Haha, I mentioned that a few posts upthread. I was being a little more cagey about the gameplay, though. I was really impressed, and will probably be picking it up. I’m glad someone else tried it out and seemingly enjoyed it.
Whoops, totally missed that. Intriguing idea - I’ve heard of games having strong disability options but I’ve never heard of a game developed for blind people. It’s really cool.
It really is. Even all the menus are accessible-enabled!
You can definitely see that most of the effort is going into getting Game Pass games these days! Still, I do like getting more OG Xbox games.
I had no clue Red Faction II was ported to the Xbox. When I played it, it used to be a PS2 exclusive, I think.
God, I can’t believe I wasted my time on mediocre games like that back then, just because they were from Volition, and I wanted to play everything from the Freespace developers. The worst of those was the original Summoner, another PS2 exclusive.
Yea MS seems to have given up on any more effort into Games with Gold.
Yeah, last month’s WRC 8 was a great giveaway again, but this month’s will be abysmal. Hopefully September will redeem them. Give us Skate 3 maybe. I’d love to try that out.
A great big why bother from my perspective. “Here, have some multiplayer crap that didn’t sell and some stuff somebody got in a bankruptcy sale.”
Well, considering you can no longer buy a one year subscription to Live Gold, the whole thing may be on its way out.
I guess it does seem redundant now that there’s Game Pass. But what about the multiplayer part of it? For someone who isn’t part of Ultimate Game Pass, I wonder if they’ll make online play free, finally?
It seems fairly obvious to me that they’re going to roll everything up into the Ultimate subscription since they can charge $15/mo for that, and people will pay it because they want to play online.
Yeah, I think they’re just driving up the annual price of Gold to get more people to subscribe to Ultimate.
There’s speculation they’re going the opposite direction. Make Xbox multiplayer free to match the PC. Then GamePass Ultimate is simply xCloud plus the game library on PC and Xbox.
For some reason, Psychonauts appears to be available for free from the MS website right now. I’m posting this in the Xbox One thread because it is backward compatible on that system and everyone should play it.
I’m surprised we’re not getting a Forza Horizon 3 GWG. Usually one of them every august before delisting.
Huh I though even the console only version of Gamepass gave Gold as a part of it. Does seem like they really just want people to go Ultimate sub.
Thanks for the heads up. I could just dig out my OG Xbox disk, but why bother? Part of my library now.
$10 when I checked it. Although probably worth it, the PS4 version is a poorly-emulated PS2 downsample of the original XBox game, and is absolute crap and a ripoff at the $3 I paid for it. Barely playable.
Were you logged with a live account? Showed as free for me.
Nope, checked again. Wonder if there’s some prerequisite I don’t have. Ah well, I still have the disk…