Xbox & Microsoft News/Discussion

[Animalmother]

Forza Motorsport 7 is on Games Pass today, was going to install and saw it was 98 GB. Fuck that

[Achtung Englander]

...and its shit

handling on Forza games are some of the worst I have played. Nothing like the Dirt series.

[Animalmother]

EA Play is now part of Game Pass and it's a bit underwhelming to be honest. Great if you like sports titles (there's 25 of them..) and the rest is a smattering of Battlefield, Need for Speed and a few other bits and bobs. I'm sure more titles will be added later but it's all a bit meh.

[Drarok]

Seems there's only 89 games added from EA Play according to the bottom of this page?! There's a handful in there I want to try, but it's pretty underwhelming.

[Drarok]

...and its shit

handling on Forza games are some of the worst I have played. Nothing like the Dirt series.

I don't think it's fair to say it's shit, it's just a very different style of game and target audience. If you want to do proper rallying, Dirt makes sense. If you want to blat around a track while drinking and chatting shit with mates, Forza's yer man.

[Animalmother]

Jedi Fallen Order was added as well so that's not so bad.

[Animalmother]

Control is on Xbox Game Pass now, they snuck that one in.

[Raid]

Halo Infinite has been delayed until Autumn 2021. That's almost an entire year after it was supposed to be a launch title. Oof.

https://www.engadget.com/halo-infinite- ... 26926.html

[Wrathbone]

I've no interest in Halo, but if moving the release date back a year allows them to get it right without flogging their staff to death then fair play to them. Other studios would probably crunch for a spring release.

[Raid]

Yeah, I have no horse in that race so it's not a problem for me (and if it does avoid crunch, even better), but it's a little embarrassing for Microsoft that their flagship title for their new console generation has been put back 9 months. It's a good job the hardware team have done an apparently excellent job with things like backwards compatibility, because having literally no new software at launch could have been a killing blow.

[DjchunKfunK]

Seems like a sensible idea to me, allows them time to get things right.

In other news xCloud is coming to PC and iOS in spring of next year.

[Raid]

So Microsoft announced a new Perfect Dark game last night. It's called "Perfect Dark", because imagination is dead.



I was actually a fairly big fan of the last PD game, the 360 launch title PD:Zero, even though I think critics didn't think much of it at the time. Together with Project Gotham Racing 3, I played it pretty much to death due to the dearth of titles available in the months after launch, but I really enjoyed the weapon variety and the way you selected your loadout prior to a mission.

[Animalmother]

Skyrim Special Ed and Greedfall now on Game Pass

[Achtung Englander]

So Microsoft announced a new Perfect Dark game last night. It's called "Perfect Dark", because imagination is dead.

At least they did not call it Perfect Dark X

or

PerfX Dark

To be played on my XBox X Series X

[Animalmother]

https://gamerant.com/battlefield-6-xbox-game-pass/
Battlefield 6 available day one on Game Pass maybe?