Xbox Game Pass

Cantona's Collars

Lord Spence wrote: »

For anyone wondering if the deal for the free upgrade to ultimate game pass is still available, It is. I just upgraded 2 years of gold to 2 years and 2 months of gamepass ultimate for €2 for my daughter Microsoft are nuts lol

My son's Gold expires in a week,I previously got the deal but jumped in too soon without stacking Gold before getting the Ultimate.
If I let it expire,can I start from scratch and get this deal?

sniper_samurai

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

My son's Gold expires in a week,I previously got the deal but jumped in too soon without stacking Gold before getting the Ultimate.
If I let it expire,can I start from scratch and get this deal?

I think you can restack and get ultimate, you probably won't get the €2 intro offer though.

gmg678

New games incoming:

October 3rd

•Dishonored 2


October 10th

•World War Z


•Yooka Laylee


October 17th

•Fallout: New Vegas


•Felix The Reaper


•Panzer Dragoon Orta

CatInABox

Don't forget, The Outer Worlds will be launching on Game Pass as well, on the 25th.

Jordan 199

sniper_samurai wrote: »

More stuff for Game Pass.


Dirt Rally 2.0

Dirt Rally 2.0 is worth playing. Tougher than the first one but very rewarding. Driving a Group B monster at the Spanish Rally is damn scary.

Max Mafioso

Think I read somewhere, probably in an email I got, that you now get 6 months Spotify Premium with your Ultimate Game Pass Sub

sniper_samurai

Max Mafioso wrote: »

Think I read somewhere, probably in an email I got, that you now get 6 months Spotify Premium with your Ultimate Game Pass Sub

It's up on Facebook, not sure if it is US only though.

sweetie

sniper_samurai wrote: »

It's up on Facebook, not sure if it is US only though.

It's definitely in the UK too. I assume it's only new customers though

ZiabR

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Dirt Rally 2.0 is worth playing. Tougher than the first one but very rewarding. Driving a Group B monster at the Spanish Rally is damn scary.

I must download this and give it a shot. I do like a good driving sim.

Birneybau

I've really gotten stuck into Battle Chasers:Nightwear and think it's fantastic. Been playing it for hours and hours today. Kinda a FF7 clone with a bootleg female Link in the lead but yeah, very enjoyable old school JRPG.

ZiabR

Birneybau wrote: »

I've really gotten stuck into Battle Chasers:Nightwear and think it's fantastic. Been playing it for hours and hours today. Kinda a FF7 clone with a bootleg female Link in the lead but yeah, very enjoyable old school JRPG.

This looks great. I have been looking for a new RPG. Was about to buy FF9 on Xbox one to play it again but I think I will get this instead.

Playing hellblade senua now, very creepy

Birneybau

bluewolf wrote: »

Playing hellblade senua now, very creepy

Very disconcerting altogether

ZiabR

bluewolf wrote: »

Playing hellblade senua now, very creepy

I thought it was an amazing game. Loved it.

It did give me a different perspective on people suffering from mental health issues and Psychosis.

Mickeroo

From a story telling point, atmosphere, visuals and sound design point of view I found hellblade amazing. As a "game" I found it a bit of a slog at times though tbh.

I had to take a break from it and moved on to ori and the blind forest. Didn't think I'd like the latter as much as i do.
I don't know if hellblade s was a slog or getting too intense but yeah, had to put it down for a bit. Don't get me wrong, i think it's excellent

skerry

Played a couple of hours of Vampyr, decent enough so far, been meaning to try it for a while.

WarpAsylum

bluewolf wrote: »

I had to take a break from it and moved on to ori and the blind forest. Didn't think I'd like the latter as much as i do.
I don't know if hellblade s was a slog or getting too intense but yeah, had to put it down for a bit. Don't get me wrong, i think it's excellent

Hellblade is a work of art, I loved it. But from a gaming experience perspective I could see why the jury might be out.

Ori knocked me for 6. I had no idea a platformer would grab me the way it did. It's just so charming and enchanting. A beautiful innocence to it coupled with fantastic and challenging game play. I can't wait for The Will o' the Wisps

maximoose

Just occurred to me this morning - I haven't bought an Xbox game since Christmas and still have had a never ending "to play" list and getting through great game after great game

Gamepass is incredible, love it.

Iseedeadpixels

Ah New Vegas we meet again

I'm hoping Outer Worlds can scratch the itch that fallout 4 and 76 failed to.

I just couldn't get into Hellblade. I had been looking forward to it and wanted to like it. I didn't enjoy its gameplay or emphathize with Senua.

marcbrophy

Deleted User wrote: »

I just couldn't get into Hellblade. I had been looking forward to it and wanted to like it. I didn't enjoy its gameplay or emphathize with Senua.

I played it last week for 2 achievements for reward points!
Turned it off straight after the 2nd one popped after getting to the gate for the first time.
I'd assume that's very early in the story, I was still in a tutorial anyway!
Finding it hard to want to go back, just keep turning on Fifa instead.

I might push through and see what happens

WarpAsylum

marcbrophy wrote: »

I played it last week for 2 achievements for reward points!
Turned it off straight after the 2nd one popped after getting to the gate for the first time.
I'd assume that's very early in the story, I was still in a tutorial anyway!
Finding it hard to want to go back, just keep turning on Fifa instead.

I might push through and see what happens

I know this is probably more to do with you not being into the game, but it got me thinking.

Does anyone have trouble getting around to games in their backlog because of online games? Like if you've got a competitive go-to.

For instance, I've got Metro Exodus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Ruiner, Bloodstained, FH4...all of which I am loving playing... just sitting there unfinished due to sitting down and going straight for Gears and Overwatch.

I just find the draw so hard to resist regardless of how much I want to relax into an offline game.

d31b0y

I sank over 3000 hours into CS:S when I was more into PC so... yeah, pretty much.

Mickeroo

Yeah it's a lot easier to sit and play a few games of overwatch or similar rather than commit to starting a new game.

rolling a new character is the best! i think i start too many games for it

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

I've really gotten stuck into Battle Chasers:Nightwear and think it's fantastic. Been playing it for hours and hours today. Kinda a FF7 clone with a bootleg female Link in the lead but yeah, very enjoyable old school JRPG.

And finished. Good 70 hours sunk into it.

Outer Worlds drops on Fri 25th. Looking forward to that.

ZiabR

Stellaris for me is incredible. The level of detail is crazy.

Birneybau

ZiabR wrote: »

Stellaris for me is incredible. The level of detail is crazy.

I found it overwhelmingly so

skerry

Outer Worlds getting solid reviews, looking forward to giving it a blast. Gamespot gave it 9 out of 10. Looks very Fallout but without the ancient Bethesda engine holding it back.

skerry

skerry wrote: »

Outer Worlds getting solid reviews, looking forward to giving it a blast. Gamespot gave it 9 out of 10. Looks very Fallout but without the ancient Bethesda engine holding it back.

Glad to hear. Fantastic that this is coming to game pass.

sniper_samurai

New list for Game Pass. Interested in trying After Party, looks pretty good.

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1186706518332317697?s=19

Subnautica is a great game. Not perfect but still great fun. I played it until the story line just abruptly stopped and I had no idea how to get it going again but was great fun up until then. I know I had to go somewhere and do something but could for thr life of me figure out what that was. A pity as I was really hooked until then.

Max Mafioso

I got Subnautica when it first came out in Game Preview, I really enjoyed it but havent played it in a long time now.
I was going to go back to it but then Atlas showed up and now my time is spent on that

skerry

Enjoying DMC 5 the last few evenings now. Decent hack and slash. Graphics are unreal on it, the facial animations on the recent Capcom game are next level.

Stone Deaf 4evr

skerry wrote: »

Enjoying DMC 5 the last few evenings now. Decent hack and slash. Graphics are unreal on it, the facial animations on the recent Capcom game are next level.

I have to go back and finish it, I love how over the top it is in the cutscenes, They're riding a very fine line between Cringe and cool, but they do it with such a straight face that its hard not to love it.

CatInABox

Finished playing through Guacamelee! 2 last night, a most enjoyable metroidvania game. Rock hard at times too, the secret chicken key levels had me near rage at times. Funnily enough, doing those before I finished the game meant that the final sections were a total cakewalk.

Also going through Bad North as well. It looked like it'd calm me down after bouts of Guacamelee!, turns out that wasn't exactly accurate. It's all grand for the first few levels, but in short order Norsemen are being dumped onto the island from all sides.

CatInABox

Looks like Rage 2 and The Witcher 3 are going to be announced later.

CatInABox

Nice, three Yakuza games are coming to gamepass in 2020

skerry

CatInABox wrote: »

Nice, three Yakuza games are coming to gamepass in 2020

Sweet. Have them all on PS4 but their super games. Did not expect them to make it to Xbox at all. Great to see they're getting a bit more adventurous with japanese titles on Xbox

CatInABox

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1195088800323686400

EDIT: A better tweet.

ShaneU

Witcher 3 being console only is a joke

Would have liked to try Remnants too

Rage 2 is there now for GamePass if you look for it in the store

CatInABox

It's rare that I'd give a flat out recommendation, but The Talos Principle is on Game Pass now. Folks, this is just a great game, get on it. Yes, it's from the studio that brought us Serious Sam, and no I didn't expect it either, but this game has a wonderful story line that explores what it means to be human better than any I've played since.

At the start, the puzzles are ultra easy, you'll get through them in no time, but soon enough you're juggling emitters, deactivating force-fields, avoiding drones all over the place. Eventually, at some point, in some puzzle, you spot something and say to your self, "hang on, I see something over there, could.... Could I hit that with....", and that's when your head will really start melting.

It looks very like the Witness which I wasn't at all keen on despite many saying in the main games thread that it was great. Talos Principle looks a lot less pretentious though in it's story???

CatInABox

Deleted User wrote: »

It looks very like the Witness which I wasn't at all keen on despite many saying in the main games thread that it was great. Talos Principle looks a lot less pretentious though in it's story???

Hmm... Tough one. I didn't think that it was pretentious, but I can't compare it to the Witness, as I never played it. It's basically two storylines, one with a voiceover from "god", and computer terminals that show you the back ground. Both come together eventually, if you get far enough/go off the beaten track enough.

The good news is that it's on game pass, so it won't cost you anything to find out, and you'll probably have a fair idea if it's for you after 30 minutes to an hour.

skerry

Looking forward to trying out Remnant now, have heard good things.

Stone Deaf 4evr

skerry wrote: »

Looking forward to trying out Remnant now, have heard good things.

same, only problem is that its supposed to be very strongly biased towards co-op play.