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Sadly this is going to be a thing with these games with "on going development" but at least the next-gen upgrade is free.

I think with the whole "gotta perserve games" thing MS has going on I think there consoles will have a disc option BUT I don't think new games will keep coming on discs, the drive will be see as a backwards compatibility option.

Don't get me wrong, I fully understand and support CD Red dropping it's MP plans after it's poor launch but it was a huge bummer.

I really like Cyberpunk's gameplay and Night City is one hell of a setting. Being able to that with friends would have been a blast even if it was just teaming up for special gigs instead of say something overly ambitious "CPOnline"..

I wonder if universe mode is still booked, been for 5 games or so.

That list is just a blur of "not like a dragon" and "is like a dragon" to me.

I'm hoping the kids decide to nap so I can jump into the Quest 3 updated of Walking Dead.

Honestly, I don't know.

AEW was disapointing, not bad but I could just play No Mercy.
I finished all the Phantom Liberty content and doing Panem's missions without romance seems to have stalled me out.
Frostpunk... I was doing well until everyone died.
My co-op buddies are out of town, and the only other game I was playing is House Flipper but I'm using that for achievements for the rewards.

I think we need to be careful, this could easily be a gag "oh no we left super secret projects on the board the one day we had a film crew in"

Honestly was expecting a lot more guns considering their other games. Haooy it's a lot of punching and whips.

Should we concerned that MachineGame is real good at making Nazis?

Gonna give it a B, mostly because everything is coming out at the end of the year, and exclusives wise it seems we'll only have Hellblade till that Sep-Dec window.

But also partly because Avowed didn't tell me anything actually "new". 90% of it was the standard RPG buzzwords and the last 10% was talking about combat without explicitly stating how it was going to fluidly handle melee, guns, magic.

So couple of thoughts.

Indy's getting delayed right? I'd like to be wrong but other games got month or quarter release dates indy just gets a vague 2024? That fall/winter section all ready has Avowed and Stalker2 just sounds like that's gonna end up moving to avoid all the other games and be march 2025 or something.

Avowed combat is a bit of a ? For me, obviously need to find out more but I really hope that circle can be turned off. Looking forward to it.

@Fiendish-Beaver It's not co-op, just a PVP thing.

Having... suffered... the timer in 1 and 2 I do feel like the me ha ic is part of the franchises DNA and having it set to days was a nice balance of it being there and not ruining your fun.

Maybe a reboot will refocus it back? DR4 focused way to much on the "go kil zombies" as the basis for the game. Back to the mystery solving and the feeling of being swarmed.

@Kaloudz it was less "ticking clock" and more "these events happen on these days" so it was vastly more manageable and didn't feel like it was forcing you to do things "it's way"

I've recently replayed No Mercy so this hit at just the right time.

Nice to see people are setting some sort of expectations, though I think we all might be too attached to the idea of a shadow drop happening.

@FarmDog08 Same, I'm not one for buying early access but it would be hard to refuse for IW. Luckily for me it doesn't overwise it'd be in the super expensive edition.

I've been holding off because of the save issue, I'll see if this takes. Luckily I'll have "Infinite Wealth" to let the community see how successful the fix will be.

Kinda a light month for me, however considering LaD8 is due and I have Cyberpunk to finish that's probably fine.

@Kaloudz I liked how 3 balanced the time limits with actually wanting you to play in its play ground.

I used to use GAME a lot but they neutered the reward points so Amazon, Smyths, and even Argos became cheaper, then the local store closed and the website got more expensive and slower deliveries.

Not accepting trade-ins is one of the final spins of it's death spiral.

@The-Grezzly-Bear I reckon that's their workaround for the whole "Ubisoft get the cloud rights for Activision games" deal. Oh look Gamepass ultimate gives you access to Ubisoft cloud games.

Games, games, games... updated controller with hall sticks, games, games, games

@Kaloudz I love the DR games i liked how they could juggle the camp and the dark and twisted but man 4 was dumb, it felt like a cheap knockoff or a parody game.

@themightyant Quick version. To a veteran player it's a deep cut of content that's removed, to new players its a way of staggering content so your not getting hit by 5 years of content updates all at the same time.

The idea is the "cut" stuff is basically endgame content, and I suspect intention is the exact effect it's having here keeping veterans on the high seas (public)

I really like Sea of Thieves, I love the mechanics and even love the shared world experience.

However, sometimes there are things like the Tall Tales where I just want to get stuff done. I don't want to jump back because someone tucked on my ship and dumped a quest item overboard.

If this helps even a little with stick drift it I'll be thankful, even if its just making diy fixes better.

I love the Xbox pad but I have to but a new pad almost every year and only twice was it not stick related.

Considering how R* basically abandoned RDR2 I doubt we'll get a 60fps update short of some rerelease next gen.

Generally if I like the game I'll get the dlc if it's "more game."

It's how I usually show my support for a game I like on GP, grabbing the DLC/complete edition.

It being part of the developer direct all but confirmed it being a 2024.

@Daaan14 oh I agree but it is worth remembering this the Wolfenstien reboot studio. Their games have had rough bits.

Boy did I enjoy the original Tomb Raider games but I am really hesitant about playing them again. Nostalgia can only get you so far.

@countmeout this may be just some leftover business from their purchases. As an example CoD.

I like the new games, the classic games burned me completely. The new games are finding their place (I really liked Valhalla's gear system wasn't a mess of minor stat mods).

Not saying they are prefect they have their issues. Valhalla's main story was too long. I'm not complaining about the amount of content just that it needs distributing better. Maybe shorten the main quest length but create better, longer optional side stories.

I do like the idea that going forward we're going to be getting a mixture of different types of AC experiences. Big RPGS and smaller slimmer games.

Personally, I've enjoyed the "new" games as much as the old games. Sure they have weak points like the open world segments in 5, but every Gears game has that one bit you really don't like playing again and would gladly skip if you could.

I adored Gears Tactics and really hope we see a sequel.

I just don't like how quiet the franchise has gone. I get they just aren't ready to release Gears 6 but there are other options to keep the brand active. Remakes/remasters of the other Gears games, spin-offs like Tactics, and a sequel of Tactics. All things that don't take the coalition away from Gears 6 whilst keeping the IP alive.

I have to agree with others here, it was to the game's benefit. Giving it any amount of lead time would have had the game directed and digested before launch. Instead with the stealth drop everyone just played it.

I get removing the specific game ones, it's a super rare thing where I actually play more than I need to to get the reward, maybe I'll stick around for an easy achievement for the daily.
But a GP game every day and 16 daily achievements almost feels like punishing buying games, and logically if I'm playing a GP title I'm not going to stop after earning a single achievement so I'm gonna have to play games I'm not interested in playing to drip feed achievements across 16 days

I don't know. On the one hand it'd be cool but on the other why the secrecy? We got confirmation of Fable and Perfect Dark long before the games had any major work done but banjo it's been a dev for a year and nothing?

Like A Dragon will dominate my Xbox for some time (baring any big GP surprises.)

Yeah as much as I'd like to see the Tony Hawk games get the BC and GP treatment, it just isn't happening. The game being BC means bringing it to the Xbox Store, which means the licence holders will need a new deal (double so if it's a GP release too).

Music licencing is always a pain and you really can't simply gut the soundtrack to a Tony Hawks game and not be "kicked to death" but the fans.

It's a start.

MS has insane number of studios, it's time to start delivering.

Oh and my kids have not stopped bugging me about the Trolls game.

Not yet, got a bunch of options I'm considering. I was considering the SR bundle as I (personally) enjoyed it when it was freeplay but I finished the main story and the bundle is nearly £40.

Was also considering hogwarts but it's doing that "only deluxe edition" nonsense again.

Will probably be picking up the survi8ng the aftermarth bundle as I never got the DLC

I seem to recall enjoying my time with Brink. I'm not saying it was a good game. Just that me and my buddy used to have a blast playing it. I'm sure it's the games movement and there wasn't anything like it till Titanfall

Certainly looking like it might be worth a month's sub (probably why there isn't a trial anymore).

Most of my game purchases this year was on Switch and Quest.

Gamepass did a lot of the heavily lifting on Xbox.

I finished the story with one faction, done a few Ng+ speed runs, done another faction. Spent about 300 hours in the game when it came out.

I do come back to it every few weeks when I'm between games. I fly about, explore some planets discover somethings I missed, work on an outpost and then at some point I find another game to play.

IF Bethesda is serious about continually supporting it outside of DLC I could see it staying as my little "pallet clense" / "game break" between major releases.

Map expansion sounds good.

I liked the "expedition" format for The Pitt but for Atlantic City it feels like it needed to be more like Point lookout or Far Harbor, a seperate smaller visitable map.

What weird me out about this hug is that whenever I load a game after playing cloud/elsewhere it asks if I want to load the clod save or the local save, so what's happening to the local save in this bug?

I grabbed Cyberpunk the DLC so I'm doing a fresh playthrough. I'm currently trying Tropico out as I'm looking for a smaller-scale city builder.

I'm also playing Asgards Wrath 2 on Quest 3

Rather surprisingly neither of the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games made my top 5 this year.

Neither Ishin or Gaiden was bad, just Gaiden felt like DLC and beside from the ending didn't do much for the overall or Kiryu's story.

My first and second picks were based on my year in review results.