MC Scores:

Halo 97 | Halo 2 95 | Halo 3 94 | Halo 4 87 | Halo 5 84

GeoW 94 | GeoW 2 93 | GeoW 3 91 | GeoW 4 84 | Gears 5 84

I'd call that a decline. And if we were to count Uncharted Lost Legacy, I would call that a decline to since ND released 5 Uncharted games and their last entry wasn't as stellar as previous entries. Which is why they claimed that this would be the last entry for Uncharted and hopefully we'll see something new from them next gen.

The fact that MS has added more and more studios and told those studios to make what they want, is a good thing

I agree and I'm not arguing that. Just look at what's happened at Activision. They had a hit with Call of Duty last gen and rotated multiple devs to do Call of Duty every year. And every year since Black Ops, Call of Duty gets less stellar reviews and declining sales. The latest entry is the most interesting and polished, yet it scored a 7 here. MS was going the Activision route and I'm glad they're turning away from that strategy with their new studios.

I haven't really been paying attention, but I don't really understand the hype. I've seen no sign that this SW game will be better than recent SW games. That trailer was just some cinematic bullshit and made me even less interested. I'm not a fan of either EA or Respawn. Game reminds me of Force Unleashed, another SW game I don't care about.

I'll let the early adopters tell me if it's just an average and derivate action game with a SW theme, or if it's something that's actually worth playing.

I know you didn't. My apologies.

Why does everyone think theres going to be pro version of consoles? That little experiment failed,

That's even before it's sunset time period with lower cost and a successor on the market. Pretty sure the PS4 has a good shot of overtaking the PS2 at this rate.

Congrats Sony.

I disagree. With the exception of Turn 10 and Obsidian, every other dev seems to have been stuck working on the same IPs this gen. Rare finally made something that wasn't a remaster or Kinect game since Kinect was dropped. Playground made four Horizon games back to back. 343 has been on Halo and Coalition on Gears. And those games with the exception of Horizon have been on the decline in critical acclaim.

They are certainly putting in the effort to turn things around and I'm curious to see if they can shake this reputation off.

@x_hedon: I forgot to tell you this. Jedi Fallen Order will have 4 difficulty like:

1. Story/Easy-taking less damage, longer parry counter-attacks, enemies less aggressive.
2. Jedi Knight/Normal-game plays as it intends to do it's own thing, balance.
3. Jedi Master/hard-Small parry window and cal takes more damage.
4. Grandmaster/very hard-more damage taken, small parry, enemies more aggressive.

Story is more suited for your liking.

EA has clearly said their will be no microtransactions since this is a single player game only and Respawn also told them they do not want any of that crap in their game since day one. I know EA gets more crap cause they always never learned and this time around, seems like they came to their sense and go do what CDPR route.

Funny thing is, EA is actually riding the Mandalorian hype train (then episode 9) since both of their trailers release. Unreal Engine 4 has always been a much better engine then Frostbite engine and you can tell they pick the right engine for this type of game.

I thought it was pure shit. So, no, not universal. Worst Ninja Theory game I've ever played.

They won't look like CGI really, no moreso than every iterative generation's move forward. I mean what we're playing now is the CGI of 2 gens ago no doubt, but by now CGI has also been improving. Still a long, long way to go before graphics of CGI and games peak and become fully indistinguishable.

At any rate, I don't give a shit about graphics anymore. 3 generations of iterative graphics updates (or lousy motion controls otherwise) have left me profoundly bored with graphics as an upgrade. I think it's about time we start looking at standardizing dramatic improvements to AI, physics, interactivity, and other technical aspects that don't rely on visual fidelity.