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@jesse_dylan Backwards compatible games you can buy on the Series/XBO stores aren't going away with the 360 store closing.

The only backwards game from this I don't own is Red Dead, and I ain't buying it until it goes back to $9 on sale.

I don't think you can 'fix' Starfield without adding so much it borderline becomes a new game. The gameplay is just that watered down from Fallout 4.

@Auglicious It's called The Baconing, but is very much the third DeathSpank game. Still available on Steam though.

Until we actually see what they do, I have no expectations or desires, because the entire Series Gen so far that's only led to disappointment with Microsoft.

By the end of 2024 Rewards Points will either be gone or scale with the Zimbabwe dollar.

We have tipping culture in games. It's called the 3 dozen Day One DLCs & near-infinite microtransactions. You're telling me they want more on top of that, on top of the $70 price tag?

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@RetroMan71 No. It's actually terrible as a Fallout game. But outside of that the core gameplay loop is fun.

No hurry to retcon anything in TES universe like New Vegas in Fallout to appease Todd's ego so I understand why.

I feel like if you haven't played or grabbed these XBO/PS4 Gen titles they'll be adding by this point you probably don't care that much. Diablo 4 I could understand maybe selling some Subs, but not stuff like this. If they drip feed these like Nintendo does their NSO titles people just aren't gonna care.

Fallout 4's really fun gameplay-wise, it's just a garbage Fallout game. If they didn't water down every gameplay aspect Starfield would've been so amazing... but let's focus on the positives.

Wonder if they'll add in more Creation Club freebies in addition to these along with the current rotation they've been doing for a few years. Either way I'm excited to play again, and since I have all the Achievements I can mess around with the limited console mods.

Is this really news worthy at this point.

Microsoft cares about games preservation BTW. You know, the people who actively delisted their own in-house games.

None of my trackers went off so I'll assume it's more of the same. Again.

In this context 'Games Preservation' & 'Forward Compatibility' are presumably the same thing, and they only need to say Forwards Compatibility.

Same games at the same if not worse prices than in the past, yawn.

@IGN_Commenter Was going to point this out. I guess maybe for the day Microsoft 180s on GP, if the servers are even up still.

Same games as always. Do they really think a dollar 'n some change difference a year later is gonna make people bite this time?

The problem isn't that these games are too long now, it's that most of the length is from meaningless bloat just to say 'look how long our game is!' Just another reason Indies & AA games are better than most AAA outings now.

Hoping some different BC games go on sale this time; usually the Spring or Summer sale is when they add new ones to the sale rotation.

@armondo36 "every single one of those games has like 3 entries lol", yeah a decade ago or longer. I don't think you understand what the word 'abandoned' means. And unlike Blue Dragon there's no excuse with Sony since they own all the rights for those abandoned IPs.

@armondo36 Twisted Metal, Sly Cooper, Jax 'n Daxter, Little Big Planet, Ape Escape, Infamous, Resistance, Killzone... it sure is great to be able to play these long standing games that have PS5 entries.

@ValentineMeikin Yeah I'm sure they won't do exactly what they did with having Xbox exclusives come to PC. You know, what also started as 'a handful of carefully selected' games to literally everything in a few years.

Worse than the original in every way. And the original wasn't even that great. How much did Microsoft pay for this again?

You don't jack up the prices then lower the amount you can earn, you do one or the other.

Didn't Wolverine fight with Cap in WW2? Or are they not going to include him because of that weird clause with Sony? Assuming it comes to Xbox.

Screw 60FPS, finish Red Dead Online and add the things that were promised at the beginning.

Almost if not all of these are either the normal lowest for the games or worse. Why lock some of them behind Game Pass?

Finally tried Infinite and put it down after 5 or so games. Felt more like some eSport FPS with some Halo things thrown in rather than Halo. Can't even take comfort in the MCC since like any older multiplayer game, the majority of people only play certain Game Modes.

Hard to say the Backwards Compatibility when that's long been over and I have a perfectly functional 360. I guess... the controller? I'll always like it more than the PS one, but it's effectively been the same controller for almost 2 decades so, that feels like a Mr. Fantastic stretch for something good.

@BacklogBrad It's not that much of a grind if you approach it casually. Doing Co-op VS AI 20-30 minutes a day got me the entire cast and a ton of extra stuff over time. Just gotta mess around in the Lab a bit to see who you prefer in advance and spend your Gold smartly. At the very least I'd claim it on the chance that when it permanently goes offline, you might still be able to do the Lab & Local Play w/ everything unlocked like they did when the Beta ended.

@xanderten50 They were silent on it maybe for a week after it originally going offline, but yeah, all the characters, Perks, Skins, etc. you've unlocked or bought from the Open Beta are still yours.

They need to pull a Cyberpunk and massively update & change the game alongside a good sized DLC. I... do not have faith Bethesda can do such a thing, but would love to be wrong.

@xanderten50 They said anything you owned from the Open Beta will carry over to the full release a few days after shutting down though?

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.