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@FraserG Aww. The magazine yea, but even the thing about new episodes in November isn't a thing either? That's ad. 😭 What bit I got to see before work looked fun

For paper magazines though, feeling like Edge is our last bastion.

This is really rough.

Hoping Edge doesn't go the same way. I love their long form articles.

Just a shame it is locked at 30fps and already confirmed to not be getting a 60fps patch.

Especially when 1 modder made a nearly perfect 60fps mod for the PS4 version.

What I will say is this article turned me on to GameMaster. So that's actually pretty freaking cool.

Bring back 4 player, split screen, Zombies.

Until then, zero interest and will stick to Black Ops 4.

Thought for 2 seconds that was an image of a new Blinx the Time Sweeper game.

Sad it isn't.

Sounds like they didn't like the backlash they got.

Other developers do the same thing, they just don't say the quiet part out loud.

In reality though, they probably don't have much longer to deal with Xbox hardware the way things are going.

With how much they've been nerfing the rewards program, it is the the point that working for an extra 20-30 minutes is less effort than gathering up enough points for ganepass, or really any reward.

And IMO, that's when a program loses all value.

@Feffster For the same reason Microsoft though Halo Infinite was ready for release, two years before it actually was.

Then went ahead and released when it still had another year minimum to be worked on.

Microsoft has shown time and time again they can't manage their studios. Why would this be any different?

Do what you're saying is: London is going to be ignored even harder than New Vegas was for any kind of potential support.

@NEStalgia That actually sounds super practical. I find the pen type electrics with the little rocker button can be a pain at times. Especially when working on small electronics with enough screws to make a a Boeing look under assembled(too soon?) .

That's what happens when you re-release a game that didn't need remastered. Even the version, 2 gens old, on 360, still looks good today.

Without a compelling reason, such as physical release, why would one expect the same thing to sell?

@Kevw2006 Because they need every market to look as bad as possible to convince shareholders that dropping Xbox hardware is the way to go.

I just wish Live and Reloaded hadn't been more heavily censored.

Whats worse is there was a cheat code that disabled all censors on Multi-player.

Wish they'd revisit this game. Soluch a vulgar blast.

@HonestHick @NEStalgia

I'm telling you. That's exactly that this controller is! I'm waiting for the people posting Cortana butt controllers when they get their hands on it.

And on the subject of gyros. I'm pretty sure the ONLY input devices I have that font have them are my Logitech mouse, and Xbox controller. And I have quite a few.

I have really gotta ask what the screw river uses one for. An inclinometer?

@sporesmoldsfungus You'd think so. If it wasn't for the fact that New Vegas was repeatedly given the shaft. Short development time. Improper funding.

Hell, even with backwards compatibility it was ignored. You got FPS boost and you will be happy with that alone.

Meanwhile the arguable worse Fallout 3 got 4k support, and a bunch of other enhancements. Even the much older Oblivion was given more love. 😭

And I'm saying this all not as long time New Vegas fan, but someone that played through it for the first time this year.

@NEStalgia I appreciate that. Just wish you didn't have the heat gun the Switch's screen to remove it. Nintendo likes glue a lot.

But let's not let that distract us from the fact that this controller is a Cortana controller sans the butt.
Someone is gonna drop a STL of the butt attachment from the Wolverine and Deadpool controllers, then paint it to match. Or even just print in clear.

@HonestHick

The lack of gyros is why I refuse to replace my Elite Series 2. I'll happily give it up when they release a Series 3 with gyro. I mean come on, even my TV remote has a gyro.

@GuyinPA75 I've been saying this since he gutted Windows Phone when they were working on their foothold and showing steady, albeit slow, growth. Nadella simply hates hardware.

King Beast
@Daddy_Xerath
We can still buy the Xbox 360 games digitally lol, just not on the Xbox 360 console anymore. Still have access to them all too. Nice try tho

Well that's just 100% false. You can only buy backwards compatible 360 games. Marketplace.xbox.com, the online Xbox 360 store was retired as well.

@NEStalgia I mean.... Nintendo wouldn't give me a clear console either so I had to fix that too. Also peep the facebuttons I had to grind to get the better ABXY pattern. :/

@K1LLEGAL thank you!

@HeavyHoggJP it is a Elite Series 2. With them the faceplate just pops off. It is only held on by clips and some sticky pads.

Bought a clear faceplate and painted the inside of it with Kyeol Spring Green clear paint.

Now'a'days you can just buy the green faceplate on Amazon and pop it on though.

Chatpad is the OEM Microsoft made for the Xbox One.

@Pabpictu In what way did Microsoft abandon them? Bungie wanted to be free of Microsoft and made an agreement to leave.

Then they were so desperate to no be independent they went to Activision the Sony.

They're trying to sell as many controllers as possible before the refresh. And honestly, it is a bit scummy. Get back at me once the updated controller with haptics, improved sticks, and gyro releases later this year.

They just waited too long to sell me a translucent controller so I made my own a few years back.

@-MadMax- My memory is hazy, but why do I feel like unencryped IDs was the same issue Halo 2 had in 2004.....

@DoctorJohnDisco
Seems like a lot actually believe you can't on console and attribute all hackers to PC. I mean, yea, you'd seen the number nose dive without cross play. But there would assuredly still be hackers.

You know this is simply to let people that normally don't play CoD, and are due to the game pass release, that they will see cheaters.

ANYBODY that plays CoD know Ricochet does pretty much nothing to stop cheaters aside from putting a road bump in the process.

@Ribbitsneed I just went to my download history on the 360.

I wonder if what happened was related to why my Series X self formatted the other day.

@Sol76 My man. The unhealthy number of hours I dumped into that game from launch.

Like a thinking man's Armored Core.

And when the crou ties each introduced their super weapons....man those were some engagements.

Even the radio silence when outside of. CMDR OF COMBAS was unique.

When the Neroimas War was taken offline my heart shattered.

@Romans12 And as a complete replacement mod, likely the only place it'll ever be.

@GhanaViking With how pointless they've made rewards, it is less time and work to just stay over 30 minutes at your job.

One more thing they've screwed up.

@ValentineMeikin Right. That's the main purpose. That's why I said part of.

I seem to recall Microsoft touting several things for the Series, one of which, likely mentioned in the same breath as Smart Delivery then, was reduced patch sizes because only data being updated and replaced would be downloaded, not anything that didn't have a change.

Wasn't a part of Smart Delivery minimizing patch size by not downloading redundant information? Or am I remembering wrong.

I see people on the daily that think the Xbox One is the original Xbox because of the name.

Microsoft really screwed up the naming as far back as last gen minimum.

Ruh-roh Raggy.

FTC says Microsoft is going to do a thing if they buy.

Everyone else say NUH UH

Microsoft buys and does a thing.

FTC says told ya.

And now people saying the FTC is wrong because the price increase, immediately after getting CoD, is coincidentally unrelated?

Get real.

Been with Xbox since I was ostracized by friends for getting it back in the day instead of the PS2.

But man, between the One and now the Series S and their general attitude now, being an Xbox fan just sucks.

Xbox used to be the highlight. Now they've pretty much pushed me off to PC and VR exclusively barring the occasional Ninty or Sony game.

@K1LLEGAL Your point is someone isn't allowed to express an opinion or debate a subject that has existed for some time previously.
Yes every article needs, conversation, discourse, even a debate about it. That's kind of the point of the comment and discussion sections.

Without that you wind up with gaming in the sad state it is.

Additionally, please kindly provide lists of consumer subscriptions that go up anually. Because I apparently don't use those and would like to avoid them.

But just for the ones I am familiar with

Netflix has raised prices 7 times over 14 year.

PSN, including when they went from free to a fee, has raised prices 3 times over 18 years.

Including the when they started charging Nintendo has only had 3 price increases over 12 years.

Disney Plus, 2 increases in almost 6 years.

Paramount Plus, 2 increases in 6 years.

Amazon Prime, 2 increases in 19 years.

Even Xbox doesn't have annual prices increases.

@ALK I'm guessing you're just being willfully blind about complaints about those to?

I went from personally paying 5 streaming subscriptions to 1.

@K1LLEGAL What is crazy in the least? The fact that different people have different criteral for what constitutes value?

With the amount I consume, the new price increase simply makes Gamepass pointless for me.

For example, prior to Kumitsu Gami, the last thing on Gamepass I played was Starfield.

The only reason I even have Gamepass right now is because it was cheaper than just buying gold because of the 1:1 conversion.

Meanwhile I can play anything on PC or VR for less, without cost of online to play

Hoping this launch is better than Battlefront.

I know this is single player, but Aspyr screwed the Battlefront launch so bad it single handedly killed the pretty decent online population it had after launch.

@ironcrow86 Plenty of issues to point out with the game. But this isn't one. A sarlaac is a type of creature. And there are multiples of them. Across different planets.

That's concerning. That makes me thing the entire formula of the game has changed given how well the same formula worked for both Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

Unless of course this is just another case of a developer/publisher thinking they know what people want, but yet again, being out of touch.

Does the dialog feel off to anyone else? And the reading of the lines almost seems AI. Thoigh I don't see that being the case because of the backlash they'd get.

The gameplay itself looks like Ghost Recon Wildlands but reskinned to Star Wars. And that isn't really a good thing.

@nomither6 Wireless controllers work fine on PC as well.

@ZYDIO @JokerBoy422 That isn't true. There are multiple wireless third party controllers. Turtle Beach Stealth, Asus ROG Raikiri Pro. Even Power A has the XP-Ultra.

I don't t feel the price hikes wouldn't matter so much if online was free as it is on PC. But they know too many people would fall back on that.

But why deal with all that when I can just play all of Microsoft's games on PC, with free online. AND prevent them from getting royalties on thrid party software sales(as they get when I buy a game on Xbox) because I buy on Steam.

Had a blast with the demo. It is nice to see such an experimental game scoring so well.

From what I understand, Kawata had wanted to make this game for a while but had only got the greenlight in recent times. And it definitely shows he had time to think about what he wanted in it.

First Gamepass game I've been excited for in a while. And all because there was a pre-release demo to play.

Kunitsu-Gami is just about the only thing I'm looking forward to.

After playing the demo, reminds me of one of those games that would drop during the 360 days where everyone would talk about its. Things like Braid, Bastion, etc.

Between the music, the graphics, it reminds me of things like Otogi Myth of Demons. While the weird(but good) gameplay combination of a third person hack and slash, base building, and tower defense, are all blended together well.

No surprise. As I've been saying, much to many wanting to argue against, Xbox has one more console generation in it tops. Then it will be 100% publishing and cloud.

@OldGamer999 Same. Quite literally the only reason I have GPU until November 2025 was the 1:1 conversion, so I figured "Why not".

As far as the benefits go, I rarely use them. For example, the first thing to hit Gamepass to interested me since Starfield, drops on July 18th, Kunitsu Gami.

Worth mentioning as well is I play a lot on PC a lot and I couldn't not even begin to say the last time I used the PC portion of GPU.

Now that's a whole lotta time paying for GPU and not really using it.

My pre-orders stopped when everyone thought it was okay to launch broken games and take a year to fix it. If they were fixed at all.

I do make exceptions for physical copies that are confirmed to have the whole game. But I feel like that is almost too much of an outlier to even mention.

Oooh. This could be a fun one.

@Titntin Well, I guess Microsoft decided to redefine what a "core gamer" is. And by their new definition it seems I'm no longer one since I don't "love" Gamepass.