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They didn’t really finish or polish the last zone much, so I was kind of expecting this to be similarly unpolished. Rome and Giza were great. The rest was kinda jank.

Mina the Hollower looks badass

Weak month for me personally

I want to see Japanese games.

@AlwaysPlaying yeah. I’d like to try it out. A lot of people are interested in video game history.

@johndoe89 Gen Z is interested in the NES and Game Boy; both of those are pre-16-bit. Even Gen alpha is interested. It just depends on the game and system. For some of these tho, yeah, the gap is a little too wide.

Do they actually work with the controller, or do you end up needing a keyboard?

I enjoyed the game, but it got buggier and less well designed as it went. Not sure I feel like returning for dlc. But we’ll see. Curious what reviews will say too.

DLC for game pass stuff doesn’t usually go on sale.

It’s been delayed before too. I don’t mind. The demo was great, and I think the previous delay was used to make the game better.

I can certainly understand their frustration. For me, I don’t know if I’ll even play silksong, but I’ll definitely play demon school.

I enjoyed my 150 hours with it when it came out, but it’s not like I kept playing it after it was over… I don’t usually go back to games.

Kind of wish I’d just waited. But, I had a great time!

@themightyant it’s Xbox, and PlayStation before that, that reversed it… in playstations case they literally reversed. It was supposed to be O (true/“maru”) for confirm and X (false/“batsu”) for cancel. Yet here with are with X being accept.

I agree it’s annoying that they’re not all just the same though. But Xbox was just following PlayStations lead. And Nintendo has kept it traditional.

Ugh. I wish someone would make a wireless option that’s good and has a budget price.

Triangle Strategy should be game pass at this point

I see I’m not missing much unless they announce ff tactics for game pass.

A person can always charge their own batteries, altho I’d prefer usb charging built in.

More importantly, I hope it isn’t so damn clicky next time, and I hope it doesn’t give my right hand a cramp after 30 minutes. It was a real step back from the xb1 controller.

Would be nice to get a 3rd party wireless pad that doesn’t cost more than the 1st party one…

@Balaam_ yeah some of their headlines make things sound exclusive to game pass, or to Xbox, when they’re not. I get that this is a console specific website but it’s still kind of jarring.

2026: stalker 2 at 100%
Also 2026?: stalker 2 leaves game pass

Colonels Bequest is great. I’m happy to see Microsoft doing something with their properties instead of sitting on them.

I do wish they somehow allowed them to be played locally. But if you have decent and unlimited internet, most stuff works ok.

Some of their choices are a little weird.

Yuck. I hope she gets Tyson foods to implement some ethics.

Two games that were already on there 😆

About what I expected

That’s a lot of stuff I still want to play! Yikes.

I’d like to play viewfinder. A shame that one isn’t game pass, after waiting all this time for it.

Jeez. Can they do one that isn’t themed and isn’t $90 please? This is nuts. I’ve been using a wired controller for a year now.

There are still audio delay bugs after all this time too. Wonder if those got fixed.

Is adventures of Eliot an action game? Not super excited about that if so. And Octopath 0 is not being developed by team asano, so… kinda skeptical of both of these. Hopefully they’re great tho.

I’m surprised the reviews were even that high. The writing was on the wall from the beginning that it was gonna be kind of a cozy disaster embarrassment. Too bad because it’s a decent concept

Hard to be excited about something so vague.

I played starfield once and had a really fun 140/150 hours or so. But it wasn’t something I wanted to play again. I don’t get how people can just play the same game forever.

I was hoping for game pass!

Wheel world looks great

Had my eye on this one so definitely excited to see it on game pass.

I’m looking forward to trying it out

Minami Lane looks interesting.

The Ascent was already on there for an age. Odd to see it come back.

I don’t have friends.

@PushButtons Did you even read what I wrote? Like I said, some make money; some do not. We can all think of several high profile failures along with high profile money-makers. Same goes for expansions.

@PushButtons Well that's a bit of a generalization. Some do; some don't. I could just as easily say "live service games don't make money; that's been proven," but we both know some make a ton of money, and some fail dismally.

@PushButtons Just because it makes money doesn't mean it's not hot garbage.

Expansions for GTA5 and Red Dead 2 would also have made money, but that's not the path their shareholders went with.

@Kaloudz I’ve wondered about this too

High on life is coming back? 😂 weird

The ascent used to be on there too. This is mostly old games considering those and the ones moving to standard.

Which is fine

Golden idol is amazing. Play it.

I need to play magical delicacy and tchia. It seems like they just got here!

Activision has a huge back catalog, as evidenced by the first wave. It includes all the old Sierra and infocom adventure classics. Some really need a keyboard to be properly enjoyed, however. Others work ok with a controller and no mouse.

Some choices were odd tho, like opting for the incredibly slow sega cd version of Willy beamish (I guess because it has voice acting… but long load times and worse graphics)

They don’t bother with anything unless it’s live service garbage anymore.

Might be a dull month for me. But that’s ok. I’m behind.

That said, wheel world might be awesome.

Overrated third-party series that Sony pretended was first-party and kids drank the kool aid

No breath of fire, mega man, or Sakura

Looking forward to this one

Heart of China is the only one I’m familiar with. Glad to see them doing something with the old sierra catalog.

All we know for sure is there’s gonna be a bunch of ai, for better or worse, and we don’t even know for sure what

There’s some parkour girl game that just came out too. I don’t think it’s this one! 😂