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The same craziness occurred with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, when Ubisoft decided to go with a canon female protagonist (Kassandra) after focus-grouping their play-testers, only to discover that the vast majority of actual gamers preferred the male option (Alexios). They were surprised by the disparity - I wasn't.

Yeah I don' tthinkthey really do mhave a flagship franchis eany more. Halo is the game that obviously got people's attention a tth estart but I wouldn' t say they have one now. As you say I think they know the ycan' tcompete ther bu twhewr ethe ycan compete is in wha tthe yoffe rservic ewise as I think thei rgame pass services blows Sony's PS plu sout o fthe water especial ygiven ho waffordable they'v emade it. I don' tuse gam epas mysel fbu tif I had moe rmoney and wanted to play a wider offering of games I might have used th eservices

I think each succeeds in different ways though fo rexample Sony probabl yI have to admit have the better exclusives especiall ysingle player ones if yo utake games like Horizon or Spiderman and God of War an dsuch like that.Microsoft I would say has Sony bea tin other areas as they tend t ofocus on providing better services and cheaper ways to access games via their Gamepass service. The games they make go straight into gamepass day 1 fo rexample whereas with Sony you have to wait a bit before tha thappens with their PS plus. Also a lot of Xbox's games are built around multiplayer getting people to play toggether like Halo an dForza have different maps and such to shoot each other up on or race on. The ystil hav ethings like a story/casmpaign/career mode thing going on for those that wantto play on their own. As they know sometimes peopl edo. Bu tthe main focus in their games is the multiplayer. 

In summar yI think it's a matter of wha tdo you prefer? I generally prefer single player offerings given I'm a mainly a single player gamer so I probably do slightly lean more Sony's way in tha tsense but generally because the onl ygame I pla yon console is largely Fifa and I mainly game on PC I'm generall yhappy enough t owait for Sony's games t ocome PC's wa ylater as I have plenty of other games t okeep me occupied either from the Xbox side or multiplat. Especially as most o fthe  games I play are multiplat. I mostly moved ove rto Xbox to mainly try Forza and Halo out because unti lthe XB1 befoer the ystarted t oput their games on PC I hadn' t really tried them. Well that and the fact at the tim ethe Master Chief collecdtion was announced Sony hadn't announced  anythin gthat made me think of going for the PS4(as HZD wasn't revealed until late rafter I had made that decision.) I had played the origina lHalo and Halo 2 but th eremaster when I saw it reall yblwe m eaway in just how good it looked. Still does to be fair. It's the main reason why I stuck wit hth eseries X really when my XB1 broke as I sti ll wanted to pla those Xbox games I bought but I will admit I'm mostly using my Xbox as a sports game machine for playin ggames lik eFifa NHL an dgames like that. Mainly because I'm finding Fifa runs better on the Xbox than it does on PC these days

I read through the whole thing and it struck me from his description that GoW may be off the mark. The more I read his descriptions the more I thought he was honing in on a game that will feel a lot like Mass Effect.

Now this makes sense to me in that if they can do it they might be able to set a pattern for the next Mass Effect too or a template if you will at least it sounds like they are trying to do that. It might work. It might be fun and maybe it is better to leave the hardcore rpg stuff to Larian and Owlcat etc.

The Starfield reddit is not as you describe, the vast majority of content on the Starfield reddit is Starfield related (shockingly enough). I feel like you're desperately trying to find the few posts that are otherwise to confirm your biases. Most of the stuff on the Starfield Reddit is fluff about Starfield. 

When you find the few people that are otherwise, just block them and move on. Reddit allows you to do that.

The biggest problem with the Starfield reddit has been people posting spoilers. As the pinned comment states, 40000 mod actions before and after launch in a bid to keep everyone spoiler free.

Probably will be a controversial opinion but I started a new MEA PT yesterday for N7 day, but this is what I wrote in another thread:

"Not sure I can go back to Starfield after playing MEA again TBH. Everything is better, character quality, better story already, better combat, the flying between planets, the ship interior, knowing where your companions are on the ship, having more than one companion with you, companion banter, The Nomad instead of walking, the overall graphics, music and sound etc."

The two Jedi games were held up to EA, mocking them. Those are two other games that are beloved by fans, and guess what ... they're soul-likes, the combat was inspired by Dark Souls. You wouldn't have Jedi Fallen Order without Dark Souls. Fromsoft changed the industry.

EA came out and said The Dead Space Remake underperformed, which sucks btw.

Mirror's Edge was released 15 years ago. You can't hold up a game that turns modern gaming on its head when it isn't a modern game.

People are just celebrating AAA games that go away from the modern formula of being hyper monetised and the game suffering for it being hypermonetised. A self contained, 60 dollar game that is a complete package that is actually good at launch. If more are celebrated then we'll get more of them going forward. Like, for example, Fallen Order. If Fromsoft didn't make Dark Souls then we'd never have Fallen Order. How do we know this? Because EA closed down Visceral Studios who were working on an Uncharted like Star Wars game because according to EA "gamers don't like those games anymore". If Fromsoft never proved otherwise then the industry would be in a different place.

The more AAA games come out upending what is becoming the normal AAA industry, then the better off and the more diverse the gaming space will be. BG3 will continue to be, and should be, held up as a shining example.

I know it's a joke but I actually keep hearing it from people and I feel like everyone who says "modern games suck" must be shooter fans. Or maybe adventure fans or something. Because the shooter genre is in a terrible spot right now. I keep telling them as an RPG fan, we've just had an amazing couple of years Elden Ring, Zelda, BG3, Cyberpunk, *glances over at Starfield* ... all the Horizon games, Persona 5. It really depends which genre you're in. If you like open world sandboxes again I feel like this is an incredible time. Spiderman 2's just coming out and everybody's looking forward to it.

MMOs and Shooters, boy they're in a rough spot though.