Topic: Official Push Square Xbox Thread

@Ralizah sounds like you are addicted to the rewards Ral. Keeping achievements for the dailies is the number 1 sign.

Three great leftfield recommendations for everyone in the thread;

Turnip boy commits tax evasion - 4 hours
Opus echoes of starsong - 12 hours
Chained echoes - 45 hours

All of them are great!

@themcnoisy Definitely. I'm even consistently hitting the daily achievement for collecting a trophy.

Microsoft Rewards is, far and away, my favorite reward system that I engage with. I wish Sony and Nintendo had an equivalent.

lmao

Xbox gamers can't catch a break lately.

In before the “it’s fine as it’s free on Gamepass” comments.

I’m sure Gollum will have something to say about that, as much as I wish otherwise.

Sad to see as Arkane was one of my favourite developers although I am very unlikely to ever play an Arkane title again.
I do wonder if some of the core talent left (the new studio made Weird west), fingers crossed for Xbox fans that their next title is back to top form.

This is all I have left you can't take this from me 😂

👏 bravo!

It's absolutely amazing how fast my hype for Xbox went up and then down during these past few years. I was completely on board with Game Pass initially but now it's become completely uninteresting to me due to lack of first-party releases. Even when new releases come out, like Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall, I just don't feel like playing them because my hype has completely died down now after having waited over a year for something new to play.

It doesn't help either when you see a review like the above one. We'll have to see what the rest of the reviews say about Redfall.

Redfall was already looking pretty bleh in preview footage, so it won't be a huge surprise if it doesn't review well. Although I guess we'll know for sure tonight.

TBH I really like Game Pass. I think it's a great value for what it offers. Especially considering I can get it for free with my Microsoft Rewards points. Microsoft's first-party support still sucks, but as anyone who owned an Xbox One can probably attest, the same has been true for a while now.

I just really, really hope Starfield turns out well. As a Wii U owner, I know what it's like for your preferred platform to collect Ls like raindrops in a thunderstorm.

64 on Metacritic so far. A 6/10 from Pure Xbox.

edit: nvm, it's down to 62 now. The number is in freefall as more reviews flood in!

At first I was like... hey a 6 is actually kinda better than I expected, then I saw almost all of the major publications are still unscored, so be prepared for a massive swing in one direction.

I’ve only managed 15 mins so far. Stuck on a boat. Lots to read and pick up, so far so par for the course. Hopefully get some more time with it later, couldn’t give a toss about review scores to be fair.

Not a bad score for what seems more like a 'Beta' release - another unfinished release that needs more work. It was becoming more 'obvious' more time was 'needed' when 60fps Performance mode was 'delayed' and it seems they still couldn't 'fix' all the basic bugs/glitches in time...

I don't really see the game going under 60. Generally anything that's not unplayable tripe stays above that mark.

The Xbox Series X subreddit is pretty angry at the moment.

I would like to find the guy who bought a physical copy to see if that 60fps sticker thing was for real, though.

@Ralizah I would be too if I was still an Xbox fan at all. The empty promises continue now that the wait for the major turnaround continues since Redfall is a bust in the grand scheme of things.

@KilloWertz The scary thing is that, without the Zenimax acquisition, they wouldn't even have had this to look forward to. Or Starfield. Or Hi-Fi Rush.

All my friends who I usually play these sorts of games with bounced when they saw the scores, so I decided to try Redfall solo and an hour was enough. It has a lot of stuff that I really like in games, but just feels genuinely unfinished. Some things like the weird power point slide show cutscenes you can write off as a style choice, but you can't really do the same for how bad the game feels, how poor the animations are or how the AI barely reacts to anything. Feels like its still a good year away from being ready, but I guess Xbox Suits didn't want to push it any further given Xbox is kind of a wasteland for first party stuff, but I dunno if releasing something that feels half finished is the better option.

I have no idea how true this is but apparently people have checked Phil Spencer’s Xbox profile and he played Redfall for 37 minutes before uninstalling. In fairness to him, that is 12 minutes longer that one of my work colleagues who had been excited for the game all year.