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Bought it at launch and loved it. Easily a 9/10 for me. 5 is still my favourite though.

Gears of War 1 - Loved
Gears of War 2 - Pretty good
Gears of War 3 - Average
Gears of War 4 - Boring
Gears of War 5 - Gave up early on

But for some reason I’m still really interested in what comes next for the series.

Ah the Internet. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

@InterceptorAlpha if you are interested in stuff like that, might be worth checking this out.

https://youtu.be/HlaZkU4iWJI?si=4dcHqk495JKyhq8R

Leave the original shell on. This is the way.

According to my year in review, I put 35 hours into it. I really wanted to like it, one of the reasons I bought an ASUS ROG Ally was to play this and Forza 8 at work. But I ended up dropping both games very quickly. Only managed 15 hours in Forza. Really gutted as these were two of my most anticipated games of 2023.

I haven’t bought an Xbox game since Forza 7 (preordered before Game Pass came out). I used to buy about 15-20 a year. But haven’t bought anything since Game Pass came out. It’s completely changed the way I use my Xbox.

I’ve only just realised that I’ve never used it.

Don’t they know humour went out of fashion years ago?

I get Jeff is in love, and love makes us all do weird things, but the segment was very difficult to watch.

@Lup Can’t believe I agree that the Sega announcement was the best thing at this years show. Haha. Really intrigued by Crazy Taxi and the visuals of Jet Set Radio looked **** hot.

Very weak show, glad I didn’t stay up. Just watched it and really wish I’d just looked online and read about the announcements.

@OldGamer999 And what a time it was to be alive, Spectrum, Commodore and Amstrad. Some of the greatest gaming of my life. Aside from the 10 minutes of loading. Bloody kids complaining about 5 seconds of squeezing through gaps. Haha.

@OldGamer999 You hum it son, I’ll play it.

Dead Rising 3.

@RetroMan71 That’s pretty much how I feel about it. Real shame, as this was right up there as a most anticipated game of 2023 for me.

@themightyant Nice. Thanks. Just pinning mine. Completely forgot it was a thing. Haha.

This is one of my most anticipated games of the year.

But as a subscriber to Game Pass Ultimate, there is zero chance I would pay to play a few days early.

Quieter buttons and thumbsticks.

Thank you! The best thing they could’ve done.

@themightyant Same. It drives me mad.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2022/09/xboxs-improved-elite-series-2-controller-is-getting-mixed-feedback-so-far

They granted my wish. Post number #26. Haha.

Downloaded to my Series X and ROG Ally. Will have to wait until I’ve finished work to try it out though.

I’m not really an online person, but aside from one year when I moved to another country, I’ve always kept my subscription alive. From the original Xbox Live, to Game Pass Ultimate.

One of my earliest memories of actually playing Xbox online multiplayer was probably Midtown Madness 3. Loved that game and the multiplayer was great fun.

Where is the sequel?

@NorthwestEagle Broccoli? Dude, you can’t make up words to win an argument.

Ana de Armas player skin for Conker: Live & Reloaded.

@ShinobiWan1 If I live to 100, that phrase will still be burnt into my memory. Haha.

@Sakai if you’ve already got PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium, Riders Republic (PS5/4) is being added on the 18th April.

@Blofse They added selling a while ago. It’s in the used car section.

@FraserG Off topic but I only just noticed there was a fellow Walsall lad in here. Haha. Up the Saddlers!

I played through to St. Petersburg. Funny how after all these years, the mission objectives are burnt into my mind. Haha.

It's a decent. Think I'll finish the campaign and see if I can go through a couple of multiplayer matches.

@aj102404 @species8472 I forgot until I got to mission 5 and I noticed nothing had popped. I checked my achievements, they were all logging and adding to my gamerscore, just not appearing on screen. They started appearing not long after that. Now they are all popping on screen.

The only one I remember spending a lot of time trying to unlock was the Facility invincibility cheat. Beat the level in under 2:05 on 00 Agent. I’ll have to see how my skills have held up before I attempt 1000/1000. Haha.

Shame we didn’t get a date for Forza. It looks incredible.

@NeoRatt I get what you mean. But you could say that about almost anything released though. Apart from the really big games. How many sell to more than 5% of the user base? And games are a tenth of the price of VR. If you take PS4 as an example (easiest to find sales numbers), say ~120 million consoles in the wild. That’s 6 million copies needed to break 5% of the users. According to sales data, only 11 games crossed that line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_4_video_games

But I agree, it will be a very niche product for now. We just need to get to Ready Player One levels of immersion. Haha.

Forza 8 and Replaced for me. Although Replaced is based purely on visuals. Simply amazing artwork.

Really hope Forza is still coming in the first half of the year.

Merry Christmas to all. Hope you all have a great day!!!!

Haven’t bought anything since Forza 7. Used to buy a few every month. Game Pass changed my buying habits on Xbox completely.

It can only be Vampire Survivors. And that is coming from someone who isn’t usually into this type of genre or setting.

Counterargument,

Worst FIFA game ever. Haha.

I don’t really bother with Call of Duty normally (and never touch the online modes) but my wife bought me a PS5 copy the other day.

The campaign is amazing. Playing through on Veteran and it’s a great balance of difficulty and fun. Really, really impressed by it.

Bit of a tough one, but I’d go with Most Wanted (2005) on the 360. I think it was the first game I got 1000/1000 GS too.

3 and 4 are two of the best racers on Xbox. Absolutely loved them.

@senote I’m hoping for Detention Level Garbage Masher Simulator.

Master Chief Kart

I just want a quiet Xbox controller. That is all.

Blades? Pfff. I would prefer a Windows 1.0 style instead.

Championship Manager. I got so good at it, the FA offered me a role in the England set up. I took Woking from the Conference to the Champions League in 6 seasons.

Forza Horizon is great, but for me it still hasn’t passed the fun I had with PGR, Burnout and Midnight Club. Even some of the Need For Speeds have been amazing over the years.

I love them all, but for me, they peaked at 3.

Bring Enemy Territory and I’ll be interested. The only online multiplayer game I’ve put a lot of time into.

@Stocksy Unfortunately not, there is only a small selection of original Xbox games in the backwards compatibility program. It would've been an excellent addition as well.

Ah, Midtown Madness I loved that series.

OutRun Online Arcade.

Played through 2 jobs on PowerWash Simulator.

Just finished the garden level. Damn… I think I’m done with this game now. Haha.

Very happy to see Midnight Fight Express. The sort of game I would like to try, but would probably never get around to actually buying.