MonsterMike

Will the new game pass price be permanent? Or is this just a way to try and get people back in before they try this ***** again in a year. Gonna take a lot more good moves and keeping them to win me back.

Going multiplatform with all their stuff and jacking up game pass was a death knell for Xbox. Zero reason to own one at that point. Go back to having their top shelf stuff, at minimum, exclusive to move units and lower the price of game pass (they did) and they might be back in it for the next gen.

Pushed me away to playstation, but if they make the right moves and it makes sense, I could be brought back.

Already have dlc planned to drop in a few months. Selling us part of a game. I'll wait for the whole game to be sold on a sale in a few years thanks. Can't be supporting the nickel and diming, greasy behaviour of some devs.

Was an ultimate customer since day 1 but dropped to essential when they did their big price hike. Would have canceled entirely but I do use online to play arc raiders and bf6. I really don't miss it, gotta say. If I stop playing those two games online I'll cancel fully.

Well I'm just glad Xbox's pivot to selling their games everywhere else hasn't effected console sales which hasn't effected developer support. Oh wait...

My thoughts are that my slow and steady drift away from Xbox after 20 years of being a customer is well underway and I no longer subscribe to game pass. I will buy a singular month of essential for when I'm playing online games with my friends, but will never let it ride like I used to with gp ultimate. Jacking up the cost was the last straw in a long line of moves I did not enjoy from the company.

Well, I think this is it for me and game pass. Once I finish up ninja gaiden 4, and maybe outer worlds 2 if it's good, I'll be cancelling my game pass. As there are no current games I want, I'll reup at premium once the new good games that release on there are starting to show up at their one year marker.

Bought it day one as it had a physical release for Xbox. Gotta support SH coming back to xbox, it's been too long.

@Fiendish-Beaver The og tormented souls is an old school horror experience in the same vein as old resident evil games. Fixed camera, tank controls etc.

I loved it and have been waiting for thr new one for a long time.

Tormented souls 2, yes please.

@GameOverScreen bg3 is worth the money. And I'm the cheapest sob around.

Hell is us demo was pretty good. Didn't love the combat though, which might be a big part of it. Enemies look blah.

Maybe when she's on sale I'll take a bite, but I don't think I'll be paying full price for that one.

If they had launched it day 1 on Xbox with cross play I would have gotten it. My friends with ps5 all got it, and have played their fill and moved on so buying it now to play alone seems foolish. If it goes on a big sale in the future I might bite for the right price, but definitely not getting it at launch.

@zipdog2008 have you played dark souls, or other souls likes? The respawning at a bonfire/altar/point of grace etc is kind of a staple of the genre.

Great game. I think I'm almost done, the challenge has been perfect. At times frustrating, as a true souls game should be. But through pattern recognition and improving your timing, all bosses eventually get easy. I hope they don't nerf it too bad to cater to the crybaby crowd who don't like playing souls like games and want to ruin this into something it's not.

@zipdog2008 just poking fun that you think it's a ripoff that you didn't get a game when you don't subscribe. Comical.

@Fiendish-Beaver I liked it, but damn did the environments all look the same. It was so easy to get lost and roam around forever trying to figure out where to go.

Just wrapping up wuchang. I think.

Wuchang. And it ain't even close.

I'll pick it up on a sale eventually. Was going to pre order a physical copy at my local game stop, but discovered only ps5 getting a physical release. Won't pay full price for digital so, guess I'm waiting on this one too.

I prob would have bought black myth at launch if they released it on Xbox same time as they did ps5 as I was definitely stoked for it, but due to the snub and anticipation waning, I'll get it in a year or two when it's on a deep sale.

Cronos. Let's go.

I'm really enjoying it. One of the better souls likes I've played in a long time.

@Nintendo4Sonic stupid take

@Kaloudz put a few hours in myself so far. This game is awesome. Not overtly difficult, but you'll definitely get punished if you flub your timing or get greedy. Punishing but not cheap, just like dark souls. This game is what wo long should have been, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Code in a box is probably the dumbest idea anyone ever came up with. Not sure anyone, anywhere, ever thought that would fly.

Bf 3/4 were great. Series kinda lost its way after that, bf 5 was decent too, but they need a bounce back to what put them on the map back in the day. Lots of evenings spent playing bf3 with my friends before marriage and family times came calling haha.

@zipdog2008 I'm not getting a game for free on launch because I didn't pay for the appropriate package, I'm getting ripped off! Waaaah!

@AlwaysPlaying the most difficult ever? You had my curiosity, now you have my interest.

Looks tight. I'm a little Leary after wo long though, thought that one was gonna be a banger too but the looting/gear aspect and lack of challenge killed it quick for me. Have to see how this one goes i guess. I'll be playing day 1 though.

@NarutosBiggestFan yeah, no. They're a great way to bring awesome old games forward and give people the chance to enjoy them again in a modern way as well as people who never got the chance to play them before. They're a great way to preserve older games.

They're still doing it..... I can't keep up.

Can't wait to 100% this on nightmare difficulty like I did the other two. Such good times.

Okay, never thought I'd say this, but Microsoft needs to slow down! I legit don't have enough time to play all the game pass releases as they come. I'm gonna be backlogged like crazy already, tossing this onto the pile is just cruel lol.

My sleep addled brain read this title totally wrong haha. I read it as "Xbox planning release dates for 2 games being ported from ps5"
Wowzers

I've always wondered why talented studios like this, who can obviously put out high quality bangers, don't just say "alright team, let's go independent" and just take their entire crew and make a new studio. Find some backers or get a start up business loan and get cracking on some new stuff.

These all look..... Not for me, to put it nicely for those who like what they saw. Disappointed to say the least in this batch.

How the eff are you guys getting enough points to buy a single month of gp, let alone keep it going? I just checked my balance as I've never spent.... 1300 pts. Also seems like I'm the only rube actually paying for game pass round here.

Xbox is doing some pretty great stuff for accessibility. For instance, one of my buddies at work grabs the old station laptop, connects his controller and plays cod black ops 6 at work on the regular. I can now log in on my phone and play baldurs gate 3 from my own purchased game library and it is essentially a play anywhere title now. This is just a taste of ways you can enjoy your Xbox titles and it's only going to get better. It's really cool and I look forward to more innovation.

@neoxmahi you need to relax and enjoy some games bruv.

Just drop them same time. Very different games. Sure there will be some overlap of people who want both, but I don't think it will be all that significant. As long as it's marketed so the people know it's out there while they're getting slapping and gagged with GTA 6 propaganda.

As someone who initially thought this was a rubbish move and expressed my intent to move over to playstation, I've come around and actually don't mind the multi plat release plans. It's the most pro consumer move a major player in gaming has made in a long time and hopefully others follow suit. If playstation was smart and liked money, they'd do the same. There are a handful of Ps titles I'll never own or play, because I'll never buy a playstation, so locking their games in just loses out on free money. In any case, as long as these games they're releasing for $80 on Sony, are included with my game pass sub, I'm still winning, and I just hope Xbox keeps releasing hardware because between my Xbox and my switch, I have more games than I can ever play.

I did beat the first boss. That was actually fun, I'm a bit of a masochist when it comes to games. The harder the better. I've done the evil within 1 & 2 on akumu difficulty (one hit kills), and tend to enjoy games that are harder lol.

@Kaloudz I wanted to love wo long so bad as I'm a big team ninja fan and ninja gaiden freak. I think the decision to farm gear and the buddy system ruined the experience for me anyway. Couldn't stick with it and it was a miss for TN in my books.

@Fishysensei the age of exclusives is not behind us at all. The age of Xbox exclusives is behind us to the pleasure of PlayStation and Nintendo fans.

@Kaloudz I guess we will have to wait and see how this plays out. Xbox already has less third party support than Ps, bg3 delayed aka timed exclusivity essentially, wukong, sh2 remake as the first to come to kind that I would play. I fail to see how this strategy will make that any better going forward. Game pass has value, but will it remain as good or as well priced remains to be seen. Barriers going down is great, but as of right now the barriers are only going down for one set of gamers.

@Weebleman I mean, if a competitor came to you and said we want to sell our stuff at your market and give you a cut, you have to do nothing, AND this will remove any incentives to entice your customers to leave your ecosystem.... Who could say no? Just more money for Sony at this point.

@Kaloudz Game pass is banging this year for me. It would need to stay the same price and offer year over year the quality of 2025 for me to even consider sticking around. I would keep my series x to play my library of course, but if I can get gears, elder scrolls, silent hill and other exclusives all in one place next Gen? Yeah, it jusy doesn't make sense not to. Hopefully things start heading thr other way too and Xbox feeds on Sony stuff before the next Gen because I much prefer the Xbox interface and controller, so I'd rather stay green.

@Kaloudz right, we're definitely not victims by any means. However, with no reciprocation in place, most people will be leaving the Xbox ecosystem and rightfully so, as there is no incentive to stick with Xbox if you can get everything on playstation, and only some on Xbox.