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[BrawlMan]

Those are fighting games. I don't want a fighting game. I wanna smash buildings and flick away tanks like roaches.

1. Dawn of the Monsters is a brawler; not a fighting game. You can pick up buildings, use them as weapons, and smash monsters in the face with them.
2. You have literal Godzilla DLC in Giga Bash. You have nothing to complain about it. Also, there's tons of buildings to wreck in GB! It's an arena fighter.
3. It's your decision, but take it or leave it. Otherwise, keep relying on copium for the Rampage game that's (more than likely) never coming out nor getting remastered, because WB likes to sit on their asses for things not called MK, DC, or Shadow of Something Something.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

No Activision game on Gamepass until 2024....ok so that's like 60 days. It'll take them that long to get those games onto the servers and into the Gamepass Ui registry. This isn't the headline people are claiming.

Xbox Has Signed a 'Binding Agreement' to Keep Call of Duty on PlayStation After Its Acquisition of Activision Blizzard - IGN

Xbox head Phil Spencer has revealed that Microsoft and PlayStation have "signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard." Furthermore, the deal has been confirmed to last for 10 years and is only for Call of Duty.

www.ign.com

Surprised by this. Good for fans of it on PS I guess. I’d still rather play it on PC. Which reminds me I never played Cold War but have had it since launch lol.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Xbox Has Signed a 'Binding Agreement' to Keep Call of Duty on PlayStation After Its Acquisition of Activision Blizzard - IGN

Xbox head Phil Spencer has revealed that Microsoft and PlayStation have "signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard." Furthermore, the deal has been confirmed to last for 10 years and is only for Call of Duty.

www.ign.com

Surprised by this. Good for fans of it on PS I guess. I’d still rather play it on PC. Which reminds me I never played Cold War but have had it since launch lol.

I mean Sony could also just answer with making awesome Killzone games if they wanted and it would overtake Call of Duty because Microsoft doesn't have the user base to compete anymore. Killzone on Pc and Ps5 could wipe them out especially if they back it with a good budget and make a great shooter for people.

Xbox has a shit record of game quality with all these studio's they've bought. Some of which haven't even farted out anything more than teaser trailers. And frankly Call of Duty is all they really have with Activision and then whatever holdout people remain playing the trash Blizzard is making these days.

Once again Xbox is relying on nostalgia and buying up these "'has been" studios who once were legendary and are now old enough for Medicare. Trying to relive glory days. It's not gonna work, these studio's are shit, the Xbox is worthless, and Microsoft is doing nothing about it.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

I mean Sony could also just answer with making awesome Killzone games if they wanted and it would overtake Call of Duty because Microsoft doesn't have the user base to compete anymore. Killzone on Pc and Ps5 could wipe them out especially if they back it with a good budget and make a great shooter for people.

Xbox has a shit record of game quality with all these studio's they've bought. Some of which haven't even farted out anything more than teaser trailers. And frankly Call of Duty is all they really have with Activision and then whatever holdout people remain playing the trash Blizzard is making these days.

Once again Xbox is relying on nostalgia and buying up these "'has been" studios who once were legendary and are now old enough for Medicare. Trying to relive glory days. It's not gonna work, these studio's are shit, the Xbox is worthless, and Microsoft is doing nothing about it.

There weren’t many glory days for them in this industry to begin with. First half of 360’s life cycle perhaps, but that was ultimately marred by the consequences of rushing it to market a year early.

 

[CriticalGaming]

There weren’t many glory days for them in this industry to begin with. First half of 360’s life cycle perhaps, but that was ultimately marred by the consequences of rushing it to market a year early.

They definitely peaked with Halo 2.

 

[FakeSympathy]

A Testament to Hard Work - Battlefield 2042 Retains Huge Playerbase After its Free Weekend

Following its near unplayable launch in November 2021, the support of Battlefield 2042 post-launch has seen its playerbase skyrocket.

insider-gaming.com

Now I am not sure how Steam Free weekend works as I never played a game during it, but are users allowed to keep the game? Becuase it's been a few days since the weekend and we're seeing 96k players according to steamdb.

Still doubt the game will maintain the numbers for years to come; I don't think anyone really likes full price + battle pass

 

[BrawlMan]

They definitely peaked with Halo 2.

There's also Halo 3. I remember there being so many long lines for that game. Nearly every media store within my area had all these long lines for people trying to get it.

As far as OG Xbox exclusive are concerned, the games that peeked on that console were Halo 2, Ninja Gaiden (Black), and whatever Dreamcast game or sequel to a Dreamcast game Sega fans were going nuts over. Also those 3D Oddworld sequels. Granted it's been too long for me to get an exact memory of that, but I know people enjoyed them enough.

 

[sXeth]

There weren’t many glory days for them in this industry to begin with. First half of 360’s life cycle perhaps, but that was ultimately marred by the consequences of rushing it to market a year early.

Well, one of the reasons they were infatuated with Bethesda was they were also the early force behinding bringing CRPGs to the console market. Morrowind flew pretty under the radar, but Oblivion and Mass Effect were pretty big swingers for them. Which was in itself a followup point to having also wrested the FPS genre more succintly away from a PC dominated field with Halo.

But yeah, while having those sort of previously niche experiences brought out to the "mainstream" helped them, its a novelty that fell off pretty quick as others caught up to them.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

@FakeSympathy, it's bad, but not a shocker.

New King Kong Game Is Very, Very Bad

Skull Island: Rise of Kong is out now across most platforms, but you probably shouldn’t buy it

kotaku.com

Just want to remind you people that this game is coming out the same day as Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario bros Wonder.

 

[BrawlMan]

Starfield Was The Best-Selling Game In The US Last Month, PS5 Remained Top Console

Starfield is also already the seventh best-selling game of the year, while Hogwarts Legacy still remains in the top spot.

www.gameinformer.com

US sales September 2023: Nintendo Switch 3rd & Starfield No.1

The latest software and hardware charts have been released for the month of September in the United States, and the winner was Sony’s PlayStation 5 console, followed by Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo…

mynintendonews.com

King Kong video game slammed online as the 'worst game of the year'

Skull Island: Rise of Kong has been slammed online with some gamers even labelling it as the 'worst game of the year'.

www.unilad.com

 

[CriticalGaming]

Just want to remind you people that this game is coming out the same day as Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario bros Wonder.

And this is the year we got Gollum....how the fuck did they manage to top that piece of shit?

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

And this is the year we got Gollum....how the fuck did they manage to top that piece of shit?

This year truly has some of the highest highs and lowest lows I swear the god.

 

[CriticalGaming]

This year truly has some of the highest highs and lowest lows I swear the god.

2023, the most bipolar year in video games lol.

 

[Hawki]

And this is the year we got Gollum....how the fuck did they manage to top that piece of shit?

A lot of developers don't treat these IPs as precious. Rather, they just carry out monkey business.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

A lot of developers don't treat these IPs as precious. Rather, they just carry out monkey business.

All yeah baby, garbage license games are back! Gaming is truly healing

 

[meiam]

A Testament to Hard Work - Battlefield 2042 Retains Huge Playerbase After its Free Weekend

Following its near unplayable launch in November 2021, the support of Battlefield 2042 post-launch has seen its playerbase skyrocket.

insider-gaming.com

Now I am not sure how Steam Free weekend works as I never played a game during it, but are users allowed to keep the game? Becuase it's been a few days since the weekend and we're seeing 96k players according to steamdb.

Still doubt the game will maintain the numbers for years to come; I don't think anyone really likes full price + battle pass

I don't think so cause the game tend to have a big discount a the same time.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

And this is the year we got Gollum....how the fuck did they manage to top that piece of shit?

I know it’s precious ain’t it?

 

[BrawlMan]

All yeah baby, garbage license games are back! Gaming is truly healing

There's plenty of license crappy mobile games out there, but it's just that King Kong sticks out really hard. Really, this and Gollum are the only crappy license game that has gotten this much doing notoriety. The other games are quickly forgotten about or falls into the anals of history.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

I know it’s precious ain’t it?

Gollum at least looks like something made this year. That Kong footage looks like some kind of unfinished game from the early 2000's that someone discovered on a hard drive and decided to just throw into the market.

 

[BrawlMan]

Gollum at least looks like something made this year.

Barely. If you told me that game looked like a mid to low budget late 7th gen or early 8th gen title, I wouldn't have known the difference.