I'll do you a fantastic deal of 19.99 and a bucket of chicken.
they said it's gonna be free last night
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Phantom Dust |OT| Out of the ashes, into the Dust
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I'll do you a fantastic deal of 19.99 and a bucket of chicken.
I thought that was out of preview, I'm guessing its still just World of Tanks only?
Barrel Cannon
Member
Can't wait to try it out tonight. Time to dust of my XB1
They do. As all those sales go live and new releases. But some they can do manual also.
and KI.
Some games aren't released until someone presses a button. In this case it would be Adam Isgreen. He used to press the button for KI as well. It will be out today.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
One of those rare times I'm actually envious of Xbone / W10 owners. Lucky devils.
Small suggestion for an OP edit, but this video is (albeit older) a much better informational introduction to Phantom Dust than Austin Walker's barebones take on it.
Giftofgab24
Member
It's only 5:35 AM on the coast where Microsoft is located. Let them get some coffee and get into the office first guys and gals.
The wait is killing me tho.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Gonna get on this as soon as I get home from work. Can't say no to free.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
Is this game good for someone who isn't really into RPG type games. But can quite like some action orientated 'numbers games' if they have good mechanics?
I think in 2 hours.
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
There are no stats to level up. It's all about building a balanced deck of skills. The numbers games are in the skills' damage, mana cost, cooldown, number of uses, etc.
Give it a try.
Gai Murakumo
Member
Will download when I get back home from work.
Above all else, it's a good action game with a neat deckbuilding customization layer.
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
My only fear is that people get turned off by the slow single player mode. The AI isn't particularly great either. It's less Halo tier campaign and more... Hearthstone innkeeper tier haha.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Still not up? It's 4:00 PM here.
deadscreensky
Member
Absolutely. It's not really an RPG outside of maybe the basic campaign flow (you talk to NPCs and get missions from them). The actual combat is fundamentally action. You're dodging, attacking, and moving around like any normal third-person action game.
tired_inspector
Member
Finally! The game is a masterpiece. Can't wait to try its multiplayer.
It's only 7am where MS is. That said I'm a bit surprised they didn't flip the switch at midnight so people could already be playing it, but hopefully it won't be much longer before it's up.
YoshiMax
Member
We have seen before how they can make titles become available across world regions at appropriate times (I.e 00:01 release day) which makes these even more annoying. It's 3pm in the U.K. now why do we have to wait? Could've appeared on the store when Major announced it and unlocked appropriately across regions. I get it with BC and we know when (if there's anything) Majors Twitter with announce and they'll become available but these ones are a bit frustrating especially if you have poor download speeds.
Bit of an entitled rant for something that's free but I'd like to see them take it onboard.
Bit of an entitled rant for something that's free but I'd like to see them take it onboard.
TheGreenArrow
Member
Can't waittttt for this. It was my second most played XBL game after Halo 2.
It's one of the greats.
It's one of the greats.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
ANyone have a direct link to the download page? I'm at work and cannot get on my Xbox at the moment, and cannot find the game on xbox.com
ManUtd78
Neo Member
Just saw it's free no price great news
Still waiting on that, it's not up on the store yet.
Should be within the hour, hopefully.
Thanks, I'll add it in.
CaptainCook
Member
me and an old friend destroyed in this game back in the day. Real excited to see how it holds up.
Reineldinho
Member
Never played the game in he OG Xbox, but those seems VERY difficult. I'm up for a challenge
Stabby McSter
Member
oh what it's not out yet? :<
i wanna know how it performs on pc
i wanna know how it performs on pc
Dam.. I wonder how they'll keep track of that. Like, if I don't get it my first time, does that mean I'll never be able to get the achievement? I'll be pretty upset if so lol.
deadscreensky
Member
I'm definitely worried some of those achievements could require entirely restarted story mode runs. That could be incredibly tedious. Phantom Dust is not a game designed for speedruns!
sixteen-bit
Member
I'm curious too. New Game+? lol
Fox Mulder
Member
Whenever they manually do things, it's not until after noon on the east coast. Lazy left coasters.
I WISH I controlled that button, but sadly, I do not. It's a distributed system that propagates the title across servers all over the world. I have no idea how it works.
Achievements did pop for me this morning around 7AM Pacific, which means it's likely working its way through the system right now.
On the no-retry achievements - that just means you can't hit that "retry" button or skip them for the secondary achievement. Exit back to the underground and start the mission again and you can earn the no-retry achievement if you don't die. Honestly, only the final one is the real challenge, which is why it's zero-points (but has a cool concept art award for it!).
Also, if you're new to Phantom Dust, I'd suggest not reading that achievement list - there's some moderate spoilers in there!
deadscreensky
Member
Oh, excellent. And yeah, I can imagine that last one being rough.
Good advice on not reading the achievements, too.
chronic_archaic
Member
Played some games with a friend - think I'll power through the rest of the day so I can get into this right when it drops. Too much hype.