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@Dr_Luigi I care because I don’t want all these Activision teams stuck in the COD mines, and current ActiBlizz management is responsible for that.

But yeah, this news story is a nothing burger.

Psychonauts 2 or Grounded 1.0. It’s a toss up.

As a Sonic fan, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Unleashed and All Stars Racing transformed…yeah, agreed.

The pop in on Series X is insane. Loving the game so far, but there are lessons to be learned on optimization and polish if we move forward with this ‘open zone’ style.

@BundyDanger the spread

Honestly around what I expected.

Unleashed for sure.

@jordan1992 Definitely have, love Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man.

Still confident Doom is the superior series though. Give me The Ultimate Doom any day over…most games pretty much. Nintendo’s got nothing on Doom either, short of the dead and buried Sin & Punishment series.

@Snake_V5 Doom is a better series than anything Playstation has tbh.

I can’t bring myself to care about God of War and have never been able to. Say that as someone with a PS5. Next week is Sonic week for me. Now when Spider-Man 2 drops…that’s a different story.

And while I may love Grounded and consider it a GOTY contender, it’s been a very barren year for Xbox and they need to deliver in 2023. Fingers crossed Redfall knocks it out of the park, that and Replaced are the Xbox titles I’m keeping an eye on next year.

I'm one of those people that one of the first thing I did with my PS5 is turn the rumble and haptic feedback the hell off. Gimmicks like that annoy me more than anything, and with the pain in my right shoulder and wrist, it would just aggravate those.

Still a fantastic game without that stuff.

I think it’ll average around high 70s-low 80s

I’m rooting for this game to be good, I really am.

Played a bit of this recently since it was half off for Halloween digitally. Much better than Deathloop imo.

Microsoft NEEDS to nail this Fable game.

It's one of the best and most unique IPs they have that they need to nurture right now.

The biggest Xbox game I really got into this year was Grounded (irony to call that their biggest game but I digress)

I hope they find their footing in 2023 with some of the tentpole titles people want. I'm still mostly waiting for Fable and Avowed on the big games front and still expect to wait a while on those, but smaller games like Replaced will also sustain me.

Harvest Moon 64 is peak and honestly i'm not interested in a revisit to A Wonderful Life at all.

I mean…they aren’t wrong.

I do have both services, and I’ll grant there are great games on PS+, been playing Returnal with it, but Gamepass is the better service between the two and Sony could do more to beef up their catalog, even with more ps1 and ps2 games.

@UltimateKGB Yeah, the spike around chapter 13 is especially brutal. If there’s anything major I hope for Like a Dragon 8, it’s that they really fine tune both their core turn based combat, and the job system around it.

@Jaxx420 I’m just happy to see the record being set straight.

Yeah, the main thing I want post acquisition is these teams not being wasted on CoD.

I wish I liked this game. I sincerely do, but I just didn’t care for how they overhauled the gameplay. At this point I’d be more interested to see Obsidian return to Fallout.

No knocks against those excited for this though, always nice to see native next gen upgrades for games people love.

Working towards the golden ending of Grounded.

Honestly my favorite game Xbox has released this year.

After that, probably play Evil Dead or might start the new Mario + Rabbids.

Looking forward to this one, Obsidian is the best developer that Xbox has.

I don’t know why you all don’t ignore UltimateOtaku91. He’s a shameless Playstation fanboy that will bend over backwards to defend them and blame Microsoft for doing something similar in the same breath. Put him on my ignore list months ago and never looked back.

Definitely gonna agree with PushSquare’s toxicity being a result of the actual contributors on that site (and not only Sammy either) but it feels like fanboys in both camps are getting worse with this whole ActiBliz thing, and I genuinely question how much said fanboys care about CoD.

It is a shame Xbox missed Wonderful 101, it’s their best game by a country mile.

I do hope we see more Platinum games on Xbox for sure, they’ve got some sadly low lows, but their highest highs puts most of the game industry to shame.

@jamescrowx The blame is also on Microsoft for trying to tell said team still learning with the Unreal engine to add different features and ideas that the game wasn’t conceived or designed around.

I’m not letting this comment section absolve Xbox on this. They were trying to micromanage a team and director that you do NOT micromanage if you want a good game.

@Zucaritas Dude, i'm fine with Scalebound being dead. Have been for years. It's a matter of people putting the entire blame on Platinum. That's not how it went down.

Look, I just want to say this, a lot of you are painting Platinum in a bad light like this was a scam. It was not. The idea of an action game with a dragon and human protagonist, the unique combat ideas and the genuine bond of the duo alongside a slick action game cool factor is a passion project specifically by Hideki Kamiya that dates back to the foundings of Platinum games. I don't really take flappant dismissals of the passion behind this lightly, and i've seen that a lot on this site. I love Xbox, I love a lot of what they're doing WAAAAAAY beyond Sony and Nintendo right now, I think they understand we're in tough times and want to extend some levity in relief time to people who need it with reasonable means of access. But this was a genuine breakdown of philosophy between Xbox and the design philosophy of one stubborn but passionate Hideki Kamiya, the director and premiere passion man on the games he makes. I feel a lot about this and realize i've been hostile in this comment section.

Realize i'm coming at this from the passion of both an Xbox and Platinum fan, things are more gray than you think. No one was a bad guy in this game falling apart, it was a mismatch of ideals for what could blossom from the game from the start and mistakes were made on both sides.

@Zucaritas Oh they can do plenty wrong. Babylon's Fall, Sol Cresta, Anarchy Reigns, TMNT and Korra. They have their successes and failures.

You come across as someone that doesn't know what the hell actually happened with Scalebound or just doesn't like Platinum considering you called a widely acclaimed game of the year winner awful.

The difference between me and most of the people in this comment section is I actually know what the hell i'm talking about with this situation since I do follow the developer, instead of blindly hating them because things went bad with daddy Xbox.

@Zucaritas Bayonetta isn’t even the best thing in their portfolio. NieR Automata, Wonderful 101, and Infinite Space are all far better.

Though I’m starting to get the impression people just want to blame Platinum because they don’t want to give the share of blame that Xbox earned with this whole debacle. (Again, both parties screwed the pooch and MS and Platinum should both leave Scalebound buried)

@EvilSilentFrame Glad they got away with what? They genuinely tried to make a game and neither Platinum or Microsoft’s vision for the game came together in the end.

Tired of users that don’t bother to learn what happened making willfully ignorant statements about Platinum trying to run a scam or something.

@jamescrowx Platinum didn’t make DMC and people in these comments seem to not understand HOW Scalebound fell apart and just want to lay the blame at Platinum

https://youtu.be/nhlJdfkhOK8

Educate yourselves

@Chaudy Xbox shouldn’t go back to them, but I’d say Platinum is a far better developer than some of the chump teams MS has like Nu-Rare, 343, and Bethesda

@eduscxbox I’m aware Wonderful 101 is available on everything except Xbox. It’s my third favorite game and I wish it were on Xbox. They say it was due to the infrastructure of the Xbone but I don’t entirely buy that.

Anyways, Scalebound was a break down on both sides, and Microsoft isn’t blameless in sticking their noses into the development of Scalebound and making Platinum add stuff it didn’t need and wasn’t envisioned with, like multiplayer. I think it’s better left buried and Platinum should keep making what’s on their plate, like Project G.G. The two companies don’t seem to be a good fit for each other.

@eduscxbox Scalebound is Hideki Kamiya’s baby, I think it’d be in real poor taste on Microsoft’s part to do that. Better off no Scalebound at all in that case.

I think it’s time to move on. I think a lot of the ideas for controlling a large creature and a standard person seem to have been incorporated into Bayonetta 3 anyway.

I do hope Project G.G. comes to Xbox though.

@Stoned_Patrol That's the exact one, and we did end up playing a few matches of it last night. It was in a deep sale recently, and is still a blast with the right group of friends.

Grounded has fully gotten its hooks in me and I just killed my first wolf spider yesterday, also replaying Bayonetta 2 in anticipation of 3. Maybe some Alien vs Predator as well, got a group of 6 together the other night and it was a blast.

Been putting a shocking amount of time into this since it hit 1.0.

I still hope they plan to keep expanding the game even more though.

Eh, I just want Project G.G. to come out and be okay. One of my favorite developers in the industry, but things do seem to be shaky for them right now which is unfortunate.

Lost Odyssey, Dragon Quest XI S, Yakuza Like a Dragon, Final Fantasy IX, and Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition are my top 5 on Xbox.

I’m going to plug FUGA at every opportunity. Play it people.

Play FUGA people, it deserves it.

Guilty Gear Strive on gamepass in 2023 is pretty hype though.

Yakuza fans, we eating.

Best announcement of the day

So much drama around the ownership of this FPS series that I feel like most of the people arguing over don’t even play. They just care how it affects their favorite corporation.

Good add, will definitely be checking it out

Agree with the sentiments of others that Metal Hellsinger is definitely one I’ll be playing.