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I never even touched TikTok with a ten foot pole.

Minecraft 2, Sonic 4, Zelda, Shrek 5, Simpsons Movie 2, Beyond the Spider-verse, and more… lots of movies to look forward to in 2027!

As if the Unity controversy from 2023 wasn’t enough. Now Unity is super dead.

I just purchased Hoa last month, oops. With that said, it is a relaxing game, and pretty short too. I loved it and highly recommend it.

Adventure 1 and 2 are the best ones. I yearn for that type of gameplay to be revisited someday.

@UltimateOtaku91 The only games that have English dub options are Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Judgment, and Lost Judgment. The rest of the games released so far are only Japanese with subs. Future games will most likely have English dubs as well, but it’s not confirmed.

There are multiple difficulty options when you start a Yakuza game, like Normal and Hard. I played through every game on Hard difficulty, and never ran into too much trouble across the games except for a few parts. But you can play on Normal and enjoy the game perfectly fine.

If you just run through the main story, you could probably beat each game in around 20 to 30 hours. But the side content in these games are so gripping, that you may indulge in them anyway, even though they are completely optional. There are a bunch of side quests in each game, and there are a lot of mini-games as well. If you just run through the main story, you’ll have a great time with that alone. However, the side content contains a lot of the heart of the game as well, and you may find yourself enjoying it as much as the main story. With the side content included, playtime could be drastically increased to 50-80 hours for each game. For reference, I took my time with Yakuza 0 and finished it at 87 hours. However, Yakuza Kiwami only took me 31 hours. So these games are really what you make of them.

@UltimateOtaku91 Start with Yakuza 0, and play the games in chronological order. I started with 0 in January 2021, and played every localized game by March 2022. Here are the games I played in order:

• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza Kiwami 2
• Yakuza 3
• Yakuza 4
• Yakuza 5
• Yakuza 6
• Judgment
• Lost Judgment
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon
• Yakuza: Dead Souls

I didn’t expect it to be free if you already own Rare Replay. That’s very generous!

I remember enjoying Raskulls when it first came out, I recommend it!

The scorpion gun should have never been removed from the campaign, I’m glad they’re averting that.

@BAMozzy You’re not alone, I have also never played GTA V before. However, I am interested in buying the next gen version of the story mode. I think it would be epic to play the game for the first time on the Series X version. I don’t want to play GTA Online though, it doesn’t really seem like my thing.

I played all of them plus the two Judgment games throughout last year, with the exception of Like a Dragon, which I’m playing right now. My favorite one is Yakuza 5. I love how much content is in the game; the mini-games are among the best in the franchise, playing as different characters was fun, and I loved the multiple cities featured throughout the game. Yakuza 0 was paced better and had a better story, and both Judgment games were excellent, but I spent the most amount of time with Yakuza 5. The Yakuza games are fantastic, and should be tried out by everyone.

@JetmanUK I did have Kinect on Xbox 360, but it’s true that I can’t play any Xbox One Kinect games.

I bought an Xbox Series X on launch day, with my last Xbox being the Xbox 360. I feel like I didn’t miss out on much by not having an Xbox One. The initial policies killed my interest in getting one at first, and now I can play the whole Xbox One library with the Xbox Series X’s better processing.

Sad to see Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2 leave Game Pass. I started Yakuza 0 back in January this year, and thanks to Game Pass, I played through all of the mainline Yakuza games throughout this year. I liked the games so much that I eventually straight up bought them all after I beat 6. Fantastic games, I can’t recommend them enough. If anyone hasn’t got around to trying them yet, please give Yakuza 0 a shot before it leaves. At least 3 through 7 will still be on Game Pass, but the games being removed are the best ones to play when starting the series.

As an aside, The Little Acre is a very easy 1000 gamerscore game. I recommend following this video as you play it if you want some achievements before it leaves Game Pass.

That basically describes Rare as well. Rare’s direction has drastically changed since the buyout in 2001.

The 30fps turned me off a bit. If the demo was at 60fps or higher, I would feel a lot better about The Matrix demo being a next gen showcase.

I finished Yakuza 6 a few weeks ago, time to play Like a Dragon!

Sonic the Fighters is a guilty pleasure of mine. I was already excited for Lost Judgement, but including Sonic the Fighters is a nice bonus.

I never played Injustice, I’m excited to check it out.

I saw that Yakuza 1 through 6 were all on sale. I’ll purchase them as soon as I can, these games are just too good to stay on Game Pass.

This is what centuries of evolution led us to.

I feel like The Master Chief Collection has been rumored for the Switch forever.

@UltimateOtaku91 Me. I’m one of the weirdos who has never played a Grand Theft Auto game before. I can’t wait to give GTAV a try.

I’ve been bingeing the Yakuza series lately, I just finished Yakuza 3 the other day. I’ll definitely pick up Yakuza Like a Dragon while I’m at it.

As a lifelong Nintendo fan, I’m still sad that the Switch never got a Virtual Console service. I bought so many Virtual Console titles on the Wii, and it stings that I can’t even redownload games I purchased in the past. Plus the fact that the Switch got so many full priced Wii U ports, rather than just letting us redownload Wii U games we already bought on the Switch.

Game preservation is very important to me. My last Xbox was the 360, and when I purchased the Series X, I was over the moon to see I could download the same games I purchased on the 360 years ago for free. Nintendo and Sony could learn a lot from Microsoft’s approach to backwards compatibility. Godspeed to Microsoft.

I appreciate how Microsoft reiterates that Smart Delivery is available to all developers. Activision using Smart Delivery would have saved them a lot of hassle and bad PR, but they decided to be greedy instead. Hopefully this is a lesson for most developers, there’s no reason not to use Smart Delivery on your Xbox One game if you have the means to.

Or you can just buy an Xbox Series X for the same price. ¯(ツ)/¯

Really scummy to make us pay extra for a version of the game that won’t even work. I hope Activision never attempts something like this again. (They probably will anyway.)

Microsoft should do something about this. I was under the impression that all Smart Delivery upgrades were free. Microsoft shouldn’t allow paywalls for upgrades, because the idea of the Series X|S is that any game you already own for the One can also be played on Series X|S.

I’m loving all of these Series X upgrades. I’ll have to replay A Hat in Time soon.

The last Xbox I owned was the 360, and I was lucky enough to get a Series X at launch. With how much the Series X improves over the Xbox One from what I heard, it makes me happy that I decided to skip the Xbox One.

Persona 5 Royal please.

I wonder how many people bought one thinking that they would be getting a real controller instead of a cake.

I’m absolutely shocked that no one is mentioning Sonic games at all. I unironically want to see Sonic ‘06 the most, because the Xbox Series X could remove the atrocious loading screens and slow down. I would also love to see Sonic Heroes on Xbox Series X.