Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - On Indefinite Hiatus

@Balta666 eh, i’m kinda over it now considering that i physically have mario galaxy and the ROM for sunshine. all that’s really missing is SM64, but im willing to pay $50 for a year sub & catalog of n64 games and switch online

@Bob_Salat well i looked on CDkeys, and theyre as low as $7, but theyre all out of stock

I loved playing through the spyro trilogy. The controls are perfect and the driver is collecting everything. Which I did. Getting to 75% is the easy part, the last 25% is the challenge.

I quite like the humour and character designs. The secrets and uncovering them for the 100% completion is rewarding.

Collectaphon games are not for everyone. But outside of a couple of levels, it's pretty straightforward in a similar way to the original crackdown. Which also got a lot of hate for it's simplicity. Contrarily, it's a bonus for me.

The comparison to Mario 64 is fair due to the times they released. But they offer differing takes on the genre. Mario is significantly tougher creating a wider challenge, which for some is more rewarding. These days, I just don't have the willpower to overcome failing an easy jump multiple times due to a bad camera angle or geometry. In this regard spyro gets it's mostly right, as the open design has less opportunity to gazump your progress.

@PeaceSalad Bom dia! It has been updated.

Happy holidays everyone! I hope everyone can spend them with with their loved ones (and many games on the side).

There will be a slight change around here for next year but I will add a post next week (and tag everyone at that time)

Hello everyone!

Let's start with s bit of house cleaning after holidays mess. Our good friend Ralphdibny has kindly asked me to create a new forum's topic so I can manage everything on my own, therefore from the 1st of January this topic will remain as legacy content and I will tag everyone to the new one.
Let's raise our glasses in thanking to the good/hard work he always did for this community!

Also please let me know what are your votes for next month. As always suggestions' list in the link in my signature. Thanks

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Happy new year everyone!

Although we have a single vote for January I am reluctant to move to a new topic if the engagement (I know that is quite the naughty word in the gaming world right now 😂) is not there.
The reality is that the days of at least 4/5 people playing the monthly game is long gone so I want to ask if you guys want to continue into a new forum topic or move on. Also apologies for recent spam.

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@PeaceSalad yes, that is correct. Yeah, above all I want to hear what the community wants to do. We can always stick to a not so strict monthly rule or more games each time for example.

I'm probably not playing this month since i just bought visions of mana. I don't mind playing each month of the game is engaging. Spyro didn't hold my attention once indy came out. I've been pretty involved this year but it's usually just a couple of us playing each month. I'm good with whatever you guys decide though.

Happy new year everyone. Hope you all had a good break and got in some gaming. Wishing you all the best for 2025 and beyond.

@Balta666 unfortunately I haven’t taken part in several months, but I still read every post here.

Looking at my annual wrap ups I play less and less games each year and I just don’t have time to play an extra game per month anymore. On the rare occasions I do I’d more likely pick a game of my choosing off my lengthy and ever increasing backlog.

It’s a shame as I’ve always enjoyed playing together and sharing our thoughts, but unfortunately I just don’t have the time right now and don’t see this changing anytime soon. Too many life commitments and live services.

Of course if I have time or the game selected matches what I want to play I’ll gladly join in. I know that’s perhaps not all that helpful but just want to be honest and don’t want to give false hope.

I think it is time to say it was good while it lasted. Thank you for the collaboration but I will not create the new forum's topic.

I'm playing Nine Sols right now. Challeging but super fun and satisfying. Plus it has sliders so you can bend the game to your talents.

@SixShootinRonin I played it during the holidays. It is a really good Metroidvania with a very very challenging gameplay focused on parries (which is a mechanic I am not very fond of). I have to say I. The last three bosses I decided to lower the difficulty as the previous ones took me hours (literally). Enjoy!

@ralphdibny @balta666 I always look forward to the monthly Game Club! You're a champ for running it for so long.

Whether we're doing one or not, I've decided to give Guardians of the Galaxy a go this month, and would love to hear what people think if they fancy joining me

Thanks for the efforts Ralph and baltz.. it was fun for the couple years that I joined in.

I always thought that the game club was a great community event. Sadly I never took part in it mainly cause I played the games already and the big one for me was my gaming schedule is so eradic I couldn't possibly finish the game in a months time and I didn't want that pressure. Still it was a great idea.

@HelloCraigo Maybe someone from the staff can take it over and even post an article about it like they use to.

@PeaceSalad I can sympathize with no one from the community not wanting to organize it, it takes alot of time and energy to organize something like that. Most people don't have the time or the energy to do something like that and for nothing really.

@NintendoByNature While Spyro is a great game the first one especially just gets so repetitive very quickly and there are some very cheap parts. It's honestly a product of its age and I think alot of people have the rose tinted glasses on when it comes to that game, I know I did.

I loved Spyro back on the PS One it was one of my most played games that Gen (thet and Castlevania: SotN) and I even preferred it over Mario 64. I was excited when news of the Remaster came out and they did an awesome job of it, you can tell they wanted to give fans a good remake not just a cash grab, I even go so far as ranking it as one of the best Remasters in awhile. I immediately bought the game for PS4 and eventually the Xbox and Switch but sadly one play through was enough for me on my PS4. As I said, it's not a bad Remaster no gaming breaking bugs or odd choices of changes (except for how the camera followed you) but the gameplay was just dated. It's basically your collectiathon based games that was big during the 90s when Spyro came out. I can see why they have tried to reinvent Spyro over the years. Honestly maybe they should do a 2D metrovania style Spyro maybe that would be better in this day and age.

@PeaceSalad thank you. I will one day I bet. But so far I have never been on the Sony ecosystem (I only have a PS2 I bought when it was already retro)

@Balta666 sorry to hear that. But if there isn’t the demand then it’s time to move on. Want to thank you and @Ralphdibny for all the organisation over the last few years, very much appreciated.