thirdworldgamer

 I tweeted this out earlier and I think it's worthy of publishing --- The other day, I was looking for new podcasts to listen to... Very tiring to hear Xbox influencers trying to defend Xbox's multiplatform stance. So I tried out Sacred Symbols and Kinda Funny podcast. Here's what I thought. Sacred Symbols - Colin started by talking about some personal stuff for a good hour, just fast forwarded through that shit. I mean, ok I get it, the core audience might be ok with that, but as a new listener it was weird to listen to him talk about, essentially, himself Kinda Funny podcast - They were talking about the Capcom showcase this week and how it was 'unnecessary' and I was like --- huh.... what is up with these guys. Do they know that some players actually appreciate an update direct from the developer like that? They then spent the next few minutes laughing about some, what sounded like some equipment failure on their set or something, It was funny to them, but abso...

 It's true that, Xbox Game Pass basically lets you get all of the games from Xbox Game Studios at a low price. So economically, it saves you money. However, what I don't understand is how the Xbox hardcore fanbase is continuing to cheer on Xbox management while they are openly lying to their heavily invested installed base.  A few years ago, Xbox promised exclusive games that strengthens the argument that you and other people should buy Xbox hardware. A year ago, this promise was thrown out the window, in lieu of a massive 76 billion dollar loan that Xbox owes Microsoft management for buying Activision Blizzard.  So Xbox has pivoted, and now all the games they promised would be Xbox exclusive, are no longer exclusive. The narrative has changed, particularly from voices in the Xbox community that are supposed to be speaking FOR the community. "This is a good thing", "This gives MS/Xbox more money", "In the future, everything will be an Xbox anyway"....

Forza Motorsport 8 – What I’d like to see With the Xbox Series X upon us this holiday, a lot of the usual commenters online are speculating that Forza Motorsport 8 is a sure release alongside Halo Infinite this holiday season. I’m of the opinion that Microsoft is better suited to release Forza Horizon 5 alongside the XSX just due to the mass appeal of that game. That said, I do have thoughts on FM8 if Microsoft were to release that game at the end of this year. My feedback here is mostly based on Forza Motorsport 7 – a fine racing game, I think, which was LARGELY underappreciated. At the time of its release, the only topic amongst the usual commenters like the media and “hardworking” Youtubers is that the microtransactions ruined that game. The truth was, at release, yes there was a microtransaction system, but it did not have any effect on the actual racing. At worst, it made access to some cars more difficult, but the cars you already get with the base game were already ver...

I haven't followed NBA basketball in years. There was that one time I attempted to get into NBA stuff by buying a 2k game. I don't remember what year it was. But one thing that stood out for me back then was how difficult the game was. A lot was said about how 2k's games are more simulation-based so it's a lot harder to get shots in. That's the experience I had with a 2k game (that was back in the PS3 / Xbox 360 era), and I ended up selling the game about a week after i had bought it.  I enjoy basketball. When I was a teen it was a nice way to spend time after school, just shoot some hoops and have fun. Watching NBA games or even the local PBA games is a good way to bond with other friends and just talk about your favorite players and teams. Getting older, I stopped following basketball and sports in general. Life just got in the way, or....maybe, put simply, it isn't as easy now to just 'play basketball' as it used to be when i was in high school...

Everyone has a preference. Whether you like Coke or Pepsi, Honda or Ford, Golden State or Cleveland, Xbox or Playstation - preference is unavoidable. Now in online arguments, for many years now it's a free-for-all, no holds barred debate about one thing or another. I'd focus just on console preferences for now. Things have been heating up in online discussions because Microsoft is about to release its newest console, the Xbox One X.  This is bothering a lot of people who have invested a lot of money in their preferred platforms. In particular, Sony fans have been very upset. In the local gaming community that I visit, users who prefer Sony would come in and do one thing or another: - argue the point that Playstation has more exclusive games - argue the point that discussions are not being fair/neutral - outright attack other gamers by sending them hate-filled private messages Honestly, Xbox fans have had to deal with a lot of negativity for their preferred p...

For Honor is an incredible multiplayer game. It really feels like a whole new concept, and for the first time we're seeing an actual NEW IDEA for fighting games. And it's coming from Western developers Ubisoft. There's a lot of great stuff in For Honor and I'm sure a lot of other bloggers/Youtubers have already covered them. I'm just going to write some constructive feedback for the devs so that maybe they can make the game even better than it already is....because by itself, it's a really, really good game. And, I have to say this again  - IT'S A GREAT FIGHTING GAME! Requests 1) Please fix the disconnection bugs. If you can convince Ubisoft to switch to dedicated servers, that will really help this game keep its player base. Granted the P2P system you have is already quite good and generally works. But occasionally I still get disconnections and very odd glitches which I'm sure a lot of fans have already told you about (like the 'Require...

This is a game I never planned on buying. I saw it being demoed at E3 a few times. The more recent demos they had were a bit glitchy, and the premise wasn't too clear. I only tried that one demo they had, the Platinum demo, and it completely turned me off on buying this game.  I've been burned before by Final Fantasy. Full disclosure, Final Fantasy VI and VII are some of my favorite games of-all-time. From that point onwards, the series has been having a steep decline in terms of relevance. At some point the games just become way too Japanese in their strangeness and it can be hard to relate with a few of the later titles. Yeah, I even gave Final Fantasy XIII a shot. I never finished it because it just didn't pull me in. At that point, I realized that maybe Final Fantasy can never realize its past glory. It just didn't have that shot of inspiration which the older Final Fantasy games had. The series was just behind in terms of technology, storytelling and ga...