That was my favorite part about Diablo II back in the day was wondering if Blizzard was going to nerf areas because people were playing and having fun in ways Blizzard didn't intend.
Oh wait that wasn't possible back then because the game wasn't needlessly online for a cash money shop on top of an already full priced game.
Congrats to those who spent $70 plus to get this short of nonsense. Really played yourselves huh?
@esqueejy: Just not in a way Blizzard doesn't approve of because then you won't be exposed to all their cash shop antics. If you play like that then Blizzard has to bring servers down so no one else can play that way and fix the "problem" which is people having fun in their own way.
@faithxvoid: The cost vs return on hardware power alone for 4k just isn't worth it. I'm just fine at 1440p with my 11600k and 6950xt to keep high framerates while the game looks incredible on my 27" 144hz unless the game is a bag of un-optimized ass.
As a long time Armored Core fan I can't wait for this to release and experience the glorious rebirth of this incredible franchise. Fond memories of being hunched over a PSOne with the screen straining to see what was going on while my friends and I did multi-player during lunch break and on free periods. PVP in this is gonna be nuts.
@cboye18: Yup, only Forza Horizon 4 and 5 are available right now and I'm honestly surprised 4 hasn't been taken off the market yet considering it launched on September 28th, 2018. Still says a lot by how many Forza games there are yet how few are actually available to purchase unless you go the used route.
Sounds like a recipe to get burned in under 5 years in favor of the next iteration. Like they've always done.
After watching countless games be unavailable at various periods due to server issues you'd think the consumer would wise up to this instead of going to bat for the billion dollar corporations pulling these stunts.
Microsoft already has a terrible history of maintaining support for Forza and won't even pay to upkeep licenses on their latest release. Just go try to buy Forza Motorsport 7 right now. You can't. It's been delisted since September 15th 2021. It launched October 3rd 2017. It barely made it four years on the market before Microsoft was done paying licensing fees and the product got yanked.
Need a more recent example? Microsoft claimed Flight Simulator 2020 would be supported for 10 years. Next year the sequel launches and support is being moved there. But your microtransaction purchases carry over! You just need a whole new base game if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest.
Feels like everything Microsoft has announced that I was excited for has something like this attached which makes me not want to support it. I shouldn't be forced to play online for single player nor should I worry if a $70 game is going to exist in a few years.
A new lightning system and some new textures doesn't change the fact that the gunplay, enemy AI, and all of that is exactly the same brain dead nonsense you've seen in Fallout 4 minus VATS. Even the third person camera feels like the same lifeless viewpoint.
Same gameplay mechanics on a slightly improved engine. It's what Bethesda has been doing since Oblivion to Fallout 3 to Skyrim to Fallout 4 to '76 and now Starfield.
Yet another franchise mismanaged horribly by Microsoft, has seen numerous crappy releases including a Kinect title that made zero sense, a canceled 4v1 co-op game, and a card game but they swear this time they've got it figured out with the right team on it.
The guy who said Halo Infinite just had a little trouble at the end crossing the finish line says he's totally confident in this one. That should be enough for every Xbox fanboy.
So then what's Microsoft's excuse before COVID and all that hit? Cause studio mismanagement is nothing new to the house of Microsoft. In fact studio mismanagement is why Perfect Dark is being worked on by two different studios and not Rare. It's what lead to Fable being handed off to Playground Studios. It's why every 343 Halo release is somehow worse than the last. Remember Crackdown 3?
Sorry but I don't believe the Microsoft Mouthpieces anymore when it comes to "we've figured it out" and the ship being righted when I just watched Microsoft's defining flagship IP give up everything it had built to go chase live service dreams in hopes of making bank instead of just delivering a solid experience like Bungie did four fucking times across two console generations.
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