Couldn't have said it better myself. I've always played all sides & loved Forza Horizon 5, but being completely honest about it racing games aren't going to win GOTY or likely even be in the talks these days.
Also there's the fact that Microsoft lacks the 2 biggest categories which Playstation & Nintendo are slowly merging together in a variety of ways, third-person action/adventure & RPGs.
I know personally I prefer third-person to first-person, which seems to have been the focus of Xbox & their acquired studios. Not that I don't enjoy first-person games, but I always think while playing most of them, "this would be way better in third-person".
Let's hope Fable & Hellblade 2 can start to bridge the game. I'd also have preferred Perfect Dark to be third-person, but that just might be me wanting a damn new Splinter Cell game.
Not much. I think it was announced early as a recruitment tool.
Playground is effectively building out a second studio to handle Fable. It was announced early to entice devs to come work for them.
That said, the 2022 Xbox E3 showcase specifically focused on games coming out in the next 12 months. So I think they ignored Fable because it's further down the road than that
It’s a real shame. I bought a Series S like two years ago to play Halo Infinite. That got sidelined for a year then was pretty much dead on arrival. There haven’t been anything I wanted to play on it (vs my PC) in all that time, minus checking out Forza Horizon for a few hours and GTA Online since a buddy of mine was already started on Xbox.
Way different vibes between an office chair with a 27” 1440p screen and a couch with my 65” 4K TV.
I thought I’d at least find a good game that was more fun in the living room, but it hasn’t really happened yet. At this point I’m just hoping Fable 4 launches on Series S.
Yeah it drives me a little bonkers when people insist that their PC is tethered to desk and monitor gaming only and then complain about it. I've been couch gaming on my PC for years now, there really isn't that much stopping anyone from doing it anymore and worse case you can stream the desktop or something.
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u/Ty-douken Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22
Couldn't have said it better myself. I've always played all sides & loved Forza Horizon 5, but being completely honest about it racing games aren't going to win GOTY or likely even be in the talks these days.
Also there's the fact that Microsoft lacks the 2 biggest categories which Playstation & Nintendo are slowly merging together in a variety of ways, third-person action/adventure & RPGs.
I know personally I prefer third-person to first-person, which seems to have been the focus of Xbox & their acquired studios. Not that I don't enjoy first-person games, but I always think while playing most of them, "this would be way better in third-person".
Let's hope Fable & Hellblade 2 can start to bridge the game. I'd also have preferred Perfect Dark to be third-person, but that just might be me wanting a damn new Splinter Cell game.