swedetrap

Simple economics:

Fortnite made $1.8 Billion in 2019 alone and it's free to play - that's just dlc, cosmetics, etc. All in a single year.

The future is base games via subscription with paid DLC, seasons passes, etc. - this 100% puts the power in the hands of consumers to decide what is worth playing vs not, what's fun vs not, and what has longevity vs not. I can't wait to play Dirt 6 on Game Pass as I've already 100% Dirt 5 after buying at launch. Worth the $60 I paid, even better on Game Pass .

Safe to assume that the "next gen" version (it's current gen now, is it not?) is free if you bought The Borked Version a few months back? I have it on my Series X but I've put off playing it for the next gen version. Now I'm mildly worried that they'll pull a 505 Games/Control move and charge me for the next one.

If one forces the other (and it doesn't matter which) to innovate, who cares? I have all the consoles and though I prefer Xbox because of their ecosystem, their community, and their commitment to backward compatibility, I don't think any of those 3 strengths exist without PS4 dominance last generation. If PlayStation grows up and learns to rely on something other than the same old 3rd person adventure game in new clothing every 6 months, that'd be awesome too - cloud powered or not. Fanboyism is so 1992.

Meh. I'll wait until it's 75% off in 90 days and buy it then anyway. And in my backlog it will sit, next to RE7.

WRC9 is so good I have no regrets having paid full price. Best rally game out there now and I don't expect EA will be kind to Codemasters' offerings in the future so maybe the only one worth playing here real soon.

I really liked Deliver Us the Moon but now I can’t remember if I actually finished it or not. Probably something to look into this weekend.

I have a Switch so I'm not sure I'd even play an RPG on my Xbox given how nice it is to play them on the go, but great news for people that don't have that option I suppose. I miss the 360 days where at least JRPGs had a presence (and yes, I know this isn't a true JRPG but you know what I mean).

All this "coming together" talk. BAH!

Sadly the underwhelming nature of this remaster has nothing to do with the Xbox hardware and everything to do with the dev that put it together. I wish I'd got a refund.

Quantum Break is Remedy's masterpiece, not Control. Control is like a lame excuse to re-use a metric ton of assets from Quantum Break and not even bother with a cohesive plot.

Eh. As games where the protagonist is armed with a flashlight go, I still prefer Luigi's Mansions 1 and 3.

Finally! It feels like I've been waiting months for this.

Oh yeah, I have.

@NEStalgia The demo content was easily the worst content in the whole game for the most part. Square should consider rethinking their demo department as they made some very odd choices as to what to show and what not to. That said, I'd still put it above most of the recent, similar titles. I enjoy it quite a bit more than say Spyro or Yooka.

I'm not at all surprised at how many people "reviewed" this either without playing it or off of the demo. It's not game of the year material by any means but I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 easily. It's extremely simple without being easy, rewards you for replaying levels (if you're into 100%ing anyway), and is rather charming all the way around. The big freakout over the 'strobbing lights' thing was a concern if you suffer from epilepcy but I'd think that's pretty obvious when it comes to many games out there now. Watching a YouTuber over-exaggerate how it almost killed him made me unsubscribe vs. hold it against the game. Now is it worth $60? Nope, but it's definitely a great $39.99 game in a winter/spring that doesn't have a whole lot to offer those of us with families who are bored of looter shooters.

Can't. Wait. Fingers crossed it comes out in 2021 but I'm a patient man.

Loved the first game but the others have done nothing for me. Too similar in tone I guess. I did really enjoy Tell Me Why and Twin Mirror though.

I support this. Xbox Live is sooooooo America Online.

@Hypnotoad107 100% agree. As much as I wanted to love BotW it never quite took hold of me, where Fenyx Rising kept me going straight through. It's rare that I play a single game only from start to finish but man, I couldn't quit. I was bummed I had to work and couldn't wait to get back to it.

I already own a Steel Series Arctis 9X and have been relatively happy with it, it certainly packs quite a bit more punch than my PS5 Pulse headset anyway. That said, I bought one of these anyway based 100% on the internet hype and have to say that in my opinion, most of the hype is sufficiently under-hyped to say the least. Everything from Halo to Gears to Forza to CoD sounds amazing. True to the review above, I've heard sounds in all of these games that I've never heard before and it's one of the few headsets that I can "turn to 11" and get more than enough volume. I love me some skull-rattling gun noises and this thing more than satisfies.

Couple that with the ease in which I also managed to pair it with my gaming laptop and I've already bought another pair for a friend who is a little too "frugal" for his own good and is quite content with his crap $29 Turtle Beach headset. Happy Birthday, buddy.

Microsoft has truly outdone themselves here. I wasn't expecting a $99 headset to blow me away but here we are.

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.