Xbox sale round-up May 31st, 2022
Discounts on Far Cry 5, Megaparty: A Tootuff Adventure, Battletoads, 2URVIVE, MX vs ATV Supercross, Flowing Lights, Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game and more
Some good deals in there
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Some good deals in there
Rayman Origins for $5 is tempting. I owned it physically once upon a time for the Xbox 360, so this would be a long-deferred double dip.
Rayman Legends includes all the levels (I think) from Rayman Origins though, also $5, unless you specifically want to double dip on the 360 version
This reminds me that I think I may have picked up Legends on my Switch at some point during the pandemic and maybe forgot about it. I'll have to double check.
And yeah, I remember that being the case, so good heads up. That was a game I also owned physically for my WiiU but no longer have.
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If you like previous entries, yes. Its new features don't really save it from feeling overly familiar, but if you liked past FC games and are craving that right now, that's a decent price to buy in at.
Aven Colony used to be on Game Pass from Sept 2018 - Feb 2019 if it seems familiar :3
Damn, I already got Super Meat Boy when they gave it away for Games with Gold 6 years ago in June 2016.
Welcome to GWG 2022 where longtime members keep having the deal get worse all the time. Marketing needs to change to 3 free games a month if you've been a member since day 1. Lousy company
At this point I imagine there's just as many people new to the Xbox ecosystem as established users who had GWG back in 2016, so it makes sense to start recycling freebies.
I was just thinking about that, lol. I think I enjoyed what I played of it, but still only played it for 3 or so hours before I dropped it.
Scott Pilgrim for 5 dollars seems tempting, but I have no... experience with the franchise.
I was like "Oh! Vasara for 5 dollars? I don't know much about the game, but I think I need that!" but turns out I must've bought it already, doh!
Honestly doesn't look like there's anything there for me this week.
Then they need to update their info for the program then and stop false advertising. Myself and many others aren't getting 4 free games a month anymore like we are told we are. Sony wouldn't be allowed to pull this crap with PS+ and Microsoft shouldn't either.
I plat'd the game on PS5 and hated the ending, sorta soured me on the entire game. From a visuals, weapons, vehicles and open world standpoint its probably one of the best Far Cry's, but from a story/character/dialogue perspective its maybe one of the worst. Most of the characters are annoying, the bad guy feels pretty disconnected from the game.
Ultimately I'd say if you played every single far cry and loved them all then yeah, I guess you might as well for completionist sake and see where it ranks for you
This is the second time it has been on sale for $5, which is an all time low. I haven't played it in like 7 years but it was fun to me. However, I don't remember much about it because it was that unremarkable and honestly a bit generic (unless you really love the futuristic but grounded warfare thing from Tom Clancy). The only thing I remember is the sync-shot mechanic (which also shows up in future Ghost Recons). Since the multiplayer servers are down, it is too bad you won't be able to co-op it (I never played co-op so can't say how it is).
Personally, I would refrain from buying any older Ubisoft titles as I'm waiting to see what happens with Ubisoft+ on Xbox and if there will be a Classic version (like the one included in the new PS+ tiers) included in Game Pass. It would be VERY cool to see older 360 games show up on Game Pass that way.
FIND OUT NEXT TIME AT....THE XBOX BETHESDA SHOWCASE~
Yeah, this is me too, last Lego game i played was DC Super Villains which i found fun, and i do like Star Wars...with this game apparently having a huge ton of content and some changes, but it apparently has some issues and i never really understood if it's a great Lego game or not.
Yes!!
i am not even a big fan of Lego games but I love Star Wars and don't have much games to play that I am really interested at moment, but even so, the price is still to high for a game I am not sure I will even finish.
I will wait more until it gets a better deal.
Waited forever for this to drop and just gave up last week, bought on disc for $19
Do you have some expiring Xbox space bucks to use too? 😁 I'm expecting a big sale next month when the Xbox Bethesda Showcase takes place. I think that would be the right cadence for another $5 sale (looking at past sales for Yakuza 0 K1 K2) though not guaranteed of course
Did Far Cry 6 omit or at least tone down the "abduction" sequences that apparently Far Cry 5 were full of?
They announced last week that the Encore edition is coming to PS consoles so there may be hope that it will also come to Xbox very soon.
Had no idea about this, they didn't even mentioned it on their twitter account lol
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Was going to grab the Hot Wheels version with all the content (this one) but noticed that only the last gen version is discounted, the Series S/X version is still at full price. Gotta love publishers that refuse to support Smart Delivery.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll be skipping this purchase then.
So...for anyone who has played Skywalker Saga, how good is it really?
From what i understand, it should be the best Lego game ever but wondering if it's worth almost 60 bucks.
From what i understand, it should be the best Lego game ever but wondering if it's worth almost 60 bucks.
They're gone, but there's numerous changes that are far worse IMO.
There's an ammo and armour system. Armoured enemies take forever to kill unless you have armour piercing rounds and non-armoured enemies take longer without "soft" rounds. Seeing as every encounter features a bunch of them it sort of forces you to play a certain way, and that way is headshots with armour piercing rounds as that kills all enemies in one hit. Otherwise enemies are bullet sponges with the wrong ammo.
They also removed the skill tree and replaced it with armour perks. You can equip four pieces of armour with different perks. That means a max number of skills and you'll quickly find a favourite and then never change. So there's zero sense of progression.
The whole thing feels kind of pointless and the gunplay tedious. I gave up pretty early in and have no urge to play it again. The FOV is also super low and unless you have VRR there's lots of screen tearing and performance issues with a blurry image quality.
I think it's easily my least favourite entry in the series.
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Hoggle I appreciate the thorough breakdown. As someone who is super sensitive to low FOV that is enough to make me not want to touch it. And then the game design decisions you bring up...
What a wasted mess of a franchise. (Never played the first two, loved 3 and 4, dropped 5 when the prologue helicopter scene played out. Literally exclaimed to no-one "fuuuuck yooou").
What a wasted mess of a franchise. (Never played the first two, loved 3 and 4, dropped 5 when the prologue helicopter scene played out. Literally exclaimed to no-one "fuuuuck yooou").
No worries. (I also edited the typos. Sorry typing on my phone)
Far Cry 6 is a shame as I love the setting, but I really don't understand what they were going for. If you just want to run around shooting stuff it's fine-ish, but the ammo system seems to have been added to increase the depth of the combat but does just the opposite (until a recent patch you couldn't swap ammo without a workbench, so you needed to carry a gun with each ammo type which limited load outs). And by removing the upgrades, animal skinning, and all the other little things you used to earn it means once you unlock a few decent guns after a couple of hours the game never changes.
And other than the 60FPS target it doesn't feel like a next gen game. The image quality is poor compared ti every other shooter on the market.
I hope the next entry is a return to form.
I've heard wildly different takes on Far Cry 6, i'm not sure if it's worth buying it for that cheap
I think the big focus for them with 6 was C H A O S. Like, I understand adding Supremos and tanks/other military vehicles for the added flashiness and explosions. But yeah, once you unlock decent equipment the game mostly stays the same. Just more Far Cry.
Sorry, you didn't ask but I just have to strongly recommend Far Cry: Blood Dragon, too.
It's on sale for only 4.50 USD for the 360 version. I think the "Classic Edition" version for last gen might run at a higher resolution, but not much higher since it's not Xbox One X enhanced like Far Cry 3 "Classic Edition" is, and it's still capped at 30 FPS, so I'd just get the cheaper 360 version. Lots of Far Cry games have gotten FPS boost patches, but if this one hasn't gotten it by now, I wouldn't count on it.
I think the reason I, and maybe others too, liked it so much is precisely because it was shorter and didn't overstay its welcome like many Ubi games do (in my opinion).