Alex79uk

This is just another nail in Xbox's coffin. Nothing would drag me back to Gamepass at this point. If I was a teenager with so much more time on my hands it might appeal, but then I'd not be able to afford it. As an adult who can afford it but doesn't have the time to even complete one big game a month (more like 3 or 4 a year) it just doesn't offer value any more. I quit Gamepass two years ago and nothing about the service appeals to me now.

EDIT: Wow. I genuinely expected these comments to be full of people defending it as still good value, but no, it's just post after post of people voicing their legitimate opinion that Gamepass stinks. I am surprised and impressed.

It's almost as though they didn't understand the question. At all.

W. T. F. 😆 Yakuza never fails to surprise me.

@Balaam_ Nope, no four hours commute, yet my Switch gets 10x more play than my Xbox or PS5 does. A combination of work, kids, life, means most my gaming is done whilst the TV is being used or when I'm in bed before I go to sleep. A handheld Xbox would be perfect for me, I'd be all over that.

I mean the Switch store page for the game has been live for years...

Far Cry is a series I'll always play for a bit and then just abandon. You've generally seen everything the game has to offer within about ten hours. Haven't finished one since the third game, but I'll give this a play for a bit. Perfect Gamepass fodder.

Oh man, didn't realise the Remnant games had come to Gamepass. Might renew for a bit.

@Ssoltek You don't even need to be subscribed, do you? My Gamepass Ultimate lapsed a couple of months ago and I've not renewed yet and fairly sure I can still play the Games With Gold games I had received when I was subscribed.

Can't say I miss Games With Gold. I can count the number of them I've downloaded and played in the last two years on one hand. They were rarely any good.

@FraserG Cool! Thanks

Is this a sequel? Or just like a 'deluxe' version? I wonder if my Switch version will automatically update to the new one or if it's a separate purchase.

I think Elden Ring is the type of game where anyone who wanted to play it will have bought it as soon as it came out. I suppose it would have been nice for new players to test the From waters though.

Could be interesting but they need to make sure they offer a trial, even a one day trial, so people can test the service before putting money down. There are a lot of variables here; quality of emulation, quality of streaming, quality of games etc.

EDIT: Hang on, it's $29.99 a year which equals around £22, yet the UK is still being charged £29.99 - and it's based in the UK! Rip off Britain strikes again. 🙄

I gave up waiting for something I wanted to buy in the end and swapped most my MS points for about £80 in Amazon vouchers.

Looks gorgeous. Shades of Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons and a splash of Fable. Love the art style, hope the game matches up.

My Ultimate expires in August and I doubt I'll renew. There's not been anything I've been desperate to play on Gamepass for ages now. I might get the odd month here and there if any games I want to play come to the service.

@GamingFan4Lyf It's always going to be impossible to tell. I'd have never bought this, but tried it on Gamepass, so no lost sale there.

Hmm, Redfall is about the only one I'll be trying out if that lot.

@LordFunkalot Doesn't make any difference. If everywhere else is approving it and the useless UK are not, it'll still go ahead. Pissed me off when Rishi Sunak was commenting on it in the press, WTF would he know about any of it!? #ToryScumOut

Ok, I'll give Redfall a try, but "a strong start"?

No.

I was interested, but not at that price. Perhaps I'll subscribe for a couple of months now and then to play the games I want to play, but I'll stagger it with Gamepass, no point having both subscriptions active at the same time. My main worry is that now Ubisoft+ is on Xbox, does that mean we'll never see any more Ubi games coming to Gamepass, and also does it open the door for all the other developers to follow suit? Capcom+, SquareEnix+ etc. etc

@DAYYLITE Er, yeah ok mate. 👍

Whilst I'm sure this will be decent value depending on price and how much you want to play Ubisoft games, I am slightly worried that we might start to see dozens of different subscription service start to emerge over the next few years. Remember when it was just Netflix? Then Prime. Then Disney+, Apple TV, Paramount Plus etc. etc. etc... Are we going to see ten different games subscription services over the next decade, which each in turn devalue Gamepass as companies take their exclusives to their own service?

Seems to me that they've gradually been reducing the amount of points we can earn or making it more difficult. I've got almost 100k points at the moment, waiting for something to spend them on, but they've stripped out or nerfed loads of the easier ways to earn. Halved the amount of points for the Quest Completionist or whatever it's called from 1000 to 500 recently, and upped the ask for many of the other quests. Instead of, say, simply playing a game it's now always 'kill 25 enemies' or something. Getting real stingy with those points lately.

It does seem like there's always more stuff leaving than there is being added. That's probably not really true, but that's what it feels like at a glance. Not too fussed about these, tried GotG and it bored me really, don't think I was in the mood for it but I might give it another try before it leaves. KRZ is amazing, but already got that on Switch and mobile.

Totally. Nearly always wait to see if something comes to Gamepass, and if not I'll pick it up in a sale. I've bought one single game day one since getting my current Xbox - Elden Ring. Everything else has been Gamepass or an older game picked up in a sale. The only games I've paid over £20 for have been Cyberpunk, Red Dead 2 (to replay it), and the Mafia Trilogy. And they were all under £25. There's enough to play on Gamepass to never buy another game as long as you're not worried about keeping up with whatever the newest thing is.

@XxEvilAshxX 8pm in the UK. Perfect time.

I fully understand why people might bounce off them, but Kojima is probably my favourite developer. I've loved all his games, including Snatcher and Policenauts. I'll buy anything that guy puts out and can't wait for this.

@TJ81 Exactly the same as what you said.

I'd say D. There have been two AAA exclusives since launch, and that's just not good enough (Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite). And whilst I'm certainly not knocking the Xbox, I definitely get my monies worth out of Gamepass and I love the console, as far as exclusives are concerned, Sony is winning so far in my view. I'd still rather play Xbox at the moment, but hopefully we start seeing the fruits of Microsoft hoovering up all those dev studios soon.

Probably Forza is my most anticipated. I haven't played a decent non-arcadey racer since Project Cars 2. I loved Horizon 5, Grid Legends and some others, but looking forward to a more realistic one now. Starfield I'm also interested in just because I love Elder Scrolls and Fallout but I just can't get as excited for space stuff. Lies Of P also looks pretty great. And if we actually ever see Silksong released, that's already going to be a 10/10 game.

I have literally no interest in either of these games, but nobody is subscribing just for those so it really doesn't matter. There's Gamepass.

Having said that, there have been a few decent GwG recently. I was pleased with Yoku's Island Express a while back. That was my GOTY when I played it back on Switch.

It's a shame they got rid of the backwards compatible Xbox and 360 games though, I'd rather have two guaranteed backwards compatible old games per month, stuff that doesn't come up on Gamepass, than two current gen games of questionable quality.

Damn, started downloading it then read the comments. Is it working on Xbox now?

@Tangerine If anyone is interested in 12 Minutes I'd genuinely recommend playing it for an hour so you get a handle on the gameplay then just watching a YouTube walkthrough. It's an interesting idea, quite poorly implemented and not that much fun to play.

Edith Finch on the other hand is a legitimate modern masterpiece, I'd urge anyone to give it a go. It can be done in one sitting.

For me, I'm only really interested in Grid Legends so far this month, but hopefully we get some more added throughout the month.

I've been feeling like I want to play through Red Dead Redemption 2 again lately, having previously done it on PS4. I am tempted to pick it up as this seems to be the cheapest it goes for, around the £22 mark, but I guarantee the second I buy it and finish it again they'll announce a next gen patch or a remaster... Worth holding out for that? Does anyone think it's likely to be on its way?

Well, I mean this is laughably bad, but who really bothers with these games when Gamepass exists? There's been a few decent ones in the last few months, Radiant Silvergun for one, but on the whole these games I pretty much ignore most months. This month seems particularly poor though.

I never bought the last gen version so looking forward to playing it again - it'll be a decent upgrade from the PS3 version for sure, and I never tried online. Pleased with the price too, I was expecting a full price release. Will be cashing in my MS reward points to grab it tomorrow!

@UltimateOtaku91 FFXIII is already in HD...

Great month! Wanted to play Guardians since it came out, and already set FAR: Changing Tides set to download soon as its out. Cloud version of Flight Simulator is a bonus too, won't take up ~100gb on my hard drive any more... also KZR will be good, I'm about halfway through a Switch playthrough so might just start again on Xbox.

All of this is assuming I can tear myself away from Elden Ring, of course.

@InterceptorAlpha Exactly this. I'm assuming most the voters have never heard it it, let alone played it. I can't wait!

I'm not fussed about the other two games, but two brilliant shmups pleases me! Always wanted to play Radiant Silvergun, widely regarded as one of the all time greats. I can only assume the people complaining aren't fans of classic arcade shooters! Me? I'm well happy with them.

Oh cool, Lake. I wanted to try that.

Ah cool, few in there for the kids. They'll love the Ben 10 and Paw Patrol ones.

He wants to own every copy in the world, and then will sell one a year at an astronomical price. The man is a genius. Or a super villain. Undecided.

@Roqka I guess they could patch it in at a later date, but you'd think they'd have done it by now if they were going to really.

@Roqka There is no multiplayer in this remake.

It 100% will come to Gamepass, but personally I'm not in a rush. I wanted to replay the trilogy again ages ago, and held off for the remake, then was holding off for it to come to Gamepass, but I've got too many other games on the go at the moment, so I'll be happy if it drops on to the service some time in the new year.

It's the first one I've played, so I'm loving it, about 40 hours in now. I do wish there was more of a sense of progression, though. It's total overkill the amount of icons appearing on the map in one go. The stories should be locked behind more progress at least, and the showcase events are just too few, I think getting to the Hall of Fame should be tougher, with greater reward, like a whole new series of events or something instead of just some more accolades.

I will give this a try if it comes to Gamepass, but from what I've heard, bugs and performance is the least of the games worries. Not really heard anyone talk about it with the same reverence as Witcher or even a lot of other open world action RPGs.