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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.

I notice this site never mentioned the Digital Foundry analysis of their time with the units? I guess I cant blame you for selective coverage.

Trying to equate fsr generated frames as a sign of performance is a pretty big reach though.

Right up my street, I grew up with bond films, so I love the franchise. Looks in good shape for a game not coming till march.
I also trust this dev and like the hitman type levels they showed and many different systems and options you can take for any one objective.
Something to look forward to 👍

@Fiendish-Beaver Thanks for the summary mate, I'm toying with picking this game up and I like to hear direct from players and what they think, so your post was really useful to me!

I'm intrigued by Keeper, so I'm looking forward to previews and reviews of that.
I didnt enjoy the first Outer Worlds and I've seen nothing that makes me think no 2 will appeal to me more unfortunately.
Ninja Gaiden looks like something I'd have enjoyed playing 35 years ago, when I still had super fast reflexes. If I'm on GP I'll try it of course, but I doubt I'll get far.

Don't think any of these will get me subbed again, and this month I'd rather spend the money on buying Silksong rather than renting it as there's so few titles of any interest to me on GP, so I guess they are saving me money.

@Coletrain Settings are only there because they are programmed in . In reality many settings are interconnected and if you are choosing to have , say, full lumin switched on, then you need to balance other aspects of your game such as how many assets you are trying to light to match what you have picked. It seems like many younger dev teams are simply switching all the bells and whistles on and developing with that in the hope they can can recover performance with optimisation later, when that's the wrong approach.
Due to the interconnected nature of many of these decisions its not simply a case of switching some things off to regain performance as many of these teams are finding out - its not simply picking a resolution and choosing which tick boxes to enable like you can with a finished PC game where this functionality has to be programmed in.
You are correct in that often some cheap wins for performance are not followed through and studios often unwisely prioritise resolution over frame rates. But this is often the push/pull of producers having to argue with marketing and higher management over final output - many people who influence this decision have little understanding of what they are doing. It was just the same back when I was a Dev, sad to see its not changed much.

Poor development schedule. Performance needs to be the first thing you design in, it's not something you can add later or achieve via optimisation once you've already pushed all the assets too high.
Better developers know this and so some great games are being made with UE5. The Coalition will know best practice and ensure they have targeted performance first, optimisation will simply allow them to increases some assets or turn on more quality if they get some performance back from optimisation. Gears will be fine.
No matter what I think of Series S, in this case its being hard done by as it's clear this is just poor development practice.

I fail to see how being unable to deliver a game for so long and essentially failing at Rare makes this guy a good choice for 'Chief of Staff'. Mind you, I fail to see what Xbox is doing with many of its choices right now....

Silksong>all else.
But I'd like to see a TGS shadow drop or two to make this month shine!

@ozkrmz I had my ps3 still connected till a few months back just for motorstorm! That game is fantastic on any metric.. its a shame we wont be seeing more. As you say its still a blast to play many titles - enjoy 😀

@PartyMarty +1 mate. A new Blue Dragon would be such an unexpected delight!

I always thought the swinging in Spiderman would give me motion issues ( I'm suceptible to this), but Ive tried ' Spiderman Remastered on ps extra this week and Im delighted Im not having any issues with traversal!
I appreciate its essentially just another open world with markers for missions, but I enjoy exactly that. The writting and characters aren't total cringe, the combat is good, set scenes are excellently directed and the whole game is seriously polished. Ive been having a blast.
Still sneaking in some Forza 5 races, and Im getting intrigued by ' Unicorn Overlord ' too, so plenty to play!

Whatever you are playing this weekend, I hope your having fun!

Yet another month where GP just hasnt been worth it for me. Id bought herdling and I played veilguard when it came to ps extra, so I guess that tips the scales a bit, but GP just hasnt had the great games it started the year with and feels a little weaker as an offering than it has in the past.. I guess its all down to taste though and maybe some think this was a strong month.

Obviously, very keen to see whats coming with Forza 6.
I'd love to hear/see more of how Fable is doing too, I do hope they get that one right!

@Millionski
"tradional console owners are not the focus anymore rather than legacy thing. "
...and maybe that will make corp shareholders more money, Im not saying its not a valid business direction.
But for those of us who want a traditional console, we are allowed to mourn the passing of Xbox, Ive always had one and kinda hoped I always would.
Unless the new UI is far better than whats been shown so far on the rog, Ive no need to buy into where they are going, I have a £4k PC, I just barely ever use it to game as I prefer consoles.
Strange times...