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A, it's the best show I've seen in years. It was around 80 minutes long but didn't feel long and had a great format with no down time. A lot of games that I'm looking forward to playing

This game could be so good if it was just that, a complete full priced game with all the characters and cars included

The only Xbox I ever had an issue with was the early models of the 360, though I never personally got the red ring of death, I did encounter other issues such as it only displaying black and white

@Banjo- I'm basically PC these days but will keep the Series X as it's a great addition to it, with cross buy and save data shared between many games and the console is way better for my young son to play on the PS5 was, which had pretty terrible parental controls

@Jenkinss @dskatter ever since they bought Bethesda there's been mixed messaging but there had been suggestions that some games wouldn't be exclusive and Doom is an obvious candidate to keep multiplatform.

Spencer did mention that “even in the future there might be things that have contractual things, or legacy on different platforms that we’ll go do,”

There's also other quotes where he says "some games will be exclusive" when referring to the acquisition

New Doom/Quake game

Sure it looks amazing but I never felt that I was involved in the experience. The combat is so basic and heavily scripted, whilst the line up the object visual "puzzles" just felt like they were there to keep you busy for a few more seconds rather than adding to the experience.

I tried it both ways yesterday and it was significantly better with headphones on, through normal speakers I just found the voices a bit irritating to be honest whilst on a headset it did add to the immersion. Shame the gameplay is so lacking

@Martinscavalo imagine creating an account just to speak such rubbish

A review should be the opinion of the author, not just a good score because it's on a specific platform

Well I tried it and yes it looks and sounds amazing but I thought it was boring to play, I say play but all I did was walk around for an hour or so, stared at a couple of red things and tapped X and Y a few times to end the fight scenes that I never really felt a part of.

@Dimey Sega really need to make these games available again, it's nice that some get put into Yakuza games but we need standalone versions too

@Dimey can you download it through the app?

@Banjo- this and RARE Replay are amongst the main reasons I still have an Xbox

Back on the original Xbox it was largely good support from Sega with games like Panzer Dragoon, plus they'd just bought RARE so I was excited to see where that would go (as it turned out, nowhere for a long time).

I dabbled with 360 and Xbox One without playing too much but got the Series X largely because I'm a huge Bethesda fan (including other Zenimax studios), plus as I was also moving to PC, the ease of cross buy/save was appealing. Oh and it's backwards compatibility is a huge selling point for me, with Daytona USA, the excellent version of the Streets of Rage Trilogy and many, many more classics only available on Xbox Series today

I've suspected for a while that their next "console" will effectively just be a PC and this team has been put together to make sure their older Xbox games will run on PC's

Who knew that subscriptions would have a limited ceiling 🤔

People only have a finite amount of time and there are so many games that people will also want to play that aren't on them

It's comical of Xbox trying to restructure Bethesda when their own gaming output has been a mess for a decade. I'm not calling for other studios to be shut but 343 have buried Halo and Turn 10 put out the farce that is is Forza Motorsport.

We need games like Hi-Fi Rush and the creativity shown in Prey, focusing only on the so called biggest games will not be of benefit to anyone, look at Sony who have very little announced after doing something similar with the likes of Japan Studio

It seems all these big gaming companies are in constant competition to become the most hated

I'm playing the new update on PC right now and it'll be a game I return to every so often, especially when the mod scene gets going

@Dimey sorry I meant to put on PC, the update is already available through Steam Beta

I'm just downloading the update now. I've really enjoyed my time with Starfield and these are some welcome improvements.

Edit, I meant downloading it on Steam.
Speaking of which the new map is huge improvement as is the new dialogue camera and ove had a bit of fun decorating my ship interior

@ZYDIO yes it will be

@Ryu_Niiyama because a large part of Bethesda games are the modding community, so much so they feature them on their website, have helped promote them and even have employed people who were working on this very mod. Whilst of course they don't have to, I am surprised they didn't give these guys a heads up

I really enjoyed Starfield and it's got some great quests, my only real complaint is the lack of incentive to explore outside of the few hand crafted areas. That said I'll be jumping back in when the updates and dlc come

I only played back around the launch period when it basically had no content in it, quite why they thought it was a good idea to launch it with no NPC's is baffling.

I started replaying Fallout 4 a week or so ago in preparation for the huge upcoming Fallout London mod and may give 76 another go at some point

If I play this it'll be on PC, I've no interest in my games looking or feeling "cinematic"

The consoles simply don't have the hardware to make ray tracing worthwhile and are basically rubbish at it. Even in the PC space AMD are pretty bad at it, so realistically you need a high end Nvidia GPU for it to be worthwhile at all

PC is already an Xbox Pro if you want it to be and the reality is that this PS5 Pro is a smaller upgrade then even the PS4 Pro was. This 33tflops is nonsense, for RDNA3 they effectively double their numbers, so a 35tflops 7700xt performs the same as a 16tflop 6800

Console gaming has already set about changing, with only Nintendo now making games that are exclusive to their console. Xbox have long since moved from their console being their primary market, whilst Sony are quickly playing catchup on PC.

I don't expect console to vanish anytime soon but we are very much coming to the end of games being made just for them

Kind of baffling how bad this game is considering they basically made a much better version 10 years ago and have Sea of Thieves to copy too.

I'm a big fan of remasters of games that aren't available on modern platforms such as what Nightdive Studios has done with Star Wars, Exhumed and the Turok games for example plus the recent Tomb Raider trilogy.

Stuff like Sony re-releasing PS4 games on PS5 and charging for the upgrade, I'm not a fan of, especially when others do so for free such as Xbox and third parties like Capcom. Speaking of Capcom their Resident Evil Remakes have largely been tremendous

Simplistic level design and objectives by modern standards? Most modern FPS games I've played are just follow the yellow marker through very linear levels.

In any case, I've not played this one since back on the PS1 and I'm excited to play it again when I get home. FPS games such as this are way more interesting then the majority (with a few exceptions) made these days

I preferred last year's model of rubbish dlc so I didn't have to buy it 😆. There's wrestlers I want this time around

They'll have to do a lot more than that to make me use their app over Steam, its embarrassing how far behind this and Epic are. Both of whom seem scared to design something to be useful on a desktop

@Krydle I think I've had good image quality once, generally its pretty poor and Stadia was a way better experience overall whilst it lasted, without being great itself. This is on PC with very fast Internet, so perhaps your location can have a big impact upon the experience

My PC is well beyond the capabilities of the consoles, so I'll stick to playing Sea of Thieves and all my games on that

Whoa, didn't Phil say there were only 4 games going to other platforms but here we are a few days later with 5 more already 😛

That looks cool, I already own most of them on Steam but quite like that mini nuke so might preorder it

Got to love how badly the Microsoft store handles its own games compared to Steam.

Still it's a very fun game and I need to get back on it at some point

The Remastered Trilogy for me, I much prefer these over the modern games. Traversal is much more challenging and interesting because of it in these games and the absence of map markers and crafting and such feels like a breath of fresh air these days

Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and it's dizzying amount of things to do, from full on Animal Crossing to Pokemon, arcade games and much more. The core gameplay brings classic JRPG mechanics into the modern age all with a great story.

Oh amd some classic Tomb Raider Remastered, which feels amazing to play an adventure game without constant chatter from either the main character or their sidekick. You're just free to explore in peace

Racing game of the year 😂 Sorry but it's a bit of a mess.

I did really enjoy Starfield last year and there are a few Xbox games I'm really looking forward to this year, more so than in quite a few years in fact.

Though as above I'd love to see a new Banjo or Conker game

I feel this is just the start and we'll see more and more games heading to Playstation over time, not necessarily at launch. Likewise Playstation will move closer to day and date launches on PC and perhaps even put games on Xbox down the line.

What's clear is that console business models don't look to be sustainable with how game development costs and times are increasing

Well if that's including what was Gold, then that's a bit rubbish and suggests little growth for Gamepass at all

In terms of pure numbers it will no doubt be the biggest technical leap but the reality is that all the big leaps in gaming happened a long time ago and will never be matched.

My PC isn't far off being 4x the power of a Series X and I wouldn't say its a huge leap over the console, I just get better framerates and good ray tracing. Not to mention the more powerful these get, the longer it seemingly takes to make games for them

If they stripped away their nonsense RPG mechanics and just focused on having some well designed stages, this could be a fun game, as is its a pass

Indiana Jones and then Avowed, I might give Flight Simulator a go as well

Wow that Radio Times review is one of the worst I've ever seen. Who knew that a game from the 90's might not play like a game made 20 years later.

I'm going to be jumping back into these with tank controls and enjoying not having map markers or yellow paint to hold my hands around the levels

I've not played it as it doesn'treally appeal to me, though I have followed its progress out of curiosity. On PC it seems to be basically dead, with Arkham Knight having close to double its players as I write this.

It just seems that fans of the studio and DC aren't excited by this game

The best part about all of this has been watching the fanboys having a meltdown on Twitter.

For me personally, it's more of a curiosity than anything else. I play Xbox games on PC these days anyway through Steam and don't see that changing anytime soon