Will be interesting to see where it lands at the weekend
1 Like
I agree with this but with a caveat - since I donāt play Warzone or anything, those open missions didnāt bother me. The linear missions are definitely better but overall, they were a change of pace.
This is the first COD campaign I have played at launch since probably the X360 era and all because of GamePass.
Itās so addictive I donāt want to put it down, itās incredible and all included in my existing sub.
Itās times like these when you can see the positives from acquisitions. Depending how well this does for them, I really wouldnāt be surprised if Microsoft do continue going after these big COD level IPās via further acquisitions.
17 Likes
My first COD since playing COD2 and 4 in gaming cafes.
I did play the BO6 beta and almost gave up as I was getting bodied in the beginning. Stuck by it, started popping heads and maxed out beta levelling.
Started by playing zombies for the 1st time today. Itās been fun playing CoD again, and I wouldnāt have given it a chance without gamepass.
4 Likes
I play a game called Vigor and itās not that popular so wait times can be 2 to 5 matches between online matches.
But now itās Double XP weekend so those wait times go down to seconds. Maybe a minute tops.
But not this weekend.
Wait times are up to 15 minutes!
And I was trying to figure out whyā¦
CoD is a beast!
2 Likes
Yep that does my head in lol, I click a game icon to play it via Steam and many require it to open - it does in the background for the most part (not taking focus from the gaming window) but when you check itās always opened that bloody ad popup window too.
It probably doesnāt have much performance impact given the ads donāt change, but as someone who started PC gaming where you literally needed to have Windows running the absolute minimum it still irritates me having these extra windows open lol.
Whereas fair play for Game Pass, the Xbox app will nearly always minimise to task bar with no popups despite being the better deal and needing to check my GP subā¦
(Also like that it pops Rewards points for GP regardless of whether Iām on my Series X or PC)
They are so expensive!! We wanted one with 3 compartments recently for splitting recycling etc and it was one hundred quid!! Its extortion.
4 Likes
Donāt tell Apple or PlayStation that!
Weāll end up with a Ā£500 iBin or a Ā£400 Bin Proā¦
6 Likes
For once, Iām actually agreeing with PC Gamer here.
Square really doesnāt do good market research - or does, but ignores it in favour of wildly unrealistic expectations.
They too often expect Ā£70 games with less content or in less popular series to sell as well as GTA or Nintendo, and with FF14 theyāre charging the same each month as WoW for much less content and much less regular updates.
Itās an existential threat to the company, as FF14 accounts for 65% of its profit - so youād think content updates for it would be top priority, but it can go most of a year without any significant additions.
Given how Blizzard have been killing it with WoW, lots of other MMOs now exist and other live service games often drop much more content for one-off prices rather than a monthly sub (think Fortnite, ESO, Fallout 76 or even Destiny 2, and others) they really need to be making sure FF14 keeps pace.
If it doesnāt and gamers start to notice, the profit machine thatās allowed them to sustain such big flops as Forspoken and disappointments like FF16 will stop printing money - and they could be in major troubleā¦
2 Likes
Strange timeline to see COD getting such a positive reception again.
Suprisingly great on cloud as well (supports mouse and keyboard). If streaming quality improves and maintains this feel it would be amazing.
5 Likes
I just got a pop up about enter the Gungeon, saying its ESRB rating was updated to teen, is this something new that Microsoft is trying or have they always done so but not many games ratings get updated?
I needed 5 and to fit it all under the sinkā¦ Turned it into a puzzle with containers of different sizes but in the end it fit nicely.
For some reason I find recycling and sorting funā¦ Pretty sure there is something wrong with me.
3 Likes
https://x.com/wario64/status/1850198003505602744?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Looks like itās truly arriving in early 2025.
1 Like
I deleted my post because it was too negative. But I donāt know how IGN is still around.
Anyway, I saw some of the social media stuff Xbox did at the Paris Games Week which is this week and itās pretty cool. Good presence there which is nice.
9 Likes
So the plan was to just replay GTA 3 and Vice City again, the DE versions, but now Iām replaying 4 too. But man, after the super clean and crisp visuals of the DE versions this is extremely rough. 4 always had these weird grainy shadows, textures, like waterpaint I guess, but at certain moments of the day in the game it could look quite good.
Of all the remasters they should have done one for this. The 60fps sure does help though. But higher resolution would go a long way. Ah well. That being said, i defiantly notice how this game does quite a few things better than V. Really hoping VI brings this all back.
How Cyberpunk is looking at you right now
2 Likes
And Starfield, Sand Land, Witcher 3 B&W and so many more. 
Iāve given up being dead set on working on that back log, Iāll now just play whatever I really feel like playing. 
You havenāt played Starfield?
Oh I definitely have, started with that last year on launch day, but I never truly got very far. Being very honest when I see the only big city Iāve seen is New Atlantis, did all quests there. I took a break and never returned to it since.
But it could be much worse, I put down Witcher 3 about three times, each of these times I was just about done with Bloody Baron quest, and it was for all kinds of reasons such as waiting for patches for stuff to be fixed, or when the news came the One X patch was coming I waited for that and started over.
RDR2 I got at launch in 2018 only to quit playing after reaching Valentine and finally sitting down in 2023 and finishing it.
Such is life sometimes I guess. =)
6 Likes