dreadful

Halo isn't relevant anymore. It's gone the way of Final Fantasy where it's last good game was decades ago and the younger generation don't know or even care about the franchise.

Why can't they just run games at 60fps? Why does there always have to be super sampling and deep learning super sampling and super resolution upscaling technology and frame generation interpolated technology.

Just get the game to run natively at 60, no?. Stop applying 10 layers of smoke and mirror tricks and post processing layers over my image. Can my game just look nice and crisp please without the nonsense? How much input lag does this introduce? How much does it smudge the image?

Also, apparently you need to have certain specific hardware with special features (VRR/free sync) to even get the most out of it. So open those wallets off.

Pile of Bollocks.

What the hell happened to this medium? This looks like absolute generic TRASH.

Imagine if we had social media back in the day and every absolutely garbage licensed game developed had to put out a public apology. There would be 5 a week.

Can this industry really thrive and succeed when it takes 7 years to make medicore games?

If they increase the price for a series I dont play and don't care about them I'm cancelling

They finally realized FF flopped on pisstation.

I have absolutely zero hope for anything modern day AAA from Microsoft. Especially not a PD reboot. It will never ever recapture the feeling or essence of the original.

He already nuked two studios.

If they raise the price again I'm unsubbing

Why can't any Xbox studio deliver a game people give a damn about? It's flop after flop

They removed the weekly new unique item reward with free currency. So instead of getting a new item for completing the weekly challenges you get some currency that's maybe 10/20% towards buying an item.
So you'll have to grind for weeks to buy an item that you used to get in 1 weekly challenge.

They also halved the amount of new content in Operation events. Last one had 14 new items. This new one has 7. With the rest of the pass being filled with free currency. So instead of just getting new content as you progress the event, again, you have to grind to purchase any new items, of which there's fewer.

There's 21 items to purchase with free currency. Only 5 of them are new items. 16 are old items.
So they've halved the new content in exchange for that you can grind for mostly old items. And the shop refreshes in 6 weeks so anything you didnt grind for you don't get to buy it anymore after the refresh.

ONE armor color is 30,000 points. You get 1000 points a week for the challenge and 250 per day if you play one match. So it will take 3.5 weeks of playing every day to get a single armor coating that would just be unlocked by playing an event normally.

Halo Infinite and 343 is the epitome of 1 step forward, 30 steps back.

Always performance. Always.

It's a real shame this struggling small trillion dollar company can't store my game captures.

Not like I'm paying £180 a year in subscription fees that could at least grant me the basic functionality

No cross play. It's dead.

A gigantic next gen update just to run the game at 30fps?

This is the worst most embarrassing generation to date.

Definitely getting censored or toned down. And will probably look worse too with some ugly default Unreal Engine lighting.

No thanks.

The games will look indistinguishable from current gen which look barely any different from last gen.

@Kalele Theres tens of thousands of indie games. Why wouldn't publishers be more careful about what games they fund?

Imagine touting putting 6 maps made by the fans into a playlist as new content.

@OldGamer999 they're firing expensive US jobs and outsourcing them at less than half the cost to India or South America.

Why do you think shoes are made in China and not the US.

Generic Default Settings Unreal Engine Game: The Game

This game just made the list!!!

@Fenbops The people constantly preaching about tolerance happen to be the least tolerant. Many such cases. Sad.

Embracer was right. Holy smokes what a load of garbage.

Every game they cancelled probably deserved it.

@CrispyMango92 weird sexist and dog whistle racist comment.

We are never getting a new Duke Nukem game are we?

I think all these big companies are deciding to put the obvious dead on arrival looking games on ice now after mega flops like Saints Row, Hyenas, Forspoken and Suicide Squad.

These companies arent willing to bankroll 7 year, $200,000,000 flops any longer. Which is good!

I have a Xbox and Switch.

Gundam Breaker 4 will probably run like ASS on Switch so yeah, I was hoping it would come to Xbox.

Will this be cross play though? I can't find any confirmation of this.

The tags in the Xbox shop do NOT have cross play.
I won't support a multiplayer game in 2024 that's segregated across 4 different platforms. That's ridiculous and outdated and shouldn't be supported.

Saints Row probably scared them.
$100,000,000 bomb.

They probably cancelled a bunch of GARBAGE games that were definite flops.

6/10?

Don't you mean AAAAAA/10?

They forgot to make the game good.

Lmao u serious

It NEEDS GYRO!

IT NEEDA GYROOOOOOOOOOOO

@Techno92LFC

Insight and strategy manager
Video production
Esports comms manager
Brand manager
Partnership manager
Esports producer
Esports management
Esports gfx producer
Marketing writer
Social media lead
Public relations
Marketing communications manager
Principle editor
Social content
Esports event production
Senior global marketing creative producer
Esports player manager
Marketing and brand Lead
Global social media strategist
Recruiter
head of competitive operations
Global esports coordinator
Insights manager
Business operations
Director of esports marketing
Director of partnerships
Program manager producer

I bet you any game in development will change 0% without these employees. Half the people being laid off are fluff management roles and not videogame development related at all.

@GamingSince84 Noooooool Mega corporation HAS to keep undeeded social media managers and unnecessary x consultants and y advisors!!!!

What do they need 22,000 people for?

Why won't the games media acknowledge that companies have insane bloat? Nintendo have 5000 employees. Blizzard had 22,000.

These companies are just shedding unnecessary roles. How many writers do you need? Do you need 40 writers when you could get away with 20? Do you need 80 artists when you could get away with 50? Consultants, social media managers. There's so much fluff and bloat but nobody ever acknowledges it. Why?

The game they told the fans if they didn't like it not to buy it 🤣🤣🤣

Halo will never be what it was. It'll never rekindle that past spirit.

Didn't this company fire and employee because she followed an account on Twitter that the company didn't like?

It's always the same games.

Had Virtua On, Otogi, Gungrave etc etc on my wishlist for ages. They never go on sale. Only the same ones every other week. LAME.

Own games vs rent games

Total flop game. Everyone's realized it's mediocre and has already moved on.

It wasn't already 2160p?

Japanese game where a woman has a little bit of cleavage: disgusting, objectifying, incel sexist mysogntic cringe

Western game with gay anal bestiality sex: GAME OF THE YEAR!!!!

I will never pay £60 for a new videogame. ESPECIALLY not a digital version I can't even borrow or sell to someone.

I can wait for it to go 40%+ off.

Thank you Xbox players!

In return in 2023 Microsoft have;

Increased the price of game pass
Removed full time cloud storage for captures
Banned 3rd party controller devices
Banned emulators
Shut down the Xbox 360 store
Filled the dashboard with 15 rows of ads, added ad popups during gameplay, added boot up ads

Happy Thanksgiving though!