While it's unfortunate, it's a very small number of XSX owners who care about buying physical copies of classic games, and they don't own a PS5 or Switch already. The number has got to be microscopic, flat out irrelevant.
All of them could have easily picked a PS5 or Switch, had they paid attention to the writing on the very large and obvious wall.
You've made your choice, now learn to deal with it.
I remember in 2017 when Nintendo showed off the Metroid Prime 4 logo, and some Nintendo defenders claimed "Just because they only showed a logo, doesn't mean that's all they've worked on for the game."
As history has proven, they were wrong. Nintendo showed off a logo back in 2017 because that's literally all they had.
The game was delayed so many times, and yet it still released as an early access title.
This is happening to a lot of games, of course, and its turning me away from most modern games.
On one hand this is a disgusting business practice.
On the other hand, can you really blame any company that has idiotic consumers just begging you to con them out of $48,000+? If you were running a company and some rich dumbass was willing to pay you for digital junk, wouldn't you let them?
But still, its such a shame what our society is turning into.
Yep, this sucks having to require a jailbreak for something that should be standard in our industry by now. I learned my lesson when PS4 was jailbroken and I didn't keep a console on low firmware for years, but now I'm holding onto two low firmware PS5s specifically because there are features I'll be able to do that you can't do on official firmware, so this will pay off for me soon enough.
Indeed, the only message companies understand is when we don't buy their products in droves. Vote with your wallets. Let their games tank and fail, let them suffer the consequences of their actions, and most importantly, don't believe or accept their fake apologies (likely written by an AI bot these days!) when things don't go their way.
As long as it's not like Twin Snakes. And I hope they have the option to keep the original PSone voice tracks, which is a huge part of the appeal for me. The Twin Snakes voice tracks sounded worse, and had lame script changes as well.
Play Gravity Rush Remastered first if you haven't already, the stories are linked together. GR 2 is a fantastic game, it has a lot of stuff to see and do. In fact I have purposefully not completed the game 100% because I simply didn't want the game to end. I still have some trophies to collect, and a whole free story DLC chapter to play through.
Gravity Rush 3 would be amazing! But the team that made parts 1 and 2 were shut down, so I don't expect it to happen. ...
Its literally the worst console that's available on stores shelves you can buy. If you MUST have an Xbox, save up your money, and buy the Series X! Don't be impulsive and impatient, and rush to buy the cheap-o gimpy system just to have something straight away. Patience is a virtue and it will pay off when you get a better system.
Of course saying that, the vast (vast!) majority of us know that there are better choices available than even the Series X.
If MGS 3 Delta is coming out this year, I have no faith that it'll be a polished experience. The last snippet we saw was a very clearly unfinished game, no dev team is going to get it truly ready for launch within this year. But its Konami, so obviously expect an unfinished mess. What a shame they insist on tarnishing their own legacy.
It was already in development for PS4 at least, then temporarily cancelled, so glad to see it finally coming for it. Maybe I'll give it a shot now.
An actual GOOD LIST from a website in 2024? Its a miracle!
I agree with all of it, and its partly why I've been focusing more on past generations of gaming, and mostly been ignoring what the previous 5 years had to offer.
Unlike a lot of other expensive games for different consoles, nearly every game on that list is actually good. The only one I own on that list is The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.
If you like platformers but never played Klonoa, make it a priority, it's really good. And so is the sequel, as well as the GBA spin-off games.
TR:AoD is such a terrible game, and so broken, that I can't even reach the first checkpoint / savepoint in the game. I kept trying to give it a chance, but the moment I run into the building on fire, I immediately die and have to re-start a full 10 minute segment over and over and over again.Its literally so bad that it makes Sonic 2006 look like a damn masterpiece by comparison.
This is what I've been saying about all these open world filler games for years now, the "Ubisoft effect". Just because Ubisoft games have a massive world, with a massive checklist of boring, redundant, generic, filler objectives to mark off your map, doesn't mean you're actually getting value for your money.
I bought Metal Gear Solid on launch day back in 1998, and I've beaten the game over 10 times, not because of a checklist, or Trophies / Achie...
Everything looks better than the "remastered trilogy", even the original PS2 releases. Take-Two is pathetic.
Even if they did un-do the ban it should have never happened in the first place.
Microsoft are the leaders in accidentally banning people because of their own poor software programming or idiotic rule set, then walking it back later.
Just like they did with Dev mode bans, then saying it was an accident. Don't let things like that ever happen.
Never cared for timers in the games, so glad to see that its been removed.
Excellent post. F*** the "all cloud future".
I recently purchased a PC-ENGINE Core Grafx, and Turbo Everdrive Pro to play its entire library. Give me that over modern cloud trash any day.
Hundreds of millions of people.