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Xbox One
Inside - July 1-31
Big Crown Showdown - July 16-August 15
Xbox 360
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - July 1-15
Meet the Robinson's - July 16-31
[XB1/XB360] Games with Gold July 2019 - Inside and Castlevania @ Microsoft
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Taegukgi on 30/06/2019 - 04:29 news.xbox.com (2038 clicks)
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I know they may not be the best games, but they are sick for me
Castlevania is great news. I have been burning through a couple of the old ones after playing Bloodstained and never actually played SotN, I loaded it up onto my $39 PS Classic a couple weeks back but haven't touched it yet, now I can touch it in HD.
Meet the Robinsons will likely be a dud, but I was looking for Toy Story the other day to show the 3 year old kiddo and found this movie as well, I've not seen it since it came out, so we can watch the movie and then play the game together, I'm pumped.
Inside is also pretty good supposedly, I'll check it out eventually. Still haven't played Limbo though, despite having both the 360 and Xbox One versions on my console.
Big Crown though, no idea at all about it.
Big Crown
It looks like a 4-player co-op brawler requiring a minimum of two players and no computer players. The online population is non-existent, which I guess is the problem that the devs are hoping to address by putting it on GWG.
Rush is on game pass. You play along side the cast of cars, finding Nemo, toy story, the incredibles and ratatouille. I haven't played it yet, but looks like great fun for kids (and nostalgia filled adults like myself).
Each movie has its world that you enter and play games themed around that movieverse.
This is a fantastic game, loved it!
SotN is the grand-daddy of Castlevania, best of the metrovania game type.
This is how it's done, Sony.
Game Pass IMO makes up for it.
It doesn’t for me (I own an Xbox and a PS4). And with no new IP’s announced in four years, games like Recore, State of Decay 2, Crackdown 3 representing the first party line up, and Microsoft’s continual refusal to back sequels for their exclusive IP’s (Sunset Overdrive, Alan Wake etc.), I’m finding it harder and harder to justify keeping my One X. Also, games with gold has taken an absolute nose dive in quality since Gamepass was introduced.
@aja12: PS4 has some fantastic exclusives. God of War was 2018 GOTY. Heavy Rain is my single all-time favorite game. Last of Us is arguably the best game ever made. And I'm so fricking addicted to Judgement right now, it's brilliant.
But the vast majority of games released, and played by most gamers, are third-party. And Xbox is easily the best thing to play most of them on, unless you want to talk high-end PCs.
So the argument that just because most of Xboxs exclusives in recent years suck ass (which bar Forza and the ID@Xbox games, they do) is pretty moot.
If you only play exclusives on consoles, you're really missing out man. Big companies like Ubisoft put out some brilliant AAA titles, and there's a ton of great smaller publishers putting out great games all the time. I'm hard pressed to think of any exclusives on any non-Nintendo console with any lasting appeal or replayability - they're mostly all just completed once or twice and then gather dust, even the greats like Uncharted. We may have fond memories of them, but we're lying to ourselves if we say there's any point keeping them.
I'll take more powerful hardware for my multi-plats, and better; controllers, UI, customer support, servers, app optimisation, and community over a handful of extra games a year any day.
Twice the monthly games, half the need of anything else.
@aja12: Well I'd argue all the Halos, Forzas, and Gears games are all pretty good quality. Mix in a tonne of other games like Crackdown 1+2+3, Super Lucky's Tale, State of Decay 1+2, Ori, Ryse, Sunset Overdrive, Dead Rising 3, all those Rare games (Perfect Dark 1+2, Banjo Kazooie 1+2+3, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Conker, etc.), Quantum Break, Sea of Thieves, CUPHEAD (well it was exclusive anyway), and many more, and you've got a pretty respectable pile of exclusives if you ask me.
Theeeeeen, throw in the fact there's about 500 odd backward compatible games from last gen and the original Xbox, and that the vast majority of them cannot be played on any other current gen console (legally anyway), and you've got a veritable shitload of exclusives. Star Wars Battlefront 2 in HD on a current console? Yes please. What's that? The Xbox exclusive DLC that was for sale with the game nearly 15 years ago, that hasn't been on sale in a good 10 years is a free update with the game in back compat, even if you never bought the DLC before? That's some exclusive content right there that you haven't been able to get ANYWHERE in a decade, and there's a fair few OG games to get their DLC brought back from the grave via updates.
Outside of Spider-Man, I haven't had a reason to turn on my PS4 Pro (or PS VR) in nearly 2 years. All about preferences and what you wanna play, but there's absolutely no denying that the Xbox has a tonne of shit worth playing, that you simply can't play anywhere else.
In terms of a subscription service, you definitely have a point. As far as everything else goes, this generation has been nothing short of disastrous for Microsoft. Genuinely interested to see what they do with Scarlett though, I’m hoping they turn things around. The signs are promising so far at least.
100%. I love the Xbox brand, but it’s been absolutely woeful for the last few years. Hopefully the studio spending spree starts delivering from next year on.
I’m inclined to think they’ll come back strong with the new machine. They’ve been buying up some really talented studios and they simply can’t afford to fail. Hopefully they leave those recent exclusives in the dust and move on with some exciting content. Sony has blitzed them with exclusives over the past couple of years and they still have Death Stranding and Last of Us Part 2 on the way.
I’m a happy owner of both machines (I’ll always need my Forza fix) but Microsoft has made some truly awful mistakes with the Xbox One.
you might be getting downvoted badly, but what you say is hard to argue against
INSIDE (as it's stylised) is amazing! As above, it's short and sweet.
Castlevania Symphony of the night is one of the greatest games of all time for me.
Great addition.Great games. That ultimate game pass deal has turned my dust collecting xbox into my primary ganing console.
Xbox is now the best box. Game Pass took me away from my PC….until Game Pass Ultimate.
Inside is bloody brilliant. The last 20 minutes or so is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen or played.
Doesn't look like Meet The Robinsons is available on the store anymore in Australia so will be interesting to see if they add it before the 16th or give us a different game.
Inside is absolutely fantastic. Anyone who hasn't played through yet is in for a treat.
Thanks. Now all I need to find is a good deal on the Xbox live gold as mine is about to expire next month. Can't find them cheaper anywhere ATM
Don't forget to stock up then get the $1 Game Pass ultimate deal to get it converted
Is that still on?
I saw it on my xbox dashboard yesterday so I'd assume so.
20% off 3 and 12 month live gold cards at Big W. Buy a few then convert to game pass ultimate for $1.
BTW Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is available now (edit) AND inside too
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/product/Castlevania-SOTN/…
Inside - edit now available
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/inside/c17gqf31d617?source…tips and tricks with gold games
*For those that don't know, the games tend to expire after the last country ticks over to the 1st of the month or the 16th of the month, and they are made available to "get" in the store before the first country hits the 1st or 16th of the month which means there is over 24hrs of overlap. So, for example, if you have a 1 month voucher or trial and you activate it on the 1st or 16th Melbourne time but it's still the 31st or 15th Los Angeles time (don't wait too late but also don't be early) you can "get" the 2 expiring games , the 2 new games and the 1 holdover game straight away via the store, then you get 2 more game in 15 days and then another 2 on your last day but don't leave it too long always check the store listing for each game never wait for the games with gold links to change, so this gets you 9 games, plus any extra games offered in other countries stores.
*you can get other countries' xbox one games with gold when they have alternative games (normally race the sun and cobalt) use google chrome to auto translate the page if you are not fluent, but still take care not to "purchase" but to "get" as the translations are not perfect and if you have already got the game you will be offered to buy to own and only press once as it may not show as ready to install until later or after you go searching in the store app of your Xbox one, where it should say "install".
*also sometimes the "get" option doesn't appear recently, keep reloading or try a different browser (i had to use edge for cobalt in feburary 2019) and copy Korean text into google translate by hand.*Bonus possible Errors: 48 hour codes can "get" you Xbox one games with gold, confirmed in august 2018 AND April 2019 by me, hopefully still going, possible only some codes (not 2 day codes but only older 48hr codes? earliest google result December 2017, definitely didn't work before. Someone says they could get Xbox 360 games with some effort but didn't say how, but I couldn't/didn't find a way. possibly you might need an xbox 360 to pull out of storage? i didn't check that way.
I don't think Meet The Robinsons is available in Australia so it'll be interesting to see what replaces it here.
Even if it isn't you should still be able to grab it from the US store using a browser, even without a VPN.
Any decent xbox live 12 month deals?
20% off at Big W.
If only you had bought it a few weeks ago. Upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate for $1
Edit: my mistake- still on for another 4 days
Tried melb CBD store. All 12 month codes gone.
Inside was close to my GOTY 2016. It’s only a few hours long, but worth playing for anyone that missed it.