Super Craig Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Looks like they're adding Quake for Xbox and Quake 1-3 for PC today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 8 minutes ago, Super Craig said: Looks like they're adding Quake for Xbox and Quake 1-3 for PC today. ERMAGERD Time for a mother frickin' replay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ry Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 49 minutes ago, deerokus said: I see TSW 2 is now on game pass, and more importantly has a series X patch (and some new dlc). Guilty pleasure game that for me, similar chillout experience to flight sim but less polished and a bit more of a game. Ran like a dog on PS4 so I'm probably going to dive back in with this X version. As for Omno, there have been a few undemanding indie games like that running badly on series X, Cris Tales is fixed now but had brutal screen tearing. It's maybe some kind of SDK bug. Is it 60fps on SX? I wanted to like the first game but gave up because it ran like shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassidy Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 TSW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosegrinder Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Just now, cassidy said: TSW? Train Sim World. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradigor Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Is TSW on cloud too? Can't remember which one I have installed on Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Do 71 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, bradigor said: Is TSW on cloud too? Can't remember which one I have installed on Steam. It is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerokus Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 22 minutes ago, Ry said: Is it 60fps on SX? I wanted to like the first game but gave up because it ran like shit. I'm assuming so. And aye it's on cloud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassidy Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 26 minutes ago, moosegrinder said: Train Sim World. Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gerbik Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Man, glad somebody asked. I was like 'The Switcher'? 'The Star Wars'? It was said like it was a common initialism. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradigor Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 @Mr Do 71 sweet, thanks. Will be great to unwind at times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble9 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Super Craig said: Looks like they're adding Quake for Xbox and Quake 1-3 for PC today. Just had a quick 20min blast on Quake on Series X. It’s bloody lovely! EDIT: For anyone that gives this a go (and you really should, it’s a superb FPS) and finds things a little too speedy for their liking, well I’ve just taken a look in options and it turns out that “Always Run” is set to ”On” by default!! Oh and that 20min quick blast is now a 1h and counting “those chores can wait till tomorrow” session!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaveDisco Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 After playing 12 mins, the medium, etc I’m coming to the conclusion that any third party that launches on day one is because it’s proper 7/10 tedium. Barring (some) 2D indie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiper Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Nah, Humankind is proper 7/10 brilliance,* so that doesn't quite hold up. * as in, it's got a few issues with polish and onboarding, but the core is magnificent; the opposite of the 'polished but mediocre' 7/10 that is worth nobody's time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPL Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 1 hour ago, LaveDisco said: After playing 12 mins, the medium, etc I’m coming to the conclusion that any third party that launches on day one is because it’s proper 7/10 tedium. Barring (some) 2D indie. It’s weird that they’re heavily promoting these games. I know they’ve got some big hitters coming in the shape of FH5 and Halo Infinite, but I do wonder why they’re wasting their time pushing such obviously average stuff. Hopefully it’s just a tactic to counter all the ‘Xbox has no games’ nonsense and once the better titles start coming more frequently, these lesser games will get less of the marketing budget. It’s definitely made me more cautious of expecting Psychonauts 2 to be any good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majora Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 The previews of Psychonauts 2 have been glowing. It's disappointing that the likes of The Ascent, The Medium and 12 Minutes turned out below expectations but you're comparing games from either unknown indie devs or devs with a poor track record to a game from a dev with a proven track record behind it. And a game with a well regarded prequel at that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footle Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 7 hours ago, LaveDisco said: After playing 12 mins, the medium, etc I’m coming to the conclusion that any third party that launches on day one is because it’s proper 7/10 tedium. Barring (some) 2D indie. Last Stop certainly wasn’t tedious. What it was is “different”. Outriders was also a cut above the medium, the ascent. what maybe differs is that we’re all playing a much greater quantity of smaller games at launch. I’m not worried about psychonauts 2 at all. It’ll have some jank, because every double fine game has some jank, and it’ll probably be a 7/8 out of 10 game: but you play double fine games for the ideas, not the polish. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosegrinder Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Absolutely just shit me pants. My Game Pass has expired so I did the 3 years and upgrade thing, but the upgrade wouldn't work. Slight panic that something had changed over night turns into part relief/part eye roll that some Xbox Live services are fucked. Again. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeJay Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 10 hours ago, JPL said: It’s weird that they’re heavily promoting these games. I know they’ve got some big hitters coming in the shape of FH5 and Halo Infinite, but I do wonder why they’re wasting their time pushing such obviously average stuff. Hopefully it’s just a tactic to counter all the ‘Xbox has no games’ nonsense and once the better titles start coming more frequently, these lesser games will get less of the marketing budget. It’s definitely made me more cautious of expecting Psychonauts 2 to be any good though. My take on it is that these games are exactely what they expect of them, but the higher profile and expectations that comes with being on game pass relatively inflates expectations with customers and reviewers. I play and watch a lot of indie games and I would say that the indie games that appear on game pass are in line with most very good indie releases, in terms of quality. These games are generally much better received by the community and reviewers when they come out of the blue without the marketing push behind them, which just raises expectations unreasonably. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harsin Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 It’s a shame Last Stop the actual decent one of the recent batch of Day 1 releases got bugger all marketing fanfare, while they concentrated on duffers like The Ascent and 12 Minutes instead. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bradigor Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 The ascent is far from a Duffer. I actually found it a superb day but I'm also went into it without expecting a full on masterpiece so when I played it was special. I honestly think some people go into games especially indie games expecting groundbreaking masterpieces and that is a shame where they are just enjoyable games and that should be enough. I don't know maybe it's just me but apart from the medium I've liked most of the so-called letdown from the past few months so I don't know 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradigor Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Sorry for any grammatical errors or with capitalisation I'm using voice to text because my vision is so poor 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Can't believe how good some of the features in the gamepass app are. I've been streaming Slay the spire to my phone playing with touch controls, it even worked on 4G while waiting in a car park. I think my Nintendo switch is becoming redundant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waggo Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 14 minutes ago, bradigor said: The ascent is far from a Duffer. I actually found it a superb day but I'm also went into it without expecting a full on masterpiece so when I played it was special. I honestly think some people go into games especially indie games expecting groundbreaking masterpieces and that is a shame where they are just enjoyable games and that should be enough. I don't know maybe it's just me but apart from the medium I've liked most of the so-called letdown from the past few months so I don't know Totally agree with this. Finally finished The Ascent last night, and while the final mission was tough as hell and I was totally relieved to finally beat it, I still thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCarrot Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 12 hours ago, Wiper said: Nah, Humankind is proper 7/10 brilliance,* so that doesn't quite hold up. * as in, it's got a few issues with polish and onboarding, but the core is magnificent; the opposite of the 'polished but mediocre' 7/10 that is worth nobody's time Yeah, I’ve only played around 50 turns or so, but Humankind seems really good so far. (And if anyone else runs into the issue where the “how many 4X games” tutorial setup screen disappears when you go back to the main menu, I think all this screen is doing is setting one or two of the options in the Settings menu, it’s under something like “tutorial level”, so you can just start a normal game and then set that option to whatever you like afterwards and still get the tutorial.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flub Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 12 minutes ago, MrCarrot said: Yeah, I’ve only played around 50 turns or so, but Humankind seems really good so far. (And if anyone else runs into the issue where the “how many 4X games” tutorial setup screen disappears when you go back to the main menu, I think all this screen is doing is setting one or two of the options in the Settings menu, it’s under something like “tutorial level”, so you can just start a normal game and then set that option to whatever you like afterwards and still get the tutorial.) Cheers! I had that problem. I'll take another look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plissken Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 52 minutes ago, bradigor said: I honestly think some people go into games especially indie games expecting groundbreaking masterpieces and that is a shame where they are just enjoyable games and that should be enough. This. A million times this. It constantly amazes me how many people just don't like games unless it meets a spec chart. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harsin Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 Ah cool beans we're doing the whole ascribing psychological motivations to people for the sin of not long liking a piece of subjective media as much as you. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 As I get older, my tolerance for annoying jank has mostly cratered. And that's even with lockdowns putting us all under videogame filled house arrest. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therearerules Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 I only expect my groundbreaking masterpieces from indie games tbh. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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