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G2ThaUNiT on 15 November 2023
Dulfite said:
gtotheunit91 said:

Eh, I don't want Xbox to just copy the types of games Sony or Nintendo make. The occasional similar type game sure, but Xbox is pretty spread out when it comes to the types of games they make. 

Just this gen alone, they've had:

Pentiment (Graphic Adventure RPG)
Grounded (Survival)
Age of Empires (Real-Time Strategy)
As Dusk Falls (Visual Novel)
MS Flight Simulator (Flight Simulation)
Psychonauts 2 (3D Platformer)
Hi-Fi Rush (Rhythm Action)
Combo the racing genre of Arcade racing with Forza Horizon 5 and Racing Sim with Forza Motorsport

I do agree that Xbox needs more family-friendly content, but as far as types of games though, Xbox has never been in a more creatively diverse state. And that's without mentioning the M rated shooters or first person action adventure games you mentioned. 

I appreciate many of those games, and agree they are getting more diverse in their offerings. However, as fun as they are, none of them are truly kid friendly games. Hi-Fi is a wonderful game, but had some inappropriate language in it for kids. Psychonauts 2 has some non-kid friendly stuff as well, if it's anything like the first. Grounded can feel like straight horror with the spiders. Pentiment, As Dusk Falls, Age of Empire, MS Flight, and the racing games and Ori are either not kid friendly or too complicated for kids.

They have a lot of content for 10 or 12 and up, but basically nothing outside of Minecraft for under 10 years old yet can be enjoyed by adults like many of Nintendo games.

Yeah I absolutely agree! Still sad that MS hasn't really taken advantage of having the Banjo-Kazooie IP especially outside of including the games in Rare Replay. With Banjo, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Commander Keen, and Viva Pinata under MS's belt, hopefully they start to utilize them. 

JRPG's are an area that many fans were crying out to Xbox about and they've made tremendous progress in that area, but still a long way to go. So hopefully the same can be said for their more family-friendly games.



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Ryuu96 on 15 November 2023

It's also up to the respective studios, Banjo's creator, Gregg Mayles, is still at Rare but Rare hasn't been particularly aggressively restrictive over what IPs they allow others to take, in recent history they've allowed Perfect Dark, Battletoads and Killer Instinct but no Banjo...I have to wonder if maybe they just haven't received a good enough pitch from someone, that or Gregg doesn't want someone else making it other than himself.

I thiiink in this case we can let it slide until Gregg wants it to happen and I hope Toys for Bob want to do a Banjo and convince Gregg to let them with a good pitch but it may just be a Remaster effort as I think Gregg would want to lead Banjo 4 but he has been busy lately, first with creating Sea of Thieves and now he's leading Everwild so he really has no time for a Banjo sequel.



Ryuu96 on 15 November 2023

Lol Bandorr whipped up a quick way for me to view post counts in this thread

Only goes up to 25 for now though, maybe something he can adjust.

Username User Post Count
Ryuu96 7740
gtotheunit91 1770
Spade 1677
shikamaru317 1344
VersusEvil 936
DroidKnight 692
ice 456
Machiavellian 414
EpicRandy 407
Angelus 401
NobleTeam360 397
konnichiwa 300
Imaginedvl 297
coolbeans 236
BasilZero 235
trunkswd 234
Barozi 202
derpysquirtle64 166
aTokenYeti 161
EspadaGrim 158
smroadkill15 157
KiigelHeart 139
jason1637 136
Shaunodon 119
Zippy6 116
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Ryuu96 on 15 November 2023

I can also check other threads...This feature would have been cool to compare other Empire's against each other...If not for the fucking hacker deleting thousands of comments.



Spade on 15 November 2023
gtotheunit91 said:
Ryuu96 said:

No Microsoft deal on the cards

Utsumi also addressed rumors of Microsoft interest to buy the company.

The Redmond, Washington technology giant reportedly considered acquiring Sega as well as Bungie, the studio originally responsible for Halo, the Verge reported earlier this year, citing internal documents from a hearing in the Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Sega's operations chief dismissed the suggestion that Sega, which is owned by Sega Sammy Corporation, the company formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy Corporation in 2004, had any intention of being sold to another party.

"Many companies are interested. We feel honored," Utsumi told CNBC.

"We have attractive IPs and potentials. Companies owned by the owner. A strong owner. I don't think that (right now) that kind of transaction is going to happen. (I don't expect that)".

Sonic the Hedgehog owner Sega may bring Yakuza, Persona to big screen (cnbc.com)

Sega's been acquiring stuff lately as well, things which Microsoft definitely has zero interest in.

Hehe, start crying @Spade 

Not like they would openly talk acquisitions pimp. 

Also Bungie said the same thing.

Edit: Sega public compared to what Insomniac and Bungie at the time. 

As long as Sony doesn't get anymore exclusives from SEGA, and or TEncent nonsense involvement, then it's cool. 

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coolbeans on 15 November 2023
Ryuu96 said:

Lol Bandorr whipped up a quick way for me to view post counts in this thread

Only goes up to 25 for now though, maybe something he can adjust.

UsernameUser Post Count
Ryuu967740
gtotheunit911770
Spade1677
shikamaru3171344
VersusEvil936
DroidKnight692
ice456
Machiavellian414
EpicRandy407
Angelus401
NobleTeam360397
konnichiwa300
Imaginedvl297
coolbeans236
BasilZero235
trunkswd234
Barozi202
derpysquirtle64166
aTokenYeti161
EspadaGrim158
smroadkill15157
KiigelHeart139
jason1637136
Shaunodon119
Zippy6116

I love how it's super competitive in the low 10s rank between me, @BasilZero , and @trunkswd



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Ryuu96 on 15 November 2023
coolbeans said:
Ryuu96 said:

Lol Bandorr whipped up a quick way for me to view post counts in this thread

Only goes up to 25 for now though, maybe something he can adjust.

UsernameUser Post Count
Ryuu967740
gtotheunit911770
Spade1677
shikamaru3171344
VersusEvil936
DroidKnight692
ice456
Machiavellian414
EpicRandy407
Angelus401
NobleTeam360397
konnichiwa300
Imaginedvl297
coolbeans236
BasilZero235
trunkswd234
Barozi202
derpysquirtle64166
aTokenYeti161
EspadaGrim158
smroadkill15157
KiigelHeart139
jason1637136
Shaunodon119
Zippy6116

I love how it's super competitive in the low 10s rank between me, @BasilZero , and @trunkswd

Now 1 less competitive in favour of you!



Spade on 15 November 2023
Ryuu96 said:

I can also check other threads...This feature would have been cool to compare other Empire's against each other...If not for the fucking hacker deleting thousands of comments.

You really asking for that dent to come back and hack us. 

@The hacker You little bitch, bet you don't have the skill to do it again. 



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G2ThaUNiT on 15 November 2023

HYPE!!!



DroidKnight on 15 November 2023
Spade said:
Ryuu96 said:

I can also check other threads...This feature would have been cool to compare other Empire's against each other...If not for the fucking hacker deleting thousands of comments.

You really asking for that dent to come back and hack us. 

@The hacker You little bitch, bet you don't have the skill to do it again. 

Welp, we're screwed.



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.