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None of my price checkers went off, so everything I'm after is presumably the same price it's been every sale seemingly the past 3 years.

That's gonna be really bad for the market since Nintendo and Sony don't consider themselves competition, and no one's going to want the Xbox since Microsoft's going with Ubisoft's "gamers should be comfortable not owning games" idea, wanting people to rent everything forever. I understand not wanting to lose your library, but Xbox is a sinking ship, and we're gonna lose them no matter what. So we might as well built up others now.

Then why would I or anyone want the Blockbuster of Video Game Consoles, where I rent everything, own nothing, and the options are extremely limited?

@dskatter They had to give up the PvE they promised because they fired all the people who knew the lore and nobody wrote anything down. Think the person who did and knew most of the lore for TES6 left Bethesda too.

Started a mess and ended a mess, all but a select few Game Modes are populated and now it has a ton of hackers.

Speaking of Activision games, it seems one of the Transformers projects for 2024 is gonna be the relisting of Devastation - they just announced a new toyline for the game. Between that and recent the War for Cybertron toyline, I can see Hasbro giving Microsoft a pretty good licensing deal for the games since it'll be great advertising.

It's a nice addition, but it's been around and on such good sales so often if you haven't played it, you probably weren't weren't that interested in the first place. $13-16 for 3 classic Platformers is very affordable.

Show us your 2024 Transformers projects you cowards!

Aside from the weird, pointless changes to some things, the game has a lot of great QoL tweaks for the series. But it's not gonna make people who don't like or aren't interested in it change their minds. Now if that Casual Setting removed or heavily increased the timer, THAT would be game changing for getting new players into it.

@Utena-mobile Np. The only thing I recommend you do during the daily login-in is claim the free daily item from the shop, as some of the challenges require that.

@Utena-mobile MultiVersus Battle Pass is a lot more manageable since the Dailies and Weeklies never expire. If you log-in almost every day for a Season just to get them, you can effectively finish it in one or two Sessions near the end.

@thefly0810 Actually, when the Beta went down, you COULD still play Local, the Lab, & the Tutorial Offline, and during that time all Characters and Cosmetics were unlocked. If/When WB pulls the plug, I could see their last updates be them trying to cram in as much stuff for offline use as they can.

I'm enjoying the game, and a lot of the problems at launch have been fixed or changed for the better. They're actively trying to make the grind for everything less painful while still giving you a reason to want to pay, which I don't envy having to find that balance, especially since Warner Bros is one of those companies that have ridiculous expectations for these smaller scale projects. Either way, I'm hyped for Raven and Marceline next Season.

Gotta be a new Collection coming up if they're delisting this many specifically old things.

Four years into the Series Era the Xbox One Era is just starting to end. If a refurbished XBO X wasn't the same price as a new Series X at the time, I would've just got that.

A new Virtua Fighter should've been in development the second the big 3 in the Fighting Game Genre were announced to be coming out around the same time. By the time it came out, they'd still be focusing on DLC.

Whatever the 2 Transformers projects scheduled for 2024 are. Even if it's just relisting the old games, I'll gladly buy and replay them again.

I feel a big factor for if people like Halo or not is if you start with friends - it's a completely different experience than playing the Campaigns alone and queuing up solo online. The Campaigns especially are a different, much better experience with more players.

Forza's Sim Racing isn't for me, and I found Gears too slow and clunky to enjoy.

@Fiendish-Beaver We know they have some Activision stuff in the works based on the two Transformers projects for 2024, so you'd think with 2 months left it'd have to be November before the holiday sales really kick off. You would THINK that, but if so they're taking their sweet time.

Sega says just from PC Game Pass alone the old Yakuza games do really well so they always renew it, so I gotta wonder if Like a Dragon will be the same.

Watched someone play a bit of it and stopped quickly hearing the Forspoken dialogue that doesn't fit a medieval setting in any way and seeing a series and developer know for impactful choices implementing Fallout 4's system of: Yes, Yes (Question), Yes (Sarcastic), No (Yes).

@Simu001 Considering Hi-Fi Rush was a massive success and Tango Gameworks was still shut down, even if Redfall succeed it wasn't a guarantee Arkane Austin wouldn't have been canned. That's how volatile the industry is right now.

@NeoRatt Those are all good and valid points. But they need to communicate they're doing these things while people still care to some degree, especially since most people do think everything is as simple as flipping a switch when it comes to adding to GP or relisting a game. They just need to say SOMETHING about any of the projects and refuse to. Especially since they've already done extra GP price hikes even before they started trickling games. Without giving some insight into what and how much they're doing, that just makes them look bad.

@Major_Player How would we be being milked to death for games that aren't even on the market right now? Do you think I'm talking about Crash 4, and not things like the Transformers, X-Men Legends, and the dozens of other stand alone games and licensed ones that haven't seen releases or new entries in a decade or longer? I can't tell if you don't think anything through or just want to argue. Considering you're calling CoD 'rejuvenated and fresh ideas' when three of their more recent games are rehashed Modern Warfare games and the newest is Black Ops SIX, I have to assume both.

Now imagine what they'd make if they put any of those Activision games on Game Pass. Or relisted licensed titles. Or announced remasters, remakes, and sequels to some of Activision games.

Instead of what they're doing, which is nothing. What they're doing seemingly all they're good for.

$35 at launch for the base game, only 2 Player online at launch, and from the gameplay we've seen so far, the Rangers are just pallet swaps. Even as a big fan of Power Rangers this is a tough sell, especially when Shredder's Revenge with all the DLC is only $33 and goes on sale for around $22 already. Only being 5 players also seems weird. Yeah there's the 5 core Rangers and you unlock Tommy at the end, but you'll never be able to play as the full team. It's an original story and there's 2 Ritas, so why can't there be an extra Ranger or two to make it 6?

@AverageGamer In all fairness most of those choices were set in stone before backwards compatibility existed. Let's not forget how disastrous the Xbox One's launch was, to the point where most of those definitive versions were released for 360 over the XBO, and how Microsoft still hasn't recovered from it on the Third-Party front.

@GamingFan4Lyf It wasn't cheaper for long though, as I'm sure you know the 360 RDR went from being on sale for $9 regularly to full price $30, now getting minor sales as if it was a new release. And no game is a finished product on release anymore, so the possibility of an FPS Boost wasn't off the table just because it wasn't there at launch, so the bragging was just not a good idea from the start. If anything that kind of behavior wills things into existence to make people look bad.

Again, my point is people only pointed it out when they got embarrassed and that the issue existed long before this. There's a lot of BC games with a similar case that have better versions on everything except Xbox, and that by having the BC version devs seemingly felt it was fine to not release them on the Xbox Platform specifically, hurting it more than if they just didn't have those versions.

This is been an issue with a bunch of backwards compatible games for a long time now, where Xbox has the original but everything else has the superior version. But it's only something people talk about now after having egg on their face saying how Xbox had the REAL best version for RDR.

@KillerBoy This. The people that made all these companies amazing are long gone, either leaving for creative differences or fired in favor of cheaper, less experienced devs. It's why I don't feel one way or the other when they shut down or announce layoffs - they're not the people who made the games I loved, and they weren't good enough to continue the legacy.

The monkey's paw curled giving us a Dragon Age game with good gameplay... at the cost of everything else.

I'll get it someday when it reaches the $10-20 point. Do the 4Kids tier changes really affect anything? Not really, you're here for the gameplay. But as a celebration of the series a lot of the changes remove little call backs or jabs at the IP, so why even have the cutscenes to begin with? It's probably a better experience if you just skip them. Don't be the frog in the pot and be okay with these changes before it's too late and you're boiling.

G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout Digital Deluxe isn't bad for 5 bucks. It's not Space Marine 2 by any means, but it's not bad once you get used to it. Change the Control Type to Shooter and focus on quick bursts with the Aim Assist rather typical Third-Person Shooter gameplay. Obviously being a fan of the material in some way helps, and it having a Local Co-Op Campaign and Local Multiplayer adds value. Multiplayer plays like a weird, watered down, Third-Person Goldeneye, fun in its own way. And much like GoldenEye you unlock modifiers for the Campaign every Chapter you beat. Collectables, unlocks, & Stage-specific Achievements add a bit of replayability in addition to the Local play options.

tl;dr: It's not G.J. Joe's War for Cybertron. But if you can get used to it or are a fan of the material, it's worth the $5. Just don't pay more than that.

@Lrapsody Someone pointed that out and now I can't unsee that it has NBA Jam's Big Head Mode without an off switch.

They generated 1 billion before Microsoft got them, now they make nothing because it requires making new and or good games. Hell, Microsoft drags their feet even putting the games on GP or relisting them in the case of Activision. Has the same energy as Disney bragging about the success of Star Wars that only existed before they bought it.

The problem with announcing the Indie port was A.) How soon it was happening, and B.) it happened so fast it gave people whiplash. If it had been a year of exclusivity or at least 6-8 months it would've been more reasonable, but 3 months is hardly a wait when Sony has multi-year Timed Exclusives that they don't even make. The other thing is they went from porting older games to the newest way too fast. If they had been porting smaller and or older Xbox-exclusives for a bit now it would've softened the blow dramatically, but they went from the first batch right to the biggest Xbox game of the 2024. It's really baffling how lacking in common sense everyone at Xbox seems to be.

'False associations'? Games that appeal to the phantom modern audience like Dustborn, Concord, Forspoken, Unknown 9 Awakening, and Star Wars Outlaws flop miserably, while games that focus on being an actual fun experience like Black Myth Wukong, Stellar Blade, & Space Marine 2 see success. Seems pretty factual when comparing the sales, peak and daily player counts, & user reviews. There're more people defending the woke games than people who actually played them.

You also say, "don’t buy what you don’t like", which is what a boycott is, belittling the people who do it and saying boycotting is ridiculous and pointless in the same message, when it's very clearly working when they do it and not when you do.

Lastly fear of change is only bad if the change is positive. You know there's bad ones, right? Cancer, bankruptcy, death - those are all changes. Considering the Publishers and Devs that make changes you consider positive are hemorrhaging money, do you think maybe you're the one filled with 'mean-spirited spite'? Because it seems you want the industry to fail and burn.

Sweet dreams.~

@jesse_dylan Well that's interesting, considering when the anti-woke boycotters don't buy things they tend to fail, and when the pro-woke people promote things they fail too. 'Promote' being the correct word since the sales and playerbase counts say they don't play or buy games themselves.

If Sony was going to release any of their games on Xbox, you'd better believe it's gonna be something old that doesn't move consoles and isn't gonna cost much to port. Even then, PC and Switch are infinitely more likely to get them than Xbox.

Depends on the games, but most of them for both Xbox & Switch, Xbox for play at home and Switch for on the go. If it's online-only Co-op/Multiplayer I'll get it for Xbox, if it's Local-only both but Switch has priority.

With PS the only games I care about are Exclusives, and the ones I care about aren't big ones like FF7R or Dad of War, but Dragon's Crown Pro, Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition, the Persona Dancing games - things that could get easily Switch 2 and PC ports at this rate.

@Banjo- We've now reached 4Kids Tier censorship in a Sonic game... should just call the game Sonic X as both a tribute and warning to buyers.

I'm glad they're dedicated to extended/finishing the story despite the fact they've yet to turn a profit on AW2.

See I can understand this situation where a smaller games waits to see how well it does on more popular Platforms before making an Xbox port, but the bigger devs and Publishers confuse me why they hold out.

That being said like everyone else is saying, even if you like Metrodvanias this might not be for you do to the lack of direction or explanation.

Devs need to focus on making the first game good before talking of trilogies and beyond, especially in the current state of the industry where something that might be a complete financial and critical success can still be deemed by the higher ups as having 'underperformed' due to insane expectations.

@nomither6 I really do hate that everything feels the need to be open world now. And for something like an FPS Campaign most of the people who play it want that linear under 10 hour experience. So they're doing extra work that makes less people interested, which really describes AAA games as a whole now.

@Markatron84 I'll never understand the complaint of 'Indie trash' with GP. Do people genuinely think GP would be sustainable either for the consumer or Microsoft if they only paid for AAA games and games by AAA studios, in a time when those games are at a critical low point in quality overall? Or that a bunch of old cheap games like this would help push subscriptions? It's so bizarre.

Raven Software, another team that made great games now forced to work on the content conveyer belt of bigger IPs...

This is really random and given the current state of Ubisoft, they're probably the ones who reached out to Microsoft and wanted some Game Pass money. Still feels like both parties cheaped out - it's an old game, just add the Gold Edition with the DLC.

I can't think of a time I used Xbox Cloud Gaming for anything but doing a Game Pass Quest w/o installing things.