Talking Point: What Have You Bought In The Xbox Spring Sale 2023?

Mainly lego titles seeing as they were a bargain.

9 in total, a lot more than i was expecting:

Lego Indiana Jones 2
Lego movie bundle
Lego DC bundle
Prince of Persia
FEAR 2
Sword art online alicisation lycoris
Dark pictures house of ashes
Telltale batman
wolf among us

So basically some 360 titles, a bit of Lego and some narrative games which i enjoy a lot recently.

I too got the new DLC for Vampire Survivors, it's a great, addictive game and deserves the support. I also bought 2K23 PGA Tour for £15. Actually prefer it over the new EA version.

HomeFront the Revolution because I wanted a digital version of the Easter egg Timsplitters 2 HD for the cost of a coffee.

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One Deluxe Edition Bargain!

I was looking at MGSV for a fiver but I'm not in a rush to play it again so I've not bought anything. Seems to be the same games every other sale at the moment and the prices never really change so it's not like your ever getting a bargain - for me. I do find it pretty funny that The Witcher Wild Hunt has gone from being £7 to £15 since it's X/S patch though.

I bought Flight Simulator which I originally purchased the Series X for. Now I can pause the Gamepass sub until Starfield (and Redfall 60fps patch). Gonna blow through Ghostwire Tokyo and Ori 2 before it expires hopefully.

The spring sale of games, that are ALWAYS on sale. How do I contain my excitement.

I was thinking of redeeming my Microsoft reward points and getting Ghost Recon Breakpoint… then I took a look at my backlog on Xbox… then the rest of my backlog on Switch and pc… I think I’m good on games for the rest of the year lol.

Erm, nada, zilch, zip, nothing! a lot of these games are regularly on sale anyway.

Psychonauts, Gears 5, and Sunset Overdrive

@Wheatly You supported them by waiting for a sale?

@Altaria_97
I'm glad you didn't pay full price for Breakpoint, some of us made that horrible mistake

Vampire Survivors.
An absolute steal.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I couldn't wait to see if it would go on GPU. Great price for a great game.

Nothing, I use my Series X exclusively for GP.

Like someone said above these are the same games that are always on sale... plus I just got RE 4, Zelda is around the corner and I'm finishing Dark Souls 3 and Chained Echoes (which is great btw).

Crysis 2 Remastered and Sunset Overdrive Deluxe edition. That will more than do for me with my current backlog.

@Daaan14 I struggled to get into Alan Wake and never finished Quantum Break, but Control was absolutely amazing. Bit of a slow start but fantastic after you unlock a few powers.

Frustrating that Sherlock Holmes games are so much cheaper on PS than Xbox at full price and sale. I wanted to also play on my Xbox but the PS Store deals are just too good to pass up.

I bought 24 games, because I'm paranoid about more games being delisted without prior announcement. I wanted to get Phantom Breaker: Battleground because it looked like a cute Beat 'Em Up, but it got delisted recently, even though Microsoft said games available on the modern Xbox store would stay. Which I guess was a lie. So that's cool.

@Darylb88 I noticed that too during PS's last big sale. A bigger variety of games and aside from the Lego games randomly, most were at better prices too. Which is sad because I just don't like the PS controller personally.

I bought Cyberpunk 2077, then got it refunded a few days later when I deemed it unplayable. The font size for almost all text in the game is unfathomably small, to the point where I found it unplayable regardless whether I played remotely on my phone or on my big 4k TV. Bought GTA V X/S edition instead just as a casual runaround.

Sonic Frontiers, which has been pretty fun so far. I really wanted to get Need for Speed Unbound but it's received too much negative feedback unfortunately

I bought absolutely nothing at all. I’ve either rented or already bought the games I’m interested in. I was hoping LA Noire would be more than the usual 50% off but it’s not even in the sale.

@WBMusic I did the same with Cyberpunk 2077 back in December, I requested a refund after an hour of playing and received the refund then bought it again a few hours later to give it a proper chance as there was nothing else I wanted in the sale. I’m so glad I did as I really enjoyed it. It has improved massively since it’s release and I’m waiting for its next big update before getting back to it.

@MaccaMUFC I did enjoy what I played, the characters were great and the city is so detailed and believable. It's just, as a CDPR game, half of it is played in the menus and I could not make out any text or detail. You can change the subtitle text but that's it, any menu or UI text is fixed and it's awful. If they patch it in the future - as it's been requested many times on the CDPR forums - then I'll definitely rebuy it as I was looking forward to it for a long time.

I bought Sekiro, mostly from points, and I've been spending a few hours some days getting killed over and over again, and not really having a clue where I'm supposed to be going. Not sure how I feel about this lol

I don't really buy games on Xbox anymore because of Gamepass. And I don't plan on buying anything right now especially since Zelda is out next month and that will get all my focus for the next few months I'd guess.

Just picked up Sable at a cool $10! Now I can continue where I left of from my Game Pass save. God I love this game!

The Chant
The Outer Worlds Expansion Pass + Spacer Choice update
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

None, waiting for Diablo 4!!

Dying Light: The Following bundle because I fancied some zombie action. Didn't realise how much the parkour element adds to the experience. Liking it so far.

Also picked up Cyberpunk 2077, Biomutant and The Purge 2 via Amazon/eBay. Something for a rainy day.

@Wheatly I double-dipped too, playing it on XSX and Steam Deck.

@Daaan14 I love Remedy games (Quantum Break, Control and Alan Wake). Looking forward to AW2 and, I hope, Control 2!

@Wheatly Exactly! I was reading about the Nintendo Indie World of today to see if VS was announced for the Switch. I see it was not, but I was curious to see the pricing over there.