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Its been shockingly terrible year in terms of content from Activision and even worse from Xbox in terms of all the studio closures and layoffs which seem to be a consequence of the acquisition

Evil Within 2 is for me one of the best horror games ever made. Not just because of the horror elements itself but it's world building and storytelling through the open/hub world are absolutely fantastic.

This planet texture issue happens every time for me when they push an update on PC. If you're playing on PC Game Pass as I am, what always worked for me was just repairing the file via the Xbox app. Not sure if theres an option on consoles though.

Ahhhh Corporate-BS-Phil in the house! 🥳🥳

"smoothest launch" and "teething problems" are the biggest understatements. The game was unplayable at launch and still has many bugs and glitches. I still play this relatively often cause of my brother, but my goodnes, it's still an absolute turd when compared to the competition. And now they want people to do their job for them? Classic....

So disappointing coming from Obsidian. I hold them in high regard but this just seem like more garbage from Microsoft owned studios. Why have other UE5 games managed to ship with 60fps and Xbox owned studios are struggling and giving this "design choice" malarkey

@Sir_JBizzle I absolutely agree that everyone needs a good massaging from Phil and the team. 😂😂 Sorry mate, I just had to.

Turn10 has to be the worst developer Xbox has under their umbrella.

I'm actually looking forward to Age of Mythology. I've not played it since I was a kid. Fond memories.

Add the older COD games to the service man...not the hot pile of garbage that is MW3. Pleasssseee...

Sure sure just like how the Xbox app on PC has been great.

Personally I think it's terrible. Everything is a convulated mess to navigate and then the gameplay is just a bunch of slide cancelling freaks.

Played this on PC last week and it's a beautiful game and fans of games like LA Noire will really enjoy this. The asking price is IMO well worth it and it's longer than something like Still Wakes The Deep with multiple endings too

@Kienda appreciate it 💪

Stuck at home with bloody COVID, so....

1. PC: Started playing through the all Splinter Cell games for the first time; completed Nobody Wants To Die (can really recommend this to those who love Noir and games like LA Noire)

2. Xbox: Kunitsu Gami - Holy ***** what a beautiful and strangely chill game. Love seeing Capcom so weird stuff like this.

Remedy need to be protected at all cost! Not only are they technically astute but the creativity there in the team is off the charts. Was a 10/10 for me and hope the next expansion is a little longer.

I'm giving it an A not because the games were fantastic but because of the messaging behind the show.

Geoff has been rightly criticised in the past for not acknowledging the layoffs in the industry/studio shutdowns but here the first thing he did was acknowledge that. He took it a step further to then highlight the indie scene and how vibrant it is right now and is essentially the creative backbone of gaming today. So kudos for that.

Also with the backdrop of the rumours of the cost of advertising your game on SGF, kudos for the amount of time that was given to all the different indie games to show their stuff. I don't imagine games created by a single dev coughed up 250000$ to put their indie project trailer on here.

In an age where we easily criticise and cancel people for not doing what we want, I think it's only fair to give people a chance to correct their errors and Geoff has done that here. So A for me

@Ver yeah yeah mate. Now I'm asserting. What you wanna call it next? Truth? Gospel? Go on...

Maybe get your head out of Microsoft's ass first and then, maybe do some actual reading about the topic from industry analysts and insiders who seem to also DEDUCE the same. That that studio closure was financially motivated and not "organisational restructuring" as your "bets" suggest.

Ridiculous...

@Ver wait so I'm not allowed to deduce the reason for the closure being financial but you can deduce that it's organisational and Tango not fitting their plans? How do you know?

So let me leave you with a piece of advice somebody wise once told me: "PPL, PLEASE DON'T MAKE UP THINGS THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT" 😅

Just shadow drop some of the older CODs. If it's a new game, don't do a HiFi Rush and blame low sales after cause you couldn't be bothered with marketing.

@IOI same here mate. Just shell shocked at that decision...

Stuff like this excites me. Hopefully some of that original Rocksteady flavour is in here.

@Banjo- well, if the Tango situation has thought us anything, these execs are also prone to lying i.e. Aaron Greenberg. Either way, I think there's a third option which is don't believe anyone and just wait till things get released and put out.

Personally I jumped on the Xbox bandwagon 2 years ago for the first time cause I thought they were a lot more consumer friendly but since being on the platform, the messaging from Xbox themselves has been wildly inconsistent that its hard to want to remain on the platform.

@Banjo- why would you believe anything these execs say? They've already been on the record multiple times saying A and then delivering B.

If Satya and Amy wake up tomorrow and decide that scrapping Game Pass altogether would appease the shareholders, they would do it in an instant.

This is going to be followed by a price hike announcement. Depending on what that is, I will decide if it's worth it to have it beyond my current subscription.

Personally, Call of Duty is not worth paying more for.

🥱🥱🥱 going to be zero innovation and maximum monetisation.

Fair play from you guys reviewing it here. Calling it as you thought it is and not just giving high scores cause it's an Xbox game. Very Order 1886 it seems...

I'll still give it a try since it's quite short.

@FarmDog08 @BBB yeah even the last campaign in MW3 was so half-arsed. It's like, if the Devs don't care, why should I.

Either way, they'll still make their billions and sell tonnes of MTXs.

Am I the only who is not excited for COD as I used to be? The past few iterations have been horrible and this constant chase for warzone and skin sales. It's not what it used to be...

@BBB I downloaded it to try it out but I wasn't sure if I could stomach the massive game that it is before the release of the expansion. And I can't.

The update seems great and whilst I really enjoyed starfield, I'm also going to wait for the expansion, to really sink some hours into it.

@richyroo yeah I posted my comment before the DF video and it's great seeing that it's only those two cities that suffers drops. Otherwise it seems fine. Curious to see how Neon runs

******* hell! Makes you absolutely sick....

I think it makes business sense to bring more Xbox games multiplatform but some exclusivity make sense to make the platform attractive. Then again, the trajectory of Xbox today tells me that the platform is dead.

@P3nguinprisM I think the empty planets are fine but the more populated cities seem to really tank performance. Which is to be expected but on the 60fps mode the drops are quite harsh.

Either way, we wanted the option to have options and we now have them.

@Steel76 yeah that's what I've been thinking about recently. Get a decent PC setup in a nice compact encasing (essentially build my own console)

Just tried running around in New Atlantis and the 60fps mode (both visuals and performance presets) can tank the frame rate massively.

Even the 40fps mode can chug along.

Guess I'll play on PC when the expansion comes out.

I picked up an Xbox Series X which was my first Xbox in 2022 cause of how annoyed I was with Sony (I own a PS5 as well) and I felt Xbox offered a more customer-centric experience. But goodness me, the way Xbox have managed their business tells me that I won't be getting another one.

I still primarily play on my Xbox cause of Game Pass but I don't think the Xbox brand has long to live.

TBF both PlayStation and Xbox doesn't fill me with any confidence moving forward and I would rather invest in PC (in terms of platform stability) but I do love a console experience where I can sit on the couch and play on my big screen.

How Tango Gameworks got closed over teams like Turn10 and 343, who have consistently released terrible games is beyond me. IF it HAD to be one or the other team, I would easily sacrifice these two teams over Tango.

Hard to feel excited about anything Xbox atm.

I think this is fine and not like death threats to him or his family as is usually the case.

I don't know how this f***King asswipe is still in his job. Absolute snake.

Cannot be arsed about Xbox, Microsoft Gaming or any of these huge greedy corporate b**stards anymore. Sick and tired of them either screwing over their customers or the honest and hardworking Devs who put in their 9 to 5.

We need more studios like Larian and we need to support more indie Devs. That's where the creative heart of the industry is.

An absolute disgrace from Xbox and the leadership there. Tango has put nothing but at least 8/10 games out and they shut them down? Am really done with all these giant corporations....

I'm sure they are but as an Xbox owner I'm not that confident in what they're delivering to us hardware owners.

It does not need more time. More than a year for a next gen update?! BGS is terribly inefficient

Still absolutely sh*te. I tried it like at the beginning of the year and was shocked at how bad it still is. I wouldn't even give it a 7/10.

@shoeses just watch them botch the job as they did with Fallout 4. Literally released patch notes claiming a 30/40 FPS mode and just didn't deliver it on Xbox. Then put out a tweet saying, quality mode also runs 60 fps...like WTF

Yeah hopefully they give it to a competent team. Unlike BGS.

BGS are truly a bunch of clowns. The quality of all their products are abysmal. It's like they don't have a single QA person in that studio.