Talking Point: What Are You Playing First On Xbox Series X|S?

Probably Like a Dragon but Valhalla and Gears Tactics have a good chance too!

AC valhalla for sure along with watch dog legion

Tough call on my part it’s going to depend on what series x games I get I do have game pass ultimate

AC for me if I get my series x delivered tomorrow
Fingers crossed 🤞

It was likely going to be Valhalla but since reading a few reviews that mentions bugs/glitches I may wait until it's patched (hopefully the inevitable Day One patch will fix most if not all) so it'll either be Gears 5 (not finished the campaign and decided to wait till I get the new console) or Tactics

Watch Dogs: Legion to check out the ray tracing. On a rainy night in London, it should be a significant change.

Maybe Forza Horizon 4 after that. And even though I'm not a big fan of the game, I'm curious how ARK Survival Evolved looks with the dinosaurs and everything.

I wonder how long we will have to wait for the Flight Simulator port.

Realise I'm not taking advantage of the any optimisations, but I'm going to play Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order first on my Series S. I've been waiting a long time to get it at a discount, but now that it's coming to Game Pass I'm chuffed!

When I get the updated console in its final form/release, it will be Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077; Halo:Infinite, as well as any Gears of War releases between now and then. Looking forward to new IPs along the way. All those jumping in early, congratulations, enjoy, and game on!!

Ryse son of Rome is my first download and game I'll play

Backward compatibility with Crackdown and see how many barrels I can blow up at one time until the Series X struggles 😂😂

I think I might give Jedi Fallen Order a go or continue my play through of DOOM Eternal.

Got my self planet coaster!! And maybe tetris effect if I bite and get gamepass

I will be playing totally accurate battle simulator. Because the download size isn't big and my internet is garbage

Gonna be playing Valhalla first, but also will be checking out the upgrades to Gears 5 and Forza Horizon 4. And Terri's Effect!

I'm gonna be playing Gears Tactics, I'm also gonna be playing the next gen version of NBA 2K21, The graphics look sick on that game..

Most likely Vallhala if launch is smooth.
Fallbacks are Yakuza LAD and Watchdogs.

Only reason I would get one right now is to play some of the best looking existent games and make them look even better. Flight Simulator is one of the few things where I am like "I'm sure that's going to be a lot better on Series X."

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

Gears Tactics

@Deadcow Oh yeah. I look forward to seeing improved draw distance and lusher worlds in No Man's Sky.

Probably Valhalla and Ori

This is a tough call. I've dialed back nearly everything I was interested in on PS5 down to GoT and Miles, I might buy more on XSX.

Planet Coaster is the very first game that will grace the system. But It will be accompanied by Yakuza: LaD, and Either Watch Dogs (graphics showcase), AC, or both.

....But it looks like I'll have to wait until Wednesday based on my shipment estimated delivery date (so far.)

@Medic_Alert Wait I thought you cancelled your Series X preorder?

@Deadcow WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP! I'M PLAYING KNACK II ATM!

I think I'll end up playing Cyberpunk 2077 as my first Series X game. Not getting a launch model as this year has killed me financially (as it has a lot of people). But hopefully next year I'll be able to get one. Along with The Medium and if we're lucky Flight Simulator will have a console launch by then too.

Blinx the Time Sweeper, of course.

Valhalla, it looks really good i watched about 2 hours of gameplay the guy was a moron but the gameplay looked good. the one issue is it was made by the same team that made origins and it seems to have a lack of usable skills. I really liked how odyssey skills worked I guess we will see.

Ori atWotW - Gotta see 120fps in action

AC: Valhalla was included as part of my Series X pre-order bundle and the only 'new' game I will be getting at launch and therefore expect that to be the 'first' game I play - although I may jump into something whilst waiting for that to install.

I want to return to Forza Horizon 4 but I expect I will have to download the Series X enhanced version so again more waiting so I don't know that I will actually end up playing either of these first as I think the temptation to jump into any of the installed digital games on my external HDD will end up being first whilst I wait for Series X specific games to install/download.

I am also seriously considering adding Game Pass Ultimate to my account too. I know that games still need to downloaded to play, but I could perhaps play some of the games I bought and installed from disc whilst the disc drive is being used to install AC: Valhalla - as long as they don't need to download a Series X version and installed to my external Disc Drive

@Medic_Alert ROFL! I did not see that coming. It also has me gnashing my teeth a little that I ordered 2 from 2 stores in the first 8 minutes of preorders opening and it looks like I'll get one Wednesday, one Thursday (hopefully.) Your ordered one, cancelled it, and then ordered another one at the 12th hour, and they're going to get it to you on Tuesday?!

I give up....why does America have to suck? Although it could actually just be that XBox is actually popular here, and the UK is obsessed with PS and ignores both XBox and Nintendo more or less....

Still cool that you're back aboard the multiconsole train! Even if I'm TOTALLY NOT JEALOUS AT ALL that you're getting yours on launch despite your wavering commitment to the purchase. TOTALLY NOT JEALOUS. THIS IS MY "SEE, I'M NOT ANGRY" FACE!

@Kefka2589 From our lips to Cerny's ears..... I agree, it's so hard to tell when people are serious or sarcastic when it comes to Knack, but I also actually genuinely am a huge Knack fan despite leaning into the meme. Knack 2 was one of the most fun games of the generation to me. I really was hoping for Knack 3 as well. But between the internet hating it and the fact that they're now scaling back Japan Studio, I have higher hopes for Banjo Threeie than Knack 3.

I'll be firing up Forza Horizon 4, Gears Tactics and Tetris Effect, as well as gawping at all those One X enhancements that'll be completely new to me. I might also get Yakuza: Like a Dragon, plus I have Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate pre-ordered for next week.

Amazon literally five minutes ago took £449.99 out of my bank account, so it won't be long now. 😁

@Kefka2589 Vita didn't get crushed by 3DS. Sony gently placed it in front of the steamroller and taped it to the ground to make sure it didn't get pushed out of the way when the roller hit it when they announced PS4, launching in Japan last, declared Vita a PS4 peripheral, and stopped making games for it.

I still don't understand how Knack II did so badly. It was a good game. The "family appeal" seemed strong.....even excluding Japan I don't understand how it failed so hard in the West. I would say that the PS4 player base is now the angsty teen dudebros that made X360 toxic, and the "I bleed darkness" emos that live zombie apocalypses.....and it would be true...but Ratchet and LBP/Sackboy are big franchises still. No idea how Knack became so unloved. It really was a fantastic action-platformer. I never platinum things, but I did try to 100% all the purchases and collectables, something I rarely do.

Sony keeps talking down that Game Pass wouldn't work for them as a model, but their model seems to now be that every game has to be so generic as to be a complete box office smash hit.....I'm not sure that's any more sustainable than whatever risks Game Pass comes with. That's the Tomb Raider model that Square Enix fell flat on their faces on when TR2013 "only" sold 6M copies and was a "failure." Japan Studio was their best studio. I'm a little afraid of Game Pass leading to more incomplete games where the rest is sold in DLC and mtx to end-run around the service, but I'm starting to see more and more how it makes "smaller" games like Knack viable by being an enticing thing to play in such a service. Maybe Cerny can make indie games for Game Pass while designing the PS6 with an active refrigeration unit.

@Medic_Alert Yeah, pretty much all pre-orders in the US are zero-down as well, but the stores generally oversell at the start to make sure they don't end up with leftovers from the cancellations. That's just shocking they're getting it there right away....sooner than the "minute one" preorders in the US.

Haha, the funny thing for me is I've been pretty positive that XSX was going to be the better console for years since the Series X just seemed to do everything right more than PS4. But I still loved certain things about PS. But, man, the past month it's been bad news beat after bad news beat where they're shifting as anti-consumer as Nintendo, but with less finished hardware, more half-baked everything, VR went from "old VR supported on next gen" to "BC works, kinda, but nothing new and we probably might not do PSVR2", and now down to "screw Japan, it doesn't sell like blockbusters enough, and we're scaling back our J-studios to spin out more Naughty Dog clones." I went from "I love both consoles, but I think XB is doing more right" to "I'm not super sure about PS5 but I'm still getting it" to "wait....why did I buy this? Persona better run 60fps..."

I'm sure I'll like my PS5 as well....but I'm buying PS as the exclusives box just as they're announcing they'll make even less exclusives of the type I'm actually buying for (TLOU, Soulsborne, and their other 20 zombie games aren't even on my radar for free...) PS5 I'll be fine with but of PS and XB's trajectory continues as it's been, I'm really doubtful I'll buy a PS6.

It's telling that I posted on PS yesterday that "Without Japanese games, Playstation is just a worse XBox" - and not one person from the PS hivemind even tried to argue that statement, except on person who damage controlled by how profitable Sony Corp is..... But it's true. If they make it a Western games box, other than the first party studios, it's just a box that plays everything XBox plays, but with worse policies and features.

@Medic_Alert @NEStalgia you two are hilarious xD

I went with Best Buy, and I even got to schedule my pick up Tuesday, so it’s not all of America NES

Anyway Gears Tactics and Yakuza and maybe some Tetris and KH Melody of memories if I get time @.@

@Medic_Alert it’s the small things

@Kefka2589 Yeah, I loved PSP. Of course you had to play it with a thimble on, or risk sacrificing a few layers of thumb skin to it.....but other than that, it was home to the best Jak & Daxter game of all!

XBox's handheld is really better than any of Sony's handhelds though. I especially love that you can play Mario and Zelda on it.

I don't know about Sony's formula....I mean if you're getting tired of story, they love to flog Soulsborne, a series who's main selling point is that it has absolutely no story, no goal, and no sense of progression whatsoever! And Horizon is really the best Ubisoft IP of the bunch!

I kid...but yeah, when I say I "love Sony exclusives" I am starting to get a worrisome feeling of exactly what that means. A lot of the ones I love they're doing away with or scaling back, and a lot of the ones I abhor are getting the spotlight (THREE separate zombie games plus Soulsborne?!?!) I'm still optimistic. Honestly people are psyched about HzD2 and GoW2 and while I still haven't finished the originals, and do like them, I wouldn't buy hardware to play them. R&C, Sackboy yes. Uncharted, shamefully, somewhat, yes. JapanStudio, Falcom, Atlus made up a bulk of what I loved - that's rapidly ending. As is Square's semi exclusivity. It tells me something when Microsofts big elusive win is PSO2 console exclusivity, and Sony's is CoD extras, lol

I'm still optimistic they'll delight over the years though. HzD and GoW2 are really PS4 games they stalled untiil PS5 launched to fill out the roster. Since they're burning through the big franchises year 1, I'm hopeful the next 6 years will bring some new stuff that delights me. GoT does look genuinely amazing.

But....while I do LIKE a lot of those (hopeful) games, there's a lot I don't like....it's enough hope to make me glad to get a PS5 along with XSX and Switch now. But longer term, there's increasingly lot of Sony games that I like and less that I love. Meanwhile MS snatched the holy trinity of Bethesda, Obsidian, and inExile......all makers of games I love - if they could wrest the remnants of Bioware from EA, and Atlus and Falcom pledge support for MS, Nintendo, or both, I'll be holding a contest for a free PS5 giveaway....I won't need them in my life.

That I'm christening my new XBox with Yakuza 7 is like the world is upside-down!

It's been, so far, Nintendo is for Nintendo games, and a certain type of Japanese game. PS is for Sony games and a different type of Japanese games. XBox is for those AAA blockbuster western mainstream games you shouldn't like but somehow do.
(contd)

This gen is so weird. Nintendo is for Nintendo games and basically almost all other types of Japanese games. Playstation is for Columbia-Tristar/Sony Pictures made video games and major western AAA mass market games. XBox is for most of the above except the first party content, and seems VERY bent on securing more Japanese support, effectively moving into Sony's old position while Sony moves into XBox's old position. Really weird stuff. I don't think Sony's going to be careful of their Japanese market. Their statement seems to signal they really don't care about Japan because they're chasing any means to maximize returns, and taking only the highest return expenses. If you're no the biggest seller, you don't have a place in their strategy.

PS5 is the largest console ever produced, and the largest PS controler ever produced. XSES is a tiny "cute" console with the smallest controller MS ever produced. And now Sony's flipping off Japan while MS is at TGS and looking to acquire Japanese studios.

Before you know it Nintendo will be promoting Madden, and XBox will be the place to play Atlier and Cooking Mama.

@mousieone We aim to please! (Though in store pickup doesn't count....those worked differently than shipped orders )

@NEStalgia I could have actually shipped it as well, but I opted not to because those things never go through the post on time. Especially not during ballot season.

@mousieone Raises hand! #TeamWednesday!

@Kefka2589 Honestly I think this all shows how the video games industry still has a lot of growing up to do. When I hear people say things like "Sony exclusives are indisputably great because of their production value but I can't help but to find them boring and I have no real desire to play them" I know there's a problem with the way people try to judge video games these days. Production value is still held at the highest regard for some reason and things like performance as a major consideration for how it scores when the simple concept of enjoyment seems to be an afterthought. It's like you hardly see people making similar statements for other forms of media, like if a TV show has great production value but someone doesn't enjoy watching it they aren't trying to still rate it highly, the enjoyment they get out of it is everything. Video games should be approached the same way in this day and age when high production values are essentially a standard for AAA games and patching is a regular fix for performance issues. I could see the value for that being a big consideration when the industry was still growing and maturing but by now we really need to rethink our approach to how we regard this media.

My slight obsession with playing games in order, (as well as actually playing what I've bought at full price that are now £15) has me leaning towards Borderlands 2 handsome.
The improvement in graphics of BL2, after BL1 hours and hours, blew me away, so this gen, with RT, etc, well, I'm gonna be picking my jaw of the ground every few minutes.

Nothing, I think Argos have taken my money and run, no one is getting confirmation of delivery and orders are processing despite committing to delivery on 10th November.

*Edit, support confirmed they have dispatched, but they are behind on sending emails.... like this is done manually

Borderlands 3 with Season Pass 2. Had just about run out of stuff to do after clearing all the Season 1 DLCs and maxing all four Vault Hunters!

Probably Elder Scrolls VI in 2-3 years time.

I set up gamepass ultimate last night and downloaded Forza Horizon 4 and Gears 5 to my external drive so I can load those on the Series X when it delivers today.

I'm a Game Pass subscriber, but I almost never use Game Pass for much since I tend to buy games, even the first party ones permanently on GP when they go on sale.

So my launch day game was going to be Planet Coaster to start with, followed by Yakuza, AC, and W_D. I just discovered Planet Coaster is on GP! So I don't even have to buy one of my launch day games, and if I buy it I get the discount! How awesome is that?!

I'll also have to add Ori 2 and Tetris Effect to launch day since that's all on GP as well. I'd rather play Ori 2 on Switch, honestly, it's the best fit for the genre, but I have to see it in full splendor. And Tetris Effect is amazing, and I have to admit it's at its best on PSVR...there's something fundamentally amazing about being IN the Tetris board. But since PSVR is a total mess at at launch, and my Pro is getting packed away, free on Game Pass is the next best thing!

Kingdom Hearts 3 (I already had it on XBOX One), Gears 5 (GamePass) and Tetris Effect (GamePass) and maybe Valhalla if it arrives today. (The XBOX Series X is already sitting beneath my TV)