XboxEra Community Hangout |OT10| Insert Catchy Quip Here

I will never get the amount of praise this game gets. :thinking:

Things are already dumbed down in many ways in AAA games these days but I guess it’s going to get even worse. Doesn’t help either that the Sony “Prestige” games are the new standard for “quality AAA” in the last 10 or so years.

4 Likes

I’ll never get it either

The way people talk about it you’d think it revolutionised gaming but in reality it’s another third person shooter with a story and characters people grew attached to

Nothing wrong with that of course but if you’re going to go down as the best game ever level then you need to do a hell of a lot more than that

I’m a huge MGS fan so there’s bias here but that game in 98 was mind blowing, there was literally nothing out there doing the things it did and had a story, characters people grew attached to just like TLOU but also had bosses, gameplay and all around innovation that is still felt to this day

The way people talk about TLOU you’d think it was doing the same level of stuff but it didn’t do any of that

2 Likes

Not a single Sonic game?

1 Like

Going live

2 Likes
1 Like

Ps Plus getting more Bethesda titles

5 Likes

As of right now it’s going to be public domain next year, but I’m sure Disney will find a way to weasel their way into another extension.

1 Like

Except for the graphics, MGS is still mind blowing to this day. Kojima and co. got everything right back in 98.

I feel like The Last of Us is a game that punches you in the face the same as a movie can and that’s an achievement for sure, but there’s a lot of games that do much better in everything else. Even the shooting is kind of wonky.

It was a beautiful game that came right at the end of the gen that felt special to people. That’s also a game I can never complete again (l tried the remaster a few times). It’s just too much, that it’s not fun to play
 at some point you just want to be done with it.

2 Likes

Decent list, but Sid Meier’s Pirates! got robbed.

2 Likes

Skipping 12?

I’ll await the Gamerant article to tell me why it’s actually genius.

This. I still fire up Metal Slug 3 and it still has amazing gameplay along with the art and animation where you can see intricate details and moving parts of complex machines all hand animated and a marvel to this day. It’s one of many games from that era that aged like fine wine. The games that tend to age like milk are the ones that strive for ultra realistic graphics. They tend to age fast too.

2 Likes

Anyone check out the new need for speed game? It’s $20.99 on gamepass ultimate and I’m super tempted to buy it

1 Like

It is available for 10 hour on gamepass ultimate

Try out for yourself and then buy if you like it

6 Likes

I played the trial on Game Pass for 10 hours and didn’t really like it. Its not the worst Need for Speed but i thought the blatant cheating unpredictable crashing AI makes it really unfun.

3 Likes

Diablo 4 server slam download will be available at 3pm est but the actual server slam is on the 12th

1 Like

got my MS Rewards points ready to buy the Diablo 4 ultimate edition

1 Like

I enjoyed my trial when it released, thought it was better than NFS Heat. But I decided to wait for it to be on EA Play.

1 Like

Diablo 4 and Honkai Star Rail are going to take up all my time lmao until Starfield

12 Likes