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It's a watered down Fallout 4 in every conceivable way, so simplified and dumbed down I couldn't take it anymore just under halfway through. And what's sad is they're moments of greatness like the UC Vanguard and Crimson Fleet storylines that are really good, but they come 'n go and are just drops of water in the bucket of otherwise boring content.

No problems installing things, but it told me TimeSplitters from the OG Xbox got an ESRB rating update, which I thought was weird.

Concord is an exception to the rule because it literally did everything wrong from the get go. You can make a new IP and have it grow to potentially become a franchise, but the ones that do it correctly take their time. Something like Yo-Kai Watch could've still been prominent now and been a lot of peoples' preference to Pokemon if they didn't blow all their momentum in a few years. But if you're not independent, you're also at the whims of idiots like the people at Microsoft, who almost killed Hi-Fi Rush before it potentially became more than a one-of. Personally I hope to see Bugsnax become a small franchise, with like a Slime Rancher spin-off.

We'll know if it was actually an issue with the MT Framework if past and future games using it end up getting Xbox ports. Even if this is another case of Microsoft throwing money at the issue, at least they're collections for good games.

@TheUnrestCure I doubt they'll go that far, for this specifically. Even if it's just making the old games backwards and or relisting the XBO/PS4 FoC port, RotDS, & Devastation, it's Microsoft doing what they can in the immediate short term while saying they know there's a demand for these old games. Hasbro's gonna be making toys based on WFC & FoC for a good while - if these games get dedicated Remasters with online in a reasonable time, both companies stand to profit massively.

@InterceptorAlpha Only Boss I had trouble with on Hard was Soundwave weirdly enough. Since it's such a cramped arena if one of you gets downed it snowballs quickly, so I ended up doing it and only it solo. The Trypticon fight has a good few factors that can make it very easy, like knowing you can get the healing weapons for it or that there's a spot in Phase 2 that completely blocks all but two of his attacks.

I could also see Hasbro being super cooperative with getting the Activision games back on peoples' radars and in their game libraries ASAP considering they started making very well done toys of the games and the movies with tie-in games. It'd be beneficial for Hasbro, Microsoft, gamers, and the IP itself alike, which could lead to full on remakes/remasters with servers again, along with similar revivals for the Marvel games.

@Ricky-Spanish If you're not a fan of Transformers, they're still solid Third-Person Shooters. But even being a casual fan boosts it a lot. War for Cybertron is far less enjoyable now without 3 player co-op, but Fall of Cybertron's Campaign holds up just as well as it did then since it's only Single Player.

Even if it's just making WFC & FoC backwards, without relisting them or bringing the servers back, it's a start and shows they intend to not just sit on all these games. I can see them slowly making the licensed games backwards while working on full-on remasters/collections for current consoles as a warm up for getting more interest.

@Rodimusprime13 Could see this, as much as it pains me since RotDS had the best Escalation Mode. Alternatively I guess 'projects' could be pretty broad and not individual things each.

Slime Rancher 2 left before being finished, would've rather it not have been chosen than that.

I don't care if it's just relisting 2 of the 3 delisted Transformers titles from XBO/PS4 - I'll be buying them. Next year is Devastation's 10 Year Anniversary, and weirdly you can still buy the RotDS DLC despite the Escalation Mode it's for being unplayable.

@InheritNegative I'm glad the MvC Collection is getting made, but I'm more interested if seeing all the hype for it and it doing well (for what it is) gets Digital Eclipse to make collections for the Marvel and Spider-Man games. ... Mostly just for the Beat 'Em Ups just like the TMNT Collection.

Regardless of how it turns out being... it's an Ubisoft game. If you want to play it, you'll probably be able to buy it and keep it for just over the price of Ubisoft Plus in 6 months. And if it is good, owning it will be important since it's a licensed game destined to be delisted some day.

Microsoft and Sony are the ones who created the issue, so I don't feel bad for them in the least. Since the Xbox One-PS4 Gen they've been talking about 1080-60 when most of their games a console Gen later can't do that, and NOW they promised 4K 60FPS this Gen as the standard.

Aside from specific genres where it's noticeable like FPS, I generally don't care as long as it's stable. But don't say you're going to do something as a company if you're not 110% sure you can do it, then complain about people complaining about the things you promised and they paid for.

Seems my plan going forward is not bothering with Xbox again. Has the least amount of software across all consoles, even if we include the backwards titles that're on a timer and don't include the shovelware on everything but Xbox. Personally can't even say the hardware is reliable - pack-in controller got drift faster than my Joycons with less play and I constantly have random issues with the console itself compared to my 360 or One.

@Frmknst TBH I think Microsoft are the oblivious ones. The people who just buy the yearly CoD, yearly sports games, and one thing here or there aren't gonna care about Game Pass. If they cared about those other games, they probably had Game Pass before the Activision buy. And for those people just buying those games like they always did is the least complicated solution.

There was a Switch port announced forever ago and Xbox still got it first, geez.

Being able to search by Developer and Publisher names would be nice. Maybe it's just me, but I'd also like an option to disable anything with a basic Game Pass price cut from showing up in the Deals section. I'd prefer to see things that, you know, are actual deals on a timer.

@Runex2121 And I can understand that perspective, but like I said, for me most of the GP games I play are either old or cheaper Indies. I've played two, maybe three max Day One games that're $60-70 in the few years I've had it so, just not for me. As for replaying games it's not that I do it often, but more just liking the option that I can long term, you know? Especially anything with Local Co-op I can throw out as an option when people come over.

@Kilamanjaro Quite honestly aside from occasional Firefight Matches in the MCC, I myself don't even play online that much. Or if I do it's for F2P games that don't require a Sub. It's more of a 'just in case' someone I know randomly has time for a Co-op session and I don't wanna drop 10 bucks on the spot.

Same games as always, they add like 1 every 4+ months to the rotation and call it a day.

Stopped using the Wishlist ever since I found out about price trackers like DekuDeals or TrueAchievements. Way more convenient to just check an email when things reach a certain price than scroll through the Wishlist every sale to see the same prices you've seen for years.

This just reminds me TES Blades was such a flop they didn't bother putting it on Xbox or PS. But they kill an actual fun mobile game like Mighty DOOM presumably because they expect Candy Crush-level money from any mobile game, and it was very F2P friendly.

Most of them are really lacking on the 'dynamic' part, and not thought out at all on what parts/how much will be covered by the menus.

@Tasuki That'll happen when you fire everyone who knew what the lore of the universe was and none of them wrote anything down.

@RiverGenie Only ones I had any interest in were the licensed ones like Transformers & Marvel. But given how things are going, I doubt they'll ever come back. Anything that's not CoD, Overwatch, WoW, or Candy Crush will be destroyed and forgotten.

It took them buying the company to give Perks for a F2P game people might actually care about... But between the price hikes of GPU both in actual price and Reward Points needed, I'm just gonna go back to Core. I'll be saving money just buying the games I play on GPU instead of renting them.

Should've only been for PS4 & Switch. Only put it on the Platforms it's not currently on, then if it does good enough release it on the others.

@__jamiie See, a big part of that was because it didn't play or feel like a Fallout game. That's why a Fallout 4 in space, without being an actual Fallout game gameplay or lore-wise, should've been an easy success. But they dumbed it down so much it'll take a lot of DLCs and a lot of reworkings to make it what it should've been, and confidence for Bethesda to do that is at a critical low.

@__jamiie They simplified it too much from Fallout 4 for me to enjoy it. 'Fallout 4 in space' was something I looked forward too, but everything is dumbed down and limited so much by comparison I'd rather just re-play Fallout 4.

One of the reasons GPU costs extra is for this and 99% of the time the offerings are worse than what you get for the base PS Plus.

Friendly reminder, for some reason, some DLCs for BC games aren't available on the modern store. So those'll be gone too.

@somnambulance As far as value is concerned it's priced well. $20 a year for online, NES, SNES, & GB games, and the option to purchase Vouchers is pretty fair. $40 more for the Expansion Pak is a little more debatable though, and comes down to how much you like the N64 & GBA game lineups.

I don't think people realize how big and messy of a difference there is between A.I. Generated and A.I. Assisted. There's 0 reason any of the 3 CoD developers should be cutting corners with how many entire extra studios have been killed to help them alongside their own teams.

@Beetlebum91 There's 0 reason they can't have BC games just for the Series and add a disclaimer to those titles. I don't buy the 'ran out of Publishers' or licensing issues, especially when you have sequels BC but not the originals, but having to make them run on Xbox Ones w/ VCR players built in and such? That makes more sense.

"The online won't end this month." That's not reassuring from Microsoft, they could shut it down on the first of the next month. This is the same company that uses 'for the foreseeable future' for less than 3 months. Seriously, just say the when instead of using weasel words since the when is always so soon.

@Markatron84 And it's WB, 'underperforming' to them is 'you're not on par with the biggest game in your genre'.

Only Forza Horizon 4: Ultimate Edition since it's getting delisted. Everything else is the same price or nearly the same price as every sale, so why bother.

@NEStalgia The successful transition from the disaster Wii U to major success Switch was because the Wii U hardware was bad but the games were amazing as in most cases. So just taking the same games while improving issues like frame rate dips & adding any DLC for a 'Definitive/Deluxe' version on a system that functions properly was enough.

That's weird, weren't the first 2 just added via an update so you didn't have to go out of your way? Regardless I'm excited to see more content and that they plan to add more for a long while. It keeps on giving like Vampire Survivors.

Own everything on this list from previous sales except the CoD games, and I'm not budging on those until they go lower.

Wonder if Forza Horizon 4: Ultimate Edition will have one last super low cut before the end of the year or if I should pick it up now.

This alone is going to drop the number of people who have GP, and like the price hikes they'll somehow be shocked when this not only doesn't improve things but worsens them.

Ah yes, the logical response to stagnation - charging more for the same product! I'm sure that won't have the opposite desired effect.

We need a lot more games that need less commitment. Microsoft especially needs them having a Subscription service, things that take less time and money to develop and can fill the gaps without big AAA releases.

And they clearly don't know this considering they shut down Tango Gameworks who was a perfect example of that role.

I cannot emphasis how much I hate having to wait last minute for these sales. They had so much prep-time and could've done this at any point, but instead choose the last 45 or so days.

Quite a bit less between the stagnation of the industry and less time to play with friends & family.

Ironic how a slow drip feed is the fasted way to make no one care.

And unlike back in the day I'm sure Microsoft won't give us anything for such a massive outage. After all, the fans and any studio not working on CoD are the ones that're paying for the Activision merger.