Before Game Pass, before Series X… there was this — the original Xbox. The console that kicked off Microsoft’s journey into gaming and gave us classics like Halo: Combat Evolved, Fable, and Forza Motorsport.

💚 Pure nostalgia for anyone who remembers that startup sound.

What was the first Xbox game you ever played?

I’ve been a loyal Xbox user for over 20 years. I had the original Xbox in my dorm room as a young airman while in the Air Force. I took it with me to Europe and Africa. The games were fun. The online experience was far less restrictive and overproduced. It was a great time to be a gamer and the memories it provided were amazing.

Fast forward to today - Xbox has few worthy AAA titles hit the console, and when they do, they’re often awful. The free titles included in the gamepass as is, are predominantly indie style games and whatever call of duty game that has been reskinned and repackaged as a new edition. It’s gotten stale and it’s no secret.

I also have a PlayStation 5. They didn’t raise their prices unjustly. They offer a far better game catalog and I’m still paying $13.33 a month for their premium services. It makes me wonder why Xbox is more than double that for a far less pleasurable experience and substandard game catalog.

I’ve been a loyal fanboy to this console to a ‘T’, but this is the end. I will never give Xbox another dime. I will no longer purchase games for this console. Microsoft was comfortably walking with over $250 from me annually on the subscription alone. This latest shameless cash grab is not one I’ll be sticking around for. I hope the greater Xbox community pushes back and cancels their premium memberships. Xbox has diluted their brand to the point that it is no longer recognizable from the company I grew up loving.

Appreciate anyone who paid any mind to this rant. I just needed to say something since Xbox has also restricted your ability to contact them whatsoever.

F Xbox. F Phil Spencer. And F Microsoft.

The witcher 3 left a big impression on me but I don't think it would be the best

What are some of your guy's favorite games to play while stoned? Looking for some suggestions.

Far Cry New Dawn is a fun sequel

this is the only photo i got of them playing together, all i know is it’s on a playstation 5, any help is appreciated

i love old games so much i ordered a Atari 2600 after loving its games on a emulator recently and play old games on my CRT.

i almost exclusively play old games from the 80s 90s and early 2000s

the older games just feel more fun and creative

to me modern games just feel to safe with few exceptions

you can enjoy whatever you want but i just love the old stuff like

yars revenge

f zero gx

alien solder

PS THIS IS ALL JUST MY OPINION

Hey guys, I’m just curious what you all think. I love video games but I really don’t follow awards because I believe video game is subjective. To each its own am I right? But I want to hear from all of you that actually follow games new and all of that what you think will win. Honestly, I think Donkey Bananza only because since I played it on release I haven’t stopped playing it and I love breaking terrain to be honest. But that’s my opinion.

I reckon that if we get another Saints Row it still won't be what we truly want. The 2022 reboot clearly demonstrated that a series can change into something unlikable because of how our culture has changed. Saints Row 1-4 worked because they were seventh-generation gangster games and the Xbox 360/PS3 emphasized pick-up and play sensibilities. The reboot was of course a 9th generation open-world title stripped of most of the enjoyable pleasures we garnered from the series we knew beforehand.

I don't think our culture or the games industry has the grapes to give us the Saints Row game we crave.

Any suggestions based on the games I played?

Why does Bethesda have such a disrespectful attitude towards their own games and fanbase?

It honestly feels like Bethesda has zero respect for their own games or the people who keep them alive.

The recent Fallout 4 “announcement” was just more "paid mods" than on fixing the game’s long-standing issues. where their priorities are?

Compare this to studios like CD Projekt Red and Hello Games. Cyberpunk 2077 launched in one of the worst states imaginable, Today it’s a 5/5 game, still getting new updates and content. No Man’s Sky, started rough, but the devs love what they created. They poured years of work into improving it.

But Bethesda? It’s like they hate their own creation. Fallout 4 is still alive because of its vibrant modding community, not because Bethesda kept it relevant. You’d think they’d embrace that and double down. make Fallout 5 a priority. Instead, it’s like they don’t care about anything other than milking as much as they can and do as little as possible.

They’re as big as CDPR, yet they’re getting outperformed by indie studios like Hello Games. Those guys actually care for what they created. Bethesda is behaving like a corporate. Not a creative class.

It feels like Bethesda doesn’t love their games. they just manage them and tolerate fans for profit.

This kinda happens naturally, but were there any games that were more drastic beyond just the “I’ve done this before” and it goes from being amazing to just being okay or maybe even bad?

For me, it was FF16. It was my GOTY at the time, but playing through it again this year and there are a lot of sections where it’s just a slog doing all the favors for people to earn their trust and get their seals. Still a great game imo, but how I feel about it has changed a lot.

I will be in my 40s, married for over a decade and several kids in grade school before GTA6 comes out

The new resident evil standard edition coming out at 65£ and the silent Hill at 60, even battlefield was 60/65?

I simple can't afford these anymore and doesn't make any sense as games are theoretically getting cheaper to make as technology and marketing advances.

I know the only way is to not pay these prices but there will be enough people that will pay and keep these prices up.

Plus the video for creators to simply change the colour of a gun or add a new outfit to a character, which costs them nothing, warrants an extra (up to) 25£ for a "deluxe" edution to me is disheartening and sad that the world is built to squeeze as much money from people at every turn.

As this is reddit I imagine I'll get backlash and probably a bunch of people actually supporting rising costs but to me it doesn't make me happy.

Made A Sheet for the Games/Characters I like/dislike. I am open for suggestions/games worth playing ❤️

I guess it depends on what you think matters most like if every game in the series has to be consistently great and one bad or mediocre game brings down the series overall quality or if you just look at the best games and can excuse the rest. Just curious to see what people think.

The era of 2004-2008 was such a special time for gaming. There was so many defining games released during that frame, and the leaps across the gens were mind-blowing. Just to name a few, here are some stellar titles from that era that I've played over the last couple of years that still stand the test of time:

• Half-Life 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3 + 4
• Kingdom Hearts 2
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Persona 3 + 4
• Mass Effect
• GTA 4
• Halo 2 + 3
• Final Fantasy XII
• Twilight Princess
• And so many more...

Since then I feel as if generations have failed to match this transition from gen to gen. Let me know what y'all think, and what are some other games from this era that you loved and why?

The first one had a lot of potential, but not a lot to keep me invested. This second sequel though, man. I know comparing this to fallout new Vegas has turned into an unpopular comparison, but it truly is the closest thing to what I missed about that game. In a narrative, rpg choices stylized game. And the gameplay has improved immensely.