nice guess and just like that you kill my buzz lol (already played both wolfs)
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nice guess and just like that you kill my buzz lol (already played both wolfs)
Picked up X1X NBA2k19 bundle from Google Express for $299. Got 3 months Gamepass for a dollar then got three codes for three months each from Cdkeys for $14 a piece. $43 for a year of game pass is super cool.
It's good. You have to understand it's a budget game that focuses on story and NPC reactions with passable combat. Its main hook is 'leveling' up the npcs, all of which you can kill when you want to get more xp and grow stronger.
Woah, sounds a touch insidious. Then again, the game is titled, Vampyr.
You can do a non kill story route and get the 'good' ending, but honestly I had way more fun eating people after maxing them out. No kill means only xp from combat which is no where near what you can get from people. And because you can eat every NPC, the potential XP pool is huge and thus alot of the abilities have a ton of tiers you could never reach on a no kill run. Having all the xp means you can play around with some skill or build choices.
Seems a strange design choice to "punish" the player for playing as a vampire. Like RDR2 making life harder for you if you actually play as an outlaw.
its especially strange when one of the characters you meet (this is very light spoilers but its also a complete vampire trope so I'm not even going to spoiler tag it) is someone that only kills bad guys (I told you it was super cliche) and yet if you even kill 1 person, you are imediatly locked out of the good ending. It's like Gamer @ Heart says, you gimp yourself so much that the best way its probably to level up the npcs (fidning out info about them, doing their side quests) and then chow down on them for the xp and ignore the "good ending".
In fact, this got me thinking how obcessed we have gotten about endings, here is a game that you actively make it WORSE to play just to get this fabled "good ending". Yeah... no. when I get back to the game Im eating dem people (one of the reasons I stopped playing was because I was already feeling the difficulty from being so nerfed, even jut a few hours in)
Well it wouldn't be a choice if it was easy.
Like most video games, the 'good' ending is just a different cutscenes at the end. Go watch it on YouTube. Enjoy the game how it should be played.
EAT PEOPLE. But time out your eats so you don't put a district into chaos otherwise NPCs might die. That's one aspect of the game I commend it for. Gameplay decisions actually effecting the world and potential sidequests, etc. Most games with the illusion of choice simply effect VO at the end of some mission and nothing else, but here how you resolve quests can lead to some big changes for everyone else.
Woah, easy there Mr. Chompski :P
Sounds interesting enough. Thanks for the insight.
I've been loving my gamepass subscription since I got it for Crackdown,
Since then I've played and beat Crackdown, Shadows of the Tomb raider, Edith Finch, and the Gardens Between.
I'd love some other game recommendations though,
I did check out Prey, Monster Hunter, Agents of Mayhem, ABZU and Just Cause 4 and kind of bounced off of all of them and I've already played all the MS first party stuff.
I absolutely adored both Edith Finch and The Gardens Between, is there anything else out there that is both wonderful and can be beat in just a few hours?
Since then I've played and beat Crackdown, Shadows of the Tomb raider, Edith Finch, and the Gardens Between.
I'd love some other game recommendations though,
I did check out Prey, Monster Hunter, Agents of Mayhem, ABZU and Just Cause 4 and kind of bounced off of all of them and I've already played all the MS first party stuff.
I absolutely adored both Edith Finch and The Gardens Between, is there anything else out there that is both wonderful and can be beat in just a few hours?
Gardens Between was such a great gaming experience.
We really enjoyed Hue and Super Lucky's Tale. Those are both on the shorter side.
Life is Strange is amazing but more than a few hours. The prequel is great, too.
And Ori is one of my all-time favorite games and also not super short, but not as long as LiS.
Heard good things about Oxenfree and Unmechanical, too. Those are supposed to be fairly short. (I recommend you check HLTB for more specific time estimates so you know what you're getting into with each game. That's one of my favorite sites.)
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Late Shift, but it's gone now. Will echo Ori (not sure if that counts as first party to you). Oxenfree gets the vibe of those two, but is a little more fleshed out. Hue and Thomas Was Alone and even Witness are fun and shortish or at least can be enjoyed bitesize, but more puzzle based. (By the way, if I got any wrong, I apologize. part of my brain just assumes every game I own is on Game Pass now.)
Have you tried Hellblade? And my personal GOTForever is Hitman.
This!
Gardens Between is a gem everybody should play! Fantastic game.
Ori is outstanding, too.
Wolfenstein 2 would be an awesome addition to Game Pass. Still didn't play it and I loved the first one.
These past 6 months or so have been insane, and May ain't any less. Wolf2, Black Desert, Wargroove and Tacoma are games I legitimately wanted to play at one point that I didn't buy mainly because of my insanely large backlog. I already have and beat The Surge, I'll take another LEGO game though I already have half a billion in my backlog, and the other two looked interesting enough to check out. Fun times on the Pass.
May 2nd
Wolf 2 and Wargroove
May 9th
Surviving Mars, Tacoma, Black Desert
May 10th (why the 1 day difference tho)
For the King
May 16th
Tacoma and Lego Batman
looking at those dates, most likely there will be more games announced for May. The last 2 from the ones announced come out May 16th, so that leaves a thursday in May (the 23rd) with no release. Hell, it leaves two thursdays actually, also the 30th.
there is none its buy and play like ESO
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I assume it has micro transactions or possibly an optional monthly "premier" option?
sure does
I assume the xbox is the same as the PC version I linked, if not I apologize. Also your new avy is throwing me off.
The constant framerate stutters on the X (and Pro for that matter) kind of ruined Wolf 2 for me. It was a decent game outside of that though but not as good as the first game.
And one more to the list:
"Descenders 1.0 launches May 7 on Xbox Game Pass"
(And on Steam. With multiplayer.)
"Descenders 1.0 launches May 7 on Xbox Game Pass"
(And on Steam. With multiplayer.)
Anybody here sign up for the Xbox Insiders Game Pass Ultimate deal?
Am I reading this right... it takes your existing XBLG months left + Game Pass months left and adds them together to give you the amount of Game Pass Ultimate sub months?
The example they had said 3 months of XBLG with 3 months of remaining Game Pass is 6 months of Game Pass Ultimate.. like it sounds too good to be true and maybe I've missed an important detail.
Am I reading this right... it takes your existing XBLG months left + Game Pass months left and adds them together to give you the amount of Game Pass Ultimate sub months?
The example they had said 3 months of XBLG with 3 months of remaining Game Pass is 6 months of Game Pass Ultimate.. like it sounds too good to be true and maybe I've missed an important detail.
This is the best of the mediocre, even with Wolf 2 it's a little bit better than mediocre, I did a quick google of some of those indie titles, and they're all fairly well reviewed, I'm excited for this one, makes me wish I had an X.
How is Wolf 2 on a Xbox One OLD?
Oh shit, I'm psyched for this! Wonder why Descenders wasn't included in the initial press push...
Yup that's how it works. Then it's $1 until the service gets deployed for everyone i think.
Wait what's this? Is there a link to where I should do this? Also any reason not to? I have Gamepass set for a couple years...
Yup that's correct. I just did it recently and I'm now set with Ultimate until 2021 whereas my gold was due for renewal in a couple of months.
Keep in mind it'll only stack up to 36 months it says, so if your individual gold and gamepass adds up to more than that you may lose some of the bonus months.
Still a great deal though!
Xbox Insider benefit. Not sure if its tied to Alpha Ring beta testers or not though.
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Yep.
https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.windowscentral.com/how-enrol-xbox-game-pass-ultimate?amp
Perfect timing, my Game Pass sub ends in two months and my Gold is going this month, so now I'll just find a deal for one of them and get the benefit of both.
For anyone else looking to do this, you have to have the subs added to your account BEFORE joining the Game Pass Ultimate for it to add the lengths together and turn it all into a Game Pass Ultimate sub.
I would if I could!
I'm a level 5 Xbox insider with a GP sub but not seeing it on the app.
Leaving GamePass on the 15th of May:
Xbox One
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Xbox 360
just legacy collection 1? because I have that one on PC, its 2 Im missing.
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