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Since localization isn’t provided, I play the Nintendo Switch version when I want to play in my own language, and the Xbox version when I want to use modern controls.

It’s such a shame that Rare Replay was never translated.

I’m hoping this will turn out to be a great game, but the fictional signboards that appear in the game don’t feel Japanese at all—they look like a strange, Fortnite-style version of Japan. Was there no one supervising or overseeing this aspect?

They’ve been expanding the story through novels and comics that are only available in English, and they’ve repeatedly released games that barely function outside the US when it comes to matchmaking. (Back when Halo 5 and MCC launched, you could leave the game searching for over an hour and still not get a match.) If they think they need a larger player base, this is exactly the kind of thing they should be fixing first.

Ubisoft was really good back in those days.

The translation in the first game was so poor that I honestly couldn’t understand what it was trying to say. I really hope they avoid turning it into another incomprehensible game.

I love the Fable series, but to be honest, I’m worried about whether the new game will actually be fun. The protagonist’s design doesn’t stand out, and based on the footage released so far, it doesn’t look particularly interesting.

The Japanese version was announced to be delayed to the new release date, and since it only came out last August, it’s actually been less than half a year. What an honest game company this is.

There’s no doubt that Xbox should never have abandoned Kinect.
Pursuing high‑end gaming puts them in direct competition with PC gaming.
The current situation is the result of that.

The Xbox 360 era was cool — it had a masculine vibe that even fit well with football. Now it feels far removed from that image.

This is only natural. Assets hacked and extracted from a game should never be permitted for use in another. What’s worse, even though most of them are built from stolen data, people sometimes praise them as being 'better.' For the original developers, there is hardly anything more insulting than this.

Recently, Xbox pushed out legendary game developer Gregg Mayles. Playtonic is a company made up of Banjo-Kazooie staff without him, so their games felt more like fan-made imitations of the original. If they were truly going to make Banjo-Kazooie again, Gregg Mayles absolutely should be brought back."

"First, please use AI to bring back Kinect's Milo. I'll listen after that

As a result of stopping the creation of exciting games that could push hardware to its limits, it has become a place with no appeal. However, the fact that Xbox’s first-party games have become boring is an even more serious problem.

I want Sonic Racing Cross World to be added.

The campaign’s content is truly terrible. It’s unbelievable that it’s supposed to share the same world setting as BO2—if anything, the atmosphere feels more like Control or Quantum Break.

In my country, the PS5 is cheaper than the Xbox Series S. There’s hardly any reason left to buy an Xbox console anymore.

I play on both. I'm really frustrated that Sonic Racing Cross World, which I've been hooked on lately, doesn't support Xbox Play Anywhere.

I played it solo from start to finish, and it was shockingly bad. Since I heard the protagonist was returning, I replayed CoD: BO1 and CoD: BO2 beforehand, but without a doubt, the Xbox 360-era campaigns were far superior.

It felt like a shallow sci-fi game with no sense of reality, more like something in the vein of Control. It’s hard to believe this is the same series that once depicted the bloody battles of the Cold War. Enemy character models were reused so often that it looked cheap—something unimaginable compared to past entries where each scene had its own assets.

I actually enjoyed the campaign of CoD: BO6 to some extent, so this was honestly quite a shock. Activision needs to remember the right direction.

@HonestHick I agree with your opinion. It looks far too profit-driven, as if they’re just trying to cash in by copying a game once it sells. And since all the ambitious developers are gone, no matter how much money is poured into a game, it ends up being soulless.

I can’t help but wonder why Xbox and other game companies don’t try to do what Nintendo does. Instead of only investing in games that are guaranteed to sell, if they invested in a wider variety of titles, they could reach a broader range of gamers.

If you cherish the brand, families across generations can share memories and talk about those games together.

Xbox has so many great IPs, yet they’re not being utilized. Even if a title isn’t a mega-hit, it can still be an important reason for someone to buy an Xbox. Not everyone buys a Switch just for Pokémon—some people love Pikmin, others love Kirby, and that’s why they buy it. Xbox needs to value its IPs in the same way.

I miss the days when the Xbox team during the Xbox 360 era was trying to make fun games. Now it feels like the place has turned into one where politically correct hires make politically correct games. I liked games like Gears of War, where guys would throw around ridiculous jokes with each other…

@JayJ I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who feels this way. I never thought the day would come when the Xbox One generation would be considered a good era. I do think Game Pass is a fantastic service, but I really hope the first-party game studios go back to prioritizing entertainment the way they used to.

They keep making highly political games because they care so much about critics and public opinion, yet they don’t get chosen…

I don’t think they even want to sell the Xbox Series X|S. They don’t advertise it, they only raise the price. PC Game Pass is cheaper and clearly favored by Microsoft, making the console feel like a system where you don’t even know why you’re playing on it.

EA should have made Sim City now.

I supported Kinect, the game-focused stance of the Xbox One X, and even Mixed Reality and Windows Phone. However, I don’t really like the current approach Xbox is taking toward games. It’s all about studio closures, canceled projects, price hikes, and endless talk of AI. Even the few games that finally get released don’t generate any buzz, and when I play them, all I feel are political messages that prevent me from immersing myself in their worlds.

After replaying CoD BO1 and BO2, I tried the campaign of CoD BO7. It was terrible. The world and characters they had built up until now have collapsed, and it has turned into a game where you fight strange aliens. Just like with Halo and Gears, for some reason the masculine, war-themed characters are being increasingly neglected.

They are definitely making new hardware. However, the current Xbox Series X|S has been almost abandoned. This can be considered the era in Xbox history where the least effort has been put into hardware.

Halo 4 was an ambitious project and one of the most visually stunning games on the Xbox 360. However, I didn’t like the idea of unraveling the Forerunners. Around this time, the series also began paying unusual attention to the depiction of women, which I felt diminished its military tone.

I thought the maps, characters, and story were terrible. However, the action was fun.

Are they learning why Dragon Age failed?

“His games were full of imagination and always let us try something new. The games in today’s video game need him.”

I wanted it to be reinterpreted like FF7 Remake.
Halo CE has far too many reused maps and tedious sections.

This is really interesting. It feels like a true successor to Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, and the new systems are excellent. On the other hand, the only thing that concerns me is that the new character designs don’t quite have the usual Team Ninja feel.

I don't like the unstable network connection with smartphones.
Can't we at least make it work with a webcam?

@wildcat_kickz Xbox Play Anywhere

Since the price has nearly doubled, a double Day One title is justified.
Of course, games of Call of Duty caliber should also double.

Only a title with a new political meaning will appear on Day One.

I'll always hope for the return of Perfect Dark...

The developers of ReCore also stated in a Japanese interview that they hoped players would appreciate the fact that the game could be played all the way through on release day. It seems the development time was truly short.

@Jenkinss The new avatar system is not from Rare. It's from Microsoft.

Instead of incorporating prosthetic arms or wheelchairs, they created avatars that can't be used in the game!!

I was surprised by how they translated it in such an astonishing way.
Only the cutscenes have dubbed audio.
During gameplay, it seems they found it too much trouble, so it's subtitles only.

Apparently, reusing the Xbox 360 audio data is quite a hassle.
Still, considering the Ultimate Edition wasn't translated at all, this is a significant step forward.

Now is the time to revive “Diddy Kong Racing.” Xbox owns the rights to characters other than Diddy.

They have yet to make an official announcement regarding the studio closure or development suspension. The only source of information is the leaked email.

Will Xbox Wire not disclose the information?

“Shredders Revenge” was entertaining, but the subsequent works appear to be inferior imitations that merely capitalize on its popularity.

It's convenient, but I wanted the option to choose the Xbox One version.
There are many games I want to play on the Xbox One X version to save storage space. For example, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.

I haven't played either the first or second games because they haven't been translated.
I'm very interested in them, so I hope they will be translated.

They raised the price of the game hardware and did not advertise it at all.
There was no way the hardware would sell.

I enjoyed all the titles, but Halo 5: Guardians was the most ambitious. The marketing and story were a bit off, but the multiplayer—especially a year after release—was definitely solid. If we're including the campaign, then I'd say Halo 3.

Rumors about Banjo and Kazooie come up every year. Yes, really every year. Has it ever come true?

The Forza Motorsport series was a really good game. It stumbled with microtransactions in 7, and I didn't really understand the new Forza. It's too late to improve it with updates. It's really disappointing.