Damage control. What do you want the guy to say? Don't buy our console?
Ultimately, it doesn't matter who the head of Xbox is. Phil's job is to corral publishers to want to publish (ideally exclusively) for Xbox. That gets people to buy Xbox's. Phil is not in charge of making games. Publishers aren't in charge of making games either, but the publishers are the publicly traded companies pushing unrealistic release dates on their devs which lead to undercooked disasters like Redfall.
People are disappointed with Phil's leaders...
I guess I should have known before clicking that this was lowkey clickbait.
It's just PixelArt, not a link to a .gbc file.
Silent Hill 3 shouldn't be on this list. Scary? Sure. But reusing contextualized baddies like Pyramid Head to just be another boss encounter undermines the artistic integrity of Silent Hill 2 utilizing Pyramid Head to symbolize James' guilt.
I mean at this point, they could just have an AI make all of their games for them, it would probably be better than the tripe they've been pushing over the last 5 years.
Arachnophobia modes in games lowkey make them more terrifying.
20 years later: Why is game not like 20 year old game?
The reason why fantasy RPGs, and Fantasy as a genre, are more popular than Sci-Fi, is because of the low technology/high magic tropes. If all of your problems can be solved with looking up the answer on a smartphone, well, there's just lower stakes than if a character has to have a sword fight, and climb the tower, and rescue the fair princess and recite the ancient incantation to seal the evil.
Obviously you can have universe ending stakes in Sci-Fi, but that requires ...
Arkane games have never had this lack of charm, personality, or life in their worlds.
Also, Arkane Austin developed Redfall. The only other game they developed was Prey, which looks brilliant but before the MS takeover.
But of course, there's gonna be a million and 1 xbox fanboy fuckwits who don't know how game publishing works as an industry, and thinks that Redfall flopped because of untalented Environmental Artists. Better start sending death ...
The controversy is in the low end, the high placing games were pretty obvious, but Link's Awakening better than MM? Blasphemy!
In much the same way that Breaking Bad is called the best TV show ever made (even when it objectively isn't), people heap far too much praise on TLOU. It's great, don't get me wrong, and surely belongs in a gaming Hall of Fame, but there shouldn't be such a circle jerk in the comments here. The game is 10 years old. We get it. You like it. It's not all that innovative or original, it's just really polished.
I also can create arbitrary GOAT lists to enrage nerds for sweet sweet ad revenue.
In what way is Xbox the best value proposition? Paying less and getting less isn't better value.
They intentionally left content out, hoping you'd open your wallet again.
Some of us aren't cheering on a massive media conglomerate. Companies aren't your friends.
When you think about how huge an organization WB Discovery is, and when you realize that 1 game alone increased their YoY by 7%, you'd be right to think "how the hell is every other WB project so terrible?"
But Stranger of Paradise isn't a Soulslike. It's nothing even remotely resembling a Soulslike. FF16 also doesn't resemble a Soulslike. What do words even mean? As opaque as some genre names can be to the average layperson, "soulslike" has definable characteristics, and neither SoP or FF16 has those characteristics.
Oh okay. I guess I'll just rush out right now to buy an Xbox?
MBS will still get his copy.
Imagine just reading reviews and having a cursory awareness of the industry you throw money at. Saves you the GP monthly fee too. This article is idiotic.