Topic: The everything Xbox thread

Starfield looks so much like my kind of game. I actually dislike the post apocalyptic wasteland aesthetic, but Fallout 4 was still one of my favourite games last gen, so can't wait for a similar game in a setting I actually enjoy.

All i can say is...
THANK YOU XBOX AND ATLUS FOR BRINGING PERSONA 3 AND PERSONA 5 TO PC (AND XBOX)
I Know that Persona 4 is coming to Xbox, but i didn't count it. because i already own it. but, happy for people that will get to experience Golden on Xbox and PC.

Can't say I'm particularly excited about any of it. Don't get me wrong, Starfield looks cool, but I could feel the bloat burnout when they were selling the massive size of the thing.

Cool that Persona's coming over, though.

While the announcement of Persona for Xbox is great news, especially for those who haven't had a chance to play these games before (and I wholeheartedly encourage such players to give it a go...especially Persona 5 Royal)...I can't help feel a bit bitter about the announcement.

The release of Persona 3 Portable (bizarrely keeping the name) rather than a definitive version (or FES, even) seems like wasted potential. It seems like there'll never be a version that combines the benefits of both FES and Portable.

Also if Switch (and PS, considering 3 and 4 aren't on there either) doesn't get these titles...I just can't help to be both disappointed and baffled by Atlus' publishing strategy. Why not release 5 Strikers and 4 Arena Ultimax on Xbox, but release the main games? And vice versa for Switch?

This reminded me of the Game Awards last year in that it was fine but pretty boring. I feel like Xbox has just resigned itself to its own "the most normie of hardcore gamers" audience that just want shooters and vaguely dark, serious games the same way Nintendo only wanted to put out platformers a decade ago. Which makes sense when you realize that actually selling games is secondary to selling Game Pass. If I had an Xbox/Gamepass, there's a lot of games here I'd check out that I'd be very unlikely to actually buy on their own (even with a sale).

But I increasingly hate nearly every single CG trailer used for new IPs. If there's nothing familiar to be hyped about and it doesn't look especially new or out there, showing me not the actual video game is the biggest waste of my time and you might as well have not bothered.

It is funny how much Obsidian can do while certain other Xbox studios take an eternity to maybe put out one game though. They had like 2 games here, neither of which are the 2 upcoming games from them I expected.

Good show overall by MS. Gamepass continuous to be insane value for money.
A bit disappointed by Starfield. It was in a pretty bad state, clearly still needs a lot of work and the story bits they showed were very basic. Building your own ship was the only part that got me a bit excited.

@kkslider5552000 well the shooters and dark games they showed were all pretty random and cater more towards younger geenration that likes total randomness. vampires, ninjas, pirates etc. just throw as much as you can in one game. super lame.
i actually wish they showed some interesting dark shooters. didnt see any. scorn has an amazing artstyle but so far the gameplay looks blan

quite a boring presenation. minecraft rts looks like a cool concept.
only real highlight for me was kojima saying he works on a new game.

I'd also like to add that a good chunk of the games with real potential fell into the problem where even if they had gameplay, they were shown off in the least interesting way?

Like Skyrim could literally show the least interesting gameplay for its big trailer back in the day, but it didn't matter because that trailer had the cool narrator and FUS-RO-DAH and the Skyrim theme. The Starfield trailer meanwhile, looked too much like Fallout without the distinct elements combined with No Man's Sky without the primary colors.

Also I swear to god, Microsoft has spent the past decade hyping up the incredible graphics of whatever Forza game is up next, how can anyone care in 2022? How are we still doing the drawn out presentation on Forza graphics? Which is a shame to say because between the wacky additions they'll sometimes add and the actual gameplay when the newest one came out, Forza Horizon is actually cool? Like a really fun racing game that uses its emphasis on advanced graphics and realism well? But I feel like I'm on a mobius strip of boredom whenever Microsoft brings up those graphics.

Was pretty surprised to see people rate this lower than Summer Games. I thought that show was too long, bloated with awkward segments and adverts, and had way too many spooky space games. Not everything here was for me, and I guess there still weren't any real shock announcements or whatever, but I feel like Xbox tried to have something for everyone here and since Gamepass exists, and I think something like all bout three titles shown are coming day one? You can get excited for pretty much all of this, as none of it costs you extra to play. And who knows, they may make some deals on those other games between now and their release.

I will be honest though, I am extremely worried about Starfield. A combination of launch No Man's Sky and modern Bethesda sounds like a match made in hell, I hear "1000 planets" and think of the "16 x the detail" lie. Not to mention, I appreciate the No Man's Sky story (as in the real life story of how they stuck with the game etc), but it's focus in game is a game really not for me. I understand they have added a lot more game to NMS over the years, but games that are centred around like survivability, crafting, exploration etc are really boring to me. I hope this is a narrative focused, choices driven, RPG first and all the material gathering, base building and crap is just a side activity that can be mostly ignored like it could be in Fallout 4.

Yeah, I'm hopeful for it but I certainly want to see quite a bit more before getting it, @Pizzamorg .... I'm sure they'll show plenty, though
I'm certainly liking the thousands of demos up on Steam for the shows, so I'm busy playing lots of those

https://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-neutrality-labor-union-...

I've said many negative things about Microsoft as a gaming company, but this is the most based thing any major gaming company has done in a long time. I think after 9 years Microsoft's turnaround post-Xbox One DRM has not just been PR, in fact.

@Yoshi2
Indonesian peoples from my country love PlayStation brands so much since PS1 era.
PlayStation machines and games are everywhere.
Indonesian peoples like Nintendo brands too as PlayStation.
But Indonesian peoples don't like XBOX brands despite there are a few shops displayed XBOX ONE and Series X/S machine.
XBOX is literally a dead brand in Indonesia.

In the US, while Xbox is certainly more competitive than it is in the EU, I still think PS edges it out. At least PS4 to XOne. Not really sure how the next gen systems stack up to each other yet, but I think PS might be ahead (then again, I'm not sure what with Series S being relatively inexpensive & available).

A lot of OG Xbox and 360 games on sale right now.

I bought Resident Evil Code Veronica.

Welp I said I wouldn’t buy a new system until I could walk in a store and get one and the series x was in stock at my local Best Buy. I can play my old xbox one games now! Not sure when I will actually be able to play but I am excited.

Lol & I'm sure there must be some games you'd like that'd at least be better on that as well, @Ryu_Niiyama .... & maybe upcoming exclusives?

@BruceCM No, actually. I literally bought it because it was available, the disc drive on my one has been busted for years (after the warranty ran out of course), I have a ton of unopened games and nothing aside from the latest KOF game (that I didn’t realize was series x only until I bought it) currently interests me. I haven’t bought a xbox one game in nearly six months aside from cyberpunk and that was because it was 5 dollars.

In general I am not the xbox audience (and the only bethesda series I care about is TES) and never have been, but I prefer the controller to sony’s. And many games just don’t go to Nintendo. Just waiting on some 3rd party games I can’t get on switch that I am interested in (so likely next year). I will say with some of my favorite franchises going multiplat (yakuza for one) I am even less interested in sony.

It hasn’t been an interesting few years for me on either front. I didn’t get over my buyer’s remorse for the one until gamepass came out (which I then turned my xbox into a Yakuza machine and indie rental). Sony has more exclusives I care about and more Japanese content I enjoy (nobunaga’s ambition for instance) but I hate their ps1-ps4 controllers. Luckily the switch keeps me occupied. I have no free time any way. I’m still moving so I haven’t gotten my old tv out of storage and I am still trying to decide on a new tv for BF.

Well, good to have it now, anyway, @Ryu_Niiyama .... Hopefully, you'll get a bit more time after moving?

@BruceCM Dude, I wanna sleep so badly. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in three months. Everything that could go wrong with this move… has. I don’t wanna be an adult right now. Running on 3 hours of sleep right now. Hoping I can game a little on Saturday mornings after my stuff is in place.