Hello! I’ve struggled with the rolling Gaming Thread as it’s full of PS and PC noise that I don’t need to read, and with the success of the Switch threads I feel like maybe there’s a slot in the community to fit in an Xbox dedicated thread.
What with the Series S being very high selling and the inherent value in Game Pass, along with other Xbox things in the coming months and stuff, this might make sense?
Anyway, I am going to try and steward this, and so like the Switch thread, here’s a place to add your Gamertag and Username, so that we can add folk to play games and, probably, something like Halo Infinite as we go forward.
Anyway, this will either be useful or fall flat on its arse. Eitherway, hello.
wow this is good timing i just resubscribed to Game Pass about an hour ago
i have realised that there is no reason for me to get a Series X any time soon after playing Halo Infinite on my Xbox One for the past week or so - maybe sometime next year when they’re abundant/i have more cash.
currently downloading Forza Horizon 5, Back 4 Blood, and Quake (!)
username is GRMUK, will add it to the spreadsheet!
need to try it on my One S though, as it means i can basically get the Series X version of Forza instead the One S, which blows my mind a bit, but i’ve not yet tried it so not sure how well it works/what difference that makes
I reckon the escapists and tropic 5 are vying to be the next game I download, play for an hour, realise that a mouse and keyboard would be much better for this type of game, and abandon for more Slay the Spire.
i’m tempted to try Cities Skyline. Always been tempted.
i tried Two Point Hopsital on the Switch and loved it, so tried it on the Xbox and by god the X and Y buttons being in different places really fucks me up
yup I got myself an Series S and game pass recently having not owned a console or really played any games since my playstation 1 at uni. games have moved on a bit it seems…! have been downloading and playing loads from different genres to see what I now enjoy. I thought i’d be really into the simulation style ones like Snow Runner, but turns out i dont have the patience and Forza is more my thing. also liking the more story based things like Artful Escape.
i downloaded this, and upon starting the tutorial and realsiing it needed split idfferential controls, i sacked it right away haah so glad i didn;t buy it on switch
City Skylines actually works pretty well. It’s a bit fiddly to get your head around for the first few things you do, but after that it’s pretty well thought through.
Probably worth watching a ‘starting a city’ video on YouTube first actually. Would get you off to a good start and sort out the potentially off-putting stuff.