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@themightyant it needs an extra column to define if the game is New or Moved Tier

Great selection! Looking forward to Mixtape, Outbound, Black Jacket, Call of the Elder Gods and Forza!

Call of the Sea Is getting a sequel?! Sign me up!

@Arca9 that is just how he is and it shows in the games he creates lol
You should watch the You Tube documentary about Double Fine (if not already). It's an incredible insight into the studio!

@Arca9 "wannabe Jack Black"?! Seriously?!
Have some respect for Tim Schafer. He created some of the best adventure games in the 90s.

@Sol4ris I'd like to think it is Sharma calling Layden out lol. Like in a workplace where staff just complain about work in general and then the boss asks "go one then, what are the issue?". 😂

I have just reached the Station, where you get your gun. It looks so good, the story has be interested and I really like how fluid the combat is (apart from what feels like a slight delay in the dodge/roll). However, I must admit that up to where I am was rather slow. I will stick with it as I am in the mood for something smaller alongside my Starfield playthrough.

@FraserG Looking at the price history, 90% off is always the sale price.
Just strange to see it change as the rest of the sale items seem to end in 13hrs.

Just gone to buy a few of the LEGO games and they have gone back up to full price.

Once again, after many years on Xbox, I have received nothing...

Nothing took my interest in the latest sale

It's funny how in the past we did not really care about all these figures and we just played the game.
I remember some PS3 & Xbox 360 games stuttering and I never use to associate it with frame rates but saw it as slow down in a busy area. Now I know it was frame rate issues but I didn't care and just enjoyed myself.

How times have changed. I did find myself becoming quite critical of game performance in recent years but I have stopped doing that this year.

There is two versions of the upgrade pack....
One has been delisted and does not contain the Terran Armada DLC.

They removed the old version and replaced with a new one, but forgot that some users might have the old one...

I have the Premium Upgrade but it is still asking me to pay for Terran Armada lol

@Fiendish-Beaver crazy idea (I use to be guilty of this lol), but why not finish a game before buying the next? 😂

@oopsiezz only worth it if you can find codes that bring it down close to Premium level. It is the same with PS Plus Premium. It is a huge scam, but I get it for £60 a year, so cannot really complain lol

@Titntin I have not touched my Xbox in many months as I have been catching up on some games on my PS5. I will boot it up today to give Starfield ago again as I have the upgraded edition. There are some good games in here that I will definitely have a go of. Just hoping Hades 2 has cross save so I can continue my save from my Switch 2

Big list there! Premium is great value for money now. The selling point of Ultimate is day 1 additions (which we are slowly seeing) but then you get Hades 2, coming to premium day 1!

@Scrubchub also, worth checking out the Iceland store. You can purchase through that without a VPN
For example, Death Stranding is current £7 on that store

I am sure GTA5 will be back in a few months lol

@awp69 forgot Mini shoot was March (missed it in the list). I put about 30 mins into it and it did not click. I did one dungeon and never went back

First month in a long time where I did not fully play anything from the catalog.
I tried KCD 2 and stopped playing due to the complex combat and it telling me I had to have extra clothes on before I could put armour on. That level of detail is just not for me.

@Fiendish-Beaver compared to Requiem. RE7 is a walk in the park!

@themightyant it's £70 now?! I think I paid £50 for mine last year.
World is crazy now

I wonder if PushSquare would have wrote an article about this if Xbox were not in the top 5 😂
Edit: I see NL wrote an article about it with a full list too

I recently finished at the start of the year on my Switch 2 and I was very underwhelmed by it. I did put a lot of time into it (40ish hrs) and did all of the side character stories and a lot of the other side content. I found the side content stories a lot better than then main story.
I fully accept that some will say it is a masterpiece and life changing but for me, it was neither of them to me

As a third party publisher, I can see Xbox doing really well. They have a lot of really good studios under their belt now.
As for hardware, I see this project Helix as the pivot point to help gamers transition from what we would call a general console experience into a PC experience. Microsoft, in general, are probably making a lot of money from subscriptions (such as Office 365), so they still need something to sell Game Pass on (other than a standard PC set up).
Plus, they have the billions from King.com 😐

@Fiendish-Beaver I honestly think that if Microsoft killed Game Pass, it would kill the Xbox. I was looking at my systems and what games I own on them (PS5 Pro, Series X and Switch 2) and the Series X is 99% Game Pass games! At this point, I might as well just stream through my TV and pick up any games I really want to play on my PS5 Pro or Switch 2.

@Nicekix erm no…
I was expressing my opinion that no matter how a live service game reviews, it lives or dies based upon It’s player base. There have been many examples of this with High Guard being the latest. It’s a tough market to break.
In the flip side, you have Hell Divers 2, which has a quite active community and have devs that actually listen to them.
I wish Marathon all the luck but the live services landscape is very over saturated atm.

Edit: I’ve just seen that Bungie have already posted so info regarding feedback from players and what they will change. That is very positive and a great way to stay close to community needs

@Nicekix nah I wasn’t talking about High Guard getting a good score. Was saying in general if a live service gets a good score, it doesn’t matter if the player base is not there.

@themightyant good points. If a live service lasts a year (big shout these days), a "Year Later" review would make sense.

@FraserG totally agree. I think for live service games the best "reviews" will be any BETAs (like the Server Slam) or watch streamers. For me the Server Slam was enough for me to decide the game was not for me.
Maybe the way forward is to have mid season reviews but like you say, time is the problem as these seasons really require a lot of time and effort to complete.

@Kaloudz it could get a great review, but as we saw with Highguard, you have to keep the player base happy. Unhappy player base, failed game.
Edit: to save confusion, I am saying in general if a live service gets a good review, it will die if the player base dies.

@themightyant it would make sense to make it standard practice to have ongoing reviews for live service games. Just needs to be standardised. Also, on the topic of review scores; with how easily games can be updated to something brand new (ie Cyberpunk 2.0), review scores are pointless these days lol

Game Awards 2026 will get a trailer for it. With a Holidays 2027 release.

lol reviews are being held back because Bungie are asking outlets to hold off until they add another mode. Such BS. Review it in the state it is now!
Plenty of live games get reviewed on day 1 with bad reviews and they stick forever.

@GeeEssEff I know it was a very short segment for the combat, but it really has put me off. I got to the point where you just escape an ambush at a lake. I might go back to it later but it seems very over complexed for me. I laughed when I read that before you put on armour you had to put under clothing on first. Makes sense but un necessary (to me any way)

@GeeEssEff combat is very rough. I followed the tutorial and I still had no idea what I was doing

@Titntin this is me with KCD2. I love the look of it, but after reading what people say regarding how big it is, it always puts me off.
Good time to give it a go. Nothing to loose...

@TheKracken I am on the fence with Deliverance 2. It is one game that has peaked my interest but seeing how much time is needed for it scares me 😂
Maybe I should put a few hours to the side one night and give it a good go.

On a side note, I have never heard of Minishoot Adventures before, but it does look pretty cool

@Scrubchub I recently finished Cyberpunk and even though I really enjoyed the world, I swear I played a different game to the majority of the internet. Don't get me wrong, it is a good game but (to me) no where near a master piece. Think I am sore about the absolute terrible ending I ended up with!

@Fiendish-Beaver I stacked GP until April next year and I will be using it to play the (hopefully) upcoming Xbox Game Studios, then after that I will probably cancel.
In the last few months I have been enjoying going back to playing games I actually own (crazy right?!) and it feels like I have been freed from this imaginary guilt of "I must play as many games as possible on GP as I have paid for it!", even though I have never paid full price for it in about 5 years!
In hindsight, stacking was not a great idea but we live and learn

I also have PS Plus premium running which I will never cancel as I am grandfathered into a £65 per year deal! 😂

Damn…. What a meh list. Back to either Borderlands 4 or Ghost of Yotei for me this month

@Gemini53 that's my biggest worry is how big the game is! That and I have heard the combat is a rather tough

Am I missing much if I do not play KCD 1 before 2? Both games are huge

@themightyant this is true. Game Pass has really started off strong this year.

Please Game Pass.... slow down a little!

I tried this one when it was added to PS Plus, and it did not click with me. I stuck it out for about and hour and what a strange hour that was....

@FraserG feels like a "filler" month. Some good games to keep you busy. I am still working through Outer Worlds 2 (damn the companion missions are too good), then I will probably make a start on Resi Village

Premium is really shining as the stand out tier. I wonder why MySims is only on the PC

@Titntin played the first one and really enjoyed it. Could not get into the second one. I tried 3 times and I really felt it was more unfair with the dice rolls and turns compared to the first.
I get it is all about risk vs reward, but I feel they changed it too much.

Already maxed it myself, but Outlaws is a great addition. Was thinking the other day I would like to play the early FF games and here is the first one (hopefully others will follow).
Premium is definitely the best option now, if you don't mind waiting a little longer for 1st party titles and don't care about CoD.

Now we wait for the "no value" crew to show up.... 😂