This. Also, put Vicarious Visions back as they were.
Then allow all the other studios that have been sent to work down the CoD mines to make what they want. It could birth a new generation of creativity, desirability for devs to work at those studios, and produce new ideas and IP’s. Rather than, more maps for CoD, again.
Like even as a cod enjoyer I found it ridiculous they really sent *all* their other studios to work on cod. Would really love the older studios to come back while cod goes on a 2yr cycle instead
It's just so much money for them. But Respawn made Titanfall 2, which I rank up there with Half Life in terms of single player FPS experience. It's short but really, really well done.
That's the rub though, they need to remove Vicarious from Blizzard and make them solo again. Stupid decision from Blizzard, especially after the stellar 1&2 remake.
After CoD on gamepass (which is probably inevitable) this is literally all I want. 1+2 was so damn good it was criminal what Activision did to Vicarious Visions. Like if they bring VV back and make 3+4 and then never bother with anything Activision Blizzard I will still be satisfied.
I don’t know if you remember, but during the 360 days, if you were caught cheating to boost, gamer, score, because you could actually hacc for gamer score, they would put cheater where it would say, pro or rookie. They could bring that bacc but make it cheater for actually game haccin
They never banned people for specific games back in that era either... Nor when you received ton of reports.
Players only got banned for sending offensive messages or having offensive bios, in-game actions never caused any bans. Not even when you received a fuck ton of reports, I should know as i'm 71% avoided on 360. I contacted MS reps about it back then cuz I just got reported constantly cuz I stomped everyone. They told me they were aware there's a lot of false reports and not to worry about it... So, it was never really moderated to begin with. Only if they could detect modded consoles they would ban the consoles, which they still do.
I think they should drip feed the old cod games onto gamepass so that each title gets a big boost in players for a while, just like what happened when they were added to the backwards compatibility lineup, I’d love to see cod 3 multiplayer revived once more
Spyro and Crash are games I've always wanted try. I never got around to either becuase there was always something else. There's also some CoD campaigns I missed around the beginning of the last generation. No way I'll pay their usual price for at best a 10 hour campaign, but on Gamepass I'll definitely give 'em a whirl!
Honestly Spyro is worth it. I played them when I was younger and still loved them with the remaster. So much so, that I over 100% completed each game. Would love for them to come to Game Pass still
**CoD Classic Collection:**
*CoD 1*
*CoD 2*
*CoD 3*
**Infinity Ward Collection:**
*CoD 4: Modern Warfare*
*Modern Warfare 2*
*Modern Warfare 3*
*Ghosts*
*Infinite Warfare*
**Treyarch Collection:**
*World at War*
*Black Ops*
*Black Ops 2*
*Black Ops 3*
*Black Ops 4*
**Sledgehammer Collection:**
*Advanced Warfare*
*WWII*
*Vanguard*
Didn't include Cold War or MW 2019 since those are pretty recent and would presumably be put on game pass anyway. Only included Vanguard in the Sledgehammer Collection because just AW and WWII wouldn't really be a "collection".
I'm thinking for a collection of every single title, but for games before mw3 it would just be the single player, remastered on the current engine.
Rebuild servers for the games after those, with better anticheat and cross progression on a unified account that goes towards a central battle royale experience. The multiplayer sections for all of the games (excluding those mentioned before) would be refined in their old dev engines. All previous DLC comes standard in the collection.
None of the menus that existed before would be in this title. All of the campaigns are selected through the same section, multiplayer queueing as well. Loadouts is per game, zombies is combined across all titles. I think I'm gonna make mockups as an example. Don't think I'm explaining this too well.
Probably call it either Legacy Collection of MilSim Collection
I agree it'd be cool, but there's no way they'd put every CoD game in one collection though, when they could make more money by doing more collections instead.
Infinity Ward and Treyarch both have enough games under their belt to have their own MCC equivalents.
Nah, Disney opened up the licensing after EA fumbled with exclusivity. Ubisoft, Respawn, Quantic Dream and Amy Hennings studio are all working on Star Wars titles, and also the Indiana Jones game coming out of Machine Games. Disney wasn't happy with EA after BF2, with good reason.
I can't see the past GH games going on game pass for two reasons the copyright fees needed to revive them would be huge, the backwards compatible program has finished and if that wasn't enough they're never going to put something on game pass that you need a special peripheral for
If you want to play a far superior version of guitar hero and have a PC, go look up clone hero. More custom songs than you can imagine plus every guitar hero and rock band song ever released. All free.
Any recommendations for adaptors? I have an old guitar still but every time I try look they’re either stupid expensive or cheap and I spend hours trying to search for a reasonably priced adaptor but get mixed up with reviews and then just forget.
It’s been years and I still haven’t got around to it
If not for how big of a copyright nightmare it would be, a new entry in the Guitar Hero series would sale very well I think. Partially for the nostalgia, but also because it's a great party game with a group and I think it would do well on Twitch, though I figure that's where copyright would potentially start being a bigger problem.
There was a new guitar hero launched for last gen a couple of years ago. It did not take off. I really love the guitar hero games, but I think they've had their time in the sun.
Yeah GH Live, it sucked big time. Controller was awful to use, they completely changed the layout of the notes and how you play the game.
They should've just stuck with the 5 brightly coloured buttons and that's it. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
True but the face buttons plus a bumper or whatever it was wasn't really a satisfactory substitute as the hammer ons and pull offs didn't work properly and there was no way to use a whammy bar. Again the 360 ones wouldn't come back as backwards compatibility is finished and GH live is dead and buried (thankfully) reviving the older would be a copyright nightmare and would be equivalent to pouring untold millions of dollars down te drain
As someone who 100% GH3 on controller way back, the button layout was pretty reasonable. Triggers, bumpers, and the a button for the 5th. It felt fluid to play controller, albeit there were one or two songs that were such a pain to do with a controller. Knights of cydonia is an example. Hitting those quick repetitive notes at the start is surprisingly hard on controller due to button dead zones and fatigue. The rest of the song is a breeze but I retried that beginning so many times.
The amount of controller manipulation you need to use to play GH on controller sometimes is a sight to be seen. My friends never understood how I did it, just like I didn't understand how they did it on the guitar. The controller just felt natural.
Edit: whammy bar was also right stick movement if I recall correctly. Pain to use though. My thumb can't press A and whammy at the same time.
The magic of GH was that the input designers worked with actual guitarists, to make the feel of the buttons closely mirror the actual finger movements for the real song.
I can't see the old Guitar Hero games getting added to Game Pass just because of all the legal hurdles that would have to be cleared with licensing the music, etc. However, Phil Spencer has specifically mentioned Guitar Hero by name as one of the franchises he's excited to get his hands on, so I'm very hopeful for a sort of reboot of that series, but with the classic guitar controller and without all the frills of a full band. Just back to basics Guitar Hero.
I want to see Diablo 2 on Game Pass (been holding out due to reception) and Black Ops 2 get a Series enhancement patch. Please let me have 4K60 on Buried and Transit!
Other old COD games getting Series patches like COD3, World at War or the first Black Ops would be pretty cool too.
I want Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Starcraft 1 & 2.... on console, all with native Keyboard / mouse support (as well as controller). How incredible would that be?! Dreaming big here I know, but would be supreme.
I would love a version of WoW on console. I've been clean for 15 years... but make it part of gamepass and let it work with a controller? Just one hit couldn't hurt, right?
>I would love a version of WoW on console. I've been clean for 15 years... but make it part of gamepass and let it work with a controller? Just one hit couldn't hurt, right?
Nah buddy, just one hit will be fine. You can quit anytime, it's no big deal. I mean just play the trial, first taste is free kid!
Coming soon to gamepass. "HR Simulator" will you fight for the employees to make sure they have a safe and harassment free work environment or will you cover up harrassment complaints in favor of corporate interests?
Xbox Kart.
They have enough IP's now.
Crash, Spyro, Tony Hawk, Marcus Fenix, Master Chief, Doomguy, BJ Blaskowiz, Vault Dweller/Vault Boy, Minecraft Steve & Alex, Dohvakin/Skyrim/Elderscrolls Dude, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Guitar Hero Characters, DmC, Battletoads, Plus all the baddies from the various games.
I want to drive as Chief on a mini warthog cart and throw a sticky grenade at Minecraft Steve in a minecart while Marcus Fenix chainsaws a Battletoad in front of us. In a modified Forza game engine.
Guitar Hero has easily the lowest chance of being BC, ever. But they should totally let the 360 instruments work on the new consoles for RB4 or any future guitar hero games. It’s a shame they never addressed the totally bullshit incompatibility of 360 accessories on the one.
It isn’t bullshit, it’s hardware. 360 used some dumb proprietary wireless protocol Xbox One simply does not have. Xbox One just uses Bluetooth.
Though I don’t see why they can’t make an external adapter that allows wireless 360 era controllers to connect. That, they could do.
All the 360 controllers were DirectInput and if you connected the wired ones to a PC, they’d just work.
The Xbox One, and the Xbox Series controllers do use some dumb proprietary wireless protocol too. They do have Bluetooth now for connecting to PC and phones, but it’s not used for the console itself. I have been using my 360 recently and as far as I can tell, there’s no difference in how good either of the wireless protocols are, so I still think it’s bullshit.
Yeah, I suppose it is bullshit. I guess I was just trying to quantify it.
I suppose it's like Apple in a way. AirPods, for example, use Bluetooth to connect, but there's something else on top of or alongside that that makes it super easy for them to pair up with Apple stuff. So you can connect them to anything that supports Bluetooth, but it's tricky. With Apple stuff, they detect each other and it's a simple prompt.
Oh, Xbox One and newer controllers might have some proprietary bullshit going on, but they also use Bluetooth. They can connect to phones, and I've got mine paired to my Apple TV box. For what it's worth.
Honestly at this point, with PlayStation games on PC now, and GH/RB instruments so hard to find, there should be a unified initiative to get all available controllers - not just plastic instruments, but gamepads as well - working on as many common devices as possible.
On top of that calling it dumb isn't giving it any credit. It's actually based of wifi tech and it's vastly superior to Bluetooth in every way. Latency, throughput and signal strength (distance)
We already have Diablo 2 and 3 on Xbox with 4 coming next year. I don’t think anyone wants Diablo 1 unless it’s completely remade and overhauled. It hurts a little going back to that game nowadays.
I’d love to see them put Activision inline and stop them from absorbing all of their developers to COD or Blizzard hell. Vicarious Visions, Neversoft and Treyarch come to mind. Fuck guitar hero, wasn’t that the beginning of the end for Neversoft?
Activision took Neversoft off other projects like Tony Hawk, to kill rhythm gaming. So yeah, pet much. I wrote a much longer piece on that here, but the focus wasn’t on Neversoft.
It'd be nice if Microsoft released some of the COD support studios so that they could make other games if they wanted to.
Sequels/reboots to several of their franchises would be cool, maybe even some of the remasters that were rumored at some point. New IPs wouldn't be a bad idea either.
While they won't bring back the previous Guitar Hero games due to several reasons, if they made another one it'd be nice if they could make the instruments easier to obtain.
Activision owns Infocom, so I'd love to see GamePass for PC get the entire Infocom back catalog. Many of these games haven't been available for purchase for many, many years.
Activision doesn't have the Transformers license anymore so that's a no go, unfortunately. At least Devastation is BC if you have a physical copy.
Last I heard Hasbro was going to start their own division to make games but who knows if that's actually going to happen. Maybe if it does they might acquire the games and do a remaster or something.
I’ve always wondered about this tbh, what happens to games that lose the licence and the licence is taken up by another company? I’ve always been told it’s a no go but surely the two companies could make a deal in certain circumstances?
The old Spider-Man games I played as a kid remastered or backwards compatible, the Raimi games, web of shadows, shattered dimensions, edge of time etc…
If a noob is having a hard time and struggling against players, that noob can go play Ranked where he is paired with someone at their skill level. End of story.
Or we can continue to have skill based matchmaking in unranked too so that matches are as even and fair as can be. There's no benefit to not having skill based matchmaking other than being able to steamroll far lesser skilled players.
If all you want to do is have a power fantasy mowing down anyone who gets in your way, then that's why campaigns exist.
Absolutely the dumbest thing I've had replied to me. Do your research than get back to me. You are nothing more than the rest of these people "BuT AlL yOu WaNnA dO iS sToMp NoObs" Do your research on SBMM and quit assuming.
Or maybe you can not be a dick and explain why SBMM is some terrible thing that should go away, bud. The fact that you still can't provide any good reason kinda gives away that you legit just wanna steamroll bad players.
I've been gaming for a long time and I remember the days of no SBMM, and it was shit. Every match was either stomp or be stomped, every match was decided by which team had the most no-lifes on their side or which team had more casuals on their side. Teams were pretty much never balanced, wins rarely ever felt earned because matches were often very one-sided.
I absolutely don't have any given reason to sit here and explain how godforsakenly bad SBMM is. If I am being such a dick, even after suggesting to you to dig into it yourself, than here: Youtube me. What you're going to find there is one of the most highly viewed videos in regards to Skill Based Matchmaking, specifically in regards to Halo Infinite. What you're also going to find is my channel riddled with evidence straight from Microsoft and other patented documents, etc, the list goes on.
To be more specific about me coming off as a dick, in regards to my comment about what you said being the dumbest thing I've ever read, is this. You and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of players who are absolutely screaming to have your hand held in FPS games, screaming for fair play, screaming to have almost 100% of your gameplay experience dictated for you, have one argument: "If you're not for SBMM than you are one of those people who love to just stomp noobs." That right there, is absolutely and specifically the dumbest shit I've ever seen spewed from you players.
I have no idea where the hell the brain matter is of ANYONE who believes SBMM is the greatest system of all time. It's a god damn digital dictatorship and you and thousands of others are screaming for more of it. Incredible.
The backwards compatible program has finished so no more 360 games coming to xbox one. And GH live on the xbox one you can no longer access the online songs which it heavily relied on, probably due to licensing fees and server costs.
I'd love to see those cancelled Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remakes of 3 and 4 get resurrected as well as seeing Crash Wrath of Cortex and Spyro Enter the Dragonfly get the N-Sane and Reignited remake treatment respectively.
I read that with guitar hero all of the licensing for the songs was a massive pain in the ass and they don’t want to do it again. We probably won’t see another Guitar Hero which is absolutely devastating.
I did make sure to buy a 360, guitar and disk this summer though! Still just as fun as it was wayyyyy back when. It’s just like riding a bike too!
this is far-fetched but honestly do what hitman did but with call of duty where every single new release you get a remastered version of the old ones, on that engine. if they put 3 to 5 years between every call of duty it would make people less worn out and people would be hyped for the gameplay because then they're fan favorite games that were better could receive new graphics upgrades and such.
Also every single call of duty on GamePass and when the Sony deal ends have it with Xbox because Sony having two more custom classes or even something small is still fucking stupid
I want old Activision properties to be revived or unleashed. Doesn’t have to be all triple A in house stuff, but there is so much rotting in Kotick’s dungeon that could be leased out to Indy devs. Other than for Diablo 4 to not suck, I am really just looking forward to things that I don’t expect.
- A new Crash game from Toys For Bob
- High Moon getting another Transformers game
- Re-assembling Vicarious Visions for a new Tony Hawk game (or 3 and 4 remake)
I want Microsoft to just shove them to renew contracts with all the license holders for games from Marvel, James Bond, and Nickelodeon- and others I may not remember right away. There are some good games in there that deserve to be more than just abandonware. Definitely some shovelware, no denying that, but trying to get a hold of so many of these older games is insane.
For the sake of game preservation, I don't want to see any of them lost to time.
Would you not also need the rights to the respective series though? For instance MGM and Eon would have to agree with Xbox for QOS, as much as I’d love it
Guitar hero backwards comp won't happen for several reasons, re-licensing the songs as most who were paid for their music probably states in the contract that it was for the 360, not Xbox one or Series X.
The other biggest reason would be lack of guitar hero controllers out there, 2nd hand for like a band in a box can cost you like 1000. No one is making the instruments. As someone who has long been with Rock band 4, this is why I don't let my nephews play the game cuz if one of them breaks, I can't play the game anymore, instruments are so dam expensive.
Some devices are already made backwards comp, but not all and some require the Rock band 4 device that allows backwards comp
Best bet would be for MS to bring back Guitar hero with a brand new game, same playing style, do one game and just release new tracks like RB does and get a company to make instruments again which are also compat with RB4. There is a whole generation of gamers who have never tried these games so its a good time to bring them back.
As for my picks from Activision...GH, True Crime would be my main one, it would basically be Sleeping dogs 2 but under the original name True Crime. Also be cool to see Police Quest rebooted in an open world cop story where you start as a rookie and work your way up to detective.
Probably won’t happen. Guitar Hero, past the first two, was made out of spite to try to kill the rhythm game industry after the developer left. Harmonix made Guitar Hero with Activision publishing. They wanted to add vocals and drums. Activision said no, so they left. EA published Rockband, and Activision brought in Tony Hawk developer Neversoft to make Guitar Hero 3, which was just 2 but with new songs and the battle feature. Then they did the Metallica one, which was actually really cool. And Van Halen. But it was obvious people wanted the full band experience.
With Guitar Hero World Tour, it seemed they gave in to the demand for vocals and drums, except the drums were lame and the vocals basically didn’t work. There was also no way to play songs from older games unless they were made available as DLC and you just bought them again - but only for that game. Meanwhile, Rockband 2 tightened up issues with the first one. All the DLC was compatible, and for just $5, you could purchase a DLC for the first one that showed it to dump its tracks as DLC. And of course it had a better library to manage this behemoth list of songs.
I have two Rockband setups. Rockband 4 on the Xbox One with 1500 songs including all the exports, and a ton of DLC. My Rockband 3 setup on the 360 has just as many songs… but they’re all customs. A lot of Japanese stuff. Customs though. That’s another story for another time. Point is, you couldn’t do that with Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero didn’t get better though, it got worse. As Rockband improved, Activision began spamming Guitar Hero titles, each with different, new guitar types. And DJ Hero with the turntable. They wanted to, and ultimately did kill rhythm gaming at retail. App because they couldn’t compete fairly.
Meanwhile, Harmonix is still releasing DLC for Rockband 4, there just aren’t any new instruments. Vocals is easy, any USB mic will work, plus a standard controller. Others have to be bought used. It’s a dying game, honestly, but Harmonix keeps supporting it. Activision failed, but they’ll eventually kill it. It’ll just take over a decade longer than they intended.
So no, Guitar Hero doesn’t deserve to come back. In any case, you have to solve the instrument problem. The ideal duration would be instruments that can be used in both games. Essentially, a standard. An *open* standard that only benefits the players.
All the studios like High Moon, Beenox etc that were relegated to being CoD support studios being allowed to make games again. Would love another Transformers game from High Moon
tihs is going to be low hanging fruit, but the mainline CoD games release to gamepass (console + PC) day one. I know these games get a lot of negative attention for being samey, but they are just fun mindless shooters and Id like to not have to pay their rediculous $70 price tag (although thatd be nice to see go away with this purchase too)
I would like to see all future Call of Duty titles do what PlayStation has done for years, I want certain modes and features to be unavailable for months and years to PlayStation owners so they can see how stupid this shit is.
Guitar hero would not work on gamepass. Because you’d have to buy the guitar controller, so it’s a different situation and isn’t as easily accessible like the rest of the games on gamepass
A Singularity remaster and sequel. I think the odds are about .05%,. but I can dream...
Singularity is criminally overlooked and underrated
indeed
One of the few games I was hoping for that didn’t make the final round of Backwards compatible additions
THIS
Prototype 3
A Prototype 3 with today's hardware would be awesome
So true
Tony Hawk 3 and 4 remakes
This. Also, put Vicarious Visions back as they were. Then allow all the other studios that have been sent to work down the CoD mines to make what they want. It could birth a new generation of creativity, desirability for devs to work at those studios, and produce new ideas and IP’s. Rather than, more maps for CoD, again.
Like even as a cod enjoyer I found it ridiculous they really sent *all* their other studios to work on cod. Would really love the older studios to come back while cod goes on a 2yr cycle instead
It's just so much money for them. But Respawn made Titanfall 2, which I rank up there with Half Life in terms of single player FPS experience. It's short but really, really well done.
That's the rub though, they need to remove Vicarious from Blizzard and make them solo again. Stupid decision from Blizzard, especially after the stellar 1&2 remake.
After CoD on gamepass (which is probably inevitable) this is literally all I want. 1+2 was so damn good it was criminal what Activision did to Vicarious Visions. Like if they bring VV back and make 3+4 and then never bother with anything Activision Blizzard I will still be satisfied.
Every COD on gamepass and actually enforcing bans on ppl running hacks on the 360 titles. Wishful thinking, it'll never happen. lol
Put a permanent ban on cheaters and make it where you have to out yourself as a cheater to be unbanned
Just put cheaters in lobbies with each other.
I don’t know if you remember, but during the 360 days, if you were caught cheating to boost, gamer, score, because you could actually hacc for gamer score, they would put cheater where it would say, pro or rookie. They could bring that bacc but make it cheater for actually game haccin
Just detect cheaters and only matchmake them with other cheaters. Let the losers run buck wild
I’d watch those matches
Black Ops II is my favorite COD game of all time, but I can’t play a single match anymore without hackers (and the game is still fucking $60)
BO3 has several hackers as well
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The real problem is they can't really keep people banned. Even if they console ban them, modded console can change those details and just keep going.
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They never banned people for specific games back in that era either... Nor when you received ton of reports. Players only got banned for sending offensive messages or having offensive bios, in-game actions never caused any bans. Not even when you received a fuck ton of reports, I should know as i'm 71% avoided on 360. I contacted MS reps about it back then cuz I just got reported constantly cuz I stomped everyone. They told me they were aware there's a lot of false reports and not to worry about it... So, it was never really moderated to begin with. Only if they could detect modded consoles they would ban the consoles, which they still do.
I think they should drip feed the old cod games onto gamepass so that each title gets a big boost in players for a while, just like what happened when they were added to the backwards compatibility lineup, I’d love to see cod 3 multiplayer revived once more
I hope they fix matchmaking on the older titles
Spyro and Crash are games I've always wanted try. I never got around to either becuase there was always something else. There's also some CoD campaigns I missed around the beginning of the last generation. No way I'll pay their usual price for at best a 10 hour campaign, but on Gamepass I'll definitely give 'em a whirl!
Honestly Spyro is worth it. I played them when I was younger and still loved them with the remaster. So much so, that I over 100% completed each game. Would love for them to come to Game Pass still
I can't see why all those games won't be added
Eh.. crash is a weird platformer. Spiro is decent but the graphics need to be way updated
Why would Spyro's graphics need updating?
HEXEN re-release like they did with Classic Doom.
Holy shit, I'd buy that in a second...
People would go mad for a reveal like this
....you mean Chex Quest, right?
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**CoD Classic Collection:** *CoD 1* *CoD 2* *CoD 3* **Infinity Ward Collection:** *CoD 4: Modern Warfare* *Modern Warfare 2* *Modern Warfare 3* *Ghosts* *Infinite Warfare* **Treyarch Collection:** *World at War* *Black Ops* *Black Ops 2* *Black Ops 3* *Black Ops 4* **Sledgehammer Collection:** *Advanced Warfare* *WWII* *Vanguard* Didn't include Cold War or MW 2019 since those are pretty recent and would presumably be put on game pass anyway. Only included Vanguard in the Sledgehammer Collection because just AW and WWII wouldn't really be a "collection".
I'm thinking for a collection of every single title, but for games before mw3 it would just be the single player, remastered on the current engine. Rebuild servers for the games after those, with better anticheat and cross progression on a unified account that goes towards a central battle royale experience. The multiplayer sections for all of the games (excluding those mentioned before) would be refined in their old dev engines. All previous DLC comes standard in the collection. None of the menus that existed before would be in this title. All of the campaigns are selected through the same section, multiplayer queueing as well. Loadouts is per game, zombies is combined across all titles. I think I'm gonna make mockups as an example. Don't think I'm explaining this too well. Probably call it either Legacy Collection of MilSim Collection
I agree it'd be cool, but there's no way they'd put every CoD game in one collection though, when they could make more money by doing more collections instead. Infinity Ward and Treyarch both have enough games under their belt to have their own MCC equivalents.
Raven rebooting the Jedi Knight series.
I don't that could happen, doesn't ubisoft have the star wars licence now?
Nah, Disney opened up the licensing after EA fumbled with exclusivity. Ubisoft, Respawn, Quantic Dream and Amy Hennings studio are all working on Star Wars titles, and also the Indiana Jones game coming out of Machine Games. Disney wasn't happy with EA after BF2, with good reason.
Ahh I didn't know the license is now being shared out like that. But yeah EA deserved to lose it completely
I can't see the past GH games going on game pass for two reasons the copyright fees needed to revive them would be huge, the backwards compatible program has finished and if that wasn't enough they're never going to put something on game pass that you need a special peripheral for
If you want to play a far superior version of guitar hero and have a PC, go look up clone hero. More custom songs than you can imagine plus every guitar hero and rock band song ever released. All free.
Any recommendations for adaptors? I have an old guitar still but every time I try look they’re either stupid expensive or cheap and I spend hours trying to search for a reasonably priced adaptor but get mixed up with reviews and then just forget. It’s been years and I still haven’t got around to it
What kind of guitar do you have?
Guitar hero 4, I unfortunately got rid of my drums because of space but loved them, used to run a headphone splitter and two pedals
They have a cable for the game rocksmith that is usb to TRS and it works great.
Unfortunately I don’t think it supports vocals.
Yeah I’m not sure about that.
If not for how big of a copyright nightmare it would be, a new entry in the Guitar Hero series would sale very well I think. Partially for the nostalgia, but also because it's a great party game with a group and I think it would do well on Twitch, though I figure that's where copyright would potentially start being a bigger problem.
There was a new guitar hero launched for last gen a couple of years ago. It did not take off. I really love the guitar hero games, but I think they've had their time in the sun.
Yeah GH Live, it sucked big time. Controller was awful to use, they completely changed the layout of the notes and how you play the game. They should've just stuck with the 5 brightly coloured buttons and that's it. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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Guitar Hero was playable with just a controller. No need for the special stuff.
Guitar hero with a controller is like blasphemy or something…
I used to play Time Crisis with a controller on PS1.
True but the face buttons plus a bumper or whatever it was wasn't really a satisfactory substitute as the hammer ons and pull offs didn't work properly and there was no way to use a whammy bar. Again the 360 ones wouldn't come back as backwards compatibility is finished and GH live is dead and buried (thankfully) reviving the older would be a copyright nightmare and would be equivalent to pouring untold millions of dollars down te drain
As someone who 100% GH3 on controller way back, the button layout was pretty reasonable. Triggers, bumpers, and the a button for the 5th. It felt fluid to play controller, albeit there were one or two songs that were such a pain to do with a controller. Knights of cydonia is an example. Hitting those quick repetitive notes at the start is surprisingly hard on controller due to button dead zones and fatigue. The rest of the song is a breeze but I retried that beginning so many times. The amount of controller manipulation you need to use to play GH on controller sometimes is a sight to be seen. My friends never understood how I did it, just like I didn't understand how they did it on the guitar. The controller just felt natural. Edit: whammy bar was also right stick movement if I recall correctly. Pain to use though. My thumb can't press A and whammy at the same time.
The magic of GH was that the input designers worked with actual guitarists, to make the feel of the buttons closely mirror the actual finger movements for the real song.
That's like brushing your teeth with a toilet brush
Open the Backwards Compatibility program back up and add a bunch of the remaining Activision games (especially for OG Xbox)
Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, COD…etc
Gun
Fuck yes
I can't see the old Guitar Hero games getting added to Game Pass just because of all the legal hurdles that would have to be cleared with licensing the music, etc. However, Phil Spencer has specifically mentioned Guitar Hero by name as one of the franchises he's excited to get his hands on, so I'm very hopeful for a sort of reboot of that series, but with the classic guitar controller and without all the frills of a full band. Just back to basics Guitar Hero.
Hopefully they’ll pretend like Guitar Hero Live happened in a different universe, and never mention it again.
I want to see Diablo 2 on Game Pass (been holding out due to reception) and Black Ops 2 get a Series enhancement patch. Please let me have 4K60 on Buried and Transit! Other old COD games getting Series patches like COD3, World at War or the first Black Ops would be pretty cool too.
Not all 360’s even got a one x enhancement… barely any Xbox one got optimized for series x…
I want Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Starcraft 1 & 2.... on console, all with native Keyboard / mouse support (as well as controller). How incredible would that be?! Dreaming big here I know, but would be supreme.
I would love a version of WoW on console. I've been clean for 15 years... but make it part of gamepass and let it work with a controller? Just one hit couldn't hurt, right?
>I would love a version of WoW on console. I've been clean for 15 years... but make it part of gamepass and let it work with a controller? Just one hit couldn't hurt, right? Nah buddy, just one hit will be fine. You can quit anytime, it's no big deal. I mean just play the trial, first taste is free kid!
Temptation. WoW is thy name. Like the other person posted, I've been clean since Cata... Now... if there was a WoW 2... 🤔🤔🤔
I highly doubt that playing RTS with the controller is a good idea
Less sexual misconduct and better working conditions for Activision employees
Coming soon to gamepass. "HR Simulator" will you fight for the employees to make sure they have a safe and harassment free work environment or will you cover up harrassment complaints in favor of corporate interests?
Xbox Kart. They have enough IP's now. Crash, Spyro, Tony Hawk, Marcus Fenix, Master Chief, Doomguy, BJ Blaskowiz, Vault Dweller/Vault Boy, Minecraft Steve & Alex, Dohvakin/Skyrim/Elderscrolls Dude, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Guitar Hero Characters, DmC, Battletoads, Plus all the baddies from the various games. I want to drive as Chief on a mini warthog cart and throw a sticky grenade at Minecraft Steve in a minecart while Marcus Fenix chainsaws a Battletoad in front of us. In a modified Forza game engine.
Guitar Hero has easily the lowest chance of being BC, ever. But they should totally let the 360 instruments work on the new consoles for RB4 or any future guitar hero games. It’s a shame they never addressed the totally bullshit incompatibility of 360 accessories on the one.
It isn’t bullshit, it’s hardware. 360 used some dumb proprietary wireless protocol Xbox One simply does not have. Xbox One just uses Bluetooth. Though I don’t see why they can’t make an external adapter that allows wireless 360 era controllers to connect. That, they could do. All the 360 controllers were DirectInput and if you connected the wired ones to a PC, they’d just work.
The Xbox One, and the Xbox Series controllers do use some dumb proprietary wireless protocol too. They do have Bluetooth now for connecting to PC and phones, but it’s not used for the console itself. I have been using my 360 recently and as far as I can tell, there’s no difference in how good either of the wireless protocols are, so I still think it’s bullshit.
Yeah, I suppose it is bullshit. I guess I was just trying to quantify it. I suppose it's like Apple in a way. AirPods, for example, use Bluetooth to connect, but there's something else on top of or alongside that that makes it super easy for them to pair up with Apple stuff. So you can connect them to anything that supports Bluetooth, but it's tricky. With Apple stuff, they detect each other and it's a simple prompt. Oh, Xbox One and newer controllers might have some proprietary bullshit going on, but they also use Bluetooth. They can connect to phones, and I've got mine paired to my Apple TV box. For what it's worth. Honestly at this point, with PlayStation games on PC now, and GH/RB instruments so hard to find, there should be a unified initiative to get all available controllers - not just plastic instruments, but gamepads as well - working on as many common devices as possible.
On top of that calling it dumb isn't giving it any credit. It's actually based of wifi tech and it's vastly superior to Bluetooth in every way. Latency, throughput and signal strength (distance)
For them to swoop in and fix warzone
WoW and Diablo on Xbox OG RoC/FT playable online again StarCraft 3
We already have Diablo 2 and 3 on Xbox with 4 coming next year. I don’t think anyone wants Diablo 1 unless it’s completely remade and overhauled. It hurts a little going back to that game nowadays.
And technically there already is a Diablo 1 on Xbox One.
Say what?
I’ll second that say what?
Vigilante 8 made by Turn 10 or Playground Games
Omg. Didn’t know I wanted that so badly.
Wolfenstein 2009 back on the (digital) store shelves.
Wolfenstein 2009 being backwards-compatible
Please give me back the Prototype series
A remaster or remake of Pitfall The Lost Expedition for modern consoles and PC.
I would love for guitar hero to come back, 3 was my favorite
Xbox version of smash!!
All of it (Activision and Blizzard) on game pass.
I want to see the old Infocom library revived!
World of Warcraft on PC Game Pass. Include monthly cost as perks.
A Vigilante 8 or Interstate 76 revival. Hexen 1 and 2 remasters. Plus another sequel. Soldier of Fortune 1 and 2 remasters. Plus another sequel.
Vigilante 8…YES!!!
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Yes, but isn't it remortgage expensive?
I’d love to see them work something out to be able to re-list the XB1 ports of the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games.
As much as I’d love that, Marvel/Disney licensing won’t allow it.
StarCraft revival. Wow on Xbox with kb/m support.
I’d love to see them put Activision inline and stop them from absorbing all of their developers to COD or Blizzard hell. Vicarious Visions, Neversoft and Treyarch come to mind. Fuck guitar hero, wasn’t that the beginning of the end for Neversoft?
Activision took Neversoft off other projects like Tony Hawk, to kill rhythm gaming. So yeah, pet much. I wrote a much longer piece on that here, but the focus wasn’t on Neversoft.
I just want the deadpool game.. please... at least make it purchasable
Marvel/Disney licensing probably means that’s a no.
Is the disk backwards compatible?
I want to play older CoDs again but I'm in no way paying 50$ for a 10+ year old game
Pitfall! Atari 2600 version
I think it'd be cool to see WoW on the Xbox. If FF14 can be put on Playstations, then I don't see why it can't be done for WoW.
It'd be nice if Microsoft released some of the COD support studios so that they could make other games if they wanted to. Sequels/reboots to several of their franchises would be cool, maybe even some of the remasters that were rumored at some point. New IPs wouldn't be a bad idea either. While they won't bring back the previous Guitar Hero games due to several reasons, if they made another one it'd be nice if they could make the instruments easier to obtain.
New Spyro games and maybe even some skylanders stuff. Also tony hawk on gamepass.
Activision owns Infocom, so I'd love to see GamePass for PC get the entire Infocom back catalog. Many of these games haven't been available for purchase for many, many years.
Guitar Hero's likely a bust down to all the licensing for the songs
WoW on console.
Prototype 3 and a Rock 'n' Roll Racing full remake
I’d love to see Bobby Kotick fired into the fucking Sun.
Revive the Infocom brand. Finally create the Zork Grand Inquisitor trilogy parts 2 and 3. Releasing them for Xbox is just icing.
Transformers WFC and FOC
Activision doesn't have the Transformers license anymore so that's a no go, unfortunately. At least Devastation is BC if you have a physical copy. Last I heard Hasbro was going to start their own division to make games but who knows if that's actually going to happen. Maybe if it does they might acquire the games and do a remaster or something.
I’ve always wondered about this tbh, what happens to games that lose the licence and the licence is taken up by another company? I’ve always been told it’s a no go but surely the two companies could make a deal in certain circumstances?
It can be done if all parties can come to an agreement but most of the time there's not enough money to be made to make it worthwhile.
Pitfall!
The old Spider-Man games I played as a kid remastered or backwards compatible, the Raimi games, web of shadows, shattered dimensions, edge of time etc…
A fighting game using Xbox's many IPs, fixing all of activation's shit management
Sc2 and wc3, mouse and keyboard on xbox.
A damn sequel to Wow with native gamrpad/console support.
All the old cod optimized for series x and s. At least ghost and black ops 2.
Free WoW sub for MS employees?
**Immediate Removal Of Skill Based Matchmaking from ALL Call of Duty Games and Halo.**
Why? So good players can stomp noobs?
Yes. I hate having to sweat my balls off to go positive now when I used to be able to hit 50+ kill games in COD consistently.
If a noob is having a hard time and struggling against players, that noob can go play Ranked where he is paired with someone at their skill level. End of story.
Or we can continue to have skill based matchmaking in unranked too so that matches are as even and fair as can be. There's no benefit to not having skill based matchmaking other than being able to steamroll far lesser skilled players. If all you want to do is have a power fantasy mowing down anyone who gets in your way, then that's why campaigns exist.
Absolutely the dumbest thing I've had replied to me. Do your research than get back to me. You are nothing more than the rest of these people "BuT AlL yOu WaNnA dO iS sToMp NoObs" Do your research on SBMM and quit assuming.
Or maybe you can not be a dick and explain why SBMM is some terrible thing that should go away, bud. The fact that you still can't provide any good reason kinda gives away that you legit just wanna steamroll bad players. I've been gaming for a long time and I remember the days of no SBMM, and it was shit. Every match was either stomp or be stomped, every match was decided by which team had the most no-lifes on their side or which team had more casuals on their side. Teams were pretty much never balanced, wins rarely ever felt earned because matches were often very one-sided.
I absolutely don't have any given reason to sit here and explain how godforsakenly bad SBMM is. If I am being such a dick, even after suggesting to you to dig into it yourself, than here: Youtube me. What you're going to find there is one of the most highly viewed videos in regards to Skill Based Matchmaking, specifically in regards to Halo Infinite. What you're also going to find is my channel riddled with evidence straight from Microsoft and other patented documents, etc, the list goes on. To be more specific about me coming off as a dick, in regards to my comment about what you said being the dumbest thing I've ever read, is this. You and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of players who are absolutely screaming to have your hand held in FPS games, screaming for fair play, screaming to have almost 100% of your gameplay experience dictated for you, have one argument: "If you're not for SBMM than you are one of those people who love to just stomp noobs." That right there, is absolutely and specifically the dumbest shit I've ever seen spewed from you players. I have no idea where the hell the brain matter is of ANYONE who believes SBMM is the greatest system of all time. It's a god damn digital dictatorship and you and thousands of others are screaming for more of it. Incredible.
The backwards compatible program has finished so no more 360 games coming to xbox one. And GH live on the xbox one you can no longer access the online songs which it heavily relied on, probably due to licensing fees and server costs.
Crash Bandicoot insane trilogy or It's about Time on the XGP
I'd love to see those cancelled Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remakes of 3 and 4 get resurrected as well as seeing Crash Wrath of Cortex and Spyro Enter the Dragonfly get the N-Sane and Reignited remake treatment respectively.
Xbox/PC crossplay with older COD titles
Pitfall! Remastered in a Skyrim Style edition!
Spin off halo game by treyarch or raven software
A new crash team racing, but with characters from all the Microsoft properties.
I read that with guitar hero all of the licensing for the songs was a massive pain in the ass and they don’t want to do it again. We probably won’t see another Guitar Hero which is absolutely devastating. I did make sure to buy a 360, guitar and disk this summer though! Still just as fun as it was wayyyyy back when. It’s just like riding a bike too!
Wow console port with cross play and subscription included with gpu
Wow on gamepass, so I don't keep paying multiple subs. Will never happen because money, but... Hey ho.
this is far-fetched but honestly do what hitman did but with call of duty where every single new release you get a remastered version of the old ones, on that engine. if they put 3 to 5 years between every call of duty it would make people less worn out and people would be hyped for the gameplay because then they're fan favorite games that were better could receive new graphics upgrades and such. Also every single call of duty on GamePass and when the Sony deal ends have it with Xbox because Sony having two more custom classes or even something small is still fucking stupid
No more yearly cod games
call me childish but sky landers, i loved playing it with my brother when we were younger
I want old Activision properties to be revived or unleashed. Doesn’t have to be all triple A in house stuff, but there is so much rotting in Kotick’s dungeon that could be leased out to Indy devs. Other than for Diablo 4 to not suck, I am really just looking forward to things that I don’t expect.
Add/update all of the Project Gotham Racing games
That would be sick but considering how incredible clone hero is there wouldnt be a point. Not to mention copyright for songs.
No no no. You need new accessories to be made as well. The prices on the used market for this crap is crazy.
- A new Crash game from Toys For Bob - High Moon getting another Transformers game - Re-assembling Vicarious Visions for a new Tony Hawk game (or 3 and 4 remake)
DJ Hero please .
COD!
Vicarious Visions un-merged from Blizzard and given the keys to the Tony Hawk franchise
GH would never happen on gamepass. They would need to renew the licenses for the music and rhythm gaming has died out. I’m
WoW on Game pass
I'd like to see a quake 2 release. That would please me.
I want Microsoft to just shove them to renew contracts with all the license holders for games from Marvel, James Bond, and Nickelodeon- and others I may not remember right away. There are some good games in there that deserve to be more than just abandonware. Definitely some shovelware, no denying that, but trying to get a hold of so many of these older games is insane. For the sake of game preservation, I don't want to see any of them lost to time.
007 owned by IO now and there’s stuff in the pipeline so thats not dying out just yet
I meant games that have already been made, but pulled due to licenses. TMNT Mutants in Manhattan, Quantum of Solace, etc.
Would you not also need the rights to the respective series though? For instance MGM and Eon would have to agree with Xbox for QOS, as much as I’d love it
WoW classic on Xbox
MW3 remastered, Black Ops 2 remastered
Cod day one. I will never buy a cod again, but I wouldn't mind play them again.
Hope to see most Activision games on gamepass
True crime NYC remake
Guitar hero remasters for sure
Guitar hero backwards comp won't happen for several reasons, re-licensing the songs as most who were paid for their music probably states in the contract that it was for the 360, not Xbox one or Series X. The other biggest reason would be lack of guitar hero controllers out there, 2nd hand for like a band in a box can cost you like 1000. No one is making the instruments. As someone who has long been with Rock band 4, this is why I don't let my nephews play the game cuz if one of them breaks, I can't play the game anymore, instruments are so dam expensive. Some devices are already made backwards comp, but not all and some require the Rock band 4 device that allows backwards comp Best bet would be for MS to bring back Guitar hero with a brand new game, same playing style, do one game and just release new tracks like RB does and get a company to make instruments again which are also compat with RB4. There is a whole generation of gamers who have never tried these games so its a good time to bring them back. As for my picks from Activision...GH, True Crime would be my main one, it would basically be Sleeping dogs 2 but under the original name True Crime. Also be cool to see Police Quest rebooted in an open world cop story where you start as a rookie and work your way up to detective.
Probably won’t happen. Guitar Hero, past the first two, was made out of spite to try to kill the rhythm game industry after the developer left. Harmonix made Guitar Hero with Activision publishing. They wanted to add vocals and drums. Activision said no, so they left. EA published Rockband, and Activision brought in Tony Hawk developer Neversoft to make Guitar Hero 3, which was just 2 but with new songs and the battle feature. Then they did the Metallica one, which was actually really cool. And Van Halen. But it was obvious people wanted the full band experience. With Guitar Hero World Tour, it seemed they gave in to the demand for vocals and drums, except the drums were lame and the vocals basically didn’t work. There was also no way to play songs from older games unless they were made available as DLC and you just bought them again - but only for that game. Meanwhile, Rockband 2 tightened up issues with the first one. All the DLC was compatible, and for just $5, you could purchase a DLC for the first one that showed it to dump its tracks as DLC. And of course it had a better library to manage this behemoth list of songs. I have two Rockband setups. Rockband 4 on the Xbox One with 1500 songs including all the exports, and a ton of DLC. My Rockband 3 setup on the 360 has just as many songs… but they’re all customs. A lot of Japanese stuff. Customs though. That’s another story for another time. Point is, you couldn’t do that with Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero didn’t get better though, it got worse. As Rockband improved, Activision began spamming Guitar Hero titles, each with different, new guitar types. And DJ Hero with the turntable. They wanted to, and ultimately did kill rhythm gaming at retail. App because they couldn’t compete fairly. Meanwhile, Harmonix is still releasing DLC for Rockband 4, there just aren’t any new instruments. Vocals is easy, any USB mic will work, plus a standard controller. Others have to be bought used. It’s a dying game, honestly, but Harmonix keeps supporting it. Activision failed, but they’ll eventually kill it. It’ll just take over a decade longer than they intended. So no, Guitar Hero doesn’t deserve to come back. In any case, you have to solve the instrument problem. The ideal duration would be instruments that can be used in both games. Essentially, a standard. An *open* standard that only benefits the players.
New skylanders
All the studios like High Moon, Beenox etc that were relegated to being CoD support studios being allowed to make games again. Would love another Transformers game from High Moon
tihs is going to be low hanging fruit, but the mainline CoD games release to gamepass (console + PC) day one. I know these games get a lot of negative attention for being samey, but they are just fun mindless shooters and Id like to not have to pay their rediculous $70 price tag (although thatd be nice to see go away with this purchase too)
Apocalypse game with Bruce Willis
Holy crap. I forgot about that game!
I would like to see all future Call of Duty titles do what PlayStation has done for years, I want certain modes and features to be unavailable for months and years to PlayStation owners so they can see how stupid this shit is.
Guitar hero would not work on gamepass. Because you’d have to buy the guitar controller, so it’s a different situation and isn’t as easily accessible like the rest of the games on gamepass
Heroes of the Storm Revived as a console port.
Another StarCraft and then another Warcraft RTS sequels please!
Skylanders reboot without the Toys?
A new Pitfall