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I'm still shocked they fumbled this game like they did... I'd be willing to ignore the vast amount of nothing, even on the main planets that should be covered in cities and only have one settlement. But the gameplay is so dumbed down and lacks any meaning that it's just not enjoyable. It just had to be Fallout 4 in space... but the only thing they learned from Fallout 4 was the voiced protag was a bad idea. So Fallout 4 was a bad Fallout game because it was made to be Starfield's prototype, but the prototype was better than the end product.

@themightyant No, it's more than just Japanese fans. The controversies have gotten to the point where the non-gamers in Japan are mad too. A major tipping point was them showing off destroyable environments that happened to be a religious shrine, which outraged a lot of people.

Even if you don't care about the endless controversies that got the entire country of Japan to hate Ubisoft, the fact that the majority of devs working on Shadows have never worked on a game before means it's probably not gonna be a good game.

Why even bother including 4 if you're gonna completely gut it? There's a chance it'll still be good as it's own thing, sure. But it won't really be Pro Skater 4, and now we'll never get a proper Remaster of it.

@BacklogBrad Another point of consideration is if the 360 Gears games get delisted and the servers shut down after a Collection releases like Halo.

PvP Multiplayer would be nice, but if it came down to it I'd take just Campaign Co-op and the Hoard Mode.

The thing about the new Lego games is if they don't stand out as unique are aren't just flat out great, they flop badly. Because why would I buy a meh new Lego game for $60-70 when I could get half a dozen meh Lego games for half the price with the frequent sales they have?

I find it so bizarre they were willing to make a backwards compatibility program but not do anything to maintain the library of games it offers from being removed. By virtue of the sale licenses expiring and devs delisting their own games, within the next few years it'll get to the point where if you don't already have the games, it's not a feature you can use. To the point it'd likely be a waste of resources to make it work on the next Xbox console.

Aside from that, while I'd love the Activision games being added, I'd rather have the ability to play things like War for Cybertron of MUA online, even if it meant paying for a Remaster.

@FatGuyInLilCoat I mean if we're including things like CoD, no Microsoft original ever will be their top game for a year ever again.

Stopped using Game Pass Ultimate since the first butchering of the rewards program and haven't missed it in the least. Won't pay for Core as it's a massive scam for someone who owns all the old and cheap games it offers, effectively making it $60 for online and nothing else. I'll gladly buy the MCC again on PS5 to play it online as PS Plus is amazing compared to Core.

I'll never understand investing money in a game that's gonna stop being supported within the calendar year, especially one more people are just renting through Game Pass now. But $20 a Turtle sounds about right as I think SF6 was the same.

I'm of the opinion we need more spin-offs of established IPs in gaming as a whole, it'd especially benefit Microsoft having their own subscription service. As an example, I feel a Halo: Spartan Assault sequel made for console instead of mobile would be a great addition. Have a 5 or 6 hour Campaign with Co-op, a Survival Mode, upgrades, Skulls, & in-game Challenges to unlock for replayability, and make it a budget release in the $20-30 range. I don't know why they're not making more smaller scale, XBLA-style games that'd really do well for filling out the Game Pass catalog.

Really enjoyed the 2 360 Sonic & Sega Racing games (stupid that the first isn't Backwards BTW) and I'm glad to see this will be a culmination of ideas that worked. Team Sonic Racing wasn't a bad idea, but something like that works better as a side Game Mode than a main concept.

@Kaloudz Shame the online doesn't work.

@K1LLEGAL Yep. And I played it on Xbox for 10 years. But I don't see a reason to own an Xbox in the future if I can buy all its games on PS or Nintendo consoles, so I'll buy it again on another Platform.

@K1LLEGAL I'd prefer to own games than infinitely rent them, and in addition to not caring about most of the GPU permeant games, the ones I do care about are old and cheap so I own them. Which is why GPC is so unappealing to me. For something like the MCC, I'd rather just buy it again on PS5 and not pay for an extra online service I see no value in.

In all fairness if you're gonna rip-off a Mario Spin-Off game, Strikers is the one likely to be ignored the most by Nintendo. If anything it might be better to have it there to remind people there is in fact a Mario Strikers entry on Switch.

@K1LLEGAL For me personally, it's because I don't care about GPU and GPC is awful compared to PS Plus Essential's offerings.

Sad to see it go. They could easily revamp it later on as a retail game, but I doubt WB would make such a good decision at this point with their obsession of chasing live service games.

I'm still mad and disappointed the online for Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour doesn't work, glad I only paid $2 for it on a previous sale.

>less people buying new AAA games than ever >'another price increase would help the industry'

This analyst is pretty bad at their job.

Considering Microsoft can't manage their gaming studios to save their lives, the plan being just to buy more of them is probably gonna be worse both for Microsoft and the gaming industry as a whole, and end with the Xbox branding being winded down anyways.

Don't most FPSs compensate for controller users by giving them Aim Assist, or at least not giving it to players using mouse and keyboard? And for CoD at least don't they try to match controller with controller and mk with mk?

Better to have it re-made from the ground up than do what they do with Skyrim, which is re-release it without fixing anything and create new bugs for a somehow progressingly worse experience every time.

@Th3_Highlander They specifically only removed the new Avatars that most people didn't know existed. The 360 ones still exist and can be used for games.

But for the MCC, will they actually do something about the PC hackers that can get your account banned just by playing with them?

Went from competing the same month as Monster Hunter Wilds to competing the same day as Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition.

Looks like War for Cybertron mixed with the 2007 DS games, and now my day is ruined knowing it's dead.

It's been so long at this point I don't really care anymore. I love the Marvel and Transformers games, but without the online for games like War for Cybertron and Marvel Ultimate Alliance they'd just 'oh that's neat' rather than things that'd wow me.

If I still cared about Game Pass, this would be a W. Achievements becoming a resource you had to choose between rationing out and stop playing after one or keep playing and burn through them was miserable.

But will it have new glitches and not fix any old ones, like every new version of Skyrim?

I still call BS on them saying they 'reached the limit with what they could do' with the program, unless the original Xbox One was just that bad. If that's the case now that the XBO is out, maybe the program could be revived for Series consoles that should have no excuses, possibly starting with some Activision games. ... RIP the dream of the two 2024 Transformers projects though.

Although it says a lot about gaming from the XBO/PS4 to Series/PS5 when something that excites the most people is playing old games.

Gonna be Lego Horizons because it sold like trash so Sony might as well have it on everything.

Why am I not surprised the sales on Black Ops 1 & 2 are worse now that Microsoft owns them.

While a few good ones skipped Xbox, if you like RPGs you feasted this year.

Not gonna vote because the only 2024 releases I played were Little Kitty, Big City and MultiVersus.

A PS5 is also an Xbox according to Microsoft, so I think that's a pretty solid Xbox gift right?

@Lanmanna Because they really wanted people to buy it on Switch. It is the only game I have never been allowed to redownload on any Platform.

@ZYDIO I can't speak for the DSi as I never bought anything digital with one, but you can still redownload anything purchased on the Wii, Wii U, & 3DS. A few years ago I connected my Wii to the internet for the first time since maybe 2010 and redownloaded a few demos and misc. things just because I had the space. They still give you access to the storefronts, but it limits you more or less to the Purchase History for redownloading. Although Nintendo is the only company so far I've had take away the ability to redownload a game I bought, that being DKC Tropical Freeze. Still not too happy about that.

@Markatron84 Been wanting to try Battletoads, but for some reason Microsoft thought it was a good idea to release a Beat 'Em Up with Local only, and it's already hard enough to get someone with time online.

As much as I love MultiVersus, I don't see it surviving with Warner Bros. forcing them to make the monetization worse every Season. Can only hope they'll add Offline for the Rifts PvE Mode and work out the kinks for Local Play before it inevitably gets axed.

EA always doing better Game Pass Deals than the people who own it.

I'll wait for this one. I thought Digital Eclipse would try to make the combat more complex in later updates, but it seems they want it to be pretty simple. Which is sad because these games are just as enjoyable even if you don't know half the attacks. I am glad to know they have six players after you beat the game, seemed really weird before when we only knew there'd be five.

Coping they'll drop the 2 Transformers projects for 2024 live.

@Marvineternus They didn't alter the scores, but around the same time they started making articles going 'is it actually that good?', etc. Regardless of why, they built it up for months, gave it glowing reviews, kept defending their choices, then despite nothing changing, the game suddenly wasn't the best RPG ever. And these were people who care more about their politics than their paycheck, so you can't argue they buckled under pressure or something.

Yeah trust the other review sites when a specific one doesn't agree with you. Like how they all said Dragon Age: The Veilgard was AMAZING! ... And then the checks from Bioware bounced, and then they backtracked saying it wasn't very good. You should take every review, good or bad trusted or not, with not a grain but a mountain of salt.

@OldGamer999 The wildest part to me is it keeps being proven that people want those older experiences just with new environments, stories, and a few changes to the gameplay. Space Marine 2 is essencially Space Marine 1 but it looks better with some gameplay adjustments, and people absolutely loved it. You don't need to know anything about the source material to enjoy it, it's a digestible experience, and it has Multiplayer if you want to experience more. The new Shadow Campaign of Sonic X Shadow falls in the same boat: It's classic (3D) Sonic gameplay you can enjoy without knowing any other material, it's a digestible experience, and it has replay value in the Scoring if you want more out of it, and people liked it. It's really not hard, but the new devs want to tells some grand story (usually without knowing much of the IP source material themselves) and the people who run the companies think they need 100 hour grindfests.

@OldGamer999 They keep having to re-release old things because they refuse to chance new ideas and struggle adapting or making new entries of existing IPs. Which in itself is from its own set of problems, like most established devs having been laid off in favor of cheaper ones without experience, with companies thinking that just the IP will be enough to carry the newest entry regardless of how good it actually is. So when this inevitably leads to failure, and they refuse to take any new risks, they just have to go back to things people enjoyed before. And even then they find ways to screw it up.

@Ricky-Spanish My hope is whatever the 2 Transformers projects are since we haven't heard or seen anything pointing at other licensed games.

Game Awards are a joke to the point more people care about the ads. And you don't need to watch it live if you only care about announcements, especially since companies like Microsoft, Nintendo, & Sony would much rather announce anything remotely major during their own Events.

As far as what we might see from Xbox, I'm thinking some Activision Game Pass drops at once, and maybe the PS5 port of Forza Horizon 5 they said existed along with some other ports. Definitely feel like Killer Instinct 2013 is in the works since they had that massive update this year that focused on making crossplay better.