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Correct, it should still work just fine.
Yep, so long as you don't have any desire to do cloud streaming, then PC Gamepass is better for your use case than Ultimate.
If you're gonna subscribe for a longer period then the Gold conversion trick is cheaper than PC game pass.
You also get some perks (usually in game items and trials for other services), and cloud gaming. If those two things don't matter to you then yes PC Gamepass is all you need
you need to wait until your gp subscription expires, some say its better to wait a day just in case, and then buy up to 3 years of gold and 1 gpu month to convert it all to 3 years of gpu
You can also commit highway robbery by doing the (unlimited) $1 promo every time it shows up in the Xbox app on PC. 😎
Finally finished Elden Ring that I started at launch. Welp, outside of some relevant Game Pass Ultimate Perks I used for GaaS I play, that was about half a year of underused Game Pass. Time to attempt to catch up.
Desperately need to play Bugsnax. Guardians of the Galaxy too. Anything that's the antithesis of a Souls!
Desperately need to play Bugsnax. Guardians of the Galaxy too. Anything that's the antithesis of a Souls!
I guess I shoulda done that but I grabbed the $1 PC Game Pass I saw on the app and was happy with that! I'll let it lapse at the end of the month and see if I can nab it for $1 again next month 😏
No, you're totally fine - that's exactly how it works! Make sure to turn off auto-renew and check the promo again after your sub runs out next month😁
As Dusk Falls is up for preload on xbox, 51gb.
Must be, didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
Must be, didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
Ha, I still miss two trophies but I'm also somewhat done with the game for now. Initially wanted to also get it for PS5 but it's just so huge.
Need to see what I missed since ER's release. Any recommended highlights I need to look at?
The Tuesday posts and the graphic are more important for people that are not subbed but might be considering it
The last two posts have missed games off for some reason, so if that's all you're seeing from GP on the outside, then the new additions to GP looks worse than they actually are
It's just weird because it seems unbelievable they can't get all their ducks in a row to update a graphic correctly. There isn't even a fixed date so they're not even working to a fixed deadline
I'm having issues too. Solasta won't download for me right now
I feel dumb asking this, but I'm a bit unclear on one aspect of the XBL Gold > Game Pass Ultimate upgrade.
For existing GP subscribers I believe the process is:
- Buy 3 years of Gold
- Pay for 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate which will convert the 3 years to GPU too.
My issue is, wouldn't that be 37 months in total? I believe the cap is 36 months, so do you have to wait a month after stacking Gold before you can upgrade to GPU?
For existing GP subscribers I believe the process is:
- Buy 3 years of Gold
- Pay for 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate which will convert the 3 years to GPU too.
My issue is, wouldn't that be 37 months in total? I believe the cap is 36 months, so do you have to wait a month after stacking Gold before you can upgrade to GPU?
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Below is a look at how Game Pass has affected my spending habits - and also how it has increased the number of Japanese games I play (you'll see in the list, I've played a lot more Japanese games in 2021-2022 thanks to Yakuza and Spike Chunsoft). I'm still playing games that I ABSOLUTELY love. But I'm spending much less money. Game Pass is continuing to have incredible games (for my tastes).
I'll start with 2018. I'll highlight Game Pass games in RED (unless I own the game). If a game isn't highlighted in Red, it means a) I bought it digitally, or b) I bought it on disc - regardless of its Game Pass status.
I love narrative adventure games. Western RPGs. Visual novels. Puzzle games. I feel like from 2018 to present day I've continued to play those types of games. But I've been able to dramatically reduce my spending while still enjoying so many games each year. There is still LOTS of work to do, especially with respect to Japanese games that continue to skip Xbox. But I think Microsoft deserves credit for what they've done with the service.
I'll start with 2018. I'll highlight Game Pass games in RED (unless I own the game). If a game isn't highlighted in Red, it means a) I bought it digitally, or b) I bought it on disc - regardless of its Game Pass status.
I love narrative adventure games. Western RPGs. Visual novels. Puzzle games. I feel like from 2018 to present day I've continued to play those types of games. But I've been able to dramatically reduce my spending while still enjoying so many games each year. There is still LOTS of work to do, especially with respect to Japanese games that continue to skip Xbox. But I think Microsoft deserves credit for what they've done with the service.
- Games I played in 2018:
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (digital and disc)
- Thimbleweed Park (digital)
- Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones (digital)
- Celeste (digital)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (digital)
- Nevermind (digital)
- Thumper (digital)
- A Way Out (disc)
- Batman: The Enemy Within (digital)
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (digital)
- Watch Dogs 2 (digital and disc)
- Gears of War 4 (digital and disc)
- Super Lucky's Tale (digital)
- Q.U.B.E. 2 (digital)
- A Hat In Time (digital)
- The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker (digital - but Microsoft refunded me and I found this game was terrible)
- Night in the Woods (digital)
- The Talos Principle (digital)
- Aero (digital)
- The Gardens Between (GAME PASS)
- NieR: Automata - BECOME AS GODS Edition (digital)
- Forza Horizon 4 (GAME PASS)
- Gorogoa (digital)
- The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories (digital)
- Games I played in 2019:
- Forgotton Anne (digital)
- 11-11: MEMORIES RETOLD (digital)
- Unravel Two (digital)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider (disc - sold disc and then played on GAME PASS)
- RiME (digital)
- SOMA (digital)
- The Invisible Hours (digital)
- Rocket League (digital)
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Chronicles (digital)
- The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection (disc)
- Old Man's Journey (GAME PASS)
- Life is Strange 2 (digital)
- Fractured Minds (GAME PASS)
- Games I played in 2020:
- Sea of Solitude (digital)
- Wandersong (GAME PASS)
- Control (disc)
- Overcooked! 2 (digital)
- Moving Out (GAME PASS)
- A Plague Tale: Innocence (GAME PASS)
- Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition (digital)
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season (digital)
- Return of the Obra Dinn (digital)
- Battletoads (GAME PASS)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (digital and disc)
- Tell Me Why (GAME PASS)
- Overcooked! All You Can Eat (digital)
- The Touryst (GAME PASS)
- Call of the Sea (GAME PASS)
- Manifold Garden (digital)
- Games I played in 2021:
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered (GAME PASS)
- NHL 94 REWIND (GAME PASS)
- Full Throttle Remastered (GAME PASS)
- PHOGS! (GAME PASS)
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (GAME PASS)
- Gears 5 (GAME PASS)
- Gears 5: Hivebusters (GAME PASS)
- The Medium (GAME PASS)
- Grim Fandango Remastered (GAME PASS)
- Observation (GAME PASS)
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (disc)
- Outer Wilds (digital)
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (disc)
- Undertale (GAME PASS)
- NHL 21 (GAME PASS)
- Yakuza Kiwami (GAME PASS)
- Yakuza 0 (GAME PASS)
- Yakuza Kiwami 2 (GAME PASS)
- Psychonauts (GAME PASS)
- Cuphead (digital)
- Yakuza 3 Remastered (GAME PASS)
- Last Stop (GAME PASS)
- Twelve Minutes (GAME PASS)
- Psychonauts 2 (GAME PASS)
- The Artful Escape (GAME PASS)
- Yakuza 4 Remastered (GAME PASS)
- AI: The Somnium Files (GAME PASS)
- Unpacking (GAME PASS)
- Life is Strange: True Colors (disc)
- Games I played in 2022:
- It Takes Two (GAME PASS)
- Forza Horizon 5 (GAME PASS)
- Halo Infinite (GAME PASS)
- Yakuza 5 Remastered (GAME PASS)
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - Anniversary Edition (GAME PASS)
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (GAME PASS)
- Tunic (GAME PASS)
- A Memori Blue (GAME PASS)
- 999 (GAME PASS)
- Virtue's Last Reward (GAME PASS)
- Telling Lies (GAME PASS)
- NHL 22 (GAME PASS)
- Paradise Killer (GAME PASS)
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - Anniversary Edition (GAME PASS)
- AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative (disc)
- For the rest of 2022, I plan to also play the following (I have a newborn so I doubt I'll get through even one third of this stuff lol):
- As Dusk Falls (GAME PASS)
- Judgment (disc)
- Yakuza Like A Dragon (disc)
- Lost Judgment (disc)
- The Quarry (not certain yet if I'll get it digitally or on disc)
- Man of Medan (digital)
- Little Hope (digital)
- House of Ashes (digital)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (GAME PASS)
- Nier Replicant (disc)
- Wolfenstein II (digital)
- Broken Age (GAME PASS)
- Somerville (GAME PASS)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (GAME PASS)
- Pentiment (GAME PASS)
Usually games on xbox are pretty early for preload with a few exceptions.
XCloud calls your name (provided you are in a supported country)
7 is my favorite, 0 is really close but all are pretty cool*, i gotta say tho 3 and 4 havent aged the most gracefully way possible.
*havent played 5 yet
Road 96 is super unique and very interesting. And damn at this soundtrack. It's absolute fire!
If you love narrative adventure games then please play THE FORGOTTEN CITY asap!! Didn't find that in your list (unless I missed it lol)
Excited to try this. Almost bought it in the steam sale 😁
Road 96, Last Call BBS, DJmax, Yakuza 0,1,2 and Matchpoint are up on pc gp.
DJMax really is proof that Xbox is just a PC lmao, the game really thinks you're on a PC when playing there, you can change anti aliasing, the tutorial keeps mentioning the keyboard and not the controller and best of all, you can quit the game to the dashboard from the title screen.
EDIT: Ah the PC version installs an anticheat by default, cool beans (Xigncode3)
lollll
This is super cool! The absolutely crazy thing is how many of those games you didn't play on Game Pass have nevertheles been on Game Pass, as well. Even your 2018 list has maybe 4-5 games that have never been on GP. It's crazy and when I started to make lists like this, I quickly realized that there weren't actually as many games that have entirely missed GP as I had thought lol. That's even true for 2022, where like some 30%+ of all notable games dated for 2022 and releasing on Xbox are already announced for GP. It's honestly staggering.
Man, Assassins Creed Origins is REALLY good. I'm happy i tried it out on Game Pass. I'm loving it.
Wow, Far Cry 5 seems really basic. Only played for an hour and it's just save people, blow up stuff. Rinse and repeat. The gunplay seems basic too.
But the opening cinematic is straight fire tho
But the opening cinematic is straight fire tho
Yup, you basically have an almost infinite list of stuff to do and by doing so you "advance" in the main plot.
You go X and find Y or go to X and kill Y, but as you do that you make progress towards unlocking main story missions, which are more linear and story focused
However, some of the story missions are bad and all the boss fights suck
I enjoyed the game overall, though the story is ass, and I think 3 and 4 are better games overall
Same, I checked my games log recently and found that I've beaten 39 games from GP since the start of 2021, and mostly due to MS rewards points I've only spent about £20 on games so far this year, when most years it's a few hundred a year at least
100% agree, it's my favorite game from last year. I've been keeping it on my XSX just to get a few stray achievements for Microsoft Rewards. And if you trust the leave dates accidently leaked on PC, it's schedule to leave Game Pass in November:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-pass-ot2-is-this-legal.322162/post-79089952
Yeah, I've put 3 hours into it so far and it's kinda meh. Cool setting / location but the gameplay loop and shooting is very basic. Will prob drop it soon.
It's a structurally very, very different game. I think it's worth giving it a try, but don't force yourself to do everything because the game is not really built to be completed - or indeed, experienced - the same way as before. It's not UNFUN, but it lacks something from the first, for sure (heart and story, perhaps, for one thing). But definitely worth a try, at least.
Yeah, so I'm surprising digging that DJ Respect rhythm game. It even plays well on cloud!
I'm not at all digging the p*do bait tho
I'm not at all digging the p*do bait tho
I tried it and didn't like how the guide for which button equals which note disappears like 3 seconds into a song, expecting you to memorise it. What's the point in that?
Shame as it looked like the game could have been a good rhythm game otherwise.
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