Aniscape

Fantastic list already! And like many others have said Expedition 33 was not only surprise of the show but now my most anticipated game release.

For those that love Turn based RPG. I supported kick stater campaign for Penny Blood (from the makes of Shadowhearts). Still in development but another potentially great RPG if you are interested. There is also a Wild Arms spiritual successor called Armed Fantasia coming as well!

When you look at excellent remakes like Shadow of colossus, Resident Evil, Demon Souls, and the phenomenal remaster that feels like a remake Metroid Prime. You got to do it right. I will gladly wait till 2026 as 2025 is already starting to get full for me. Expedition 33 just stole my heart!

So many excellent games, anything less will just be forgotten in the sands of time

@StylesT
When you select a mod it tells you if it disables achievements. It appears curated mods you pay for does not disable achievements

@UndyingInsurgent95
I like this approach. Concentrate on my character but if need something from another companion…open ability wheel pause action, decide and implement and continue with action. Similar to Inquisition and Greedfall. This I like 👍

Looks great! Really looking forward to this. The combat looks fantastic will just need to see if there is any additional companion control? This is what I was hoping for. Another stacked year. Divorce papers in my future 🫣

@CutchuSlow
Agree! Expedition 33 is the JRPG turn based game i have been wanting since PS2 360 era! I see elements of Lost Odyssey, Legend of Dragoon, Shadow Hearts, for offense mechanics and for defense i see Tsugunai Atonement a classic PS2 game! Besides Fable this is the game i am most looking forward to in 2025!

@Banjo- so true.

I just like enjoying the show and if there is something for me then great. There are so many games right now. Plenty to play.

Is it really a shadow drop when you are expecting it? More like a partially visible drop?

@TheSimulator
Both!!

Fable gameplay and release window would do me just fine 😊

Original Xbox for me. I love games and another system to game is all it took. I have no brand loyalty i look for the games i want to play and that is it. I am a console player. My PC is for finances and surfing…much less surfing now that we have smart phones 🤓

Games like Fable, Azurik, Buffy, Darkwatch, Blood Omen 2, lord of the Rings third age, knights of the old republic, and Sudeki helped round out that generation for me. 360 i got when Oblivion came out with collecters edition and the rest is history.

Where is the vote option for Continue playing? I hop on regularly in my current Universe. Looking forward to this update and the eventual land vehicles. Plan is to explore planets more fully with the vehicle in the meantime doing side content and building my funds the work on my ships!

Right now Xbox is the only console I trust to continue playing all the games I currently play in future consoles. I buy all my 3rd party games on xbox for this reason.

Very cool. However I still have the console currently on display. I do plug it in from time to time for games that are not backwards compatible. When it comes to legos or bricks i tend to get something unique I don’t already own. If a price drop i may be tempted 😏

@AM2fl4m3 that’s right!

They just announced Golden Sun 1 and 2 for GBA on Switch!

Camelot needs to keep making RPGs

Skies or Arcadia
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Phantasy Star IV
Shining Force III (all 3 games) (not sure if this is Sega?
Phantasy Star Online (all chapters and none of the crazy 100 different ways to spend money on cosmetics that is in the sequel)

That is my list that will never happen 😢

I saw somewhere that a Ship Building career mod was added. Allows you to take on job requests to built specific spaceships for clients based on their needs. Then you could actually chance upon them in space. With such a big part that ship building is in the game i would love to see something like this added. Also, naming all the solar systems would be nice. You could turn them on and off like in the powers menu. Love the game but so much can be made better.

I might be done with Starfield by next summer 😊

First time trying this and hopefully link works…i am too old for the internets 😵‍💫

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2Z5wUh61dvDL5kiz7

Should be a pic showing my xbox on display with the starfield wrap

Extremely happy with the Starfield one! Looks great and feels great. Really good material and has a nice weight to it. Wrap and snap. Simple and now my Series X is taking center stage next to my tv!

Anyone else experience Vasco appearing in ship through the floor. Happens on all my ships except the first one?!

Blood Omen 2. I still pop it in to my original Xbox to play it from time to time. Great extension to to Blood Omen series. Loved Soul Reaver on the dreamcast too. Wish they could bring all those games back. And put out a new one!

So…it seems like Starfield has it’s hooks in me. The over arching story beyond the first play through really has me questioning the type of person i want to be in the universe and what these choices will mean in years to come. Besides that the exploration and building whether it is ship or outpost or just taking on side quests is like a comfort zone when i just want to relax and un stress after a long day or week. I have tried playing other games but after a few hours i keep coming back to Starfield. I am sure at some point i will pause my time in this elaborate universe that was created but have not hit that threshold yet. Is it perfect…no. The more i play the more i see areas of improvement or would be nice if there was more. But regardless for me personally i wanted a universe to dive into and i have that. Each person is looking for their own reasons to play or continually play a game and different for everyone. If asked the question if there was one game you could take with you to a deserted island right now this would be the one for me.

What we need is a suit/weapon set system that maybe can be stored in your ship. Depending what you are doing you can grab the appropriate set instead of trying to do a load out that is good for anything that can happen. Exploring can have its own sets, hunting pirates another and so one. Have like a suit locker on the ship with the different loadouts that can be saved and upgraded as you find or make better gear for each set. This would make the different biomes and danger a lot more fun to mange then trying to keep it all on your personal inventory and getting encumbered after picking up 1 pistol.

I am not sure if this has been stated but this feels like it might be intentional on Microsoft side. Like here are these things we are thinking about let us slip it out and feel out the community response to these possible scenarios. This way they have a wide range of critical feedback to help them gage the potential release. For example many are excited about the controller so they can move forward with the controller. However other items that gets the most negative or disinterested comments they can re-work or say it was a leak and not really in the planning as it was internally communicated. In the end i think this will help Microsoft move forward with better options for their fans.

About a year ago maybe more, bestbuy had this wacky sale where cyberpunk 2077 was only $4.99. So i was like what the heck maybe one day I will play it. Looks like that day is finally here! It will have to wait a bit longer as I am neck deep in Starfield but this will be next! Glad to hear the wait is worthwhile 🥰

I would love the ability to create a shipyard at an outpost so I can display all the ships I own! Won’t hold my breath but most likely a mod for this will 1 day happen!

@BaldBelper78 “ Sea of Stars is superb.”
I have no doubt! I played the demo and enjoyed it and will play this when the time comes. Starfield is the game i have been waiting for to have the experience of living my own sci fi adventure!

My anxiety of having the main story spoiled had me kinda rush a bit but i am glad I did. Now I am in the new game plus and slowing way down and truly enjoying the sites and world that has been created! Very excited to truly explore at my own pace 😊

Normally i am jumping around and hard to stick to any of these new games. I really want to play sea of stars and lies of P! However, since I started Starfield things have become easier. Unless something changes in the coming months i will be playing Starfield and pick up new games starting in 2024. Only exception is FFX14 i need to log in regularly so I don’t loose my home 😏

Starfield! Every hour in better than the one before. Oh and the Kids Stuff trait, just keeps getting better as the game goes on! Highly recommend for those about to start the game!

I am up for having options and land vehicles could be great. However, even on skyrim I rarely used a horse due to the way it was implemented. Anything you see you would need to get off and pick up or get into random battles. They would have to introduce a whole new other system for scanning and picking things up leaving the vehicle behind to go checkout a cave or mine or what have you. But with the boost pack everything around you is at your fingertips tips and though i am still early looks like there are skills that would make it even more fun to traverse with the pack. That being said an exoskeleton would work great like Death Stranding with not only helping you traverse but increasing what you can cary. Looking forward to how the game feels towards the and post the main story ending as you unlock more skill’s compared to how it feels at the beginning. 😊

I am one of those players and loving it! About 10 hours in and getter into my groove.

That is absolutely stunning!!! I wish i had those skills but alas I will enjoy it from afar! Wow

I got my first ship on the surface of a planet. After killing the pirates i sat in the captain chair and it added to my roster (since on the surface it automatically made it my home ship). I then went to landing spot and went into frontier and sat in the chair. Went to menu and made Frontier my home shop again. Got a message that i have an unregistered ship. And next time i am in spaceport i can register if I want to make changes. So I went and flew Frontier to Jemison spaceport and was able to register then sell. Although registration was expensive and only made a couple thousand on the sale of the ship it appears you do not have to fly it to a port to sell it or register it. Hope this helps stay away from the bug 😊

Does anyone know if you can hire a home decorator or option to furnish a home? That would be great to pay for some basic set up and then tweak later especially early in the game when trying to get some resources going.

So I picked Kids Stuff and Dream Home. I love Kids Stuff, don’t want to spoil anything but this is a lot more than just visiting your parents. Highly recommend!

Also for Dream Home the cost at least for me is $125,000.00 credits. However you have to pay this in full! If you want to use the home until you have enough credits to buy it you pay weekly installments of $500.00 interest only 😜

I am happy with both Traits!

I am living the space dream. What an amazing game! 🥰

Wow…forgot all about the skins. Thanks for the reminder 👍

Honestly so many cool gear options don’t need the skins 😜

Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Sega need to follow what Atari just did. The 2600 with original look and function that can play the original cartridge/discs with all the modern day HD in place at a decent price point that way all the games I already own can work on it. Not only will it make physical media more desirable if developers want they can still make games for it. Saving gaming history by allowing modern day upgrade to the original console model. And for Atari both 2600 and 7800 cartridges work on the machine with only a small number that don’t. Anyway…my 2 cents

I just got that Bethesda feeling! So I just got to Jemison and decided to pick a spot and land before going to meet with Constellation. To see what exploration would be like. And wow! I step off the spaceship and start scanning. Find some places in the distance worth checking out, come across an abandoned mine and some life signs of what appears to abandoned surveyor tents. Fight some hostile wildlife. After about 30 minutes i sit back and really look at what is around me and i could literally spend hours in just this area of the planet. Just like in Fallout or Skyrim when you decide to go off the beaten path and think to myself this is just 1 planet and my wanderlust and thirst for adventure goes through the roof!

I had to stop and get back into orbit so i can get ready to go to New Atlantis and go see what Constellation is all about. However i can tell you I am hooked. I will be playing this for a long time and can’t wait to see where the story is going and what fantastic crazy adventures I find along the way. Just Wow!

I need to spend more time with the game to determine how it feels to me. I am in New Atlantis and won’t play again till tomorrow. I will say that i wish there was a bit more animation with the train like getting in and off. Just felt to abrupt.

Until Bethesda changes their game design structure we will have many loading screens. Skyrim has tons, going into anything, cities, houses, caves all load screens even big cities are broken up. Not saying it should stay this way. Hopefully they can do better with ESVI

Just got to first major city and started exploring a bit before heading to main quest objective. For those worried about the mini map have you been using your scanner? It helps me find things and areas around along with a cool lit path to next objective of active quest.

Bethesda games do not have minimaps so I wasn’t expecting one here but the scanner is a huge help!

Oops…forgot. Loving it so far but will not play more till Sunday. Helping daughter move into her first Apartment in Philly and we are driving up from North Carolina! I am already jonesing!

Siiilveeer Hawks! Yes…The Miraj will be in my fleet!

I always have a non modded gameplay file as my main file to play and continue playing with DLC. So for me modding is still a ways out for sure. With Skyrim and Fallout for (for console) there was a lot of great mods including gaming mods. I just hope with Starfield they expand on the storage. I believe 5 gigs was the cap on xbox.

Regarding paying for mods i never had too. They do offer that but as an option.

If they do the same for Starfield and expand the storage cap then should be great.

I always look for story content mods to add to the ever growing lore of the games and the mod community are always awesome and look forward to that!

@Moonglow from what i have read there are places in game you can go to change the appearance after character creation. They had this in Fallout 4 as well

@RetroMan71 one of their main pillars. Each game is huge…there has always been DLC story content and usually stellar (pun intended)! And then there is the modding community which can do some amazing work both on PC and console!

It has been an amazing experience for me so far. It is taking me a long time to get through the beginning but that is because i have the need to pick up everything and just stop and admire my surroundings. Only blemish i have experienced so for was pop in textures when landing on new Atlantis.

Full shutdown worked for me. Taking a smoke break…and jumping right back in! The music!!

And aaaawaaayy we go!!

Work done ✅, dinner done ✅, spending some quality time with wife watching Star Trek Lower Decks ✅!

In 55 minutes…wife who?!? 😏