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@Arcticpandapopz Cloudberry Kingdom is fun, but it's a co-op experience. For 2 bucks and the small install size I'd say it's worth it. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a great, and has Split-Screen Co-Op, also delisted on Steam iirc. Mini Ninjas Adventures is fun but a Kinect game.

500 MineCoin for Addons from GPU Perks too. You can't really get anything with that, let alone anything cool, and despite being Microsoft-approved like Creation Club stuff they disable Achievements, but if you like Kellogs/Pringles they're having another promotion where you get X amount of MineCoin for up to 3 purchases.

It's nice they're giving the 360 store a last meal, but it doesn't undermine the fact that this was entirely Microsoft's choice to kill it. And they can work with these companies last minute to organize sales, but not to make more games Backwards or at the very least get the already BC ones relisted?

@jesse_dylan I feel the need to point out all but 1 of those games listed are from Sega and Atlus, who is owned by Sega.

@theduckofdeath Oh for the most part I agree. Even if it was just things that made sense on a case by case basis like Octopath 2 & the FF Pixel Collection to keep their toes wet and have a minimal presence on Xbox they should've done it. But at this point the damage is more or less done, and the only one barely scathed is Sony.

Third-Party games paid for via Publishing I'd argue are fair game for Exclusivity though. Yeah it sucks something like Bayonetta is stuck on Nintendo Platforms only, but if Nintendo didn't pay for them, well it'd still be a one-off rotting with Sega. Honestly though I find it hard to fault Sony for the FF-exclusivity stuff, because SE is still stupid enough to accept it every time despite sales are worse each time, I can't blame Sony for doing it from a business perspective.

@Topov81 Yeah that was one of the last big 360 games, and obviously they didn't update the store years later when it was removed so, be prepared to see it in almost every image as it's still a prominent ad on the 360.

I'm glad it's happening, but 'Square Enix Down So Bad It's Giving Xbox a Chance' isn't exactly a W in the way people are painting it. Especially considering the fact Xbox has already missed a lot of SE games, and we're unlikely to see ports of all but the biggest ones due to the shift to only focus on those AAA games at SE.

But most of these same people have trashed on SE and said they didn't want their games on Xbox anyways, and another good percentage of them said Japanese and anime games like theirs suck, but sure, pretend like you want their games now.

@Techno92LFC Most of these are from the same 3 companies so, I doubt anyone at Xbox had a hand in this. Just a few being smart enough to potentially make a few extra sales while they can with nothing to lose.

I already miss Mighty DOOM.

I totally have faith in this after one of the 4 recent studios closed produced a good mobile game that's gonna end soon.

"This game is only on PS5, PC, and Switch for now." "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down!?"

If it was undercooked after being held like 6 months extra to launch with the show, that only concerns me with how well it worked when it was intended to release. Or how Starfield ran when it was intended to release.

Can't wait for in a few years GP becomes unsustainable when AAAs take too long, Third Parties ask for more to be a part of it, & with the closing of smaller studios, a lack of consistent original GP games to fill the gaps. And no one at Microsoft will take responsibility.

@BAMozzy Was Sony buying the license why? It was so long ago I thought it was because/when Disney bought Marvel, and everything was mostly delisted.

They want the talented smaller devs to stick their heads out so they can remove them, can't have people outshining Fallout, TES, & CoD!

@PROPS Just consume product, and get excited for next product!

In other words, "We're gutting Bethesda to be like Activision and only focus on 3 things, so don't expect any good change from us buying Activision either."

Owning a Series X has been the biggest advertisement to just getting a gaming PC and not dealing with Microsoft & Sony's nonsense. Started working on my Steam Library in the time waiting for my money & help with parts.

I genuinely wonder if anyone falls for these scams. Just for the price of one of the two games, you could get at least 4 from the same selection on sale, if not more.

@DennisReynolds The sad thing it's that such a normal thing for Microsoft to do now. Have good thing, praise good thing, stop good thing shortly after praising it.

It's mind blowing and infuriating the smaller dev teams are the ones who suffer when the big ones fail. Why would you even wanna be a game developer in Current Year when someone could scoop you up and destroy everything you did and wanted to do?

I'm also quite mad at the Mighty DOOM devs getting canned. Microsoft wants a piece of the mobile market, they make a good mobile game, they get shut down. BGS is more or less just Fallout, TES, & DOOM now, which is totally not foreshadowing of them keeping Activision as the CoD company.

Doesn't matter if the name is different - when your only tactic is to buy things like Saber Interactive, you're gonna do the same thing.

Feel like by the time Microsoft would make it appealing, the Steam Deck will have been made better. And anything Microsoft would make for it would also likely launch on said Steam Deck Day One.

@eduscxbox Oh I'm sorry, it was the other loud mouthpiece Phil Spencer who said, in Todd Howard's stead, that 30 FPS was 'a creative choice'. Normally when something that's not true internally like that is said it would be corrected, but I guess they were too busy comparing landing on a video game moon with nothing on it was the same as physically landing on the Moon IRL.

Gonna have to coordinate nights of MultiVersus just to get the Achievement to play 500 times in a Party. Last one I need and boy is it gonna suck.

But I thought the game was created ground up to only work at 30FPS? Surely Bethesda and Todd Howard of all people wouldn't just lie to out faces!

Considering what nonsense has been going on behind the scenes in the industry, expect to be hearing a lot more stories like this in the days to come. I'd assume (and hope) they gotta pull in less ridiculous numbers to turn a profit than Spider-Man 2 has to, but it's also an inherently less popular IP so it might just as bad when scaled accordingly.

Let's go, finally some different 360 games getting a sale. Picked up Deus Ex: Human Evolution, Tomb Raider Anniversary, & Tomb Raider Underworld. It'd be nice if the DLC went on sale too, but with Microsoft you gotta take what you can get.

Even if the DLC & big updates are Cyberpunk-sized I don't think I'll be revisiting it. The core idea of wanting the player to NG+ dozens of times defeats the point of things like outposts, ship building, collecting weapons with rare effects, etc. when almost everything resets.

So Fallout 3 Remastered from the leaks?

Personally despise Puzzle Games because I'm stupid, but won't turn down a free Multiplayer or Local play game.

It might be worth testing to see if leaving the game open for X amount of time triggers the Just For You Deal. I know there's a few games or games from Publishers I only opened or played for GP Quests and got stuff in the Deals section just from that.

As far as new games go? No. But I'd love to see 3 & New Vegas get Remasters, Xbox has them via BC but not PS or Switch (3 also doesn't have Steam Achievements). I know this is also in the super minority, but I'd like to see the team that does Shelter add the 2 sets of mobile content updates to the other platforms.

Why was this not expected, when the same exact thing happened to Skyrim when they added the Anniversary Edition stuff?

@jesse_dylan There's still thousands of games not backwards compatible and digital-only. And a lot of good games too.

@jesse_dylan Backwards compatible games you can buy on the Series/XBO stores aren't going away with the 360 store closing.

The only backwards game from this I don't own is Red Dead, and I ain't buying it until it goes back to $9 on sale.

I don't think you can 'fix' Starfield without adding so much it borderline becomes a new game. The gameplay is just that watered down from Fallout 4.

@Auglicious It's called The Baconing, but is very much the third DeathSpank game. Still available on Steam though.

Until we actually see what they do, I have no expectations or desires, because the entire Series Gen so far that's only led to disappointment with Microsoft.

By the end of 2024 Rewards Points will either be gone or scale with the Zimbabwe dollar.

We have tipping culture in games. It's called the 3 dozen Day One DLCs & near-infinite microtransactions. You're telling me they want more on top of that, on top of the $70 price tag?

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@RetroMan71 No. It's actually terrible as a Fallout game. But outside of that the core gameplay loop is fun.

No hurry to retcon anything in TES universe like New Vegas in Fallout to appease Todd's ego so I understand why.

I feel like if you haven't played or grabbed these XBO/PS4 Gen titles they'll be adding by this point you probably don't care that much. Diablo 4 I could understand maybe selling some Subs, but not stuff like this. If they drip feed these like Nintendo does their NSO titles people just aren't gonna care.

Fallout 4's really fun gameplay-wise, it's just a garbage Fallout game. If they didn't water down every gameplay aspect Starfield would've been so amazing... but let's focus on the positives.

Wonder if they'll add in more Creation Club freebies in addition to these along with the current rotation they've been doing for a few years. Either way I'm excited to play again, and since I have all the Achievements I can mess around with the limited console mods.

Is this really news worthy at this point.

Microsoft cares about games preservation BTW. You know, the people who actively delisted their own in-house games.