A few updates to what we were discussing in the show, that broke after we finished recording yesterday. 1. The new Doom game seems to be titled Doom The Dark Ages, and it will be available on PS5, as well as Xbox. x.com/insidergamingig/status/1794135370839253130?s=46&t=177OlmsfeFG_dCmOdHQ_Aw 2. Neil Druckman’s full quote regarding “redefining main stream gaming” wasn’t exactly captured properly in the article I read on the show, here’s the full quote: x.com/neil_druckmann/status/1794187395279253837?s=46&t=177OlmsfeFG_dCmOdHQ_Aw
I already have an xsx, but if I didn't, I'd be looking for consistency with releases and quality. All xbox 1st party titles have been very disappointing with the exception of forza horizon, but I'm very casual with racing games so this doesn't really make up for other games.
That’s the thing that bums me out the most… it feels like they’re getting so close, but end up slipping on the banana peel EVERYTIME before they can reach the finish line
I still have my original Xbox because it truly was the cool console to have when released. First to have an installed harddrive, first have to true online play, first badass controller, true first home for FPS games on console. Microsoft needs to get back to being first if they want to survive.
I’ll always argue that the OG Xbox was one of the most interesting consoles ever. That thing was full of weird experimental AAA exclusives. Loved that damn machine.
lol badass controller their first controller was so bad they had to remake it the smaller one was better but please the first xbox had the worst controller of all time in that big crappy piece of garbage
@@jorgealonso9792 lol why not say how you really feel. I thought the Duke controller was great to play with if you have man hands. The remade smaller controller played well as well, but not any better. Sorry you feel the way you do about one of the most revolutionary consoles ever made .
@@trey631 lol the duke was garbage that's why they redesigned it stop fronting on that crap controller did they ever make another garbage controller like that again?
@@jorgealonso9792 I think it was a very comfortable to use. I still have the original one and a couple of S controllers. You are entitled to your opinion bud. 👍
It's been a while brother, hope all is well with you and yours! Haven't had that much time to comment but I catch the show here and there when I can. Some nice takes on the Hellblade 2 discussion. I do stand on the opposite side of the fence in terms of enjoyment since I absolutely loved the game (9/10 for me), but like you said that stems from the fact I also loved the 1st one and I knew exactly what I was getting. Not liking this style of game is perfectly valid though, it's quite unique in what it tries to do, it's a very curated experience and not for everyone. That said, some of the takes I've been seeing online have been weird to me. The brevity is one of them. Folks are calling this a '5 hour game' and I honestly don't understand it. Taking my time to soak up the environments, listening to all rune and tree lore, going through the puzzle and combat sections, spending some time in photo mode, all that took me about 10hrs! So basically the same as my 1st playthrough of the first game. I honestly wouldn't want it to be longer than that because it's very heavy as an experience. Another criticism I don't get is combat. I mean sure it won't be for everyone, but personally I found it so unique when compared to everything that's currently on the market. Highly cinematic, hyper intense and visceral. However, I did play it on Hard which made everything more immersive (ironically I wasn't really feeling it on Dynamic). Different dodge moves, more enemies, having the parry window be less forgiving than the first game, using your focus to power up your attacks and to throw tomahawks and spears back at the enemies... man I lapped all that up lol. Really enjoyed those moments. Another take I don't get is when people say puzzles are worse. Seriously I replayed the 1st game just before this one, it's like folks forgot haha. They're a lot more frustrating in that one, here there's not only more variety but it's a lot easier to get patterns to trigger so they don't get as grating. One thing I will say is the story isn't as intimate as the 1st one and I normally prefer those, so I liked this narrative a bit less even though I appreciated the epic tone. And like you said, what an absolute looker! Easily the best thing I've personally seen on a console. But yeah, sorry it didn't resonate with you brother. You are right that if you didn't like the 1st one chances would be you'd dislike this one too. What I don't get is the folks who claimed to have *loved* the 1st and *hated* the 2nd lol! That shit's just wild to me. As for the future of Xbox, I've got really mixed feelings. On one hand I've been very happy with their 1st and 2nd party output quality and variety this gen (Starfield, Hellblade 2, Psychonauts 2, Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded, Age of Empires IV, As Dusk Falls, and now with Avowed, Indiana Jones, Towerborne etc), but I don't like the direction they seem to be going towards, like at all. Unless they pull a real rabbit out of their hat, losing exclusives will be a massive strategic blunder and make them eventually irrelevant to 3rd party devs IMO. No exclusives is where the industry's walking towards, but as always Xbox is jumping the gun way too soon here. I mean I say Xbox but we all know it's MS behind this with Nadella, Stuart and Hood calling the shots. If it were up to the Xbox trio this definitely wouldn't be happening since we know their opinion from the FTC leaks. It's a bummer man. I'll continue to play on the ecosystem as long as they continue to give me the games I want, but I'm already considering what to do next gen, which is kinda crazy since I've been with Xbox since the OG and bought every single model on release. Let's see what they'll do next, but I'm not very hopeful, especially after the disgusting thing they've done to Tango. Sorry for the long rant bud, suppose it's all past comments I didn't get to write rolled into one 😂Hope you have a great one and as always, best of luck to the show!
They were getting so f’n close man… it’s such a bummer that they’re seemingly giving up on the vision right as they’re about to have the first party content finally lined up & ready to release…. I’m really hoping that either Avowed or Indy will be a massive hit for them as an exclusive, & drive in some console sales, hopefully that would be enough for them to course correct back towards exclusive content, but I doubt it unfortunately. I can’t lie, I’m partially to blame, as I bought both HiFi & Pentiment on PS5 physically, but if I felt like i had a choice, I would’ve happily bought them physically on Xbox… the drm is just so intrusive that it makes collecting physically for that platform so unappealing to me. My favorite console of all time to collect for is the OG Xbox, I loved the yellow “only on Xbox” moniker on each case, just had such a strong standout art style from the competition. The Tango axing is really what sent me over the edge as a fan. There’s very few studios with that kind of potential… throwing that away really broke my confidence in whatever their vision is, feels very Microsoft Gaming, and anti Xbox (atleast Phil & crew’s vision for Xbox) But I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, you’ll catch me wherever the games are… ima soulless consumer lmao if Xbox has a banger showcase, with tons of exclusives ready to go in 2024-2025, I’ll be there playing em lol . Glad you dug HB2 homie, I can for sure see why people really enjoyed it. I’ll be totally honestly, I had no idea you could pull off some of those moves you just spoke about, so I’ll have to take a bit of an L on that. I never threw a tomahawk back at an enemy to my knowledge, that sounds sick as fuck lol. & anyone saying the puzzles are worse is totally out of their mind, the puzzles in HB1 were some of the most annoying puzzle sections in gaming history lmao. Appreciate you tuning in brother!
@@UnnecessaryRambling Haha no worries brother, most people didn't realise it when they were playing! Combat's still absolutely on the cinematic/simplistic side, but yeah IMO it's a tad more involved than folks are giving it credit for. And yeah fully agree, drm sucks for physical collectors and I wish they just got rid of it completely. Though sadly I know they won't especially because Steam does the same and seems like that store might be integrated in the next Xbox (which would actually be crazy if it did happen).
At one point it was Starfield. It was the reason I bought a Series X back around launch. I ended up selling it around the time that PC parts were finally back to somewhat reasonable levels since I barely used the thing. I upgraded my PC and played Starfield on PC game pass. It was just so incredibly underwhelming to me. Which this gen has been on par with most of the first party stuff they release. I just don't really know what is pushing people to even consider buying the console to be honest. I guess CoD + game pass? I don't really know. I just wish they could get back to the type of run they had with 360. That just seems like it was lightning in a bottle at this point.
It’s just so weird to look at their most successful generation, with the 360 & look at their first couple years of exclusives, and not see the correlation between that console’s success & the titles you could only play on that console at the time(at least timed exclusives)… Mass Effect, Bioshock, Oblivion, Gears, Forza, Halo 3, Dead Rising, Saints Row, Crackdown, Condemned, etc. it was a stacked lineup. Prolly tons I’m forgetting…
Hellblade 2 is good for getting some achievements to earn some MS Reward points, I wouldn't bother other wise. At least Jedi Survivor was added to Gamepass Ultimate recently
I’m possibly wrong with this… but the one major aspect that keeps me from getting an XBox is just the association with Microsoft and the P.C ecosystem. Every exclusive they have on XBox there’s just something in the back of my mind that’s like “Yeah, that’ll be available on P.C anyway”. Gears is on Steam Halo is on Steam Fable is on Steam Forza is on Steam Sea of thieves is on Steam If they want players on their consoles at the very least they need some lengthy timed exclusives, which includes keeping them off P.C.
I share the exact same view as you… we may be incorrect on an economic level, in terms of what makes sense for Xbox… but it’s hard to understand how a new player could find value in buying an Xbox right now, if they’re not going to commit to exclusives
Brandon, your legit a few years away from being the old man yelling at clouds 100% 🤣🤣🤣🤣 When I heard you talking about PC gaming and having to be a tech wizard. I legit laughed it loud and then sighed because it's what I'm dealing with right now with my child. His pretty new PC is giving him a s*** ton of problems and those problems are trickling down to me.... And it sucks!!!! On a better note, he's playing his Xbox series X right now so at least we're getting our money's worth out of that. Have no idea what the next gen console will be called but next box it is for now. Glad I didn't play hellblade or invest in hellblade 2. For some reason I kept putting it off and kept putting it off and hearing you guys talk about it doesn't make me want to play it. Which is what my gut was telling me anyways. I would take a last of us 3 but honestly I would take a prequel to the entire franchise I think would be pretty damn cool. Then again a brand new IP would be amazing from Naughty dog. I'm here for whatever they do. Indica I'm pretty sure it's just a strain of the devil's tobacco 😂😂😂 Had no idea that was a game 😂😂
At this point, I can't think of anything that would make me buy an xbox console. and quite frankly, I'm really annoyed at Microsoft being Microsoft at this point. Yes, companies want to make money but it seems that Microsoft (a $3 TRILLION corporation) is only concerned about pleasing their share holders RIGHT NOW instead of giving teams like Tango a chance to....I guess make ANOTHER critically acclaimed game that no one bought because of GAME PASS which is 100% Microsoft's fault. They are training game players to think that they don't need to pay for a game anymore. Just "rent" them with game pass, and then cancel until the next game comes out. It's really hard to be an Xbox fan anymore.
& it sucks for us as fans because we don’t even know how to support Xbox games anymore lol. They pushed game pass for so long, but when we subscribe to game pass, and play HiFi that way, it’s not good enough…. It’s like dude… if game pass is the problem here, then just get rid of it. But like you said, training ppl that you can play everything for 15 bucks a month, and then stripping that away, would be a tough pill to swallow
Hellblade 2 is the first game that has me wanting an xbox. Xbox may have a lot less, but tHellblade looks absolutely stunning & I like the realistic approach to combat. Swords are heavy, backflips my back couldn't handle, & enemies shouldn't dissapear after defeated. Still rock my PS5 though
if they would have redone Gears 2 and 3 like they did the first game, i would have bought an Xbox One. if they release a Gears collection that has been rumored, i'll buy a Series X
Absolutely! Xbox had a killer show last year, SGF was meh, but I feel like they could step it up big time this year, especially since the back half of 2024 is barren
An open world game wouldn't look as good. The game is super limited in what happens moment to moment, that's how they managed to get it running on current hardware. If you scale it up, fidelity goes down.
Yea no doubt, compromises are always going to made to make a game look that good, which I’m mostly ok with, especially if the story is compelling… unfortunately I just don’t find the story all that compelling lol
Soon as it was announced that Microsoft bought ABK I sold my PS5 & went & bought me a XSX because I knew it would be going straight to Game Pass.. Also Hellblade is my favorite game so far this gen & is easily my top 5 favorite games of all time..
Hellblade 2 is such a disappointment man. Every gameplay segment feels so forced. It got me thinking as to why they just didnit go the Telltale route full story and very little gameplay. Or just go the full RPG route with the voices making the decisions hard, or putting the voices into RPG mechanics. It just feels really lazy, your telling me that they couldnot find atleast one way that they could have incorporated gameplay within the story segments. According to more Doom leaks it seems to be a Medieval setting with more heavy combat. So im thinking of slow yet hard hitting melee combat with some magic shotguns. Its a much more interesting concept then i thought they would go, so now im much more interested in what they could cook.
I’m with you across the board on HB2. I woild happily sacrifice 20% of the photo realistic graphics, if that meant we could get 20% more interesting gameplay lol. But I do respect Ninja Theory for committing to their vision…. It’s just not a vision that really appeals to me. I’m very curious about this upcoming xbox show man…. So many question marks. But yeah, Doom is looking like a lock
The issue I have with hb2 is it is the most narcissistically designed game I have ever seen. Player choice and player agency is almost wholly removed to service the experience. Even in tell tale games the player makes choices that change the story. In narrative linear games like tlou the player has choice in engaging enemies and combat options.
@@justwait9822 agreed. TLOU is my favorite game ever. But have you played TLOU2? because it's almost (almost) as bad as Hellblade 2 with the pretentiousness and lack of choice. Neil said you could play the game without killing dogs, includes a cut scene that makes you press the button to kill a dog...only to have a shoe-horned scene later where you are FORCED to play fetch with the dog. such cringe.
@@mickael486 lol, I love tlou2. And you have as much player agency in that game as tlou. In narrative driven, linear games the player doesn't get to influence the outcome of the story, but in most cases there is either exploration or systems in place that give the player choices. In both tlou games, the choices mainly comes from how you engage enemies (stealth, aggression, set traps, etc). Both games also give the player the choice to either fully search areas to get more crafting material/ammo or just skip it to progress the story faster.
@@justwait9822 you're right. I just found more options with weapons and map layout vs stealth options in the first game. Most of the time in the 2nd game, I would keep getting the SAME AMMO that I never could get because I was already full. same with crafting. there was this perfect balance with the first game.. almost as if a legend that use to work there was pressured to leave the studio before they started making the sequel. that actually happened.. it didn't make sense to me until I found out.
Yeah it’s worrying to me that Xbox 1 sold better than the series x is selling. Xbox 1 in its first 35 months was at 24 mil, & the series x is at 23. It’s not a huge difference, but if Microsoft viewed xb1 as a failure, than you gotta imagine they feel similar, if not worse about the series gen, so far.
@UnnecessaryRambling My backlog is so huge if they don't release another game I will be fine. This Gen is what it is. I play the games I like skip the ones I don't. I simply have too many games to play.
Don’t let our opinion on the game carry too much weight, neither of us enjoyed the first game. I think if you enjoyed the first, you’ll almost certainly like 2.
Please Xbox stop being woke and go back to like it was in the Xbox 360 days and male characters games and not so many female characters games make male characters in games great again
@@pedromartinez-xt7ye Gamepass has always been a lure - I think for anybody out there who is unsure about which way to turn, a Series S is a bargain, it runs a lot of the bigger games well - like Halo, Forza, Gears, Grounded, Doom, Psychonauts etc. - plus you get access to 100s of indie games that would keep a person going for years... I have X & S and a reasonable PC + a Switch. I like the PS5, but I have too much to be going on with as is. A lot of games have moved to PC, so if budget isn't a thing, just buy a PC.
In my opiniom xbox is just gamepass and gamepass needs exclusives. In 1 more year people will be crying because gamepass is the only future i see. But paying 15 for every game i want is kinda crazy. Xbox is better than ps5 sure. Ps5 still hasnt had an exclusive ps5 game.
@@loitersquadX you can just google lol.. But if you really want to know. Spiderman 2, FF16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Demon Souls. Theres more but like i said just google.
Spider-Man 2, FF16, FF7rebirth, Rift Apart, Returnal, etc… but I do agree with you, PlayStation first party has been light on exclusives so far this generation & game pass/xbox without exclusives makes very little sense. I’m a very big advocate for exclusive content, without it, having multiple consoles on the market makes no sense to me.
@@loitersquadX dark souls remake, returnal, ratchet and clank, astro playroom, helldiver 2, ff16, ff7 rebirth, stellar blade, rise of ronin, spiderman 2. Ps5 literally launched with an exclusive ps5 game (demon soul remake) and had a free one packaged in (astro playroom).
I would never purchase that bloated compaines garbage ass offering we are taling about the company that made their nut on pc then abandoned it alltogether because like always they have sucked I'm glad some of their fans are starting to recognize it!
A few updates to what we were discussing in the show, that broke after we finished recording yesterday.
1. The new Doom game seems to be titled Doom The Dark Ages, and it will be available on PS5, as well as Xbox. x.com/insidergamingig/status/1794135370839253130?s=46&t=177OlmsfeFG_dCmOdHQ_Aw
2. Neil Druckman’s full quote regarding “redefining main stream gaming” wasn’t exactly captured properly in the article I read on the show, here’s the full quote: x.com/neil_druckmann/status/1794187395279253837?s=46&t=177OlmsfeFG_dCmOdHQ_Aw
I already have an xsx, but if I didn't, I'd be looking for consistency with releases and quality. All xbox 1st party titles have been very disappointing with the exception of forza horizon, but I'm very casual with racing games so this doesn't really make up for other games.
That’s the thing that bums me out the most… it feels like they’re getting so close, but end up slipping on the banana peel EVERYTIME before they can reach the finish line
I still have my original Xbox because it truly was the cool console to have when released. First to have an installed harddrive, first have to true online play, first badass controller, true first home for FPS games on console. Microsoft needs to get back to being first if they want to survive.
I’ll always argue that the OG Xbox was one of the most interesting consoles ever. That thing was full of weird experimental AAA exclusives. Loved that damn machine.
lol badass controller their first controller was so bad they had to remake it the smaller one was better but please the first xbox had the worst controller of all time in that big crappy piece of garbage
@@jorgealonso9792 lol why not say how you really feel. I thought the Duke controller was great to play with if you have man hands. The remade smaller controller played well as well, but not any better. Sorry you feel the way you do about one of the most revolutionary consoles ever made .
@@trey631 lol the duke was garbage that's why they redesigned it stop fronting on that crap controller did they ever make another garbage controller like that again?
@@jorgealonso9792 I think it was a very comfortable to use. I still have the original one and a couple of S controllers. You are entitled to your opinion bud. 👍
It's been a while brother, hope all is well with you and yours! Haven't had that much time to comment but I catch the show here and there when I can.
Some nice takes on the Hellblade 2 discussion. I do stand on the opposite side of the fence in terms of enjoyment since I absolutely loved the game (9/10 for me), but like you said that stems from the fact I also loved the 1st one and I knew exactly what I was getting. Not liking this style of game is perfectly valid though, it's quite unique in what it tries to do, it's a very curated experience and not for everyone. That said, some of the takes I've been seeing online have been weird to me. The brevity is one of them. Folks are calling this a '5 hour game' and I honestly don't understand it. Taking my time to soak up the environments, listening to all rune and tree lore, going through the puzzle and combat sections, spending some time in photo mode, all that took me about 10hrs! So basically the same as my 1st playthrough of the first game. I honestly wouldn't want it to be longer than that because it's very heavy as an experience.
Another criticism I don't get is combat. I mean sure it won't be for everyone, but personally I found it so unique when compared to everything that's currently on the market. Highly cinematic, hyper intense and visceral. However, I did play it on Hard which made everything more immersive (ironically I wasn't really feeling it on Dynamic). Different dodge moves, more enemies, having the parry window be less forgiving than the first game, using your focus to power up your attacks and to throw tomahawks and spears back at the enemies... man I lapped all that up lol. Really enjoyed those moments. Another take I don't get is when people say puzzles are worse. Seriously I replayed the 1st game just before this one, it's like folks forgot haha. They're a lot more frustrating in that one, here there's not only more variety but it's a lot easier to get patterns to trigger so they don't get as grating. One thing I will say is the story isn't as intimate as the 1st one and I normally prefer those, so I liked this narrative a bit less even though I appreciated the epic tone. And like you said, what an absolute looker! Easily the best thing I've personally seen on a console. But yeah, sorry it didn't resonate with you brother. You are right that if you didn't like the 1st one chances would be you'd dislike this one too. What I don't get is the folks who claimed to have *loved* the 1st and *hated* the 2nd lol! That shit's just wild to me.
As for the future of Xbox, I've got really mixed feelings. On one hand I've been very happy with their 1st and 2nd party output quality and variety this gen (Starfield, Hellblade 2, Psychonauts 2, Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded, Age of Empires IV, As Dusk Falls, and now with Avowed, Indiana Jones, Towerborne etc), but I don't like the direction they seem to be going towards, like at all. Unless they pull a real rabbit out of their hat, losing exclusives will be a massive strategic blunder and make them eventually irrelevant to 3rd party devs IMO. No exclusives is where the industry's walking towards, but as always Xbox is jumping the gun way too soon here. I mean I say Xbox but we all know it's MS behind this with Nadella, Stuart and Hood calling the shots. If it were up to the Xbox trio this definitely wouldn't be happening since we know their opinion from the FTC leaks. It's a bummer man. I'll continue to play on the ecosystem as long as they continue to give me the games I want, but I'm already considering what to do next gen, which is kinda crazy since I've been with Xbox since the OG and bought every single model on release. Let's see what they'll do next, but I'm not very hopeful, especially after the disgusting thing they've done to Tango.
Sorry for the long rant bud, suppose it's all past comments I didn't get to write rolled into one 😂Hope you have a great one and as always, best of luck to the show!
They were getting so f’n close man… it’s such a bummer that they’re seemingly giving up on the vision right as they’re about to have the first party content finally lined up & ready to release…. I’m really hoping that either Avowed or Indy will be a massive hit for them as an exclusive, & drive in some console sales, hopefully that would be enough for them to course correct back towards exclusive content, but I doubt it unfortunately. I can’t lie, I’m partially to blame, as I bought both HiFi & Pentiment on PS5 physically, but if I felt like i had a choice, I would’ve happily bought them physically on Xbox… the drm is just so intrusive that it makes collecting physically for that platform so unappealing to me. My favorite console of all time to collect for is the OG Xbox, I loved the yellow “only on Xbox” moniker on each case, just had such a strong standout art style from the competition. The Tango axing is really what sent me over the edge as a fan. There’s very few studios with that kind of potential… throwing that away really broke my confidence in whatever their vision is, feels very Microsoft Gaming, and anti Xbox (atleast Phil & crew’s vision for Xbox)
But I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, you’ll catch me wherever the games are… ima soulless consumer lmao if Xbox has a banger showcase, with tons of exclusives ready to go in 2024-2025, I’ll be there playing em lol . Glad you dug HB2 homie, I can for sure see why people really enjoyed it. I’ll be totally honestly, I had no idea you could pull off some of those moves you just spoke about, so I’ll have to take a bit of an L on that. I never threw a tomahawk back at an enemy to my knowledge, that sounds sick as fuck lol. & anyone saying the puzzles are worse is totally out of their mind, the puzzles in HB1 were some of the most annoying puzzle sections in gaming history lmao. Appreciate you tuning in brother!
@@UnnecessaryRambling Haha no worries brother, most people didn't realise it when they were playing! Combat's still absolutely on the cinematic/simplistic side, but yeah IMO it's a tad more involved than folks are giving it credit for. And yeah fully agree, drm sucks for physical collectors and I wish they just got rid of it completely. Though sadly I know they won't especially because Steam does the same and seems like that store might be integrated in the next Xbox (which would actually be crazy if it did happen).
At one point it was Starfield. It was the reason I bought a Series X back around launch. I ended up selling it around the time that PC parts were finally back to somewhat reasonable levels since I barely used the thing. I upgraded my PC and played Starfield on PC game pass. It was just so incredibly underwhelming to me. Which this gen has been on par with most of the first party stuff they release. I just don't really know what is pushing people to even consider buying the console to be honest. I guess CoD + game pass? I don't really know. I just wish they could get back to the type of run they had with 360. That just seems like it was lightning in a bottle at this point.
It’s just so weird to look at their most successful generation, with the 360 & look at their first couple years of exclusives, and not see the correlation between that console’s success & the titles you could only play on that console at the time(at least timed exclusives)… Mass Effect, Bioshock, Oblivion, Gears, Forza, Halo 3, Dead Rising, Saints Row, Crackdown, Condemned, etc. it was a stacked lineup. Prolly tons I’m forgetting…
Hellblade 2 is good for getting some achievements to earn some MS Reward points, I wouldn't bother other wise. At least Jedi Survivor was added to Gamepass Ultimate recently
Jedi Survivor is FANTASTIC
I’m possibly wrong with this… but the one major aspect that keeps me from getting an XBox is just the association with Microsoft and the P.C ecosystem. Every exclusive they have on XBox there’s just something in the back of my mind that’s like “Yeah, that’ll be available on P.C anyway”.
Gears is on Steam
Halo is on Steam
Fable is on Steam
Forza is on Steam
Sea of thieves is on Steam
If they want players on their consoles at the very least they need some lengthy timed exclusives, which includes keeping them off P.C.
I share the exact same view as you… we may be incorrect on an economic level, in terms of what makes sense for Xbox… but it’s hard to understand how a new player could find value in buying an Xbox right now, if they’re not going to commit to exclusives
Brandon, your legit a few years away from being the old man yelling at clouds 100% 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I heard you talking about PC gaming and having to be a tech wizard. I legit laughed it loud and then sighed because it's what I'm dealing with right now with my child. His pretty new PC is giving him a s*** ton of problems and those problems are trickling down to me.... And it sucks!!!! On a better note, he's playing his Xbox series X right now so at least we're getting our money's worth out of that. Have no idea what the next gen console will be called but next box it is for now.
Glad I didn't play hellblade or invest in hellblade 2. For some reason I kept putting it off and kept putting it off and hearing you guys talk about it doesn't make me want to play it. Which is what my gut was telling me anyways.
I would take a last of us 3 but honestly I would take a prequel to the entire franchise I think would be pretty damn cool. Then again a brand new IP would be amazing from Naughty dog. I'm here for whatever they do.
Indica I'm pretty sure it's just a strain of the devil's tobacco 😂😂😂 Had no idea that was a game 😂😂
At this point, I can't think of anything that would make me buy an xbox console. and quite frankly, I'm really annoyed at Microsoft being Microsoft at this point. Yes, companies want to make money but it seems that Microsoft (a $3 TRILLION corporation) is only concerned about pleasing their share holders RIGHT NOW instead of giving teams like Tango a chance to....I guess make ANOTHER critically acclaimed game that no one bought because of GAME PASS which is 100% Microsoft's fault. They are training game players to think that they don't need to pay for a game anymore. Just "rent" them with game pass, and then cancel until the next game comes out. It's really hard to be an Xbox fan anymore.
& it sucks for us as fans because we don’t even know how to support Xbox games anymore lol. They pushed game pass for so long, but when we subscribe to game pass, and play HiFi that way, it’s not good enough…. It’s like dude… if game pass is the problem here, then just get rid of it. But like you said, training ppl that you can play everything for 15 bucks a month, and then stripping that away, would be a tough pill to swallow
Hellblade 2 is the first game that has me wanting an xbox. Xbox may have a lot less, but tHellblade looks absolutely stunning & I like the realistic approach to combat. Swords are heavy, backflips my back couldn't handle, & enemies shouldn't dissapear after defeated. Still rock my PS5 though
It’s absolutely stunning, one of the best looking games of all time. Maybe the best looking game. Just didn’t do a ton for me beyond that.
if they would have redone Gears 2 and 3 like they did the first game, i would have bought an Xbox One. if they release a Gears collection that has been rumored, i'll buy a Series X
I wonder if they do release a Gears collection if they’ll keep it exclusive to Xbox, or put it on PS5 & maybe even Switch
Resident Evil 4 Remake made me buy an Xbox Series X because it was only available on Next-gen.
I forgot about that. It was released on PS4, but not Xbox 1 right?
yes sir, are you as excited for the summer gamefest as well as Xbox?
Absolutely! Xbox had a killer show last year, SGF was meh, but I feel like they could step it up big time this year, especially since the back half of 2024 is barren
An open world game wouldn't look as good. The game is super limited in what happens moment to moment, that's how they managed to get it running on current hardware. If you scale it up, fidelity goes down.
For instance, notice how enemies don't exist outside of combat, where you can rarely see anything.
Yea no doubt, compromises are always going to made to make a game look that good, which I’m mostly ok with, especially if the story is compelling… unfortunately I just don’t find the story all that compelling lol
Soon as it was announced that Microsoft bought ABK I sold my PS5 & went & bought me a XSX because I knew it would be going straight to Game Pass.. Also Hellblade is my favorite game so far this gen & is easily my top 5 favorite games of all time..
Im glad you enjoyed it man! Definitely a visual stunner
Hellblade 2 is such a disappointment man. Every gameplay segment feels so forced. It got me thinking as to why they just didnit go the Telltale route full story and very little gameplay. Or just go the full RPG route with the voices making the decisions hard, or putting the voices into RPG mechanics. It just feels really lazy, your telling me that they couldnot find atleast one way that they could have incorporated gameplay within the story segments.
According to more Doom leaks it seems to be a Medieval setting with more heavy combat. So im thinking of slow yet hard hitting melee combat with some magic shotguns. Its a much more interesting concept then i thought they would go, so now im much more interested in what they could cook.
I’m with you across the board on HB2. I woild happily sacrifice 20% of the photo realistic graphics, if that meant we could get 20% more interesting gameplay lol. But I do respect Ninja Theory for committing to their vision…. It’s just not a vision that really appeals to me. I’m very curious about this upcoming xbox show man…. So many question marks. But yeah, Doom is looking like a lock
The issue I have with hb2 is it is the most narcissistically designed game I have ever seen. Player choice and player agency is almost wholly removed to service the experience. Even in tell tale games the player makes choices that change the story. In narrative linear games like tlou the player has choice in engaging enemies and combat options.
@@justwait9822 agreed. TLOU is my favorite game ever. But have you played TLOU2? because it's almost (almost) as bad as Hellblade 2 with the pretentiousness and lack of choice. Neil said you could play the game without killing dogs, includes a cut scene that makes you press the button to kill a dog...only to have a shoe-horned scene later where you are FORCED to play fetch with the dog. such cringe.
@@mickael486 lol, I love tlou2. And you have as much player agency in that game as tlou. In narrative driven, linear games the player doesn't get to influence the outcome of the story, but in most cases there is either exploration or systems in place that give the player choices. In both tlou games, the choices mainly comes from how you engage enemies (stealth, aggression, set traps, etc). Both games also give the player the choice to either fully search areas to get more crafting material/ammo or just skip it to progress the story faster.
@@justwait9822 you're right. I just found more options with weapons and map layout vs stealth options in the first game.
Most of the time in the 2nd game, I would keep getting the SAME AMMO that I never could get because I was already full. same with crafting. there was this perfect balance with the first game.. almost as if a legend that use to work there was pressured to leave the studio before they started making the sequel. that actually happened.. it didn't make sense to me until I found out.
Nothing and the numbers back it up they are on pace to sell under 4 mil. Ther are getting outsold by 7 year old switch
Yeah it’s worrying to me that Xbox 1 sold better than the series x is selling. Xbox 1 in its first 35 months was at 24 mil, & the series x is at 23. It’s not a huge difference, but if Microsoft viewed xb1 as a failure, than you gotta imagine they feel similar, if not worse about the series gen, so far.
I have every Xbox and two Series X consoles. XBOX4LIFE😂
Haha nice, how are you feeling about this gen of Xbox (so far), opposed to Xb1,360, & OG?
@UnnecessaryRambling My backlog is so huge if they don't release another game I will be fine. This Gen is what it is. I play the games I like skip the ones I don't. I simply have too many games to play.
I hear that, I feel like a lot of people feel that exact same way
As soon as they both said they didn't like it I'm out ✌
Don’t let our opinion on the game carry too much weight, neither of us enjoyed the first game. I think if you enjoyed the first, you’ll almost certainly like 2.
Consoles are redundant.
Outside of Nintendo, it’s slowly becoming that way.
Please Xbox stop being woke and go back to like it was in the Xbox 360 days and male characters games and not so many female characters games make male characters in games great again
They are done, they are doing a Sega, it's the best move they can make
I hope not man, I think that would be bad for the industry overall… but I think they’re definitely on course towards a more publisher centric model
Nothing at all. There's no point
I hope that’s not the case.
@@UnnecessaryRambling no point too get an x box. All the games are going to Playstation
@@pedromartinez-xt7ye
Gamepass has always been a lure - I think for anybody out there who is unsure about which way to turn, a Series S is a bargain, it runs a lot of the bigger games well - like Halo, Forza, Gears, Grounded, Doom, Psychonauts etc. - plus you get access to 100s of indie games that would keep a person going for years...
I have X & S and a reasonable PC + a Switch.
I like the PS5, but I have too much to be going on with as is.
A lot of games have moved to PC, so if budget isn't a thing, just buy a PC.
@@pedromartinez-xt7ye And PC.
@@loudoesreviews yup
In my opiniom xbox is just gamepass and gamepass needs exclusives. In 1 more year people will be crying because gamepass is the only future i see. But paying 15 for every game i want is kinda crazy. Xbox is better than ps5 sure. Ps5 still hasnt had an exclusive ps5 game.
Ps5 has had exclusive games. And now they are getting ms games too.
@justwait9822 okay tell me one ps5 exclusive please
@@loitersquadX you can just google lol.. But if you really want to know. Spiderman 2, FF16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Demon Souls. Theres more but like i said just google.
Spider-Man 2, FF16, FF7rebirth, Rift Apart, Returnal, etc… but I do agree with you, PlayStation first party has been light on exclusives so far this generation & game pass/xbox without exclusives makes very little sense. I’m a very big advocate for exclusive content, without it, having multiple consoles on the market makes no sense to me.
@@loitersquadX dark souls remake, returnal, ratchet and clank, astro playroom, helldiver 2, ff16, ff7 rebirth, stellar blade, rise of ronin, spiderman 2. Ps5 literally launched with an exclusive ps5 game (demon soul remake) and had a free one packaged in (astro playroom).
I would never purchase that bloated compaines garbage ass offering we are taling about the company that made their nut on pc then abandoned it alltogether because like always they have sucked I'm glad some of their fans are starting to recognize it!