RetroMan71

I remember getting my 12 month XBOX Live subscription for £25 off CD Keys when I first joined, then when I upgraded to GP Ultimate, it only cost me a £1... is that still a thing?

@awp69 Yeah, I'll be playing that later 👍

At first glance, the games above don't really appeal to me, but I'll certainly give them a go when I get chance.
Also, and I've said this before... I pray one day that one of these Indie devs releases a side scrolling shooter, I love the SHMUP genre.

I really enjoyed the Mountain Bike one, but some of the tracks were so narrow and tricky. This looks a bit more forgiving with the wider track to navigate... looks fun.

@Nexozi Really? I play online most evenings and it's always a great connection. I've never had any issues with it.

I have about 15 games installed at the moment on my Series S.
The internal storage is pretty full at 88%. I bought an expansion card last year which is about 54% full. I also use a USB flash drive for the backward compatible games, which is 36% full.

Online sniper game modes?? 😖😖
I can feel my anxiety rising already 🤣

I had a chill weekend just gone. I gave BlackOps 6 and SW Battlefront 2 a rest and chilled with Balatro on my Switch, it's super addictive.

Of course, without History, there would be no Future.
Oh! That was deep 😌

@StonyKL I do actually agree with you on your points there. I started to play it, but I just don't feel the urge to jump back in at the moment.

I would love to see another Tony Hawk game....

THPS2 was a permanent resident in my Playstation back in 2000/2001 😁 I'd never been so addicted to a game like it before. Then 20 years on when Vicarious Visions rebooted THPS 1+2 the nostalgia kicked in and so did the addiction, but what surprised me most was the muscle memory. It was like my fingers had never left the controller 🤣🤣

At first I was interested in the Robin Hood game, but that Lightyear Frontier looks even better.

Oh! I really like the look of Sherwood Builders, one of those screenshots reminds me of Settlers from my Amiga days 😊

@PhileasFragg I sometimes think like that when you hear of companies or individuals throwing money around like this. Take Elon Musk for example, the richest man in the world and buying Twitter then rebranding... why? Who did that benefit other than himself?!
I understand it's not charity, but I bet that money could've solved some crisis in the world?

Crikey, where did I go there? Anyway, I love the COD series and Black Ops 6, keep throwing that money at it 😁

Errr! No clue... Hey look, Gravel Special Edition is only £2.49 😃

I don't bother with resolutions, so I'll just carry on as normal 😁
Happy Gaming Everyone 👍

@TeiGekiLord Same here... I even took a screenshot from one of my boss battles, and still have it as my wallpaper on the xbox, it looked amazing... I loved the art style.

I played this when it first launched, and it got a lot of hate for the loot box grind which encouraged you to purchase, but they soon fixed it. Multiplayer is amazing. I'm a huge Star Wars fan and the game really captures the look, the feel and battle scenes from the movies. I'm definitely trying this again...

I'm not normally that opiniated about design choices in games, but Indy is an iconic character, so I would've personally preferred the 3rd person view so you can see him in action.

In that clip, Indy scratches the back of his neck. Why bother with that animation if they intended the game to be first person?

@Gabrielmpf Wouldn't you technically be giving them money if you buy their future games on a competitor's hardware?

Oh! TitanFall 2 at £2.49, now that's tempting. I loved that game.

Carrion looks very interesting...

@BookhouseBoy ...because, you subscribed to GP, but you've only played 2 games all year... that's what I meant.

Oooh! Radiant Silvergun... I've been hoping for a sale on the switch for this for a long time, but it never seems to happen. I might just get this version instead.

@BookhouseBoy To be honest, I wasn't a fan of Starfield and I haven't played Indy yet, but it just sounds like you're not a fan of gaming at all 🤔

I didn't get to play anything this weekend, what with our works xmas party on friday, then was away over the weekend with friends 😌 so feeling a bit tired this morning 😏 but... I have Cyberpunk 2077 downloaded and ready to play, so will be jumping into that later tonight.

I might treat myself to Cyberpunk, I believe the game is in great shape now and it does look good.

I always had fun with these games, hopefully this will be no different.

Dinosaurs instantly remind me of Jurassic Park, which is in my top 10 films list (sequels not included), so this looks great... 😁

@LostInBlue0 I've been playing WRC and jeez!... it sure has a difficult learning curve. I mean, every track feels like your driving on ice 😖 Good though 👍

I remember a game I purchased on XBLA way back in 2011, and it was called Burnout CRASH!. That disappeared... 😒

No surprises here... 😁 He was quoted saying that after winning the Grand Slam, he is going home to celebrate by playing on his XBOX. 😏

I love trying these indie releases... but I pray for the day that a SCHMUP is released. I currently play Crimson Clover on Switch. Antstream Arcade has some great SCHMUPS too on there.

I play this quite regular on my xbox and find it to be quite stable 🤔
Admittedly, I have had the odd occasion where the picture quality will drop when playing very briefly, but overall I've found most games run great.

@FraserG Remind me to strap a 70" OLED LGTV to my back next time I get hit by a car 😁

"Memory leaks"??? I get them everyday 😫

Oh! 😖 Staff arguing with posters in the threads seems a little awkward and unprofessional. Should really be kept private if you ask me, anyhoo! I too am surprised with the low score, but I will play either way. Enjoy!

Happy and patient enough to wait till Monday.

Glad I got that expansion card the other week, I love a bit of rally driving and overthrown looks interesting too.

Well... I played CTR last night and DAMN! The game is punishing so early on 😫 I was expecting to cruise around the early courses like a sunday driver, minding my own business whilst coming 1st place, but NO! the game had other ideas. 🤣 It honestly felt like as soon as I was in the lead, the other racers suddenly decided to fire off their weapons, missile after missile, only for me to fall back into last place, whilst they gained a speed boost. It's a steep learning curve for sure, but really fun.

@HeavyHoggJP Same here, will definitely give CTR a go, never played that.

@LaurenceJ1987 Haha! I noticed the dialogue last night for the first time. I got my PPL license and did my first guest tour around Manchester 🤣 The dialogue was certainly weird for sure, it had a very robotic sound. Is there a way you can turn it off?

@BolkaRover Well I've had my Series S for just over 2 years now, played a lot of games and it's been great. I've never noticed or had any performance issues, so I say go for it.

@BolkaRover I play on Series S and once you get into the game it runs fine. Loading and swapping between menus was a bit choppy, but I'm sure that will smooth out over time.

@themightyant I haven't downloaded it yet, but I did watch a few gameplay videos over the weekend and it does look really good to play.

@LaurenceJ1987 Hi yeah I managed to get on over the weekend after that update too. It was a bit choppy and slow loading, but I started my career finally and had quite a good time with the tutorials.

@OldGamer999 So many mixed comments and reviews, I'm like "leave it!" then "I'll try it later!" then "I'll download it!" but don't bother. I'm just going to bite the bullet tonight and see how it goes for me.

@awp69 ...and then I read a post like this 😊 I'm just going to try it for myself now. Let's see what my experience is like.

@OldGamer999 How are you still finding the game? I notice you haven't really suffered with performance or issues?

It's certainly a strange release. The review scores range from low to high and even gamer comments range from it being non-playable to barely having any issues. 🤷‍♂️