Gaming Xbox Series X|S
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What?
Could you not be possibly more Black Mirrored than you are right now
It's a bit weird because I almost feel like I'm not really getting the value of the subscription. Sure if I was 18 years old and could play games for 10 hours a day, but having a full time job, a family and a partner with caring commitments, I don't get the time to play through as many games as I'd like. Just on my list to play at the moment I've got the Hitman games, Danganronpa 2, Nonary Games, Omno, Bugsnax...All that will probably take me to past Christmas. And that's before I get to the games I actually own.
Absolutely. I actually went to my favourite restaurant the other day and they had added my favourite dessert to their menu, and I remember thinking at the time that they were absolute cnuts because I didn’t want to be able to order something else I liked as it meant having too much choice.
Don't be too harsh, surely MS are looking after these teams!
I mean, no chance anyone is working for shite wages and longer hours only for someone to then not play that product because they have too much choice...No way they have bought out a company and then got angry about games not ready when they should be, no chance of that. Meanwhile no chance of releasing dross onto the subscription based service but dressing it up as the best thing eva!
Let's be reasonable about this now. Absolutely no way Sony or Nintendo do this kind of thing too, and no way people actually fall for it and moan about too much choice...
I mean, no chance anyone is working for shite wages and longer hours only for someone to then not play that product because they have too much choice...No way they have bought out a company and then got angry about games not ready when they should be, no chance of that. Meanwhile no chance of releasing dross onto the subscription based service but dressing it up as the best thing eva!
Let's be reasonable about this now. Absolutely no way Sony or Nintendo do this kind of thing too, and no way people actually fall for it and moan about too much choice...
Ahh thats why there is no longer a single big hitter exclusive scheduled to hit this year on Xbox because theres just too many games on gamepass
Crikey, I kinda wish I had enough time to play games as some of you do to bitch about them!
Agree with you @DavelinaJolie
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Crikey, I kinda wish I had enough games to play as some of you do to moan about too many of them!
You know, i'm kind of glad xbox don't release any games so i have more time to bitch about the old ones
Kind of astounded that a throwaway thought generated so much snide c*ntery.
Enjoy continuing your sanctimonious wanking over these threads.
Enjoy continuing your sanctimonious wanking over these threads.
We will.
You enjoy paying so little for a service you think you should be paying more for whilst simultaneously thinking they should be doing less with!
Consumerism is a hell of a drug
I thought it was a good thing, I've got so many games to hand I can't play them all (and I would really like to have that time available to me). Instead I get those assholes trying to show how cool they are with their ironic console-warring pissing all over this thread, even a fecking admin is in on it. Part of the reason I've mostly stopped posting in here is because they just get in the way of decent discussion.
I'm sure they'll be all "have a sense of humour" and all the other rubbish that those kind of trolls come out with to justify their shittiness.
Well, I don't take offense to this post as you surely can't be talking about me with the "omg! console warring!" stuff
So that in mind, I will direct you to your original post and try to see why perhaps we are having a little fun with you.
You brought it on yourself with your "Gamepass is so great; it's actually good they keep releasing shit games on it because I have no time to play them."
It was a bit a lighthearted rib and you took it far too seriously.
Nah it's the usual snide c*nts being snide cnuts and pissing all over things for the sake of it. If you want to support that, enjoy it.
As I said the "have a sense of humour" card.
You're a sensitive soul aren't you?
What discussion did you think your comment would generate? At least @Alock1 would have had a bit of banter about it because he knows deep down Gamepass will be the death of the industry.
Yep. Usually it's obvious where the joke is - and I've no doubt it was meant as one - but it felt a bit like a pile-on today, which was a tad weird to see.
Anyway I digress because I still agree with your original comment. I had a situation the other day where I finished one game (Mass Effect Trilogy) and immediately went onto game pass to see what else was available. It struck me after a minute that I've still got Paradise Killer to beat and Scarlett Nexus installed on my HDD. There's times when choice is good - when you've got nothing to play - but when you've got a back catalogue already adding more games/feeling the pressure to play can become a bit of a burden (speaking completely personally of course).
How do you fell about loud women on game shows?
We need a new pariah!
Oooh this a new level of devil's advocate. Well played
Oooh this a new level of devil's advocate. Well played
Glad you're impressed
There's absolutely nothing wrong with them adding better games of course - and I prefer when they do - but part of me feels content when I don't see a game I don't immediately want to play.
The main reason is largely because the nature of the service is ephemeral and they don't always keep the ones I do want to play. As an example, I'm still worried they'll take A Plague Tale off because it's been up for ages and I've not yet got around to it yet. It kinda means having to prioritise, which is admittedly both a flaw and positive thing (dependent on how you see it).
It's a completely different mode to when you own a game and can play it now, in three months or in six years time. Whenever.
Thankfully the adds have been a bit crap in recent months so I haven't had to worry so much
What's a bit odd is that it's okay to pay for a service for fun, then want then to restrict that service for others because they have more time for more fun..
Yet it's not ok to have fun on here for free, which takes far less time.
I mean, there's some boomer confusion going on.
Yet it's not ok to have fun on here for free, which takes far less time.
I mean, there's some boomer confusion going on.
Well that's the thing. I read it as @DavelinaJolie speaking from their perspective, nothing about the service at large.
I agree otherwise
Glad you're impressed
There's absolutely nothing wrong with them adding better games of course - and I prefer when they do - but part of me is happy when I don't see a game I don't immediately want to play.
A big reason is because the nature of game pass is ephemeral and they don't always keep the ones I do want to play. As an example, I'm still worried they'll take A Plague Tale off because it's been up for ages and I've not yet got around to it. Part of this service does mean having to prioritise, which is admittedly both a flaw and positive thing (dependent on how you see it).
Thankfully the adds have been a bit crap in recent months so I haven't had to worry so much
You should look at my original response to divajolie over here.
You are literally in an episode of Black Mirror
"It makes sense to me to have worse products, because if we have too much good then that's bad for me!"
(BTW I kind of get what you are saying, I'm obviously having a little fun. However I'd argue, they don't have to take those games off the pass to accommodate new, the reason they do is still to get some sales but mostly to bring them back later. It's all very cynical. But all in all, I'm poking a bit
).This is pretty much why I've stopped buying games, I'm under no illusion that Game Pass isn't perfect and could present longer term problems for creators, but it is capable of filling up the gaming time I have. I find it frustrating when I see a stack of games waiting to be played and simply not enough time to get into them (first world problem I guess). I've been reading with envy my friends talking about Elden Ring, it seems like something I'd really enjoy, but then so does Bugsnax, and one of those I don't have to pay additional money for (and like a lot of people, that has become much more of a concern this year).
Have you calmed down now, Brange?
Of course, it was just a bit too good of a set up so I had a little fun
In my defence, the boomer confusion line was a double meaning and a little self-deprecating
But, I enjoyed the hissy fit from Davina nonetheless
Right now yes, I am in a bit of a sensitive place, and talking about things I enjoy matters more to me now than it has for a while because it is my bit of headspace.
Try going into a thread you're interested in and just seeing this tediousness over and again. It got pretty tiresome and has lead to me feeling discouraged from contributing in here. My comment wasn't intended to generate discussion, why bother?
Regardless of that this is what they've all been angling for and why they keep coming in here with no aim of actual discussion themselves. Now you're all gaslighting in earnest and acting like it wasn't provoked, enjoy yourselves.
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@DavelinaJolie while there is a thread that is specifically for console wars and deriding PlayStation or Ponies on the PS5 thread could lead to a thread ban most of the mods on this site are PlayStation fans so it seems to be fair game for Ponies to come over here and laugh at the Xbots without sanction.
On to the delays. They are all fine by me. I have never known a game be delayed that didn't need it so get the game right and release it when its ready. Personally I wouldn't set a release date in stone until you know that you have a highly polished game with minimal bugs but I realise that game development is a business.
I'm looking forward to both games and am willing to wait as long as is necessary to get a quality product.
I don't exclusively play exclusives so have plenty to play while I wait.
On to the delays. They are all fine by me. I have never known a game be delayed that didn't need it so get the game right and release it when its ready. Personally I wouldn't set a release date in stone until you know that you have a highly polished game with minimal bugs but I realise that game development is a business.
I'm looking forward to both games and am willing to wait as long as is necessary to get a quality product.
I don't exclusively play exclusives so have plenty to play while I wait.
Oh do shut up
(no seriously, don't anger the mods...I've seen what Damo does behind closed doors...)
Sniper elite 5 I know it's more of the same, same setting etc, but it fecking works!
I know it's more of the same, same setting etc, but it fecking works!Sniper elite 5
The gaming equivalent of those cheesy terrible b-movies that are surprisingly fun to watch.
Has anyone played Unpacking? Its weirdly relaxing and scratches my OCD itch of making sure everything is put neatly away
It’s lovely.
I have actually been wanting to sell one of my consoles not because I needed the money or anything but because I’d want to reduce my backlog and have fewer games to care about.
I will probably never get down to this though as I have GPU paid until 2025 and a big collection of PS4/PS5 games in my library that I could not sell, as well as significant collection of Switch games also bought digitally that I would have no use for. But at least I am restricting myself to buying only 3 new games a year now, which doesn’t actually go far when subscription services keep adding games I want to play. I somewhat miss the days of PS2 where I had to save up for several weeks before I got the game and then played it until there was nothing more to do in that game. To an extent even in PS3/360 era I was able to keep it clean.Ooo Jurassic World and Sniper Elite for me.
Although I’m also in the not getting to play much now group.
That in a year doesn’t too bad. Depends if you’re paying monthly or got a good deal I guess.
Ignore the children who live for games.