Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - On Indefinite Hiatus

Thank you all for the kind words! And I add my voice in saying that I am happy to see you are well on RL @ralphdibny.

P.s: I am personally not a very expressive person, also not helped as English is not my first language but that feels more of an excuse than a reason tbh, but I can honestly say as well that being part of this community made me really happy from start to finish.
Although I have played games since the early 90s it only got to be a main part of my life when the Switch announcement released in October 2016 and I put on FB (who remembers that 😂) the meme "shut up and take my money". Moving forward to 2021 when I first subscribed to GP PC and a few months later to a series X and landed here. Yes, the Xbox community is the smaller (even on the websites here) but I feel a lot of joy in it. Kudos to everyone 😃

@Tasuki yea it just didn't hit with me unfortunately. Plus I just really lost interest in everything else once indy came out.

@ralphdibny Delighted for you! Sounds like you're doing brilliantly 💪💪

@PeaceSalad Solid list. I have played almost all those games and can recommend them. The only ones I haven't finished are Unravel (which I didn't finish) and Maneater (which is on my backlog). Unpacking, Firewatch and Superliminal were all stand outs.

A few other short games on Game Pass i'd recommend are:

• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - 3 hours
• Botany Manor - 4 hours
• Limbo - 4 hours
• Inside - 4 hours
• Gang Beasts - 4 hours
• Carrion - 4 hours
• The Gunk - 5 hours
• We Love Katamari reroll - 5 hours (not played)
• Steamworld Dig - 5 hours
• The Rewinder - 5 Hours
• Planet of Lana - 5 hours
• The Case of the Golden Idol - 6 hours
• Resident Evil 3 - 6 hours
• Citizen Sleeper - 6 hours (though i've not played it)
• Steamworld Dig 2 - 8 hours

But a lot are old or quite niche.... perhaps that's good for discussion. Also the HLTB is the "main story" time which I think often grossly underestimates the commitment needed for many games.

Sadly even playing a shorter game I can't commit right now. But i'll keep an eye here and on Push Square in case this changes.

@PeaceSalad Like you games take me much longer. I'm convinced that people grossly underestimate how long games take them to play for HLTB, but as they do this for all games it's still a useful guide.

But then again my flatmate used to see if he could run through every combat encounter unless he was forced to fight and played in record times. So perhaps there are more weirdos like him (or me)

Good luck on the recruitment drive!

I know for me speaking games take alot of time for me to complete. With family a 40hour a week job, commuting to said job, plus then dividing my free time to other things like stuff that needs done around the house to playing multiple games to multiple TV shows I am lucky if I can get 4 hours a week to myself for gaming.

I don't see how people nowadays can play these massive 80+ hour games. I just come to the conclusion that most who do are single and don't have such a demanding job like I do.

But I am getting off track here even something like a 4 hour game takes me several days to finish, that is if I just don't drop it because of time.

Actually the hltb main +extras tends to be very close to my time (on a +/-1h) with a few exceptions like for example Nine Sols which the bosses were destroying me (and taking several hours each) and when I gave up with 3 bosses lefts and decided to lower the level to finish the story I was already over the time estimated.

I am happy to keep contributing as I can. I have played some of those but definitely not all.

I would be interested. Really struggling to find motivation to play games atm (bouncing from game to game with no real progression).
Was thinking about hunting trophies and achievements again, but I recalled that making it worse lol

I would be interested. Glad somebody is taking up the mantle.

Not sure if they still do it, but in the Patient Gamer sub reddit, they pick a short and long game of the month.
Maybe something to think about here. Other thing to maybe consider is semi-merging the Xbox and Playstation Game Clubs together. Linking to each other as I know there are a few of us using both sites.

I would be interested, although due to familiy commitments and such, my participation may be intermittant, as I don't get a great deal of time to game these days

I am interested in keep going 😀

I can keep going. I was just busy in January with Visions of Mana which is a long game along with playing DQ3 on switch. Thanks for taking the charge.

I'd be interested in a revamp!

If we're picking February games, I'll toss a vote out for the new gamepass drop, Ninja Gaiden 2 black. I haven't played any of the modern ninja gaiden games. I hear they're tough, but I'm willing to check it out in anticipation of 4.

I'm looking to clear a few shorter sub-10 hour games off my backlog so i'll throw in As Dusk Falls, Road 96 & Return to Monkey Island

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Hey all, apologies for the late reply. Had a lot on but I was reading all your messages as they came in and I want to say thank you all for your kind words. It really makes a difference

I forgot to give props to Balta for all their hard work. Balta, you have done an absolutely wonderful job maintaining this thread and you were the perfect person for it. Well done mate 😀

Thank you PeaceSalad for starting a new thread as well, i appreciate that very much. You have done an amazing job over at Push Square so I think you will bring a lot of that same energy to your new role here at Pure Xbox. Best of luck with it, you are going to smash it!

Thanks again everyone, lots of love and wishing you all the best! 🧡

The new thread is here for anyone looking for it

https://www.purexbox.com/forums/xbox-series-x/pure_xbox_commu...

I miss this place.

First time I realized @peacesalad/agentcooper has deleted his account therefore the other forum is gone...