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@FrenchVaniIIuxe respectfully, changing character outfits to make them work better as dolls and better in a modern game, is not censorship. We have gone from flat, small, 2D sprites to physical 3D objects. The old outfits would have looked weird and were frankly somewhat embarrassing in some cases (Aishe).

Jeez. That’s quite a spread. The lower scores give me a bit of pause and confusion.

This is going to be my entire February and maybe March too. We’ll see.

I’ll do it. I never really play on pc, except to get my daily PC check, tho, and I never use cloud!

Pretty good month for me. Gave it an A, and the big headliners didn’t really even influence me or lead to the A. February is looking good too.

Jeepers it gets cluttered with all the tiers. That said, I have indeed considered swapping down to premium; as long as everything gets to premium eventually, I don’t really need it day one… especially not the first party games (which I either don’t care about, or prefer to play a year later anyway).

I think this is the first month where I’ve ever wanted to play every single game. Except I’ll have to hope menace comes to console eventually. And I own ff2, but I’d still like to play it! At least indika is short.

Don’t have time with dragon quest 7 coming out!

@IronCrow86 that and “RPGs” coming out and turning out to be rpg-flavored character action games

@IronCrow86 my understanding is that it’s a true rpg. I’m hoping it’s less action oriented as well, but who knows! It’s made by veteran crpg devs. I wouldn’t worry about it being too similar to bioshock. I do worry about it being a disappointment tho 😂

Gross. Two opposite extremes, neither of which I’m interested in.

Drop Duchy is fun tho!

Are they gonna jack it back up to full price again once that happens? 😂 I swear it used to be $1.99 every other week.

@IronCrow86 are you thinking of the right game? Clockwork revolution has almost nothing in common with any bioshock. At least I hope not or I’ll be pretty disappointed!

Clockwork Revolution is the only one left I’m really interested in. But I’ll keep an open mind for fable

I’ve been meaning to play anno for years, and drop duchy looks cool too.

Looking forward to trying it out when I have time. I haven’t played the first but have meant to play them both for years.

Right— don’t much care about either game, but it’s not a trend you like to see. Plus, there are still a lot of other non-exclusive games that don’t come to Xbox, some of which I’d like to play.

I don’t know how so many free to play games of similar type can all be sustained.

I’m guessing game of the year won’t be either of them.

I’m also guessing game of the year from one specific show isn’t a make it or break it either if a game is quality.

But yeah.

@Fiendish-Beaver so you hate pixel art and only like AAA games? 😂 you’re missing out on some good stuff

I love the art style

Much appreciated. I no longer know demos are there unless it’s brought to my attention.

They never gave any airtime to that demo fest either. What’s their deal with demos?

I’m not getting my hopes up. I’m worried even if it’s good, it’ll be pretty watered down and mainstream. Which is fine. Just not getting my hopes up.

Nothing very exciting for me personally, but we’ll see once the games are done. Maybe fable and beast will be great. Maybe I’ll even like kiln.

Oh jeez. Another one of these sales where you need a spreadsheet and math to figure out if anything is worth it, or if it’s better to buy them individually at sale prices

@Fiendish-Beaver I’m going to ask you to redefine AAA then it generally means a game made by an enormous about of people over an enormous amount of time with an enormous budget.

That doesn’t mean it will be good or bad of course… But the reliance on such games by publishers is the reason we see mass layoffs and other issues. There’s definitely a middle ground.

@Richwalker13 totally agree. Instead of learning the lesson, they doubled down on expensive, bland, 5-year projects. People say “AAA” like it means quality; all it means is budget. The more people, money, and market demographics involved in a game, the less creative and more bland it is. I don’t get why that appeals to anyone.

Make smaller, cheaper, faster, uglier games; make more of them, and make them more creative and better.

Stop making 5-year, huge budget, pretty, bland, uncreative games.

@Fiendish-Beaver yeah, kind of a toss up. But Microsoft has a better rewards program.

Maybe I should pay more attention to ps+ to see what might be coming to game pass. Cult of the lamb is another.

Oh boy, fan fiction!

I hope it turns out well. Haven’t played double exposure, but the original two games left a huge impact on me.

@Fiendish-Beaver hopefully that means darkest dungeon will come to game pass eventually. But maybe not. I’m still waiting for animal well!

MIO kinda looks like we have hollow knight at home. Kinda burnt out on the genre. No interest in RE.

@ilyn well, ff1 is already there, so they seem to be going in order… If I hadn’t already bought the whole set, I’d be psyched!

Funny to see final fantasy 2. Are they just gonna go right through all the pixel remasters? I coulda saved some money!

Some great additions— very excited for indika. Talos principle 2 will be great to try out, too. And I’ve had Anno: mutationem on my wishlist for ages.

Lots of these are older, which further galvanizes me to never buy anything, because it might end up on here…

Definitely excited for ninja gaiden.

Kinda figured death stranding would get there, but I thought we might have to wait for the sequel to come out first! Either way, nice to see it, altho it is only $20 at this point too…

@Titntin I haven’t played through citizen sleeper 1 yet. It’s not leaving, but 2 is. Can I play 2 first??? Or is it advanced enough that playing 1 later will feel like a step backward?

Kinda weird to lose citizen sleeper 2 but not 1. Havent played 1 yet, so I guess I’m out of luck! Have to pony up in the future.

Lost records: bloom and rage

To a T!

Looking forward to dragon quest 7, and lots else to catch up on. Need to play dungeons of hinterberg soon.

@Fiendish-Beaver developer has a good track record. Battle bros was more than solid

@bert0503 trailers are almost always terrible anymore. I’d honestly prefer screenshots.

Death Howl sounds cool.

Menace would be the real draw for me, if it weren’t PC only!

I did play the first high on life and am interested in the second possibly.

Intriguing month.

I mean… it’s $5… and looks novel and silly. All the comma-splices in the description made me cringe tho. Maybe that was written by whoever manages the copy for storefronts or whatever.

@FraserG It is a bummer! Maybe a switch got bumped somewhere? It was much handier to check in every month or so and see which demos were new (so that I could download them all and procrastinate on playing them...)

They gonna have anything else besides sports games?

I thought it was neat, but the combat really ruined it for me. I grew up on the original, so just hacking and slashing while the computer controls my companions… is not my thing.

It seems like new demos don’t show up for me on the demos section of the store on console anymore. Or maybe they’re not longer sorted newest to oldest? I’ve been having to just search for things manually.

@Titntin Yeah, you might as well get what you can out of it! The CEOs, etc, certainly will be! That is a happy story. You have a great day too!

@Titntin totally agree. I can’t believe that’s what people remember. But many gamers weren’t around during the bullfrog heyday or weren’t paying attention.

I feel like EA ruined maxis, too. Maxis and bullfrog were two of my faves, and both just got pushed into money printing machines.

It’s crazy that you worked there! I always thought it was neat that anyone at the company could submit design ideas. Imagine if more companies were stil like that, if creativity was more important than “AAA” bs and graphics. Psygnosis was a great company too.

I actually emailed Peter as a kid, a long weird silly email, and he wrote back, not just a “thank you for your interest,” but an actual email response.

@Titntin bullfrog was a legend, turning out one fascinating game after another, almost yearly back then.

@Hern4ndeZzz nah, fable 2 did very well. I had a great time with it back in 2009 or so myself !

I’d like a console release. I remember a time when bullfrog and peter always turned out one interesting game after another. I used to buy them whether I liked the genre or not. But I always liked the sims and “god game” stuff.

Nothing I’m interested in. I wish they’d put more indie stuff and niche stuff and rpgs in these sales.

I still seem to average about $20 per month ($10 auto, the rest whenever I want to buy something). Altho I like game pass a lot, rewards is the other thing that keeps me on Xbox. I hardly touch my switch, and my poor ps5 never gets turned on I’m too busy with game pass and free games.