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I loved Out of this World back in 1991 but kinda moved past the genre a long time ago. Game pass loves putting these clones on the service though, here comes 2 in a single month.

Looked like a PlayStation game to me, 3rd person run forward through some braindead gameplay to watch something that should have been a TV show.

Jesus Christ be praised, my time to play KCD has finally come

@Elbow let me start by saying I never used this feature. But the reason it's underutilized is because it's been left to rot.

The easiest way for me to try to explain how I feel about this is, let me compare it to a feature I loved on Xbox 360 - avatars. I loved seeing them on my friends list and loved using them in various XBLA games. Then Microsoft left them to die, and updated them in the most off-putting way for Xbox one while simultaneously abandoning them. So when Xbox got rid of avatars last year, you could have the same reaction - this feature is dead, so the move they are making is logical. The problem is the reason the feature is dead is that they murdered it through neglect.

When MS makes it official that they are no longer making consoles at all, we will have the same reaction, hey it's logical. The rub is that MS's incompetence is the reason it's logical to put it down.

KCD for me of it gets a frame rate boost.

2 of these categories only exist in the dystopian hellscape that is modern gaming.

That said, go Helldivers.

Melissa McGamepass really has her finger on the pulse of the average Xbox fan.

Ok, what game were you playing? 👀

@GeeEssEff I think I agree! Sorry, Gears.

What's better than the rush of the last round of the eliminator, getting the perfect jump and out in the lead but knowing there's a couple guys in way better cars coming up fast? Or gathering up a big group of friends and doing a marathon downhill off-road race in Peels? It's really a near perfect game.

Predator was a great movie but a very stupid franchise.

When this first leaked years ago in the infamous discord leak, Jez said it was false. Guy is the biggest clown on the planet.

Spend $0 on marketing, get this article written getting their game's name out there. Nice move by the devs.

This is like a reverse-aroo of the devs who very loudly cancel their Xbox ports for free press

@Tenderkid it wasn't like that, at all, because it wasn't a sequel so it didn't have that kind of expectation. I was there, I remember the acorn too. Had you said GTA or Arena instead of Gta6 and ES6, then the analogy would make sense and you'd realize how stupid it is. Games change in development. That's life and the final product was great.

@Elbow I doubt it, I'm an old dude who's favorite genre is CRPGs. I played through Tides of Numenera engaging in combat I think 5 times total. My favorite game of all time is probably Outer Wilds which doesn't even have combat. This isn't an ADD kid issue. It just didn't grab me, the setting didn't interest me as much as I hoped and it felt kind of sterile to me I guess.

Edit: I'm playing Pathologic 3 right now. Nothing to do with quality, by comparison Atomfall is for small children.

Also, I hope this didn't come across as hostile. I've said nearly the same thing to people who haven't liked some games, like RDR2 comes to mind, so I understand the implication. Just making it clear that's not the case here.

Great article about a great game.

It's a shame Microsoft squandered having Peter Molyneux and Lionhead just as they did with Ensemble and Bungie. People always point at the xbone launch as the downfall of Xbox but it really started with the last few years of 360 where MS just stopped caring about the only thing that matters, games.

@RiverGenie I never bought Kingdom Come in all those $3 sales because I wasn't going to play it at 30fps. Let's hope it's not a "remaster" and just a curren gen upgrade that's free for owners (and game pass subscribers)

I tried Atomfall but couldn't get into it. Can't put my finger on why.

Every time I got a new gun in the first game, I used it for a few minutes, but always went back to Kenny because I thought he was by far the funniest. Im expecting the 2nd game with no Justin Roiland to suffer but who knows.

Well never know the numbers again but it's certain they're hemorrhaging users rapidly between the price hike and people abandoning Xbox hardware. I think the combination of the current user base evaporating, and their move to a "PC" next Gen which presumably won't need any type of sub to play online, means a total overhaul of game pass is absolutely necessary.

Wow I have Cudcept Saga for Xbox 360. Haven't thought about it in a very long time

Not interested in gimmicks like gyro or haptics but back paddles would be highly welcome.

@TheOldHunter4K there aren't"high end" battery packs that last anywhere near as long as my aa batteries. It's not a child's toy, so get some eneloop pros. They have 5 times the capacity of the dualsense edge. 3rd party sellers inflate their numbers and even their fake numbers don't approach eneloop pros.

Risk of Rain 2 is one of the best roguelikes of all time, highly recommend if you've never tried it. Great solo and coop. Try to unlock some other characters, the first one is kind of boring compared to most of the later ones. Loader is my favorite.

How could this possibly not affect the next Xbox?

I'm so ready, there's nothing like a Rockstar game. Always the highlight of every generation.

@themightyant it's obvious it's true just from Phil Spencers own mouth, he has alluded to it many times since things fell apart. There was a completely sudden emphasis on "we're a business, we need to make money" in nearly every interview. This was a subject never really talked about outside maybe him dancing around repeated questions of game pass 's profitability. You barely need to read between the lines.

These aren't the Chris Avellone written games of old. In terms of tone they're crappy MCU tier games oozing with the worst millennial crap, on par with something like Mass Effect Andromeda. Unlike Bioware, Obsidian is very fixable and I sure hope it happens because I loved obsidian going all the way back to Black Isle.

Jez is right in this case but he doesn't know any more than we do. Obligatory:

well that aged nicely, playing Pathalogic 3 on Xbox now.

Ubislop star wars game leading Space Marine 2, what are we doing here.

Very millennial feeling.

Played the heck out of it at release, but I think I'm going to jump back in when they add techmarines in a few weeks

Truly one of the best games of this generation and one of the most fun coop games of all time.

That's a massive dropoff from 4 to 5.

Give them time, the ads will make their way there.

@Shinato2024 they're just releasing games that were already third party, though. Nothing changed in the cadence of game releases from existing MS studios. How does that benefit us?

Oh wow they were able to release Doom the Dark Ages but only since it's on Playstation, yay! How is that different than when id was 3rd party?

"The competition" releasing just a few games means they get everything here, plus those few games. You can't even call them competitors because Xbox threw in the towel and stopped competing.

It really smarts having to listen to Satya and Amy, the architects of Xbox 's demise, talk about Xbox being down.

Only somewhat on topic, Dunkey's video on this game made me laugh hard. He roasts Keighley as much as (or more than) the game.

@Fiendish-Beaver Totally agree. I hate how Microsoft invented this, Sony copied it and added a great addition, and MS said F*** it what we have it good enough. Instead they could have leapfrogged Sony back by adding platinum, and then an additional award for completing all DLC (if Sony has that feel free to correct me).

I think saying you got a platinum/1k in a particular game is more meaningful than "i have x hundred thousand gamer score!" Like who cares.

I remember when this released. I might check it out. Haven't really played a mmorpg since my kids were born.

@GeeEssEff show some respect, that intern's name is Aaron Greenberg.

The only thing I disagree with you on is marketing after ps6. If it launches to backlash and is DOA, there will be no getting momentum back even if PS6 is also expensive, imo. Look at Xbox One which a year in had decoupled Kinect and at that point was a perfectly fine console. It never recovered.

@Fiendish-Beaver you've got a good point about memory. Mine definitely isn't what it once was, lol.

@Fiendish-Beaver I'm the total opposite. This 100 hour game will take me ages to complete. Waiting for it to be a 300 hour game would take me a half a year for me to get through, and I don't want to dedicate that all at once to one game (series).

These tea leaves are awfully easy to read.

The smart move is to not be first. There's going to be crazy sticker shock ok the next hardware. Don't be first, let someone else eat that backlash.

Therefore Microsoft will probably go first.

@somnambulance yep and warcraft adventures, cancelled for quality reasons. Now they're owned by a company that released Redfall. It's coming.

@somnambulance they're making a StarCraft 3rd person shooter, it'll be announced somewhat soon.

Getting way ahead of yourself with this one. Let's hope the game is good.

Love inXile, they are left out of the conversation too often when people are talking about the great current CRPG houses.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner he's been a lame duck since the 4 games. Collecting a check until Xbox is fully sunset.