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IGN: What to expect from Xbox in 2025

MMaRsu

Member
Those mofos teasing something.


Happy Thanks GIF
 

Judge Death

Member
As someone who thought Doom Eternal was better than Doom, I have a stiffy on for the new Doom I can't lie. It'll be on PS on day one too so will probably review amazingly well.
 

Nonehxc

Member
Neogaf gold as part of GPU subscription.


I Hope Please GIF
...and in GAF with Gold this month, we have our favorite multiplayer game coming back!

We all converge on someone obnoxious and try to break their balls with our wit till the meltdown and get banned. 🤌🏻
 
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nial

Member
That guy says the same things in Sony threads, I don't think that's a gotcha for him, lol.
That can't surely be a South of Midgnith drop on January 1st, right? Would be stupid beyond belief.
 

Punished Miku

Human Rights Subscription Service
That guy says the same things in Sony threads, I don't think that's a gotcha for him, lol.
That can't surely be a South of Midgnith drop on January 1st, right? Would be stupid beyond belief.
My guess is some older Call of Duty game, but who knows.
 

Three

Member
I missed all of that in Indy.
You must have because you had a gay/lesbian and she weren't that hot. He's talking Avowed pronouns, purple and 2025 anyway though not 2024. Get prepared for that stuff instead of all the Sony deflection that's going on instead.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I'm hoping Avowed is good. I didn't know we expected Fable in 2025. I thought that would be 2026.

I think it'ss going to be a good mid 80's scoring kind of game.


You must have because you had a gay/lesbian and she weren't that hot. He's talking Avowed pronouns, purple and 2025 anyway though not 2024. Get prepared for that stuff instead of all the Sony deflection that's going on instead.

The purple criticism is such an odd, misguided, childish, thing.

Avowed is set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, which has had a lot of purples in it before most posters registered.

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I don't really expect much unfortunately.

Playground’s writing is beyond terrible please be real.

I’m currently replaying Forza Horizon 4 and despite the studio and game both being based in England it’s as though the game has been written by aliens under the supervision of Americans.

Might be a good game to play with the sound off.
What's worse is that Playground is UK based. At least the writing in 4 is miles better than 5. FH5 was such a huge disappointment in nearly every way for me. I don't understand how anybody likes 5 more then 3/4.

I just wish I could choose my season in 4 when I'm offline.
 

Punished Miku

Human Rights Subscription Service
I think it'ss going to be a good mid 80's scoring kind of game.




The purple criticism is such an odd, misguided, childish, thing.

Avowed is set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, which has had a lot of purples in it before most posters registered.

Images courtesy of Buggy Loop Buggy Loop


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Classic D&D has always used purple, particularly for wizard spells or psionics.
 

Humdinger

Gold Member
Playground’s writing is beyond terrible please be real.

I’m currently replaying Forza Horizon 4 and despite the studio and game both being based in England it’s as though the game has been written by aliens under the supervision of Americans.

That's not good. Hopefully they hired out the writing on Fable.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That's not good. Hopefully they hired out the writing on Fable.




Anna Magill has been working at Playground Games on the new Fable since February 2021, but now has gone for promotion: she became the game's lead storyteller. Judging by his work experience, Megil will take care of himself in his new position like a fish in water.

Megil has the following regalia:
  • Creation, writing and editing of narrative content for Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. Ibid Megil compiled a 90-page "bible" with the history of the universe, and also monitored the dubbing process.
  • Made the narrative and gameplay structure of Murdered: Souls Suspect, wrote the narrative content and created the lore.
  • Wrote cutscenes, dialogs, lore, character biographies and researched knowledge bases for Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.
  • Created the texts for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider and collaborated with the level designer to create a compelling connection between characters, missions and story.
  • She was a leading specialist in storytelling at Control.
  • She was the lead screenwriter for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
 

SHA

Member


I mean, I saw Nintendo's and Playstation but not this one

Arguably my most anticipated publisher year

Almost everything in there I'm hyped for, except South of Midnight but that's also a question mark and waiting for impressions.

Playground Games will hit it out of the park with Fable I think. The humour and tongue in cheek seems on point and very british. Playground games will also deliver a graphical masterpiece as they always deliver.

Avowed imo will change a lot of opinions when released, like Indiana Jones. Book February for receipts.

And DOOM, I mean cmon

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^ This is based as fuck

I like how they took the franchise seriously, this is rare.
 
Going to be interesting to see how release dates line up with Nintendo dropping some mega bombs alongside a possible gta 6 reease.
 

hinch7

Member
Should be a excellent year with DOOM and Fable. Assuming no delays. Hopefully we get some new hardware annoucements from them as well.
 

Stamps1646

Member
  • Gamepass focus. (like it was going away)
  • Series X large price drop due to lack of units sold.
  • Series S cleared from stores inventory (Jez Corden complains)
  • Gears of Wars Trilogy ported to Steam / PS5
  • Gears of War - E-day release date.
  • Everwild resurfaces (RARE is still unsure what it is)
  • Phil Spencer apologies for something random.
  • Avowed is a hit for Obsidian Entertainment.
  • South of Midnight has a Spring release.
  • Aaron Greenberg is given the boot. (fans rejoice)
  • Fable is actually a great game.
 

SenkiDala

Member
Well I'm in fact more excited by 2025 games from Xbox more than any others.

2024 was great on Xbox, dozens and dozens of great multiplat games obviously and the temp/exclusives were great too, Hellblade II, Flight Sim, Indy, Stalker 2, a great year.

The system is still the best console for the Quick Resume feature.
 

SF Kosmo

Banned
If Fable really comes out this year I am pretty excited to see that. Doom is gonna be fun of course, though nothing new.

South of Midnight and Avowed I am cautiously optimistic about at most. I think they might come out good, but neither feels like a sure thing.
 

Humdinger

Gold Member


Anna Magill has been working at Playground Games on the new Fable since February 2021, but now has gone for promotion: she became the game's lead storyteller. Judging by his work experience, Megil will take care of himself in his new position like a fish in water.

Megil has the following regalia:
  • Creation, writing and editing of narrative content for Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. Ibid Megil compiled a 90-page "bible" with the history of the universe, and also monitored the dubbing process.
  • Made the narrative and gameplay structure of Murdered: Souls Suspect, wrote the narrative content and created the lore.
  • Wrote cutscenes, dialogs, lore, character biographies and researched knowledge bases for Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.
  • Created the texts for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider and collaborated with the level designer to create a compelling connection between characters, missions and story.
  • She was a leading specialist in storytelling at Control.
  • She was the lead screenwriter for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

Thanks. Hopefully Anna isn't as confused about his/her gender as that text is.

I haven't played any of those games except Murdered: Souls Suspect. The narrative for that was fine, as best as I can remember. Nothing special, but serviceable. I'm glad they at least hired someone from outside the studio to do the writing, given what the fellow above said.


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I see that she resigned from the project in July 2023. Maybe all the main writing/structuring was done at that point, I don't know.
 
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TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
No need to fight or console-war over woke stuff dudes, both Sony and MS are deep in that shit.


Doom surviving through decades
It's amazing. 6 games, 30+ years and still going.
 
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TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
I see quitters since the 6th generation and this time it maybe the cause, seriously, some players take these topics seriously and decide to quit once and for all.
I've quit from playing preachy political games or games made by weird/racist people. Would never give up my favorite hobby because of some rotten apples.

Woke stuff aside the big three seem to have something for 2025. A new console by Nintendo, quite a few cool games like DOOM or Gears from MS and I'm sure Sony will have something cool as well. Regarding the later they seem to be making a small, but noticeable push for games made in asia, which is very nice.
 

KungFucius

King Snowflake
A ghost of Tsushima DLC and FedEx simulator 2?

Please
You clearly have bad opinions. It was a fucking UPS simulator & had inventory management that was a shitty excel tool simulator built in as a minigame. God that game was fucking awful and a huge letdown to a MGS fan who appreciates the bonkers Kojima stories.
 

Three

Member
I think it'ss going to be a good mid 80's scoring kind of game.




The purple criticism is such an odd, misguided, childish, thing.

Avowed is set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, which has had a lot of purples in it before most posters registered.

Images courtesy of Buggy Loop Buggy Loop


images


Pillars-of-Eternity-Artwork.jpg


this-was-the-hardest-fight-i-ever-experienced-in-pillars-of-v0-zbuzgr3p9f4b1.jpg


Pillars-of-Eternity-3-880x500.jpg


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pillars-of-eternity.jpg


pillars-of-eternity-walkthrough-and-game-guide-1425044056782.jpg


pe-phantom.0.0.1487624688.jpg


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Sure, and the pronouns in the game? Were they in the PoE universe too?

I personally have no issues with the game regardless was just pointing out what sort of games that person has an issue with.
 
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TheTony316

Member
A ghost of Tsushima DLC and FedEx simulator 2?

Please

I meant more Xbox games on Playstation ^^

No, the Tsushima DLC was Iki Island. Yotei is an actual sequel. Sucker Punch said they want every game to be self contained.
 
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David B

An Idiot
Xbox: Great controller but no good games as all games are going to PlayStation or Nintendo. PlayStation: Great games with a controller that's too big but has cool trigger effects in some games. Nintendo: We just keep making good games forever and our controllers kind of suck. But hey as for Xbox any good games? Nah, if Microsoft was smart they'd just go we are pulling out of the gaming market and leting go of Bethesda and Activision with there own CEOs voted in.
 
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