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@Ricky-Spanish It kinda annoyed me that I got the Gears Reloaded code instantly because of the Forza thing. I already have the Ultimate Edition, that's not going anywhere I don't need reloaded, but I very much needed the Forza code because I bought DLC for the gamepass version, and that's useless now unless I find a disk copy for a reasonable price.

@Ricky-Spanish I never got the Forza code either, I chased Microsoft about it and I got bounced around and told to wait until "it was no longer possible" to supply me a code.

Got the prompt on the store but no sign of a chat message (last one I got was about the age check thing)

I had planned to be playing Jump Space, but apparently, there was some confusion, and it's not on Game Pass.

Xbox: Helldivers 2, CoD MWII campaign, and Mad Max.
Switch: Grand Bazaar, Silksong, Yakuza 0

@OldGamer999 If I was Sony on the run up to christmas I'd make a big deal about how at least "for now", we won't push prices further but how the "environment is challenging" and how in 2026 it may be revisited.

Instant sales rush over Christmas.

@GamingFan4Lyf Indeed, and I think that's why they are focusing so much on this ATM. They have to squash the frustrations gamers have with Windows before Steam's translation layer gets too good to ignore.

@BAMozzy Steam is reportedly readying SteamOS consoles, and supposedly PCs.

Whilst the console is the logical expansion to Steamdeck, the SteamOS PCs have to be about take advantage of the growing PC gamer frustration with Windows.

Wasn't this already a thing?

A good start.

I will need it to support GoG titles and actual PCs, though.

@GamingFan4Lyf I have to assume that's coming, if they want to (foolishly) compete with Steam, this has to be on "full fat" PCs. I'm guessing the "resolution" check is to stop people using it on "actual" PCs for now.

Feels weird NG1-3 is leaving but I guess it makes any new fans "need" 4

If they want to promote long term play, don't turn Farcry into an extraction shooter or whatever, bring back the map/mode maker! I loved jumping into Farcry 5 and trying the different games people have made. I have fond memories of playing that GoldenEye remake in there.

@Cakefish, I slightly prefer 5, but you are 100% correct about the voiced PC I care infinitely more for Dani than "the deputy" and that New Dawn twist would have meant more.

If only MS had a Japanese studio with a proven track record, they could show off

I like that it seems we're getting more showcases from Team Green now.

@Ricky-Spanish yeah. Its like these games that get delisted, why are they not put on an insane discount before they leave forever? They'd make some money from it. Heck, it'd compel me to pick it up because my brain will think it's "saving it".

@Ricky-Spanish It does seem like an obvious solution. It's not like the old CoD games are selling much in 2025, there's a bunch of classic CoDs I'd happily through a few coins at for their campaigns.

I know for these older games, the licence deals just didn't cover things like streaming and subscriptions, so they can't without redoing the deals (that can apply to old TV shows too, I was watching Red Dwarf on iPlayer and noticed one of the few licensed music tracks was different to my DVD.)

It recently occurred to me that the reason we don't see the older CoD titles is because of the real guns, putting it on GP no doubt violates the original deals and would need to be either renegotiated or replace them, which is a fair amount of work just to make these games "free".

@Lrapsody It's hard to articulate what exactly I love about it beyond the usual Bethesda stuff. Like I can recognise its flaws, boy, does it have flaws. (If you're gonna have 1000 random planets, build more Points of Interest to stick on them)

There are three parts that I think helped me love it

1. I went heavy on the roleplay. I had a very clear Idea of what sort of character I wanted and tailored the game to that. So I gave myself the parents and house traits, so money was short. I made sure things like the perks and skills allowed my character to try and negotiate without making it always pass (I think that's a problem a bunch of RPGers have, making themselves Solo/Mal types they max out speech skills, when these guys often "fail their checks") or giving me more money. I also made a point of eating and drinking

2. It really let me explore. None of that Outer Worlds "look at these planets, you can go to half of them" or Mass Effect "you can go to them but not visit". It excites the same part of my brain that made me take notes for Oblivion and Morrowind when I was young.

3. NASA punk. Most space games are all sleek spaceships, nice interiors and tight space suits where you "are" the ship when you fly it. Here you can leave the helm and wander around your ship whilst it's moving (do wish they did more with that, like let someone take the helm whilst you go fix something)

I don't know. I am one of the people who loved Starfield, and I want more. I'd love a huge expansion to the pois

I do feel like it harmed itself trying to appeal more "mainstream" with things like getting rid of fuel. Visiting "empty" planets makes more sense when it's where the fuel is.

I'd love it if they made it so each system was a flyable space instead of just the orbits.

There is no point getting the CoD IP to make a normal action/war film and I say this as someone who prefers the more "grounded" CoD campaign.

It should basically be the successor to Fast/Furious franchise. Try and keep some grounding but just go nuts with it.

Helldivers on Series X, Story of Seasons on Switch 2, a little Fallout London on PC (assuming it doesn't explode... again).

Will probably jump into Mad Max and Herdling.

Apparently, September wasn't a super big GP month for me. Granted, part of this is because I either own some of these games or they are slightly more polished versions of something I already played recently (Gears)

Games that aren't cancelled by the next show would be a refreshing change of pace.

... A new Musou - empires game would be nice too.

I really enjoyed the game but as it's one of those "missing chapter" style DLCs and not a continuation or side story I don't feel overly compelled to get it and (without reviews) it seems expensive.

GoG is where I want to spend my money on PC. I love that you actually own the games and I can have the offline installers backed up.

Honestly, not how I expected this to shake out. I was almost certain they'd end up making Standard streaming only or something.

I remember I Am Alive had a lot of hype and potential in it and sort of disappeared before releasing to a collective shrug.

I'm not really sure how adding other storefronts to your app list is "coming together" of their multi store vision.

Maybe GoG Galaxy has spoilt me. You link it to your GOG/steam/Epic/Xbox account and it creates a unified game list. Click a game and it loads and any required launcher. (Don't want to oversell it, it is junky and dose list Xbox console games which doesn't really do anything on PC)

Hmm not sure at least 8.
I finished the campaign in each difficulty and at least once solo on the OG release.

I finished it at least once when Ultimate came out.

I replayed the series with my brother for Gears 4, I replayed the series with my friend for gears 5, and I replayed the series recently with my brother in law.

I know I played it more but it sure if I finished it those times

Saw on FB seems Jump Space (Formerly Jump Ship) aka Sea of Theives in Space has sep 19 release date for GP

As a heads up, according to a FB post you wont be able to use the free Warbond token that comes with the special edition on this.

@SalaciousCrumb depends how long it takes to grind put those credits really.

Well, guess I'll be paying for that

Maybe it's me, but I kinda don't want them to focus on even better graphics, it seems to be that's ever-increasing efforts for little reward. I'd be okay "holding back graphical fidelity" by mandating a minimum 60fps target.

That or go full PC and give us complete control over graphics settings.

@Kaloudz It'll be 2045, and they'll try leveraging "nostagila" of S3 to get S4 made and be very wrong about that.

@Kaloudz 100%
they'd been hyping the end of the story for years, struggled and pulled every trick to get a third game made and in the end got fans to fund it it. Then just looked their fans dead in the eyes and said "do that two more times"

Yeah, no.

It's wild.

My Series X is, without a doubt, my default gaming platform. When I see a game announced, my intention is to get it for the Xbox (unless there's a reason to get it elsewhere). The Series X is a fantastic machine with things like Quick Resume being real game changers (ha!) but when I think about the next generation, I just can't be sure I'll be getting an Xbox as my lead platform.

Obviously, at this point, we know nothing about anyone's future plans, and if Sony is shifting to a multiplatform policy (even if it's treating Xbox now how they used to treat PC) that might shift things, but it just feels like Xbox is moving into territory it doesn't make sense for me to follow.

I have hope, Spencer talking about beating Sony on features, not games is the sort of thing I want to hear if we aren't doing exclusives anymore.

@Odium Indeed! Whenever I mention it it either people either don't know it, suggesting it was buried under other shows or just dismissed out of hand.

If we're to get a game based on a Bella Ramsey performance, I'd kill for a game based on Hilda.

I'll take some ODST inspired armour. I love when a crossover cosmetic is still flavoured in the "host's" style.

I'm disappointed but not surprised.

It just seems to be how Microsoft worked since the X1. Announce a bunch of stuff, only release some of them.

I want to but I have a lot of active games on the go, I will be keeping an eye on the reviews to see if it moves up my list.

@Ricky-Spanish It should be, all their other pads are. Might be a little later, though.

So I'm one of the bigger Starfield fans but 2026 for the next expansion and the QoL update is way too late.

I understand wanting to coincide all that the PS5 port launch, but that's 3 years since launch, and 2 years since the last expansion. With all the other voices in whats left of the conversation about the game, it seems unwise to starve the people who want to say good stuff about it to PS players to convince them to play.

It'll be live services and maybe some older titles like Spider-Man 1, they'll be treating them as "bait" like they did with PC.

I don't think there are many first-party PS titles I want on Xbox outside of maybe Spider-Man. One of the reasons I got Xbox One over a PS4 was I just didn't get on with The Last of Us or Uncharted (plus all those interactive movies shipped as games), like I could see they were good games, but for whatever reason, they weren't meshing with me.

Now those third-party exclusives, those I'd snap up.

Infinite's major problem was the sorta open world, well more accurately, them doing nothing with it. It feels like it's there because "open world" appeared on some checklist somewhere.

I was wondering what they could be showing at Gamescon after Not-E3, this would make some sense.

I suspect part of this was the combo of the price jumping up with the fact the retail version was download only going down "real well" with everyone.

Regarding sales, yeah it's either stuff I know won't hit GP ever, multiplayer stuff my pals are playing, DLC or such a good deal it shouldn't be ignored.

Stuff like AC and WWE are classic sale fodder for me as the series I'm super into ill buy at launch (eg yakuza).

I have no real reason to believe this beyond "vibes" but this does feel like the sort a thing a company leaving behind a walled ecosystem would do.