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So it’s in the Xbox app on iOS? How do you download the beta version? My version was updated 6 days ago, but I don’t think that’s the one. Don’t see it on the app.

Sounds interesting. The copilot on the Bing app can be used for about the same stuff, although that one wouldn’t have access to your Xbox profile and stats.

DQ3 is my plan for June.

DQ1&2 is my plan for all my rewards points in October! Not sure if I’ll play it right away or wait til June next year to play, but I’ll definitely buy it right away.

Can definitely understand why you guys don’t include prices. Must take ages.

That’s mostly more like AA stuff—not that I mind!!

Well I mean if it’s gonna sell more than 3.3 million, it had to hit 3.3 at some point…

Definitely a great game! The further you get, the more you can see where they had to limit the scope. But that’s not a bad thing. That’s part of what makes it great.

Gotta know more about it first but probably not—if it did game pass and steam I might be interested! Might be more interested in a proper Xbox handheld tho.

What I’m really interested in, is if NeXtBox (in 2027 or 2028 or whatever) will be a windows pc, play game pass, play Steam, and do all my other pc stuff too.

Part of the issue is that act 1 is fairly polished, and the rest is not polished, in this Polish game.

Maybe it will get ironed out in a year.

@Fishticon no idea, but if there were a simple solution, I’d guess they’d already do it. Maybe it’s a licensing thing where they have the license to stream but not actually distribute.

For the people saying “why can’t it be downloaded,” they’d have to figure out how to make every game run on an Xbox. These are old games, DOS and Amiga and Atari. Each one would need a specific emulation solution. I’m not sure how they’re running them right now on their servers. It might be fpga for all we know.

The lone sega cd game has its original long load times.

Some games (police quest for instance) have a text parser input, which is pretty rough with a virtual keyboard.

In other games, the mouse moves way too fast! I think they fixed that tho.

I have a good internet connection, and it still lags and artifacts at times. I don’t notice any input delay tho, which is nice.

There’s a bunch of old Sierra games on here! Been waiting for them to do ANYTHING with those.

Wow. Definitely my personal goty for last year. That’s a big win for gpu.

They were at the right place at the right time and rode on goldeneyes coattails, which was also at the right place at the right time.

Well that’s a loss. She does good work.

The first area was magical for me. Learning how to do the quests, and sometimes the music was just perfect, plus that sort of rural sun-soaked grassland vibe it had going.

That said, it’s not perfect. The gameplay can be pretty simplistic, so it has to rely on strong narrative. Otherwise it’s just clicking on things, killing things, and clicking more things. The “detective” segments with Witcher vision are particularly simple busy work, but it still provides some variety.

Unless you rush the main story and ignore all side content, it’s a pretty big game to finish in a month.

Me personally, I was already playing Clair obscur (which has also taken me more than a month). Time is hard to come by. And I’m not sure I’ll immediately go into oblivion as soon as I’m done.

I still get roughly $20 free Xbox bucks monthly. Maybe a little less. That’s still a full priced game or so every 3 months. Or lots of on sale games, which is smarter.

It’s not made by the same team who made the first one and seems to have almost nothing in common with it. So i guess we’ll see.

I should’ve waited to play it. They’ve really added a lot of nice things.

I’d buy an expansion and play it, especially with all this new stuff.

Along with GPU and Microsoft rewards, I dare say my series X is the best value I’ve ever had in gaming.

I wonder if it all works correctly now or if it’s still worth waiting for more patches.

I don’t care about their AAAA disasters. But there are so many smaller games that would be easy to port, and they just didn’t. Saga Frontier remasters, Romancing Saga 2… I’d have gotten them day 1 if they were on the box.

“AAA” is wrecking the industry

That’s a lot of games.

Tactics is the only one I have any interest in

Got my eye on the alters for sure.

And kept meaning to try against the storm on pc, but I’m much more likely to try it on console.

Other two aren’t for me!

That’s a lot of games

@Utena-mobile I remember maple story and club penguin but not this one! I don’t think I played either of those either tho.

😂 never heard of it before. I’m a bit older tho. Maybe this was targeting folks younger than me back then.

@Kaloudz Golly, I wouldn't even know. A generation is a long time! I mostly like retro stuff, and I'm usually way behind the curve. Nothing springs to mind that would top this one, though. It's also hard because even many new games are still previous-gen. Baldur's Gate 3 is definitely this generation. There are also so many games I haven't played.

It might be this one, though. It makes a strong case for itself, and as much as I've liked a lot of other things, none of them jump up and seem to top it (except quite possibly Baldur's Gate 3, but that's also an entirely different sort of game and an entirely different sort of RPG).

@Kaloudz I saw that. The nerfs won't affect me much. I was hoping for some other changes, which they haven't made!

Don't forget about the Jennifer English Memorial Story Mode. I shamelessly use it for some of the optional bosses if I can't beat them in a few tries.

The thing I really want from story mode is the wider window for dodges and parries, but unfortunately the only way to get that, is to be in story mode (which also makes enemies hit like they are using nerf bats).

I'm not sure about game of the generation yet, but I seriously doubt anything else will come out this year that I like better.

Wayforward has sigma star saga, another updated gba title, coming soon too, and it’s awesome, a shooter rpg with overhead action/rpg segments.

Sounds good. Not really my thing at all, but maybe I’ll give it a try someday. I haven’t played the other new ones yet either.

@Kaloudz maelle is just a beast! I didn’t beat the chief tho, to clarify, just the mandatory arena battles. If you beat the last one with maelle you get the weapon in question “early”. This game is hard tho, and I suck at dodge/parry.

(Except for many battles that I cheese since maelle is OP)

@RegnumSolipsi yeah it was definitely not trying to do the elder scrolls thing or the Ubisoft checklist open world thing

Did you do all the side quests and find all the totem pieces? I’m not sure how anyone would do that under 60 hours. I liked the side quests.

@RegnumSolipsi avowed was short? It took me like 80 hours.

Clockwork revolution and outer worlds 2 are really the only things left I care about that will be out anytime soon

@Kaloudz I got it because I used maelle in the arena battles. Apparently. Wonder what I’d get for beating the chief then? Won’t know til the end of the game if ever!

I don’t think I’ve even used that skill.

I think they should let you change the parry/dodge windows from the accessibility menu rather than tying it to difficulty (except for expert). I don’t want to play on story mode just for wider windows.

They should also have an option for performance mode to automatically turn on just for combat to help with the timings.

And they should have a delay turn option in combat, not just skip turn.

Don’t suppose they’ll do any of that tho!

I’m not really interested in trying it.

Loved the banner saga tho

@Kezelpaso Woops! Probably smart on their part

For the two people who can actually make use of this and don’t already have GPU, still wakes the deep can be completed in a sitting or two.

Good to manage expectations.

We played games at 30fps for like 20+ years. Not sure why people get so stuck on “needing” 60.

Far be it from me to defend a GTA tho.

Wonder boy collection and g-Darius collection are my picks

and if I can have a third, puzzle bobble.

I bought my series X in 2022 to be a game pass machine. Microsoft rewards was the unexpected icing which lets me buy and play non-GP games too, plus a disc drive to use Best Buy credit. I haven’t paid for many games since.

It’s totally different than a PC, and much cheaper. I’d still like a cheap pc to run indie stuff that isn’t on Xbox, but I don’t have time.

@Brigurugi play I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and stop whinin

I bought it recently but haven’t played it yet, so you can thank me for its addition to game pass! I should have bought animal well instead, but then that would be on game pass instead 💀

@Ricky-Spanish it’s not an action game tho. This is an actual rpg.

Hope they take all the time they need. It should be there with Owlcat’s stuff, if not even Larian. Microsoft having all these rpg devs under one roof, they should be pumping out excellent hardcore rpgs.

Don’t rush. Hopefully this will just be one of many.