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@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.

Everyone talking about Sewerslide Squad: Defame the Justice League's Super Ultra Deluxe Edition being 5 bucks, meanwhile I'm looking at Destroy All Humans 2005 for the same price when I haven't seen it on sale since I got my Series X.

If we're also getting Crash 4 soon, this s giving me more hope we'll see those Transformers projects and or just a big drop of old Activision games in general this month.

Wasn't 3 a huge let down that retconned stuff and still ended on a cliffhanger with next to nothing resolved??

Any of the NASCAR games decent or Above Average? If G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout drops to 5 bucks again I'd recommend it. You have to change a few Settings and not play it quite like a tradition Third-Person Shooter, but for that price specifically it's good. Local Co-op makes the Campaign way better and Local Multiplayer feels like a scuffed Goldeneye.

@PhileasFragg It's a hard Platformer and a nightmare to 100%.

The 2 Transformers projects for 2024 too... assuming they didn't get pushed to 2025. There's no way Hasbro is giving them trouble for and not making sure they get the licensing for WFC, FOC, and or Devastation considering those games coming back would be amazing advertisement for their toylines (WFC/FOC have one and Devastation is getting one in 2025.)

I think most people would be happier with the dollar.

Microsoft won't ditch hardware - the users will. And eventually there won't be enough users of the hardware or Game Pass to justify either.

@Nintendo4Sonic If anything this means that Halo and Gears are also gonna happen. Halo, Gears, & Forza are their 3 biggest IPs now, and internally they view Halo lower than the other 2 since 343 took over. Forza Horizon 5's happening first simply because it has a finite shelf-life due to licensing.

The beginning of full revivals of Activision games and IPs with online servers.

@Browntrouser It is really weird they never have anything for Halo, Fallout, etc. Then again, these are almost always just the same Perks that PS Plus Essential has but less of them. Rare exceptions are when something big comes to GP or big and old gets ported to it, like Genshin and FF14.

@Elbow Weird that Web of Shadows and Edge of Time aren't with Shattered Dimensions. Fried or Foe and the other Transformers games make sense because there's extra movie licenses they'd need. I agree Turtles in Time Reshelled should get re-released like the Scott Pilgrim game. Even though we have the Arcade, SNES, & Genesis versions available now, Reshelled is like a cousin to the 3 and a piece of history in its own.

@oopsiezz I'm sad now. : (

100GB for a game that's been getting constant updates for years is very reasonable compared to the yearly Assassin's Creeds are half that minimum before any updates or DLC, especially on Xbox.