Fatal Fury:COTW and picking up 3 of the last 10 games(as of today) I need to complete my North American physical Xbox One collection of normal releases(non-special editions if possible). Ramped up collecting last two years for Xbox and nearly completed right as the company goes tits up. Value just tripled, thanks MS.
@MaseSco Hot Wheels Unleashed was hot trash. You enjoyed falling off the track like the entire game was Rainbow Road? Unleashed 2 got a bit better. Personally not a fan of rally games however I have played a few and researched many as I love the racing game as a genre and the majority have mostly seemed to be featureless or control awfully or just plain boring, Rally is not racing it's time trials and that's just not what I wanna spend my $79.99 on these days, the motorcycle games haven't been good since OG Xbox. Has anyone on console ever completed a lap yet in Ride 5, SBK or MotoGP this year? Make racing games and arcade racers again, not cart racing, not rally, not motorcycles with wheels of ice. All we have is rally and rally is boring.
In honor of the Xbox 360 not having cloud based services, how about making all those lousy streaming laggy Activision games MS just shat out to GP, downloadable and actually fun to play?
No way, PGR never got the handling right. Great videos on YouTube about this topic. If you're bringing something back from Xbox past it better start with OUT and end with RUN, the still gorgeous Outrun 2006 or how about the Curly Monsters one hit wonder Quantum Redshift, MS own Midtown Madness, Motocross Madness, Sega Rally, DAYTONAAAA! Ridge Racer 6 or the unbound one, Full Auto, Forza before the Xbox One, at least 20 franchises, one offs, remakes or sequels I wanna see before boring reused PGR series.
I cannot play more than a few minutes of any of the games no many how many times I try. Duck, cover and reload becomes so tedious in just a few minutes of gameplay, I never understood the popularity outside the pretty graphics. I prefer my active reload to be inactive in gaming.
Nacon and Milestone have cooperatively ruined console racing games and I blame them for the state of cheap featureless, poorly optimized and downright boring racing games. Codemasters hasn't turned out anything good since EA took over, not a fan but word is F1 games stink worse each year.
Someone(Burnout and former NFS and Playground Devs) needs to kick racing in the ass and put out a full featured fun Cruisin' or Rush style game, another Burnout, Midtown Madness, Midnight Club, Sega anything and stat. This is horrible news for racing and driving fans.
You shouldn't do this but let me tell you how to find advice on how-to do this in our comments should you choose to do what we clearly stated how to do what not to do.
Not recommended. Lovecraft has become The Walking Dead in gaming. Tired, wasn't that interesting to begin with, never fleshed out or poorly written and goes absolutely nowhere without finishing the story started years before. Where's the games based on Phillip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein or even Kurt Vonnegut stories? Give me a Slaughterhouse Five fishing tournament.
@Cobra Sony is doing their form of GP right Also waaaayyyy better selection of games and stuff we'd never see on Xbox and not just 1st party Sony titles, all kinds of titles that will never see an Xbox.
@Ricky-Spanish I have a disposable income for gaming, I don't need "free" games I need to be able to what I want, how I want, when I want. I don't want anyone picking out "free" games for me. The GamePass selection is awful.
Please please please give us back Gold or an option that just allows me to download my digital games and play online without some forced "pass" with games I don't wanna play or some agenda pushed on me. Let me play the games I paid for without your "not for me" service with useless perks for F2P games I don't need the service for and Anime for gooners.
I sometimes play more than 1 to 2 different games a DAY Phillip and almost always games that are not on GP.
Shiz sale. Inflated sale prices. There's always the Summer Of Arc... Oh wait... Summer Sal... Nope. Flash... Lol... A game pass perk and actual sale prices for members?!? Never happen.
Yawn. Gimme a Blood Wake sequel, a Crimson Skies MMOPVP, something anything Halo, Forza Horizon 1 remake, DOA Xtreme XXXBox, Shaun Murray Wakeboarding 2, NFL Fever NeXt, CONTRABAND and Project Gotham Racing 4.
Bring back Voodoo Vince or Blinx or heck even Malice. So many better and originally Xbox IPs than riding someone else's creation and honestly successes.
Banjo is lame, with horribly ugly characters and world design and it always felt like cheating playing a sequel on Xbox. How about back to the psuedo original Xbox mascot and remake/sequel Metal Arms? It sold best on the original Xbox and was used in all the ads back when the system dropped. Great fun too and deserved a sequel.
@Rog-X I think allowing reviews is excellent and wish Sony and Nintendo followed suit. I've been told I'm reasonably intelligent and can skim through the bogus agenda reviews, I look for certain comments and appreciate a decently thorough or thoughtful review. Especially for indie games or games fewer people would play. I respectfully disagree and think reviews should be available everywhere when it comes to my money and entertainment value.
I personally have 150+ reviews currently on the store.
Absolutely no interest in this. The only place I wanna play is at home on my nearly $2000 4k TV with the necessary VRR in my $500 chair using my $100 a month internet. Not on a potato in the middle of Shop 'n Save.
@Vidorra yes there are exclusive deals for Gamepass members, they change weekly but are usually the same 30 games every 3rd week so the sales never really change. And never have I ever seen a deal for Gamepass members that non-members do not eventually get, usually within the same week. Really is nothing special anymore to have GamePass in any form.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Same sale, different name, with the elevated "sale" prices. Perfect example is Jedi Survivor drops as low as $6.99. This sale it's $9.99. Gimmicks are getting really stale. The store needs a massive overhaul.
@Tasuki also stuff you've seen at cheaper prices or know the "gold" or "complete" editions also go on sale the week after the "vanilla" edition sale at the same or even lower price.
Same old sale, same old games as predictable as me taking a crap every morning. Never any exciting or fresh deals in the "store". Flash sales, daily specials, weekend blowouts, BOGO at sale prices(not msrp), use points for discounts, the ability to get discounts on games that never go on sale... Anything to spice it up and make buying digital worth it.
@Nighto4 bought it blind instantly upon release just to support future releases and to F EA and 2K. But where's the knockoff/homages to Street games or Blitz or Virtua Tennis or NHL '94, like there are hundreds of retro inspired Metroidvanias and jrpgs, heck Pokemon has at least 50 wannabes nowadays. I don't need licenses or teams involved, just a fleshed out, feature rich arcade fun without it being F2P or $79.00.
Shadow drop my a**. This was announced over a month ago during all the college playoff games and I even asked on the last update about GP and EAPlay why College Football wasn't on this list. Like this site found a secret or something, calm down it's just college football.
This is the only place I see anyone say anything positive about this game. It's getting eviscerated on the Xbox store reviews and Reddit and most reviews haven't been kind. I don't count reviews from Gamespot or the bigger reviewers, almost always a paid lie or on some agenda. But my trusted sites? Not good, except here for some reason.
As an Anime outsider its crazy how Namco churns out these $70 titles so quickly and if you look in the Xbox store not one description or image of what the actual gameplay is and if you don't know the anime(like me) what the game is actually about. Seems they might get some laymen like myself to give these a whirl if I could see ot get a description of some actual gameplay and a story blerb. I love fighting games and had no idea a lot of these are Powerstone and tag fighter rip offs.
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 5-6)
Fatal Fury:COTW and picking up 3 of the last 10 games(as of today) I need to complete my North American physical Xbox One collection of normal releases(non-special editions if possible). Ramped up collecting last two years for Xbox and nearly completed right as the company goes tits up. Value just tripled, thanks MS.
Re: Test Drive Publisher Regains WRC License After EA Decided Against Codemasters Sequel
@MaseSco Hot Wheels Unleashed was hot trash. You enjoyed falling off the track like the entire game was Rainbow Road? Unleashed 2 got a bit better. Personally not a fan of rally games however I have played a few and researched many as I love the racing game as a genre and the majority have mostly seemed to be featureless or control awfully or just plain boring, Rally is not racing it's time trials and that's just not what I wanna spend my $79.99 on these days, the motorcycle games haven't been good since OG Xbox. Has anyone on console ever completed a lap yet in Ride 5, SBK or MotoGP this year? Make racing games and arcade racers again, not cart racing, not rally, not motorcycles with wheels of ice. All we have is rally and rally is boring.
Re: Test Drive Publisher Regains WRC License After EA Decided Against Codemasters Sequel
@JayJ TDU has not made much if any improvements, it just doesn't crash anymore on consoles and the AI rubber band was made a bit longer.
Re: Talking Point: Will We See Another 'Anniversary Event' For Xbox 360 Turning 20 This Year?
In honor of the Xbox 360 not having cloud based services, how about making all those lousy streaming laggy Activision games MS just shat out to GP, downloadable and actually fun to play?
Re: Talking Point: This Classic Activision Racer Came To Xbox 15 Years Ago, And We Sorely Miss It
No way, PGR never got the handling right. Great videos on YouTube about this topic. If you're bringing something back from Xbox past it better start with OUT and end with RUN, the still gorgeous Outrun 2006 or how about the Curly Monsters one hit wonder Quantum Redshift, MS own Midtown Madness, Motocross Madness, Sega Rally, DAYTONAAAA! Ridge Racer 6 or the unbound one, Full Auto, Forza before the Xbox One, at least 20 franchises, one offs, remakes or sequels I wanna see before boring reused PGR series.
Re: Gears Of War: Reloaded Beta Seemingly Happening Ahead Of Xbox Release
I cannot play more than a few minutes of any of the games no many how many times I try. Duck, cover and reload becomes so tedious in just a few minutes of gameplay, I never understood the popularity outside the pretty graphics. I prefer my active reload to be inactive in gaming.
Re: Test Drive Publisher Regains WRC License After EA Decided Against Codemasters Sequel
Nacon and Milestone have cooperatively ruined console racing games and I blame them for the state of cheap featureless, poorly optimized and downright boring racing games. Codemasters hasn't turned out anything good since EA took over, not a fan but word is F1 games stink worse each year.
Someone(Burnout and former NFS and Playground Devs) needs to kick racing in the ass and put out a full featured fun Cruisin' or Rush style game, another Burnout, Midtown Madness, Midnight Club, Sega anything and stat. This is horrible news for racing and driving fans.
Re: Avowed Game Director Leaves Xbox & Obsidian For Netflix Studio
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Re: All 35+ Backwards Compatible Games In Xbox's Mid-May 2025 Sales
Same sale on the same games every 5th week or so.
Re: Lots Of Xbox Games Have Suddenly Been Delisted In Some Countries
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Re: Xbox Set For Another Winner As Tony Hawk 3+4 Previews Go Live
Bam Margera would lick coffee grounds off the floor of a Starbucks for $20 and 5 more minutes of fame. No surprise he agreed to anything...
Re: GTA 6 Tech Is Seriously Impressive, But It's Looking Like A 30FPS Game On Console
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Re: Opinion: If Xbox Is 'Just' A Game Pass Machine, That's Still Enough For Me
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Re: Why Are People Talking About GameCube Games On Xbox Series X?
You shouldn't do this but let me tell you how to find advice on how-to do this in our comments should you choose to do what we clearly stated how to do what not to do.
Works great btw ...
Re: Xbox Handheld Gets Leaked, First Photos And Details Revealed
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Re: Indie Hit DREDGE Is Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (May 6)
Not recommended. Lovecraft has become The Walking Dead in gaming. Tired, wasn't that interesting to begin with, never fleshed out or poorly written and goes absolutely nowhere without finishing the story started years before. Where's the games based on Phillip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein or even Kurt Vonnegut stories? Give me a Slaughterhouse Five fishing tournament.
Re: Subscriptions Like Xbox Game Pass 'Not The Future Of Gaming', Says Analyst
Thank you! Good riddance Game Pass and the buck passed down in savings to the consumer... haha.
Re: Phil Spencer Discusses Why Xbox Game Pass Isn't For Everyone These Days
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Re: Phil Spencer Discusses Why Xbox Game Pass Isn't For Everyone These Days
@Cobra Sony is doing their form of GP right Also waaaayyyy better selection of games and stuff we'd never see on Xbox and not just 1st party Sony titles, all kinds of titles that will never see an Xbox.
Re: Phil Spencer Discusses Why Xbox Game Pass Isn't For Everyone These Days
@Ricky-Spanish I have a disposable income for gaming, I don't need "free" games I need to be able to what I want, how I want, when I want. I don't want anyone picking out "free" games for me. The GamePass selection is awful.
Re: Phil Spencer Discusses Why Xbox Game Pass Isn't For Everyone These Days
Please please please give us back Gold or an option that just allows me to download my digital games and play online without some forced "pass" with games I don't wanna play or some agenda pushed on me. Let me play the games I paid for without your "not for me" service with useless perks for F2P games I don't need the service for and Anime for gooners.
I sometimes play more than 1 to 2 different games a DAY Phillip and almost always games that are not on GP.
Re: Roundup: The First Impressions Of Marathon Are In
Skiiiiiiiip! So long and thanks for all the fish, Bungie.
Re: Xbox Spring Sale 2025 Seemingly Delayed To Next Week As 'Sneak Preview' Continues
Shiz sale. Inflated sale prices. There's always the Summer Of Arc... Oh wait... Summer Sal... Nope. Flash... Lol... A game pass perk and actual sale prices for members?!? Never happen.
Re: Rumour: These Five Games Could Show Up At The Xbox Games Showcase 2025
Yawn. Gimme a Blood Wake sequel, a Crimson Skies MMOPVP, something anything Halo, Forza Horizon 1 remake, DOA Xtreme XXXBox, Shaun Murray Wakeboarding 2, NFL Fever NeXt, CONTRABAND and Project Gotham Racing 4.
Re: Toys For Bob Talks 'Ambitious' New Xbox Game & Banjo-Kazooie Interest
Bring back Voodoo Vince or Blinx or heck even Malice. So many better and originally Xbox IPs than riding someone else's creation and honestly successes.
Re: Toys For Bob Talks 'Ambitious' New Xbox Game & Banjo-Kazooie Interest
Banjo is lame, with horribly ugly characters and world design and it always felt like cheating playing a sequel on Xbox. How about back to the psuedo original Xbox mascot and remake/sequel Metal Arms? It sold best on the original Xbox and was used in all the ads back when the system dropped. Great fun too and deserved a sequel.
Re: Nightdive Wants To Know Which Xbox 360 Games Need A Remaster
@redgrave0 YES! The entire series(PS2 and DS) on one disc would be amazing. Still pull out my 360 to play a round or two.
Re: Nightdive Wants To Know Which Xbox 360 Games Need A Remaster
@RetroMan71 Burnout Revenge and I'd like both Midtown and Motocross Madness to make a return.
Re: Hands On: Atomfall Brings Fun Detective Work & Intriguing Narrative To Xbox Game Pass
@Rog-X I think allowing reviews is excellent and wish Sony and Nintendo followed suit. I've been told I'm reasonably intelligent and can skim through the bogus agenda reviews, I look for certain comments and appreciate a decently thorough or thoughtful review. Especially for indie games or games fewer people would play. I respectfully disagree and think reviews should be available everywhere when it comes to my money and entertainment value.
I personally have 150+ reviews currently on the store.
Re: Nightdive Wants To Know Which Xbox 360 Games Need A Remaster
CRACKDOWN!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!
Re: Xbox Determined To Expand 'Play Anywhere', Says It Will Help Reach More Players
Absolutely no interest in this. The only place I wanna play is at home on my nearly $2000 4k TV with the necessary VRR in my $500 chair using my $100 a month internet. Not on a potato in the middle of Shop 'n Save.
Re: Two EA Sports Games Reduced By 90% In Xbox 'Just For You' Offers
Clearly these are not "Just For You".
Re: Disney Illusion Island Jumps From Nintendo Switch To Xbox This May
Looks alright, I personally would love to see a remake/sequel/remaster of QuackShot. The Donald Duck plunger hopping epic from the Sega Genesis.
Re: Blizzard Shares 2025 Roadmap For Diablo 4 On Xbox & Beyond
Is Diablo actually successful on Xbox? I never see anyone have anything nice to say about it.
Re: Xbox Spring Sale 2025 'Sneak Preview' Now Live, 400+ Games Discounted
@Vidorra yes there are exclusive deals for Gamepass members, they change weekly but are usually the same 30 games every 3rd week so the sales never really change. And never have I ever seen a deal for Gamepass members that non-members do not eventually get, usually within the same week. Really is nothing special anymore to have GamePass in any form.
Re: Xbox Spring Sale 2025 'Sneak Preview' Now Live, 400+ Games Discounted
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Same sale, different name, with the elevated "sale" prices. Perfect example is Jedi Survivor drops as low as $6.99. This sale it's $9.99. Gimmicks are getting really stale. The store needs a massive overhaul.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Hoping To See In The Xbox Spring Sale?
The BS $30 price tag for Tekken 8 Season 2 cut in half would be nice(won't happen).
Re: These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (April 7-11)
Big Buck Hunter has 3x the content!!! 3x0=0
Surprised to see a Monaco Sequel.
Re: Xbox Is Hosting A Massive 'Spooky Games' Sale This Week
@Tasuki also stuff you've seen at cheaper prices or know the "gold" or "complete" editions also go on sale the week after the "vanilla" edition sale at the same or even lower price.
Re: Xbox Is Hosting A Massive 'Spooky Games' Sale This Week
Same old sale, same old games as predictable as me taking a crap every morning. Never any exciting or fresh deals in the "store". Flash sales, daily specials, weekend blowouts, BOGO at sale prices(not msrp), use points for discounts, the ability to get discounts on games that never go on sale... Anything to spice it up and make buying digital worth it.
Re: These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (March 31 - April 4)
@Nighto4 bought it blind instantly upon release just to support future releases and to F EA and 2K. But where's the knockoff/homages to Street games or Blitz or Virtua Tennis or NHL '94, like there are hundreds of retro inspired Metroidvanias and jrpgs, heck Pokemon has at least 50 wannabes nowadays. I don't need licenses or teams involved, just a fleshed out, feature rich arcade fun without it being F2P or $79.00.
Re: These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (March 31 - April 4)
Can a Dev make an arcade-like throwback sports game that isn't soccer?
Re: Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (March 27)
Shadow drop my a**. This was announced over a month ago during all the college playoff games and I even asked on the last update about GP and EAPlay why College Football wasn't on this list. Like this site found a secret or something, calm down it's just college football.
Re: Hands On: Atomfall Brings Fun Detective Work & Intriguing Narrative To Xbox Game Pass
This is the only place I see anyone say anything positive about this game. It's getting eviscerated on the Xbox store reviews and Reddit and most reviews haven't been kind. I don't count reviews from Gamespot or the bigger reviewers, almost always a paid lie or on some agenda. But my trusted sites? Not good, except here for some reason.
Re: Xbox Could Be Preparing To Add Two Big EA Releases To Game Pass
They just gonna skip NCAA Football on EA Play?
Re: BLEACH Rebirth Of Souls Launches To Five-Star Reviews On The Xbox Store
As an Anime outsider its crazy how Namco churns out these $70 titles so quickly and if you look in the Xbox store not one description or image of what the actual gameplay is and if you don't know the anime(like me) what the game is actually about. Seems they might get some laymen like myself to give these a whirl if I could see ot get a description of some actual gameplay and a story blerb. I love fighting games and had no idea a lot of these are Powerstone and tag fighter rip offs.
Re: Talking Point: Which Steam Games Would You Want To Play On An Xbox Console?
All I want is BeamNG.drive on Xbox
Re: Xbox Fan Shares Updated First-Party Roadmap Following Recent Microsoft Announcements
I'd love any little info nugget on Contraband and was very happy to my personal most anticipated game still on that list.
Re: Talking Point: What Should Microsoft Call The '2027' Xbox Console & Handheld?
Xbox Supreme