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I own the 360 version of Chronicles of Riddick but no 360, so I'd appreciate them adding that!

Ah man, there goes my prediction that it would not only be Master Chief, but that the Halo Master Chief Collection would drop on the Switch eShop straight after the presentation!

I'm not the best gamer out there, so punishing difficulty often defeats me, but I've been loving the rhythm/shooting action of Pistol Whip in VR so much that I just have to give this game a go.

I fairly recently played through Alan Wake faster than any game in recent memory in an attempt to finish it before it was removed from Game Pass. I absolutely loved the atmosphere and Stephen King vibe and rather enjoyed the combat too. Which is all saying something as I generally find 3rd person cinematic action games fairly uninspiring and have failed to get into, or finish, many games that are highly rated.

I'd buy a straight port on modern systems. I tried to get into 3 and Infinite and neither clicked for me. Still play 2 on the Dreamcast though.

Sam Sho II is one of the best fighting games of all time. Stone cold classic.

In the UK, if you sign up to a stock notification website you can get either console at RRP with a few weeks of patience.

@BANJO Yeah, it drops to a very low price on sale. I think it is £3.99 on Switch right now in fact.

The Codemasters racing game I'm most excited for is Super Skidmarks on the forthcoming Codemasters Collection 1 Evercade cartridge!

Nearly bought Katamari and Curse of the Dead Gods the other day. Glad I waited!

There is nothing fantastic about Twitter.

Anyway, moving on, Street Fighter II had to be the biggest leap between a game and its first sequel ever.

As a child, the progression from Wonder Boy to Wonder Boy in Monster Land to Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap blew me away.

Another classic is Day of the Tentacle (the follow up to Maniac Mansion).

Others that were less revolutionary but still ended up being favourites of mine are DOOM II and Monkey Island 2.

I'm a great believer in the idea that you can never own Garou on too many systems. I'll now have it on Dreamcast, Switch, Vita, PS2, PS4, PC and Xbone!

While you can't just walk into a shop and get one, there really is no need to buy from a scalper in the UK. I signed up for Stock Informer around the start of the year and have had the opportunity to buy both the Series X and PS5 from major retailers semi regularly ever since.

I'm going to try the new one tomorrow as I heard it's actually pretty good fun. That said, my favourite two track and field games are...

International Track & Field - PS1
Athlete Kings - Saturn

I missed the Game Pass part of this and was feeling shocked/cross that Panzer Dragoon Orta wasn't an option. Then I actually used my eyes.

I've never used it. I will miss optical audio outputs though as I have an excellent AV receiver that can't handle 4k and a 4k projector, so the ability to send audio to the amp and video to the projector is really useful. I've now bought a 4k/60 HDMI splitter with audio output on it though, so that should do the trick.

Given how dreadful he was for France in the Euros they may be regretting that choice right now!

Good news. It's the wealth of weird and wonderful sub-AAA Japanese games that attract me to PlayStation. If Xbox can get more of these classically Japanese titles then I'd be happier to jump on board with a Series X.

Given how frequently they re-release the DOOM games, I'm surprised how little love they show the Quake series. A collection of original games to test the waters for a new game in the series seems plausible.

If they're doing a new game I hope Trent Reznor is involved.

Prodeus! Been looking forward to that one and had no idea it was on Game Pass. Excellent.

Nearly bought Bug Fables, so will definitely give that a go.

I don't want to complain... but I wish the numbers in the titles of these articles only counted new titles coming to the service as a whole, rather than existing games becoming available on Cloud.

Just like a DS... Except for the lack of physical controls and buttons. I'd take a real controller clamped to a normal phone over this setup any day.

Yeah, this is an odd release at that price point. Feels like the sort of thing that you find on GOG for about £7.99. I'm joining the 'I'll play it on Game Pass' club.

I played through Alan Wake over the last week. Most I've binged on one game in ages. I think it really worked with the gripping plot and atmosphere. Don't think it would have worked as well with a protracted play through. I actually own it on PC but had started my playthough on Xbox so plowed through on there before its removal. Just started the follow up chapters on PC.

I've only actually played Final Fantasy IV, VI and VII, so I might give X a try. Can't really argue at that price!

Not sure where I'm going to find the 46-70 hours that howlongtobeat says it will take to finish though!

I played through Alan Wake in the last few days, before its removal from Game Pass, and absolutely loved it, so I'm definitely keen on a sequel.

Until then I'm going to play through the two DLC chapters (I own the game on Steam but had already started it on Xbone so wanted to finish it on there).

@IndoorHero That's created an image in my mind of Wreck-It-Ralph style game characters with their own consciousness and yours has spent years hiding in a locker waiting to make his move!

Given current industry trends I would guess a polished up version of the original game for PS5 is far more likely than a sequel. Maybe a sequel would follow if the first game did well.

As for it coming to Xbox, I can just see the conversation...

"You give us Elder Scrolls VI and we'll give you Sunset Overdrive 2"

Right, I've got 11 days to finish Alan Wake!

Ah man, I just started Alan Wake on Xbone despite owning it on PC. Wrong choice!

I've actually noticed that barely any DVDs work on my Xbox One S. Blu-rays and 4k blus are OK, but it doesn't like DVDs. While I rarely watch anything on DVD, we do have some TV programmes on DVD that were shot in SD and so have no HD version.

Fair play to Microsoft, they really are doing an impressive job with Game Pass. I'm constantly surprised by the number of day 1 releases and big games they get on there.

@UltimateOtaku91 I've only watched baseball recently and had never played a baseball sim until The Show 20 on PS4 when it was on sale for £6 a month or two back. It didn't take me long to pickup the rules for balls, strikes and strike outs etc (enough to be able to happily play/watch a full game anyway) and the game has multiple options for how you want each area to work and allows you to try each one out to find your best fit for pitching, batting and fielding. I was hitting multiple home runs by my second game and am really enjoying it so far. That said, I still get a bit lost with the base running and throwing to bases and find my players not doing what I want them to do. I'm sure that area will come soon though. I'd say give it a try if you have Game Pass!

Really enjoying it so far. Taking a little time getting used to not flooring it and actually using the brake (I've been mostly playing arcade racers for the last few years), but really satisfying when I manage to avoid bumps and crashes for a prolonged stretch. Loved an old version of this game on Vita, so looking forward to getting stuck into a full career.

Thanks for the heads up! I was watching a WRC recap on TV earlier and thinking about getting this game. With the £4 voucher Microsoft gave me recently it ended up costing me £3.99!

Yep, got an Xbox app notification last night saying that I had £4 waiting for me. Result!

For anyone interested in this game, I think you can be fairly certain that it will be under £10 at some point this year, if not under £5.

I loved Two Towers on Gamecube. I'm sure Return of the King was the better game, but I never actually played it.

My save woes usually involved cocking up, quickly reloading a save and realising I'd just saved over it rather than loading. I'd like to say I've done this just once...

Wow, this is an impressive update!

Yeah, not sure this game is a great gift...

@Kobeandodom I think we're kinda talking about two different things though. I'll grant you that ES6 on Game Pass is a massive win for Xbox gamers and PC gamers (with high spec setups) who subscribe, my issue was with the article suggesting that it somehow benefits gamers in general. It's not a win for PS and Nintendo gamers and both of those platforms shift an awful lot of consoles, so that will likely leave a lot of gamers who don't own a good enough PC or Xbox and so miss out. I'm not saying I don't get why Microsoft would do it, just that I don't think platform holders buying up large portfolios of existing franchises is good for gamers in general.

@Kobeandodom Oh come on, Skyrim is available to PC, Xbox, PS and Nintendo gamers. You can't honestly tell me that ES6 moving to just Xbox, PC and Xbox's cloud gaming platform is a win for gamers in general. I'm not entirely sure it's even a win for purely Xbox gamers as they would have got the game anyway. It may be a win for Microsoft as a business, but I wouldn't call it a direct win for gamers of any kind and definitely not gamers in general.

@Kobeandodom No, that's a huge win for Xbox gamers.

Maybe it's his way of saying that they can have Elder Scrolls 6 on PS5 if Sony let's Microsoft put Game Pass on PS5!

Brilliant, I can finally go back and finish Oblivion!

@MaxC I take your point, but the flip side of being bought up by a bigger company is often more creative meddling from the new owner and we'll have to see some more Double Fine games before we can judge if the purchase has brought about better games. I still think that the game player in general doesn't benefit from Microsoft and Sony buying up devs and making their releases exclusive.

"the acquisition of multiple game studios, so the player is always winning."

Does platform holders buying up game studios really benefit 'the player' in general?

@themightyant Yeah, I use howlongtobeat as well. My '120+ hours' was basically the main story times for each game added up. I figure if I do ever get through all of them then some are going to be simple play through and with others - probably the ones I enjoy most - I'll spend more time on side stuff and mini games. Not sure I'll ever have time to give Yakuza 5 more than a main story run through!

I have Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2 installed on my Xbone and will install 3-5 later today. I'm currently playing through 0 on PC.

I'm not sure where I think I'm suddenly going to find a spare 120+ hours to need all of these queued up though!