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Nice for XSS users, I'll be at the XSX though

Definitely in favour of this approach.
Hated both Sony and retailers for the way this handled.
Attempting to get both consoles, and what they did doesn't help!
I'll be queueing from 7am on Tuesday

At that price, it'd be hard to turn it down to see some next gen goodness

Omg, traded in oneX for voucher (guess why!)
Suffering withdrawal symptoms from Borderlands 2 (handsome collection)
Pulled out old 360 and found Thief, played a little before deciding on a film... I'll go back to Thief during the week

@FraserG ouch

I like the line up, gonna hold of on the ps5 til ratchet and clank...
@fraserg any word on the Witcher 3 patch? Holding off for that ray tracing patch, lovely, that will be a worthy one

Have to throw my hat into the ring re swearing... I do it, but I that doesn't mean I like it on TV and games. Well said about "it's not the game I remember"
Ok saying that I'll probably be a day 1 for it. Looks incredible.
Also, shocked the boss man is leaving... Can it really live up to his vision? Advice - do not rush it!

This isn't for me... And I don't like the thoughts of my money going on this to subsidise anime. I don't mind subbing eg racing games or strategy games that I might never play, but never video content.

@KelticDevil love this idea, taking the mickey out of the 2 Sony big wigs!

Game Pass Ultimate has really sold the XSX for me, nice library of games to tap into, (some come in, some go out, hey that's life!)
Plus all those day 1 first party games from some pretty darn good studios
I will get the PS5 at some point, (only to play the new ratchet, lol) but for this next gen, big green has it for me!

"Microsoft is advertising GAME and Smyths Toys as the only two retailers that will be providing the service in the UK"
No they aren't.... To be accurate it's GB, not UK.

Looking forward to seeing what Game UK does

No doubt about it, ACV.
Looking forward to the witcher 3 and Borderlands 3 patches. Haven't played them before, so brand new gameplay & graphics for me!

I think it's a shame that we didn't get the pleasure of an official reveal, even though we all knew it was coming. but I suppose they should not have really sat on this for quite as long as they did... 1 or 2 weeks after the series X announcement would have been fine and still caused quite a bit of buzz at the time.

I was intending to get one of these day one but at that (unofficial) price, probably plough the money into a PS5 instead, a month or two down the line.
at the minute I'm really restricted myself to play a game to end before starting another, so I'm thinking I don't really have to bother with expansion...
Have a 2 terabyte hard disk drive and a 240 SSD at the minute so plenty of opportunity to swap games in and out of the internal drive!

Just finishing Borderlands 1 now, and own handsome collection and 3, so this is good timing ! Really need something to show off the XSX, so this and Witcher 3 patched should do the trick!

Pleased at this , more than happy to pay especially as EA play is in the picture!
On a side note, the Xbox access (20 or 30 £ per month) is not available in Northern Ireland, yet it's promoted as a UK deal. Could such a big company as Microsoft get mixed up between GB and UK? Really?

So if I buy a one year EA tomorrow , what do I get GPUlt wise?

I own both consoles and find it funny that over on the sister site there's about 140 comments!
Maybe Xbox users don't really care? Didn't buy it? Is this seem more of a PS game? Is there a 25 to 1 ratio of more PUSH than PURE visit these sites!?

It's gonna set the wheels in motion for future. They'll be announced on the back of the packaging in a year or two, so you know it's there, and they will be smaller and less intrusive. Maybe just billboard style 'textures' that will change regularly we see it in real life in football, so it will be in FIFA eventually, then billboards in Fortnite etc. Can't see them ever being 5 second ads like TV

Nice topic, Fraser!
For me, is like to see crazy remakes TODAY of manic miner, JSW, with incredible graphics, I know Retrospec have done wonders, but something really over the top. Hard to describe here.
Most games have a style and might be wrong to try and re master and improve that, but in truth I'd like a photo realistic version of Spyro just to show that we could, sod the staying true to the original cartoon style!
But to answer the question - enter (and exit) the gundeon would be my candidate
but that's maybe cos I don't like the graphics, love the gameplay, mind you, is that the case in point here?

Normally hate playing a 3rd game without going through first ones. Borderlands, mass effect, halo, others, played or playing through all those from start to finish (way after the last part was released)
For some reason, I'm perfectly happy to jump in at 3 (GOTY) maybe cos it seems to be the first big XSX game I'll play that has ray tracing etc.

This is on my list, after Borderlands 1, 1.5, 2, 3 followed by the two yooka-laylee games. Way to much to play!

Get the feeling I was in a GameCube playing, so likely 2003?? but kinda guessed the 2010 as I sort of remember that... Could be getting mixed up lol
It's this old age, I play and love games, but instantly forget them...

@BionicDodo i was looking for the c64 version too !

@LtSarge exactly how I was with BL1, hated it, uninstalled it, reinstalled it, rinse and repeat. Hoping I like pre1.5, 2 and 3, as I've got the lot now!
Hoping 3 coincides with XSX as it'll make it feel I'm playing a 'new' game lol

Borderlands (360 BC) this weekend! Took ages to get into it, didn't like it at all to start lol
Currently waiting in a queue to get the Handsome Collection, plus picking up Witcher 3 GOTY later

I bought dreams on PS4 the other day to see what I could do
Was used to using BASIC on the old Amiga (and ZX Spectrum!)

@BlueOcean Day 1 !

@BlueOcean I feel guilty for getting it 2nd hand now!

Going to get at cex (2nd hand) today and won't pay until the upgrade is out

I have DoomVR on the PSVR and never played it, and Doom on the X, I really must play them! Haven't even installed them, jes

I got a beta code and just couldn't bring myself to play it... Maybe scared it was going to be good and that no matter what I was determined to buy it, lol.
Reading the stories about the micro transactions, I'm more than happy that I made the right decision

It might, but I don't think they will be in to big a rush about it. Main reason for the X was to be the most powerful console on the market, but they've already got that with the XSX anyway.

I played all through these in 2018, ready for Andromeda, which I started and finished in Feb 20 (thank you game pass) !
I'll not be playing them again, but glad Shepard and Co will reach a new audience!

Progress ! That's great news

@PretendWorking pretty convinced that the BC team have said that the way they change API and libraries and whatever (!) At the system level, they don't have anything to do when it comes to games to work better. I think that was around the time of red dead 1 getting an amazing 4k lift, guessing it was same as having a better spec pc means better FPS
But more recently, they are managing to get HDR out of old games by playing about at the system level not at the actual '.exe' level

I'm guessing if they just ported to the Xbox One, the new XSX would just up the frame rate in true 4k by default

Thanks for the review. Coincidentally I switched the PC on this morning for the first time in weeks as I've been pretty busy with Paper Mario, and The last of us remastered.
So I'll get downloading this 😁
I'll just add that the lack of damage system doesn't really bother me!

Am I the only one that thought 400 quid (GBP) (well just over) hey that's alright?

Was nice to pick an xcloud game and watch it sync my xbox's save game!
Unfortunately, streaming from my own Xbox had resulted in endless "game took too long to start" errors 🤬

I'm wondering now if this is just a strange transition period for us all...
I mean, I'm all for MS approach (eg. scraping the console war, sign-up the developers, getting great games with game pass, that whole subscription-based instead of how many consoles sold, and ability to play games from previous generations with backwards compatibility, I'm play them anywhere I want with cloud streaming.)
But in my head, it's taking some getting used to
Because even though I agree with ALL of that, I still desire the Sony approach of bestest shiniest game on launch day.
I suppose the delay is disappointing but I have confidence that we can have it on both generations.
I also (probably naively) think that the wow-factor graphics aren't there because of of the art style of the game.

I said yes, but thinking about it, that was probably to... emphasis to MS that the game needs to look truly stunning (someone mentioned gears 5 running on XSX earlier).
I'd rather have 60fps stunning than 120fps not so stunning (I'm just awake lol !)
I don't know much about game dev, but I think they should have started with XSX (overboard bells and whistles) and gradually to them out until it ran well on the XB1 (turn off raytr, reduce LoD, draw distance, etc)

To many sports for me, though might be one or two franchises I like... Maybe. Happy to stick to game pass. Not being suckered in by MS re the GP push, not impressed at all by PSN bs, (though I love some Sony exclusives!), but GP is really working for me, I'm happy

Don't know much about the series, but if it's game pass, I'll try it!

@ThanosReXXX I totally get that. what I've done in the past 2 years is once I like a game, I will only play that game until the very end. So this is good for game pass games, but the other thing is I just getting mixed up between the plot to various games as well is is messing up the controls. I'm getting too old lol.
It's the reason why I haven't really got into RDR2 yet too

@ThanosReXXX I'm one of the lucky ones that never buy games, as there is always something there for me.
Well I got 'first' 2 Wolfenstein digital for £6, which I didn't mind paying! But 1 disc game a year, eg RDR2)

At least there will be something Ray Tracey (!) to go with , hopefully quite near launch date

@KelticDevil "This version of Control will be released digitally in September and physically at the end of 2020"

@Dezzy70 @Dezzy70 already have and that's probably why I'm looking forward to even faster loading.
Going the half generation with the One X I suppose I should have expected with diminished return on investing on the next gen.
But spending all that money for launch day and not seeing something really special. Mmm.
Much though i detest Sony and PSN, the thoughts of ratchet and clank with its game play, Ray tracing, next gen, SSD etc (even if it ends up being checkerbox 4k) is launch day, well, it's pretty appealing