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IGN: "Xbox Game Pass Is Having its Best Stretch Ever"
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Topher
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Or don't click on the thread
PropellerEar
Member
It's not 75-80
Morelike 70-75
Oh give me a fucking break with this line. What goalposts? At the time these comments were being made, there was absolutely a dearth of first party or strong content on XGP. That this is now going to be cleared up - largely driven through acquisitions - doesn't change history.
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Topher
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Topher
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Weird to start out his article with such a bitter warrior line. Game media is spending way too much time on twitter.
ReBurn
Gold Member
The media is playing Twitter and the warriors are playing Metacritic. The rest of us are just out here trying to play games.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
While you’re waiting, the rest of us are enjoying the day 1 releases on game pass.Hey look, after last Friday's Phil Spencer thread the bingo came up with your usual 'Game Pass is the GOAT'.
If you buy it Day 1 at full price that is. Which people almost never do. The game will be on sale in 8 weeks.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Me while playing atomic heart on game pass
then hifi rush and wolong
Just a rumor for now. Seems extremely unlikely to me as well.
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Cyberpunkd
Member
I have enough to play for the next 5 years. Work and family and other hobbies apart from gaming do that to you.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Cool story guy. Then I’m not sure what you’re waiting for, if not the great selection that game pass offers on a monthly basis. But you do you buddy. Meanwhile, I’m gonna enjoy Atomic Heart, friend.
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PropellerEar
Member
Ok scores, but not good enough apparently.
Topher
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Not good enough for what?
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
To exist in the upper pantheon of gaming, where the real games are.
PropellerEar
Member
Isn't it obvious, for the guy I replied to.
Considering the need to round up.
Topher
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Not so obvious or I wouldn't have asked. If "not good enough" is about being a few ticks off in a metacritic score then I wish I hadn't.
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SportsFan581
Member
One of those periods where you struggle to find time to play all the interesting titles. Good times for the green rats.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
There is legitimately a good amount of both new and notable games coming to both the sub services.
2023's Q1 is already much better than all of 2022 in terms of variety and quantity of releases.
PropellerEar
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Topher
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Astray
Member
The big problem with game ratings is how the game reporting industry started out as a form of promotion for products rather than as a consumer advocate.
As such you get very weird reactions to a game getting a 7 that you genuinely wouldn't get if you gave the same rating to a movie or a book or a car.
As for Atomic Heart, my pet peeves from what I've seen of the game is the cringe as fuck vending machine character. That's genuinely what turned me off the game.
As such you get very weird reactions to a game getting a 7 that you genuinely wouldn't get if you gave the same rating to a movie or a book or a car.
As for Atomic Heart, my pet peeves from what I've seen of the game is the cringe as fuck vending machine character. That's genuinely what turned me off the game.
DragonNCM
Member
Wo Long, Redfall, Lies of Pi, Starfield, Frorza & many more, looks good to me.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Yeah no, one hit like hi fi rush doesnt make up for a full calendar year lacking any new triple a games from microsoft. Once they start putting out games like hi fi rush on a regular basis then we will talk. Whenever i bring up microsofts inability to release games the only response i get is “well the value of gamepass blah blah blah”
Robb
Gold Member
Definitely! Hellblade 2 would be the cherry on top
fred420170
Member
I buy plenty of games on Xbox. Just picked up hogwarts a few weeks ago, awesome game btw. I also love GP it's the best deal for 14.99/mo. It's already paid for itself this year and it's only Feb. People also forget or don't know that most new releases have a have a 10% discount if you have GP and you buy it. haters gonna hate..
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
It's been a good stretch but not nearly good enough if they're interested in growing their marketshare. They need tentpole AAA exclusives to bring in customers. Hi-Fi Rush is amazing but it's not going to register as far as hardware sales/subscription numbers go.
On a personal level I've been extremely happy with the service though. Best value in gaming.
On a personal level I've been extremely happy with the service though. Best value in gaming.
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That's most of people biggest issue.Too much to play.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
bingo bango
I trust steam reviews more which are from people who actually paid for the game more than biased critics.Also, Metacritic user score is a joke as anyone can leave a review and it can easily be review bombed.
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ChorizoPicozo
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those meta scores are the most accurate representative of the game's quality.
mrmustard
Banned
I have no idea why it scored so low. Loving this game, to me it's a 85.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
ChorizoPicozo
Member
is a good game. you cannot ignore the performance issues and design flaws. it has similar scores to Daya Gone for example. that ia what a 70/100 means.
TheGodfather07
Member
Those are just the smaller games. We know theres much bigger games coming like avowed, starfield, hellblade 2, fable etc..
Hopefully we get 1 or 2 big games per year from Microsoft until the end of the gen now.
StueyDuck
Member
We haven't played any of those games.
Right now those are thee two games that ign is basing their hypothesis on.
Talkin Hawkin
Banned
And all it costs to play those games is $15 a month.
PropellerEar
Member
What are the critics biased for In this case?
TheGodfather07
Member
They can only go on what's currently available. It's a little on the light side for sure but that discussion has been done to death.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
This thread is about Gamepass. A subscription service for games. In this context, It doesn’t matter if the games comes from Microsoft directly or from a third party, as long as there’s great content for subscribers.
Feel free to go whine about delays and first party stuff in another thread, but this is about a service that’s brought us Hi-Fi Rush last month, Atomic Heart last week and WoLong next week. That’s excellent value for my money.
Read the damn thread titles next time.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I don't know how anyone could say game pass hasn't been strong every year. But hey, that's just me maybe.
Helghan
Member
I never buy games unless I really want to play something day 1. For example Hogwarts Legacy I bought, but otherwise there really is no need to buy new games. There is more than enough great games on Game Pass. At least for my taste, and my life. I can't play 20 hours a week anymore, so it's not like I'm able to play all the great, and good games and "finish" Game Pass.
SportsFan581
Member
That's also my favorite thing about the subs, just trying new things and finding things that you otherwise wouldn't have jumped on. The general variety of the first-party output has been quite good to, they are really trying to do a little bit of everything.
Russia bad so this game sucks.
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ShadyAcshuns
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What about the Persona games? Pretty sure ign gave P5R a 10.