Smokey

Now that Microsoft owns Xbox. Do you think Xbox should have maybe a one-off Xbox-only exclusive Call of Duty game? Something done really well that could potentially push sales for the hardware? Perhaps a remaster of a believed game from the past? Do you think this would work? Not saying the entire franchise should be xbox exclusive but maybe a few exclusive titles here and there?

My current xbox? It's a Series X. I bought it last summer. So i've had it for just over a year. I bought the Series X before my PS5. Xbox in general? I owned a Xbox 360 from 2013-2019. I gave it to my nephew a few years ago. I regret doing so but yeah.

Depending on distance sat from the monitor or TV. Anything higher than 50 is overkill. I would say if you're right in front of a TV or not far from it, 43" and below would be fine depending on your setup. I have a 43" UHD 4K TV and it's right in front of me from where i sit at my desk and it seems to be just fine.

Hard to say personally. I wasn't impressed with CoD's campaign this year. The MP is serviable but could be better, AC Mirage seems to have been a disappointment..... I would probably have to say the Resident Evil 4 Remake.

Worst horror game? Hmmm probably Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within. I remember going crazy looking for this game not realizing what it was, and when I got it and played it for myself, I was very disappointed. I don't really like point and click adventure games on console. I feel like that's something better suited with a mouse.

This seems like it's mostly for people who need their hand held through a game even on the easiest difficulty. I know someone like this and they will drop $20+ on microtransactions if they included something like unlimited ammo or 'super dumb easy' mode for a game like RE4.

When it comes to your peripherals, what brand do you like to use? For me, since I have an Alienware Gaming Laptop. I try to stick with Alienware products. I was using a corsair headset but it being wireless it started giving me issues and not keeping the right battery percentage and it would often shut off thinking it was 'dead' when it wasn't. I had a jittering issue with my corsair mouse too so I replaced them with a wired Alienware headset & a wired alienware mouse. The mouse is a cheaper one that only cost me about $35. It gets the job done but I miss the buttons on the side I had with my scrimitar for MMO's 😞 The headset fits okay but it can't be adjusted for comfort which I don't really like but it sounds okay, the mic is decent enough and I like how it retracts into the headset & that there's RGB lighting on the side. Although it has to be 'set' each session it would seem......but that could jsut be a small glitch with command center. What PC Peripherals do you like to use?

This past Friday. the acquisition deal between Microsoft & Activision/Blizzard/King has gone through and now Microsoft owns ActiBlizzKing. This is pretty cool because now we'll have parody in games like Call of Duty. No more exclusive content or early betas for Playstation probably starting in 2024. What do you think about the acquisition? I'm excited for it. Call of Duty on Game Pass means it'll save me a lot of money starting next year 🙂 I'm also hoping to see them bring WoW subscriptions into Game Pass Ultimate. Here's the trailer from Xbox: [url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/13/23791235/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-complete-finalized]Source - TheVerge[/url]

It seems like gaming is heading in the direction where physical media is being phased out in favor of subscription services and digital-only games/purchases. Are you comfortable with an all-digital future in gaming? Are you more about physical copies of games? For me, I'm agaisnt it.. I like having something tangible in my hands. Servers don't stay up forever and eventually you'll lose access to those license keys & downloads. At that point, it's really just like an expensive $70 rental with a really lengthy 'return' period. There are also games we'll never be able to get digitally because their source code is lost, games like Panzer Dragoon Saga. I would definitely like to see a happy medium between the two but I don't think that's going to happen as more and more consoles are coming out as "Digital-Only". See: The new Xbox Series X for example. What about you? Are you for or against an all-digital future in gaming?

Like a Dragon: Ishin. I've been so busy i haven't had much time to game the past week or so. 😞

I can't confirm or deny it but I think so. I don't see many gaming magazines out on store shelves anymore, only place I know where to get a GI mag is from Gamestop nowadays too.......it's a shame. I used to love getting the likes of playstation, Dreamcast & Next Generation magazine growing up. I got 3 mags a month, two of which came with demo discs.....

I think so. Gaming has helped me through some serious rough times in my life. A pretty bad time in my life growing up is what sparked my true love for gaming and actually what led me to building my own gaming website at the time.

That was a great game! 🙂 Yeah i'm sure AEW will be out by the Holidays. Sure hope it's better than the WWE game 😄 would be nice to see a good Yukes game again like Here comes the Pain! 🙂

Sometimes, unless they offer any value for trading them in when I get a new one. I found my old iPhone 3GS and the box for it from like 2008/2009. So that was pretty cool I guess. 😛

It kept me from purchasing one until 2013. I bought their "Slim E" model on sale. The Xbox One was about to release or just released and I bought my 360 then. By then the RRoD was a thing of the past and I figured for $200 for a 250GB console + 3 games, i'd take the risk. I bought it mostly to play games with my girlfriend @Shortie, even though we weren't dating at the time 😛

I always buy my PC's at best buy, usually with protection plans. They cost a bit more but they are well worth it. I've never had an issue with them, personally. Any issues, they tend to take it back and replace it for you or send it in to get professionally fixed and if they can't fix it, they'll replace it or refund you the price so you can get a new PC of equal or better value.

jewel cases for sure were the better option of the two. Sony learned that pretty early on. The longbox/Saturn style cases were terrible. Even for my own collection, I have 2 Saturn games in longbox, I plan on moving over to a standard DVD style case because the longbox cases are just so terrible for the disc. Too flimsy and just a poor idea all around.

I'm not sure. VR isn't as popular as they hoped it would be. I don't see too many interested in it, so I don't think the PSVR2 will be scalped as bad as the PS5 was when it first came out. There were also a lot of scalpers who took losses on their 'investment' because no one would buy their insane prices, so I think the same would happen, but at a much lesser scale because the demand for VR just isn't where they hoped it'd be.

Probably. I'm sure my brother will end up getting both games at some point so I'll be able to compare the two eventually.

This would be one of the few reasons i'd want to hit 1,000 followers on Tiktok, but then I stop and think maybe i'd be better off putting content on youtube in the form of shorts and shorter videos?

I'm more excited to see what Yukes does w/ AEW than what 2K has done with their next WWE2K iteration 😛

Came out at the tail end of the PS1 lifecycle, so it flew under the radar for sure. I remember renting it from Blockbuster when I was a kid and really liked it. Got my own copy for Christmas that year and then immediately realized I needed a gameshark cuz it was super difficult at parts 😛

Last played some Modern Warfare II with friends last night. First time I was able to sit down and game for more than 10 minutes in about a month.

If you can afford one, they're a great tool to have for sure. 🙂 I love my Galaxy watch.

Yeah, exactly, especially with the scams coming out of DKOldies.com, I would definitely look elsewhere for one if I was going to buy one. Not sure yet, I might do sometime in 2023, we'll see how things go first.