Topic: Official Push Square Xbox Thread

@HallowMoonshadow Yeah, it’s the classic problem of scale over substance. Skyrim’s up there for my favourite games of all time because I can lose myself in a cohesive world where there’s both loads to explore and also a setting that you can learn as it’s a map that I’ve basically committed to memory. There’s no way you could do that with Starfield outside of planets that are involved in the story, because of the procedural generation.

There are moments of stumbling across cool things, like when you jump into a system and it triggers a cool quest like exploring a vault-like ship or exploring a space station filled with pirates where the gravity has malfunctioned. However, in my play through they have been few and far between. Whenever I've landed away from major settlements on a planet, I've not found anything interesting and have actually given up on that. I never really engaged with radiant quests in fallout 4 and that's what these feel like. They are almost mmo like and not my vibe. Starfield is a game that is much more about questing than exploration. The structure feels closer to mass effect andromeda than it does fallout. At this stage, I've veered completely off the main quest and am enjoying a couple of the faction questlines a good bit. The crimson fleet in particular has been good. Having said that, it's very much a Bethesda game, if you didn't like skyrim or fallout 4, I can't see you liking this.

@AgentCooper I thought AC1 was pants when I played it on the PS3 and I didn't get very far before it went off to fleabay. Not knowing what happened didn't stop me enjoying AC2 which was a vastly improved sequel.

@AgentCooper The first one’s odd but has great atmosphere. II is the better game in practically every way.

@nessisonett Apart from those damn feathers! 😆

@JohnnyShoulder I chased the platinum for a wee bit, only have about 10 feathers left to get to 100% the game but the lack of markers on the map for collected feathers makes it almost impossible to even follow a guide to get the last few.

@AgentCooper The first Assassin’s Creed, if nothing else, absolutely does not feel as old as it is. There are a few things that I think still feel futuristic to this day, the original Assassin’s Creed’s blue tinted city and empty Animus void, Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, the Dreamcast’s entire aesthetic.

The feathers and cloaks associated are the ONLY achievements I gave up on. After beating the game, I couldn't be bothered to try and locate every feather just to get the last few achievements.

AC2 was, and I think still is my favourite of the Franchise. AC1 was good - but they really improved 'everything' with the Second.

Although I tend to be somewhat loyal to certain brands Iam somewhat glad to own a Series X now (have not used it much to date). I feel like it was a good buy…

@colonelkilgore I was going to post this vid earlier but didn't know where would be good but it looks like here is as good as anywhere.
Pretty funny and good editing, scary how well it is done tbh (I'm going to assume that it wasn't the real Todd actually being honest, for a change )

@CaptD 16x the loading screens 🤣

@colonelkilgore Are you getting closer to buy an Xbox soon or are you too busy with your PlayStation backlog still?

I'm just glad it's all over...

@KilloWertz Yeah! It certainly dragged on and on and on to its inevitable conclusion - like or hate it...

I just hope they get those Studios working on making their OWN games - whether its from MS's growing list of IP's (inc all those ABK IP's) or something brand new they have wanted to make but never got the chance as they had to focus on CoD. It doesn't make sense to keep the 'same' set-up after spending so much for so little output long term in my opinion.

Toy's for Bob making a Banjo game for example or maybe Sledgehammer makes a new Prototype or even create something completely new - the type of game they were making before being dragged into CoD. 1 Studio for CoD - maybe with a longer gap between each or a 'new' structure.

But whatever happens, It will be a while before anything really noticeable impacts the Consumer. None of the Studios seem to have plans beyond the next CoD (and maybe even early stages of the one after that too...) because Activision would have expected that under their management. Blizzard has OW2 and just released D4 so I doubt they are working on 'new' games and King does what King does so won't have 'Xbox' plans. So certain things will likely carry on in motion as transition and conversations need to take place and in the mean time, they have a Back Catalogue they can 'resurrect' via BC and/or Game Pass until these Studios can become 'productive' for new content - whether it ALSO comes to other Platforms (inc Playstation) or not. If Toys for Bob made a Banjo Game, would PS fans 'expect' MS to release on PS because its an Activision Studio or what about the Coalition making a Hexen or Prototype game - an Xbox Studio but were ABK IP's?

So whilst the 'Saga' is over in terms of getting the deal done, no doubt it will still rumble on for years in some capacity or another...

@oliverp actually lost my gaming mojo a bit of late… so no nearer purchasing an Xbox but not necessarily ‘that’ busy with my PS5 either tbh. I’ve put a lot of hours into gaming over the past 5 years or so… maybe I’ve OD’d as a result.

@colonelkilgore @CaptD Spider-Man 2 should be ashamed of itself - 1/10 not enough loading screens 🤣

@colonelkilgore with you on that CK. Same situation really. For all these 'must play games' I'm jaded and a bit bored. Having gamed none stop most nights for years.

So I wrote a list of games to finish in my backlog and will tick them off as I go. 27 games all in. And will pick up Bomb Rush cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate 3 and Elden Ring then call it a day.

I've let my gamepass sub lapse, weirdly it was a weight off my shoulders. The final straw came playing cocoon, rave reviews all round. But it offers nothing I haven't seen before. Then watching a bunch of online team multiplayer games dot the recent schedule, I've got a 3 month code but gave it to my son.

So 30 games and will then await the release of the PS6.

@render I actually wouldn’t put it past a few reviewers… ahem stevivor… excuse me 😉

@themcnoisy so I’ve totally changed tack… as you might remember when we’ve chatted in the past, I always adhered to a pretty tight schedule that quite a lot of thought went into. Well it worked for a time and I thoroughly enjoyed almost everything I played for a good few years… think it became a bit much though and I’ve decided to revert to just playing whatever I feel like.

I bought Nioh 2 in 2020 and have been holding off from playing it as I would only play two souls-likes a year but as I was feeling a bit disinterested, I thought **** it I’m playing Nioh 2 and am really enjoying it tbh.