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Really been looking forward to this one!

@MjJmediablogger So you’re ignoring the other games that are out this week on GamePass like Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (81 on OpenCritic) and Magical Delicacy (84 on OpenCritic)?

Yeah, really “depressing” and killing the Xbox brand with such horrible games. Every day a bad game…

Was hoping this would fare better. This and Hinterberg were my most anticipated of this week’s releases. Still sounds like something I might enjoy so I’ll definitely give it a shot.

Now anxious to read reviews for Hinterberg (which got great previews so fingers crossed!).

@Pusher2021 Wow. I didn’t realize that. Thanks for the heads up. I need to check it out again!

Loved Driver: San Francisco in particular and always wished it had been made backwards compatible. But I’ll take a new one!

@Nightcrawler71 I think there’s a deluxe edition that gives you access two days ahead of time.

Edit: I was wrong about the deluxe edition giving early access. But going by the developer’s website, this site is correct with the 18th and Push Square is wrong.

Absolutely amazing week for GamePass! Definitely looking forward to Hinterberg, Flintlock and Path of the Goddess!! And will at least try the others as well as totally burning through those 10 hours with College Football.

People need to relax. Both look great and the August games for just the first half aren’t even announced yet! Our July was absolutely stacked. Cannot wait for all the Day One games we get next week!

@rustyduck Neon White is far from a child cartoon game. It’s an incredibly difficult speed parkour platformer with very high critical reviews (89 on OpenCritic). But your loss if you want to write it off as a “child cartoon game”.

Tchia is also well reviewed and it’s kind of funny how a big deal was made about it coming to PS Plus Extra originally.

Can’t all these PS5 Sea of Thieves players pay for our GamePass price increase? 😀

Looks at the next two weeks of games…

Neon White (Xbox Day One)
Tchia (Xbox Day One)
Flock (Day One)
Magical Delicacy (Day One)
Dungeons of Hinterberg (Day One)
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn (Day One)
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Day One)

Yeah, $20 a month still sounds pretty good.

@RiverGenie I wasn’t even referring to anyone specifically in this thread. I even consider myself a graphics whore most of the time. It’s just a generic term a lot of people use. All I was saying is that it would be a shame for people to miss it. Not to be using “childish name calling”. If you notice my comment was talking about the game people would miss.

Everyone is entitled to their own game choices. This one is a good one IMO.

Graphics whores will miss out on a great game if they don’t check out Case of the Golden Idol. 98% positive on Steam with 5,000+ ratings. It’s a fun and surprisingly difficult mystery puzzler.

Yeah, Blur and Project Gotham Racing are at the top of my most wanted BC games.

Case of the Golden Idol, Neon White and Tchia are all great games. Glad to see them on Xbox let alone GamePass! Cricket 24, well, can’t win them all.

This really does look promising! Fingers crossed for a good adaptation!

Also remember that we get a huge second half of July with Dungeons of Hinterberg, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn and Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess in a three day span!

Great group of games. Neon White is phenomenal and happy it’s finally coming to Xbox. The Case of the Golden Idol and Tchia also highly regarded.

Nice that we’re getting the second All-Star Brawl and not the first.

Still Wakes the Deep was a blast but Octopath Traveler 2 was probably the best addition. Great month all around!

There’s reporting out now that this is no longer coming to GamePass. Sucks if true.

FH3 is still probably my favorite. Guess us Yanks just don’t find driving around the UK to be as exciting, lol.

Anyway, glad it sounds like I’ll get the base game as a freebie having purchased the expansion pass.

I’d like an actual comparison of the BC HD version to the new one to know if it’s really worth the upgrade.

A damn shame your site doesn’t seem to be reviewing it. We need a review from an Xbox point of view.

I’ll be curious to know if it’s worth the upgrade vs the BC version.

Played the beta. It’s a lot of fun! Can’t wait for the full release!

Finishing up Still Wakes the Deep. Sooooo good. Don’t sleep on it!

Still playing through Still Wakes the Deep. Such a great game! Thanks GamePass!

This looks more interesting to me than Palworld TBH.

There’s been several reports on X that this has to do with Capcom not currently having the tools to port “MT” titles to Xbox. So it makes it more expensive to port vs other consoles.

https://x.com/jezcorden/status/1803134523397288206?s=46

Didn’t expect this to be as divisive as it is. Still looking forward to it!

@Fragslayer This is only July’s games. All of the following first party games are confirmed for 2024:

Ara: History Untold 9/25
CoD Black Ops 6 10/25
Microsoft Simulator 2024 11/29
Avowed (2024, likely on the 11/12 leaked date)
Towerborne 2024
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 2024

Also have many other games confirmed for GamePass like Stalker 2, which is a timed exclusive, on 9/5.

Wonder how much later for console? Still 2024?

Eight first party titles in 2024 is absolutely amazing! And those 2025 titles are going to be fantastic! Keep them coming!

Loved it but, yeah, was kind of short. Hope the next expansion is a bit meatier.

I think it will be for existing IPs and maybe new ones a year or more after Xbox release. Either way, I don’t care much. I love the Xbox ecosystem and GamePass is saving me $70 a pop on all these games plus giving me many third party day one games including Sony’s The Show. Sure I pay for GP but it’s MUCH cheaper than buying all the games I would have bought.

And I’ll save my PS5 and not likely get a PS6 based on how little incentive I would have had to upgrade this time around. Not to mention how barren their release schedule is now. I play a few exclusives on it but everything else on Xbox.

There’s an in-depth look at the game scheduled for today. I bet it was supposed to be (and will likely be) announced then.

IGN kind of blew it there without asking about whether other games like Starfield and Gears would go multiplat. I don’t really care anymore knowing I get to play everyone day one on GamePass instead of paying $70. But know others think it’s the death of Xbox (despite things like next gen and handheld hardware being in the works). So just asking the question would have been nice. IGN went the softball direction instead.

Hmm, apparently now they’ve removed the 11/12 date from their site. Ughh…

There’s a deep dive tomorrow. Maybe they’ll announce it there.

@FraserG Obsidian announced a release date. It’s coming 11/12/24.

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1799949632467870101?s=46

This looked very promising. Hope it is as awesome as it looks and Starfield turns the page.

As expected, they did commit to keep long running franchises on it. No big deal. I’ll be playing it Day One on GamePass and not paying $70 for it.

Always got to be a few haters. “Quantity over quality.” I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a showcase jam packed with that much quality. Almost everything looked great!

Looks great, wish they dated this for 2025 at least. Seems to be further along than I thought it was.

Go look at the grades for the PlayStation State of Play (on Push Square) and Summer Game Fest. Compare them to this. Yeah, Xbox killed it with this showcase!

Absolutely fantastic! Blew the doors off every other presentation of the last week.

@Gamer_X I don’t think Pure Xbox is as bad as Push Square in that regard.

Anyway, to Push Square’s credit they change the article to say “exclusive at launch” (though the entire article still seems designed to push those console war buttons).

Love how much different the tone of the Push Square article is. The first sentence of it says the game is “now a PS5 exclusive”. Not temporary exclusive. Just exclusive. And not everyone reads entire stories so people are going to read that and take it as gospel.

I may need to get my PlayStation news elsewhere. Oh well, looking forward to this game no matter when I play it.

GamePass Ultimate members are getting a ton of benefits with this too including all agents and a 20% boost pass.

@FraserG No worries. It’s a lot of work!

I don’t think Metaphor is an Xbox exclusive. Was announced by Xbox but is also coming to PlayStation.

Honestly didn’t think Yooka Laylee was a very good game and surprised to see a remaster coming. Not even that old. But if they do, yeah, maybe they’ll tweak things to make it better.

I enjoyed the 2D Impossible Liar much better and would rather have seen sequel to it.