To be clear, I haven’t played or own most of those. I’m just going by reviews and what friends who’ve played them have told me. I’ll still go to bat for DoW2 and Space Marine any day of the week though.

I mean, there’s a difference between ‘dropping all support’ and promising from the get go that it was a one-and-done non-SAAS title. If people now WANT it to be SAAS, then, like, be careful what you wish for, right?

Vermintide 1 and 2, Total Warhammer 1 and 2, Inquisitor Martyr, Mechanicus, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, Deathwing, Space Marine (though that’s a bit older - still an absolute blast). All of these range from good to great, I’d say.

I’ll just say that, regardless of how you label them, when your face buttons are arranged in a diamond, the bottom one should be Enter/Accept/Whatever and the right one should be Cancel/Back.

It IS going to be used by a relatively small number of people, and that number will tail off as time goes on and we get further and further into the next generation’s lifecycle, but it’s exactly at the beginning of the generation where the PR benefits of doing cross-generation saves, migrations, and game upgrades will…

Exactly! Like, X Marks the Spot is why it’s an action button in the West? No, it’s because it’s the bottom button on the controller. A is the action button on Xbox, after all.

I can’t imagine why you think your sarcasm would be obvious, given that you didn’t give anyone any reason to think it WAS sarcasm - no non-sarcastic follow-up to give the lie to your sarcastic line, no extreme exaggeration (assuming you were being sarcastic, your sarcastic line was right in line with the genuine…

Thanks for so efficiently letting everyone know you don’t understand software development.

Maybe it’s just because I primarily play single-player games, but I literally can’t remember the last time I turned on my Xbox only to be blocked from playing a game because of an update, outside of installing a new game. I see it happen on my Switch fairly regularly, but that’ll just let me ignore the update until…

A lot of hate keeps getting thrown Bowser’s way for his repeated attempts to kidnap Peach, but I just want to throw this out there: Are we sure he isn’t just a single father trying to get some child support from a deadbeat mom who runs her own justice system and can make sure any legal attempts he makes to get her to…

I mean, what they’re doing NOW is LITERALLY the first step. What do you think the first step SHOULD be? Announcing ten new Xbox-exclusive mainline Final Fantasies? Buying Nintendo? Outselling Sony without even launching in the territory? Deploying a constellation of Playstation 5-targeting killer satellites in…

I have no idea why I conflated Google and Amazon with the bit about Luna and Stadia.

Sure, Microsoft isn’t decent competition for Sony in Japan right now, but, uh, that’s the whole point of this? Trying to BECOME that competition? How do you think someone gets from being in a bad position compared to a competitor to a good one? Certainly not by throwing up their hands and walking away, but it seems…

Man, I loved that game.

That’s fair, but Xbox, 360, and Xbone games are going to make up an increasingly small share of someone’s library as the generation goes on, and that external hard drive will eventually be all but irrelevant as new games need storage.

What a bizarre attitude. No, they’re almost certainly not going to win soon, or, possibly, ever, but why would that stop them from trying? Why would you WANT them to stop from trying? Who benefits if Microsoft ignores Japan? Sony, I guess, but that’s about it. Meanwhile, a Microsoft that’s trying to attract Japanese…

I’d be a lot more interested if there was any chance this was going to lead to playable Fallen Guardians.

Assuming Avowed is really competition for Elder Scrolls - does it have the kind of mod focus the ES games traditionally have? - given how long Elder Scrolls games take to produce, I’m certain Microsoft would be happy to have two open world fantasy franchises to alternate releases.

Have the 1/100 robots assembling them as dioramas?

You know what? I’ll give them a pass on the thing with tactical gear, if only because I feel in my bones that there’s a strong intersection in the Venn diagram between ‘people who buy Monster energy drinks’ and ‘people who buy tactical gear they don’t need’, and a smart man could make a killing with some…