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I'm not expecting much, December and January are typically quieter months if I'm remembering right.

But hey, if SE and Microsoft want to show off their new tightened relationship they could always put Final Fantasy games back onto gamepass, starting with VII Intergrade.

If it costs more than a Playstation 6 I won't be buying one. I know that much for sure.

I spent over 5600 hours playing Xbox last year and I assume about the same again this year with Final Fantasy XIV my most played game again this year. Unfortunately I can't confirm this thanks to Xbox skipping the wrap this year.

I'm sure the few dollars Microsoft saved by not paying a couple developers to work on it is going to make next year so amazing. /s

Square would be better off taking a gamepass deal for these releases. Would be a pretty big game for January. Either way, I already have the remake pre-ordered.

The original holds a very special place in my heart for various reasons inside the game and out. I'm very much looking forward to this.

After the recent beta test or whatever it seems like the sentiment around the game is a lot more positive now. Great to see Bungie was able to work out a deal with the artist and get this game back on track.

I'm in the middle of a playthrough of this on PC via geforce now with everything set to ultra nightmare and all the path tracing / ray tracing options enabled. Gorgeous game. With DLSS quality i'm getting around 103fps at these settings but DLAA takes it all the way down to like 44-60 fps bouncing all over the place.

I have to say I miss the glory kills from Eternal. There's a couple here and there but I miss being able to do them whenever I wanted and how there were different ones for in-front / behind / side of enemies as well as below or above them doing different things as well.

These games are hardly anything to get excited over. I always get a good chuckle out of some people making a mountain out of an ant hill though whenever something, anything, moves over from Playstation to Xbox. Five Nights at Freddy's is not, and will never be the same as Halo, Gears & Forza making their way to Playstation along with so many other Xbox games and that's a damn shame.

Honestly after tonight's game awards that's good to hear. So many games tonight are either Steam exclusives or Steam & PS5. A lot of games seem to be skipping Xbox that were announced at TGA.

It takes like a minute or less to create a new Microsoft account. Just subscribe to Ultimate on a new account and add that account to your Xbox. Gamepass is shared with all other accounts, including your real one / the one you actually use day to day.

I used to abuse the $1 trials this way all the time.

Oh brother, these games stink! 50% price increase and Microsoft gives Ultimate members slop. Thanks Microsoft.

I'm sure it was just a technical glitch and absolutely nothing to do with Rockstar hoping the impatient would buy the game with the 50% discount.

I swear Rockstar can't release a single thing without there being controversy and when it all boils down to it the reason always comes back to greed. At this point I fully expect the rumored RDR2 update will be a $70 game.

I give it a C-. There was barely anything revealed that looked like something I wanted to play.

This was definitely not worth watching. What a boring show with like one interesting reveal. I guess the big Showcase earlier in the year is the one worth watching.

The fact Split Fiction was not nominated for GOTY is criminal. Hazelight studios is incredibly talented and just like It Takes Two, Split Fiction was an absolute blast and treat to play through.

@Fiendish-Beaver I would say the campaign is normal. I usually play them on veteran so this one felt pretty darn easy. Endgame provides more difficulty but then becomes trivial when you hit around operator rank 40.(Not your multiplayer rank but each individual operator you can choose has a rank you rank up.) Really every ten ranks each zone in endgame becomes trivial so at rank 10 the enemies in zone 1 become like 1 shot kills or 2-3 something like that depending on your gun of course then rank 20-25 stomps through zone 2 and so on.

On a related note something that's happened to me two times in Endgame now though... there seems to be a bug with exfils. I don't know if it has to do with reaching rank 40 or higher in a round but both times I have reached that operator rank and tried to exfil the damn thing wouldn't work and I died after the timer ran out. I would have at least one or two max rank operators by now if that had not happened lol.

I had an entirely different experience. I played through the campaign solo and ĺoved every second of it. The levels that give you a sniper like the VS Recon were so much fun shooting head after head after hear. Earning both level and weapon XP as well as completing challenges. I haven't even touched the multiplayer or zombies yet and just reached level 40 from campaign + Endgame.

I loved it so much in fact that I purchased the vault edition upgrade because I can already tell I'm going to be sticking with this years CoD for the long haul so long as Endgame recieves updates and support throughout the year. Been hearing rumors or giant bosses and.. dinosaurs? coming to Endgame.

@DennisReynolds game becomes profitable shortly after launch, goes on to sell millions more in pure profit. Announces intention to release already profitable game on more platforms, something that takes a very small fraction of total development costs. Spiderman cost like what, 3m to port to PC and 4m for the sequel? Lol

"Sony & Shift Up are desperate for money, they need it to make this game profitable."

Make it make sense.

Got my flight to New Zealand booked.

@TrollOfWar Not to mention the total loss of Xbox's image leading to so many people to ask themselves what the point of owning a Xbox was anymore and hardware sales spiraling downwards at an accelerated rate. Now that gamepass is $30/m even the "it's got gamepass" narrative has fallen apart.

Gone mostly smoothly. Sure, if Microsoft's drive entailed dragging the Xbox brand through the mud and showing no concern or respect for their longest, most loyal fans. They had a very smooth drive.

As for Sony and Bungie, it certainly hasn't gone as planned but something everyone seems to be overlooking, or framing as a bad thing, is that Bungie convinced Sony to cancel multiple live service games, potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars and another PR nightmare like Concord was.

Any word on what happened to the console release of Terminull Brigade? It was supposed to release yesterday, October 31st, but hasn't shown up anywhere and the developers have been radio silent.

Watching the death of the Xbox brand as we know it has been sad to watch. Everyone that cheered on the Activision aquisition has got to be feeling quite let down, I know I am and I was against it from day one.

I am so in! I'm looking forward to seeing more. Another horror franchise I wish got it's own modern game is Nightmare on Elm street.

I had a strong feeling Robocop was headed to gamepass due to the recent steep discounts / sales on it. Glad I waited and didn't pull the trigger on it.

Holy smokes, I thought the Switch 2 was overpriced but this thing is on a whole other level. $950 for the cheaper version and $1500 for the more expensive version when converted to my currency.

@TrevorP86 oh no they removed CP content; put underwear on hostages and disabled the gore effects on dead bodies, living enemies still have full gore and blood when shot.

No buy 🤥

@Balaam_ I wonder the same myself every time I see yet another Xbox game announced for Playstation. Maybe this is the way Xbox was inevitably going to end up but there's no doubt in my mind that this aquisition significantly sped things up in this direction.

So there isn't a second batch of games for May? Pretty dissapointing way to end the month with these two games they don't look very interesting.

My prediction: More Xbox games announced for Playstation, including Starfield.

@fatpunkslim not a single one of the games you listed are or ever were Playstation exclusives. Comparing 3rd party games made and published by companies not owned by Sony to Microsoft releasing Xbox games including flagship titles such as Forza and Gears of War is an incredibly poor comparison. What Xbox has lost is far worse from the perspective of a Xbox fan than some 3rd party games that were known to be timed exclusives on Playstation.

If all of these 3rd party developers are supposedly not making any more timed exclusivity deals for Playstation, why are there so many still coming?

"First of it's kind"

There's already plenty of terrible liveries in the game, this is just another one.

It's boring. Towerborne will be another failed and forgotten about live service game, it's a shame Stoic went with this direction.

I have no interest in PC gaming so I bought an Xbox to be able to play some of my favorite staple franchises of the brand such as Forza, Halo and Gears of War along with whatever else Xbox had cooking. Now with these games no longer being locked to Xbox and instead releasing on Playstation, I don't see the value in investing in Xbox hardware any longer when I could buy a PS6 and play these Xbox games I have grown to love as well as play some amazing looking Playstation games likes Spiderman, Wolverine, Ghost of Tsushima / Yotei etc that I have missed out on this gen. Gamepass has always been a bonus, something that allowed me to check a game out and if I liked it I bought it, just like I have been purchasing all my games for the past 20+ years. Gamepass is not a very big factor to me and not enough to sway me to stay on Xbox.

Starfield is my guess and if the rumors are accurate it will be some time this summer.

Take my money Rockstar.

Minus the setting, this is giving me vibes of an old ps2 game called Just Cause. Keeping my eyes on this one to see how it turns out.

@Balaam_ exactly. So many people seem to have the misconception that because you played it via a subscription service, you're supporting the developer. They always fall back on the deal Microsoft made with the publisher to get the game on gamepass, acting like every game gets a huge amount of cash upfront when in reality each game comes with a different deal. Microsoft's upfront money only covers so many potential sales lost, not every sale.

Personally, no. With more and more games releasing on Playstation I just don't see the value in investing in Xbox hardware any longer when Playstation isn't putting their games on Xbox yet Playstation gets Xbox games & Playstation games. I have already decided that I won't be buying the next gen Xbox and will instead be buying a PS6.

I'm hoping FH6 remains a Xbox & PC exclusive for at least a year but not holding my breath with all the money Microsoft is making on Playstation now.

@Valhura reminder that not all games recieve the same deal and there are multiple examples available of games underperforming and developers facing major layoffs despite signing a gamepass deal.

Reminder that players accessing a game via a subscription service is not a sale. Support developers, buy their game if you like it.

It's a strange sight seeing Xbox games not only releasing on Playstation but also looking and performing better on Playstation.