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Escape Dead Island
Fear 2
The First Templar
Gunvalkyrie
Mini Ninjas
Realms of Ancient War
Risen 2
Sacred 2
Scarygirl
Sonic Unleashed
Timesplitters 2
Timesplitters: Future Perfect

Absolutely lovely sale, I hope there will be more sales lile this

@everynowandben The Timesplitters games are super cheap in the sales this week, go get them now

@SunShan Jet Set Radio Future, DW6 Empires, and the Conflict Desert Storm games are sadly not BC, so they are not going to happen.

Ninja Gaiden 2 and Timeshift.

Two BC 360 titles that I don’t own, and are never on sale.

I’ve only watched 2 different 4K Blu-rays on my XSX so far, Thor Ragnarök and Black Panther, and there were no issues whatsoever for me.

A heads-up to anyone interested in The Sinking City; the game does not support Smart Delivery and the Series S/X version is a separate release. So it’s really easy to buy the Xbox One version by mistake if you have a Series S or X.

I’ve only played 0 and LaD so far. Out of those two, Like a Dragon is my favourite by far, even though I’m normally not a fan of turn based RPGs.

I hope to find time to play some more games in the series (including Judgment) this year, but there are so many games in my backlog and these games are very time consuming.

Because of my huge splurge in the digital Black Friday sale, I’ve been much more restrained in the Countdown sale.

So far I’ve bought Samurai Warriors 5, Dying Light and the Anniversary upgrade for Skyrim.

Radiant Silvergun!

@MyThoughts31 This list is for games released in 2021, Cyberpunk was released in 2020.

I’ve played all of them except Unity, Syndicate and Chronicles. My favourite is Valhalla, with Odyssey as a very close second.

So far I’ve only played 2 out of these; Forza Horizon 5 which I love, and Flight Sim which wasn’t my cup of tea.

Releasing a remaster of a Xbox 360 game in 2021(almost 2022!) and capping the framerate at 30 fps is totally inexcusable! I hope they patch this soon, because there is no reason this should run at anything less than 60 fps.

I haven’t actually played that many games released this year, yet. Out of the ones I’ve played my favourite is Far Cry 6, followed by Forza Horizon 5.

@Would_you_kindly I meant that it probably DOES NOT mean that only Kassandra gets the quest, it would be very strange if it was so. 😅
Kassandra is the canon main character, and I think that is the reason why they chose to have her name in the description of the DLC, but I absolutely think that Alexios will also get the quest.

@Would_you_kindly Probably not. I’m sure they only wrote Kassandra because she’s the canon main character.

@MaccaMUFC @ymo1965 Only Fear 2 is available digitally out of the whole series. Fear 1, 3 and Files are only available on disc

I’m alternating between Far Cry 6 and Forza Horizon 5. Loving both

@Blessed_Koz ” there is no reason to remaster old games if you not going to fully remake it....”

A full remake is not really comparable to a simple remaster, since full remakes costs A LOT of money and resources, so in those cases the ”make new games instead” argument kind of sticks
Other than that, I really don’t agree with you, there are plenty of reasons to re-release and remaster older titles, even if you personally isn’t interested. Not least for preservation reasons.
Older games deserve to still be playable and made future proof. Most new television don’t even have the A/V ports for pre-HDMI consoles.

@OliverOwen I don’t agree with you at all. The problem with this release is not that it’s a remaster; the problem is that it was released as an ugly mess filled with bugs and glitches.

I really don’t understand why so many have such a negative attitude towards remasters. Everytime a new remaster is announced I see lots of people making comments like ”not another remaster” and ”make new games instead!”
This is kind of a fascinating attitude, that I think only exists among gamers. If an older movie gets a remastered release on blu-ray or 4K, no one ever goes ”make new movies instead!”
If an older novel gets reprinted with a new foreword and a new picture on the cover, no one ever goes ”write new books instead!”
When they started restoring Notre Dame after the fire, no one stood on the side shouting ”build new cathedrals instead!”

If done right, remasters are a great way to preserve games for current and future generations.
I think game preservation is very important, which is why I’m very happy about Xbox’s BC program, and I hope that ever console generation going forward will be backwards compatible.
And they are not coming ”instead” of new games, as remasters are generally handled by a smaller game studio, or a smaller team at a larger studio.

Remasters are good for the game industry, and does not hinder new game development in any way. If anything, remasters might actually be good for new game development, since remasters are much cheaper to make, they could bring in extra funds for new games.

And, of course, if you personally aren’t interrested in remasters no one is going to force you to buy or play them.

@TheSilverFalcon With a free Series X/S upgrade coming next year

This sale apparently drove me absolutely insane, because so far I’ve purchased Far Cry 6, Watch Dogs: Legion, Diablo 2, Lost Judgment, Tales of Arise, Resident Evil 8, Transformers Battlegrounds, Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts, as well as the expansion pass for Doom Eternal… and still I’m tempted to go back in and get Guardians of the Galaxy and Dead or Alive 6. Really trying to restrain myself here XD

@Kienda The first Sonic & All-Stars Racing is sadly not BC, only Transformed is.

I got a feeling that they made sure to write out the voice actors only to taunt Nickelodeon for not having any voice actors at all in their Smash clone.

Does anybody know if this has couch co-op?

Some of these new ones doesn’t show up on my ”all owned games”, I have to search for them in the store to install them… probably just a very temporary thing.

Edit: They all now show up in my library as they should

Wow, even more games than I expected, and a lot of the games I really wanted to see.

I hope we’ll see even more updates for BC, it feels strange that they added Risen 1 and 2, but not 3.

Orange Box? Crash Bandicoot? Naruto? Garfield?

Starfield is my most anticipated game for next year, followed by Elden Ring.

Forza Horizon 5 and a little bit of Hades. Also thinking about trying out Unpacking.

@BlueOcean I wish that they would have started with the older games in the series instead of this, so people wouldn’t have to think ”I will buy this so the good games in the series might get remasters.”

I personally think Maiden of Black Water is bad, and I wouldn’t give it more than a 4 out of 10.

The environments look pretty, but the character design is just awful. I’m going to have to watch some more gameplay to decide if this is for me or not.

What could be the reason why the last-gen version has a larger file size? Shouldn’t the current-gen version be larger because of higher resolution textures and such?

Also: please release a larger size Storage Expansion Card soon, thanks.

Forza Horizon 4 and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow through the wonderful Castlevania Advance Collection.

@Rural-Bandit @Widey85 Since this is based on the SNES controller, the focus is on the d-pad as the main input, which makes it ideal for 2D platformers
I would have agreed about the placement of the sticks if it were any other controller, but in this case the placement makes perfect sense.

Both Forza Horizon 1 and Gears of War 1 are Backwards Compatible, despite this article saying no.

@Clankylad All three EDF games on the 360 is already BC

Hoping for these games:

• Akai Katana
• Alien Breed 1-3
• Alpha Protocol
• Armored Core 4 and 5
• Armored Core: For Answer
• Armored Core: Verdict Day
• Beautiful Katamari
• Binary Domain
• Bionic Commando
• Bionic Commando: Rearmed
• Bullet Witch
• Caladrius
• Condemned 2
• Dark Messiah
• Darkstalkers Resurrection
• Deathsmiles
• DoDonPachi Resurrection
• Dynasty Warriors 3-8
• Eternal Sonata
• FEAR 1-3 and Files
• The Last Remnant
• Mortal Kombat 9
• Ninety-Nine Nights 1 and 2
• Otogi 1 and 2
• Resonance of Fate
• Risen 1-3
• The Saboteur
• Samurai Shodown Sen
• Samurai Warriors 1 and 2
• Silent Hill 4
• Singularity
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
• SoulCalibur 4 and 5
• Testament of Sherlock Holmes
• Timeshift
• Under Defeat HD
• Venetica

More games I want, but might be difficult/impossible due to licenses:

• Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2
• Dynasty Warriors Gundam 1-3
• Lego Lord of the Rings
• Marvel vs Capcom Origins
• Marvel vs Capcom 2
• Marvel Super Hero Squad
• Outrun 2
• Outrun 2006
• Outrun Online Arcade
• Spider-Man: Edge of Tomorrow
• Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 1989 Classic Arcade
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze
• Transformers: War for Cybertron
• X-Men: The Arcade Game
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I’ll be waiting until they are available with at least 2 TB.

@anoyonmus @Ralizah @BlueOcean
Fun fact: In Japan, Rondo is called Dracula X, and Dracula X is called Dracula XX.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon through the Castlevania Advance Collection.

I really miss the Castlevania series, and the GBA days was Castlevania at it’s absolute best IMO.

I hope they follow this up with a DS Collection, if they can make the games work without having two screens.

@Hippy_Pirate_89 Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow are so called ”Metroidvanias”, like Symphony of the Night. Dracula X is level based.

Purchased it this morning, having a blast replaying Circle of the Moon

This will be a day 1 buy for me, the GBA Castlevanias are amazing.

I won’t buy an expansion card until they come with at least 2 TB.

Wasn’t The Outer Worlds going to get a proper Series X/S version? Was the 60 fps on Series X (not S) all we got?

I’m not a GTA fan, but I liked Vice City back in the day thanks to the 80’s setting.

Good news, the first game was great

It’s great to see more previously FPS boosted games get true current gen upgrades. I really hope we get a Series X/S version of Dark Souls 3.

Does any region have alternative Games with Gold this month?

Wow, this seems like it’s really not for me. If this is true, I hope they will continue to make single player AC games alongside Infinity.