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Halo Infinite, FH5 and Chorvs… though I hate spelling it like that

Seeing as how it isn't a small-budget indie title available only on PC and Switch that deals with issues of great societal importance, I'm going to go ahead and guess that the gaming press will score it somewhere in the 30-40 region.

"I played it for 45 hours and now I'm bored!" - maybe mix it up a little bit?

Are people still playing Destiny? All of my friends that played it seem to think Bungie has committed some sort of awful and unforgivable sin in recent months and refuse to go back to it. I stopped playing it well over a year ago. I didn't realize it was on Game Pass until reading this.

I've been playing Halo Infinite to death but I bought a whole bunch of OG Xbox/360 games that just showed up on back compat, and I don't think a single one was on sale for Black Friday.

Whatever. At least now I've got all the Max Paynes. Together at last.

Sick to death of BF but oddly intrigued by Bloodrayne remasters. Maybe I ate too much Halloween candy.

A fresh coat of paint really doesn't cover up how absolutely archaic GTA:SA looks and feels. I'm a huge fan, but some things are best left to fond memories.

The only bigger waste of time than reading gamer tweets is reading about and commenting on gamer tweets.

My favorite rumor so far this month.

Was this delayed outside the US? I’ve had mine for months. Didn’t realize it hadn’t rolled out elsewhere yet. Definitely well worth the money either way.

Wasn't Skatebird a Nintendo Indie showcase title a while back? There have been so many "OMG WE HAVE INDIES!" presentations lately that I've lost track along with most of my ability to care. That said, The Artful Escape is a beautiful not-really-a-game game on Game Pass. Satisfied my "small devs make good stuff" urges for the month already.

Had this come out more toward the beginning of the Non-Stop Remasterathon a few years ago I would probably be excited. Now, after Mass Effect, et al I'm rather bored with playing previous gen games with a fresh coat of paint. Go ahead and have an exclusive, Sony. As much as I love KOTOR I won't be buying for PS5 or Xbox because meh.

@Fenbops Couldn't possibly agree more.

I was looking forward to no other game more than this one and then watched this trailer. What a turd. 100% interested to 0% interested in only 3 minutes. Great job.

Eh. I'm not going to buy it either way. Because Game Pass.

It’s PS4 Spider Man puddlegate all over again. Who cares? Move on.

I can land, I just can't taxi without running into 8 other planes.

I just aimlessly flew around Tokyo for 45 minutes. This is the ultimate post-work, chill out and zen game. I couldn't be happier.

I still have friends waiting to buy Series X consoles. Shame the component problem is still here all these months later.

Just received mine - almost deleted it thinking it was yet another MCC multiplayer update. Stoked!

Already have MSFS on my PC but am excited to play it on my Series X anyway. Can I pick "both?" I pick both.

I've already owned both of these for a long time now but what I'm really hoping is that enough people play Crimson Skies to where it gets some kind of reboot.

@hbkay So, I hear you REALLY like Jedi Fallen Order.

Everyone is so obsessed with being able to play Keith Courage on their TurboGrafx/PC-Engine in the year 2067. I support this, really I do, but I fail to see why the industry needs to cripple itself with outdated technologies to satisfy the collectathon needs of a segment of users. Why can't it be both? Personally, I'd rather more users had more access to more artistic works than a scant few obsessives being able to play Mad Dog McCree on the Sega CD.

(I say the above with peace and love as a recovered game collector that sold off my entire collection of physical games last year, including every known US Vita release, etc.)

Also, why isn't everyone down on Steam for the same things? What's different about Microsoft in this case? I get that Sony and Nintendo have been flat out stupid about back-compat and legacy gaming, but Microsoft feels like the only console manufacturer to care at all. So it's a work in progress - give em some time.

@Magabro Couldn't agree more. Once I cleared about half the PS4 exclusives I had (I play all multiplatform games on Xbox and have for about a decade) I realized I was playing mostly the same game over and over with a different (albeit mostly great) story. Once I got tired of it, I haven't connected my PS since.

Yeah, it was fun (mostly) while it lasted but this sort of thing is an instant turn-off. I don't need more Fortnite, I need less. A lot less.

Sekiro and AC: Odyssey would make my month.

Not worried at all. In fact, I'd be surprised if this isn't the best Fable yet. Playground Games has been nothing short of excellent to date.

Definitely giving A Plague Tale another go. I got about two hours into it at a bad time for spare time due to my work schedule. Happy to see it come to Game Pass in all its enhanced glory.

Wanted to like CrossCode. Didn’t. Not really the games fault so much as the fault of the gaming press for gushing over it so much.

Every few months Digital Foundry has to drag out an old CRT for a shamelessly smug episode because slow news day in the land of gaming graphics. Zzzzzz

Gaming exec lovefest. Zzzzzzzzz.

The one-off stuff like the Halo Experience only work because they're one-offs. They're delightful little surprises in an otherwise incredibly deep and satisfying, albeit extremely arcade-like racing game. While I love the Hot Wheels expansion I hated the LEGO one because most of us come for the cars and all of the ridiculous things the game allows us to do with them that we couldn't do in real life (not to mention in most other games). The absurdity dial has generally always been set to `perfect` in my opinion. Setting it higher risks alienating the superfans, those of us that never stop playing, and we are very very many in number.

Loved it. Bought it. Great game.

Exclusivity sucks either way. I'm just happy MS has made themselves a nice path backward and forward so I can play these things well into the future and still go back and play Panzer Dragoon Orta every now and again. Where exclusivity really burns are those PS3 games i never got around to playing before my console died and now my only choice is to use the godawful PS Now service.

I finally have enough bandwidth to make this worthwhile and have been hoping for this for years. My Steam library makes me realize that "ownership" of physical things is kind of stupid when I can take my library from PC to PC. Being able to simply stream to a low-cost laptop of MS Surface is the dream there. Something similar for my Xbox game library and Game Pass would be amazing. I don't need a big stupid box next to my TV to feel happy. I just need good bandwidth, low latency, and all my games. Consoles are over within 10 years.

If ever there was a game that was announced too early is was Hellblade 2. I'm beginning to think that the initial teaser trailer was made mere minutes before the game was first announced. Kind of like "Hey, what else can we put out?" "How about Hellblade 2?" "Yeah! Great! Let's make a trailer!"

What's strange about all of this is that many (though definitely not all) of the Akihabara stores have a lot of Xbox presence. I've always wondered how they justify the shelf space with so few sales, especially since I was mostly over there from 2014 to 2019, the absolute low of Xbox popularity in Japan. It's so weird to go into all of the used game stores and see all of these great old OG Xbox and 360 games, many of which I'd never seen in the USA, and then the same old XB1 crap over and over - though I did buy a few Japan exclusives. Here's hoping Series S cracks 4 figures...and beyond.

I'd love some Persona but couldn't care less about Final Fantasy at this point. 7 remake and 15 didn't do it for me. What I really want to see are updates from each of the studio acquisitions. I don't need 50 new games tomorrow but it would be cool to see what everyone is up to. Its almost summer so I'm not going to game much until the fall anyway. Still, it'd be nice to have a few things to look forward to.

Game Pass or not, it's a day one for me. I really enjoyed the demo. It would have been cool to get it for free but I'm not butt hurt to have to finally drop money on a game either.

@P3nguinprisM Great game at full price. Fantastic game on a sale.

Already bought the Master Chief shirt but man, I’d jump at the chance to get that controller too.

I am all over Hired Gun. The trailer was amazing.

@uptownsoul I have every PS5 PS+ game released to date. Bugsnax is marginally interesting for about an hour, the rest are shovelware. I did enjoy Maneater but I don't think that really counts.

Still, GWG has been super disappointing so far this year.

@NEStalgia I may actually prefer to never play another game again than listen to that guy.

My first 24 hours with Series X was a mild disappointment - sort of like upgrading from an iPhone 11 Pro to an iPhone 12 Pro. The more I used it, the more I realized that the difference was more akin to iPhone 7 --> iPhone 12 Pro.

It isn't a whole new beast, and that's what we're used to, so I can see where some people are mildly disappointed. Covid messing with game release schedules probably didn't help either.

On the plus side, my impression of PS5 over PS4 Pro isn't nearly as good. I've played my PS5 a total of 4 times and hadn't touched it since the holidays. I recently bought Returnal as I'm a huge Housemarque fan and didn't enjoy it in the least.

This Epic Games vs The World thing is still going on? Eh. I lost interest once Apple replied, "Bring it." Now I just know Epic Games as that awful PC gaming storefront that doesn't have a cart but gives away really old Xbox Games with Gold quality shovelware for free every other week.

I'm not sure that I even care what comes through Games with Gold anymore. Game Pass is giving me new stuff every week it seems, why do I need to bother downloading shovelware like Truck Racing Championship?

This feels like it's for every would-be Ark fan that didn't like the ridiculously slow frame rate and overly complicated crafting garbage.

I JUST WANT TO KILL DINOS! Don't make me build a damn bow and arrow and chop wood.

@SegataSanshiro 100% agree on Minecraft Dungeons. I bought every last DLC for it so far and absolutely love it. Would I have risked $39.99 or more on it without trying it first via Game Pass? No way. I feel the same way about Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2. MS has made more from me on all of these games by distributing via Game Pass than they ever would have otherwise.