johncalmc

They're not even releasing games on PlayStation so releasing them for Xbox is wild

I would like the old Fable games to get ported because my girlfriend keeps telling me to play them but I don't want to use the Xbox.

Nintendo can get away with it because Nintendo fans will buy anything. Xbox trying this is a much tougher sell, particularly when their main competitor is holding steady at $70, and double particularly when the game you're introducing the new pricing with is Outer Worlds 2. Still, all's well that ends well I guess. Except for Xbox, who look pretty silly. And Obsidian, who had their game sabotaged by the idiots running Xbox.

I am so into this.

I'm pretty tuned in to what's going on with gaming and I don't think I've ever heard of this game so that might be part of the problem.

I don't really know what robox is but I know I hate this.

Jeff Goldblum as Ganon.

All I really care about is cosmetics. Sweet new haircuts, etc.

vib ribbon over the shoulder third person action sad dad game

I bought this game ages ago because I like Mike Bithell and I like John Wick but I've never actually played it. Maybe I'll get around to it sometime!

This sounds interesting and it's cool they added it, but The Last of Us Part II works perfectly as it is. The show messed with the order of events to questionable effect and I don't think this game would be improved at all by being relayed chronologically. I'll probably not bother if I play through this again, but it's nice it's there.

Can't even fathom playing this in English. I'll be playing in Japanese.

It's so funny that you added a spoiler warning to this but the first thing I thought when I read the headline was "Cloud?!"

Excited for this. I'll probably do the new levels soon. I do love me some Astro Bot and I do love collecting those fellas.

I've been excited for them to announce the Final Fantasy IX remake at every event, every showcase, every State of Play, every Game Awards every Direct, every random Tuesday, for like the last five years. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself.

For all of the drama surrounding the 1.5 update has it actually made any difference to how many people are playing? I have no idea. I play the game, but I don't really talk to people about it, I don't have friends on there, and I don't dabble in the multiplayer. I just play it on my own, and I'm not in reddit threads talking about the intricacies of the gacha system, so I have actually no idea what the impact has been.

For me it didn't make a difference. I liked the apology currency for the whole thing. I mainly just do my daily stuff each morning.

Everyone who ever tried to argue that Gamepass was sustainable because "Phil Spencer said so" should get a lump of coal for Christmas. It was obviously never sustainable. It's ridiculous, and little more than a thinly veiled attempt by Xbox to brute force relevance in a market that had long stopped caring about them.

@get2sammyb I think the last thing I actually bought off the US store was Persona 3 for PS2 on PS3 so that must have been some years ago and I think that's what I did. For some reason the extra hoop to jump through stops me.

Seems like a weird choice unless they're putting it on Gamepass. I mean I'm sure that both of the people still buying games on Xbox will like it but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

@get2sammyb yeah I know but I give up at the first sign of hassle and I don't like having to add dollar to my fake american account.

Just typing that out made me realise how little effort it actually is and I should have done this years ago 🤦‍♂️

yeah but all I want is The House in Fata Morgana on PS4/PS5. Still not available in europe last time I checked.

We know the remake is happening or was at least happening at the point that it leaked, so all I hope is that it's more of a lick of paint remake than what Final Fantasy VII turned out to be. I'm sure it will be. Don't over-egg the pudding, just give us the game with remixed music, a visual update, and voices if you really feel the need.

Excited for both of the people who buy games on Xbox to give it a go.

I'm 40 and even I know who this is. I like that one Blackpink song I can't remember the name of. It's a banger though.

@get2sammyb Imran Khan recently posted that Perfect Dark was barely off the ground and all they'd made was vertical slices like the one they showed off but without any actual game. Sounds like a total mess if accurate.

Phil Spencer must have incriminating pictures of someone at Xbox.

This is even worse than I ever thought it would be. I'm guessing they laid off whoever proofs Phil Spencer's statements because that "we're doing brilliantly but we're gonna fire you anyway" email is an absolute howler. Disgraceful stuff.

That Phil Spencer statement should have been a resignation letter.

It's a game that seems primarily focused on encouraging children to convince their parents to pay massively over the odds for inane microtransactions, so this tracks. Why does anyone even care? The artistic merit ship sailed for Call of Duty like a decade ago.

What I'm mostly surprised about is that they've completely thrown their art style out of the window for an IP that hasn't been relevant in twenty years. If you're gonna throw animated characters in at least do Minions or whatever the kids are into these days.

I'm only here to say that I came into this list expecting to be annoyed and then I read it and it's almost exactly the way I would have ranked the games. I'd maybe swap 4 and 2 but otherwise, this is exactly what I think about MGS. I don't think I've ever agreed with an internet list before. Quite a turn of events.

I really wish they'd make a rule where you have to announce this stuff so we don't have to do the whole buy game, play game, someone finds AI pish, drama time cycle.

That way we could at least make informed decisions on what level of AI dreck we're willing to accept. Like, this I'm not so fussed on, but really, how hard is it to write background seasoning text like this? Clearly not very, if you're willing to accept something you didn't even write. So just write it.

But we're at the tipping point, and seasoning will suddenly become the side dish, and before we know it the whole meal. We should know what we're supporting before we buy.

This seems like a weird thing to do. Like, even dismissing the ethics of using AI for something like this, surely they know that there's plenty of drama surrounding the involvement of this kind of AI, and they're using it for leaves? Just make a leaf.

If Final Fantasy 17 is old school ATB or turn based I'm gonna throw a party and you're all invited.

I can't remember the last time this happened, but a few weeks ago I was totally lost with what to play and felt like an RPG and I had my finger hovering over the button to buy Diablo 4 but I didn't and ended up playing something else. This is a rare PS Plus win for me.

how is that even anime

I know I'm just one man, but I can tell you based on my actions what I think one of the big problems this thing has is. I was super interested in PSVR2 but I didn't buy one at launch because I didn't expect other people to buy it, which meant that it probably wouldn't get great support, which meant that it would probably seem like a wasted purchase, and with so many conventional games to play without having to spend half a grand on new hardware I decided to wait for it to play out.

I'm not Nostradamus - those things were pretty easy to predict. So I wonder how many other people made the same choice. And so it's not necessarily a lack of interest, but more of a lack of belief that it'll sell and thus be supported. I'm certainly glad I didn't spend money on it.

Interesting. Yakuza is about where I imagined although I am surprised Infinite Wealth isn't a little higher. Gaiden should be higher because it rules.

Everybody play Yakuza.

Shoutout to Persona 5 Royal though.

It's one of the best games ever made. I can't remember another game that made me feel like that. I felt almost sick playing it. Really intense. But it's not one I go back to. Amazing, but its a bit much. All in all I'd rather be playing Cyberpunk or something.

Obviously, Clair Obscur. It's not even nearly close.

I have never played this monkey game but I do like monkeys so I am probably going to play it at some point

Weird the conclusions people seem to be drawing from this. "The hardware is expensive!" "$70 games!" etc.

It's microtransactions, baby.

I love Mass Effect but not enough to play Battlefield.

Predictable and yet somehow still completely embarrassing. I'm actually embarrassed for them.

I played it through again a couple of months ago to refresh the story in my mind and I've already forgotten what happened

I quite liked the story just fine. Like, it's not great. I'm not sitting there for weeks thinking about it after I've finished the game. But it's a perfectly reasonable yarn that gives you enough reason to run around smashing fools up with a sword to a kick ass soundtrack. On paper the story might not be up to much, but as a part of the whole thing, the game has great vibes.

Even if it was good this never had a prayer.

That's nice, but I just don't care about handheld gaming at all. I play all my games on my TV.

Maybe instead of stealing art they should have stolen a game people care about.

I'm not a fan of Gamepass at all and think it's wildly destructive to the industry, but if you're Square Enix and you're porting Final Fantasy XVI to Xbox you've got to put that thing on Gamepass. Take the money and run. Because it ain't gonna sell.

It's basic stuff. Imagine the demographic you're working with. Your target audience is the crossover point of people on Xbox that are still buying games - small - and JRPG fans that for some reason bought an Xbox instead of a PlayStation - presumably small. Sure, there'll be stragglers. But it seems like a non-starter.

Absolute madness.

They should do a mod where they make Eve a man who just carries on wearing all of her ridiculous outfits. Hairy chest and that. Looks like Tom Jones.