For the sake of their jobs I hope they knock it out of the park with this one.

XBLA had a real scrappy feel to it. It had a strong identity, as did Xbox Live in general. Xbox obviously still has indie games on it but there's no feel to it. It's just more games. The id@xbox brand is totally worthless imo. It's all so bland and corporate.

@Broosh @Kraven if you've had Xbox Gold for a long time double check that you don't already own them. Lords of the Shadow 1&2 and Mirror of Fate were on Games with Gold in 2019/2020.

@FraserG It's QTE hell decades ahead of that going big but it's worth it for the Don Bluth animation alone. You're going to see Dirk die a whole lot but every room has a new death animation so just think you'd be missing content if you sailed right through it

$4.99 for Dragon's Lair? I spent way more than that getting past the first screen in the arcade.

I played Ashen the first time it was on game pass. I'd recommend it as sort of a lighter, minimalist souls like.

Huge fan of HOMM 2 and 3 and want to love this but the art style isn't doing it for me. I'll still give it a go just for the Paul Romero soundtrack. They also had John Van Caneghem consult which is awesome.

Alright, who has the Steel Battalion setup?

Grabbed Core Keeper, I also have been wanting to replay Battleblock Theater (which I played on PC many years ago) so I grabbed that too.

Very tempted to pick up the Wizardry remaster, the Telltale Expanse game, and Tainted Grail.

Can't believe Age of Wonders 4 expansion pass 2 still hasn't gone on sale.

Same, and 🤣

I'm on the fence about the season pass, it was very worth it in the last 2 games, but man is it expensive this time around. Plus I have to convince my friends to buy it for it to be worth it which is going to be that much harder.

This dude is insufferable and honestly Swen isn't far behind him.

Gears 5 has the best horde mode in the series (and that is saying a LOT), but it didn't start out that way. I hope this time we hit the ground running.

@Fiendish-Beaver And I'm fine with that, it's the tone that matters. Besides, Baird and Cole already got their prequel.

Tons of hours into horde mode in 4 and especially 5, my co-op group will no doubt get lost in this one for years once again. My hope is that the campaign is a return to form now that they're dropping the cast of "Gears: The Next Generation" and returning to the characters that made the series great. The big question is, can they match the original tone?

Never heard of it. When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

The last good Ubisoft game I can remember was From Dust, and ironically I don't think that's even on here.

Too many games at once right now. FF7R, darkest dungeon 2, monster hunter wilds, and now I got the itch to replay Elden Ring and here I go again.

While I agree with her that this slogan didn't feel like Xbox, I am extremely skeptical that what she and I think "feels like Xbox" are even remotely close. Time will tell.

WOW, great news for my wallet! I don't buy many games on day 1 but anything from Owlcat makes that list, very happy The Expanse will be on game pass and save me a few bucks. I'll definitely play the Bluey game with my daughter, and Frog Sqwad has Human Fall Flat vibes - I'll definitely check that out with my friends.

@Balaam_

It's a microsoft ergonomic mouse and a microsoft compact keyboard. I've used the mouse in the past and it's ok. I do use a microsoft sculpt keyboard which I love and highly recommend to anyone who wants a comfortable split keyboard without spending hundreds.

It was a bad slogan, but most of them have been bad since "Jump In" which itself wasn't that great. People use this slogan as a boogyman for the death of Xbox when it had little to do with it. Their death spiral had begun months earlier when they announced they were going 3rd party. No slogan at that point would have turned the tide, sentiment in the brand was already torched to ashes.

The only thing on my wishlist that got discounted with this sale is Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. I hope I have more luck with the full sale.

game pass has gone from the netflix of gaming to the basic cable of gaming, over bloated with stuff very few people want and making everyone pay for it.

Middle school kids in shambles

My buddy lost his Forza Horizon 5 save due to a sync error and apparently it wasn't that uncommon. The more they can do to prevent things like that, the better.

Wow. So few voting for the obvious answer, removable drive for back compat only. Easy money.

Agree with the Infinite Wealth love in the comments here. It was my favorite of the big 3 JRPGs (it's a genre not geography) released in those 15~ months, edging out Expedition 33 (Metaphor Refantazio in 3rd). I liked the overall narrative in Like a Dragon (the first one) more than Infinite Wealth, but IW hit its stride and surpassed it in many other ways. I like the characters in this series more than any other game. Red Dead Redemption might be 2nd, would have to think about it.

For my money that was the best run of JRPGs since Phantasy Star 4 / Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy 3 (now called 6).

@Questionable_Duck Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

BG2 had that crown for me for 20 years before that!

I'm there for ANYTHING from Owlcat after they made my favorite RPG of all time, but The Expanse really looks like it's going to introduce them to a much bigger audience. It's amazing how their trajectory is 1:1 mirroring Bioware with Kingmaker and WOTR being their BG 1&2, Rogue Trader being their KOTOR, and The Expanse looking to be their Mass Effect moment.

First I've heard of this one.

Phil Spencer selling them for $350 with Diablo 4 thrown in couldn't generate an ounce of interest

Asha Sharma selling them for $400 - WOW XBOX IS SO BACK

I liked the first one, I'll play this with my 5 year old. She's starting to get pretty good at games.

Hopefully they absorb some T10 employees before the studio is closed.

Morrowind was by far my favorite as it was a real RPG, had the best setting, and made the player play the game instead of walking to map markers. Skyrim was my (distant) 2nd fav with the best storylines. Oblivion used to be a distant 3rd caught in a middle ground, like a worse Skyrim, plus its awful enemy scaling. The remaster was terrific and gave me a new appreciation for it. I still like Skyrim more, but it closed the gap some.

I really need to play this. I played through Tides of Numenera only getting into combat I think 3 times total, and loved it. This is probably up my alley.

@themightyant just look at market share from Gen 6 to Gen 7. Ps3 is one of the biggest failures in the history of game consoles. To compare raw sales numbers without that context is asinine.

I recently learned Mattrick was at EA in the 90s and his ***** corporate meddling was a big reason Ultima VIII sucked so much. What a f***ing disaster this guy has been for the video game industry. Phil Harrison has nothing on Don Mattrick.

Live service games age doing just fine, like Marvel Rivals and Helldivers. The ones crashing and burning are the ones designed for modern audiences, like Concord and Highguard. Stop chasing the ESG funding and you'll do fine. Single player games are having the same exact problem.

This is a must play for me. I'll pick it up down the road for 2 reasons - too much to play right now, and I have a feeling that the performance on Xbox is going to be shakey at launch and will benefit from some patches.

Starfield was simultaneously over hated by fans and over rated by critics.

It was just ok. It had the worst crushed blacks I've ever seen in a video game, incredible fail for a space game, but that's not why it wasn't a great game.

Whatever they come up with, we can all be sure Aaron Greenberg and the Xbox marketing team will knock it out of the park once again. Those guys just don't miss.

@GeminiX53 Elon would care about protecting Microsoft's video game profits as much as Google cared about protecting Garmin's GPS profits. "The corporations" are not a single entity - in fact, the exact opposite.

MS is sunsetting Xbox, they're making an emulator or 2nd bootable OS that runs on PCs to try to retain the few of us still here. They'll make 1 iteration of a PC, along side OEMs who also have the emulator/OS or whatever that runs legacy Xbox games. That will be the soft launch into the new future where Xbox is just a launcher on PCs and MS no longer makes any hardware. There will be no Xbox games going forward, just PC games. The rebranded Microsoft Games Studios will continue to nonsensically use the Xbox name and a few people will continue to pretend that means Xbox still exists.

The irony here is that being able to play your old Xbox games has been catastrophically devalued by game pass. Xbox gamers don't buy games in real numbers. Leaving your Xbox library behind is so easy when you've just been renting games for the last 8 years. Xbox's biggest enemy has been Microsoft for quite some time.

Crimson desert looks actually insane. Like almost palworld level is this a real game. Need to try it at some point

Replaced looks cool but doubt I'll find the time for it.

I should give it another go. I played it at release and it was pretty rough. A good while later I watched my wife play through and that usually says my desire to play a game like this myself. But I kinda want to, and the dlc looks great.

Anyone who didn't play it at release missed out on literally every single room in the game having at least one dildo. It was something else.

I must not be going to wherever this is a problem. I'm not sure if I've ever seen outbreak. I think usually just check the store for my wishlist deals.

My wife is playing Avowed so I shelved FF7R until she's done, I didn't like two story games being played at the same time. I dusted off one of my favorite games that I've never beaten - Darkest Dungeon 2. It's a real anxiety factory, which is both incredible and exhausting. RIP Wayne June.

Best dashboard ever, but it would lose a lot of its charm without the focus on avatars anymore.