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@Fiendish-Beaver
Two things:
1. I never said anything about wanting one console maker.
2. You responded with a dissertation to an obviously tongue in cheek post. I hope you didn't waste too much time on it.

I got the plat in Odyssey and afterwards was excited for Valhalla. I got the plat in Valhalla and afterwards I never wanted to play an AC game again. True story!

Gaming would be so much better off without Microsoft involved. Any way we can get rid of them and bring back Sega instead? I'm sure they could make a wicked reimagining of the Dreamcast or something.

I recently dropped down to Essential, with the thinking that once a really great month rolls around, I'll move back up to Extra.

This will not be that month lol

It was so bad that the PS4 version was de-listed from the PSN store for months. That is not something that happens frequently, and/or unless a game is in a damn near unplayable state. Has CDPR fixed the game? Absolutely. Is it in a significantly better state than it was at release? Absolutely. Is this guy re-writing history? Absolutely.

Netscape rolling over in their grave over this stuff. Microsoft still up to the same antics that landed them an antitrust lawsuit 20+ years ago. Shocking!

Xbox is like that annoying kid at school who had to pay people to be their friend. It's one thing when franchises have always been in-house (God of War, Uncharted etc) but it's completely lame to throw daddy Microsoft's money around and buy up multiplatform publishers to then make existing franchises exclusive.

@SlipperyFish I agree with you 100% I had actually been considering buying a Series S for Starfield, but after the latest reveal I said forget it, it doesn't look like my cup of tea. So maybe next year I'll think about it for Avowed, because that looks great so far.

There's no way ES6 skips PlayStation. Sony consoles outsell Microsoft by more than a 2:1 ratio, there's absolutely no way they're going to leave a pile of money that large on the table. Starfield is one thing, it's a new IP and Xbox desperately needs a system seller. But keeping ES6 off PS would be financial suicide.

I literally just finished the Platinum trophy for this game 2 days ago...great timing guys lol

@burning_as_souls I was fortunate to not be affected by the RROD, though it's worth mentioning I didn't get a 360 until 2009 which was after at least one revision. But I did prefer it to my PS3. What swayed me was that disaster of a presentation in 2013, as well as only selling the Xbone with Kinect initially. It was as simple as "I couldn't care less about Kinect, so let's save $100 and go with a PS4." And I haven't owned an Xbox since the 360.

It's hard to feel sorry for MS. They keep saying it's not as simple as having quality games, but it really is. PlayStation has always been my main console, but I also have a Switch because I don't want to miss Nintendo's 1st party offerings. If Xbox had an equivalent of God of War or Zelda, you can bet I'd have a Series S (or maybe even X) on my shelf as well. But I don't, because there's no reason to. Yeah backwards compatibility blah blah blah, but if you're hoping people buy your console simply to play games from 2 or 3 generations ago, you're doing it wrong.

It's one thing to have games or franchises that have always been exclusive (Uncharted, God of War, Halo) and another thing when when somebody wants to pull out their johnson financially and make titles that have previously been multiplatform (Elder Scrolls, Fallout, CoD) and make them exclusive. I'm not sure why people are having such a hard time making that distinction.

I would be more interested in being able to download and play PS3 games INSTEAD of having to stream them. I don't get the whole streaming thing honestly, like who is excited to stream games to their console?

I agree that a lot of the games they showed look good, but they need to deliver the goods when they're actually released. I'll probably pick up a Series X/S someday to back up my PS5 as a GamePass machine, but it's going to take more than one game for me to get there, even if Starfield is a 10/10.

You would think that they'd at least want to give you 2-3 hours to get hooked and go buy the game! 45 minutes just seems really cheap, like why even bother doing a trial at that point?

I feel like this game gets way more hate than it deserves, personally I really liked it. I enjoyed it more than Hogwarts Legacy even. To each their own, but I have a suspicion that most of the people piling on the game haven't actually played it.

I'm going with instinctual answers, I didn't want to overthink it:

Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion - Xbox 360
Fallout New Vegas - PC
Grand Theft Auto V - PS4
Zelda Breath of the Wild - Switch
Witcher 3 - PS4
Elden Ring - PS5

@XenonKnight You're right, the 360 was the only MS console that was truly competitive with it's Sony counterpart.

Man, they can keep Call of Duty, give me back Bethesda and I'll call it good.

Going into 2022, I was certain that either Forbidden West or Ragnarok would be my GOTY. While both lived up to and exceeded my expectations, Elden Ring was easily my favorite and most-played game of the year. I platinumed both the PS5 and PS4 versions within 3 months, that's how much I enjoyed it. Though I did use Save Wizard...

@Nightcrawler71 I have not, but from what I've read the two games are pretty similar so if that's the case I definitely recommend it! I believe Mineral Town might be a remake of a Game Boy Advance game but I'm not 100% on that.

@Nightcrawler71 I think it was me, I mentioned on the previous story about it being removed that I put over 100 hours into getting the plat on Olive Town. It was a lot of fun, but the last 2-3 trophies took a REALLY long time lol

I just watched all 5 and I thought PS1 was the coolest by a landslide.

I just finished the platinum on SoS Pioneers of Olive Town and put over 100 hours into doing it, and while it was a great game I was in no rush to do something similar any time soon, so I'm not shedding any tears over this

I think Spencer is missing the point entirely. If your games are good enough, people will play them even if they are established in another ecosystem. For example, I have a PS5 and PlayStation has been my main console for over a decade...but I also have a Switch, because Nintendo's 1st party games are incredible and I don't want to miss out on them. Xbox has no exclusives that even remotely come close to the 1st party offerings from Sony and Nintendo, and that has always been and always will be a problem for them in my opinion.

I'm happy with the value it provides currently, but what I would really like to see is the ability to download PS3 games instead of having to stream them.

Great games aren't everything? Well, to me, they're a pretty important factor, which is why I've owned Sony consoles for the last decade plus and haven't had an Xbox since the 360. And there's nothing on the horizon that sounds like it's going to convince me to pick up a Series X any time soon.

In my experience 1, 4 and 6 are the best ones.

@nomither6 what are you smoking, it's always been the case where you don't have access to PS Plus titles if your sub ends

PlayStation doesn't need to compete with Game Pass, because what they're doing already is working. I'll buy maybe 2-3 games (2022 was Elden Ring, Forbidden West & Ragnarok) at full price each year, but otherwise my backlog is big enough that I can wait for anything I'm interested in to go on sale. Thankfully Sony isn't Nintendo and is pretty generous about putting big name titles on sale after 6-12 months on the market. And if I find myself with a bunch of AAA titles I'm really interested in, I subscribe to GameFly for a month or two which is significantly cheaper than buying them all at $60-70. I'm sure what I described wouldn't work for everyone, but for me it's perfect.

Speaking only for myself, my issue isn't the cost as much as the length of time it takes for games to be made now. I'd gladly pay $100 a pop if I could get a new Elder Scrolls or Fallout game without a DECADE passing between mainline entries. I understand quality takes time, but having to wait that long for mainline entries in well-established and commercially successful game franchises is absurd. So I would gladly pay more for games if it meant that the development times would decrease.

The dude defending scalpers is cracking me up, I can't tell if he's serious or not. But either way I enjoy the laughs provided.

@Ravix I think you're absolutely right about that. I definitely wasn't the target audience...I'm the guy who used the dupe scroll exploit in Oblivion until I could walk around with 100% chameleon and one shot everybody undetected. I also platinumed Elden Ring...using Save Wizard. I'm that guy, so KC:D was never really for me in the first place.

I hope the acquisition falls through, if for no other reason than the fact that the only way Microsoft can have quality exclusives is by whipping their johnson out on the table and buying up developers, and I think that's absolutely pathetic. If you can't stand the heat, get the hell out the kitchen, but M$ just says "we'll buy a bigger kitchen."

Just my opinion, but I thought KC:D was a total flop. It ended up becoming one of those games I tried forcing myself to play because I regrettably paid full price for it, and honestly I found nothing redeeming about it. It was a technical mess, and I can't think of one aspect of the game I enjoyed, it was no fun at all. So much so that I'm clearly still salty about it 5 years later lol.

I honestly found the PS4 version of this game to be a disappointment, and New Vegas is one of my favorite games of all-time. So I'm glad I saved the $10, because no matter what else I spent it on, it would have been a better use of it than this.

Business is business, healthy competition blah blah blah, I mean I get it, capitalism at it's finest. What separates Sony and MS are that Sony develops exclusive titles in-house, and for at least 2 generations now they are some of the most successful critically and commercially of the era. Meanwhile, MS has to buy existing developers/publishers and go that route because they don't have the talent to do it the way Sony is doing it. It just seems kind of lame and pathetic, like if you can't compete just go home.

Bethesda's games have been some of my favorite of all time, but sadly all Microsoft did by acquiring them was to ensure I don't care about their games anymore. I'm certainly not going to buy an inferior console (IMO) just to play 1 or 2 games that come out 5 years apart lol

The game has been improved since release, no question about that. Unfortunately the biggest problem still remains, which is that the game itself is NO FUN AT ALL.