@AgentCooper I think @LtSarge already summed up most important games. Some other games on ultimate beside those that got high ratinga are immortality, sniper elite 5, nobody saves the world. I think it's also dependant on what type of games you like generally speaking, theres over 400 games in gamepass in basically every genre. I also enjoyed some of the older games on there like brutal legend and Alice madness returns which are 360 games but since the backward compat they are playable on the series.
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@JohnnyShoulder I just don’t like using the switch bud… in handheld mode it gives me pins-and-needles in my hands and in either docked/handheld mode I just wanna launch the thing at the wall every time I hit the switch equivalent of circle to exits out of a menu or the switch equivalent of cross/x when I want to select something. It just royally ****s with my orientation. So while I have some interest in the Ori games… that interest is no way near strong enough for me want to use the switch.
@AgentCooper An added suggestion from @LtSarge is if you do decide to jump into Halo from the beginning and not just right into Halo Infinite, I would suggest just going right to Halo 2 and skipping the first Halo. Imo, it has aged that badly that I had a pretty miserable experience with it after finally playing it last year, but Halo 2 was still a blast and is still one of the best FPS games to this day. You could probably find the story of the first one on YouTube.
I'm still primarily a PlayStation guy with my PS5, but whenever I'm on my Series X again, I'll add you. Enjoy.
@colonelkilgore You can remap the buttons, which was the first thing I did once I got my Pro controller synced. There was no way I was going to be able to use the buttons "backwards" coming from playing PlayStation and Xbox for so long.
Oddly, I don't mind the flipped orientation of Nintendo vs Sony. Probably because Nintendo uses letters and Sony uses shapes. This does make it where, despite loving the DS4 for Playstation games, I struggle to use it on Switch, though. It just doesn't feel right.
What really does my head in is Microsoft and Nintendo having the same letters for buttons, but inversed.
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@Ralizah That a major reason why I had to flip them. I don't even look at the buttons either. It's muscle memory, and there's no way I'd be able to flip it in my mind and it wouldn't be annoying.
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if youve just got an xbox i recommend signing up to Microsoft rewards you earn points and can convert them into credit or other voucher im averaging about £20 month so well worth doing.
games i would recommend on gamepass
mass effect legendary edition
quantum break
the gears of war games
guardians of the galaxy
i was always a PlayStation guy but after i signed up to Microsoft rewards the value proposition was just too good i signed up a few years ago and it got my my Series X for £90, 25 games so far and i earn enough every month i never have to pay for gamepass
i do recommend the gears of war games they remade the first Gears f war one ultimate edition. Gears of war 2 got 4k upscaled and 60fps boost so did gears 3 quite incredible what they were able to do to xbox 360 games. gears 4 is ok looks good and gears 5 is a very impressive technical showcase for how good stuff can look on series X
Managed to start Sable too and was gutted when it left GP hours later. Do the games always get deleted from your ssd automatically?
This isn't normal. Are you sure it's not still there? Go to "Manage Storage Devices" and click "View Contents" and check if it's there. Normally it doesn't get uninstalled once it's left game pass but when you go to play it, it will say something like "You need to buy this game".
It's a shame Sable left but i decided to get a month of GPU to play it and other things. It was really good and I would have rated it a 9 or 10 but not long after you leave the first area, performance issues start to crop up and they are pretty severe. It's like a modestly ambitious title that can't achieve that ambition on a technical level.
some of the stuff they were able to do with the xbox 360 games is incredible eg fallout 3 now runs at 4k 60fps and the load times are dramatically improved
And every 29,250 points are worth a £25 Xbox gift card so you can exchange to buy Games.
I currently have 133,730 reward points...
Also, if you join Xbox Ambassadors, you can earn 'rewards' with the 'top' reward every season being 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate free of charge. There are 4 seasons a year, and I have accumulated enough points every quarter to get my 1 month free - so I only pay for 2 out of 3 months, or 8 out of 12 months per year...
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@trev666 Basically a programme designed to promote & encourage a Safe, fun, inclusive gaming environment for everyone - basically a promise to the Xbox Community: A promise to be inclusive, promote safe and accessible gaming, celebrate other gamers' achievements and individuality, and positively represent the Xbox Ambassadors.
Its a bit like Rewards where you get some activities, like play the game of the week for example which is usually a Game Pass game anyway. Some may be for the 'month' (like make a friend) and have someone friend you (basically follow someone and they follow you back for 2 completed missions worth 1500+ XP - and you need around 5000XP a month, 15000XP a quarter to earn your 'free' 1 month GPU. You get sweepstake tickets to win prizes, digital assets (banners, gamer pics, mobile/desktop wallpapers etc) as well, depending on how much XP you earn and/or what missions you complete.
Its not often you need to check daily for 'new' missions. Once a week can be enough most times as they have the 'same' monthly missions and Game of the Week - but sometimes they have Blogs, youtube video's to watch etc and 'occasionally', Twitch streams but they may only be up for a few hours or so whilst streaming.
Anyway, hope that helps...
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Rewards-wise, there are 5 places to get rewards from (a couple are interchangeable but I do it like this for various reasons)
Rewards App on Xbox - just do the punch cards/click on icons - most of them don't require buying games that aren't on game pass.
Bing App on Xbox - Daily Sets and PC Searches (just click on each news icon in turn and it will say +3 in the top right, keep going until it stops saying it - you can check if you have all PC Searches in the Rewards App)
Edge App on Mobile - log in with MS account and search/save the MS Rewards dashboard as a bookmark. This has similar icons as Xbox Rewards app which you can click on for points. I also do the Mobile/Edge searches here (I search for juventus players and their names appear at the top - I just click through all the names and that gives me all the points available for Mobile/Edge searches)
All PC/mobile/Edge search rewards reset daily and you can get 162 points a day
Xbox App on Mobile - not sure if everyone has this, it only got added to my app recently about half a year after it started rolling out. Click on your profile (bottom right) then click rewards. There's a few things in here, I normally just play one level of Jewel because I don't have a PC set up. Just claiming daily log in rewards gets you like an accumulating log in streak which resets after a few days.
Finally the Game Pass App on either Xbox or mobile - there are monthly, weekly and daily tasks. Daily and weekly are normally very easy and involve booting up games (can be done on cloud most of the time). Monthly are normally a bit more involved and there are guides on Pure Xbox or just YouTube. I normally checkout the Rewards Hunter channel as it's quite good for this sort of thing.
Oh yeah, you also get points for buying stuff in the store, can't remember what the point to pound ratio is but it's not amazing. Nice little bonus if your buying something off there anyway but not worth buying something specifically for the points
Ultimately though, your mileage may vary. When I first got Xbox One, I saw it and ignored it because I didn't want playing games to become a chore. When the pandemic hit, I found I was just completing rewards so I started claiming the points for them. Then it became a challenge and I decided to do every reward and save up to buy an Xbox Series X. About 14 months after it released, stock was stable and I had about 200 pounds worth of points which I accumulated in two years. So I just bought one with the steep discount.
Since then, I've not really been that bothered. I normally do the stuff on Xbox but the mobile rewards stuff is tiring because the apps are slow. I've sorta started doing the mobile stuff again anyway. I've saved up about 75000 points since January which is like 65-70 pounds in gift cards or something
Definitely a LOT of options for earning reward points with many daily, weekly and monthly activities to build up your points relatively quickly if you are desperate and determined to maximise your earning potential.
Personally, I tend to do the daily Reward missions - with every 10th consecutive day giving me 150 reward points on top. Occasionally earning points through searches, gaming etc keeps my points building up. Only when I want/need to convert points - like to get Xbox credit to buy a game or add a month or 3 of GPU - do I ever bother to convert points - otherwise I just forget about the 'balance' and just let them accumulate - hence I have ~134k pts - enough for over £100 in credit.
Whilst you could 'grind' every opportunity to earn points every day and probably earn enough to buy a game on sale or a month+ GPU every month, I tend to use it more like a loose change jar, Daily dropping in whatever small change I have and then treating myself to something 'extra' if/when I can't justify spending money on it because I need to buy food, pay bills etc with my 'cash'.
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