Altaria_97

Didn’t care much for the first game but was thinking of giving this a shot… but man, they’re doing everything they can to deter me from even trying it. Not only have the gameplay and cutscenes not interested me, but the lack of a 60fps option and forcing a widescreen aspect ratio is just so weird. If you want the game to feel like a movie… then just make a movie lol.

An amazing month. PGA Tour, Jedi Survivor, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lego 2K Drive, Another Crab’s Treasure, 4K60 Fallout 4… and surely some of the other titles are great too.

Easy A.

This is why digital “rights” sucks. You pay for the license and they can rip it away from you at anytime. Yeah, the $5 deal was a mistake on their part, but forcing a return for something consumers legally purchased is ridiculous.

I was busy with other games when it came out and from the little I did play, the 30fps really worsened the experience in a shooter with constant camera movement.

So I’ll be checking out the new frame rate modes, but for my first playthrough lol

I tried playing it last year and usually 30fps doesn’t bother me… but for this game I really had trouble shooting and it just felt choppy. Glad it’s getting a 60fps option, even if it should’ve been there at launch.

Gonna give it another go when this update releases.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t think Tomb Raider Definitive Edition ever released on PC. I thought PC players were stuck with the original 2013 release with the older Lara model and slightly downscaled visuals.

If the Definitive Edition enhancements are finally coming to PC, that would be great. Or maybe this is just the base version for PC. Or maybe they’ve always been on PC and I’ve been out of the loop haha.

EDIT: According to IGN, it’s the Definitive Edition coming to PC exclusively on the XBOX app! Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/tomb-raider-definitive-edition-finally-arrives-on-pc-after-a-decade-but-only-on-microsoft-store

Can’t wait to replay it with the enhanced visuals on PC!

Nothing I care much about so far. Game Pass has been pretty great this year so far, though, so I'm not complaining. Looking forward to more Game Pass announcements and game reveals.

Series X here, I almost always go performance. The only time I won’t is if the quality mode manages to hit 60fps somehow or if the performance mode somehow makes the game look substantially worse in a game with little motion (like EA Sports PGA Tour).

I wish I had a chance to try it. The timing lined up with the exact time-frame I was out of town. I've had my eye on it for... I think over a year now! I hope the official release is soon.

Everything lol. More backwards compatible titles, more games utilizing fps boost, higher resolutions, auto HDR… bring it all!!!

I’ll be away all Friday and possibly Saturday, hopefully I have time to check this out Sunday. I’ve had my eyes on this as CoD and Battlefield both have lost credibility to me.

Awesome. I never played a Fallout game and will probably start with this. Should be fun!

Huh, Penny’s Big Breakaway is already 35% off. Might snag that once I get back from my trip this weekend.

Gears collection this year and Gears 6 next year would be awesome. Or hell, throw them both at us this year lol.

Excited for Lego 2K Drive. Played it over my brother’s place and it was a lot of fun. PGA Tour is a great addition as well, I’ve had it for a few months now and I recommend it to golf fans.

My Series X is typically always between 80% - 100% full. I’m usually removing games right after beating them to make room for new titles. Most games aren’t huge but the few that are take up like 120gb - 200gb each lol

It’s been nerfed heavily over the past 6+ months or so. This news doesn’t surprise me. It was probably the most generous of all rewards systems and I got many free games, DLC, and even a controller out of it for free or super cheap.

Curious if the new point structure will end up being worth the time investment… let’s hope so. Regardless, I’m happy I got to make use of Microsoft Rewards being overpowered while it was.

@scarecrowknife Yup, the game was updated about a month ago so we can skip practices in the pre-race menu. No more loading up the practice just to pause and hit skip.

I’m really excited to start playing again with that and the new car progression. They both seemed like unnecessary changes for the sake of changing things.

Now if only they could make the starting positions like the previous games.

It had an amazing quantity and quality of exclusive first-party releases. It was also the pioneer of “massive appeal” online gaming. It was also during, in my opinion, the golden era of online multiplayer. Pair all of this with competitive pricing and you have the generation of XBOX in my opinion.

Pretty cool background. Still haven’t played a Fallout game but one of my good buddies has been recommending the games to me for years. Hopefully the Series X update for Fallout 4 comes out later this year, it would have been great to coincide with the show.

This reminds me of Monster 4x4 World Circuit. Had that on my Wii as a kid. It was my go-to racing game before Mario Kart, and despite it being pretty mediocre, I had fun with it. If this is like that but with more polish and content, I’m interested.

Add this to the pile of 100+ shooter battle royales. Kind of impossible to care at this point.

Also… why wouldn’t they just reuse the engine and assets from Hogwarts Legacy to make a quick turnaround sequel/successor? Same with Batman Arkham Knight… legit boggles my mind.

Instead, let’s spend 8 years developing a live service game that no one asked for and sells like crap. But it’s not our fault if it flops, it’s the consumer’s fault!

How did these people manage to climb so high they when are this out of touch with the industry. Warner Bros, you guys missed the gold rush of live service games. Games like League, Fortnite, Apex, among a few others already took it all. That’s why so many live service games fail now.

You guys got all your success, money, and critical acclaim from your amazing single player experiences. Why throw away what works and take such a high risk? You’re basically betting your employees on green while playing roulette.

I got SpongeBob a while back on Steam but never beat it cause I don’t really like being glued to my PC for single-player games. Very happy I can beat it on my TV now without double dipping.

I got Control for free on Epic and GoG but same case, I’d much rather play it on my living room sofa with my big TV. Good month for me.

Finally, another limited edition console… and it’s SpongeBob for $700 lol. This almost seems like a sick joke but it’s kinda funny.

I think this is good news. My guess is they wanted to be able to still work for Microsoft and Activision but not be forced to make stuff they don’t want, like Call of Duty and live service stuff.

This way, they can make their own games and choose from Microsoft’s offers as well. Given they’re financially stable enough, I think this might be good.

Not expecting anything, but here’s my wishlist:

• New Banjo-Kazooie
• New Conker
• Psychonauts 3
• Forza Horizon 6
• Gears Collection
• Gears 6
• A new Halo campaign (not happening lol)
• Perfect Dark update

I’m prepared to be disappointed when none of this gets shown.

I gave up on shooters for a good while after buying an XBOX One for Destiny and the Master Chief Collection. I thought Destiny was a repetitive snooze fest and the servers for The Master Chief Collection just didn’t work for the first month or two so I returned the game.

In retrospect I should have just picked up Titanfall. Way better game and a console exclusive nonetheless. But that was 10 years ago when I was in high school lol.

Another day, another unnecessary thing for people to get mad at.

I remember a few of my buddies had it when I was a kid and I always wanted to play it and they never did. Then when we finally played it I realized how much lag there was with it, plus a lot of the controls were finicky. It was really cool but more of a novelty, I can see why they never wanted to play it.

Only app I use is Spotify every now in then to play music in the background of some basic games like Fall Guys or The Crew Motorfest.

Agreed that it’s lame it took this long to get things the way they should but I’m looking forward to this change. I didn’t like the progression system so going back to old way but with “leveling up” for discounts seems like a cool move.

I don’t want to speak too soon but I imagine Hot Wheels Unleashed is safe for another 6 months or a year. It’s already February 5th, so unless it’s a weird one that stays for a year plus one extra week or something then I think we would’ve already heard about it leaving.

Glad too, as I’m currently playing it and it’s a blast. Don’t wanna feel like I have to rush through it.

@GamingFan4Lyf It’s been at least a decade since I played Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon/2… back when I was in high school! But man… it’s an incredible game. Not as good as 3 but it’s great and I’m excited to replay it on the TV and OLED Switch screen. You’re in for a good time!

Awesome. I’m hoping this will work across both XBOX and PC, but even if not it’s not a huge loss. It would be awesome to play Rock Band 4 and I’d even give Fortnite Festival a go.

Also hoping this is reasonably priced. I don’t want to drop more than $70 for a controller but I have a feeling it’ll be more lol.

Nope. The controller is already near perfect to me and I have a ton of rechargeable batteries. I have 4 controllers so no need for anymore.

Geez, the cuts and layoffs never end in this industry. I feel bad for everyone affected as I too wanted to get a job as a game developer/designer. Seeing all this though… I’m glad I’m where I’m at.

I know it’s still in beta but the game is very buggy, especially on console. My brother and I missed our first shiny because the game crashed right when we were about to throw out Pal ball at it. Then it was gone when we reconnected.

That said, the game is very fun despite feeling half-finished. The gameplay loop is fun so far and leveling up to take on bigger Pals is exciting. I’ll be playing more, just been playing it on my PC for better performance and audio.

It runs like butt atm and has major audio issues (on consoles). I rated it a 3/10, but I’ll try it on PC later as I heard it runs fine there. I know it’s in beta but it feels bad and I’ll wait for it to get patched up before reinstalling it on my Series X.

I’d definitely prefer third person but it doesn’t matter that much. The game looks incredibly good. Looking forward to it!

I’m clearly not the target audience for this showing lol. Indiana Jones is the only thing I care about this year from them, although I’m keeping an eye on Stalker 2… which wasn’t here lol (can understand why tho).

Glad others are excited for those other games though.

Edit: I rewatched the Avowed portion as I had to watch it without audio at first. It looks really good, consider me very interested in that game now haha.

@__jamiie Same here. It’s the only Forza Horizon game I don’t own digitally. It’s not a big deal as I have a Series X but it still slightly annoys me lol.

The MCC launched in such an awful state that I can’t vote for it. The online didn’t work at all for about a month or so. Huge disappointment.

I was between Forza Horizon 2 and Sunset Overdrive. Picked Horizon 2, but they were close.

I should’ve picked up Titanfall that year, but I instead picked up Destiny and Halo… which I didn’t enjoy and ended trading in both lol.

I've been waiting for this alleged Gears collection to play through the Gears game. I played a bit of 4 on my XBOX One back when it came out and like it a lot, but I ended up trading in my XBOX shortly after getting lol.

Hoping for the trilogy (and maybe Judgement) to be in this collection and Gears 4 to finally get Series enhanced... you know, if this collection exists lol.

The Pebble Beach and F1 backgrounds are nice.

My brother showed me this last year and it cracked me up. This looks too amusing to not try lol. Looking forward to it.

More excited for this than I was with Starfield. Starfield has more to do but I prefer the pacing and density of the world of Outer Worlds. Hoping this turns out well… whenever we see it lol.

I bought Assassins Creed Valhalla on PC for $5 a couple months ago and never got around to playing it lol. Guess I’ll just play it on XBOX now lol.

Excited for Resident Evil 2 and Super Mega Baseball, as well. Good announcements!

1. Hi-Fi Rush
2. Forza MotorSport
3. Age of Empires 4 (if Ghost Wire is included for its XBOX debut then I'm including this lol)

Still gotta play Ghostwire and I need to beat MineCraft Legends to give a proper rating.