CunningPig

So, plague tale, scorn, and persona 5 in the 2nd half means I really need to finish deathloop, immortality, and death stranding in the next couple weeks.

I would bet the sale is happening because the deal is expiring and we'll see them open the door for other manufacturers starting in Nov, at the 2 yr mark. They said at launch this would be the only option "for now". I always understood that to mean they had an agreement similar to timed exclusivity on games and that other parties would have a chance when that deal expired.

@BAMozzy all this. In many ways it was the right choice

Maybe someone can answer something for me. I have seen in various places that Valheim will support crossplay, but will it support cross save once it comes out for xbox? I'm not sure I want to start it on PC and then not be able to transfer my progress to the xbox version. Or maybe the game is structured in such a way that restarting isn't such a big deal? Don't really know much about it other than it was big on steam.

I don't see this as being good for Game Pass. If they had actually tried to compete it would push Microsoft to keep improving their service.

As far as who else might enter the gaming space, Amazon and Netflix still have aspirations. Netflix doesn't seem to want to be a true competitor to console/pc, but they might be able to carve out a niche for themselves. Amazon doesn't seem scared to throw their money around. I know they've canceled projects, but if they're willing to put so much into one LOTR show then I can easily see them burning cash to try to compete in gaming.

It's a 7-8 for me. I'm having a lot of fun with it. My only complaint is the enemies are not very challenging but super tanky. I ended up lowering the difficulty because the combat was boring after a while, it just took so long to kill things.

The vaults and challenges are a lot of fun. The hidden quests are entertaining. The exploration feels rewarding and everything looks and runs beautifully on SX.

@Titntin

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1. more than two but not many

It's not lying for Phil to say the offer was for several years.

@Titntin "but cod is one of the top 5 brands on the planet along with apple etc"

Can't take anything you say seriously after that ridiculous little nugget.

@Ninjadeath2023 Ah okay, thanks for the info. Yeah thought it was a new one, based on that. Not too familiar with his games, but I had played Shenzen io, and then last call on game pass recently. Well, more of that style puzzler is welcome either way.

I thought Last Call BBS was the last game from Zachtronics, hence the name. It had a few mini games that were actually pretty clever and fun. Opus magnum should be worth a look based on his other stuff. I guess he's not retiring after all?

Get solar. Problem solved.

Last Call BBS, I'm hooked on Dungeons and Diagrams now! I just got a new oled tv on the bestbuy 4th of july sale to finally bring out the best of my series x I've had since launch, and I'm playing a 16 bit puzzle game on my 10 year old pc lmao.

@Halucigens And still see people trashing the xbox controller for requiring batteries. Give me the freedom to choose rather than require me to replace the whole thing when the battery dies. I've been using the same charger and eneloops since the 360 and I don't want it any other way.

@themightyant I think it's moving because it reverts back to a certain tile. So when you click on something, then go back to the main rewards page, you expect to be able to move to a new tile immediately, but then the app refreshes and goes back to the tile it thinks you should be on which is usually the one just to the left or right. It happens to me most at the +5 pt ones at the bottom, like the featured games and youtube video. If you just give it a second to refresh before you try to move it wont happen, in my experience.

@Stnkygrngo That's not really how quick resume works. You only have one game "open" at any given time. The quick resume feature saves a "snapshot" of the ram and stores it in a separate partition on the ssd. Then when you want to load that game, it can just load that ram snapshot and it resumes right where you left off. So, regardless of how many games you have on quick resume, the ones you aren't playing are just sitting there doing nothing on your hard drive until you want to load them up.

I mean you can just press Y while viewing it and it auto searches the achievement in edge. The first link will almost always be to Trueachievements and it will tell you what the achievement is and how to get it.

What they really need to change is being able to view the achievements for any game in the FIRST drop down menu when you select a game with the menu button. Not just the game I'm currently playing, not buried 4-5 clicks deep in the game card. One click away, let me see them for any game, even games that aren't installed or owned, even if I'm just browsing on the store or game pass.

@Rural-Bandit or just a simple search function so I can find the game I want to look at. Any way to filter it would be great, maybe we could be able to sort it from most complete to least, so all those 5-10gs are at the bottom. Just some sort of basic functions that can filter or search it would go a long way.

Not any time soon. They just created a new title for him. He's going to be running all of Microsoft Gaming until the start of the next decade at least. I think he wants to stick around and build something worthwhile with everything they've acquired. I don't think he wants to just buy a bunch of crap and bail.

@Bleachedsmiles You had no point, just FUD.

This isn't on MS to make other studio's games come out on time and the delay of a little game like this is a blip on the game pass radar. Your fake concern about this game delay indicating larger issues with MS management is garbage.

They add a steady stream of games every month, big and small. We don't even know what games are coming in the 2nd half of April, let alone any games for May, so it's ridiculous to act like this left a hole in the lineup that needs to be filled by some big game.

Your FUD is transparent.

@theskelf ah yep meant that to say it was not it's. Point still stands.

@Bleachedsmiles never mind the fact they're owned by SEGA, and it's a small indy studio making a throwback game. The idea this is about MS management issues or they need to announce some big replacement is ridiculous.

We only care about what's on his shelf. Any sleuths out there who can connect the dots for us?

"you'll just stop caring about doing everything perfectly. The consequences are just twists in the story you're creating alongside the main narrative"

This is something that I struggle with a lot and it's good to hear that it's okay to approach the game with that attitude. I'm trying to break myself of the habit of save scumming, reading guides, checking for missable achievements before playing, and spoiling myself because I want to get the "best" outcome. If it's baked into the game design that imperfection creates a more interesting narrative, then I can just relax and enjoy it.

A month that would have been headlined by stalker. Oh well, lots of stuff to play still, especially with Weird West and Crusader Kings 3 launching right at the end of this month.

@Mclemwan I just started playing after dinner. First time with this series so I've spent nearly an hour just looking at tooltips in the tutorial lol.

I do the same thing on wikipedia haha. I'll just keep following links forever.

@Mclemwan Cool you found it on cloud. Just came on to tell you I saw it while on the app. I would guess this is a good one to play via cloud too, due to the nature of its gameplay.

@Tharsman GPU is free with rewards points. Takes 5 mins a day for free game pass and two $50 cards a year.

@Royalblues The trick is to incur brain damage till you forget everything, then play Viva Pinata as if it's new. I recommend a lot of drugs and alcohol.

@Mclemwan It says in the description of the game on the store "Coming to next gen consoles" (paraphrased). Doesn't sound like there is any plan to put it on Xbone. Just look at a game like Civ Rev. I think the cpu can't handle it, even though they're graphically not very intense.

I fell in the lava and lost everything. Maybe RT will give me the motivation to actually start over again.

Just want to add that having cloud for mobile is fine, but honestly the best feature of cloud is streaming to console. Allowing Xbone owners to play next gen, and allowing both gens to try games instantly can't be undersold. And streaming to console actually plays much better than mobile anyway.

Weird West for me too. I'll definitely try out Crusader Kings 3 also.