Xbox Game Pass - Manor Lords, SW Jedi: Survivor, Another Crab’s Treasure, Harold Halibut, Botany Manor, Diablo 4 out now

This has appeared on the GP App for a pre-install on the 29th June.

LewisD wrote:Just seen this on Reddit. Looks very cool.
A tracker/counter for gamepass

https://gamepasscounter.com/

Wow, Microsoft are drastically underselling themselves when they advertise "over 100 games" on Game Pass.

I keep finding myself almost paralysed in terms of what to play on this, there are just so many games on offer that I keep finding myself scrolling through the list and thinking "gooseberry fool I might like a whole bunch of these but I just don't know!"

Basically I need to get better at just taking a punt and trying stuff!

Somehow i have never played Limbo. It must be time.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Somehow i have never played Limbo. It must be time.

It's brilliant and only about 3 hours long.

Iron harvest is brilliant. Typical it’s on gamepass after I bought it a few months back. I didn’t think there was any chance of it making it to gamepass.

How does everyone go about picking what they will play on Game Pass then? Do you stick to things you know or try and dabble in random choices?

I'm trying to make more of a conscious effort to get more out of the service as I feel like I struggle to play anything because I'm overwhelmed by the choice sometimes!

I've started downloading random things among some safe bets

And then on the games menu, selecting the "Surprise me!" Option to let the Xbox choose what I should play that evening.

For some unknown reason I always pick games that take 100 hours to complete even though I only play around 5-10 hours a week tops. The games I like the look of are usually the ones that are least suited to my lifestyle. But onwards with Yakuza: LAD.

Yeah I always end up going for the larger experiences as well which makes me worry I'm missing out on more of the short but fun stuff!

And I had completely forgotten about the "surprise me" feature so that's a good one to check out as well

I didn’t even know there was a surprise me option :lol:

Aye, it's the box in the very top right corner:

I listen to a lot of the recommendations on here, or games that I have heard of.

Because there is so much choice, I tend now to give a game a couple of hours/sitting to hook me. Otherwise it gets deleted. This has happened with battletoads, maneater, snowrunner (3 sittings), west of dead, void bastards.

Some games stay, flight sim, forza.

I tend to try most of the new games that get added.

more heat than light wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Somehow i have never played Limbo. It must be time.

It's brilliant and only about 3 hours long.

I have actually played Limbo using only the mouse :lol:

, as most of you know my disability means I can no longer use a controller so I use a bit of software called AltController to create custom on-screen controls for various games (mostly intended for driving games but with a little creativity can be adapted to other genres).

Basically made some overlapping squares for left, right and jump that I move the mouse cursor around to navigate and mapped the right mouse button to grab/interact with obstacles.

Worked surprisingly well.

Ironhide wrote:
more heat than light wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Somehow i have never played Limbo. It must be time.

It's brilliant and only about 3 hours long.

I have actually played Limbo using only the mouse , as most of you know my disability means I can no longer use a controller so I use a bit of software called AltController to create custom on-screen controls for various games (mostly intended for driving games but with a little creativity can be adapted to other genres).

Basically made some overlapping squares for left, right and jump that I move the mouse cursor around to navigate and mapped the right mouse button to grab/interact with obstacles.

Worked surprisingly well.

It’s amazing this functionality isn’t included with games tbh.

The combat in Dark Alliance is particularly unsatisfactory which isn't great for a game that seems to have combat as the focus.

Bertie wrote:
Ironhide wrote:
more heat than light wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Somehow i have never played Limbo. It must be time.

It's brilliant and only about 3 hours long.

I have actually played Limbo using only the mouse , as most of you know my disability means I can no longer use a controller so I use a bit of software called AltController to create custom on-screen controls for various games (mostly intended for driving games but with a little creativity can be adapted to other genres).

Basically made some overlapping squares for left, right and jump that I move the mouse cursor around to navigate and mapped the right mouse button to grab/interact with obstacles.

Worked surprisingly well.

It’s amazing this functionality isn’t included with games tbh.

Its more the fact that a lot of games seem to actively prevent the use of such software that I find annoying.

Mostly ithings like the mouse cursor being 'locked' into the game window or not being visible during gameplay (Wreckfest for example removes the cursor during races which makes it impossible to play) but there's also things like the game not showing up in task manager so the software can't detect it (you essentially have to manually 'pair' every new game you create a control scheme for).

I thought I'd just come in here and announce some breaking news that Game Pass is awesome.

I use Ultimate across PC, Series X and my Phone.

It is unquestionably the greatest value for money product in the gaming industry today.

And I agree with what SEP said earlier - they really do need to bin the 100+ games bit when advertising Game Pass now as it seems like they've passed the 300+ mark at this point. (Maybe not unique titles?)

twitter.com/xboxgamepass/status/1409919600947458050

Still got this one damn achievement for The Messenger, and I’m losing it after today. I’m going to try to crack it tonight, but I’m not optimistic.

Xbox Game Pass - Manor Lords, SW Jedi: Survivor, Another Crab’s Treasure, Harold Halibut, Botany Manor, Diablo 4 out now

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