I got you. It’s an entry in the Portal franchise, with the “2” indicating that it is the second in the series.

There’s a very good chance that my daughter, who was too young to play games when Skyrim was released, will be long into adulthood by the time TES 6 is released. Blows my mind.

Goddammit, I loved that game too!

X-Wing

Tie Fighter

X-Wing Alliance

Star Wars: KOTOR

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Hogwarts Legacy

The Thing

Aladdin

Blade Runner

And these are just a few off the top of my head that I’ve played.

Although to be fair, I guess we could just as easily reel off a list of garbage equivalents, but I think the throwaway that licensed games suck is a misconception.

I can highly recommend this if you’re any kind of Indy fan. It masterfully replicates the globetrotting adventure vibe and swashbuckling fighting of the movies, and Indy’s voice actor absolutely nails it.

If this releases with full support for existing Xbox libraries as suggested, this would be the absolute perfect device for my household, where we’ve accrued literally hundreds of Xbox games since 2001, and would love to open up to PC games from a device in the living room. For me, it’s the best of both. That said, it’s still dependent on avoiding exorbitant pricing.

I’m exactly the same. Xbox gamer since the OG, and big fan of GamePass until recently. There’s no way I’m paying that much. Mine expires this month, and that’ll be that.

They’d only need to add one more breakable advertising board than FH5 for the claim to be true

That is pretty much Max in every movie bar the first one though. Wanders about, reluctantly helps some people, wanders off on his own again.

Mirror’s Edge is such an incredible game. The aesthetics and pace are utterly absorbing.

Minecraft also seems to get frequently forgotten about when talking about Microsoft gaming too. It makes Microsoft around £300m per year in games sales. That’s just the game. Imagine what the merchandise figures are on top of that.

I don’t think game pass is anywhere near unsustainable, when we consider what is actually sustaining it.

It’s a shame because the Series X is an absolutely superb device. The fast storage, quick resume, performance, noise level etc are all incredible, and the backwards compatibility, console streaming, and appeal of game pass make the Series X a wonderful gaming machine. I couldn’t be happier with it.

We all know the reasons why it isn’t as successful as the PS5, but the Series X as a price-to-value product has been woefully under-appreciated.

What I wouldn’t give for a new Deus Ex game. The only news I ever read about one is another cancellation.

Robocop has a similar vibe, albeit a Fisher Price version. And weirdly the new Indiana Jones game kind of scratches that itch, where you’re wandering around an open environment, with multiple access points and secrets hidden away that’ll reward those paying attention. Neither come close to just how detailed and cool the Deus Ex games were though.

Nice one, thanks for that

Clearly I need to signpost my jokes better.

Yeah that’s the badger. Absolute classic.

Cheers, I never know with all the similarly-named communities on the various instances. Downside of the fediverse is often not knowing where the best place to post something is.

This is still my favourite:

Welsh out of office

I spent a lot of hours in F-19 Stealth Fighter on the Atari ST as a kid. The manual for that thing was unbelievably in-depth. I’m utterly convinced I could fly real combat missions in that (fictional) plane.

I’m more disappointed to see Perfect Dark getting canned tbh.

Pretty sure that’s on the cards. My money’s on Xbox the brand becoming just Game Pass eventually.

SWOS FTW

I’ll dispute that. Fired up Rocket League for the first time in a few months yesterday after a couple of hours of Rematch. First game I got into was constant abuse from a teammate against the other two of us on the team. Finished the match with double his points and still got called trash because we lost.

Tbh though I love it. Makes me laugh thinking about how angry the guy must be getting while playing.

It’s on Gamepass if that makes any difference.

It’s wild how little passing there is. Almost every time 2 or 3 passes are strung together, there’s a goal. But very few people seem to understand that yet.

It’s always very clear who’s actually played 5-a-side in real life before. Anyone who played like 90% of Rematch players in a proper game would get an absolute bollocking from their teammates.

IMO, PES was always so much better than FIFA. Matches were slow, measured, low-scoring exercises in passing and breaking down defences. FIFA always felt like a game, whereas PES was a simulation. I’ve not played either of their descendants for years, but I’ve watched my girlfriend’s kid play FC25 and it seems far more like fucking Pokémon than a football game.

Rematch on the other hand is something else. It’s not a football game, despite its appearance. It’s a future-sports game, like Rocket League or Speedball 2. I’m enjoying it from that perspective.

Agree with the controls though, but I’m still putting that down to my own skill issues.