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They've been trying to sell me a super cheap "everything borderlands" deal for quite some time. Its not a bad deal really but I have most of them already and it doesn't include wonderlands

I can't remember, do these sales tend to overlap with Prime Day?

@FarmDog08 yeah it was going to Comic Relief so it's good.

I'm doing much better after discovering I was donating ALOT and was able to disable it, By a lot I mean like 45,000 points over years.

I thought the changes was drastically limiting my "earnings" turns out most of it was going right out the door.

It was too ambitious. They was talking about recreating multiple massive AAA games in a mod that was probably going to be decade of work with nothing to show now (even more so when the the other single game ones haven't launched).

Maybe I'm "old school" now* but wasn't modders driven by passion or single minded "I can fix your mess" stubbornness. Is support code for "patron cash"?

I think building Nirn as a planet that OTHER teams could build on would have been a better start.

*now excuse me whilst I turn into dust.

Infinite Wealth and Dragons Dogma 2 have been fantastic hilights of 2024 for me.

I hope this makes people affected set their Xbox as their home Xbox. I know a lot of people who didn't set their X or S as their home after upgrading.

I don't because I'm game sharing with my kids so I couldn't play but hey, live by the loophole, die by the loophole

I want DR5 but I also wanted a DR4 and I pretty much hated everything about that game. The Controls, lacklustre co-op, tone and so on.

Don't get me wrong the new remaster is a good sign. Improved controls but not DR4's dumbness, they didn't mess with the time limits (I do agree 1's was very harsh).

I REALLY need to play coffee talk 2, I've been putting it off for far too long.

I have such strong memories of the 360 era. Me and my friends playing 4 player farcry after school, co-oping Gears of War and Halo with my brother, co-oping Saints Row with my best friend, and many others. Plus it's where things changed. Online gaming became standard, the arrival of indies, and more games getting more content after launch and AAA experimenting that games still largely follow today.

Unfortunately my 360 completely gave out just after the X1 launched. So there isn't much point in me buying anything from the store.

Not 4.
...
More specific? Hmm 3 is the better game and I feel like it found a hood balance with the timer but I prefer 2.

3's tone felt off like it was trying to be grim and camp?

3's also feels generic compared to DR1's mall, DR2/OTRs psudo Vegas strip.

Again 3 plays better but when I close my eyes and ask myself to play 1 DR game its two I go for.

I took a punt on Sandrock. I tried Portia and whilst I dug it's weird wholesome post apocalypse vibe, it was so. much. grind. So far Sandrock isn't as grind heavy (or at least not as fast) so I can enjoy the characters

I expected this to be announced soon enough. There's always a "bring X in to Y" mod for their games and with Starfield giving us whole worlds it was only logical to extend that tradition to a whole planet.

@Bobobiwan In theory. From what I can tell Star Wars Outlaws is structured similarly to Starfield but is hiding its loading behind that animation (like when characters shuffle through tight spaces), It'll be doing that dynamically to support your ship and the planet you're heading to.

I'm largely where I was before. I like the look of the games that are coming and assuming the quality is there "yay". Xbox is at the point it has to start delivering on all those purchases constantly, both in terms of the rate of releases and quality.

But the whole no-exclusive talk still has me rattled. If Nintendo brought their games to Xbox, I wouldn't have a Switch. As much as I love it it is simply cheaper to have one less console. If I'm thinking that as a proudly multi-format gamer, what must those who can only have one or worse yet third-party publishers be thinking? (obviously, if there next-gen console is some sort of dual boot Console and PC then all that goes away)

TLDR. I want MS to deliver some quality games and clearly state some red lines on their multiplatform policy.

Downloading it now, will try it after Sandrock (enjoying it much more than Portia) but I am expecting a fair degree of jank

I wonder if they'll add co-op, it's such a staple of the rest of the series that it seems silly to not add it.

@Ricky-Spanish Knowing Capcom they probably are, and knowing Capcom their bar for this being enough of a success for them to revive the series is impossibly high.

Off topic: I do find it interesting no one seems to be make a big deal that Xbox is giving gamepass subs who bought forza DLC a copy of the game.

On-topic: I do really love cruising around FH4, Iut would be cool if the map comes back. Kinda like that idea GTA: Online would eventually add old GTA maps.

It would be nice if it hits next year but I suspect it won't.
I wonder if Gabe Diaz will be in it, maybe a story DLC.

Don't get me wrong, yay but it dose seem its only lurian and Inexile (to a lesser degree) is doing coop rpgs that aren't just "look we got stats and gear scores so we're an RPG".

It's wild to me this entire genre grew out of TTRPG, an inherently communal experience, and outside of MMOs and _____RPG coop RPGs are a extremely rare breed.

I don't know...
There's a bunch that I'm really excited for but for different reasons.

Expedition 33 stood out for its presentation.
I can't wait to see how State of Decay evolves with 3.
Perfect Dark looks like a hi-tech Dishonoured.
Atomfall is intriguing, I suspect its more Bioshock and Fallout.
Mixtape looks interesting (assuming I get to skateboard)

And so on, there's no one that makes me wish I could play it before the others.

I do however remain slightly concerned about Indy. That cinematic was great but if all them are that long... it's very MGS4 Kojima.

It is a shame xbox doesn't seem to be doing a GC showcase again this year but I guess that's the cost of having a great not-E3 showcase.

It's wild to me it's just Vault suits.

Not even the warn, mended, armoured versions

Why isn't there a skin that turns the weapons into Fallout versions?

I like the idea of Starfield having anual expansions along side updates.

Ideally, I'd like to see updates adding in more POIs, features some smaller fleshed-out settlements and new universe variations.

I'm starting to worry they are going to be using them to patch gaps in the gamepass line up. So next time a months looking a little light they bust out some actibliz games.

Considering the performance of the original game even on Series X, I am not suprised

Considering the gap between Hivebusters and now, it's seems possible it could be out next year.

Finally! Been trying to convince my friends to try MD since Co-op was annouced.

Looking forward to this.

A little suprised only 3 titles have a 2025 date.

For me I have two issues with starfields "creations"

1. Mixing creations and mods is messy in the UI.
2. Unlike creations in Fallout and Skyrim there isn't a minium level of quality and it seems only the Bethesda made stuff doesn't disable achievements (whereas both skyrim and Fallout it's all paid creations was treated as DLC).

(I'm not against creations in their current form with modders having to opt in and not just Bethesda going "that costs now" and that they can't port existing free mods.)

I liked it well enough but it didn't feel like there was anything "new". Granted we got actual looks at these games this time and not just pre-rendered stuff but there wasn't any sort of big announcement (great news for Anno fans)

It was great but it was missing some big bombshell to make it one of those E3s/showcase we talk about years later.

Excited to give pretty much all of them a shot. I wasn't expecting Atomfall from Rebellion, at first I though it was a steampunk spin-off to Sniper Elite.

Obligatory "Where's the Activision games?" remark.

B+.
It was a good pace with plenty of games, most of which had a date (even if its just "2025"), and updates but there just wasn't any real hype bomb drops. Just a chill drop of decent looking games coming out.

Hardware refresh but no new controller was a bummer.

My group used to watch these in watch parties but organising that is a lot harder these days, I believe we're setting up a VR watch party to try and recreate that

Expected something like this to pop up, things had been getting almost getting positive around Xbox Land lol.

Halo on PS5 would be perceived as waving the white flag. Regardless of what messaging around it, confirm a new platform every day of the week, even if they never released another game on PS, people will "consider" that when deciding what console to buy.

Directors cut? Thats either new content or The same game with 18 rated swearing.

Guessing limited Mods for Series S due to performance concerns, content and asset limits on PS5, and Series X will get everything that doesn't need the inevitable script extender and what not.

Interesting and I'm sure I'll get round to some of these but I want Shadows of Doubt first

That's largely what I was expecting from the tech, making sure something that's swinging for 60fps actually hits 60fps consistently.

@IOI if its the same version they included in GTA+, then it could be.

The second is something like Halo, Forza, or even Fable hits PS, Xbox as hardware is done. It doesn't matter how they frame it, what claims of new hardware they have or even if it's confirmed they won't release any other games on PS afterwards, it won't matter the consumers will just see "All Xbox exclusives will come to PS"

Doesn't have to be true, just has to be convincing enough and Halo on PS5 is pretty convincing.

That 60-30(ish) drop in cities is probably a bit too rough for me, though the 40FPS option should be less so.. another excuse... I mean justification to by a new display with VRR

It feels like new set up of the performance modes being based on "priorities" and not predefined specifications like usual this might be "future proofing". Like what next gen Xbox come won't need a special update to take advantage (or turn down both options for a handheld?)

With its dual protagonists reminds me of Syndicate, hopefully it dose it better with that. In Syndicate it bothered me he was the boisterous fighter and she was the cool true believer assassin, and it let you level then up separately BUT seemed I was being g punished for her investing in stealth and him in combat with its missions.

It's almost like saying your platform is crap for about 2 years solid, struggling to release games, and releasing your (some but according to perception all) exclusives on rival platforms, has an effect on people actually wanting to buy your platform.

Deliver the games and the sales will follow.

That's what most of us has been saying.

They need games regardless of their plans, regardless of what studios or companies they buy, they have to make games.

As he says they need to go all in on exclusives and hardware or being a multiformat publisher, they can't do both and trying to do so is... well stupid.

I enjoyed it a lot, was annoyed that I missed one of the Runes and the only way to address that was to do another playthrough.

Think I've played it twice since it first launched on Xbox. It's one of those games I love but don't have a strong compulsion to play again.

She did mention they was in a "transition" before.

"even when the industry isn't growing and when you're going through a time of transition."

So my question is transition into what?