The Game Pass Thread

Folk will stop paying if it’s too much. And given how the Xbox ecosystem works, will likely sell their console and migrate to a new platform.

I think we’re nearing the limit I’d pay for Ultimate, but I do have the privilege of sharing that subscription with my partner, so it’s hardly breaking the bank.

Anyone played Flintlock?

Seen it get a rather harsh reception in a few places but thought I'd give it a whirl regardless.

The first hour is shite basically, but now the rift travels are opening up along with side missions, upgrades, new armour, skills and better enemy variety I'm quite enjoying myself to be honest. Usual AA jank for a game of this budget mind you, plus some decidedly last gen graphics to boot (they get better later on in fairness), but it runs well at least.

It's not brilliant or anything, but as Soulslikes go it's got one or two neat ideas of it's own and it's not ball achingly punishing (yet) for someone like myself who usually bounces off these types of games pretty hard.

Tbf this is just what Stadia should have offered in the first place.

Seemingly a growing issue with users myself included not being able to acesss Gamepass content despite having a subscription.

Seems to be related to subscriptions that auto renewed on or around the 19th July coinciding with the Crowdstrike outage.

Gamepass/Microsoft still say payment will be taken on the 19th, though this has obviously passed and access has been removed.

24 hours in, the fix users found works is re-subscribing at the highest tier of gamepass at the new rates. Why people are that desperate I'm not sos sure, but usual suspects are saying this is Microsoft trying to force the new higher prices on people.

Not ideal for Microsoft. I'm always open for a tenner Uber Eats voucher though!

I gave it 6.5 just to be awkward.
But yeah, it's perfect GP fodder and an enjoyable enough short linear experience in a world of bloated 60 hour+ games.

They're a three trillion dollar company, which apparently isn't enough to work out how to reliably download files to their own operating system.

The last boss was pretty funny. I guessed what was coming up and had a bit of cash to spare, so just filled my inventory with riot gun ammo and melted his health with the special shot.
Although I'd heard it was a bit frustrating and just started it on easy, so it was probably never going to be a hard fight.

It has been, I played it at launch and some choices were baffling like making health packs take something like 2-3 seconds to apply. These guys made Dead Space and for the life of me I was baffled as to why they made certain backwards decisions. I hear the ray tracing is still fucked compared to the ps5 version.

The telekinesis battery bar was one of the shittiest bits of visual design I've ever seen. The health bar was at least relatively legible, then there's just this vague "might be empty, might be full lol" attempt.

And yeah, the boss fights were universally shit. At least there weren't many of them though, and then they just repeat the same sub-boss a few times so you don't need to figure out new patterns.

Shadow warriors 3 is leaving GP middle of this month, its very much "but we have doom eternal at home" but its worth a play on GP as there is some fun but the new Wang is not very good

That should free up some space on my drive. I suck at it, got stuck at the chicken Yokai thing. Retry every couple of weeks and nearly there. But meh

Feels like they are trying to pace it out with the Activision games. Did they move all of Bethesda's games in one go?