r/XboxSeriesX • u/Asleep-Sprinkles-760 • Apr 20 '24
This generation has been underwhelming Discussion
I bought a Series X at launch, and can’t think of a single game that has impressed me this gen. I’m a big Halo fan, and Halo Infinite felt like a letdown. I’m a Forza fan, and Forza Motorsport felt like a massive disappointment. I was exited for Starfield, but was underwhelmed after playing it.
It just feels like we’ve had no heavy hitters this gen, even 3rd party AAA games have been average at best. I guess the only hope I have left is with Gears 6, but aside from that, Microsoft needs to get their act together and start releasing some new games. It feels like games are taking way too long to make these days, we used to get bangers every year in the 360 gen. Even the Xbox One had more compelling games than what we have now
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u/BloodstoneWarrior Apr 21 '24
It's because of their focus on Gamepass over making games and their shitty development practices - I can't speak for other studios but I know Turn 10, Forza's developer, hired it's devs for only like a year at a time and then laid them off to avoid paying employee benefits. For a game that took 6 years to make, that is disastrous as it means that basically no one who started work on the game is there at say, the 3 year mark and it's basically a complete clusterfuck mess of game development.
And the worst thing is that MS don't even care that most of their first part titles are complete shit now because they don't care about sales - all they care about is a shiny looking title to lure people into buying gamepass, their games have basically become consumable, throw away fast food junk.