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@asdfghjklz Thank goodness you're here to give everyone the cynical X/Twitter take. I might actually read this and take it at face value without the invaluable insights you've provided in no less than three consecutive comments.

@PSGamer69420 Cool story. Wipe it, reset it, and sell it for less than the $900 retail or whatever it is. Someone somewhere wants it.

Damn. Someone already beat me to the LRG hate post.

Oh well.

Screw LRG.

@8th_Observer There's an argument for that, sure, but there's also the argument that no one wants Microsoft interfering with their beloved developers either. They had a big bundle of cash, they chose to make Kiln.

Don't get me wrong, I love old Double Fine, but that tank ran out of gas ages ago.

Double Fine will simply cease to exist at some point. What a wasted opportunity on their part. All that MS money and only a couple of novelty titles to show for it.

I love Keeper - such a great little game, but definitely not enough to keep an entire studio afloat.

And Kiln. Eh. I'm not even sure who thought that was a good idea to begin with.

Minecraft Dungeons 2 can't come soon enough. I've never been a fan of the original game but for some reason Dungeons 1 ended up being my most played game of the X|S era so far. I liked it so much that I double-dipped and bought it on Switch.

Bored to death of graphics comparisons for some reason. Tell me the FPS. I'll figure out if it's worth it from there. We have both Series S and X here at home but sitting 6 feet away on a 55" television, I can barely tell the difference 99% of the time, even squinting. FPS always matters though.

So I should drag out my old Nokia 1520 and dig for those achievements now? I sort of hate keeping it in a drawer as I loved the hell out of it for at least a year or two.

Just played FC 26 last night and it was hot garbage. I hope 27 improves on it. It is by far the least realistic looking sports title EA has out right now and doesn't play nearly as well as it did back in the FIFA days, at least in my opinion.

On the other hand, the lack of FIFA license means that play is fair and Messi isn't handed endless penalty kicks.

I've been using Xbox game streaming a lot since day one. I already have a subscription so this won't do me any good, but a great way to keep players engaged if they don't have the money (or don't want) to pay.

I feel like the biggest flaw here is that it isn't $30 or $40.

I bought an OG Xbox about 6 months after it came out. I got it to play Project Gotham Racing because I was a huge Dreamcast Metropolis Street Racer fan. I ended up playing the other game I got that day, Halo, quite a bit more.

Still, I'd love new PGR titles. Day one buy for me!

The easy win for Microsoft and Xbox here is to simply release a $79 USB optical drive, then leave it up to the various publishers whether or not they want to release games in physical formats moving forward.

Elsewhere on the internet, dozens of former Avowed-haters are screaming at the sky that the sequel has been cancelled. Why? Because what else would they freak out about today?

I loved Avowed, but not everything needs nor warrants a sequel. The irony in all of this is that people have been clamoring for another Obsidian Fallout game for years now. Now that they're finally looking to get one, let's all lament Avowed, a game that the larger gaming press absolutely roasted for the most part.

We can't have nice things because we clearly don't want nice things. Instead, we want to keep Jason Schreier and Bloomberg in business. Why is that?

I'm more than happy to reduce visual fidelity to hit 60fps. Honestly, lack of 60fps (even with the odd frame drop) is enough to make me wait for the PC version.

1. I'm so glad I convinced myself to grab a 2TB Series X back when I did. Games today are stupid large.

2. The Series S prices are absurd.

This sucks. Not only because of the layoffs but I feel like many of us come and go with Destiny 2. For me and my family and many friends, it's been that game we all converge on a couple of times each year.

I bought Marathon. Played it maybe twice and it just didn't click with me, despite absolutely loving the art style. This is very sad news.

I want FEAR to become available on the digital store just so I can download it. I have 2 and 3 digitally but only had the 1st one on disc, and though it was BC, someone stole it.

If your games don’t sell, you don’t survive. Pretty simple. All three of these studios have made incredible games, in my opinion, but seriously, who actually bought them? Who actually played them? Not a lot of people.

Forgot about Blade, which is strange considering it's one of the few Marvelverse characters I even find interesting to begin with.

Whine whine whine... exclusives! whine whine.... antiquated discs whine whine... I want to pretend it's still 1998 whine whine.

Eh. I gave my Steam Deck to my stepson about 2 years ago because it wasn't doing anyone any good sitting around and collecting dust. It was a competent machine for indie games but I prefer doing that sort of thing on Switch 2. My OG ROG Ally is in much the same spot only my stepson doesn't really need/want it.

Day One buy here.

@kmtrain83 Give your kids your Steam, Xbox, PS, etc. passwords. Problem solved.

Playasia is almost as crap as LRG. Who cares what they think about anything at this point?

I loved this game. Games that don't take me months to finish that recall the good old 360 days are what Game Pass is made for. It absolutely deserved some recognition.

Banjo
Crimson Skies
Perfect Dark ( i know )
Blast Corps
Brute Force
Kameo
Shadowrun
Blinx
Conker
Crackdown
PGR
Amped

and that barely scratches the surface

Worthy praise for sure. Brilliant set of games and the newest one is no exception.

I've never NOT bought the ultimate version of Forza Horizon, whatever it might have been called at the time. I wasn't about to skip 6, so yeah, I have early access, but that wasn't why I bought it. I bought it because I've got thousands of hours into the franchise so far. Early access is just icing on the cake for me.

@eduscxbox Hell yes. This.

@DarkRula I'm with you. I'd sell a kid or two for new entries in the Midtown Madness, PGR, Crimson Skies, etc. series. Honestly I couldn't care less about Banjo - blasphemy, I know - but show me some new takes on older Xbox/MS IP and I'm absolutely down. Amped maybe?

But more than anything I just want Perfect Dark to get finished.

Doom 3 came out in 2004, not "sometime around the 2010's" - I only mention this because I read that and thought my entire sense of the past two decades was WAY off.

I'm going to wait for the 2038 Halo CE RE-RE-REMAKE Remastered.

Seriously, make new games or GTFO.

Swap the pricing. Keep the current highest tier price with CoD day one (and add all legacy CoD games + give some monthly bonuses) - then, drop the price of the next tier down. Easy.

I'll keep my ultimate subscription and everyone that isn't into CoD can pay less.

The ability to record game footage indefinitely to a usb drive. Why am I capped? It’s MY drive!

I still don't get why there's no MP component. I mean, I love the campaign and I've played through it 2-3x now, but multiplayer is really what Halo is about once you've put in the 5-6 hours.

Xbox One, and in particular the Xbox One X, aged the best for me. To have began life as the massive negative that it was, I think Phil & Co really turned it around, and if I'm being honest, I'm not seeing a whole lot of improvement in this current generation. I love my XSX, but it wasn't until 2024 or so that I could really tell the difference between them.

@Herna The Wii U is still legendary in my mind. The nights we (me and three kids) spent playing Super Mario U multiplayer will always be some of my favorite gaming memories.

Though I'm old enough to have been an Atari kid, I didn't start buying consoles day one until the Genesis/SNES era when I bought the first SNES from my local store. Since then I've pretty much bought everything on launch day.

Along the way I've had mixed experiences but honestly, some of the highlights for me have been Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, 3DO, Xbox 360, and PS3.

It wasn't until this latest generation that I've been disappointed - the Switch 2 hasn't AT ALL lived up to my expectations, mostly due to its lack of games, and both the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles didn't do much to differentiate themselves from the prior generation until several years later.

All of that said, I'm in for a PC-ish Xbox in the future. I feel like that's the way the industry is headed. I couldn't care less about PS6, Switch 3, or whatever else comes around.

It’s a testament to just how awful the Xbox one launch was that this game, Ryse, and Sunset Overdrive are “cult” games and not modern classics. All are five star games in my opinion, but Quantum Break is still Remedy’s finest.

@SigmaTheDJ yeah but sadly the Sony solution has its own issues. I've had 3 of them across a PS5 (1) and now a PS5 Pro (2) that have failed on me within 30-45 days of purchase. Pure junk.

The Xbox Back Compat Kit will become a thing. It'll be an optical disc drive. The physical media people will whine regardless.

"Build Your Own Game Pass" will never work because the math doesn't math. Each GP title, including Xbox Studios games, has a dollar amount attached to it. You'd wind up with pricing that scales up and down depending on what you 'rent' and that'd lead to nothing but confusion.

It is funny to me though that everyone that doesn't play Fortnite assumes that they're the majority, or that people aren't finding value in Ubisoft or EA titles on GamePass when Fortnite continues to be the number one game on most platforms and Ubi/EA stuff is always ranked fairly highly among Game Pass games when released to the service.

@NeoRatt Absolutely no one is going to miss Sarah Bond.

Sarah Bond's best friend at Xbox was...Sarah Bond.

Even though I 'got' what they were shooting for with that campaign, I can't help but notice the timing between its release and the heavy decline in Xbox console sales. A lot of that is probably coincidence, but still.

Goodbye Sarah Bond, you won't be missed.

@TrollOfWar I took the comment as "we won't be releasing 2 BlackOps games in a row" or similar, not that there wouldn't still be another CoD this year.

day. one.
that's all i have to say about that.

Huh. After the abysmal Silent Hill f(orgettable) I sort of swore off the whole genre. Looks like that was a bad idea.

Congratulations, Internet! You've once again killed something without ever even trying it. You've been complaining forever that no one tries anything new, and then when they do, you turn to your favorite clickbait YouTuber for their "thoughts," then spew them out tenfold into the void.

In your next social post after that you'll complain that too many devs are left unemployed.

Maybe it's not them, it's you?

Seamus Blackley hasn't been a part of the gaming industry for years. Who cares what he thinks about anything? Well, except bread. I follow him for bread. Other than that? I put about as much weight into his gaming/Xbox thoughts as I do Don Mattrick. We all look at the OG Xbox era through rose-colored glasses. It wasn't really a success so much as a proof of concept.