168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 looks like my kind of game. Though reviews for the sequel to 2017’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice were all over the map, I love a linear, cinematic action-adventure game and Hellblade 2 looks like a very pretty execution of that genre. The only problem is that my PC would need to run it at such diminished settings that it would defeat the purpo🐷se of playing such a graphically impressive game in the first place, and my Internet isn't good enough to play it on Xbox One via the Cloud. There’s no good way for me to experience Senua’s journey with my current setup.
Do I Actually Want An Xbox Series X?
So, once again, I’m thinking about getting an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X. These thoughts 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:started up again earlier this year when Microsoft confirmed that both 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Avowed were targeting 2024 release dates. Both of those games are near the top of my most anticipated list, and I’d like to play them reclined on my couch, not hunched over the laptop I work at all day. Senua’s Saga is just the latest reason, but I’ve been feeling the urge to splurge since I played the opening hour of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Forza Horizon 5 on Xbox One back in 2020, and didn’t get to🌠 enjoy any of the cool, insta🍬ntaneous loads everybody playing the game on Series X was talking about.
I'm Glad Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 Is Divisive
A wide spread of review scores only makes a game more interes☂ting.
But everything Microsoft is doing, outside of releasing some cool games, is giving me pause. For one, the corporati💦on isn’t putting its most committed foot forward. The Xbox fanbase was jettisoned into full-on crisis mode earlier this year when rumors broke that Microsoft was planning to make the biggest Xbox exclusives, like Starfield, multiplatform. Fans, understandably, began to wonder if Microsoft was preparing🐭 to go the way of the Dreamcast and get out of the console-making game once and for all. Xbox responded in a strangely middle-of-the-road way that added fuel to the fire, saying that a podcast episode explaining what was happening would arrive in a week, which gave everyone plenty of time to speculate that the sky was falling.
Microsoft In The Midst Of A Move To Multiplatform?
Xbox eventually commented on the rumors, saying that, for now, there were only plans to bring four Xbox games to othe♈r platforms: Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded, and Sea of Thieves. That might be all, but it seems more likely that Microsoft is testing the waters before makinꦓg a bigger multi-platform push. If Xbox ends up bringing Indiana Jones, Starfield, Avowed, and Senua's Saga to PS5 in a year, I'm gonna feel pretty stupid for shelling out for a console specifically to play those games.
The other problem with potentially buying an Xbox system right now is that it's unclear how well Microsoft is going to treat the teams making many of the games I'm interested in playing. After it decided to shutter Tangoꦬ Gameworks and Arkane Austin, the developers of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey, last month, I have significantly less confidence that Xbox is invested in providing a stable future for the worker🅠s making its games. Success or failure can result in a studio being shut down and that may make shareholders happy, but it isn't a compelling vision for the future.
I want to play the best versions of these games, and I don't want to shell out for an expensive PC. But I also don't have any faith in Xbox's plan for the rest of this console generation. So, for now, I'm in a holding period, and I don't really see a way out of it. I'd 🍨like to play Senua's Saga, but Xbox is doing its best to convince me to wait.
Microsoft Clos♚ing The Devs Behind Prey And The Evil Within 2 Has Got To Be The Breaking Point
The closure of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks feels like a turning point in gaming executives' quest to hollo♔w out the games industry.
