Merry Christmas X-Dents.

Hope yall get some good Xbox goodies!!! Post yall's haul.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas all!

Hell yeah, Papa Phil came through for me with FF16 and GoW: Ragnarok wait a sec….nevermind! 

Merry Christmas all, and to all a good night.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

All I got was this huge box of salt liquorice lollipops to help me fight my nicotine/snus addiction. Also bought myself two precon Magoc: The Gathering Commander decks and a bunch of single cards. Haven't played this game since late 90's and it's very excitibg to hop back again. Anyone else play MTG?

I collected MTG cards for a few months but mostly because they looked great, One of the packs came with a PC demo that explains the rule and you could play a short adventure game against Ai players.  

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

• "Halo Infinite is Xbox's most important exclusive ever"
• "Starfield is Xbox's most important exclusive ever"
• "Hellblade 2 is Xbox's most important exclusive ever"

Really is nothing like journalists putting unnecessary and unrealistic pressure onto developers at Xbox, Lol. Journalists inventing their own hype and marketing, Xbox or Ninja Theory never said or even implied in the slightest that Hellblade II would be this. Can't wait to hear from IGN next being like "Hellblade 2 must be an 11/10! If it isn't then Xbox is doomed!"

And this is not to say it shouldn't be a good exclusive, all exclusives should deliver and be of a good quality but can journalists stop with this utterly stupid "This is the most important exclusive ever!" rhetoric for every game? It's unfair to the developers and just making up fake hype in order to drive consumers to disappointment and giving trolls the ability to label a game a failure because it wasn't "best/biggest ever"

I seriously question who actually played Hellblade I or remembers what it was when people push Hellblade II as being a huge project on the scale of God of War and it will be a mega blockbuster...That wasn't even anywhere close to what Hellblade I was and what I assume Hellblade II will be, Hellblade I was an intimate experience about mental health battles with a strong narrative but not overly flashy.

I believe Hellblade II will be bigger but it's still a 130ish team and I expect they'll still focus more on it being a intimate experience over some huge flashy experience. Improve the puzzles and combat, sure, but it's not going to be some big 20-30 hour experience with a blockbuster budget and on a massive scale, c'mon now.

Complete revisionist history to paint Hellblade I as important for Sony (as an exclusive) in the same year which Sony released/had Horizon Zero Dawn, Nioh, Nier Automata and Uncharted Lost Legacy. Hellblade was a great game, won a few awards and sold well, I expect the same for Hellblade 2. If anything though, I expect Avowed will be bigger than Hellblade II in almost every aspect (budget, scale, players, etc).

But I better keep that quiet otherwise they'll be articles saying "Avowed is Xbox's Most Important Exclusive Ever; Can It Surpass Elder Scrolls?" I can feel the "I'm disappointed by Hellblade 2" articles written up already, Lol. People just setting themselves up for disappointment. Can't wait for 2025, it'll be "Fable is Xbox's Most Important Exclusive Ever" and then in 2026 it will be Perfect Dark, then in 2027 it will be Blade, Lol.

Hellblade II to me would be better comparable to something like Alan Wake 2 or a Plague Tale Requiem, follow-ups to great titles with a strong narrative focus, Alan Wake 2 being more of an artsy game, Plague Tale being a more intimate experience, they both received strong critical receptions to their sequels but they don't hit mainstream appeal or have huge sales.