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@BacklogBrad - Mad Max is a hugely underated game. I love it. I guess it is kinda horror, so counts in my opinion.

How about Resident Evil? The latest one is sitting ready to be played more than 3 hours ... but I'm too scared! Keeps making me jump out of my skin.

I'm getting too old....

Brexit FTW !!

Good old UK.

I never wanted to play WOW anyway

I 'invested' a lot of money into Elden Ring at launch and hated it after 30 minutes. It just wasn't for me, so uninstalled.

I'm over 1000 hours into 'The Long Dark', and still loving it

Horses for courses, I guess....

Big fan of the AC series and some of the FC and Anno games.

The thing is, I already own them all, so no incentive for me to sign up. If and when new games come out, I'll wait a couple of months and buy them for 75% off.

The other factor is that if you want to play Ubi games day one (or even year one) on PC, forget it. They usually need a range of patches to get them to play properly. I'm getting too old to trawl around useless message boards trying out workaround things that won't work because the game isn't yet ready to play.

No thanks!

@Clankylad

Good advice. Also remember that the wind direction can constantly change while you are asleep, along with the weather. What you thought was a fire lasting 8 hours can suddenly drop to 9 minutes of embers if it gets blown out!

Caves are good and sometimes you can find tree hollows to build a fire in to stop them being doused out. If you unexpectedly get caught in a blizzard, I'd suggest keeping to wall edges and keep moving. You might be lucky enough to stumble across a cave or sheltered recess.

With enough planning, you can do all of your scouting missions from a safe base without getting caught in the open at night. I usually have at least one safe house in each zone with lots of food, water and tools. You can't carry everything all of the time and you DEFINITELY don't want to get caught in the open when there is an aurora....

I absolutely love this game. I've played for hundreds of hours on PC (probably more than a thousand).

I did buy it on xbox once a few years back, but there was a lag when entering/leaving buildings that wasn't on the PC version, so went back to playing it on that. I wonder if that's fixed now for XS?

I've played some of the new 'Tales from the Far Territory' parts one and two, and they do add another dimension to the survival mode. I haven't cracked the mystery yet though

Great game. In my top 10 of all time.

Had a blast with this over the weekend.

I love the ambience and the sounds, especially the weather effects. Some of the graphics are a little blocky and low res, but I just ignore those.

The most annoying thing for me is the building. I have real problems getting e.g. roof pieces to snap in place. I expect the wider community loves it, because it clearly takes some experience and skill to build a masterpiece house/fort. For me, I'd much rather prefer something a little bit easier with a console controller, even if just the outline frame was added to help me. I mostly look for partly destroyed houses and pimp them up.

I also find some of the attacking, e.g. with the spear to be a bit clunky and unintuitive. I'm slashing at air while the bad dude is standing beside me laying in. Love the bow action though

I had a 7 hour session at the weekend. All came undone when I met a troll with attitude in the forest. Man those guys are fierce! Decided it was a permadeath game and I need to start from scratch and get better gear before heading there again!

I'd give it 9/10

@isturbo1984

Exactly this

Best news I've had all week. Go Game Pass!

@themightyant - thanks for that

Helpful post - answered a few of my questions

I'm more annoyed that I bought The Forgotten City a coupla weeks before it came out on Gamepass.

So here, take my money quickly, before Mrs Isca finds out....

Thanks, Widey85

I'm convinced that the crashes are save game related. I found that I could reduce crashes on PC somehwat by clearing out the save games at the start of each session, but in the end the sheer amount of CTDs made me give up. I'll maybe try again in a couple of years, when it is sorted out (as was the case with AC Unity).

If it isn't crashing on XSX, I might pick up the ultimate edition, once it is under £15

I've only played this on PC so far, but had to uninstall it because of the frequent crashes (yes, yawn my rig can handle it).

Is it any better on Xbox? Does it crash every 15-30 mins? Happy to buy it again if it is OK. I love the setting/story.

Great stuff! Really enjoyed playing Two point hospital (more so on GPUforPC than on Xbox).

Two point airport, Two point zoo, Two point resort - the possibilites for this series are endless!

@gingataisen - I'm of the same opinion.

Given how bad the Kingdoms of Amalur "re-re reckoning" was, I'm not pre-ordering or buying any 'remasters', until there is solid evidence from user reviews that a) it works properly, and b), it is substantially better than the original.

Hey, I'm FINALLY learning, and proud of myself for it!

Thanks for the info

I think I will also pass, with no single player game

@OliverOwen Yep - same.

It says 3-player co-op on the tin, does anyone know if it has a single player campaign?

Believe it or not, some of us in the UK still have less than 5mbps, and it takes an age to download stuff that I find out later I don't like!

Can't stand Co-Op, PVE, PVP or any kind of multiplayer stuff

Thanks a lot, Fraser. I picked it up, and along with my £4 voucher from MS this month, I got it for £3.99

Cheers!

Well, I'm going to make you all a bit jealous... I've never played NieR:Automata, but have downloaded it to start playing this afternoon.

I don't know anything about it

@GateCrasherUK - Yep, same. For games, add-ons or movies. Nice!

@Bmartin001 Yep - agree. In my head, it isn't released until summer 2022.

I won't be buying it until then, when it is under £20, or perhaps until it comes on GP?

I don't want to play it until it is completely ready.

@TuckNorris85

I bought my first new gaming PC in ten years last December. I can't tell you how happy I am with it. I was worried about using W10 - but it works beautifully!

With all of these EA games available on GP Ultimate, along with the standard catalogue and recent Bethesda titles added? Wow!

I don't think I'll need to buy another new game for around the next 2 years!

Anyone think I could sue Microsoft for the emotional stress of having to manage my backlog?

@NintendOrc

Control, control, you must learn control

I almost bought this a couple of months back, but decided against it when the reviews came in. Happy to give it a try

Game Pass is crazy value for money right now!

Happy Birthday!

This is the only gaming website I visit daily - great work!