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Been playing Jurassic World on Game Pass the last couple of days. Bought it on PS4 a year ago and did some dabbling but dicked around deliberately releasing dinos to ravage my guests! I then parked it in favour of other games till now.

Taking it more serious now on the XSX and on the verge of 3 starring the 3rd island to open the next one. It’s fun and challenging now

I'm playing through The Touryst. This game looks fantastic. The aquatic ambience reference as well.

Squinty wrote:I'm playing through The Touryst. This game looks fantastic. The aquatic ambience reference as well.

Yeah,I quite enjoyed it. Got all achievements except the arcade score one. Beaten 2of the 3 high scores but just can’t do the last one.

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Coming Soon

MLB The Show 21 (Cloud and Console) – Available Now
Phogs! (PC) ID@Xbox – April 22
Second Extinction (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – April 28
Destroy All Humans! (Cloud, Console, and PC) – April 29
Fable III (Cloud) – April 30
Fable Anniversary (Cloud) – April 30

Leaving April 30

Endless Legend (PC)
For the King (Cloud, Console and PC)
Fractured Minds (Cloud and Console)
Levelhead (Cloud, Console and PC)
Moving Out (Cloud, Console and PC)
Thumper (PC)

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Slim pickings but I'll give thse 2 a go once I get time.

I guess we were kind of spoilt last month.

Disappointed that Moving Out is leaving It's a great game. Was debating buying the DLC, so now I'm kinda glad I didn't Will try and pick it up in a sale at some point.

You can’t get it right every time, I guess.

Just deleted For The King, which I never got round to starting. It’s been on GP for nearly two years. The worrying thing is that Void Bastards is also coming up to two years. I don’t want that to go.

rinks wrote:Just deleted For The King, which I never got round to starting. It’s been on GP for nearly two years. The worrying thing is that Void Bastards is also coming up to two years. I don’t want that to go.

Good lord, it’s been 2 years already? Good game that.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:

rinks wrote:Just deleted For The King, which I never got round to starting. It’s been on GP for nearly two years. The worrying thing is that Void Bastards is also coming up to two years. I don’t want that to go.

Good lord, it’s been 2 years already? Good game that.

Great game. Gives me a real 16bit / Amiga / Britsoft vibe which I really like.

Looks as though sony blocked game pass for resident evil 8 - no surprise, with their marketing deal. I am hoping we get a few big day one third party game pass games before halo, which i expect to be delayed until late 2023.

gamerforever wrote:Looks as though sony blocked game pass for resident evil 8 - no surprise, with their marketing deal. I am hoping we get a few big day one third party game pass games before halo, which i expect to be delayed until late 2023.

Halo to be delayed another 2 years? Eh?

Bertie wrote:

gamerforever wrote:Looks as though sony blocked game pass for resident evil 8 - no surprise, with their marketing deal. I am hoping we get a few big day one third party game pass games before halo, which i expect to be delayed until late 2023.

Halo to be delayed another 2 years? Eh?

Not officially, but they know they can’t get it wrong as i presume it will follow the destiny model going by the name. I just hope it actually looks next gen, because those videos last year made it look like a high res 360 game!

Battlefield 6 looking like it will hit Gamepass and Halo Infinite will not be delayed. It's already been stated as to be the base line for 10 years, with Single player campaigns being released into it. The free online mp is GaaS though but with the stellar job 343 are doing with MCC in this regard, I've high hopes for the mp.

Photek wrote:Battlefield 6 looking like it will hit Gamepass and Halo Infinite will not be delayed. It's already been stated as to be the base line for 10 years, with Single player campaigns being released into it. The free online mp is GaaS though but with the stellar job 343 are doing with MCC in this regard, I've high hopes for the mp.

Yeah, they have to release something even if it’s not the whole package. I’ve always said that MCC would have been better if they’d released it bit by bit. Concentrate on getting one part perfect first, instead of the mess they first let out.

rinks wrote:

Photek wrote:Battlefield 6 looking like it will hit Gamepass and Halo Infinite will not be delayed. It's already been stated as to be the base line for 10 years, with Single player campaigns being released into it. The free online mp is GaaS though but with the stellar job 343 are doing with MCC in this regard, I've high hopes for the mp.

Yeah, they have to release something even if it’s not the whole package. I’ve always said that MCC would have been better if they’d released it bit by bit. Concentrate on getting one part perfect first, instead of the mess they first let out.

MCC was an absolute disaster and now, after many years and lessons learned it's one of the finest collection of remastered games around. There's still room for improvement, no server based campaign co-op and the absence of Halo 5 on PC but what it is now compared to launch is almost unrecognizable. The free season passes, the new skins, armour sets and name plates you can earn if you want. They even went as far as putting in a toggle if you don't want to see any additional skins on other players.

All these things plus the new monthly communication updates they are doing with Infinite (and also for over 2 years now with MCC) along with re-hiring original Bungie halo legend Staten to lead this game means they are doing all the right things.

Photek wrote:

rinks wrote:

Photek wrote:Battlefield 6 looking like it will hit Gamepass and Halo Infinite will not be delayed. It's already been stated as to be the base line for 10 years, with Single player campaigns being released into it. The free online mp is GaaS though but with the stellar job 343 are doing with MCC in this regard, I've high hopes for the mp.

Yeah, they have to release something even if it’s not the whole package. I’ve always said that MCC would have been better if they’d released it bit by bit. Concentrate on getting one part perfect first, instead of the mess they first let out.

MCC was an absolute disaster and now, after many years and lessons learned it's one of the finest collection of remastered games around. There's still room for improvement, no server based campaign co-op and the absence of Halo 5 on PC but what it is now compared to launch is almost unrecognizable. The free season passes, the new skins, armour sets and name plates you can earn if you want. They even went as far as putting in a toggle if you don't want to see any additional skins on other players.

All these things plus the new monthly communication updates they are doing with Infinite (and also for over 2 years now with MCC) along with re-hiring original Bungie halo legend Staten to lead this game means they are doing all the right things.

I haven’t played it for a while, but I definitely get the impression they’ve polished it into something brilliant.

The PC client for MCC is still a bit wonky (and I've made my thoughts on some of the visual changes well known!) but overall it's a great collection now, a real nice time capsule of the franchise.

I've not touched the multiplayer side of it at all though, these ongoing "games as a service" shooters just don't appeal and it seems like they've gone down that direction with it?