Ooooookay. Microsoft have officially lost their damn mind. This thing needed to be no more than $150 to potentially sway people toward that all-digital future. Or it needed an SSD to help with sluggish UI and load times. Or it needed a massive 4TB hard drive to hold all those digital games. It needed something. This is truly pathetic.
Something about that dude's face is really off-putting. Please tell me I can put a mask or helmet or something over it, and leave it on during cutscenes.
Sadly, third party controllers have a reputation as complete garbage for a reason. I've bought a handful of third party controllers for last gen consoles - not because I wanted a bargain, but because you can't get an official Dualshock 3 or Xbox 360 controller (unless you want an 'official' Chinese knockoff) - and I'd caution anyone against buying one, unless they're dirt cheap and you just want a spare for a friend or child you don't especially like.
That said, both Microsoft and Sony seemed to have dropped the ball on build quality this generation, so it's a little harder to justify paying a premium price for what's no better than a third party crap shoot on quality. I can't speak to the quality of Nintendo's controllers, since the last Nintendo system I owned was a SNES, but if their Pro controllers are built to last, just pay the extra twenty bucks. (PowerA isn't the worst brand I've come across, but they definitely have some design/build quality issues that make them, at best, a gamble. Maybe one worth taking at $20, but not at $50+.)
A lot of the same games at a lot of the same prices. The sale may end April 23, but there's no reason to rush and buy anything because we'll see most, if not all, of these games on sale again (at the same prices) in a few months when Microsoft has their next sale, whether it's a Summer sale, an Autumn/Halloween sale, the Black Friday sale, or the Countdown to New Year sale. Hell, where the 360 games are concerned, all of those games have been on sale at those same prices for the last 4-5 years at least twice a year. There's simply no reason for excitement when Microsoft announces a sale.
I'd love a reason to be way into Star Wars again (the movies sure as hell aren't doing it), but there's almost no chance this can deliver. Partly because of that EA logo, partly because I don't know how to feel about this being made by Respawn. I mean, if you told me Respawn was making a sequel to Republic Commando, given how much I love Titanfall 2, I'd be stoked for that (though, still worried it couldn't overcome EA's influence). But when you have 'Jedi' in the title...that feels like it should be a third-person game where you play as someone wielding a lightsaber. I don't know if that's really Respawn's jam. And I don't think anyone can make first-person lightsaber combat feel good.
@blindbsnake: That's my concern. I keep waiting for them to reveal something that gets me hyped and makes me eager to see where they're going with the characters and the story, because the ending of the first game didn't leave me with that feeling of needing to know what happened next. It ended the way a lot of great novels end, where there's definitely more that could be said, the story could be continued, but it's in no way a cliffhanger and being left to wonder and not actually knowing where things went from there is genuinely satisfying. It just feels like there's nowhere for them to go but down.
While I believe there's room for both action and stealth, if they want to lean into a more action-oriented and/or open world model, they probably shouldn't call the game Splinter Cell. I'm probably one of the few people who somewhat enjoyed Blacklist, but I don't consider it a Splinter Cell game. Honestly, they should've just called it Tom Clancy's Blacklist and made the protagonist John Clark - and not just because having someone other than Michael Ironside voicing Fisher was blasphemy.
@blindbsnake: I absolutely loved The Last of Us, and would argue it's easily Naughty Dog's best game, but I honestly didn't feel like it needed a sequel. Was there potential for the story to continue, or for the story to pick up somewhere else with different characters? Sure. But it didn't need it. I'd like to be excited for Part II, but...I'm not. They haven't sold me on it. They haven't shown or revealed anything that's made me feel like this is the sequel I didn't know I wanted, or alleviate the fear that this is Naughty Dog just milking the success of the first game because they've squeezed all they can out of Uncharted and don't have any other ideas for new IP. But I still click on articles about the game because I keep hoping to read or see something that will reel me in and put my mind at ease.
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