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Vol. 1? So there will be a Vol. 2?
What's left? MGS 4, GZ, 5 and Rising?
It would be nice if they actually finished MGS 5.

South of Midnight, Clockwork Revolution (Project Cobalt) and Towerborne (Project Belfry) were all rumoured for years now, so neither of them was a huge surprise that came out of the blue.

Hence I will choose a small indie game shown in the extended showcase that went pretty much unnoticed, but looked fun as hell: Go Mecha Ball. It looks like a mix of twin stick shooter and pinball.

Now, imagine streaming VR games through the cloud to a cheap VR headset? That would be the dream...

Nobody uses VR on the go. You use it at home, where you have wi-fi. I can't believe Xbox is not exploring that idea.

State of Decay 2 is one of my favorite games of the Xbox One generation. It's been improved so much that it became some sort of cult classic.

My only fear for State of Decay 3 is that it becomes some sort of live service game, full of microtransactions. SoD 2 shows a lot of potential for monetization, but thankfully Undead Labs has been giving us everything for free. With a AAA version coming, that could be a different story...

I'm so hyped for Starfield that I started playing Skyrim again (I have already replayed Fallout 4 a couple months ago).

This time I decided to upgrade for the Anniversary Edition and I do not regret it! Survival Mode really makes it feel fresh again, dealing with the real possibilities of starvation, sleep deprivation and hypothermia makes exploring the frozen tundra of Skyrim genuinely scary!

Survival Mode is actually available for free in the Special Edition, that is in Game Pass, but Anniversary adds some items that can make it more manageable, like a backpack and camping gear. Not to mention loads of new spells, armor and other items. There are rechargeable gems for enchantments now!

I will give it a 10/10.
If it was a Nintendo game, it would be 98/100 on Metacritic.
But since it's an Xbox exclusive, the best we can hope for is 89/100.

@rustyduck I suggest you to watch Digital Foundry's video on why Starfield is 30 fps. Is not just a matter of reducing resolution in order to get higher frame rates. It seems that the fact that you can interact with the objects in the game, steal everyone's sandwich and stash them in your ship, that has an impact in the frame rate.

Would you trade 60fps for a static world where you can't interact with everything? And sacrificing fidelity for frame rates can also impact draw distance and pop-in for example. In a linear world where you're mostly bounded between walls that's not a problem, but in a game with planetary exploration and beautiful landscapes and moons and distant planets within the planetary system being simulated in real time ? We need all the draw distance that we can get.

Layers of Fear 1 did not hold up well back in 2016, I can't imagine how bad it must be now

I mean... it was a creepy game with beautiful graphics, but the gameplay loop of walking around back and forth until the world around you changed so that you could progress was no fun.

@BAMozzy @Cashews gameplaywise, I'm sure it will be nothing like Bioshock Infinite. But it's impossible not to think about Infinite. Not only do the games look the same, but the story teased in the trailer is very reminiscent of Infinite... a steampunk city where a black woman is leading a revolution against the wealthy elite? And there is time travel? Granted that Bioshock Infinite is more about parallel universes, but the two still feel very similar to me.

If Microsoft is serious about the mobile market, they should release mobile games accessible through Game Pass without all the mobile BS of microtransactions and advertisement.

It's good to be able to play console games on the go through the cloud, but there isn't internet everywhere. Make decent mobile games without exploitation and people may subscribe to Game Pass just for that.

@Jark it is confirmed. Pure Xbox is being a bit too cautious with these news, but if you check Eurogamer, you'll learn that People Can Fly actually made an official statement on the Polish site Interia Biznes. And it turns out that Interia is not just a random gaming news and rumours website, it's actually a business site and the statement was made by People Can Fly's Management Board.

@Ep_13 I surely would have loved to see some combat. Yet another trailer showing Senua in a cave hearing voices in her head was a little boring, in my opinion. But I do understand why Microsoft wouldn't show any combat yet. I would have loved to see a different landscape, though.

I agree with @TakeItEasy on that, @Ep_13
Hellblade 2 is a 2024 game. Hence it will be shown again on the next not-E3 showcase or maybe in The Game Awards later this year, if it's an early 2024 title (which I don't think it is.)

If Microsoft had shown Hellblade 2 (or Fable) gameplay now, then what would it have left for the next showcase where those games are supposed to be the spotlights? They will go in-depth with Hellblade 2 once it is next in line to be the Xbox's flagship release.

@Kaloudz you're not wrong, some AAA games go well above US$ 100 million. But budgets can vary a lot depending on the scope of the game, Resident Evil 4 surely did not cost as much as Starfield... and a game developed in Poland might be cheaper than one developed Stateside, where wages are higher.

I'm so in love with Go Mecha Ball already

Two generations from now there will still be games running at 30 fps simply because some developers choose to focus on fidelity over frame rates. And Bethesda wants you to look at the stars in Starfield.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Orange Box...

Which are technically backwards compatible, but not digitally available in my region, for some reason.

@Zoidpilot4 I answered their survey justo to ask for Dino Crisis

They could go back to the original Resident Evil.
Zero or Veronica are good choices too.

Five is a "No, thank you!"

Or... do Dino Crisis instead.

I'm interested... not planning on buying Diablo IV or Street Fighter 6, if reviews are good I might get this one.

I'm more curious about Chicory, but then again, I've just started playing Cassette Beasts, and it will take a while until I'm done with it.

Fallout 4 is actually awesome, even though some fans seem to think otherwise. Okay, it's not an RPG full of options and consequences, but it's probably the best open world shooter around. Much better than any Far Cry game, in my opinion.

On the other hand, I don't like RDR 2 at all. Every mission follows the same pattern: cutscene with your friends planning shenenigans, ride 10 minutes to the place marked in the map, "oh no, the plan has gone awry!", shootout ensues, cutscene, ride 10 minutes back. Rinse and repeat for 60 hours. Collect 10's and GotY awards.

TLDR; I think Fallout 4 is better than RDR 2.

It's becoming embarassing how often Phil congratulates Nintendo and Sony for great game releases while Xbox doesn't release anything deserving to be congratulated on since 2021.

Change 343's name and let them work on something fresh.
Give Halo a rest for a few years.
Once people few nostalgic and start clamoring for Halo, remake/reimagine the original trilogy and then take Halo 4 in a completely new direction.

You're missing the option "Not even for $1". Come on, it's Ubisoft! All their games are 💩

I actually prefer time trials to racing against other vehicles, so I'm enjoying this very much!

Indie game offered in GWG.
Me: "No way I'm playing this $#!7"

The very same indie game offered in Game Pass
Me: "Ooohh! What a nice indie gem, I think I'll try this one!"

I have very little experience with Diablo, only played a little bit of Diablo 3. I think this game is okay. Not bad, it's actually really fun to play mindlessly while listening to a podcast, since it's so easy it's basically anti-Dark Souls... but I wouldn't spend full price on Diablo IV. Hopefully the ABK deal will go through by June and I won't have to.

@NeoRatt I think Microsoft lets each studio decide whether they will do Microtransactions or not. Halo Infinite has really awful mtx, Forza Horizon has car passes and expansions, some games have no monetisation at all, like Psychonauts 2... I don't think that's a strategy.

@Sakko that's actually a really great idea. Bundle it with a few backwards compatible OG Xbox games pre-installed and call it a day.

Sadly, the society and specially the internet these days are very toxic and negative. From serious business, like politics, to harmless stuff like videogames, every topic is hyperpolarized and there are two tribes yelling at each other. It's not fun to engage with platform agnostic communities like N4G anymore because everything becomes a console war. That's the appeal of sites like Pure Xbox for Xbox players and Push Square for Playstation players. To interact with like minded individuals, because we don't know how to interact with people with different tastes and opinions anymore. 😞

@Sol4ris Bethesda >>>> Activision Blizzard, so I don't really care about the ABK merger, Xbox already acquired the best publisher around.

Redfall and Starfield are not even out yet and I'm already eager to see what comes next from Bethesda 😀
I'm replaying Wolfenstein 2 and it's so good! I hope Wolfie 3 is coming soon.

I mean, I've spent my last weekend without internet due to a thunderstorm in my town. At least I had videogames to play, otherwise it would have been a very boring couple of days...

@Novs yup. And unless you are playing Redfall through the cloud, you're required to download it, so you should be able to play it offline in single-player.

Maybe I misunderstood the quote (English is not my first language), but it seems to me that 3000 is the number of games that ID@Xbox has enabled to ship on Xbox platforms in the last 10 years, not the number of games in active development right now...

@Kaloudz I believe that what they mean is that the European Comission is not worried about competition in the console business. Sony could not convince them that the merger would be detrimental for their console business.

However, the EC is worried about cloud gaming market. Although that's a small market now, we don't know if in five, ten, years time it will be the a big deal for gaming, and with Microsoft having a killer app such as Call of Duty exclusive to their own cloud platform, the governments are worried that Xbox could build a monopoly there.

That's why Microsoft is addressing those concerns by offering 10 year deals to put CoD on competing cloud streaming services.

Xbox simply cannot win. If a game that needs more time is postponed, than Phil Spencer is a liar, Xbox can't deliver games in time and yadda yadda. If it's not postponed, then it's releasing broken games, Xbox ruined Bethesda, all unfavorable comparisons to Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077 will emerge and so on. No matter what team Xbox does, team Xbox is always wrong.

Maybe remake and modernize the OG games, like Resident Evil has been doing?

To be honest, I think this game is Okay, but I'm more interested in playing through Elden Ring again now that I know an expansion is coming.

@jrt87 I've read about only needing to to get the second phase to 50% to trigger and end to the fight, but oddly it did not happen to me. I had to get him to 0%.

@Bleachedsmiles if it weren't for the first boss, just 15 minutes into the very first level, I'd say Wo Long is easier and more accessible than Elden Ring. But on the other hand, it's a linear game and you can't run away from a boss you're not ready to fight yet. I can see most people bouncing off Wo Long in the first half-hour just because the first boss is so damn frustrating.

@Stoned_Patrol the first boss is a HUGE difficulty spike. I was breezing through the first level, but once I got to Zhang Liang it took me at least a dozen tries to finally beat it. According to other reviews, most bosses in the game are not nearly as hard as that. It's almost as if Team Ninja wanted to make players feel frustrated and bounce off the game by putting an enormous roadblock in the way in the very beginning of the campaign... But other than that, Wo Long is not nearly as hard as the Souls games. It's a cool game, combat is fun, it looks great... you just have to persevere to get past that first boss.

@abe_hikura for me it's actually woo, boo, hmm...

This game is begging for a rythm-based fighting game spin-off. Hi-Fi Brawl.

Good thing that I decided to wait for a deal.

I'm an Xbox fan and even I think Microsoft is being disengenuous. They have enough studios to compete in exclusives without ActiBlizz. But surely they are taking their time...

F minus. Even though Portal 2 is one of the best games ever made, it's still a very old videogame that I have already played a decade ago. That's not nearly enough to save a very weak year. My other highlight is Yoku's Island Express, that's a game I played for the first time and it's very good.

If they were serious about releasing Forza Motorsport, Redfall and Starfield at the first half of 2023, as implied in last E3, they definitely need to have a showcase early next year.

@Romans12 Starfield: 11.11.2111