FINALLY! This is the only way to save Halo Infinite since the devs are seemingly incapable of making maps. Blow this open and let the community save Halo.
If it ain't on Game Pass, I couldn't care less. Ubisoft is so boring and so terribly run at this point. They literally just re-release the same crap every year. Ives is terrible at his job.
@jordan1992 Wow dude, you do realize that words can have different meanings based on how they are used in a sentence right? Like when someone says they are buying a "budget item", that is short speech for saying they are buying a "low budget item". The term "budget" does not always mean cheap. When a corporation announces it's annual "budget", it doesn't announce it's annual "cheap".
And wow, you literally defined the term "budget" with "limited budget"!!! Seriously, how do you function in a society without this understanding? I am honestly amazed that you have. You are mocking me for your complete lack of understanding basic language. Keep facepalming and digging that hole though...
@jordan1992 Is language your first language?
"Budget - an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time"
AAA budget means: "an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time" for "a huge game being made for years".
It's very sad that I am explaining this right now...
@BRT15 It wasn't crap, but it didn't quite live up to Left 4 Dead's level. Was fun for a little bit, then lost interest as it got fairly repetitive... Turtle Rock can't seem to get over that hump and find a long-lasting hook to their games as they venture on their own.
I'll wait for it to arrive on Game Pass like it's predecessor did. I enjoyed Deliver Us the Moon, but I got enough of a backlog to where I can wait for Mars.
@uptownsoul Compulsion games is not Naught Dog. Same number of studios is a meaningless comparison when different studios produce different levels of games. Not every studio makes AAA budget games and not all should. I shouldn't have to be explaining this...
@uptownsoul Yes, but not at the same level. There are multiple ways for them to try to get at the same level. They could go a different path, but this is one path.
@theGoodChap I can agree with you there. It is getting pretty crazy overall with gaming. Lot of rugs being pulled out from under established IPs and fanbases on both sides. I will say that I do believe most of Activision's games will remain cross-platform. Some of them are too big of a cash cow to pull exclusive. But, you'll get the whole "buy it on PS5 or get it on Game Pass" comparison.
@jordan1992 this isn't sports. Business doesn't function with equal cap space and draft picks. If companies want to dump more capital into "buying itself to the top" they can. They are risking more capital by doing so. And the fact that this doesn't even put them over Sony, negates that point. This merely makes them a legitimate competitor again with the dominate Sony. If Xbox then proceeds to buy EA and Ubisoft, then I'd be getting concerned about that.
@uptownsoul why is every company required to follow the same blueprint? They aren't. The fact that all these Sony fans are constantly on here freaking out about Xbox becoming actually formidable again just shows how entitled you all are to having the dominate console and Sony reflects that same attitude.
@theGoodChap you sure attributed a lot of things I never said from your high horse. I'm rooting for a closer parity. Sony has dominated the market and will still lead it after the acquisition. It'll just be closer now and that's healthier for competition. Sure, It'd be nice if just everything was utopia cross-platform. But then everyone would just buy the stronger console, which is Xbox. If I am calling them hypocrites, am I not by definition, saying both companies are doing the same things in this area? But yeah, that's somehow "unadultered fanboyism"... Oh please...
@themightyant Your point is totally meaningless to the topic though. I'm completely aware as to why Last of Us TV show is bigger than Halo. The games reflect a similar market though.
@UltimateOtaku91 I like how you keep saying it's unrelated, then proceed to talk about how little involvement and money (you think) Sony will get. The show will most definitely boost sales of the game. The fact that Microsoft has needed to make all these purchases to just be a formidable competitor shows how far ahead Sony is right now. Didn't see the FTC saying anything about Sony's huge lead before Microsoft bought Bethesda. Just shows how ridiculous this all is. But I get it. You are a Sony person and you want your exclusive CoD DLC and XP Boosters...
@UltimateOtaku91 It's jointly produced by Sony and co-written by Druckmann, so you are wrong. And the fact that they both have shows (and The Last of Us is clearly much larger than Halo), proves the point that there is competition in the market and Sony still will remain on top this generation, after the Activision acquisition.
@kihaennem Think you are confusing enhanced with a remake. This was intended to be true to the original and they don't have as much control over the assets to reskin it like they did with Perfect Dark. With the insane licensing and shared rights involved, it was a miracle we even got this! Assets remain, just resolution scaling and lighting changes for the most part as well as controller scheming.
@dreadful No evidence that they knew he was a domestic violence offender when they made the game. Why should Squanch be punished for something someone else did?
@Lup Cancel culture at it's worst on display here. Let's punish people completely unrelated to the offender. Guilty by association. A terrible display of modern society...
@NEStalgia Gotcha on the Dualsense name. Some of those features would be nice additions. But most are not needed for me as a multiplayer FPS player (Vibrate is turned off). But maybe for Single player games it could be nice.
Even though the virtue signaling of it by Xbox is cringey and the carbon savings are miniscule, it isn't forcing me to use "green" energy nor use restrictive power modes, so I could care less.
I mean, I'd like to see Elite 3 push it to the next level. But lets be honest here. Xbox has had the best controller since 360 era and it hasn't even been close at all. Sony finally, starts taking design advice from Xbox and then Xbox is immediately behind? No, it's still the best controller easily. But, I do agree I don't want XBox to get complacent. I want to see them adopt the new magnetic system that supposedly ends drift problems. Drift is the biggest plague on gaming right now. I love my Scuf Instinct and would like to see Elite 3 replicate their rear buttons as well as the mouse-click triggers vs the rear paddles and trigger stoppers. A big thing they could do would be to open up controller settings and allow community uploads of controller settings that could be downloadable to your controller. They could really be on to something with that if done right. Could have streamers link their configs and have a ranking system for the community uploads.
@JayJ They are just opportunists hoping to get settlement money. Frivolous lawsuits are a big problem in the US. People need to stop settling and start countersuing.
Lol so much tears in the comments section. Peeps just love ginning themselves up and raging. Half are just PlayStation guys roaming Xbox forums all day to trash it.
I mean, they haven't really done much of anything since the game launched sadly... They really just need to open up Forge and let the community run with it. Let there be a Forge maps mode that will play the top community maps and then have a method of inducting the great ones into the regular circulation. Since 343 can't seem to make more than 2 maps in a year and a half...
@Cyberpsycho If you enjoyed Shadow Warrior, this is that same Dev (Flying Wild Hog). This was their first game (that they redux'ed the same year SW2 came out) and they built Shadow Warrior off of this engine. So, you'll see a lot of the same gameplay mechanics, just in a cyberpunk setting.
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Re: Apex Legends Becomes Less 'Battle Royale' With The Introduction Of Traditional Team Deathmatch
This game has fallen off soo much in the last couple seasons.
Re: Halo Infinite Launches New Matchmaking Playlist For Forge Maps
@InterceptorAlpha To be fair, most people hate Big Team Battle lol! I do it as a warm-up but it gets old quick.
Re: Halo Infinite Launches New Matchmaking Playlist For Forge Maps
FINALLY! This is the only way to save Halo Infinite since the devs are seemingly incapable of making maps. Blow this open and let the community save Halo.
Re: Xbox Leak Reveals Ubisoft+ Will Include 60+ Games, Here's The Full List So Far
@UltimateOtaku91 Being part of Game Pass automatically makes EA Access a better value.
Re: Xbox Leak Reveals Ubisoft+ Will Include 60+ Games, Here's The Full List So Far
@ironcrow86 Danks gamma not see
Re: Xbox Leak Reveals Ubisoft+ Will Include 60+ Games, Here's The Full List So Far
If it ain't on Game Pass, I couldn't care less. Ubisoft is so boring and so terribly run at this point. They literally just re-release the same crap every year. Ives is terrible at his job.
Re: 'Inkulinati' Is Getting Impressive Feedback On Xbox Game Pass So Far
That review was probably written by UltimateOtaku
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@jordan1992 Yeah I'm done... Can't help willful stupidity...
Re: The 'Worst Xbox Game Of 2022' Is Shutting Its Servers This May
Lol, they are shutting down the single-player? Wow, can they suck any harder?
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@jordan1992 https://www.theicon.com/5-aaa-games-and-their-budgets-how-much-was-spent-how-much-was-made-and-was-it-worth-it There you go pal. Now run along to English class.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@jordan1992 Wow dude, you do realize that words can have different meanings based on how they are used in a sentence right? Like when someone says they are buying a "budget item", that is short speech for saying they are buying a "low budget item". The term "budget" does not always mean cheap. When a corporation announces it's annual "budget", it doesn't announce it's annual "cheap".
And wow, you literally defined the term "budget" with "limited budget"!!! Seriously, how do you function in a society without this understanding? I am honestly amazed that you have. You are mocking me for your complete lack of understanding basic language. Keep facepalming and digging that hole though...
Re: Zombie MMO 'The Day Before' Reveals 10 Minutes Of Uncut Gameplay
Safe to say this game is Undead on Arrival... Someone should've actually watched this The Day Before and told them not to release it.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@jordan1992 Is language your first language?
"Budget - an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time"
AAA budget means: "an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time" for "a huge game being made for years".
It's very sad that I am explaining this right now...
Re: Xbox Game Pass Shooter 'Back 4 Blood' Has Officially Ended Development
@BRT15 I played on Game Pass. Yeah, I'd be more salty had I paid full price.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Shooter 'Back 4 Blood' Has Officially Ended Development
@BRT15 It wasn't crap, but it didn't quite live up to Left 4 Dead's level. Was fun for a little bit, then lost interest as it got fairly repetitive... Turtle Rock can't seem to get over that hump and find a long-lasting hook to their games as they venture on their own.
Re: Roundup: Here's What The Critics Think Of Xbox Planetary Adventure 'Deliver Us Mars'
I'll wait for it to arrive on Game Pass like it's predecessor did. I enjoyed Deliver Us the Moon, but I got enough of a backlog to where I can wait for Mars.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@jordan1992 I have no idea what you just said...
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@uptownsoul Compulsion games is not Naught Dog. Same number of studios is a meaningless comparison when different studios produce different levels of games. Not every studio makes AAA budget games and not all should. I shouldn't have to be explaining this...
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@uptownsoul Yes, but not at the same level. There are multiple ways for them to try to get at the same level. They could go a different path, but this is one path.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@theGoodChap I can agree with you there. It is getting pretty crazy overall with gaming. Lot of rugs being pulled out from under established IPs and fanbases on both sides. I will say that I do believe most of Activision's games will remain cross-platform. Some of them are too big of a cash cow to pull exclusive. But, you'll get the whole "buy it on PS5 or get it on Game Pass" comparison.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@jordan1992 this isn't sports. Business doesn't function with equal cap space and draft picks. If companies want to dump more capital into "buying itself to the top" they can. They are risking more capital by doing so. And the fact that this doesn't even put them over Sony, negates that point. This merely makes them a legitimate competitor again with the dominate Sony. If Xbox then proceeds to buy EA and Ubisoft, then I'd be getting concerned about that.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@uptownsoul why is every company required to follow the same blueprint? They aren't. The fact that all these Sony fans are constantly on here freaking out about Xbox becoming actually formidable again just shows how entitled you all are to having the dominate console and Sony reflects that same attitude.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@theGoodChap you sure attributed a lot of things I never said from your high horse. I'm rooting for a closer parity. Sony has dominated the market and will still lead it after the acquisition. It'll just be closer now and that's healthier for competition. Sure, It'd be nice if just everything was utopia cross-platform. But then everyone would just buy the stronger console, which is Xbox. If I am calling them hypocrites, am I not by definition, saying both companies are doing the same things in this area? But yeah, that's somehow "unadultered fanboyism"... Oh please...
Re: Report: Xbox Is 'All But Starting From Scratch' On Next Halo Project, Moving Over To Unreal Engine
@Kaloudz Asset transferring has become more and more accessible than it used to be. So, I'm sure they can for a starting point.
Re: Report: Xbox Is 'All But Starting From Scratch' On Next Halo Project, Moving Over To Unreal Engine
It's the right decision though, so that's good at least.
Re: Xbox Is Offering Absolutely Crazy 'Just For You' Deals Right Now, Over 90% Off AAA Titles
Watch Ubi + join Game Pass right after this lol!
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@Microbius You nailed it. A lot of hypocrisy from Sony that is reflected in their users.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@uptownsoul Ok... And???
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@themightyant Your point is totally meaningless to the topic though. I'm completely aware as to why Last of Us TV show is bigger than Halo. The games reflect a similar market though.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@UltimateOtaku91 I like how you keep saying it's unrelated, then proceed to talk about how little involvement and money (you think) Sony will get. The show will most definitely boost sales of the game. The fact that Microsoft has needed to make all these purchases to just be a formidable competitor shows how far ahead Sony is right now. Didn't see the FTC saying anything about Sony's huge lead before Microsoft bought Bethesda. Just shows how ridiculous this all is. But I get it. You are a Sony person and you want your exclusive CoD DLC and XP Boosters...
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
@UltimateOtaku91 It's jointly produced by Sony and co-written by Druckmann, so you are wrong. And the fact that they both have shows (and The Last of Us is clearly much larger than Halo), proves the point that there is competition in the market and Sony still will remain on top this generation, after the Activision acquisition.
Re: Activision Blizzard Thinks Sony's 'The Last Of Us' Can Help Justify The Xbox Acquisition
No lies told. FTC is a joke
Re: MLB The Show 23 Launches Day One On Xbox Game Pass This March
I bet it just eats at Sony that MLB has them do this lol!
Re: Hands On: Our First Impressions Of GoldenEye 007 On Xbox Game Pass
@kihaennem Think you are confusing enhanced with a remake. This was intended to be true to the original and they don't have as much control over the assets to reskin it like they did with Perfect Dark. With the insane licensing and shared rights involved, it was a miracle we even got this! Assets remain, just resolution scaling and lighting changes for the most part as well as controller scheming.
Re: 'The Day Before' Release Date Pushed Back As Zombie MMO Gets 'Blocked' On Steam
Why on earth would you announce a game before you file a trademark for it? This makes no sense at all...
Re: Justin Roiland Resigns From High On Life Developer Squanch Games
@dreadful No evidence that they knew he was a domestic violence offender when they made the game. Why should Squanch be punished for something someone else did?
Re: Justin Roiland Resigns From High On Life Developer Squanch Games
@Lup Cancel culture at it's worst on display here. Let's punish people completely unrelated to the offender. Guilty by association. A terrible display of modern society...
Re: Reaction: Xbox Needs A New, Reliable Competitor For PS5's 'DualSense Edge'
@NEStalgia Gotcha on the Dualsense name. Some of those features would be nice additions. But most are not needed for me as a multiplayer FPS player (Vibrate is turned off). But maybe for Single player games it could be nice.
Re: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Has Been Delayed Again For Xbox Series X|S
Terrible move for them. They just left the door wide open for Redfall to takeover the genre.
Re: FOX News Causes A Stir With Discussion About Xbox And Climate Change
@CrazyJF I'm referring to the "green" sourced energy option, not the power saving.
Re: FOX News Causes A Stir With Discussion About Xbox And Climate Change
Even though the virtue signaling of it by Xbox is cringey and the carbon savings are miniscule, it isn't forcing me to use "green" energy nor use restrictive power modes, so I could care less.
Re: Reaction: Xbox Needs A New, Reliable Competitor For PS5's 'DualSense Edge'
@Kaloudz touchpad gimmick on the front and rear of the controller that has very little, to no use on most games.
Re: Reaction: Xbox Needs A New, Reliable Competitor For PS5's 'DualSense Edge'
@ParsnipHero Yes, rear paddles and trigger stops (or Scuf's trigger mouse-click even better) are huge for shooters.
Re: Reaction: Xbox Needs A New, Reliable Competitor For PS5's 'DualSense Edge'
I mean, I'd like to see Elite 3 push it to the next level. But lets be honest here. Xbox has had the best controller since 360 era and it hasn't even been close at all. Sony finally, starts taking design advice from Xbox and then Xbox is immediately behind? No, it's still the best controller easily. But, I do agree I don't want XBox to get complacent. I want to see them adopt the new magnetic system that supposedly ends drift problems. Drift is the biggest plague on gaming right now. I love my Scuf Instinct and would like to see Elite 3 replicate their rear buttons as well as the mouse-click triggers vs the rear paddles and trigger stoppers. A big thing they could do would be to open up controller settings and allow community uploads of controller settings that could be downloadable to your controller. They could really be on to something with that if done right. Could have streamers link their configs and have a ranking system for the community uploads.
Re: Microsoft Orders Sony To Attend Activision Blizzard Court Hearing This Summer
@Sebatrox Phil actually plays games and worked in game development. It would be a slaughter.
Re: Microsoft Asks To Pause Gamers' Lawsuit Over ActiBlizz Acquisition, Judge Says 'No'
@JayJ They are just opportunists hoping to get settlement money. Frivolous lawsuits are a big problem in the US. People need to stop settling and start countersuing.
Re: Microsoft Asks To Pause Gamers' Lawsuit Over ActiBlizz Acquisition, Judge Says 'No'
Hopefully, Microsoft counter sues them. So sick of frivolous lawsuits...
Re: Xbox's Phil Spencer Wants To 'Inspire Joy' Amid 'Culture Of Criticism And Cancellation'
Lol so much tears in the comments section. Peeps just love ginning themselves up and raging. Half are just PlayStation guys roaming Xbox forums all day to trash it.
Re: Report: 343 Industries 'Hit Hard' By This Week's Job Cuts At Microsoft
I mean, they haven't really done much of anything since the game launched sadly... They really just need to open up Forge and let the community run with it. Let there be a Forge maps mode that will play the top community maps and then have a method of inducting the great ones into the regular circulation. Since 343 can't seem to make more than 2 maps in a year and a half...
Re: Lots Of Games Reduced By 90% In The Xbox 'Lunar New Year' Sale 2023
@Cyberpsycho If you enjoyed Shadow Warrior, this is that same Dev (Flying Wild Hog). This was their first game (that they redux'ed the same year SW2 came out) and they built Shadow Warrior off of this engine. So, you'll see a lot of the same gameplay mechanics, just in a cyberpunk setting.