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I can't tell if I really like it or abosultely hate it.

No.

That is all.

Nice I struggled to not buy II on Blackfriday, would have been very annoyed instead of very happy.

@Romans12 in that case it'll be a surprise drop this week.

I want some transparency on what's coming and roughly when, I don't even need dates or quarters just a general "x game, y game, and Z game are next"

Don't get me wrong, it's almost certainly a lie but we should let them have this as an out. They tried something and got rightfully pummeled for it.

If we carry on pummeling them for it then they'll do it again because they are getting pummeled anyway

I'm not too excited as the first trailer for GTA is usually a whole bunch of environmental shots set to a song to help "set the scene" for the game. It won't cover much in the way of gameplay or story, you know, the important bits

I recently finished this, I enjoyed it but oh boy did I not know what was going on (I evidently missed some important documents).

The I liked the core gameplay but it had this weird jank over it, it always felt like the game was saying I was free to get about however I liked but also fought back when I tried to.

@DonaldMcRonald thats the one. I think they walked that back a bit, so there's some servers left for the original.

Kinda makes you nostalgic for the days of awful tie-in games, though this is worse because they're awful without the excuse of needing to hit a deadline by an entire other product (aka no film).

And of cause sometimes those tie-ins were far better than they had any right to be.

Considering I didn't realise its been three months since it ended, I guess I'd forgotten about it.

@K1LLEGAL yeah that ending nearly destroyed me.

It's on my list but I have a huge backlog, active games i'm playing, and "run up to christmas" is not time to be spending money games I'm not going to be playing for a while.

Hopefully this means Microsoft is removing the threat of being thrown into the COD mines. Activision has wasted enough studios down there

It dose feel weird to be doing this with a game we're getting "late" imgaine if WB was hyping up the Switch port of Hogwarts like this, It'd be weird.

Obviously if it's coming to gamepass that would justify it, not that I expect it to.

Good, gaming needs to keep pushing at its various boundaries to evolve.

It's going to be interesting to see how people treat them going forward. They went from being one of many names (in a good way) in RPG circles to having the entire industry looking at them.

Not sure how all those people who came to BG3 at its "proper launch" will react if their next game spends 3 years in early access again.

Mine was getting concerning loud and decided to give it a clean, i used a tiny hoover to suck some dust from the vents but it sounded loud so I got rhe wife's hair dresser with a cold setting and used that.

There was a lot of dust, including one stubborn ball than needed tweasing out whilst the drier pushed it against one of the lower vents

Didn't even need to think about it, 360 era.

Its when modern games took shape, experimental game design via Arcade, and birthed the indie wave.

Gaming doesn't feel like it's evolved much since then and only now feels like we're starting to see perhaps more evolution.

I love the console but boy was that exclusive drought rough, it happened with the X1 which made it worse this time.

As we've been saying since MS started buying studios (and whole damn publishers), they have the resources, they have the studios, it's time to start delivering because, personally, I don't know I'll react to another drought.

About time. Paramount+ was a pain in the bum to watch on my TVs. No native Xbox App, no app for the downstairs TV.

I had to get it through amazon eventually because it was such a pain but ofcause for reasons I don't understand it doesn't have the same content as actual P+

As TTRPG gamer I like the idea of AI being used in games to handle players going "off script" in ways of Devs didn't expect.
But finding that line between "stuff devs didn't think off" and "stuff people actually make" is going to be the problem.

The "money men" will keep pushing than line further and further into the "human" end to maximise profits.

I honestly don't know. I've played a few rounds with friends and I just don't have a read if I like it or not.

Don't get me wrong the environments are fantastic looking, and I appreciate its trying to do story without forcing you do levels in a strict order.

I'd say MH is the most likely candidate.

We have the anniversary and it's the sort of thing Capcom wouldn't want "deflating" the Dragons Dogma 2 hype.

I do think if it is MH it's going to be more of an anniversary project than a true MH6, something that wouldn't need a full hype cycle like a MH1 remake.

If they are expanding third party licensing, 8bitdo best be on that list

@Tharsman At a certain point you'll have to assume they'll give up and just release it as "free early access" and drop it once the MTX train ends.

@GamingFan4Lyf well said.

With them delaying other games and canceling projects this game is becoming the poster child of "sunken cost fallacy".

@InheritNegative the animation got me too, if you're going to put all that effort in to the graphics, demand a premium price whilst gutting the original, maybe rework the animation a little.

C. It's largely what I expected from what they said, I gave it a C because it felt light on gamepass or "xbox stuff" this could have easily been one those presentations from smaller publishers.

I do think not having Ark remaster on gamepass is a missed trick by wildcard, the trailer looked nice but not "ignore the fact this isn't free, will be premium priced, and we'll be killing OG servers" nice.

@InterceptorAlpha Like Lamplighters their Trek game really needed delaying, multiple reviews citing game breaking and save ending bugs, features and systems outright not working, and all sorts of "this should not have been released in this state" nonsense.

As @JustinSane and @awp69 noted, they simply don't need to lure those CoD gamers with exclusive stuff. That concerning number of people on Playstation who just play CoD will naturally drift to wherever the "best deal" is and a sub that gives them all the CoD games, all year and every year, is just going to make so much sense to them.

Give it a generation, maybe 2 and Xbox will "naturally" be where CoD gamers play.

I reckon some, not many but some, of them might even be sold on cloud streaming via Gamepass (assuming their internet or local infrastructure means it's viable).

I'm enjoying Ishin but man it has to be slowest, driest start of the franchise. (I get it's doing its thing)

They couldn't do remakes because that would mean diverting resources from the CoD churn machine.

Less COD games, I don't mean this in a "COD SUCKS" way, Acti-bliz devoted so much resources to keep the COD machine churning out games they would reward non-COD studios who did well elsewhere by making them make maps for COD.

Oh you managed to make the first Decent Tony Hawks game in 15+ years? make CoD maps.

Brought back Spyro and Crash? make CoD maps.

CoD has Warzone now, it doesn't need all these resources to producing new games every year.

We saw what giving the franchise time to breath did for Assassin's Creed, it's time CoD and it's studios got that.

@Odium with door knob "poorly" placed

Not the way I'd like him to be gone, I'm sure he's going to be leaving with a nice little reward.

But hey, gone is gone.

It'll be like Bethesda, the games with the easiest licences will appear in the first month or so, and the rest will filter in as and when the licences get sorted.

I'm hoping gamepass helps breathe life into the various cod communities.

Assuming they aren't cheat-infested hellscapes.

I'm not sure what they were expecting. They released it not only at a regular busy time but also with giant releases sucking all the oxygen out of the room. — That was foolish

And to make that more damming the game needed more time. They could have delayed it and given it the polish it needed instead of throwing it half drunk and naked against a pack of roided up raptors — that was pants on head stupid.

who else is concerned this game is being roasted by its own publisher a WEEK after release, bad Netflix shows last longer.

@JayJ that'd what Activision dose, they let you make a name for yourself, then as a reward lock you up in cod map making dungeons.

@GamingFan4Lyf don't get me wrong you are right, but my (poorly made) point here was more along the lines of dev intent and those Souls games were made to be 30fps, as this was intended to be 60fps (as it's the default setting).

Again choice is generally good, my personal preference is for solid FPS over higher unstable FPS, but I think devs should be allowed to say "We're only offering X graphics/FPS for reason Y" if they want.

This is the kinda thing that makes me wish this didn't become a standard thing.

This game is clearly meant to be played at 60fps, this entire genre is built on precise timing for both attack and defence, so why have the option of making the gameplay worse?

Don't get me wrong there are plenty of other games where it's very much your "flavour" go fps or go graphics, but here seems like it purely exists because people expect it.

@PhilKenSebben @Cherip-the-Ripper Good to know, my first reaction was "sure it is".

ISHIN!

Been a while since I finished off all the Yakuza and Judgement games.

Also, I haven't even been able to get the store page to load since the game was first popped up, just "something went wrong"

I get that people sau this looks like Shelter but to me it looks more like that Dragon Age web/FB game.

I had a feeling this would happen, not entirely sure why just a "console version will be late" feel.

I've used the sideloaded app before, it worked well enough to sell me on this native app.

It is weird MS doesn't add the VR titles they own to PC gamepass.

The only reason I opted for early access for Starfield was that there was simply no way it wouldn't be spoilt for me during that week.

That simply isn't a concern for Forza

Wonder of absorbing Ubi+ into gamepass ultimate, like EA play, is on the cards.

Because 'oh look at that the acti-bliz titles cloud streaming are back on gamepass'