Topic: The everything Xbox thread

Ah, Forza Horizon 4... I'm not going into paragraphs long reminisces about it, but it really is great. The fourth game doesn't really have anything regarding a main story, just a tutorial one. Finishing positions do not matter at all, since the entire game is built around the do-as-you-please style of gameplay, which really opens up once you've gone through all the seasons of said tutorial story.

The other games all had more of a focus on one core story - even if they still had the freedom the series is known for. Horizon 3's opening the festival out to all of Australia (which 5 seems to be expanding upon with those expeditions), Horizon 2's tours across southern France and northern Italy (which hardly felt like touring trips on a map as small as that), and the original Horizon's complete focus on a core story with rivals and proper progression within Colorado.

Horizon 4 has a lot within it, thanks to post-release support beyond the DLC, with the various stories and businesses, Super7 and The Eliminator. Even the DLC provided new things, with a new PR stunt introduced (with sadly never was implemented into the base game), and ideas for progression in any content for future games (I would love the challenge list of the LEGO DLC to return as a way of unlocking cosmetics or cars). As much as I love Horizon 4, though, the third's DLC is still my favourite of the bunch.

Hope you come to love it, @RR529, and explore everything it has to offer.

Phil has apparently confirmed this is pretty much the reason:

Hi guys I just bought a series X and I was trying to continue my playtrough of psychonauts that I was playing on PC but the save is not there (I assumed it was tagged to my account and the cloud save would be available).
Is this feature only available for some titles or am I missing something?

@Balta666 I think the cross-save compatible games are labelled 'XBox Play Anywhere' - Psychonauts has 2 entries on the Game Pass App, one for console/cloud and a separate entry for Windows 10 and 'Xbox Play Anywhere' not listed on the capabilities of either I'm afraid.

Ok, gotcha. Thanks. I will finish it on PC then I guess as I don't want to start from scratch

Since they added touch controls I decided to check out Dirt 5 on my lunch break today.

Held up pretty well and seemed pretty fun, but touch controls are pretty much useless for a game like this.

I can use my DS4 at home, but for my lunch breaks I'd like to get one of those controller grips for my phone, but it seems like there's a drawback no matter which way you go. My phone looks like it's be too bulky for the Razer Kishi, the Backbone is iOS only (I have an Android), and the Gamesir X2 lacks analogue triggers/sticks.

With the recent announcement of FH5 I got the itch to fire up FH3 again. I love how easy it is to get back into these games after not playing them for awhile. Not only that I forget how relaxing these games can be and how easy it is to lose track of time when playing them.

With that said I managed to get enough fans to fully upgrade one of my festival sites to its max level and find a couple more barn cars last night.

I started horizons 4 for the first time yesterday and it is quite some dumb fun. Very arcady as I like my racing games!

@DarthNocturnal Yup, nothing worse than getting a Super Wheelspin and then winning 3 items of clothing (except maybe winning 3 novelty horns)!

Definitely starting to get the hang of Forza Horizon 4 now. I've won my last several races & the game asked if I wanted to face tougher AI (which for the moment I've turned down, but it feels good nonetheless).

@RR529 I got that too yesterday, today I received the other end of the coin lol "you have not won a race in a while, do you want to turn the difficulty back" . Just did a couple of eliminator races and they are awesome!

@Balta666, yeah, at first I was having trouble even finishing better than dead last, but after turning on most of the assists (which were brought up recently in this thread, so you should be able to see which ones if you look back a page or two) and dropping the AI down to "new driver" I've had a much easier time & am getting better.

I did not mess up with the assists yet however altough I am not winning I am still getting around 2nd to 5th almost every time.

Do we have an expected date for the COD announcement? That way they can do the Halo release date?

@Dezzy Didn't you have a Series S? Is it something you would recommend? I kinda want to try something different, I still have a PS4 pro(and a switch ofcourse!) but getting game pass seems like a good deal and nothing Sony is doing at the moment seems like a good deal to me.

@Dezzy Black Ops Cold War was announced in late August so I'd guess CoD 2022 would be announced around the same time (before Black Ops Cold War, CoD reveal was around May so not comparable). So as a result I'd guess we'll find out the Halo Infinite release date in September/October.

@JoyBoy the Series S is amazing console for the price (it costs less than a switch) and with Game Pass you wouldn't need to buy any games.
It does have slightly reduced resolution than the Series X but If you don't have a 4k 120hz TV then you wouldn't notice.
Mine is now in the bedroom on a standard 32" 1080 screen and the games look and perform great.

I also like the fact I can switch the Series X off downstairs, go up to bed and pick up from where I saved on the Series S - and my Gampass Subscription carries across both consoles, mobile phone and my gaming laptop.

I love the quick resume function on my Series S, it keeps like 5 or 6 games suspended at the same time. It's super convenient.

It was a worthy upgrade from the One S for that and the improved performance, and it didn't cost that much more compared to my One S.