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Yeah, I really liked Trover. I hear that in High on Life there is a setting to lower the amount of talking the guns do. Default is constantly, but you can decrease that if it's too grating.

I hadn't heard of High On Life before, but if it's similar to Trover then I'll give it a try. I played Trover on PSVR, it was hilarious.

Trover was great. Now, I'm interested in High On Life too.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

high on live is a crazy comedy shooter where your guns talk to you.

There was a Day One patch last night, so i didn't play it.
The first ACTUAL boss battle is VERY FRUSTRATING, but at the same time, very old school. High on Life is definitely a game made by gamers for gamers. It reminds me of a Bioshock Infinite boss battle where you have to constantly keep moving.
Also once you get the talking knife the game gets THAT much better. I haven't even gotten the 2nd gun yet.
If you're an achievement hunter, there's a great one early on and i dont want to spoil it and the NAME of the Achievement makes fun of a very popular video game franchise.
Yes, the combat is very...meh, but its fun and funny and looks great. I actual combat itself reminds me of Borderlands, theres generally 3 or 4 different enemy types in each semi open world, with different skins and voices; tiny ones, flying ones, medium sized grunts and big fudgeers.
If you cannot stand the voice of Justin Roiland, i would recommend not playing this or turning voices off. Your main gun sounds like Morty and just makes fun of you the entire time and makes very gross sexual innuendos.

Slickriven wrote:

DUDE!
I'm so excited.
That's another game i don't have to buy. When everyone was crap talking no AAA releases on Gamepass, these are the games i was talking about!
I just HOPE its not TOO open world. I just want a mostly linear single player campaign. A solid 20 hours would be fine.
Looks like equal parts Bioshock and Singularity with surrealism and Fallout style Soviet retro futurism.
Super effing stoked.

Slickriven wrote:

Aliens Fireteam Elite was super fun, but i could never find anyone to play it with, just me and 2 bots.
It NEEDED split screen co op

I loved that Aliens game but hit a difficulty spike that I just couldn't get past. I know they want you to grind the first few levels over and over to improve your gear but even doing that a little I couldn't get past a certain end-level portion by myself. I think there are like 4 levels, split up into a few chapters? I believe it was the last portion of the 3rd level.

Anxiouz wrote:

it took me DAYS to get past that final Alien attack where they come from ALL ANGLES
glad i'm not alone.
thats what made Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 so fun, even a rookie with bots could finish a level. It'd be rough, but you could get through it.

Agree about Aliens Fireteam. It wasn't bad, but trying to play with randos wasn't ideal - game was likely better with good communication and I'm not too interested in playing with a headset on.

I'm excited about Atomic Heart too and really hope it is at least a 7+ (out of 10) average score - meaning not sort of overhyped but mediocre. I don't need it to be a 9+ necessarily, I just want it to be good.

Simon_Belmont wrote:


Someone will always crap talk GP and PS+. They both have award winning games but if it’s not anything they like it “sucks”

Had anyone played Chained Echoes? I'm about 2 hours in and liking it. So far mostly exposition but the few combats I've had were fun.

For Xbox One, what the hell kind of disk do you need? I got a kickass ssd for my nephews and while the Xbox detects it, won't let me use it for moves or installs.

Does it have to be a HDD? I read SSDs are supported.

https://a.co/d/fKguZBs

Does anybody know anything about sharing Game Pass Ultimate with friends and family? I'm trying to set this up in my house with my two sons, but they need to be logged in as me to download the games or use Live, so I can't play on my Xbox at the same time.

bonham2 wrote:

I had the same issue (I have an XSX and my son has an XSS) and you need to set your son's Xbox as the "home console". Login to his xbox and set it as "home" somewhere in the settings. You can only switch this like 3-5 times a year. Setting it as home links your account (and GPU) to the system and will be the default place things install remotely if you do that from the website/app.

So although your account is on his Xbox, since it's the home console he doesn't need to login as you any more and can do everything as his user and account.

Then on your xbox, simply logging in as your user will allow you to do everything.

If you have 3 Xboxes the above still applies except that on the 2 non-home systems you'll have to login as you to access your GPU.

My kids bought me a Series X for Christmas. I don't follow game news so I'm looking for some good indie/arcade etc games to check out.

michaeld wrote:

Did you get Game Pass? I'll give you a whole list

Absolutely get Game Pass as your first thing. You will find a ton to try out over the first few months.

There was a game I remember seeing a trailer for a few years ago that looked interesting, it reminded me of a Zelda game and was sort of an overheard and had a nice looking art style but I can't remember the name

michaeld wrote:


Tunic?

PizzaTheHutt wrote:


Yes that is it!

michaeld wrote:

There are so many to choose from! One of the categories is even "arcade".

michaeld wrote:

Tunic was excellent, is my GotY likely, but I don't play a ton of newest releases.

I need headset recommendations. I don't want to spend a lot, don't need all kinds of fancy features, just good audio for hearing and talking to others

Edit: I ended up getting the Microsoft stereo headset on eBay for $20

Finally need to expand storage on the XSX ... Seagate is still the ony option? $200 for 1TB? My god.

Do these ever go on sale?

@MrBean @Vault101 has one for sale $160. They were $230 when they came out.

@MrBean You can connect any USB drive you want and play lots of games from there. I have a 4TB HDD that used to be connected to my X1X on mine. If you download a game onto an external and it needs to run on the internal, you'll get prompted if you try to play it to move it first. You also get an icon on the box art that looks like a left & right arrow, one above the other - that indicates that you have it on an external drive but it has to be on the internal to play.
I keep all of my games that don't require the internal drive installed on my external and even some that do require internal that I'm simply not actively playing. Transferring btwn the drives is pretty quick/easy and I don't like to have more than about 75% of the internal space used up.

Like this one?

https://a.co/d/cdh4mJ9

Yep @bonham2 - I don't know the exact external drive I have, bought it too long ago and don't feel like looking behind my XSX to verify. I also have this one that would work, I just don't have it connected to anything:
https://smile.amazon.com/WD_Black-Drive-External-C...

I have a 2TB one I bought off a fellow GTZer for my PS4 as well. Basically it doesn't have to be 4TB and with the XSX you don't need to use SSDs if you don't want. For my X1X that I still use, I'm looking to connect up an external SSD as the internal drive is slow and I've seen some research that suggests opening the system to replace the internal drive is barely, if even at all faster vs. an external SSD. Since I use the X1X mainly for 360 games and indies, I'm thinking of trying a 480GB micro drive I got on clearance from Walmart like 2 years ago.

My understanding has been that any non-seagate is only for prior gen games. All modern games can only use the fancy Seagate expensive ass one.

MrBean wrote:

Trouble is with how MS and Sony I suppose handled this latest generation, many games that have launched in the past ~2 years aren't truly Next-Gen and don't have that requirement. But it's a mixed bag. Infernax required install in the internal drive, but it was more/less a 16-bit era title, but Bugsnax doesn't, nor The Ascent, GunGrave GORE, Naraka or even Horizon 5 - as it has a non-Series version.

Without a 4TB drive I think I would find being a GP sub really annoying. I've got around 200 games installed onto my XSX and sure some will only play on the internal yet I have moved them to the external, but moving is a TON faster vs. re-downloading. Point is, for ~%50 of the cost for the 1TB expansion card, you could get a 4-5TB external USB HDD and have lots of games on it with most of those playable - depending on your library I suppose. And even if 80% of the games you have require being on internal, like I said you're looking at a min-2 to transfer vs. redownloading and the management is pretty decent. You can go to the 'My Games & Apps' menu, then Manage and Storage devices. Then click on the drive and you get a menu to move things and can move many at once.

I have a Series S, and the storage limitations are seriously annoying. I'm constantly deleting stuff that I don't want to get rid of.

Generally speaking I like, and have no issues with, leveraging an external SSD for last-gen and general storage. Moving files isn't always fast though. There are times when it blazes but other times when it looks like I could actually download it faster. If it was always fast I would have zero complaints, but the truth is that it isn't. But moving games while I'm wfh is hardly a hassle and it'll be ready by the time I clock out.

I don't play a lot of games at the same time (maybe 3-5) so shuffling seldom used games to external until I am ready for them works well.

after putting a gen4 M2 into my PS5, I can never go back to moving games back and forth. This is a HUGE win for Sony to not have some BS super expensive storage expansion. Also why I prefer my Series X and third party non GPU games on my PS5 (also the controller is better).

I was surprised with how many games I was able to install on the Series S. I hit the cap once, and it was only because of all the bloated fudging DLC from AC Odyssey, which I was thrilled to have an excuse to delete. After I axed that I could put another seven games from Game Pass on the system and I still had 25% space left.

I hooked up the 480GB USB SSD I had to my X1X the other night and after a quick format and answering some questions, I moved around a dozen games from the internal drive to it.
I was particularly interested in Wreckfest as I started playing that on my XSX and it loaded up quick, unsurprisingly, but then I played some on my X1X and it was so darn slow to load.
I can report that it's a good bit faster via the SSD so I'm happy about that. I used the 480 b/c I had it laying around but it's clearly not very large, so I might purchase a larger one now that I know it will give me a loading boost. I know the XSS performs around the same as the X1X so I'd be tempted to go for one of them, almost entirely for the Quick Resume, but I think I'm better off simply seeking to focus on 1 game at a time and sticking with the X1X.

I was browsing the game pass store and watched a trailer for another overheard action looking game that looked interesting, I think it was another game with animals as characters. I was on game pass this morning and couldn't find it or remember the name. I am thinking it is some indie game but not certain


I am loving how you can just stream a game install of installing it. I got the year of Ultimate deal for 33 on Slickdeals, amazing deal!

I think "overheard" is a typo? Biomutant hit GP recently. Was that it?

And I think the streaming is cool but it's def grainy and I always prefer to just DL the game. I do use the streaming to "play" a given game to earn MS Rewards though. Love that I can just stream it to start the game and then abandon it.

Heads up, We Happy Few is leaving GP in only 5 days. I figured since XBGS owns them that this title wouldn't leave GP but Gearbox published it so there you have it.
Here's hoping/thinking it might pull a Mortal Shell and come back to the service. I had it in a list of GP games I figured I had plenty of time with, but it is nearing 5 years old now. For the first time in a while GP is feeling a bit weak to me.

I don’t wanna hear anyone complain about gamepass if you haven’t gotten through the Yakuza games

3hitcombo wrote:

I wasn't necessarily complaining, nor sure if you were referencing me, but I did set Yakuza 0 to install just the other night as my selection of installed GP titles was feeling smaller as of late.

I will not complain about GP in general as I've tried, played and beat a bucket load of games via the service in the 3+ years I've had it such that it's been well worth my money. I've also used the Live to GP dollar method twice so it has been a great price period. I've tried games that I learned quickly that I was glad I didn't buy, I played games for basically free that seemed interesting, and I beat games that I likely otherwise wouldn't have even considered. I'm actually okay with the selection shrinking a little vs what I want to play on it, since it'll give me a little more time to focus on the games I actually purchased.