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Oh no...quick, lets re subscribe... 😂

Weird as it is to me, I know some people will enjoy this, so happy shelf stacking I guess!

Lovely to see some growth for the team here, they are a great studio.
I won't be sold on Fable till we've seen some proper gameplay. Nice though it looked I wasn't convinced from the trailers we've seen that they have captured the 'essence' of what made Fable so great to me when the original released - but obviously I'm hoping that they do as I loved those early games and their 'quirkiness'.
Hard to see how they can go wrong with FH6, though I will only play it once it's on PS5 pro now that my Series X is mothballed. I have 4 & 5 on steam as well, so if there's a delay for a PS5 version I might play on PC for a change!
I do hope they revisit the way they handle progress to make it more rewarding, but I'll be all over it even if they learn nothing from FH5. I do love a good carpg! 😊
MS should continue to nurture this studio - it gets results.

I don't want one, but it's nonetheless a nice bit of kit even if it is silly expensive.
I was a little underwhelmed by the software interface driving it, but I'm hoping that over time this will develop.

Day of the tentacle. Loved it back in the day!

I hope this is true - the business is better off with Xbox hardware.
But when you lie to your fanbase so much, people are gonna start questioning if anything you say is truth.
Wasn't it just a week ago that Sarah Bond was telling us all how profitable Game Pass was? That was either an outright lie or the price rises are a huge price gouge. Either option kinda diminishes your trust in what these execs say anymore.

Its been a feature of ps plus extra for the last few years and that service is is less than half the cost. I doubt many players will be excited for this benefit, it just adds some raw numbers so the suits can have it on a slide in board meetings...
Ive always enjoyed the totally daft 'trials' games, but I bought them for £2 a title some time ago.
I hope someone finds some value, but its not much of a sweetener for the price increases.
I uninstalled my series X and removed it yesterday. It made me sad but it sure looks neater under the telly with just switch and ps.

Ghost of Yotei. Im realy enjoying it.

Whatever your playing, have fun!

@Weebleman I was thinking exactly the same with South of Midnight the gameplay feeling rudimentary at best ( with some stand out boss battles). However the acting was decent and the soundtrack was great. Its a shame it doesnt stand a chance in its catagory against Expedition 33.

I thought this was great game and played it to conclussion when it was released.
If you dislike open worlds with a million things to do marked on a map then avoid. For the rest of us its really good fun, but a little 'grindy' in late game.
Its a cheap addition now, but still worthwhile..

Rediculous that the huge price doesnt include a case. This one seems particularly expensive - xbox are price gouging on all cylinders.

@Markatron84 Lots of us saw it coming. I wrote on this very site saying so, but was routinely shouted down for doing so. The head of the FTC was routinely pilloried and accused of bias on this site, but was quite clearly correct to raise all the concerns that have now proven to be true.
'I was right' provides no satisfaction as I decommission my series x and mothball it.
Maybe there are those happy enough with what that purchase has done to xbox, but I suspect many more regret supporting that purchase now.
Thanks for posting the link.

@el_pieablo No mate, you should just be getting started! My wife is 52 and Im 61, but we both game passionately!
Of course its up to you mate, but I would never stop doing something I enjoy because of what anyone else thinks, I expect they will be breaking a controller out of my hand as they pack me in the box! Its ok to be an older gamer and there are plenty of us 😃

@BattleMonkey Your quite right mate - $ £'s, they get easily confused, thanks for the correction.
I'm still not paying £276 a year either, but at least I'm quoting the correct figure! Still, that's only owning 4 full price titles instead of renting, rather than the 5 I originally stated, so its a decent difference.

If £276 every year to rent some titles is worth to you, go for it and I hope it brings you lots of value. I'd already dipped out of it at the previous price - its not for me, not a single game I'm interested in playing for months for me.

I wonder how long you will need to wait for a connection on this tier?
Its not for me, but I hope its a viable solution for some who want to game on the cloud.
Cant see I'll want to do anything but run my games on local hardware, but I guess all things change!

Its already on ps plus at 33% of gp price, so I dont see this as a big addition.... or have I missed something?

Edit: I should really read other comments before replying. Sorry Im parrotting earlier posts, doh!

Unplugging the series x and mothballing it. For me, without game pass, its a dead machine and I would never pay £276 a year to rent a few titles - thats 4 full price games I could own for ever vs renting. I play a lot but I dont buy much more than 4 full price a year. What a shame.
I tend to play on ps5 anyway (my wife wont touch xbox controllers) and we have 2 pros, so the xbox was rarely used except for good game pass months. Its easier for me to kill it than many others because of this. Im geninely sorry for those that bought into the xbox ecosystem in a big way, you deserved better treatment imo.

Edit: adjusted as I quoted wrong prices...

I didnt renew 4 months ago, and this news means I never will.
Thinking about removing my Series X from in front of the TV as without GP its a waste of space - its literally just a dust trap .
Its sad that its come to this, but I don't trust MS one little bit and I won't buy into their ecosystem any more.
To all those sticking with MS, I really hope they won't shaft you any further, the core Xbox players deserved so much more.

These games have been at bargain bucket prices for a long time.
They have all been on the much cheaper PS plus service for years too.
Pretending they are a 'massive Perk' is really quite ridiculous.

All of these games are available for a few quid. Hogwarts Legacy is probably the most expensive, and that was $11.32 in January this year. They have also been on PS plus extra for a very long time..
It's better and cheaper to own these than rent.
This doesn't excuse the ridiculous GP price increases in any way imo.

@Fiendish-Beaver You were quite clearly always right about GP. There are many on this site who just didnt want to hear it.
I'm so sad for Xbox right now - they are being killed off and its quite clear it's intentional. Sad days.

What a shame. Game Pass used to be the very definition of a good value service.
I've been concerned by the ever smaller number of releases, meaning there was less likely to be something I really wanted for some time, and its previous price was %50 more than PS plus premium, meaning you had to want the games a lot and not be someone who buys new titles to get the most benefit.
I haven't subbed for the last 4 months as there were no titles that made it worth for me, but it now looks like I wont sub at all so my Series X remains purely as a machine to play the odd title I bought on Xbox (like Forza 4). There hardly seems to be a reason for me to have an Xbox at all any more... and I find that very sad for a brand I've been with since its first launch.

Great IP. Hope the game will do it justice...

Its over on PS plus if anyone has both services.
Id like to see this on game pass as it deserves the widest audience. Its a good game and clearly crafted with passion and skill..

Winter Burrow looks sweet and though I thought the reveal was dreadful, FH6 is well worth a wait.
Counting a free to play game as a gamepass game is pretty stupid and devalues the offering which has failed to be as impressive in the back end of the year as it was in the beggining.

I stopped my sub 4 months back and theres been precious little to attract me back since. Up till Summer 24 I had been a continuous GPU subscriber, but there are far less offerings now than there ever were, which means theres often little I want. I guess Im saving money, but it does dissappoint me, and makes me question why Im holding on to the series x at all.

No need for handheld, no intrest in windows gaming rather than a console. Definitely not for me.

What went wrong? Xbox shows have been good for some time now, but this was an E from me. FH6 reveal was such an anti climax telling us nothing.
It didnt even do a good job in building excitement for the rog handhelds?
The show should have run half that time and it would still have dragged.
Im glad for anyone who found titles to be excited for or was entertained, but I suspect they will be in the minority on this one. Oh well, we still have lots of good games to play.

I was going to pick FH6 as the highlight, but it was pretty poor. No footage not even an explanation of what they are aiming for!

I guess the highlight for me is that theres lots more rpg on xbox, even if most seem to be remakes, I'll take that!

Ill be in it for hundreds of hours im sure, but that was a lame reveal. No info to get excited about at all.
Im really suprised as xbox are normally good with shows and reveals...

I know they are an acquired taste, but Ive always enjoyed these games and I'll be happy to buy this one on release 😃

Why give shelf space to products that arent selling? It doesnt help that Microsoft have destroyed the brand and are going all in on windows, but if these units sold and made outlets a decent profit, shelves would not be being cleared.
Its a trully sad demise and every single person who bayed for them to buy ABK brought this about.
I hope their PCbox does well though. Their software buisness will be fine.

I loved the show, but then I mainly play on ps5 and I prefer to enjoy shows of games rather than not.
Saros looks fantastic. I still rate Returnal as the best new IP this gen by far, so I guess that a sequal was always going to appeal, and they brought Wolverine to life with the character of the original comics rather than the awful films, so that looks as violent and interesting as I could have hoped.
Crimson Dawn has always appealed, but I feared it might not deliver, but it looks like it may deliver all I wanted after all.
Getting Alan Wake 2 on ps plus is real boon... I hadnt bought it yet.
Micosoft flight sim will sell bucket loads Im sure, but having tried it on my series x, I know its not for me.
Nioh 3 looks good, but as I really struggled with the first 2 I think I need to walk by.
Last Epoch is looking good and gone immediately on the wish list.
Delighted for another Gran Turismo free update.
Battlefield 6 campaign stuff looked good enough I want to try it.

Several other little bits that I enjoyed too, but I cant remember all of them. Happy that Im excited for so much from the show, worked for me.

Nice review, thank you.
Im very keen on picking this up. If anyone here rates skillup as a reviewer its worth watching his 30 minute review. He REALLY rates this title and is pretty good at explaining why.

@Kaloudz Sorry mate, no offence intended, I just thought you might be mid 30s or something and not been an adult player in a time when schumups and beatemups were pretty much 95% of games.
Im glad we've moved on of course, but I'll always appreciate going back to this genre....

@Kaloudz I get that, if you are younger and didnt grow up with them, they must seem a strange genre.
45 years ago I was in Soho London playing the original schumups and pumping coins into the arcades, which is where you needed to be if you were a video game fan and needed a fix. For those of us who lived these times (and many who have discovered them since), schumups never die, its a simple concept you can still enjoy all this time later.

They are not selling anyway, so MS are not prepared to take any loss.It doesnt make sense to do so when youve already acknowledged you've lost that fight.
They will continue to make good games and make a good buisness from this. I genuinely dont think they have a future for 'xbox', and want pure focus on windows gaming.
Im dissappointed as its xbox I like, not Microsoft.

Love to see new games in this genre. I was around in the original days of the schumup, and still love to get the arcade stick out and have a schumup session, even if Im not so good anymore 😂
Love to see this on every format, though I intend to buy on PS as thats where I have a serious arcade stick.
I hope it does well..

Love the weirdness and its an interesting look.
But simply walking through a landscape is not 'gameplay' to me. There was a simple puzzle at the end of the sequence, but hardly anything to get excited for? Id like to know a bit more about what I'll be doing in this game other than walking about triggering pre animated sequances..
Im pretty sure the game will deliver, but you wouldn't guess it from this clip.

I'm sure the guy might have some choice words to say if it didnt affect the future. But with MS now owning so much of the 3rd party space, you don't cut those bridges without severely limiting your future prospects, so its not surprising in the least that he has shown no 'ill will' and I'd have been much more surprised if he had.
I guess we will never know the state of the game, but we know that at least part of the decision to cut it was driven by a MS perceived need to invest in AI. After all, a 3 trillion dollar company obviously didnt have alternate funding sources....

@Markatron84 Hi. Yes I was recruited from Psygnosis to work on Dungeon Keeper 2 and Theme Park world. Peter had left before I arrived, but I got the opportunity to meet him a few times. Happy days...

Right up my street. I used to know a few people at criterion ( they were in Guildford back when I was in Bullfrog in guilford), so Id love to see the team be successful.
I still miss the Burnout series, and in particular the crash mode, so I have high hopes. I will definitely be buying this.

Keeper is definitely the (erm) keeper here. I love its style and I'm genuinely interested in what they have done!

@Fiendish-Beaver Thank you! Sounds like a must play....

Finally playing Spiderman remastered. Its formulaic, but its a formula I like and its a very well polished experience.
I finally picked up 'Lamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story' and Ive been attempting to match my past on Tempest 2000.

What ever you are playing this weekend, have fun!

This series was forgettable and Ive no idea why anyone thought it was worth resurrection...

@Fiendish-Beaver Agreed mate. I bought it after PJs excellent review and loved every minute. Worth a 9 from me, particularly after that great rollercoaster ending.
Its a shame some communities are split by ideological hatred to the point some comments show. Gaming used to be something that drew us together.

I loved the original right up till I couldnt progress any further.
As I suspect Im likely to have the same issue with this sequel I havent rushed out to buy it yet.
Its the only recent addition to GP I have any interest in though, and Id rather own than rent, so it didnt tempt me to resub.

Im not sure that there's joined up marketing going on. Doesn't this rather take the wind out of the sails of the rog ally launch?
Its hugely expensive of course, but hand held pcs are stupid expensive so its just what the market is for these devices.

Im not in the market for a handheld pc, but its nice to see them rolling out their interface as promised, as it makes it far more likely someone will develop an under tv console style unit, and I am interested in that. From what Ive seen of the interface I think it needs a LOT more development before it offers what I want, but never say never. I genuinely hope it improves to be everything we could hope for.

@Millionski I stand corrected, completely missed it! Thanks for pointing it out..

Ive heard all the criticism, but once this is cheap, I'm tempted to pick it up as I think I may really enjoy it for what it is.

Nice to see them continue to improve it. By the time its half price it might run better 😂

This is a great program, Ive always believed a demo is the only way to know if a game is for you.
Ive bought several games this year because I tried them on a demo, it does sell games.