware, just look at the success of Switch. If there was a lower priced weaker PS5 then that would be the best selling model and last gen when the Pro and One X launched, the standard consoles still sold better

@RIghteousNixon the more I played Starfield the more I enjoyed it, I'm currently on ng+ and doing many more side quests with an interesting companion. When this dlc drops I'll be bouncing between the 2 for some time

I can't wait to play this, I already enjoyed the base game and the improvements sound huge. Personally I'll be playing on PC with a 4070ti for some ray tracing goodness but ot sounds a great time wherever you play

@BAMozzy I myself play their games on PC and you make a very good point about that. I think this is more of a final push towards all digital for Xbox, given the current X seemingly isn't in line for these updates and them making their games available across multiple devices, the console just being one of them. As opposed to Sony and Nintendo who are very much still in the realm of buy our hardware to play our games

@Tonmoy one of them is, the other is a brand new product and I'm not against them revising the S again for such reasons, consoles get iterations all the time but you don't have another launch for them

Well it looks like Xbox is hurtling to an all digital future and why on Earth is there another Series S and still at £300? That's madness.

If that PS5 Pro rumour is true and the Switch successor is coming next year, then Xbox's strategy of "it's now round and doesn't have a disc drive" is certainly a bold move

Starfield has become my favourite Bethesda RPG overtaking Skyrim, I enjoyed it's main story more than any of the others and I'm still discovering it's side quests but I've already had lots of amazing moments. In this if you go and explore on your own then you probably won't have a great time, in the others you'll stumble upon actual quests but in this it's much less likely. Though I'd argue there is much more curated content in this and there are still some fun and seemingly random interactions and some of the coolest moments I've had would be huge spoilers, so I'm saying nothing

This has become my favourite game this year and probably my favourite Bethesda game altogether. For the first 10 or so hours I liked it but it doesn't have that immediate impact of a Skyrim, now 50 hours in and having finished the main story it already has some great quests. Now I'm digging more into the side quests in NG+ and it still feels like I've barely scratched the surface, also I feel the companions have been written far better than in previous games and there are some very interesting possible surprises.

This year I'd go for these as my top 3 so far

Starfield
Resident Evil 4
Zelda TOTK

GTA and Rockstar were a huge part of my gaming from the PS2 days through 360/PS3 with multiple GTA games and other titles but they're basically irrelevant to my gaming now and have been for a decade. I enjoyed GTAV but its not my favourite entry, never hitting the highs of Vice City and San Andreas and even being a bit of a backwards step from IV. Since then the likes of Cyberpunk have filled that open world gameplay gap and if GTA6 launched tomorrow I'd be playing Phantom Liberty instead

About 5 hours in and loving it so far, it's basically Fallout in space which is pretty much what I wanted and expected. I'm playing on PC and getting good performance, though it needs some optimisations on Nvidia but im maintaining north of 60fps at 1440p. I'm looking forward to my days off to dive further into it

Only had a brief go this morning before work and it's very much Skyrim/Fallout in space, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Bethesda RPG's are amongst my favourite experiences every generation and first impressions are very strong. One thing for certain is that it looks much more impressive than any of their previous games. I can't wait to play more after work

@IOI I can't cope with the pressure of that screen 😂

I've been enjoying this and similar ganes on Steam this year. I'm glad to see it come to consoles and hopefully the likes of Turbo Overkill also do, as that is one of the best fps games in years

I said this from the start, no point in not having the game available at all when you could just drop split screen for the S

This looks so good, it's been one of my favourite games of the last few years and this combined with the new DLSS on PC will have me playing it again

@JayJ Quake 2 RTX looks much better overall due to it's RT but enemies seem to be slightly more detailed in this remaster, plus you have the expansions plus a new one and Quake 2 64.

I can't say I care for it, its fun in Astro Bot but genuinely can't remember it's implementation in any other game I've played. Whilst it's triggers are generally more annoying than immersive

Rockstar are a joke these days, I remember the PS2 days when we regularly got exciting games from them yet in just a few months time they will have released 1 new game in 10 YEARS!!! Alongside some dreadful remasters, GTAV never getting a Pro/X patch and now this bare bones port for $50

The original RE2 is my favourite game in the series and it's remake is my favourite of the RE engine games, though the RE4 remake is excellent

@FraserG this is the part that annoys me most, I've no intention of playing the online part but not only have to download it but it's also the default mode when booting up the game. Such a sad state of affairs when the main part of the game is treated as the add on

@MikeHiscoe Rockstar wanting to sell a 60fps patch as a full priced game happened to smart delivery

I only got my Series X back a few weeks ago and have already added around 10,000 points to my total, bringing it to around 16,000. I use Bing on my PC and mobile anyway so that makes it easy to get extra points

@somnambulance at this point I'd rather it just got FPS boost, is this the only AC game that's not 60fps on Xbox?

It's £2 a month extra, so I can't say I care. I pay way more for Virgin Media yet spend far more time on my Xbox

The FTC just sound like a massive Playstation fanboy account at this point, begging for games to remain on Playstation all whilst they themselves are paying to keep the likes of Final Fantasy and Silent Hill 2 off of Xbox

Is that the real Prey? Cracking game that and weirdly I actually enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever, overall that's a very good list of games

@Darude84 pretty much what @ApostateMage says and also it doesn't do the best job explaining what all the cyberware can do and in conjunction with you r skill tree choices. Over time they start to make sense but it could be worth waiting until the new dlc comes as the base game is getting more updates to tidy this up and make it better.

I've now done a couple of playthroughs now and very much looking forward to a third soon

@themightyant you should have tried playing Skyrim on PS3, that same issue reduced gameplay to single digit performance 🙈. Still got the platinum though.

I bought the Cyberpunk One X so originally played the game on Xbox at launch for a little while. I've since beat the game on a high end PC and loved it, then recently installed it on Series X and was pleasantly surprised with how it looks and runs and that 10 hour save file will form the basis of my next playthrough when the dlc comes.

As for bugs, I can't really think of any I've encountered for quite some time now, it's nice they're still optimising it but it's already in a great place. That being said I'd still recommend new players wait until the dlc and the improvements drop as they sound like pretty substantial additions

@NEStalgia sure there are many games you can just sit in place but for room space it's a different story, when I was had PSVR2 I had to rearrange the furniture whenever I wanted to play. A wireless solution would certainly have made that easier

At this point I don't ever expect VR to be mainstream, with mobile you had Samsung giving away headsets and it never went anywhere. Even PSVR2 which I think is a great piece of tech only has one exclusive game from Sony for it, plus support for GT7 (which is fantastic) but has no further announced games for it.

Sadly whilst games can be amazing in VR, most people simply either can't stomach it or don't have the space to set it up

I had a quick go of Vampire Survivors through Xcloud this morning so that's now been installed, might also go for a bit of Killer Instinct and the Streets of Rage Collection from the 360 with my arcade stick.

On Switch I've swapped Zelda games to Link's Awakening

@NEStalgia spot on, all he ever said was that one excellent game isn't going to magically make the Xbox outsell the Playstation and everyone moves to the Xbox platform.

Just the many idiots online purposely chose to use his comments in another way for their own fanboy nonsense

I mean, let me play the game first and then I'll judge it but I am very excited to play it

I'll be playing this on my Series X, I can't say I was expecting this to be 60fps and simply lowering the resolution won't necessarily make it reach that number if it's a CPU bottleneck. Having just spent a crazy amount of time with Zelda, I can't say 30fps bothers me and with the ambition of this game there isn't anything I'm looking forward to playing as much as it