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I have both Series X and Series S (one for me, one for the fam) and Control is a crash-prone mess of mediocre game design on both of them. Parity achieved!

I miss 360 Uno.

I'm not even sure how much I care about any of the Bethesda stuff being "exclusive" to be honest. People make such a big deal about PS exclusives and frankly, they always feel like much the same game over and over to me these days. Insert third-person X in a single-player adventure with some button mashing and the occasional QTE sequence. Add some DLC. Let it bake for 45 minutes at 350. They've definitely had some winners, don't get me wrong, Day's Gone is still one of my favorite games of the last generation, but I'm sitting here with a PS5 and maybe 60 minutes of Miles Morales under my belt and I'm bored to death with it. PS players need Bethesda games as much as Xbox at this point. Stuff like Dishonored needs to be made available to as many people as can get their hands on it. I think you'll see Microsoft continue to let Bethesda publish wherever they want and let the money roll right in.

I never stop playing Sea of Thieves and Minecraft Dungeons, but I made some time for FarCry 4 (900p is awful on 4K but 60fps is so good) and State of Decay 2 and Wreckfest (which I already owned but forgot about - thanks for the reminder!)

Almost every game on here is worthy of being called a Zelda-like, except Oceanhorn. That game just bugs.

But if you haven't yet played Immortal Fenyx Rising, I'd dare say it's the best Zelda game that isn't a Zelda game in the past 10 years.

Honestly the sheer number of Xbox One titles that could benefit from a 60fps boost is massive, though it's only about half of the Xbox 360 games that could benefit. Either way, this isn't something anyone at MS **had** to do, so I'm happy it's being done at all. That said, there are several dozen OG Xbox games I'd love to see come to back compat, regardless of whether they got enhanced or not.

Taxi Chaos is the only one I'm interested in.

In other news, I need to stop buying games altogether. Too many of them end up on Game Pass, some before I even have a chance to play them in the first place.

Watch Dogs 2 is 100% better in terms of how it feels. That game used to chug something fierce.

Downside: I hadn't yet seen it on a 4K TV. Holy crap is it pixelated. I almost wish there were some kind of mild blur filter I could use. Still a blast to play though.

Meh. I have these on an SNES emulator. Not about to pay for them again considering I bought all 3 on cart back in the day and probably paid WAY too much at the time.

I've had Xbox One X & PS4 Pro and Xbox was at least 2-3x faster to download anything UNLESS you had a game running, then PS4 was about 10% quicker.

On my Xbox Series X & PS5 it's about 2:1 in favor of Series X unless (again) there's a game running.

I'm on fiber. Sony's internet infrastructure has been mostly trash since the earliest PS3 days. They've made some improvements here and there but it's just barely better than Nintendo's when it comes to download speeds.

Wait a minute. I thought no one buys game consoles for watching media? Oh is it not 2013 anymore?

Seriously though, the Xbox blu-ray app is trash. It always has been.

@LtSarge I didn't like either of his games and I think his immature method of knocking pretty much everything is sort of tired at this point.

When Fortnite is making both Sony and Microsoft more money than any of their own games, and it has nearly no story at all, I'm sure everyone is paying a LOT of attention to "that guy that swore at the game awards that one time" when he says it's all about being story-heavy.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of some of Sony's 1st party story games (even if they are all sort of cookie-cutter and templatized at this point) but seriously, this sounds like the film directors that decried Netflix years ago, only to find themselves without work that didn't involve Steven Seagal.

MK11 aside, KI is the only fighting game from last gen that I played regularly. Some of the best creativity I've ever seen in a fighter, and fresher than SFV, Tekken 29, and Soul Cal 72, etc.

I truly loved this game and can't for the life of me remember why I stopped playing it. Thanks for the update; I can't wait to jump back in.

This game was a blast for the first couple of weeks but it got old fast and relying on new costumes and that kind of crap didn't keep it fresh.

I have to imagine the LAST thing Microsoft is going to try right now is a price hike. That said, I'd pay $19.99 or even $24.99 for Ultimate. It's saving me a lot of money compared to what I used to spend on games and it's more or less got me hooked on the Xbox ecosystem despite owning a PS5 and a Switch.

Game review: 6/10
Risk: 0/10 because it's on Game Pass
Likelihood I'll play it anyway because Game Pass: 10/10

Normally I don't really care about this sort of thing but this one is truly brilliant.

The only PS exclusive that I play that isn't a 3rd person action-adventure. I'll continue to buy it on PS though, as all of my baseball friends are on PS, not Xbox. Still, that's good news.

I need an Elite 3 with a share button.

And yet he hasn't yet spoken out publicly about the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 MAX? "They should just call it the Apple phone!!"

Regardless of what he says about Xbox (and let's face it, who really cares WHAT he says about anything?) I find him to be trite and boring. Not unlike the Video Game Awards show that keeps giving him and his trite and boring games airtime.

Bummer. I guess I'll just have to go back and put another thousand hours into Steep in the meantime.

@BAMozzy Man, I forgot all about Biomutant. I actually preordered that through Amazon in physical form way back when I still bothered w/physical games. I saw this and canceled it. But it does prove the point - I was hyped for that game and for months now I haven't even remembered that it was happening.

I ended up liking Torchlight 3 more than the previous two games, but already bought it. Glad to see it'll get some more love via game pass though.

Wow. Put them all in a single list and that's one solid library of horror titles.

Still love the OG Xbox and wish more of its games were available through B/C.

@NEStalgia Someone else finally saying what I've been thinking of Sony for the past generation.

I'd ask him a few things:

1. What happened with Scalebound and Fable Legends? Be specific. I wasn't particularly looking forward to them, but I'm curious how far along they were before they got killed off.

2. Why not revisit some of the other Microsoft-owned IP? I know a lot of people are hot for the old RARE games, but what about Crimson Skies? Midtown Madness? PGR? It seems like any of these would be an instant hype machine with the right studio in charge of it.

3. How hard was it to right the Xbox One ship after launch? (I'm of the opinion he's done an amazing job but that damage done pre-launch to that system was horrendous.)

I'm vaguely distrustful of anything from Kalypso but will give a trial a shot.

I have a PS5 and think DualSense is pretty ok. It does remind me of the hype around "HD Rumble" on the Switch though, one of those things that sounds much cooler than it inevitably ends up being because devs get bored with it and don't bother to keep it interesting. I filled out the survey as well and would love to see similar features on the Xbox, if for no other reason than to have parity in cross-console releases. My favorite rumble to date is still the amazing work being done by both Forza teams. DualSense still has nothing on that in my opinion.

I know I'm not supposed to think so but Torchlight III is one of my favorite games of 2020. I already own it, but I'm glad to see that thousands more will have no excuse not to try it out now.

In the U.S. you can literally go to the Microsoft support site and return a drifting controller, no questions asked. I think it's been this way for quite a while now. Do I need to sue for money for emotional distress too? I don't think so.

Start finishing the games I start and stop buying games until I finish some of what I have, even if it's just 1:1 (if I finish a game, I can buy a new one). The backlog is depressing these days.

I really liked this game when it came out. Lack of a decent-sized player base really hurt it as the months went on though. I do think it's a bit crap that the single-player game will no longer work. At some point, either they need to release this stuff as free to play right out of the gate (it went F2P but later on I think) or make the online component optional. 2K has burned me twice with this, first with Evolve (which I really loved) and now this.

Shadow Tactics for $9.99 is a steal.

Aw man. The kid crying almost made me cry. I miss childhood. Damn.

Have fun, kid.

I'm down for The Medium, Hitman III, and the formerly-absent-on-Xbox Yakuza games. All of this obsession with Scott Pilgrim though, I really don't get it. I've had it on my PS3 (PS Plus freebie) since 2012 or so and man, it doesn't live up to the hype around it. What will be interesting to see is what they charge for it as it was a $9.99 game when it first released. I fully expect the new/improved version to be $20 or more.

Several of my friends begged me to try this game when it came out, so I did, only it didn't take. That was on PS4. When it came to Xbox, several more friends told me I was crazy for not 'getting it' so I tried it again. Still didn't take. I'm a big fan of Platinum's stuff but NieR just hasn't clicked with me. Now that I see all of this praise, maybe the 3rd time will be the charm.

I can't stand Kingdom Hearts games but for some reason, I really love Melody of Memory; it was my go-to game during an otherwise downer of a covid-holiday season and brought me a lot of joy. And Hotshot Racing? So good.

I discovered PureXbox by way of Nintendo Life and you guys have quickly become my favorite Xbox site. Thank you for all that you do.

This is the first month in as long as I can remember that has some games I don't already own and actually care about. Already have Little Nightmares (and it's fantastic) but I really want these other 3. Nice.

Such a shame. I've always wanted to play XIII and was really looking forward to finally doing so. I guess I'll drag the old OG Xbox out of mothballs and play it on that instead. Bummer.

I can't remember Control's plot but I was so underwhelmed by the action it had that I think it's possible I've simply blocked it out of my mind. That said, knowing Fable is in the hands of someone respected is great. It's been far too long since Fable has been a thing. I played the crap out of the Fable Legends early release and was always bummed that it was canceled. It didn't blow my mind or anything but it was new Fable.

@Gunonaboat I voted for ODST too. I love all of the Halo games (even 5, yes) but ODST was just so different that I can't help but give it the nod as my favorite.

Watch Dogs Legion. The save game patch means I can finally make some progress again. Love the game, despite it's various flaws. After that, need to get back into Immortals Fenyx Whateveritscalled.

And then, there will be Cyberpunk.

I had no expectations because you couldn't pay me to watch The Game Awards in the first place. I've tried, twice in fact, and I find the whole thing ridiculously pandering and embarrassing to my hobby of choice.

I'll wait for the YouTube highlights.

The best part about the console wars is that the biggest system seller for any of these companies over the past couple years has been Fortnite. What sells on the software side more than anything? Also Fortnite (via microtransactions). What will the truly huge sellers this holiday season be? CoD, FIFA, Madden, and ... Fortnite microtransactions. Sure, a few million copies of Spider-Man the Amazing 15 Minute Reboot don't hurt, but it's mostly the cross platform stuff that's been making everyone money lately. Having a handful of mostly similar single-player adventure games is a great reason to own a PlayStation (I own mine solely for said games) but what are the kids yappin' about? Fortnite, CoD, EA Sports.

Still baffled as to why this got a remake. I'd love to see the original Watch_Dogs remade to look like the infamous E3 demo.

I get 30-40MB/s when I have a game active on Xbox, always have. It goes up to 900MB/s otherwise. Now, if that game is Destiny 2 or something, hey great, I get it. When it's Unraveled, that makes zero sense to me.

Still, my PlayStation 4 and 5 downloads seem to hover around 80MB/s regardless of what I'm doing. Day one with my PS5 consisted solely of installing games. I didn't get to play anything until the following day. GREAT user experience there.