I agree. Game Pass Ultimate for me has the "right price" as well. That said, I used the Xbox Live Gold stack trick.
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Same, but I can see myself being fine with leaving it at £11.99 or whatever it is
Once it gets closer to £15 a month I'd probably only look to sub a few months a year to blitz first party stuff
Sure, but I'm not really into many AAA, I am an indie guy, it is why I signed up for gamepass and ultimately I want to see them rewarded and paid well, which seems to be the case now and hopefully that continues.
But yes, regardless of what happens moving forward, the service will be great for the majority of people!
Yeah I love AAA and indie and GPU has been great for discovering new indies, Tunic and Sable are two of my fave games from the last few years and I played them both on GP
I can't really comment on how that will work going forward, but hopefully it remains a good deal for devs and Xbox and we keep seeing great indies being added
The jar in I am Fish was definitely the worst. In general everything felt too weighty and off.
I remember enjoying The Last Stop enough. The ending was a twist.
Yeah. Same here.
Same here. Game pass to me is all about indie games. AAA games are a second thought that might get a chance because I already subscribed to Game Pass.
Definitely. I like to think that I would be able to handle the game if it wasn't for the jar.
And I want to get back to The Last Stop. I couldn't yesterday, but I'm already on chapter 4. The story is only getting better. I think this is one game that would be incredible as a series, or at least a mini-series.
Good point about this being a wider problem with a lot of mordern tech companies.
I think Phil has a decent amount of sway, he is the one that has driven a lot of the more recent positive change and the promotion of bringing studios in house. He's still a business guy in the end but he at least seems to have some passion for the medium.
I can just easily see this whole service be passed off to more "sales" type people and they will instantly start questioning why they aren't squeezing more money out of the service, reducing payouts, reducing the variety of games available on the service. Closing the Gold to GPU conversion loophole.
I just finished Umurangi Generation. Everyone should play Umurangi Generation.
It's short (just a couple hours long not counting the DLC) and well worth the time. I don't want to say much as it's best to go in blind, just know that if the first stage doesn't grab you (it didn't for me), it likely will in stage 2 or 3.
It's short (just a couple hours long not counting the DLC) and well worth the time. I don't want to say much as it's best to go in blind, just know that if the first stage doesn't grab you (it didn't for me), it likely will in stage 2 or 3.
I'm hoping that Souldiers turns out well....and also holding out hope that it's a surprise Day One title on Game Pass next month. Feeling in the mood for a stellar new Metroidvania!
I thought you said Souldiers was a gamepass day 1 game for a second there... people need to rethink about how they post about random games here because the assumption is obviously going to be "oh that's on gamepass?" Lol
We are approaching 7 months from its release next month. If I'm not mistaken, I believe 7 months after release is the earliest I've ever seen an EA title join EA Play (Star Wars Squadrons, It Takes Two). What else is happening next month? The Xbox Bethesda Showcase :3
Spoilers for anyone who finished citizen sleeper, interested to compare notes on how other people finished it and what they made of it:-
I decided fairly early on that I was going to escape the eye and also help lem and mina (they seem setup.to be the default people you want to help). So I never built the abandoned room.
I had a fair amount of money early on so I paid full price to go to the Greenway and did a lot there. I didnt climb the tower until nearly at the end of the game, because I was wary of triggering any new timers and I wanted to get all the subquests done. Is the default path to do start area, tower, Greenway, tower?
There were little things like when I unlocked all the mushroom farming I couldn't get any hirolle caps for the chef because the game was giving me club caps to give to the shroom lady. Once I had done all of that quest them the game started giving me girolles as well as other stuff.
I also seemed to power through the game fairly easily? Once I had a couple of missions done I had the self repair via scrap perk which meant I could be constantly at max status and max dice. Did other people have more of a struggle with that? Later sub plots did things like give me 4 injections, or unlock the shrrom to injection trade...but I never needed an injection after like hour 2 of the game.
I had pushed through the Feng quest early so I got rid of my tracker with only a few ticks on the ominous count down timer. Thinking about it now I wonder if I picked the "easy" character as it was left most I'm the select screen.
I had a fair amount of money early on so I paid full price to go to the Greenway and did a lot there. I didnt climb the tower until nearly at the end of the game, because I was wary of triggering any new timers and I wanted to get all the subquests done. Is the default path to do start area, tower, Greenway, tower?
There were little things like when I unlocked all the mushroom farming I couldn't get any hirolle caps for the chef because the game was giving me club caps to give to the shroom lady. Once I had done all of that quest them the game started giving me girolles as well as other stuff.
I also seemed to power through the game fairly easily? Once I had a couple of missions done I had the self repair via scrap perk which meant I could be constantly at max status and max dice. Did other people have more of a struggle with that? Later sub plots did things like give me 4 injections, or unlock the shrrom to injection trade...but I never needed an injection after like hour 2 of the game.
I had pushed through the Feng quest early so I got rid of my tracker with only a few ticks on the ominous count down timer. Thinking about it now I wonder if I picked the "easy" character as it was left most I'm the select screen.
BF2042 sounds like a very probable waste of time/announcement slot at the showcase, but there will probably be many more, so it's ok. I'm hoping for several ones (the same as always, lol), like Nier, REmakes 2 and 3, Disco Elysium... etc. Maybe at least they give us FF Stranger in Paradise, which would entertain me for a little bit.
Saw this comment, went to look at it and I wasn't so sure at first, I'd played another dice game where you had to assign dice to actions on a space craft and didn't really enjoy it. But I decided to give this a try, thank you GamePass.
Citizen Sleeper, I played it in one evening, stayed up to about 1AM to finish it, just couldn't pause it, I had to keep playing. Fantastic game.
Was the other game Tharsis? I think that game is more interesting than good.
Citizen Sleeper is something special. Perfect blend of narrative and game mechanics.
I keep reading praise about Citizen Sleeper but still don't know what it really is. Looking at a gameplay vid... is it like a mix of board game with visual novel (or, at least, a lot of text rather than visuals)? What makes it so good? Someone please explain, I don't know if I should be interested.
Yeah it's basically a tabletop campaign for 1. You're a sentient facsimile of a human that's freshly escaped from corporate ownership and trying to eke out an existence on a derelict satellite outside the bounds 'civilization'.
Edit: As for what makes it good, the scenario and writing are both good, and despite what could've been a overly dark/down mood, is surprisingly hopeful and affirming. It really hit the spot for me, I devoured it in a handful of sittings.
No. Wouldn't be surprised if it hit with Season 1 in June.
Thanks. It seems quite short then so I added it to play later just in case.
I posted above with end game spoilers but i'd add my voice to "it's very good". I've not played a game like it before though, so I can't comment on relative stuff. It REALLY captured my attention though and dragged me away from elden ring, and Halo infinite season 2.
There are light game play mechanices but they give you just enough tension and weight to your choices to get you invested in the story. They also line up with whats happening to your character in the story.
They also reinforce each other, so if you let one meter get low its starts dragging the other down, therefore you're aware of this downward spiral you can slip into...and that feeling matches some of the stuff in the story about characters having difficult circumstances and whether they slip into a mental downward spiral (or not).
Curse of the Dead gods is on Gamepass? I'll mirror what I said about it when it was on PS+, its a fantastic roguelike, I loved it on Switch. Looks great and the combat feels super chunky. Good weapons too. I really liked it, I should go back and finish it, I was in the last zone at the time.
There are several endings, or you can stay on the station forever.
Note that if you pick a "game over" ending, you can continue from before that choice. But if you don't choose the "end game" option, you can't go back and change your mind. I wish I'd realised this so that I could see the other endings!
I also wonder if anyone made friends with the arsehole dude. I'm pretty sure there's an ending for that but I totally ignored him as soon as it was safe to do so..
Also, Hardspace Shipbreaker is an excellent game to relax to. It's only 3 GB too. Although it looks like a survival game (with oxygen, health and fuel bars, plus shift timers) it doesn't play like one at all. There are no real consequences for going slow or dying (except a lower score and your personal sense of messing up), and topping up the O2/fuel is cheap and easy. You can take the game at whatever pace you want (or use 'Open Shift', which is basically 'creative mode').
Thats my next pick after Like a Dragon. I don't think its supposed to be too long but its a bummer to hear about the slpw start.
Personally, I prefer controller, playing with the keyboard makes my hand cramp up.
If you can, switch to a controller to try it out a bit.
I bet it's something like there's a missing or incorrect capabilities "tag" or something. The game clearly has achievements. The Xbox just says it doesn't and they won't show up in the Xbox app on PC even if you unlocked them.
I gave it a whirl but braking seemed a little harder and I couldn't get to grips with the movement + aiming, so I went back. I'm getting a little better at stabilising so it's not as bad. There are a lot of real fiddly bits to handle as you go up ship levels but overall its still really fun to methodically disassemble something
Gave it another hour and yeah I'm surprised by how hard I've bounced off this game. It's the type of game I normally love but I'm really not enjoying it
The combat feels like Hyper Light Drifter but just kind of off, and it's really hard on normal.
I'd give it a shot since a lot of people really highly rate it, but I think I'm gonna drop it
I wonder why achievements pictures look so grainy/low res on the pc game pass app, while on console and xbox.com are fine.
It bothers me so much lol
It bothers me so much lol
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Oh I wish I could play it too. I only heard good things that matches my tastes.
So "Curse of the Dead Gods" isn't like Dead Cells for example, where you always start at area #1. Only the level itself is like a Rogue-Like and once you made your way through it and killed the boss it's unlocked and you can choose the next one? Do I have that right?
Edit: Hmm I think that's just for the first few "introduction" levels.
Edit: Hmm I think that's just for the first few "introduction" levels.
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I just loaded it up to try it and ended up playing 2 hours straight :P
It's really addicting for sure.
Can't get the controller to work with Shipbreaker. I have a dualshock 4, but it doesn't recognize it at all. Anyone with the same problem? Other games work fine.
So I played it for 5 hours or so and Curse of the Dead Gods is pretty good but I absolutely hate it's light/darkness mechanic. I know it is it's core thing but having 3 weapons and then also having to fumble for the fucking torch all the time is super annoying imho. I also hate games where I can't see shit because it's always dark and it's always dark in this game.
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