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I'm also quite mad at the Mighty DOOM devs getting canned. Microsoft wants a piece of the mobile market, they make a good mobile game, they get shut down. BGS is more or less just Fallout, TES, & DOOM now, which is totally not foreshadowing of them keeping Activision as the CoD company.

Doesn't matter if the name is different - when your only tactic is to buy things like Saber Interactive, you're gonna do the same thing.

Feel like by the time Microsoft would make it appealing, the Steam Deck will have been made better. And anything Microsoft would make for it would also likely launch on said Steam Deck Day One.

@eduscxbox Oh I'm sorry, it was the other loud mouthpiece Phil Spencer who said, in Todd Howard's stead, that 30 FPS was 'a creative choice'. Normally when something that's not true internally like that is said it would be corrected, but I guess they were too busy comparing landing on a video game moon with nothing on it was the same as physically landing on the Moon IRL.

Gonna have to coordinate nights of MultiVersus just to get the Achievement to play 500 times in a Party. Last one I need and boy is it gonna suck.

But I thought the game was created ground up to only work at 30FPS? Surely Bethesda and Todd Howard of all people wouldn't just lie to out faces!

Considering what nonsense has been going on behind the scenes in the industry, expect to be hearing a lot more stories like this in the days to come. I'd assume (and hope) they gotta pull in less ridiculous numbers to turn a profit than Spider-Man 2 has to, but it's also an inherently less popular IP so it might just as bad when scaled accordingly.

Let's go, finally some different 360 games getting a sale. Picked up Deus Ex: Human Evolution, Tomb Raider Anniversary, & Tomb Raider Underworld. It'd be nice if the DLC went on sale too, but with Microsoft you gotta take what you can get.

Even if the DLC & big updates are Cyberpunk-sized I don't think I'll be revisiting it. The core idea of wanting the player to NG+ dozens of times defeats the point of things like outposts, ship building, collecting weapons with rare effects, etc. when almost everything resets.

So Fallout 3 Remastered from the leaks?

Personally despise Puzzle Games because I'm stupid, but won't turn down a free Multiplayer or Local play game.

It might be worth testing to see if leaving the game open for X amount of time triggers the Just For You Deal. I know there's a few games or games from Publishers I only opened or played for GP Quests and got stuff in the Deals section just from that.

As far as new games go? No. But I'd love to see 3 & New Vegas get Remasters, Xbox has them via BC but not PS or Switch (3 also doesn't have Steam Achievements). I know this is also in the super minority, but I'd like to see the team that does Shelter add the 2 sets of mobile content updates to the other platforms.

Why was this not expected, when the same exact thing happened to Skyrim when they added the Anniversary Edition stuff?

@jesse_dylan There's still thousands of games not backwards compatible and digital-only. And a lot of good games too.

@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?