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Halo 5 is a game as a service with the free expansions but microtransactions. That doesn't mean that Halo can't be also a great singleplayer game (well, in a normal case, not if they fuck it up lol)

Games like Horizon Zero Dawn or Zelda aren't games as a service but they could be one and have still pretty much the same campaign to play alone.

So, we should wait and see how far they go with it. If they will just kill singleplayer experiences in most games or if they will just implement stuff to let some people stay engaged with games to let them pay for weird stuff nobody needs normally..

GTA is an example of how it worked, it was and still is also a singleplayer game but now it generates probably 90% of money "as a service" and Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the same (well, RDR wasn't a singleplayer only game but also not a game as a sevice and I'm sure it will be one now)

There are also games which I can't imagine as games as a service (like Heavy Rain) but if they won't have any game which doesn't work as such a game at all is something we have to see.



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For me Xbox has been more about online gaming since 360. And I see games like Gears4 as GaaS, they keep adding new content and supporting it and I think it's great. Same this with Fifa FUT. Hell, even.Quantum Break might have been more successful if it was released episode by episode. So I'm not worried about GaaS, there will still be single-player games because there's also demand for those.

VR and AR I don't care for much. Streaming is also meh.



Square Enix Drops Hitman Developer IO Interactive
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-26973-Square-Enix-Drops-Hitman-Developer-IO-Interactive.html

Shocking. I hope someone will buy them. Would be very sad to see them being shut down.



My most played games this gen are:

Titanfall
Battleborn
Evolve
Smite

I, for one, am ready for our new Games As a Service overlords.



Uh oh. NBA 2k18? Fifa18?



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Ryuu96 said:

This is what I'm expecting from E3

(Cuphead and Ashen are confirmed Lifetime Exclusives so I imagine MS will push them)

June - Cuphead (Release Date Announced at E3, Late June)
July - Recore Definitive Edition?
August - Ashen?
September - Forza Motorsport 7 (Announced at E3)
October - Crackdown 3
November - State of Decay 2
December - Wildcard but I'm not expecting anything

Early 2018 - I'm not expecting MS to change when it comes to Early Year so, two titles at most lol.

Q1 - Sea of Thieves (Doesn't have a chance at making 2017 IMO)
Q2 - Ori and the Will of the Wisp (Announced at E3 but I feel even this is optimistic lol)

So 3 announcements: Ori 2, Forza 7, ReCore DE.

So yeah, that's pretty much it, keeping my expectations crazy low

Well that is a lot because they also have to annoy us with scorpio talk and Minecraft talk at E3.






Avatar idea looks neat



Fallout VR



I knew it.



It's so cool avatars are making a return. I even bought some avatar items before, such as gears t-shirt, deus ex sunglasses and dancing songbird from bioshock infinite. And I'm not even ashamed of myself 😊