One thing I wanna say about Indiana Jones is that I hope that it’s 3rd person but if it is then MachineGames and MS/Todd Howard better hope that it’s phenomenal in all parts because you damn well know that it will be compared non stop with Uncharted.

As it should be. If Disney is letting Sony and Nintendo use major IPs and have them exclusive it's only fair MS gets a piece of the pie.

I'm very surprised, I think I've been soured on the game from the repeated and overly long trailers that bored me to death.

MS must be really kicking themselves for the timing of that deal now. Other than Forza series and Ori this is their biggest critical hit since Gears 3 in 2011 and they can't put it on Xbox for 6-12 months.

Though I guarantee when it does come to xbox it will be an "expanded" version. They'll want to make up for it.

Edit: Now it's up to 90 with 50 reviews.

Oh yeah, the Microsoft Game Studios page on Metacritic must be missing a couple of games. Forgot about Psychonauts 2.

Damn maybe Angelus is right Arkane don't miss. 

Naw, MS needs to stay the course and spend all their resources on growing GP, getting games day one release and getting them on the service.  Timed deals really do not benefit the system that is behind and right now Sony has a clear marketshare advantage where these deals are not as expensive.  Timed deals just do not work unless you are the market leader because gamers in general are more than happy to wait it out if they have enough games to play.  Sony has enough games, they have the studios, MS isn't going to dent Sony this Gen with time hats but instead if they get those very same games on GP well that is something totally different.  Phil did not call any truce on time hats, he just realize that its a waste of money.  It did not net any real console sells and it did absolutely nothing to dent Sony lead.  Instead Phil realized that value for money increase sales and that is where GP comes into play.  Why spend millions of dollars for a year exclusive that gets you basically nothing when you get that that game day one on GP and increase the value of the service and your eco system.

Sony and MS are on 2 different course.  MS is going for the billion of devices that play games, Sony is looking to keep their dominance in the console space.  The 2 companies are on totally different trajectories and MS is not concerned about money hat deals.  There is just to many games that will come out in the next 5 years that in the bigger scheme of things, who cares about timed exclusives.  Instead MS need to focus on rebuilding their eco system, focus on growing GP and getting games on the system day one release.  From their own first party studios to 3rd party AAA.  If MS can do that, their future path is much brighter and stronger.

Deathloop always looked like it was going to be a great game to me and Arkane hasn't given any reason to doubt them so I never understood the criticism. I think it has something to do with Arkane being owned by MS now so it is in a weird spot with PS fans and some Xbox fans.

Forza Horizon 5 will be the highest rated game coming out this year and will still not win GOTY.

Luckily I think that we will still be represented with Psychonauts and Deathloop. I can see them nominating R&C but if they nominate Returnal then there is clear bias there.

Hope that Halo Infinite’s campaign will do similar scores (high 80’s I don’t believe that it can achieve 90+).

Makes sense. It went to the title with the best suppression campaign last year. Half the fanbase hated it, but discussion over the game was practically banned for being too problematic/controversial. Even making mere mention of it I feel a hint of danger.

Meanwhile Hades which was universally loved didn't win. So I'll assume Death's Door-- the game I've heard the most good things about so far --probably won't win. Undertale didn't win either for that matter. Bit of a trend there.