XboxEra Community Hangout |OT13| The Bakers Dozen

I feel like they coming out this week with more info almost guarantees and earlier date for SoM. Could have easily waited to the DD but they didn’t.

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Perhaps but when? Avowed as of now is February 18th (even though Microsoft should move up the release date in my opinion) and Towerborne is supposed to be early 2025.

Even if it’s say April, not much difference between then and June. Of course, I don’t see a release date announcement until they’re three or so months out. Indiana Jones release date was at Gamescom 3 1/2 months before release.

It could just be that Microsoft wants to build interest for the game and doing it sooner rather than later is always a good thing. We’ll see.

However they plan the release dates it’s a good problem to have…

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Hopefully Fable manages to come out before the behemoth that is GTA 6. Nobody wants to release close to that.

It’s weird, I know GTA will be enormous but I really don’t get the appeal.

I loved Rockstar games years ago (GTA1 to 3 particularly) but it really feels like they’ve not moved on at all - RDR is slow and ponderous to the point of boredom, while GTA5 has controls that haven’t improved since GTA3 and they weren’t great then.

Maybe I’m just off trend as I also find BG3 a snooze-fest…

(Saying that, I’m still of the opinion that GTA6 is going to sell well but not have the legs of GTA5 as it’ll either have to stay offensive and please one side but be hated by the others, or stay subversive which if one side actually spots they’ll hate - unless it can thread the same line as South Park and just offend everyone while being subversive enough it’s actually liked)

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I’ll give it a try today with the controller - doesn’t work on the headset as there’s no dedicated sync button but got 2 already so not too bothered.

Could be useful for the controllers though, cheers

Yeah? Like, if it was last Bluetooth connected to my PC or phone it will default to that.

I don’t know why it’d be doing what your describing as it literally does the exact opposite of that for me.

For me, it still defaults to Xbox even when it last connected to PC.

Not sure.

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Random thought: at this point in the generation there should be a lot of beefy reveals at the The Video Game Award Show.

South of Midnight seems like a March 2025 release to me. :person_shrugging:t6: Also fine with Avowed (again) or SoM showing up at the D_D because I know there will be new stuff there as well. You marketing guys want marketing, there it is.

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Agreed, some candidates IMO are the next projects from 4A Games, Playdead and Ueda! maybe the next Fromsoft project too (Sekiro 2 published again by Activision?). Also are we expecting anything already rumored from Xbox at the show? :thinking:

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Switch 2 with all its launch lineup AND GTA 6 in the same year… hmmm… Any other game releasing in 2025 is primed to be affected by them. What if, everyone stops releasing games, let us finish our backlogs, focus on Switch 2 and GTA 6, and then continue as normal in 2026 :rofl:

Lol but I like new shiny stuff to distract me from my backlog :stuck_out_tongue:

https://x.com/xboxgamepass/status/1855973786547601437?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

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Today I am a very happy man and I really want to share it with all of you good people!

So basically sinds October last year I’ve been part of a dancing community/club, it’s for people who just want to have fun, connect, get out of their head and getting rid of any bad thoughts. A very nice lady who also attends these classes caught my eye a while ago, and I really started to like her, and I had a feeling it was mutual. But these things can be tricky and often in the past these thoughts of mine turned out to be dead wrong.

However, via the founder of the community I heard that this lady really likes me. I tend to delay things, but not today, it was time. So I asked her out to go to a comedy show and we’re going, this Thursday. For me personally this is a huge step, because i am not ashamed to admit I’ve been out of the dating “game” for an eternity. Looking forward to it a lot!

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Yeah, I can’t begin to tell you how much it helps to know this beforehand. Too many times in the past I could swear I was sure it was mutual and then it wasn’t and there had never been “signals” after all. This week is starting off superb.

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My OH and i went to dancing classes before we had kids and I enjoyed it so much more than i thought i would (she had to gently encourage me to go). Not possible now as we dont have folks to babysit but we miss it.

Best wishes for the date!! :smiley:

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Dancing can really make life so much better, doesn’t it? It’s amazing. The day can start off shitty, headache, bad mood, go dancing (especially in a group of people that you care about) and all the bad stuff just flows away really. It really brings folks together. Was at a Angolian party last Saturday with all of them and the mood was just so damn great, and people of all walks of life there, beautiful.

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Going Live

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Aw amazing. Yes it really is. I always enjoyed learning the Cha Cha Cha but found the quickstep really difficult.

Keep asking the wife to try the argentine tango but shes wise to my game :joy:

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