Topic: Official Push Square Xbox Thread

@BAMozzy i have already spread the news on Nintendo Lifes xbox thread too but you're right both Push Square and Nintendo Life should at least do a article saying it's back so more people know

@KratosMD This is amazing news! Thanks for letting me know buddy, very much appreciated

Did anyone see the Xbox show today? They showed off 3rd party titles for the Series X.

@Jessiex I didn't know about this, was it any good? Quite intrigued by the X. All of the backwards compatibility and games I missed this gen.

I watched the show and I can understand why some may be 'underwhelmed'. The big showcase game that we were 'promised' gameplay for ended up showing several very short scenes stitched together - more a teaser trailer than game play. The first game however, Bright Memory Infinite, had a 2min 'gameplay' that obviously had better lighting than we have seen and 'Scorn' really caught my eye as a fan of the artwork of HR Giger.

Overall, it was OK. Its perhaps what you may expect from E3 when Sony or MS are revealing some of their 3rd Party partnerships - inc some of their 'Indies' and of course what you may expect at the start of the generation when games started out targeting current gen hardware. I think people expected 'more' - expected to be blown away by visuals and see a lot more actual game-play from AAA games that were built for next gen.

We still haven't seen too much from MS's own studio's as far as actual Series X gameplay - a bit of Halo and Hellblade 2 and Sony too haven't shown a lot either - Godfall didn't really jump out. From my perspective, I see a LOT of new IP's coming with a few sequels - Dirt and Madden - but that's more games than I knew about before today.

@BAMozzy Scorn and the new one from Bloober Team look great but I agree there wasn’t an awful lot. It’s weird considering I’ve never owned an Xbox that I actually look forward to their game news now because of Game Pass PC.

@nessisonett I don't think its weird at all. It doesn't matter whether you have Game Pass on PC or mobile (when xCloud comes to all mobiles), its still Xbox - ALL of Microsoft's gaming division is Xbox and the Studios are Xbox Studio's (not Microsoft Studios anymore). If you have access to their games on any platform, regardless of whether that's on a console, PC or mobile, especially as a Game Pass subscriber, then it makes perfect sense to look forward to seeing what games will be coming to that service/platform.

My platform(s) of choice is console but Xbox isn't 'just' the console and hasn't been for a few years. Sony could offer something similar with PSnow - their latest games on PC and Mobile and I wouldn't be surprised if that was Playstation - something more than 'just' the console. I know PSNow does offer 'new' games and can be on other platforms (or was) but it could be like Game Pass and you wouldn't need to own the console to play 'Playstation'. I wouldn't think it was weird for someone with a PSNow subscription to be interested in watching PS State of Play even if they had no intention of ever buying the console.

I found it underwhelming. I can't wait until Sony has something to show.

I was very disappointed with yesterday's X Box Series X showcase, they showed From Software on the screen of all the devs for the console, but didn't show any Elden Ring gameplay footage or even a new trailer. What do people think the reason for that was? And where, and when will we get footage of said game?

Just picked up the limited edition Cyberpunk Xbox One X from Game for just £259.99, it includes the games and first expansion when it launches too. Great value but very limited if anyone wants one and for some reason it's nearly £200 more from Amazon

Any Fable fans here? (of the original game) What were your experiences in Albion like?

@KratosMD Hm, I have Game Pass PC so not every game is on there but I think the majority are. I mean, I’m playing Bloodstained on it at the moment!

@KratosMD Nice! I’d feel a bit weird using Pure Xbox despite literally never owning any Xbox console though 😂😂

The Xbox One X has been discontinued but they are going to continue making the Xbox One S. I wonder whether the PS4 pro will suffer a similar fate.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2020/07/the_xbox_one_x_has_offi...

@KratosMD cheers for thinkin of me mate! I'd normally say two game clubs is too much for me but observation definitely looks like my speed so I will check it out next week! I sort of followed the thread when it started but didn't want to commit because I had trouble committing to the ps one. I guess I'll just play the games that I can/want to from both clubs!

I'll post my thoughts on observation next week then when I've had a chance to run through it! Cheers again

@nessisonett just throw in with the Xbox crowd too! There's a few users from NL and PS over there and I believe there's a thread on Windows 10 games and regular articles that include the PC game pass updates. At the end of the day, without trying sounding too much like marketing douche bag "Xbox is a platform available across our ecosystem of Xbox one and Windows machines" hahah

@ralphdibny Ah yes, the ‘Xbox ecosystem’ that totally doesn’t sound weirdly shady like a cult 😂😂

@nessisonett we aren't a cult honest, we have tax exempt status! 😂

Great that Microsoft are adding project xcloud for the games pass games in September. Microsoft have been so progressive with adding value to the system over the last year.

Afte being a PS player for so long took me a while to get used to the sbox controller but I now prefer it to the playstation controller and so great just to swap batteries rather than having to use the cable to charge it.

@blacklivesmatter or look at it like this;

Xbox have just taken down the 12 month xbox gold. On xbox gold for around £40 a year you would get 20+ games to play and keep. Over say 6 years that's 120 games of good quality. They are purposefully scaling that back to push the more expensive xbox game pass which will inevitably house 10-20 good games on a rotation filled out with crap to make the 100 games.

This is Bad for gamers.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Fable on PS5? That is a MS exclusive. It was already reported a few days ago that there would be no Elden Ring footage, so the chances of that showing up were very slim.