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It runs like butt atm and has major audio issues (on consoles). I rated it a 3/10, but I’ll try it on PC later as I heard it runs fine there. I know it’s in beta but it feels bad and I’ll wait for it to get patched up before reinstalling it on my Series X.

I’d definitely prefer third person but it doesn’t matter that much. The game looks incredibly good. Looking forward to it!

I’m clearly not the target audience for this showing lol. Indiana Jones is the only thing I care about this year from them, although I’m keeping an eye on Stalker 2… which wasn’t here lol (can understand why tho).

Glad others are excited for those other games though.

Edit: I rewatched the Avowed portion as I had to watch it without audio at first. It looks really good, consider me very interested in that game now haha.

@__jamiie Same here. It’s the only Forza Horizon game I don’t own digitally. It’s not a big deal as I have a Series X but it still slightly annoys me lol.

The MCC launched in such an awful state that I can’t vote for it. The online didn’t work at all for about a month or so. Huge disappointment.

I was between Forza Horizon 2 and Sunset Overdrive. Picked Horizon 2, but they were close.

I should’ve picked up Titanfall that year, but I instead picked up Destiny and Halo… which I didn’t enjoy and ended trading in both lol.

I've been waiting for this alleged Gears collection to play through the Gears game. I played a bit of 4 on my XBOX One back when it came out and like it a lot, but I ended up trading in my XBOX shortly after getting lol.

Hoping for the trilogy (and maybe Judgement) to be in this collection and Gears 4 to finally get Series enhanced... you know, if this collection exists lol.

The Pebble Beach and F1 backgrounds are nice.

My brother showed me this last year and it cracked me up. This looks too amusing to not try lol. Looking forward to it.

More excited for this than I was with Starfield. Starfield has more to do but I prefer the pacing and density of the world of Outer Worlds. Hoping this turns out well… whenever we see it lol.

I bought Assassins Creed Valhalla on PC for $5 a couple months ago and never got around to playing it lol. Guess I’ll just play it on XBOX now lol.

Excited for Resident Evil 2 and Super Mega Baseball, as well. Good announcements!

1. Hi-Fi Rush
2. Forza MotorSport
3. Age of Empires 4 (if Ghost Wire is included for its XBOX debut then I'm including this lol)

Still gotta play Ghostwire and I need to beat MineCraft Legends to give a proper rating.

Gonna guess holiday 2024 and Fable in holiday 2025. But who knows.

I thought it was really good despite Starfield not being my cup of tea and Redfall being a disaster.

Hi-Fi Rush was an amazing. Minecraft Legends was surprisingly good. Age of Empires IV on console is great. The new Forza MotorSport is great too, despite some annoyances. Plus Halo Infinite’s online got great updates.

All good stuff. B for me, could’ve been an A if Starfield wasn’t as disappointing.

I didn’t enjoy Starfield as much as others so I’d personally move that down the list. But otherwise I think this ranking worked out great.

Happy holidays!

I’ve been quite enjoying Ubisoft’s titles recently. Mario + Rabbids was great last year, The Crew Motorfest is a perfect stop-gap game before we inevitably get Horizon 5, and Avatar is really fun so far and has amazing visuals. Plus, I’m stoked for Star Wars Outlaws next year.

I might just have to give Assassin’s Creed Mirage a chance sometime soon.

I shall vote in this poll once I play through Avatar, or at least as much as I can by Tuesday night lol.

I could see them making a collection with the original trilogy + Judgement for this year, while also enhancing Gears 4 for Series S|X. Then announce Gears 6 for 2025.

That would be one hell of an announcement lol.

My copy is coming in the mail tomorrow. I got it from QVC for $40 and will be playing it this weekend. Looking forward to it!

Critic reviewed are mixed but just about everyone I see online or know says it’s amazing. My copy comes in a couple days.

The Game Awards for me. I just wasn’t interested in a whole lot from the Game Showcase and what did interest me, we saw very little of. For example, Star Wars Outlaws looks awesome but Ubisoft’s event showed over 10 minutes of actual gameplay while Xbox’s Showcase gave us a trailer with little to show.

The Game Awards surprised me with a lot of new announcements for games I am very excited for now.

This is fine to me… as long as a new Halo game is being worked on. I assume there is since they announced they’d be switching to Unreal Engine 5 back in January or so.

I went in expecting nothing. I didn’t watch it but just now caught up on the articles and trailers… And now there are 8 games I’m excited for:

Jurassic Park: Survival, Monster Hunter Wilds, Exodus, Marvel’s Blade, World of Goo 2, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, and Jet Set Radio.

Easy A for me.

Looks promising. I feel like this will be something for 2025 but I’d love to see it come out next year (only in a complete state, of course).

Halo Infinite went from being a joke to probably one of the best online shooters. Some great free cosmetics, a ton of modes added, new maps… all good stuff.

Petition to get Tomb Raider Definitive Edition and Rise of the Tomb Raider Series X enhanced lol

For real, they are crazy good games. Might be time for a replay.

Incredible deals if you don’t have GamePass!

That was the most PR response I’ve ever read. Blindly ignoring what people are upset about and giving the most vague response back lol

Rise of the Tomb Raider is such an amazing game. I just wish it got Series X enhanced. But it still looks nice at 4K/30 or 1080p/60 with its One X enhancement.

Damn, good final month of the year. Baulder’s Gate 3, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and SteamWorld Build. A quality end to a quality year, for me at least.

I’ve been waiting to play Fallout 4 for this update. I also have a big backlog of games so that’s another reason 😂

Regardless, I’m guessing it’ll release sometime in Spring of next year. They seem to have most of their eggs in Starfield at the moment.

I think the max I had at one time was $35 worth of points. I usually use them on games when they go on sale or on DLC.

However I just cashed out my $35 to get the Stellar Shift controller and I traded in two of my old controllers at GameStop for $45. Love the new controller and now I have $45 credit for games next year.

Damn, I might have to give this game a go. Good review!

Any word on why GRID is leaving Gamepass/EA Play? Are online servers going down for that one too or did some licensing contract end? Is the game getting delisted?

I can find a ton of articles why the Battlefield games are leaving through a Google search but nothing about GRID.

For me it was Forza MotorSport 5. That said, I didn’t get my XBOX One until around September 2014. I think Assassins Creed IV I enjoyed a bit more but I played that on my Wii U a couple months after release, so I didn’t have an XBOX yet.

@somnambulance MCC launched in 2014, a year after the XBOX One launched (at least here in the States). It was bundled with a lot of systems though so it kind of seems like it was a launch title if you didn’t get one during the first 6 months or so.

Thanks for the heads up. I have 2K22 for Switch and although I haven’t played it in a while, I’ll go update the rosters soon to ensure it feels somewhat up-to-date in case I want to play through another season. I’m sure someone has made a 2023-2024 custom roster.

Looks like there are some good deals there. I’ll take a look at the full sale on my XBOX when I’m home tonight! I have about $30 in Microsoft Rewards to spend.

Thanks for the heads up!

I was between a B and a C. Ended up picking B.

It was a solid year but Hi-Fi Rush was the only real standout for me. Starfield and Forza are both great but not as good as previous games by their devs. Redfall was a joke at release but I heard is alright now. Age of Empires 4 coming to XBOX was nice and is a great game. Minecraft Legends is good as well.

Overall, not bad. Good games, just a bit underwhelming in some fronts.

I’m in no rush. The game looks great but I have some more games I want to tackle before I dedicate an insane amount of time into this title.

Hopefully a physical copy is released for consoles by the time I want to play it.

Forza Horizon 5 got robbed of a GOTY nominee in 2021. Halo could’ve also made it if it didn’t ship with its multiplayer underbaked.

Otherwise… I don’t think they’ve been robbed much since 2016 or so.

I’ll probably have to buy the DLC but I would love to go back and play World at War Zombies. I have a lot of fun memories playing those original maps with my friends and brothers growing up.

I’m still just rocking the Halo Infinite box art dynamic background. No other dynamic background has really caught my eye, but I appreciate them giving us more.

Forza wasn’t as exciting as I’d hoped it would be but I still think it was my favorite game of the month. Granted, I haven’t gotten around to Dead Space yet.

I’m enjoying my time with the new Forza (through GamePass) but I wouldn’t have paid anymore than $40 for it. It actually kinda feels like a downgrade to MotorSport 7 it a lot of ways.

Sweet, I’ll check out Wild Hearts sometime this winter.

Persona 5 hurts. I was planning to play through it this winter. Guess I’ll just get it whenever it’s on sale and I have the rewards points to get it for free. Too many other games in my backlog to get it for any other reason.

@Wiiiiiiii Awesome, thanks!

Seems like it’s good but nothing crazy. Honestly, there are too many games trying to be “soulslikes” that none of them really interest me at all. I still have Monster Hunter World and Rise, plus Elden Ring in my backlog… that’s more than enough haha

@RentedPanda This. A new game but with all the old titles on GamePass. Not sure how likely that would be due to licensing with the songs but it would be amazing to see.

This might sound dumb but how do you access this stuff? Does the game show you when you load in?

I remember when the Anniversary Event released and I opened up the game and saw legit nothing. I was playing one of the expansions at that time so I didn’t go out of my way to look out for it tho.