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I don't mean to disparage GTA games when I say this because they are fun but I don't find these games to be particularly creative. If anything they are kind of reductive. They feel like you're playing "Video Game: The Game."

Lol imagine being so much of a console warrior that you voted for the games with gold over ps plus essential free games.

@JayJ I'm lucky enough to be able to have all three and like them all but I only play exclusives on ps5 because the controller is awful.

I really hope Microsoft doesn't feel compelled to copy the PlayStation controller gimmicks. On every Sony game I play I turn off all the dumb ***** the second the opening cut scene ends. It's all so distracting, kills the battery, and in the case of the adaptive triggers very uncomfortable for my hands and almost certainly contributing to long term damage.

The map is the only thing 5 does better than 4.

Not to disparage any of these games but I really expected Xbox to come out with fire this month after the delays. I know there are games here people will love but this definitely is not the response to the delays that I thought we would get.

They really should have held Halo until this year. They still would have had a great 2021 without Halo, 2022 would not be so barren, and it would have given them time to prep co-op as well as get ahead on making seasons for multiplayer so they could have had a tighter release schedule after launch.

Yoku is kind of a perfect offering for games with gold. I would be jazzed if I didn't already own it.

The combat and art look great. I was so hyped before learning it's a rogue lite. I think I just need to force myself to love roguelites because this Keeps happening.

I know delays are the norm but they seem to be particularly bad at hitting their dates.

@themightyant thanks for the tip! A site I use for tracking my switch library dekudeals.com recently added Xbox and PS games so I am tracking everything there now. They have a helpful label for when things are on Game Pass.

@HungryHungryHomer And I decided I am definitely going to add PS Plus Extra to my growing confusion. It's still a better problem than I had in my twenties which was being too damn broke for any games.

Even worse. I have purchased games on other consoles, not realizing they were currently on Game Pass.

This seems like a non story. The smoking gun they found from reviewing slack and emails is something they say is very clearly a joke when read in context and their interviews with former employees amount to "it was a bunch of small things." It sucks but it just sounds like normal work *****. I have a great union job with ample worker protections but my boss still sucks to deal with.

I love Game Pass

Games Purchased
Switch - 5
PS5 - 2
Series X - 0

Hours Played
Switch - 45
PS5 - 10
Series X - 200+

@Krzzystuff They really need to move away from this long ass format. Just put out an exciting 20 minute video akin to what Nintendo and Sony do. If I need reactions from streamers (I don't) then I can just find those on youtube.

@tanaka2687 I am not a big fan of the constant hype machine but Jeff seems super reserved. Basically all of his rumors are accurate and timely.

I highly recommend giving Touhou Luna Nights a quick play through. It is a good action platformer and it only takes a few hours.

Imagine limiting yourself to tiny handful of AAA games and then having the audacity to tell others they have bad taste. How do you even know what a good game is when you automatically reject 99% of games?

@Dezzy70 Indy games also have beautiful environments, the quality of the game, the perfection in movement and control and gameplay. In fact I would say indies frequently have the best gameplay and controls.

@BBB every video game should let you punt enemies straight to hell. I'm playing AC Odyssey right now and spartan kicking never ceases to be hilariously awesome.

None. I say we must move forward not backward, upward not downward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

How is this list missing Ori?

For those of you across the pond, "virtue signaling" is a phrase used exclusively by the absolute worst Americans. It is used to escape responsibility by accusing good people of only acting good so other people think good of them rather than acting good because they are good people. Phil is not your friend. He is just another rich dude who won't do anything besides the most profitable thing.

@GunValkyrie it really does. I've been eyeballing forever.

@Dusk_Actual I considered that but it's the devs and support staff walking out of their jobs and putting their names on the line so I feel the need to stand in solidarity.

I wish Activision blizzard would fire their awful CEO so I can buy Sekiro, Crash 4, and Tony Hawk. I waited all year to buy them on sale and now it feels unethical.

I just put an hour into Guacamelee 2 and it's great so far. I think I'll definitely sprint to finish it before it leaves.

@MyThoughts31 Cool you found an edge case. This doesn't change that it is true that MOST trophies are either collectathons or require you to do x thing x number of times and they have very little to do with the reasons people played and enjoyed the game in the first place. Developers have also been moving away from skills based trophies in an effort towards making trophies more inclusive.

How to get a platinum trophy -

1. Play game
2. Beat game
3. Continue playing game doing the boring stuff that wouldn't do without some added incentive

@themightyant I am not saying it is a mass conspiracy. You're replying to a straw man you constructed. I am saying that the dude who is friends with Sony execs and developers probably uses whatever influence they have to help their friends. It's not a conspiracy, it's just normal rich dude *****.

@themightyant Even if TGA does not directly pick nominees it doesn't mean they have zero power to influence who gets picked. They choose who votes, they chose the cutoff date that excluded one of the biggest releases of the year, they chose the order in which info is presented to voters, and they chose which info to highlight. They have a lot of ability to game the system. It's easy to influence a secret vote.

@armondo36 yes I know the trillion dollar company will be fine. They'll be fine if they never sell another Xbox. That doesn't mean that it is untrue that this could have turned people away from storage expansion by presenting an option so expensive that people learned to go without.

The exorbitant cost of this proprietary storage has just taught me that shuffling things in and out of my SSD is really not that bad so now I will never buy an expansion even when prices drop. I can't be alone. They played themselves.

If oculus came to Xbox I would buy it day one.

@Dezzy70 I don't think it makes sense to rebrand just to sell extra merch. The green looks great for marketing needs. But I do agree with you that it is an impediment to selling merch. Maybe they should just use olive green for merch as it is a much more flattering color for clothing.

Maybe it's the color green or something but Xbox has the ugliest merch. Definitely losing the console merch wars.

Oh no! Did someone force them to buy the games?!?!?

I highly recommend Hotshot Racing if anyone has nostalgia for early 2000s arcade racers. It's super fun and only 3-5 hours to beat.

@flawse I got my first PS recently to see what all the fuss is about. Sony published games are as good as advertised. If you can afford the three console life I do recommend it. That being said it is my least essential console. I prefer the Series X for game pass and quick resume and Switch because it has my favorite exclusives.

@JimBeam42 Mass effect was review bombed because it's an EA game. Most If not all EA games get review bombed. The localization thing was again just a justification for the absurd score.

For the Psychonauts 2 reviews click on the 0 reviews. It's easy to find people whose previous ratings are all 10 for Sony published games. Try a little harder and you'll find some that have 10s for Sony games and 0s for several Xbox games.

@JimBeam42 I'm super confused about why you got defensive. I did not say this was unique to PS fans. I said the localization issues are irrelevant because this is just fanboys hating and using localization as a justification for the low review. I also commented that I care because it portends to an inability or more likely unwillingness to respect other people's experiences which can be very harmful in other aspects of life.

@StylesT But they do have lives which they use to make life awful for everyone who doesn't think, talk, look, and act like them. In this case it's just harmless review bombing but it irks me because this same inability to think outside of their own experience and respect other people's interests and needs, leads to a lot of ***** regressive government policy.

@flawse Sony fanboys are review bombing the game because it is published by Microsoft and using the lack of localization as a justification for their review bombing. This is abundantly clear if you click on the review history of people doing the bombing. They always have a justification to stand in for the real reason which is always fanboy and/or toxic *****.

Some decent games but that presentation should have been 45 minutes tops. So much impossibly boring filler.

I've been waiting on this since first getting my Series X. I've never played it and wanted to wait for 60 fps.

@The_New_Butler I thought I was literally the only person who preferred the simplicity of the switch interface.

@Richard-92 This! 4K is very meh compared to 60 FPS and RT but developers keep on prioritizing it. I primarily want 60fps for smooth gameplay but I also think it does more for visual quality than 4k does.

@SplooshDmg I've seen so many posts about character builds and play styles that are all wildly different. I invested heavily in Evasion, Health, and Shotguns so I can play build that almost feels like melee action. I love rolling into point blank head shots.

I'm super excited to do one single flight in Flight Sim to gawk at the graphics and then never play again. I'm also super excited to annoy my wife into playing The Ascent once or twice.