Can’t believe how many Goku defenders/Vegeta haters I’m seeing in the comments.

“Console gaming brought gaming to the masses, the Live service created a standard for quality in the online space.”

I mean, I was playing Q3A and UT on my PC at like > 80 FPS having a ton of fun in LAN battles and whatnot, and I still came back to Goldeneye.

Funnily enough, despite Dark Souls being one of my all-time favorite games, I agree with you. Just don’t say that around other From Software fans, lol. 

To be fair, a lot of what you just said also describes the Souls “series”, and no one can shut up about how good those are. Limbo and Inside are both made for a specific type of player; sounds like you aren’t it (neither am I, really, but they’re fun to watch). The lack of consequence for dying in both games means…

As JRPGs go, Persona is actually pretty huge outside of Japan, so Xbox finally getting them (especially the most popular one, Persona 5) is a pretty big deal.

lol

From the Kojima perspective it’s not a big deal, but my guess is MS actively wanted this “announcement” because it signals that they’ve 1) got another big potential IP coming and 2) they actually have...another Japanese developer on board, which has been a big pain point for the XB library.

Totally agreed. I haven’t been to a Gamestop in probably 15 or 20 years myself (I think I ordered off their site once or twice for exclusives, and regretted even that), for the exact same reason. You can absolutely tell that they’re not in the business of catering to gamers; that just happens to be the group they…

Yeah, that’s my point. There’s basically no way to win unless you’re lucky enough to have a legit small shop near you that you can grab games from. 

You’re arguing against a point I’m not trying to make, lol. I’m not asking Gamestop to go back to a time when it was a “local, enthusiast passion project,” I’m just saying it fucking sucks that we as gamers have to root against a gaming store.

Absolutely. I’ll admit I’ve always had a little chip on my shoulder in regards to the videogame chain stores (hell, the prices Funcoland bought my old NES games for when I was a kid should be criminal), but yeah, it’s gotten way, wayyyyy worse recently.

That’s the whole point. Gamestop shouldn’t be a huge, soulless chain that destroyed so much of the smaller gaming market.

I partially agree, but I think the thing that’s really saddest about this is that we should all be rooting for a place like Gamestop (a specialty store for gaming, where the employees are ostensibly hobbyists), and yet the company itself is so bloated and corrupt that buying online from almost anyone else feels like a…

Honestly, same. There was a time before I knew much about the guy that I thought he was genuinely kind of a visionary, and I was super geeked at the idea of upgrading to a Tesla. Now I’d rather buy basically any other decent electric vehicle.

It probably doesn’t help that fast food places aren’t known for consistency in preparation, and as someone who has eaten a ton of Taco Bell over the years, almost everything I order on the menu can vary wildly day-to-day, probably depending on who is slingin’ the slop.

Yeah, I literally went to play a game last night, saw that it had been removed from GP, and then purchased it (I’d played a fair amount of the game already). Obviously there are plenty of downsides to GP, but I do think it gets some of these games into the hands of players who would otherwise never touch them.

This is actually arguably another advantage to Gamepass (in regards to game sales)—You’re probably more likely to give a game a chance if it’s “free”, and if you get hooked, you’re also more likely to buy the game if it leaves GP before you finish it.

Honestly, if you’re just here for AAA games, it seems pretty unlikely that you wouldn’t drop the service at some point either way; sure, day one exclusives is the biggest single selling point, but Gamepass is more about quantity of games than it is about playing the latest blockbuster day one. There are a bunch of…

I dunno, there’s always been some pretty rough-around-the-edges parts to the SH games, and the ones post-Team Silent don’t really seem much different than what even the detractors would assume Bloober would do with the franchise.