Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - On Indefinite Hiatus

Feel kind of bad. Haven't touched this game since Thursday thanks to TotK 😅. Maybe a quick mission tonight to get me back on track.

@AgentCooper have you been playing solo or online with other players you know or strangers? Just wondering how the game differs or whether it's better one way or another

Other people can chip in on this too

@AgentCooper hmm I wonder if the enemy difficulty is scaled to the amount of players.

I generally find it hard to choose a co op game if it has a story, I feel like arguing over cut-scene skips would be a thing. Mind you, I've never played a game like that so that's probably a naive thing to worry about lol

@AgentCooper ah fair play. Yeah a pre nup sounds good actually! No talking through cutscenes, no skips, and we scour every area for collectibles 😂

I don't think anybody would want to play with me 😂

@ralphdibny next month is closing on us and I noticed there are no votes atm, so let's start the engines.

For next month I will go with:
Chicory a colourful tale and Halo combat evolved

@ralphdibny I am going to vote for Sunset Overdrive

The game is bonkers fun. Plus, Insomniac is a brilliant developer.

My final thoughts on Redfall: Good game that released at a terrible time - especially with the disappointing reception and unfinished feel of it all. Microsoft needed a home run, and sadly Redfall wasn’t it (despite my own personal enjoyment of the game).

Perhaps Tears of the Kingdom is enough of a distraction to the gaming world that Arkane can be given some breathing room to quietly patch things up. As people end their Hyrule journey, they can come back to a stronger title.

I do plan to return to Redfall, but it’s going to be a while.

I do think the game can have a turn around.

Not sure I'll cast a vote for June. I've pretty much stopped playing redfall because of totk. And I don't see me stopping the game anytime soon. I did however download cassette beasts and I'm going to play for 30 to an hour tonight before I play totk.

@AgentCooper yea, I put a good 6-8 hrs in redfall. It was a solid time. But zelda has fully taken over for me. I played about 20 minutes of cassette beasts and I'll do some more this weekend. Nice little game, and great to look at. Definitely noticing some hiccups frame rate wise though. Have you seen the same?

Cheers for the votes peeps, all added

Anyone else got any votes to sling on there for June?

Soooo, we are looking at Halo Combat Evolved for next month. We've only had 3 votes so far though so do vote if you want to have a say in next month's game.

I'm apprehensive to use the tag list as we don't actually have a tie situation going on. I also realise it may be a bit quieter next month due to the sun coming out/people still playing zelda

@ralphdibny I would tag everyone regardless (altough yeah I get that many will be tied to TotK for a while longer)

@Balta666 can't just use the tag list willy nilly balta, or I will be stripped of my powers! I might do tomorrow if nobody else replies, not sure

@ralphdibny you have ultra powers now. No One can get to you until the Avengers are assembled (bunch of drunks anyway)

Well I DLd Halo CE. Might do a tiny bit during June just to feel like I'm still apart of something 🤪

@AgentCooper well I do like to see my gamerscore going up and it has been fairly often to see myself prioritizing games on Xbox due to it (even death Stranding that I had on PC Gamepass or the director cut on Epic I ended up playing GP because of it). But as completing the score of the game does not provide you any bonus I don't see myself (or others) pushing for it. The trophys rely more on that. I do prefer Xbox system though.

@AgentCooper I prefer that it has a score instead of a number of trophys. You are rewarded by playing more games instead of completing a single one

@ralphdibny I'm going to be struggling this month, tears of the kingdom has its hooks in me, I've just bought SF6 and it looks like summer has arrived!

@R1spam no worries mate. Enjoy the sun, Chun and Ganondorf's man bun! Epic trio! 😅

@AgentCooper I think achievements used to be a bigger draw back in the 360 era when MS were the only people doing it (until Sony followed suit). I'm guessing here but I suspect the mass migration over to PS4 (here in the UK anyway) probably led to dwindling xbox friends lists to compare sizes with. I think Sony do have a slightly more refined and challenging system to up the score number that actually gets compared, so maybe there's some psychology at work there too

I'll be updating this thread to Halo combat evolved a little bit later!