XboxEra Community Hangout |OT12| The Dirty Dozen

[Hue]

@Sparda3g

What in the world is going on in Steam? A game (?) named Banana is going….bananas. It’s over 500,000 players peaked.

Seems to be a money spinner, people selling the banana skins for real money.

[RolzRavz]

@toddborn

…e resonate with me. Follow that with Control which also was a mixed bag and felt like a divergence of Remedy into more eclectic storytelling. Finally, Alan Wake 2 drops and is totally art house. I got halfway through the game, put it down, and now I can’t get back to it even restarting the game. I’m just bored. The game is tedious. Combat is clunky. A number of gameplay elements feel more gimmicky than fleshed out. Maybe this is in part to my taste shifting, but Remedy just doesn’t do it for me anymore. I totally respect what the game is attempting and there’s obviously some brilliance to the writing, but the delivery and overall package do not resonate. Not sure what the general opinion of the game is. I know critically it was beloved. I never foresaw myself being down on an Alan Wake game.

I gave up as well. I just felt like it was trying to be like a resident evil style game and I didnt enjoy that.

The first game is on of my fav games and it was a perfect mix of action, horror, story and other crafts.

[BadMoodJones (Prem K. Singh)]

@RolzRavz

I gave up as well. I just felt like it was trying to be like a resident evil style game and I didnt enjoy that.

The first game is on of my fav games and it was a perfect mix of action, horror, story and other crafts.

I’ve never played Alan Wake and enjoyed Quantum Break and am making my way through Control right now. For Alan Wake, do you think I ought to play the 360 version or the remake?

[Daniel]

@Daniel

… Update time!

#3 Call of Duty (0) #5 Minecraft (-1) #10 Forza Horizon 5 (-1) #11 Fallout 4 (-5) #15 Overwatch 2 (0) #18 Fallout 76 (-4) #19 Diablo 4 (+12 big jump after the recent season update) #21 Sea of Thieves (-2) #26 Starfield (+2 not bad for a mixed game that doesn’t move the needle) #28 Hellblade 2 (+3 this increase was only over the last week which is grea to see it being this high as it’s a very short game #33 Halo Infinite (-8 ) #34 Forza Horizon 4 (-7) #36 Skyrim (-2) #38 Forza Motorsport (+2) #41 Elder Scrolls Online (+1) #49 Halo Master Chief Collection (-5)

it me back with another update (AUS)

• #3 Call of Duty (0)
• #5 Minecraft (0)
• #11 Forza Horizon 5 (-1)
• #14 Fallout 4 (-3)
• #17 Overwatch (-2)
• #20 Diablo 4 (-1)
• #22 Fallout 76 (-4)
• #23 Sea of Thieves (-2)
• #26 Starfield (0)
• #31 Halo Infinite (+2)
• #32 Forza Horizon 4 (+2)
• #36 Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (NEW)
• #39 Skyrim (+3)
• #43 Forza Motorsport (-5)
• #43 Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (NEW)
• #45 Halo Master Chief Collection (+4)

[Kals_Els]

In the US Microsoft has 14 games in the top 50.

• #40 Skyrim
• #38 CoD Blops 2
• #34 CoD Blops Cold War
• #32 CoD Blops 3
• #31 Halo Infinite
• #27 Starfield
• #26 Sea Of Thieves
• #22 Fallout 76
• #20 Diablo IV
• #17 Forza Horizon 5
• #16 Fallout 4
• #13 Overwatch 2
• #5 Minecraft
• #2 Call Of Duty (I’m guessing Warzone)

Unfortunately ESO has been dropping out of the top 50 a lot, it does tend to come back during events and new content. MCC hasn’t been on the list for a while either and Hellblade 2 is out if it as well.

Sony has 1 game on the list in 2 spots

• #33 MLB the Show 24
• #10 MLB the Show 24

[RolzRavz]

@BadMoodJones

I’ve never played Alan Wake and enjoyed Quantum Break and am making my way through Control right now. For Alan Wake, do you think I ought to play the 360 version or the remake?

Remake is good. There are no major changes to the gameplay

[Sparda3g]

https://x.com/klobrille/status/1801948327010844757?s=61&t=UF3sdM-kacs488qXlpVRPQ

That’s one way to advertise.

[Staffy]

https://x.com/JezCorden/status/1801964208910705026

[Sparda3g]

https://x.com/klobrille/status/1801976070167470186?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

A complete package game? What’s that?

[SheepDip]

@Sparda3g

A complete package game? What’s that?

I kinda hope they take Horde back to basics. I do enjoy every iteration of Horde but it would be cool to go back to the Gears 2 base, just you and the enemies.

[Kals_Els]

@SheepDip

I kinda hope they take Horde back to basics. I do enjoy every iteration of Horde but it would be cool to go back to the Gears 2 base, just you and the enemies.

It should be a mode for Horde, not the only mode.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

That was a good sleep

[Staffy]

Gotta say that so far this game The Bookwalker is kinda cool, unique. What a shame I find out about this game now, it’s leaving Game Pass today.

[BRiT]

@SheepDip

I kinda hope they take Horde back to basics. I do enjoy every iteration of Horde but it would be cool to go back to the Gears 2 base, just you and the enemies.

And they need to keep in the BoomShield exploits too!

[toddborn]

This… doesn’t seem like a bad deal. I haven’t touched any of these games.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

For anyone who had been asking, barring a weekend miracle we will not have a review for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree at embargo.

[Sparda3g]

There was no E3 – but Microsoft won it anyway | Opinion

[Staffy]

Well then…

Woman busted smuggling 350 Nintendo Switch game cards in her bra — Chinese...

[BadNews]

@toddborn

…This… doesn’t seem like a bad deal. I haven’t touched any of these games. IMG_78451290×2796 443 KB IMG_78461290×2796 2.98 MB IMG_78471290×1071 223 KB

I think the issue with the service is ubisoft games drop in price quickly and not many games in between launches. At least with EA if they were to do this service you would have sports games to help some of the droughts

[Andodalf]

@BadNews

I think the issue with the service is ubisoft games drop in price quickly and not many games in between launches. At least with EA if they were to do this service you would have sports games to help some of the droughts

lol Ea was the first to do this