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I’m just glad it’s not just another streaming thing at least. Whatever it is or isn’t…

Definitely had my eye on it.

I hope that doesn’t mean it’s a licensed soundtrack tho? I guess it fits with the title but I hate that. Just leads to stuff getting delisted. Meanwhile there are talented bands that would love to write some songs to sell to a game soundtrack.

They need to do more with the classic Sierra and infocom games. It was nice to see them get some of them out in that retro collection. But they’re just streamed games, which is kind of sad.

I’d like to see some RPGs. Breath of Fire comes to mind, but I’d take something new. Would be cool to see mega man, or some other type of retro revival with pixel art too.

Haven’t had a puzzle fighters game for ages either.

Also where the hell is Sakura for god sake?

@beltmenot I don’t pay much more for a year of ultimate

Volcano Princess looks neat

And happy to see against the storm on console finally

Arcade paradise is really neat. I always meant to play it again on game pass, but I guess I won’t!

Sounds like a great packaging of games that were never great and still aren’t

The sky is the limit.

How about a pixel art management sim of some type?

I’m thinking management, not a builder. But the builder route and track building could be done too.

Wheel world looks really neat

Why would you lie to us? Aren’t we your friends?

It would have done better if they’d put it on game pass. It’s launching way too late, and it’s mostly competing for the casual and god of war crowd at this point. And Xbox kind of has that base covered.

It’s not much of an RPG, so that group probably doesn’t care, or already played it. “Action adventure” is a full category. I personally have little interest.

FF16 is about as much an RPG at this point as Christmas is a summer holiday (except in Australia)

Guess it’s probably not leaving game pass if they’re releasing dlc

Konami needs to do more than collections with their classic franchises.

@themightyant I’m at the final dungeon now and haven’t done any endgame content! What should I do first and what should I save? I haven’t even done that frozen whatever place yet. Or the relationship quests. I was going to do it all before finishing the game!

Jeez story mode was already too easy. They should have just made parry/dodge windows a separate option. I wanted easier parries for normal mode without all the damage reduction of story. Now it’s even worse.

Should have added a separate option for dodging and parrying, or just made an even easier difficulty level.

Yikes the 5/10 about stressful time management is alarming 😆

I’ve had good feelings about this game tho. Probably another game pass banger.

@Ilyn would love to see a temple of elemental evil remaster.

Neverwinter nights 1 does have the pre rendered backgrounds, and polygonal characters. 2 went to full real time 3D for everything. It was pretty at time of release, but it’s been a long time since then! Some of the campaigns are pretty great and some are meh. I don’t remember which is which…

I’m excited for demon school.

I’d be more excited for neverwinter nights 2 if obsidian had anything to do with the remaster.

Something for everybody kinda/sorta. No turn-based RPGs, though, or turn-based games in general, is a bit disappointing. (Besides Persona 4, of course, which, yeah--will play)

The Grand Hotel one probably sounds the most interesting, but I'm curious about Double Fine and Don't Nod's games as well.

@FraserG Pocket Card Jockey is great. They've had a few good, interesting games.

These days, they can't even seem to get Pokemon right (although I loved Arceus), but I guess we'll see! I too am a little nervous about the "technical" action combat. Not trying to play sekiro over here.

I guess Game Freak isn't a Nintendo 1st party or 2nd party studio?

So who's doing the voices and writing and stuff since it's not the original guy?

@TapeLoader I'm not sure the idea is to lose the console focus so much as to be a console that can also play some Steam stuff, similar to how a Steamdeck can play some Steam games but obviously not at high spec.

In the case of this current handheld, it's meant to be a Steamdeck competitor that can also play Game Pass and other storefronts.

@TapeLoader I'm saying a cheaper "PC" that runs Xbox stuff, along with Steam, and isn't tethered to the whole monitor/mouse/keyboard thing. It would have a console focus and wouldn't cost what a PC costs. And similar to the Steam Deck, it would be a performance target that would hold system requirements in place.

It's happening regardless of what we may or may not think, and it'll be similar to this device. Whether it runs a new generation of Xbox stuff, who knows, but it'll at least be backward compatible with previous Xbox generations.

@TapeLoader You can level the same complaints at this handheld then, but here it is happening. It's not a terrible idea. It's a good one.

The idea is it would be cheaper and more standardized than a PC, similar to a Steam Deck. Valve at one point was floating the idea of a Steam Box.

Gotta play the first one before October-ish then! Jeez. Busy year.

Not on Game Pass, though, right? Obviously they want to sell the DLC to Game Pass players, which makes sense.

I'll see how good it is and how long it is. And what it costs.

Been looking forward to this one. For some reason I thought it was turn-based, though, so I'm a little disappointed!

I don't get why people are so annoyed with the naming. Ally is fine. Ally X for the more powerful one is fine.

Seems like a good move to me.

This is what they should do for their next console, make an Xbox that runs Windows and Steam but is still a console and Game Pass machine.

(Nintendo should do the same, release a TV Switch 2 for cheaper than the useless, massive, no battery life "portable.")

@TruestoryYep Well you have plenty to choose from then.

Not much I was into, but that’s usually the case from AAA trailer fests.

I’d be super interested if it was turn-based like Like a Dragon 7 and 8, but the action brawler thing is kind of old for me after so many games.

Case of the golden idol
Dungeons of hinterberg
Neon white
Tchia
Magical delicacy

All fantastic games. I didn’t try kunitsu-gami, but I’ll need to.

Didn’t dungeons of hinterberg just migrate to standard? When that happens does it reset the clock? It would be weird for it to go to standard and then leave a few months later.

Hoping for game pass to save me $70

Nothing I’m very excited about which is fine. I’m backed up.

The Alters is interesting tho and might end up on my list

That’s a surprise… I think it’s cool that they’re not doing a ton of changes to it (apparently).

Some interesting stuff in here! Hope we see some on game pass.

For me personally I’d prefer screenshots in roundups like these. I don’t have the bandwidth (mentally or data plan) to sit on my phone watching trailers in public 😂

I get most people prefer trailers I guess and have great data plans and whatever

Totally agree. I don’t think this is specifically an Xbox issue tho so why the “on Xbox” epithet? Seems like it applies equally to everything.

@Jenkinss what are your other recent faves? For me, Clair obscur, chained echoes, and sea of stars. And metaphor!

Oops I was thinking of crypt master. Dang it. Maybe this is good too, just not the same!

Wow! I had been skeptically thinking it might end up on the next generation of systems. Guess not! Maybe we’ll see it in 2027

And then they’ll do a special edition in 2028 for ps6 etc

@Beetlebum91 representation isn’t nonsense.

I was wondering how I ended up owning this.

I’d still like to play it!

Gotta finish Clair obscur! It deserves more dedicated play time from me. I’ve been playing it since it came out and loving pretty much every moment.

After that, been meaning for ages to play Dragon quest 3, dungeons of hinterberg, and so many more.

Crypt Custodian!! Glad I didn’t buy it! Saves me some money!

Also very interested in the alters. And didn’t play against the Storm on pc so am very interested in that as well.

Another excellent month

I’m not interested enough to watch it. But I’ll definitely look at the headlines. I’m sure there will be lots of little things I’m interested in. Outer worlds is the only big thing I care about so far.

As good as it might be, I can’t imagine spending that much on a controller.

I just want something wireless that’s affordable and isn’t the stock controller (which would be fine but it gives me a hand cramp—only controller that ever has… and my xbox one controller was fine but is dead)