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There have been buggy games before, that’s not the biggest problem with cyberpunk. I don’t think it’ll ever be good

@Martsmall ah that sounds fine then

“Xbox Game Pass, EA Access, and claimed Games with Gold titles will now all appear within your full games library.”

Not sure i like this..

@Zucaritas regardless of your personal opinion, please consider how the wallpaper is mostly visible at all times due to the heavy use of transparencies. This was a common look for interfaces in the mid-2000s.

@Snake_V5 easiest answer is nostalgia. But it was indeed very practical. Everything was well laid out, well organized and it was incredibly snappy, especially for its time.
The current dashboard is much more feature rich, but some of those features are buried in submenus or 2/3 clicks too far away. The blades were very focused.

Not sure it would work today. But the underlying principles of its design are sorely missing from today's dashboard. Nostalgia for the blades is the easiest way most people have to communicate the need for those principles to return, even if in a different modern way.

@Zucaritas

Why not tho. Just give us the blades

if only he could convince Sega to make a new Outrun...

@Kohaku a lot can change in 5 years. It is an opportunity to tackle a market that may be eventually left without Cod.

@BRT15 it's not necessarily about financial sense, it's about dominating a market. Why does any company care about exclusives at all then?
Surely you understand that if by next generation Cod is an Xbox exclusive, that's a massive blow in early console adoption right? That means more people coming into an ecosystem and spending all their cash on Xbox instead of PS Store.
If it makes so much financial sense to not make it exclusive why is the deal under scrutiny by multiple legislators from across the world, hundred or thousands of well-paid people looking into the impacts of MS doing just that?

@Nic-Noc20th-C i love this comment every time

(maybe after all the hype was done and dusted TLOU2 is a very average game...but that's for another time )

Thanks for your input, probably there are indeed certain factors i wasn't completely factoring in.
Still believe it is getting overblown, as per usual online, but hopefully it won't impact the devs too much.. it's already a crummy job as is

i buy physical when buying at launch, since i can play the game and resell it, making some quick money back.
Also if buying used is cheaper than digital.

@NEStalgia unless i'm missing something from the big picture, there's little to no harm to the product, outside loss of secrecy on some aspects (of this early build) of the game.

Only the most hardcore salty nerds will crawl through 90 videos of work in progress to try and crap on it. A single 30 second ad on TV before the game launches will completely mitigate their effectiveness.

For example, TLOU2 was heavily leaked way before release, leading to outcry over how characters were handled and major plot points, etc. Still, it was completely acclaimed by critic and went on to be one of PS4's best selling games.
Unless a game is terrible, leaks do little in way of lost sales. And if it does end up being terrible, leaks are used as a scapegoat by the dev team (just like "review bombs" apparently only impact games that aren't good to begin with, piracy only impacts games that sell bad, etc).

It’s hardly the end of the world. The internet making a way bigger deal out of it than what it is

@UltimateOtaku91 that's just how business works bro. They can't magically tell what's the best strategy 2-3 years down the line, so the contracts need to be short.
Sony is trying to put pressure on MS extending those contracts by stirring up the public

@UltimateOtaku91 because a 3 year contract means CoD will be an Xbox exclusive by 2025. Sony doesn't want to lose CoD at all, because it will make Xbox the default choice for a huge percentage of the market. It's not just about lost CoD sales, it's about losing a big chunk of money that comes from people choosing the PS ecosystem

Sony is desperate, and with good reason.

I'm not a lawyer, but looking from the sidelines, each new Sony statement convinces me further that the completion of the deal is inevitable.

Short and sweet. But i doubt any japanese gamer actually cares about this

@Lavalera Sega of America is referring to them as Like a Dragon. Personally i'm happy to leave "Yakuza" behind. Unfortunate localization from when they were trying to market these games as "japanese GTA"

@UltimateOtaku91 play any one of them. If you like it, then play another. Nothing wrong with starting at a random point, you may not get some references but everything you need to know is explained when necessary.
Personally i started by playing 4 when it launched. Loved it and kept playing them ever since

@InterceptorAlpha No matter how "sad" Xbox gets, those sort of comments will always have it beat brother. Chin up

@themightyant It has always been called Like a Dragon in Japan, they probably thought the introduction of a new cast in 7 was a good spot to merge back to the original title

@SplooshDmg you can already emulate it on the PC. It even plays online as well

@JayJ truly hope they double down on online features. Praise the fast evolving online features of fighting games, without them the genre would’ve been dead for over a decade
(never forget local play is always an option)

@Reptilio it is nintendo providing the feature. Who are you talking about? You think there’s enough people interested in playing a shoddy 1997 shooter online to warrant extra development and resources? It’s not surprising

@Reptilio no bro. This is almost zero work. It’s literally an emulator running a rom. The emulator on the switch (developed by nintendo) allows for online play. That’s about it

@Reptilio nobody created "more" content for anything. The Switch is going to run the ROM on an emulator with online functionality. The game itself is unchanged.

Never got one.. Should i? Is there a point to this? lmao

Huge game pass win. Especially playing on the cloud from the phone/tablet. Brilliant

The reason people review bomb is because it keeps getting covered by media.
As it stands it’s the easiest channel to communicate to the devs something sucks, hitting their reputation

@gollumb82 always a pleasure having a civil discussion about something we love, even if we may disagree

@gollumb82 i’ll spell it out: to me this game is utter crap.

I understand there’s good, bad, and everything in between. I’ve been playing games for 25 years. This is a bad one.
I don’t know what else to say. The game could have glowing 10/10 reviews for all i care. I played it and thought it was garbage.

Not necessarily at a technical level, but at a conceptual one. It fails to deliver on everything itself promises when playing it. The game mechanics are stale. The dialogue is a cringefest with terrible delivery. And most importantly, it doesn’t feel right. Any of it. I’d rather play anything else

Again, this is my personal opinion. If you enjoy it that’s fine. But to dismiss any and all bad opinions online as trolling is some sort of joke. Bad games exist

Forget making "another one". Rather see them do the one they did properly this time around.

@gollumb82 the trash comments, such as mine, exist because a lot of people, like myself, played the game and think it's trash.
I am not aware of what the score or consensus around Cyberpunk is at the moment. But i played the game as soon as the Series X version hit. And my appreciation of it after about 10 hours is that it is a terrible game. Failing at the most basic of its ambitions.

But do go on about how my opinion shouldn't be valid.
Maybe you have some justification as for why one of the most expensive games ever can't even convey ambiance and tone as well as games from 15 years ago. I didn't. It's trash, get over it

Nothing can save this trash

@lokozar unplugging your Xbox doesn’t make you a better person. And no, i am not responsible for the way people in charge rule.

You make me a few questions, i will tell you again the same thing: it’s not my job to figure it out. It’s legislators and infrastructure management’s job.

Again, i fully agree with you conceptually. I just don’t feel it’s our business to solve anything. Your honest attitude may enable them to shift blame instead of being held accountable for the mess they’re causing.

Again, unplugging an Xbox does nothing.
Cheers brother

@lokozar i agree with you. But how about this: it's not my problem to solve. There are people in charge to make that change. Me unplugging my Xbox isn't going to make any difference (besides my wallet). It can only change at a legislation/infrastructure level, and there's little you and me can do about it.

These problems aren't going away while the very people responsible for solving them have an active interest on keeping everything as is.

@Richnj any regular computer just idling will consume far more energy than a shut down Xbox. An old non-LED lightbulb will as well.
This does nothing to tackle any issue besides saving some chump change over a year

@Beanlord thx bro

Let's just focus on making enough of the current consoles for everybody before coming up with new ones xD

It'll be a hoot at movie night

Enjoyed Infinite, but can't beat the absolute marvel that was the original at the time. I remember inviting people over to play the demo and we'd just be blown away by it. Great times

Already bought Panzer Dragoon, no brainer

Beat Saber is cool, but i haven't played another single game of interest in VR. I understand why it's linked to traditional gaming, but it feels like a completely different medium

@Kaloudz People never stick with the name. This has happened multiple times in the past, including with a football game: Championship Manager devs breaking off into Football Manager.
FM immediately took over the whole market in its first iteration and CM was out of business after a couple years.

@His_Dudeness do you have access to the Game Pass quests and whatnot?

FINALLY YES
i've been waiting for this for YEARS

The only thing that's really wrong imo is if people are able to get in more than one review (or if they are being hateful on the review text).
If most people think your game sucks, for whatever reason, why is it a "review bomb". People just don't like it, grow up

"don't like our game? you're a bigot"
nah fam, your game looks like garbage

Soul Hackers 2, F1 Manager and Two Point on my shortlist

saints row, cool

great. more junk on the game icons