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Parrying, combos, "button mashing won't work"...the fighting game lover in me is going crazy. This could be my perfect game outside of that genre!

That being said, a new IP might be cool. Cliffy B has some huge shoes to fill, tho...

People looking for a new IP? They need to finish the second trilogy first. Honestly with all the $$$ Microsoft has, it boggles my mind that one of their flagship series gets ONE game remastered and then they stopped.

The Coalition needs to finish Gears 6 before in the Series S/X timeline ffs, and MS needs to make a new studio to handle remasters.

@abe_hikura 20 games? I only counted 13!

Is there a Cortana skin yet

Wish they'd go back and add all the missing sections to RE3 remake! And the "choice" sections. I played the original a month before for the first time (so there was minimal nostalgia) and liked it so much better.

@Romans12 Yeah, it sucks to say! Having an Xbox honestly feels like having a Playstation that doesn't play exclusives. And then like 3 times every 5 years we get a good first party game, but otherwise it's stuff that feels "cheap" just so it can be free on Game Pass. I'd rather pay $60 or $70 every year for a new exclusive AAA title and $10/mo for Xbox Live than this, TBH.

Xbox first-party support just flatout sucks. No wonder Playstation has been in the lead for the last 8 years.

@Neverwild Sony wouldn't let me refund games for pre-orders, has removed hundreds of games from PSNow and jacked the price up, and has auto-renewed my subscriptions a bunch of times even tho I deactivated them on my consoles (plural) AND on the website via PC....Meanwhile Xbox lets me refund digital games and play old games I already own for free. Sony makes me sick and I hope MS wins.

I'm sorry, but the Xbox line-up just feels like having a PS5 without any exclusives. MS makes me so sad just sitting on IPs for so long, and taking forever between releases. What was it, 5 years for a new Halo game? I know games take longer than ever to make, but good lord.

Good lord, they're still in pre-production? Well hopefully that means they're planning out an entire trilogy story arc and not making it up as they go along like last time.

Clive Barker's Jericho is an underrated gem, IMHO. The main complaint I've heard about that game is that it's frustrating to keep your squadmates from getting downed because the A.I. is so incompetent. Well, you don't HAVE to keep them alive, so if you just ignore them and let them be downed, it's a lot of fun! Just lame it's not X1/Series compatible...

Meanwhile Sony won't let you refund at all, period. Nothing like pre-ordering a game, seeing it get horrible pre-release reviews, and then NOT being able to refund even tho you haven't played one second of the game.

But anyway...hoping for the best with this one!!

People have gotten a masters degree, married, and had two kids in the time it takes Bioware to make a sequel to one of their games, lmfao.

Looks like it's made with stock UE4 assets, lol. The world is interchangeable with any game made with Unreal Engine, IMHO. Looks weird and soulless to me, sorry to say!

I WANT TO BELIEVE.

I wish more companies would follow the COD template of having multiple studios working on staggered releases. I'm not saying we need a Gears or Halo game every year, but damn....3-4 years between releases is sooooo long.

@Royalblues Despite Gears 2, 3, and Judgement not being natively available on PC, they've been playable through Game Pass Ultimate via XCloud for a looooong time now.

Need to try that game again...I just reeeeally hated that first level after the prologue. It reminded me of Super Mario 64 (in a bad way) in terms if the environment feeling less like a real place and more like an obstacle course.

Eh, it's an anomaly and definitely FOMO-driven. I know plenty of people who bought it and I can tell they hate it but don't want to go against all the 11/10 GOAT reviews, lol.

@Chaudy There needs to be some kind of target deadline, otherwise it will just drag on indefinitely. The game director should know enough about the scope of the game and their production team to get a good ballpark date of when the game should finish, delaying only to polish things up.

Anyway...calling your own game the possible "Next Cyberpunk" has reeeeeeally lessened my interest in this one. I'm certain it'll be "more of the same" instead of anything remotely revolutionary.

Seems more like Animal Crossing, maybe, moreso than the Sims? Would definitely be cool, tho, if you could invite Mike and Sully over, then remove the door from the bathroom when they're using it so they starve to death.

@uptownsoul Crossfire X is one of the worst games I've ever played, and I'm the kind of person who loves spawn bases (to camp and be camped).

This one is actually pretty fun. It's a basic battle royale game at its core, but the powers/classes, parkour, setting, and NPC interactions (draining civilians for buffs, taking down armored patrols for loot) are unique enough that I sunk a ton of time into it on PC. It was BADLY optimized and the controller controls were garbage, tho, so having the PS version as their testing grounds might not be so bad.

There's always GeForce now, if the add it on there... Unless Sony pulls another God of War.

I like Vanguard, and I definitely think they should build on its story and characters instead of just tossing everything out like COD always does (just because the reception wasn't what they wanted...is it ever???).

Just bring back gunfight, ffs

Two questions: do you think there will be a delay? And when is this coming out on PS5?

If I can't kill him and loot him right off the bat like Doc Mitchell in New Vegas, then this won't be the game for me!

The more realistic a game looks, the less realistic it feels when the A.I. and interactivity are still stuck in 2004. It's like those videos where people reenact GTA in real life. Can we pleeeease get NPCs and enemies that aren't painfully stupid, predictable, and instantly immersion-breaking, and environments that at least have Crysis 2007 levels of destruction?

LMAO, this is like taking out cover and wall-bouncing in Gears. Makes the game more accessible, sure, but destroys the one thing that makes the game special. Still think they shoulda made building even easier instead.

Awwww, yea. Love this game.

I know games take a long time to make, but good lord.

@Ashadelo You couldn't even cancel pre-orders on Sony consoles, last time I checked. Refund policy overall is a joke, just like with Nintendo. And I can't tell you how many times my PS+ subscription has been auto-renewed even though I made sure to turn-off auto-renew on my console AND on my PC...have to remove my payment method after I buy something to make sure it doesn't reactivate all my dormant subscriptions.

All MS has to do is release COD on Xbox a month before other platforms and they'll have 100% of streamers captured as well as the hardcore fanbase, and then they can release the game multi-platform to the masses to get the usual huge sales.

Pls have normal gunfite in it...

@Metalder Yeah, I remember him talking about Kim Kaphwan in that one KI documentary! Great documentary btw...wish Fatal Fury and KOF got something like that too.

@Blessed_Koz KI was hugely important for fighting games. First and foremost, it invented combo breakers. Next, it was the first game to have really long combos, and lastly it formalized the combo gameplay structure we see in lots of other fighting games to this day. It was accessible yet deep. That's not even to mention the cultural appeal it had in the 90s with its characters and music.

I personally like the yearly release schedule because the quality and amount of content is usually justified by the pricetag, and the older games still have a huge enough player base that it's not essential to migrate.

The thing I do NOT like, however, is the forced Warzone integration. I think it limits the creativity each developer has by locking them into a template. No dolphin diving or crazy gadgets in BLOPS CW because those features wouldn't meld with MW's gameplay systems in Warzone. Will we ever see another futuristic game with wall-running or advanced movement? Or just any notable change in gameplay? Doubtful if it has to play nicely with Warzone.

@Somebody We'll have to see. From a business POV, it would be interesting if players could get the latest COD on GamePass vs having to shell out $70 on PS5, and then having some kind of exclusivity window (like a month?) would lock-in all the content creators to Xbox while still leaving the door open for the masses to play on their platform of choice.

Call of Duty!

Also, hoping Xbox players will stay humble with the acquisition. Maybe it's just me, but the community at PushSquare seems to have gotten more elitist over the years as Sony became top dog last console generation. Like...a LOT of corporate shilling in the comments. Sucks for PS gamers they can't play new iterations of these franchises, but they can do what they've been telling Xbox and PC players for years and just buy a new console

Damn, it feels like they ran out of ideas for content already. I'm new to Halo and find the lore fascinating, so these out-of-place / very f2p-esque cosmetics are really cheapening the look and feel of the game, IMHO.

I play a lot of crossplay, and it's lame that people want to exclude players because 10+ years ago there were a bunch of aimbots in PC shooters. I personally haven't had any problems.

To me, the only noticeable difference is when someone is using mouse + keyboard and you see their screen whipping around everywhere in the spector cam. I used to think it was super unfair, but controller autoaim is so heavy nowadays, and those types of people might LOOK good but usually aren't, so it's not uncommon to see controller players stomp them.

I think stats-based ranking and matchmaking systems have an even bigger impact on enjoyment. Matches where one team is waaaaay better than the other, or where 1-4 players are waaaaaay better than everyone else have been the leading cause of frustrating / unfair / boring matches in my experience.

This has been the case long before crossplay was a thing. Let the really good players (PC or not) get pooled together with other really good players. But who knows what's going on (remember Activision-Blizzard's matchmaking patent to put players who just bought a skin or DLC into matches with bad players, in order to manipulate everyone into subconsciously associating buying items with doing better?).

There's also the problem of internet quality here in the USA. That's been a noticeable problem for me, especially in games where fractions of a second matter. Pre-aiming and pre-firing help a lot, but getting dumped into a match where everyone has 200+ ping is less of a thing for me with crossplay too thanks to the expanded player pools.

The last elephant in the room is that some people just suck at shooters or aren't as good as they used to be and want to blame others. Overall, there's a lot to be said about other problems affecting the enjoyment of online games. Crossplay has done a lot of good to let friends with different consoles or PC play together, and trying to blame and compartmentalize it instead of identifying and fixing overall problems is sad.

Is it just me or if in the ME2 suicide mission you do all the side missions (which isn't asking a lot), then your team is never in any danger the entire time? Haven't played it since 2010, but that was my lasting impression.

Wow, 7-8 years between entries AND they completely abandoned the cool-but-flawed Andromeda premise AND they're likely canonizing a bunch of choices from the original trilogy...Bioware makes me so sad.

@gollumb82 I played the originals, and patches definitely helped. Definitely rough games, but in a Witcher 1 kinda way...great game world, lore, and core gameplay, IMHO.

It's always nice to see an Unreal game not made with the stock assets (i.e. Forspoken, the new Sonic game, etc.)

@Chaudy I think Sony helped fund FF7, so I don't think it'll ever be on Xbox...? You can always buy the game on EGS (even if you don't have a PC) and stream it on GeForce now in a web browser or on your phone.

All that teasing for THIS? BOOOO!!

$15 each or $20 for both...lol. Well, at least you can actually see your skin in-game, unlike Apex or Warzone.

@Magabro Nice, that's quite a feat if you did it without really making use of the tactical pause and micromanaging your squadmates. Made it feel closer to Dragon Age than Gears. But anyway, yeah...at this point in my life, I like the story of Gears better than Mass Effect, so I'd say you're not missing anything. For one thing, Gears doesn't abandon ship when one of its games does bad (i.e. Mass Effect Andromeda isnt getting a sequel, lol, so the TONS of time I spent absorbing the lore and story just got trashed, lol). I'm actually really loving the Gears story and would rather see a movie in that universe.

@Magabro You need to play these games on the harder difficulties because they are NOTHING like Gears of War! You'll need to carefully position your squadmates around the environment, use your powers and abilities at the right time on the right enemy, and carefully prioritize your targets. Also, like David Gaider in the article said, the choices really make the game special, and it really is just another run-of-the-mill sci-fi universe without them. I'm definitely gonna have to respectfully disagree with you there.