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goon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-60042409

My decision to go with the Series X is being vindicated.

QuincyAbeyie

Damn, always a shame when third party studios are acquired for the sake of exclusivity. Not that play Activision games, but CoD being exclusive is pretty big.

Coombs

goon wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-60042409

My decision to go with the Series X is being vindicated.

Nah, better to play Miyazaki games and own a proper computer for the rest.

Exclusivity like this should be illegal, though.

goon

I’ve owned an Xbox for the last 3 generations, it’s about time I get to enjoy a few exclusives on my side. Mostly though it’s great news for me because that’s an ever bigger cat of games under the game pass umbrella, even if I don’t really play any of them as far as I can tell.

Qwiss

Unless they make an exclusive and equally good sequel to THPS 1+2 that acquisition doesn't effect me at all. Still more annoyed about Bethesda, although if they are only putting out one good game every decade its less of a big deal.

Segway

Getting increasingly insane value from my Xbox Game Pass.

Qwiss

I had a look at it recently and wasn't all that impressed. I plan to buy an Xbox at some stage but as of yet they don't really have enough going on to tempt me.

Gunundrum

They're gonna buy Nintendo at this rate.

Qwiss

I think Activision Blizzard is worth more than Nintendo.

JazzG

Only game I really ever played was COD but even that was for the sake of it at times! A bit concerning that these companies are being mopped up, will just mean they'll become XBOX/PC exclusive in the future and that doesn't do anyone good.

Gunundrum wrote:
They're gonna buy Nintendo at this rate.

Seen that mentioned but seen a few people say not that straight forward buying Japanese companies.

Gunundrum

Yeah I wasn’t being serious. No doubt it would have happened already if it were even remotely feasible.

QuincyAbeyie

Sounds like Horizon Forbidden West is turning out great. From what I've read they've improved a lot on the open world and the combat. The latter was already good for an open world game , but glad they've made the melee combat less basic.

goon

Cyberpunk 2077 out on next gen consoles - guessing they fixed all the bugs by now?

KingslandBarge

This looks like a decent foray into 3d combat with some satisfying wing chun type combos. Haven't played personally.

Qwiss

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Sounds like Horizon Forbidden West is turning out great. From what I've read they've improved a lot on the open world and the combat. The latter was already good for an open world game , but glad they've made the melee combat less basic.

Looking forward to it. Really enjoyed the first one. Was never too concerned about the melee combat, loved battling the big machines. Setting traps for them, finding their weaknesses, etc

RocktheCasbah

I got Jo Metal Gear Solid 5 for her birthday two years ago, which was handy coming as it did a month into first lockdown. We were playing it every night for months and then we got to the bits where you're just repeating the same missions you've already done but on different levels of difficulty. Totally killed any sense of enjoyment we were feeling, I believe we were very close to the end too.

And yes, it was 100% a present for Jo and not for Jo, but actually for me.

Coombs

Did a co-op playthrough of Divinity II with my partner. Was really good fun, quite an impressive game. Looking forward to the full release of Baldur's Gate 3 now.

QuincyAbeyie

RocktheCasbah wrote:
I got Jo Metal Gear Solid 5 for her birthday two years ago, which was handy coming as it did a month into first lockdown. We were playing it every night for months and then we got to the bits where you're just repeating the same missions you've already done but on different levels of difficulty. Totally killed any sense of enjoyment we were feeling, I believe we were very close to the end too.

And yes, it was 100% a present for Jo and not for Jo, but actually for me.

Apparently Konami wanted to release the game while Kojima wasn't done with it. This is very apparent at the end when they literally show a slideshow of sketch drawings of how the ending would've been. 😆 This is supposedly a big part of why they split.

Great game before that though, spent so many hours with it.

RocktheCasbah

Oh wow, I heard the game was a bit unfinished, but I didn't know they'd gone quite that far with the ending!

Shame, it was a proper fun game to play - the sense of achievement when we took down the stegosaurus, or whatever it was called was immense.

goon

Classic Konami. I still remember when me and virtually all my friends switched to FIFA despite hating the gameplay because they released a clearly broken, half arsed PES game.

goon wrote:
Cyberpunk 2077 out on next gen consoles - guessing they fixed all the bugs by now?

Cyberpunk is great going by first impressions. Such a shame they botched the release, I'd hate it do discourage developers from similarly ambitious projects.

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