TheSilverFalcon

@DonkeyKongBigBoy Yeah with the datasette, an half an hour of tapeloading would get you like 100KB ... those were the days...

48GB, which is considered relatively small these days, I went from an apple IIc with a huge 128KB at that time (1984 or so), to games on my commodore 64 which spanned both sides of a 5.25" floppy which was like a 320KB which was massive for that time, so 48GB is like 390.000+ times the size of that floppy.... incredible how fast this went in a few decades...

Got a 400mb/s connection so should be good, but like people say here servers gonna get hit hard, so we'll see if we get to download it from the get go and what speeds we're gonna get. just under 11 hours to go.

@Trmn8r Lol, my bad....

Also on PS5 btw , gonna check it out, am a sucker for tech demo thingies.... DF gonna probably do a comparison

indeed competition is always good, bring it on. ,

Got a great internet connection , but yes had a lot of issues with connecting to the gameservers, and on top of that, championships I went first in (against highly skilled drivatars) which wasn't easy and then not getting the (forza)points was very dissapointing, waiting for some fixes now.... It's an awesome game when it works and gives you the right amount of points.

I bought a physical copy of Assassin's Creed Origins Deluxe for 8 euro's directly from Ubisoft... that's it.

@JRJalapeno, the discount will always be 20% minimum, and yes it's not there for weeks or so, always way longer, shortest I think was RDR2 and GTAV from rockstar which were available for like 3 months if I remember correctly, Gamepass is really the best deal in gaming.

Liked the atmosphere, played it for hours, but had some trouble with completing objectives, but damn this game is beautiful, gonna try it again this weekend, and see what's upgraded... .but then again they dropped so much this week, it's really getting silly... and bought physical copies of games during black friday, cheaper than digital including shipping, but it only adds to my backlog, wish we could buy time, cause that's the only commodity which I lack at this moment.

And also this is not available for me (Netherlands)

Not available where I live (Netherlands)

Looking at the development kit picture (boy that better not be the final product, it's not a pretty device imho) they already have the xbox button layout, so that's cool.

Native would be a must, but that 'Gx3 gen 1' platform is android based I presume, so the question is could it possibly run xbox games natively? If not native, then you could just connect a controller to our phone like @gollumb82 suggests, and cellular connectivity would be a must too like @InterceptorAlpha mentioned, if not native.

Definitely interested! With a decent controller (same stuff as xbox controller) and an oled please.

More concerning is the rampant growth of cheaters on the pc side, they should address this problem real soon, this is gonna ruin the game. And also enable the ability to turn off crossplay in casual play...

It will sell for years?, well, saw it in the store this week in a sales bin for 10 euro's, bin was full, even at that price nobody was picking it up. They got ways to go fixing the reputation of this game.

Gave them a C for effort, like @BlueOcean says, it's just a bonus on top of the amazing value that gamepass is, my youngest daughter is crazy about lego games, so we got the 2 batmans so she was happy, Yookoo-laylee and Moving Out were welcome too...

Won't watch it either .. we'll see in December

Went from must buy from me and my buddies after watching trailer to okay lets see if they fix enough after first beta to now we're gonna wait till it gets properly fixed and buy it in a sale, shame has so much potential, but we had so many issues , crossplay didn't work , my buddies have pc's and I alone have the xsx so that was lame... Too bad...

6 euro's is dirt cheap, for 60 hours of amazing gameplay, but I would recommend the GOTY edition, 4 euro's extra for both the dlc's which are big campaigns on their own....

If you never played the Witcher 3, once again it's time to pick it up for a bargain, remains one of the best games ever made.

Not bothered by it at all, it's a real positive vibe I get, so nope, fine by me... but level 20+ or so , didn't have that much time to play it yet, work and life got in the way, hopefully this weekend some more playtime.... but there are too many games lol.... not in the least complaining about gta san andreas being in the state that is is, completed that one years ago.... Next Space Rebels I'm intrigued by so propably give that some time.

@LtSarge Horizon 4 another beatiful game, is there in gamepass, and the ultimate version is dirt cheap now in the black friday sale, but yeah the others are delisted cause of licensing issues... Got Horizon 4 with my One X with the Lego expansion (which is great btw).

Well maybe because of the complete clusterf#*ck of a release, they should do gamepass to maybe save some face and get some sales.... I saw physical as low as 10-15 bucks... with all the numerous patches it doesn't look half bad at this point...

@WCB First thought also, yesterday was like no way I´m gonna download 140+gb for the weekly challenge, but maybe now I can stream the game... Had it as an insider for a while, but never got around to use it, play games on the consoles only, but for tryouts this is gonna be great.

If it's made of real beskar, it's a bargain.

Flightsim nominated (again) is really odd, it won last years sim/strategy catergory, and now nominated again for the same category.... hmmm, thought there was a strict rule for being nominated , only new games, no remaster/remakes... why not nominate Hades again, was new for me this year.... and one of my most played and loved games

And people were right, I was so hoping FH5 would make the overall GOTY category, it's not a niche (racer) game, it surpassed 8 million players like 2 days ago.... highest rated new game of the year and one of the most played and not in the goty discussion is just heresy imo.

@LX_FENIX What I understand is that they use a very special technique to get those fps boost to work, they don't alter the game in anyway, just trick the game into performing better somehow. They also said that this technique basically isn't working on every game, they went out of their way for Dark Souls 3 I believe which got a special treatment to get it to work.

@Originut @blinx01, you both are probably right, they have to get the permission from the publisher and or developer to tinker with the fps, maybe they didn't sign off on it due to the remake in development, so the remake can shine even more in comparison with the old version. But overall impressive list, got some of those old disc's somewhere in a box, time to dust them off... Assassin's Creed , Far Cry 3 and F.E.A.R for sure, original AC on 60fps could be fun again....

Couldn't start the download yesterday evening, but could download it just before I got to work this morning , no time to play though, until tonight, but what a treat, all maps and progression is ported to final release so that's pretty epic....

Will download both, Lego for our youngest, she loves all lego games, and the other goes to the ever extending backlog.

Got my S on day one, and the X last may, best systems I have owned till now, and I got a lot going back to nes....

Allegedly they sent out 50000 giftcards to US customers, half of them for $100 and other half for $10, nice gesture, but we xbox gamers are not all US residents

@Berry-sXe , Very good tip!, thanks a bunch.

It better be nominated at the Keighleys (TGA) for overall game of the year, or it's the last time I watched that show....

It's really amazing, too bad I had to go to work today, as I would have played a lot more... but numbers are astounding.... over a million had early access too.... which is really telling....

Really cool thing (pun intended)... too bad scalpers bested me in trying to buy this thing, he was noticing the 90 day limited warranty, that would never be the case in the EU, we got a minimum 2-year warranty over here against faulty products.... Also noticed that he unplugged the thing and the xbox logo was still lit.... probably some type of capacitor holding charge, but fun to see!

Agree with people here, put your attention in other areas first, only got in the game one time, rest of beta time I couldn't log in, what I played for about 2 hours was okay but definitely could use some polish, go for a stable 60fps first.

@ChopperCampbell Thanks for the tip, just like @NESsalgia I had real issues with the controller in Planet Coaster, didn't know it had keyboard/mouse support , defintely gonna try it again the next two weeks and see if it's better, cause it looks great.

Awesome mix of reality and in-game material so it seems, which is a good indication how realistic the graphics in this game are!

That trailer gets me excited definitely going to try this out! Nice soundtrack btw

Played the first mission, it's pretty good, got nostalgic feelings, cause I thought of C64's Ace 2 and Amiga's F18 interceptor (yep I'm old ), then I read that it has been made by just 3 people, and now I'm seriously impressed... Great flight action game so far.

Nice, but does that mean a one-off for every employee, cause that would be a hell of a job for Pope.

December 8th.....mmmmh, gonna sign up for another game that day.

As i said before, just give us the keyboard+mouse option only ,so you wouldn't have to do any extra port stuff to put it on xbox, I don't have a game pc anymore, my kids do, but they're not into AoE, it's all Valorant, Apex , PUBG....

Forza and of course Skyrim, still not clear as what the price will be for the upgrade to the full version of the anniversary edition, and there better be a upgrade path, as I am not gonna pay full price again for the 5th time or so, already got 4 versions of it. Also definitely gonna check San Andreas out, played it to death on the pc back in the day, so gonna be interesting how this is gonna play on the series x, after all this time.

I've seen the developers during the unbelievably long twitch indie showcase, and this was definitely one I wanted to check out, so gonna give it a go...

@Xenomorph_79 They could just like gears 5 , halo mcc and sea of thieves for example support mouse and keyboard, then they wouldn't have to go out of their way to implement the xbox controller in the game.