dreadful

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 That's ridiculous and outdated and shouldn't be supported.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!

Been holding out for a while. Really need one of these.

I'll probably pull the trigger this week.

@InterceptorAlpha The free stuff was in the first 20 levels.

They reworked the entire battle pass thing. It might seem sucky but believe it or not free players actually get MORE out of it than before. They bundled multiples of things into a single tier thank GOD.

Example, a green weapon coating for AR/BR/shotgun/sniper rifle would have taken up 4 separate tiers before now they take up 1.
A blue armor coating for 6 different cores would take up SIX whole tiers now they take up 1.
Shoulder pads would take up TWO tiers. One for left shoulder and one for right. Now, thankfully it's only 1 tier for a pair of shoulder pads or kneepads.

So theres actually more stuff AND they've front loaded all the free stuff in the first 20 tiers. So if you're a free only player you get all the free stuff first. AND they've bundled premium stuff inside the new free tiers together so if you actually buy the pass those tiers aren't wasted.

I'm not simping for Halo infinite. There's a LOT that this game does wrong. Oh my God the store prices are shocking right now. And there's a insane lack of BTB maps among other things but the one thing they do well is the season pass. Its the only thing I will defend of the game right now.

The future of digital streaming games. What a disaster.

Increasing prices by 30% because they enabled the ability to have helmets and colours on all armour cores is actually insane and totally unjustifiable. No, it's NOT better value now that you have removed your arbitrary forced restriction to begin with.

How inept and out of touch do you even need to be to rationalize this thinking?

It's got a ton of ugly post processing visual effects you can't turn off unfortunately.

There's volumetric fog EVERYWHERE. I get that it's "moody" and "atmospheric" but what's the point in all the amazing detailed levels and environments when you just fill the screen with a thick fog masking all the detail.

Depth of field, MSXAAAAA screen blur etc etc
The only graphical option is to turn off motion blur. That's it. A shame really. Cus it could be a nice looking game under all the visual noise.

Bought one of these devices last year to use my PS3 and Wii fight sticks on my Series X.

I play street fighter and soul caliber among a half dozen other fighting games. This is just typical anti consumer greedy nonsense by Microsoft. Every month MS get worse and worse.

I don't expect they'll overturn this. I don't think for a second they give a *****. And it's sickening. My fight sticks are useless now and my usb dongle is worthless now too.

"This" is a sign of a return to form? A sandwich easter egg?

@pip_muzz are you serious? Controller is basically broken. The game LOCKS ON if you shoot anywhere near an enemy. And you'll land every single hit. And get 50% accuracy at least.

With mouse you get completely stomped on by controller players in 1v1 fights as youll struggle to land every shot against a strafing player where controller players will land every shot automatically

Poor indie company Microsoft must be struggling for cash and so won't be hosting our captures on the cloud anymore.

They're okay with increasing the cost of my Gamepass subscription though.
Just another example of the consumer getting f****d in the ass

Maybe Forza "fans" have finally woken up and realised they've played the same game 12 times now?

Literally who cares?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGAHAGA

Reading this is like a glimpse into a future corporate hellscape.

So they committed to get rid of the dude that made the game popular? Even after the false domestic abuse allegations charges were dropped?

I mean.... but why?

Actual literal taddle tale snitching capability added

$100,000,000 woke game for a demographic that must be like, 3% of the gaming audience.

Goodbye.

Don't they realize you only get one chance to make a good impression?

They'll never recover this game. They should just move on. Fallout 76 it doesn't even matter if it's great now it will never be taking serious by 99% of people. The damage was done.

Not a huge fan of Survival modes. Like Streets of Rage 4 survival mode. I don't really see the point.

You have to sit through the first boring easy Waves 1-20 for 15 minutes until it starts to get challenging. Then you eventually get overwhelmed and die.

And.... what? Is that it? What's the point? They don't end. You can't win. What's the purpose? I'd rather just another pack of main campaign levels.

Guaranteed 100% dead on arrival

How are they going to moderate black people saying the N word to each other in a casual way?

That's a cultural thing. So someone can report them for hate speech and they get 3 strikes? How is this going to work?

Yah to the digital future!

Rev up the piracy and emulators!!!

@DTfeartheBEARD I love gyro myself. There's some sort of Xbox controller add on that supposedly adds gyro support but I haven't gotten around to buying it yet.

There's a few questionable changes like nerfing the railgun in single player which is a bit of a head scratcher but the positive changes vastly vastly outweigh the bad ones.

This is essential and quite possibly the definitive Q2 experience. Good stuff.

2 group limit and 14 rows of ads.

It's objectively trash