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I’m surprised the reviews were even that high. The writing was on the wall from the beginning that it was gonna be kind of a cozy disaster embarrassment. Too bad because it’s a decent concept

Hard to be excited about something so vague.

I played starfield once and had a really fun 140/150 hours or so. But it wasn’t something I wanted to play again. I don’t get how people can just play the same game forever.

I was hoping for game pass!

Wheel world looks great

Had my eye on this one so definitely excited to see it on game pass.

I’m looking forward to trying it out

Minami Lane looks interesting.

The Ascent was already on there for an age. Odd to see it come back.

I don’t have friends.

@PushButtons Did you even read what I wrote? Like I said, some make money; some do not. We can all think of several high profile failures along with high profile money-makers. Same goes for expansions.

@PushButtons Well that's a bit of a generalization. Some do; some don't. I could just as easily say "live service games don't make money; that's been proven," but we both know some make a ton of money, and some fail dismally.

@PushButtons Just because it makes money doesn't mean it's not hot garbage.

Expansions for GTA5 and Red Dead 2 would also have made money, but that's not the path their shareholders went with.

@Kaloudz I’ve wondered about this too

High on life is coming back? 😂 weird

The ascent used to be on there too. This is mostly old games considering those and the ones moving to standard.

Which is fine

Golden idol is amazing. Play it.

I need to play magical delicacy and tchia. It seems like they just got here!

Activision has a huge back catalog, as evidenced by the first wave. It includes all the old Sierra and infocom adventure classics. Some really need a keyboard to be properly enjoyed, however. Others work ok with a controller and no mouse.

Some choices were odd tho, like opting for the incredibly slow sega cd version of Willy beamish (I guess because it has voice acting… but long load times and worse graphics)

They don’t bother with anything unless it’s live service garbage anymore.

Might be a dull month for me. But that’s ok. I’m behind.

That said, wheel world might be awesome.

Overrated third-party series that Sony pretended was first-party and kids drank the kool aid

No breath of fire, mega man, or Sakura

Looking forward to this one

Heart of China is the only one I’m familiar with. Glad to see them doing something with the old sierra catalog.

All we know for sure is there’s gonna be a bunch of ai, for better or worse, and we don’t even know for sure what

There’s some parkour girl game that just came out too. I don’t think it’s this one! 😂

I’m just glad it’s not just another streaming thing at least. Whatever it is or isn’t…

Definitely had my eye on it.

I hope that doesn’t mean it’s a licensed soundtrack tho? I guess it fits with the title but I hate that. Just leads to stuff getting delisted. Meanwhile there are talented bands that would love to write some songs to sell to a game soundtrack.

They need to do more with the classic Sierra and infocom games. It was nice to see them get some of them out in that retro collection. But they’re just streamed games, which is kind of sad.

I’d like to see some RPGs. Breath of Fire comes to mind, but I’d take something new. Would be cool to see mega man, or some other type of retro revival with pixel art too.

Haven’t had a puzzle fighters game for ages either.

Also where the hell is Sakura for god sake?

@beltmenot I don’t pay much more for a year of ultimate

Volcano Princess looks neat

And happy to see against the storm on console finally

Arcade paradise is really neat. I always meant to play it again on game pass, but I guess I won’t!

Sounds like a great packaging of games that were never great and still aren’t

The sky is the limit.

How about a pixel art management sim of some type?

I’m thinking management, not a builder. But the builder route and track building could be done too.

Wheel world looks really neat

Why would you lie to us? Aren’t we your friends?

It would have done better if they’d put it on game pass. It’s launching way too late, and it’s mostly competing for the casual and god of war crowd at this point. And Xbox kind of has that base covered.

It’s not much of an RPG, so that group probably doesn’t care, or already played it. “Action adventure” is a full category. I personally have little interest.

FF16 is about as much an RPG at this point as Christmas is a summer holiday (except in Australia)

Guess it’s probably not leaving game pass if they’re releasing dlc

Konami needs to do more than collections with their classic franchises.

@themightyant I’m at the final dungeon now and haven’t done any endgame content! What should I do first and what should I save? I haven’t even done that frozen whatever place yet. Or the relationship quests. I was going to do it all before finishing the game!

Jeez story mode was already too easy. They should have just made parry/dodge windows a separate option. I wanted easier parries for normal mode without all the damage reduction of story. Now it’s even worse.

Should have added a separate option for dodging and parrying, or just made an even easier difficulty level.

Yikes the 5/10 about stressful time management is alarming 😆

I’ve had good feelings about this game tho. Probably another game pass banger.

@Ilyn would love to see a temple of elemental evil remaster.

Neverwinter nights 1 does have the pre rendered backgrounds, and polygonal characters. 2 went to full real time 3D for everything. It was pretty at time of release, but it’s been a long time since then! Some of the campaigns are pretty great and some are meh. I don’t remember which is which…

I’m excited for demon school.

I’d be more excited for neverwinter nights 2 if obsidian had anything to do with the remaster.

Something for everybody kinda/sorta. No turn-based RPGs, though, or turn-based games in general, is a bit disappointing. (Besides Persona 4, of course, which, yeah--will play)

The Grand Hotel one probably sounds the most interesting, but I'm curious about Double Fine and Don't Nod's games as well.

@FraserG Pocket Card Jockey is great. They've had a few good, interesting games.

These days, they can't even seem to get Pokemon right (although I loved Arceus), but I guess we'll see! I too am a little nervous about the "technical" action combat. Not trying to play sekiro over here.

I guess Game Freak isn't a Nintendo 1st party or 2nd party studio?

So who's doing the voices and writing and stuff since it's not the original guy?

@TapeLoader I'm not sure the idea is to lose the console focus so much as to be a console that can also play some Steam stuff, similar to how a Steamdeck can play some Steam games but obviously not at high spec.

In the case of this current handheld, it's meant to be a Steamdeck competitor that can also play Game Pass and other storefronts.

@TapeLoader I'm saying a cheaper "PC" that runs Xbox stuff, along with Steam, and isn't tethered to the whole monitor/mouse/keyboard thing. It would have a console focus and wouldn't cost what a PC costs. And similar to the Steam Deck, it would be a performance target that would hold system requirements in place.

It's happening regardless of what we may or may not think, and it'll be similar to this device. Whether it runs a new generation of Xbox stuff, who knows, but it'll at least be backward compatible with previous Xbox generations.

@TapeLoader You can level the same complaints at this handheld then, but here it is happening. It's not a terrible idea. It's a good one.

The idea is it would be cheaper and more standardized than a PC, similar to a Steam Deck. Valve at one point was floating the idea of a Steam Box.

Gotta play the first one before October-ish then! Jeez. Busy year.