KelticDevil

@Thwomp_Stomper

I see what you did there.

Well done. 👍🏻 😉

I couldn’t care less about GTA Online. I just want them to make a new GTA, as I do like those games.

But as someone else said, just like Blizzard, Rockstar has found a $$$$ making gold mine, so who knows if we’ll ever get another great single player story in the GTA universe?

@NEStalgia

I completely agree. Just trying to copy Sony’s model is a fool’s errand. Like you said, Nintendo learned that long ago. I love that Xbox does things in their own way with things like Game Pass.

And not every game needs to be some huge, super expensive, AAA interactive movie. Microsoft has studios for that, but they also have enough studios to offer a variety of different types of genres.

Am I going to like them all? Probably not. But that’s ok. I’ll take variety any day, though.

@Grot

Exactly!

@LtSarge

Another Xbox fan whining for Microsoft to follow the Sony model? 🙄 😴

So you want every first party game to be some single player, 3rd person action/adventure game? I don’t. If you do, go buy a PlayStation.

Personally, I like variety in my games. Fable doesn’t have to be some super mature game with 87 cutscenes & play like an interactive movie.

And who cares how many copies of God Of War Sony sold? Do you get any of the $? Nope. And that game only sold to just over 10% of the fanbase on PS4.

In my opinion, I liked Fable’s lighthearted moments & tone. But if Playground wants to do something different, then that’s cool too. I guess we’ll see. They should make the game they want to make, not just “appeal to the masses” in some attempt to copy Sony.

Variety is the spice of life, as they say. And we get all of Microsoft’s first party stuff on Game Pass, which makes it even better. 👍🏻

So.......

No fart jokes then?

But in all seriousness, I liked the lighthearted humor of the original games. It’s what gave the series it’s charm.

@raymccrae @Grot

I agree. I just went over to Push Square to read some of the comments in the 384 articles about Cyberpunk & wow. 😳

I think the problem is the game runs like crap on all PlayStation consoles & that’s not the case on Xbox (with the exception of the OG Xbox One).

In fact, it sounds like even the $300 XSS runs the game better than the $500 PS5. 😂

So in a way, I guess I can see why some of the Sony fans may be ticked off. But it is pretty extreme over there. Article after article & all with tons of comments complaining over & over & over......

@Bmartin001

I doubt that will happen as backwards compatibility is still huge to the Xbox ecosystem & the 360 is a gigantic part of that.

Things like this happen because there is the MCC out there, which makes the individual 360 Halo games a bit redundant.

@VenomousAlbino

It’s up to 3%!!! What the.....? Lol!!

Yea we need to go John Wick on those people. 😂

@raymccrae

It’s because the game still crashes like crazy on the PS5. I haven’t heard of that being as big of a problem on XSX/S.

Halo 4 for me actually. That ending was awesome.

Halo 1 is my favorite, but the Anniversary Edition wasn’t as good.

I also would give a shout out to Halo Wars, as that game is underrated.

The game on Xbox seems to be having less issues than the PlayStation version. The fanbase over there is losing their minds over this game.

I have also heard that the Series S runs the game great. The OG Xbox One version? Not so much.

It’s just odd that it runs ok for some people & not for others. And the discrepancy between systems is odd too.

CD Projekt Red better be giving all DLC for the game for free or something. Either way, I’ll wait to play it on XSX after the next-gen patch.

I am playing the Hivebusters DLC for Gears 5 & really enjoying it, so far.

If I get done with that, I’ll be playing Banjo-Kazooie as part of Rare Replay.

No surprise here. Plus most of these games are in the MCC. And the rest have Xbox One versions.

I’d be furious if I were a developer too. Awful management decisions can ruin everything.

This is pretty funny.

Good move by Microsoft here. 👍🏻

@NEStalgia

I completely agree.

@Tharsman

But at least it gives players a chance to return it. Sony’s policy is that even if you just download the game to your console (not even play it), you don’t get a refund.

But I get your point. Cyberpunk is a very long game. So maybe that 2 hrs is too soon of a playtime.

Microsoft has a good refund policy & Sony doesn’t. That is probably why this is happening. It’s a PR move for Sony, but more power to them, I guess?

Funny how they have left many broken games up on PSN in past years with no issue. As a former PS3 owner & an owner of the broken mess that was Skyrim (even years after the game was released), I question the motives here.

But Cyberpunk is all over the news right now, so Sony can get some PR boost while nobody notices their completely awful refund policy.

Microsoft should just let people request refunds, if they choose to, & honor those refunds......just like they have been doing.

Microsoft has a good refund system, so they may leave it up to the customer to decide if they want to send in a claim for a refund. Especially since it sounds like the game is having more problems on PlayStation.

Sony’s refund system is garbage, so this could be why Sony or CD Projekt Red just pulled it completely off of PSN.

I had a PS3 & Skyrim and Sony didn’t pull that broken mess from the store. And that game had huge problems even late into the life of the game to a point where the DLC of the game was almost not even released at all.

For those that are defending this, I get your point. It’s a single player game, so what does it matter?

But it does matter if Ubisoft makes it much harder to get XP in a future update & turns the game into a sloggy grind to get people to buy this “XP boost”. And they have already done that in a past AC game, so there is precedence for it.

Activi$ion did the same thing with Destiny until the fanbase found out & got angry with the XP throttling.

@Tharsman

It does seem like they have been pretty chummy lately. And aren’t they a Polish studio? I thought Microsoft was sniffing around that territory awhile back looking to acquire a company.

@mousieone

No it wasn’t a shot at indies, as I like them too.

It was a shot at Nintendo & the Switch & it’s lack of major 3rd party support.

I would like to see Microsoft snatch up Bloober Team. Their games are perfect for Game Pass.

I get why this question gets brought up to Bowser. If I had a Switch as my main console, I would hope for this too. I would own very few games if I owned a Switch.

Other than Nintendo’s first party games, the system is basically a console for indies & niche Japanese games that don’t sell in the west. 3rd party support is weak, as usual on a Nintendo console. And the 3rd party games it does get all look & run way worse than on Xbox & PlayStation.

And I’m sure Nintendo is happy that their fanbase will buy NES games for the 67th time & pay for a complete garbage of an online service.

Their fanbase is extremely loyal (to their own detriment, in my opinion) & they probably don’t want Microsoft’s Game Pass mucking up their gold mine.

Great review!

I’ll be checking this out this weekend.

Microsoft needs to snatch up Asobo for the 1st party family.

So Ubisoft likes to screw over gamers that just paid full price for these games? 🙄

I don’t ever see this happening.

The Switch is too weak to run most games that will be coming to XSX/S in the future for Game Pass.

And would enough gamers be comfortable with streaming games to make it even worth the hassle in the first place?

Too bad these aren’t for sale.

@Bmartin001

You beat me to it! 👍🏻

They keep adding stuff & eating up more & more of my hard drive. Lol.

But MCC is pretty awesome though.

“Classic taxi games”? Besides Crazy Taxi, what other taxi games are there? Lol.

And will this have Offspring on the soundtrack & have loads of product placement too?

Sleazy move by Ubisoft. But we should have known.

My dream would be playing Xbox while laying next to Isla Fisher. 😁

I wonder if Microsoft could make that happen? 🤔

I am about to play the Hivebusters DLC & this was a nice surprise!

@Krzzystuff

Well said. 👍🏻 lol.

I’m still confused......

Is the game going to have a story now with cutscenes? I thought it was a multiplayer only game? But why else would you get Vin Diesel?

@nessisonett

You can.......on Xbox. Lol. 😉

This would be fantastic, as it may get the U.S. government to actually get off their @$$?! to do it too. 👍🏻

So they knew exactly what they were doing & released the game anyways? 🙄

I’m so glad I waited to play this game. My insane backlog finally helps me out.

@ThanosReXXX

I totally agree with you about Andrew Wilson. He comes off like some evil cyborg whenever I see him speak. I have heard some refer to sim as Android Wilson & I think that fits. lol.

I’m still going to wait until the XSX is more available. I work, so I can’t be home all day refreshing websites trying to beat some bots to the punch.

I have been waiting for these two to come to Game Pass & am very excited for both! 👍🏻

Apparently, the game is a hot mess on PlayStation with tons of crashes. The XSX/S versions are probably the best by default at this point. Lol.

This is disgusting.

But until the console manufacturers actually release a console AFTER they’ve already made enough or stupid people quit paying outrageous prices from these scalpers, this will never change.

Game Pass is the best thing to happen to gaming in years.

Doom Eternal gets my vote.

@__jamiie

They could just buy Playtonic Games & let them loose on the Banjo franchise? There are ex Rare developers there & they already make Yooka Laylee, which is basically a Banjo clone.

I don’t think we’ll ever see another Conker game, though.