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360-PS3-Wii Gen stands out a lot now, because it was the last time you saw a ton of originality in games, and Wii excluded a lot of those 360 & PS3 were a massive graphically jump from PS2/GameCube/Xbox and still look good in 2024. Now half the XBO, Series, PS4, & PS5 libraries are just ports, remasters, & remakes of games from that Generation. It's why more people are interested in Indies & smaller game now.

@Lightning720 It really is difficult to imagine though. "New planets with new stories"? There's already hundreds of planets with nothing that just exist, and only maybe a dozen planets and or moons with something that could very, VERY charitably be considered a town. 'Fallout 4 in space' had amazing potential... and somehow a slice of post-apocalypse Boston has more, well, EVERYTHING than Starfield except empty space. More NPCs, more named NPCs, more settlements, more weapons, more armors, more weapon and armor mods, more things to build for your outposts, more enemy types, more Character Build options...

It's fine if you liked it but I'm sorry, when the majority of the moding community gives up on trying to fix and make a Bethesda game more fun, it's objectively bad at that point.

Don't care about the show; care about the Next-Gen update and rumored Edition w/ all the Creation Club stuff for Fallout 4. Would rather replay that than finish Starfield at this point.

Decrease the amount you can earn, then increase the prices. Just speedrunning wracking up those L's big or small & resentment towards your company.

They need good Perks like this more often, things offering actual content of some kind. As I said before, Skins & coins for a bunch of F2P games you might care about half of at best are not the right way to go, especially when they don't even pick the most popular ones.

The P3R Expansion Pass is an amazing Perk to give with GPU, Xbox really needs more stuff like that instead of Skins & coins for a dozen F2P games of which you might care about half at most.

@Utena-mobile Battle Passes were solely defined in Quality by the last Skin for the paid version, and that's only if you thought it was worth almost $10. Everything else in them weren't very interesting.

Wonder if this game fails after going full release if they'll do what they did for the hiatus and just let everything be free offline, or if that itself needs servers even in that state.

@Lup With a company like Capcom I can't really complain about Remakes and collections considering they're still putting out new games, and good new games at that.

I gotta BE the marble!

Loop Hero is a great lil' game, but it leaving isn't a big deal since it's been added to the GP Deals rotation. Would 100% recommend for the $5.

Only ever touched it for Game Pass Quests, and even then every 2 out of 3 games were just faster to download than to wait for the cloud.

Feel safe saying KI is being prepped for PS5. If not it's very coincidental they started testing Ranked Crossplay & giving it big updates around the same time Microsoft internally decided to make more exclusives Multiplat. Like how the old CoD servers magically were fixed the day the Activision merger got okay'd.

@Vipor007 It's on my radar, just waiting for it to hit a new low as of now.

Maybe I'll mess around with it after it comes to EA Play 6+ months later. Maybe.

Gonna wait for a sale with this one. Shredder's Revenge was my first taste of a Beat 'Em Up, so with all the ones I missed before and own but need to play now, I'm good until then.

Not sure if this is a game that needs to be re-released every console Gen, especially if they're not gonna add anything like online.

Even if the core gameplay's good, I don't think it'll feel very 'Fable' with how things are in Current Year. 100% gonna be a situation where people either love it or say it's Fable in name only. Just remember how many of us thought Redfall was gonna be amazing, and then we played it. Would be glad to be wrong but temper those expectations just in case.

I stopped using the Wishlist when I found out about sites that price track and don't count every game/DLC 10% off w/ Game Pass as a sale like the Wishlist does.

@Dusk_Actual My friends who follow everything DC and their friends pretty much only care about Harley as an accessory to The Joker. From what I can tell, most of the people who see Harley as a draw are the people on Twitter who don't buy or consume any media, which DC and Marvel both cater too for some reason.

@STX GameFreak's released a few multiplatform games. They're Second-Party devs to Nintendo and essentially any non-Pokemon games they make they're free to release on whatever they want.

@LX_FENIX This. The most we're seeing from either are games with expiring exclusivity deals or if it was only made for them without one, which in most cases would be up to the Third-Parties involved. Great example as of late is Atlus, releasing the Persona games on non-Sony systems and now releasing SMT V on something besides Switch.

@Savage_Joe Rare Replay was because Xbox bought Rare thinking they'd get Donkey Kong, TW101 was because Platinum self-Published the Remaster where as Nintendo Published the Wii U original, Crash and Spyro were only Published by Sony who never owned them, & Sony was told by MLB either it goes Multiplatform or stops being made. These are all very specific instances and very different from Sony or Nintendo saying, 'we don't need this to be exclusive anymore' like Microsoft's doing.

The problem isn't pronunciation, it's that the name doesn't tell you what it is. There's a reason Song of Nunu and Ruined King have 'A League of Legends Story' attached, so people know they're related to the thing they're based on. Unless they plan on turning this into a long standing series, the name fails at it's one purpose.

MLB was because they had no choice if Sony wanted it to continue and part of the deal with Bungie was they retain the right to choose what their games do and don't get made for. They clearly mean PC when they say 'multiplatform'. I don't see Nintendo or Sony sharing with Xbox outside of case-by-case choices by Third-Parties, like how Atlus just decided to start bringing the Persona games to other Platforms, and since they seem to be making good money off that choice, maybe more companies will follow. But I don't see it going farther than that.

@ThunderCracker Always liked Thundercracker since he didn't fit any of the standard molds of most other Decepticons' personalities, and was vocal about how he thought hurting humans was beneath the Decepticons. Was also one of my main picks for War for Cybertron's Escalation because of the Sentry Ability.

Even if the gameplay was amazing, the story is so disrespectful to the source characters it'd still be trash.

@FarmDog08 What if money is an issue and I can't afford $1K+ just for consoles every 5 years, not even including the games or Sub services? I'm pretty sure Capcom and Bandai could afford to port them over to the singular extra Platform. But no, scold the people who have to buy the products and not the trillion dollar companies that make them. And you're gonna say other people are entitled with your mentality??

Very surprised we got this before a port of the SMT 3 Nocturne Remaster.

And I notice that once again they're all EA games... how does the company who's just an add-on to the main's service understand how it should work better?

Think I'll pick up Dragon Age Inquisition GOTY Edition for 6 bucks.

Don't care since the only Activision Blizzard games I care about are licensed games they don't have access to without spending more money.

@shirguis Sounds like two problems feeding each other - Xbox isn't as popular, so it gets less physical games, which makes it even less popular, which means it gets even less physical games - etc.

Doesn't really matter if they plan on it or not, it depends on how many Third-Parties deem it worth doing when sales are higher digitally as the years come. If most devs eventually deem physical Xbox games a waste of resources, Microsoft isn't gonna keep making a disc drive just for their games and the handful of stragglers.

@P3nguinprisM Oh sorry, should've made that clearer. It's identical to Deals with Gold, just the name changed to fit Gold becoming Core, and being made know you just need any GP Sub for the deals. My bad.

Heard quite a few times Soul Hackers 2 was underwhelming from the people who played the first game's remaster(?) on 3DS. The combat is solid as expected, but been told everything else is meh. Not bad, just meh. But yeah - better RPGs both on Game Pass and off it for just as cheap.

@P3nguinprisM If you do the Rewards Points stuff you can get Core or Ultimate every month for free. Alternative depending on how many games under Game Pass Deals you need, a year of Core might save you more or at least even out how much you spent-saved.

@P3nguinprisM The Deals with Game Pass is just what the Gold Deals were renamed to - same games and rotation, just a different name.

Tales of Arise seems like it nosedives around halfway through both story and gameplay-wise. Saw someone streaming the later bits of it and every enemy was stupidly tanky and gave trash EXP, with Visual Novel levels of dialogue every other room. I wouldn't go as far to say don't try it, but just keep that in mind before you start since RPGs usually have a massive time commitment.

Saints Row 1 & 2 for $1.49 each is great, would recommend both. I'm holding on the CoD games hoping Microsoft will make them go on sale a liiittle more, even if it's just a few bucks each.

Love the Comments about games as a service by people who clearly just read the article name and not even the games losing their servers. Every time there's an article like this. Yes, my favorite live service game Dark Souls 2 on the 360.

The problem with Ubisoft Plus, aside from that long term it's just cheaper buying the games on sale, is that the past 10 years they've almost exclusively focused on Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, & Just Dance. So they don't really have the catalog of old games to take up space regardless of new ones coming out, and they can't possibly output enough games to get people to use it for anything more than an occasional rental of something new.

MultiVersus also (allegedly) coming back early this year.

Does it matter when devs can't even take advantage of the current hardware, ever? Whatever we're told by Sony & Microsoft will be the 'standard' for X Gen, it's a lie, and it becomes the standard of Y Gen, and Y Gen's promised standards become that of X Gen's, etc.

@CaptainCluck I could understand if they were working to get as many of the games left behind as possible on Series, but they're not, and have no intention to. The fact that people eat up the 'Xbox cares so much about game preservation' PR ignoring stuff like this and Microsoft delisting their own games is crazy.

@FarmDog08 Lost Odyssey & Blue Dragon both would be awesome. If they do want a few more Xbox games on other consoles, I think those would fit in easily with the other ecosystems.

I had to factory reset my Series X today because the home menu wouldn't load. I'll assume that was, somehow, a pre-existing issue and not related to this.

@Kaloudz No, but those people don't buy games, which is why it's so crazy devs bend a knee to them. If anything it'd be a great time to bring Duke back because there'd be so much satire and commentary to be made.

@TheLastHarbinger It's really not though. Oblivion's not some obscure title or limited edition thing - it's a game that was printed more than modern Xbox games, three separate times, making them dirt cheap and always in circulation. And yeah, you don't need a 'dinosaur ecosystem' to play a handful of games. You need it to plays thousands more that aren't on Series or XBO and never will be.

"Microsoft hasn't delisted anything for many years". Wrong. They delisted all the 360 Halo games to make you buy the MCC and the Remasters for ones like Halo Wars and Spartan Assault, and delisted the DOOM games which had features not in the Remasters and won't be added to them. Recently. They also refuse to relist The Cave or Iron Brigade despite owning them, because they want you to rent them for eternity via Game Pass. Until GP doesn't exist, I guess. Then they're gone. That's not even getting into them shutting down the 360 store, which is still the only way to get some BC titles and a ton of DLCs.

'Such a massive characteristic'? It's discontinued. They're not adding any more and they're not doing anything to preserve the catalog they have with games getting delisted every other week. That 'massive characteristic' will be nonexistent for most before the end of the Series' life cycle - and there's a lot of games that are a lot harder to find than Oblivion or don't have a physical release at all.

@TheLastHarbinger Yeah Oblivion's not the best choice for an example considering it had multiple cheap physical releases, Xbox 360s and PS3s are still widely available and affordable, and per the Bethesda leaks via the FTC case it's getting a Remaster soon, and I would almost guarantee Microsoft will delist the 360 original after that releases.

If anything it proves the opposite to some degree - if Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, & Fallout NV can be BC, why not Skyrim too? Oh... because they made a port of it and wanted you to buy that instead. And you can't argue 'they're the same game' because they're not - you can't experience Anniversary w/o the DLCs to see what vanilla is like, and there's more glitches & bugs than the original with none of the old ones being fixed. And the BC Program was after Bethesda was bought, so its not like they could say no.

BC is cool, but it wasn't for game preservation - it was to try and salvage the Xbox One. The fact that it was game preservation was just the coincidental PR cherry on top. That's why they completely stopped talking about 'how much they care about preserving games' after ditching the program when Game Pass succeeded.