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TBH, I like it more than Mario Kart World. Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed is actually my favorite kart racer of all time and this came close to (but not quite) dethroning it. Great game and well deserved placement in the top 10.

I absolutely love this game but have been stuck in one particularly difficult area (about 8 hours in) so an easier difficulty is welcome. Might try to only use it for that part as the rest has been challenging but doable and felt great.

Wasn’t Yakuza Kiwami a PS Plus offering? I think that’s how I got it. Wondering if some of those who aren’t able to upgrade own it from that.

Pipestrillo would have been in my Top 5 if it had been an option, which it absolutely should have been. Great game!!!

I had a good time with Wo Long on GamePass when it came out. Those who haven’t played it are in for a treat.

Rest of the line up doesn’t do much for me (already own Mirage). But it’s not a bad month.

Know it’s not likely, but developers who made the excellent remake should be given the IP, start their own shop and say f*** you EA!!!

I think a lot of people, like myself, heard Arc Raiders was great but didn’t know what it was about and what the gameplay was like. So yeah, I can see why it’s #1.

Pretty funny that your sister, Nintendo Life, gave the upgrade a 9/10.

Same as others here in that this is exactly what I expected and not “subpar” as it was never advertised as anything more. It’s not a remake. Increased resolution and, especially, 60 FPS are music to my ears. Can’t wait to dig in tonight.

Love the game but it’s damn hard! I still haven’t gotten to the second world, let alone open up the modes outside of Campaign.

Seems more like new additions than an “overhaul” but freebies for GT7 are always welcome.

Yeah, that spidery eye thing is directly from Diablo 4 and that picture with it is from some fans who went to the location. Guessing is over. It’s definitely D4.

Wish Sky Chapter 1 had gotten a discount for Black Friday. May end up grabbing Daybreak instead of waiting for a sale for that one.

Outside of Neon White and The Outlast Trials, it seems like Sony decided to round up a bunch of disappointing games. Synduality in particular has awful reviews on Steam.

Oh well, at least I don’t own any of them except Neon White!

It’s also been reported that there are indications from those new job listings that the sequel will be multi-platform. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the first game ported to Xbox/Switch 2 in the near future.

ShiftUp is looking to capitalize on its success and I don’t blame them!

Not really sure it even has to do with less effort. It seems like a lot went into trying to do something new with the basically all co-op campaign. Problem is it turned out like crap. Sometimes you fail doing something different.

Also think the MP is pretty good this year. But unfortunately for CoD, good isn’t good enough when Battlefield turned out as well as it did.

Is MLB 25 really worth buying? I’ve read some things that made it sound like it was actually a pretty big regression from past games. I haven’t bought MLB for a while so was interested until I dug into it a little deeper. Sounds like 24 is better option.

Still looking forward to this. This is by far the lowest score for the game thus far. Seeing 8s and 9s from other sources and looks right up my alley.

Jez isn’t a reliable source for his own Xbox “beat”. I don’t why anyone thought it was worth wasting time citing him for an even less reliable rumor about PlayStation.

@LogicStrikesAgain Yeah, now that I think about it, I guess only Xbox and Nvidia allow cloud streaming directly to mobile devices.

As others have stated, you can use the remote play app and a controller and basically have a Portal. I’ll save my $200 for new games.

This is the kind of game I wish there was a free trial available. I’m not big into extraction shooters but with the positive reviews it’s been giving, I wouldn’t mind giving it a try. Just can’t spend $40-50 on something I may end up hating.

So we just need to download World Stage and it will still have all the other stuff in the original in addition to the new things added? Or do we need to download the original as well?

Played this on Game Pass. Nice relaxing skiing game. Well worth checking out!

@ShogunRok Since it’s now a native PS5 game, does it have any graphical or performance benefits over the original game?

Yes, I’ve been playing it for the past few days (plucked out for the deluxe because I knew I’d want the expansions) and it’s fantastic. So much better than the first one IMHO, especially the combat. Looks gorgeous as well!

@LiamCroft Wasn’t WRC 24 renamed to just EA Sports WRC? It’s hard to even find reviews of “WRC 24”. It’s a bit confusing. If you search the PlayStation store for WRC 24, you won’t find it under that name.

One other thing though is that Rise will have sold copies likely at a much steeper discount. That said, this is still a really poor showing.

Never hated this level as much as others but it probably did go on a tad long.

I’ll be playing it on GamePass. But glad it’ll be available for PlayStation folks to enjoy for the first time.

I honestly think if it’s more of PC hybrid with Steam, etc. offered, and more expensive to boot then it’s going to have to drop the paid multiplayer to compete with other PCs since there isn’t a fee there. People in Xbox communities have been saying this will have to happen ever since it’s been rumored that it will be a PC hybrid. So this isn’t a surprise at all to me.

This is going to be an expensive machine. I think MS won’t make it a loss leader. They’ll want to make some money from it, still promote GamePass and selling their own games. It’s not like the only revenue source they have is the lowest rung of GP.

@cainhurst94 Wukong isn’t a Sony game.

Damn shame. I love Cruise n’ Blast on Switch so I had high hopes that this would turn out well since previous Fast and Furious games have sucked.

First campaign still is my favorite of the series and cannot wait to play this. Looks gorgeous!

The bigger deal for this is that it’s coming to Switch 2.

@DennisReynolds I think Pure Xbox as a whole has a smaller staff and limited number of reviewers so that may be part of it. That said, it is a big MS release so you’d think this one would have been prioritized.

@SeaDaVie I tend to look at a multitude of reviews, not just one, and reading a bunch of reviews this probably does lie in the middle. Which is what MetaCritic is pretty much saying with 81-83 averages depending on platform.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I didn’t focus on either one. I just said it probably is somewhere in the middle. Read much?

@Porco I mean this has an 82 on MetaCritic. Even Ninja Gaiden 2 had an 81. You’re acting like this is trash. It’s at least as good or better than two of the three mainline games.

Looking forward to it here!

@ear_wig I honestly thought the gameplay in the Nioh 3 demo was trash. Hoping it’s better than the demo was.

But then again I’ve always preferred NG over 5
the Nioh games.

7 on Push Square. 9 on Pure Xbox. 83 on OpenCritic sounds about right!

The daily Xbox sucks article. Yeah!

Even with Ninja Gaiden 4 and The Outer Worlds 2, this is the game I’ve actually been most looking forward to most on GamePass this month. Looks fantastic!

I’m enjoying Silent Hill F but Cronos is the better game IMO. One of my favorite survivor horror games ever.

@Weebleman The never said only 4 games. They were porting 4 games to evaluate how well they did. Some Xbox fans tried to say it was “just 4 games” but MS never vowed to only port those four.

I also never heard them promise Indy wasn’t going to PS5 so have no idea where you are getting that from. When it was first announced it may have said “exclusive” on the trailers but I’m also pretty sure Sony put that word on the trailers for Helldivers 2 and Death Stranding and look how that turned out.

Regardless, Microsoft put out a statement. It’s good journalism to include all perspectives, not just some dude on NeoGAF.

@get2sammyb Probably would be good to update your article. Microsoft put out a statement saying they ARE still investing in first-party consoles. It’s been added to the Windows Central story.

"We are actively investing in our future first-party consoles and devices designed, engineered and built by Xbox. For more details, the community can revisit our agreement announcement with AMD."

Same statement being made to others by MS spokespersons:

https://x.com/destinlegarie/status/1974910075501486406?s=46

@Questionable_Duck The won’t report it because it doesn’t fit their theme of all doom for Xbox all the time on this site.

And Jez actually has an article on Windows Central this time, not just some comment on a forum like this article based on.