I think you are replying to something else. 
I’m talking about an earlier post of yours where Blair Witch is part of Game Pass which is the subscription service. Luckily my Game Pass is paid up for the next couple of years. (thanks @Hiro!)
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Lol. Sorry, thought you were taking about Forza 6/ Hitman. As in I told you about Blair Witch and you added to your schedule, and now I’m telling you about other games that you want to play. 
I’m hoping to do some Friday the 13th horror gaming tonight - want to do Blair Witch and maybe Man of Medan as well. 
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Haha it’s alright. I was so behind with this thread. 
That’s actually a great idea for the Friday the 13th thing. However I have to complete Far Cry 5. On the UPlay+ trial so only have this month to do it.
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With all the good gaming value we’ve been getting lately from Xbox Game Pass, who else, like me, completely forgot that Games With Gold is still a thing?
In November on Xbox One, become the world’s greatest detective in Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter and then take a ride across a dystopian world in The Final Station. On Xbox 360 and Xbox One [via Backward Compatibility], the Force takes flight with Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, then enjoy madcap kart racing in Joy Ride Turbo.
X019, the annual celebration of all things Xbox takes place next weekend (14-16 November) in London.
Here’s a summary of most of the games that will get some attention this year:
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Forgotten Empires/Xbox Game Studios)
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content – “The Last Khans” with three new campaigns (Tamerlane, Kotyan Khan and Ivaylo) and four new civilizations. Explore all the original campaigns like never before as well as the best-selling expansions, spanning over 200 hours of gameplay and 1,000 years of human history. -
Battletoads (Rare/Xbox Game Studios)
Battletoads is a side-scrolling, co-op action brawler and the latest instalment in a series which began as a 1991 NES cult classic. Players play as Rash, Zitz and Pimple as they fight their way through a series of challenges and enemies in order to defeat their biggest enemy yet! -
Bleeding Edge (Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios)
Bleeding Edge is a 4v4 team fighter that combines 3rd person action combat with online team multiplayer. Bleeding Edge features a diverse roster of fighters that fit into Assassin, Support or Heavy archetypes, with a mix of ranged and melee combat styles. Bleeding Edge’s moment to moment gameplay is all about combos, dodging, timing and dexterity, but ultimately, you’ll need good teamwork, synergy and strategy to secure the win! -
Cyber Shadow (Yacht Club Games)
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. Slash through the techno hordes, leap past traps, and nimbly navigate the ruins of Mekacity. Only you can unlock the secrets to your clan’s ancient powers in Cyber Shadow, the quintessential ninja action game.
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Doom Eternal (id Software, Panic Button Games)
As the Doom Slayer you return to find Earth has suffered a demonic invasion. Raze Hell and discover the Slayer’s origins and his enduring mission to rip and tear…until it is done. Experience the ultimate combination of speed and power as you battle your way across dimensions with the next leap in push-forward, first-person combat. -
Dragonball Z: Kakarot (Bandai Namco Entertainment, CyberConnect2)
Relive the thrilling adventures of Saiyan Goku in this epic action RPG that retells the beloved Dragon Ball Z saga. Join Goku in his crusade to protect Earth against a slew of fearsome foes, forging powerful friendships and growing in power along the way. Packed with over-the-top battles, challenging quests, and plenty of Super Saiyan action, Dragon Ball Game-Project Z takes you on an unforgettable ride through the DBZ universe with all of your favorite characters from the hit animated series -
Forager (Humble Bundle)
Forager is a charming 2D open-world adventure game where you can gather, craft, and specialize in a variety of different playstyles. Gather, collect and manage resources. Craft useful items and structures. Build and grow a base out of nothing. Buy land to expand and explore. Level up and learn new skills, abilities, and blueprints. Solve puzzles, find secrets and raid dungeons. The choice is yours, you set your own goals to work towards. -
Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
In Forza Horizon 4 LEGO Speed Champions, players are invited to explore a LEGO themed world, with full seasonal changes. You’ll complete LEGO Brick Challenges, build and race amazing new LEGO Speed Champions cars including the McLaren Senna, the Ferrari F40 Competizione, the 1967 Mini Cooper S Rally and the 1974 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0. You can explore an entire LEGO city, stunt park, crashed UFO site, pirate’s cove, speedway and a dinosaur graveyard. -
Gears 5 (The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios)
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever, with five thrilling modes and the deepest campaign yet. Gears 5 released on September 10 worldwide to critical acclaim and broke records as biggest launch for any Xbox Game Studios game this generation.
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Halo: Master Chief Collection (343 Industries/Xbox Game Studios)
The Master Chief’s epic journey covers six Halo games collected in a single integrated experience built for PC; optimized with refined mouse and keyboard controls, native PC features and up to 4K UHD and HDR. The great Halo journey begins with Halo: Reach – the fictional beginnings of the Master Chief’s saga – with the remaining titles following in chronological order of the story: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo 4. -
Haven (The Game Bakers)
Share the journey of two lovers, escaped to a lost planet in a desperate attempt to stay together. Play as Yu and Kay, gliding over the grassland of a shattered planet, unraveling its mysteries to find a way to settle for good. -
Levelhead (Butterscotch Shenanigans)
Play, design, and share your very own platformer levels in Levelhead, the platformer sandbox. Use power-ups, secrets, programmable switches and hundreds of components to build your levels, then share them to the world with a built-in level exchange that guarantees your level gets played. There are always new levels to play and records to beat in Levelhead! -
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Microsoft Corporation/Xbox Game Studios)
Microsoft Flight Simulator is the next generation of our longest-running, beloved franchise. Microsoft Flight Simulator is focused on realism, accuracy, and authenticity of flying. Using satellite data and photogrammetry from Bing and Azure-AI based augmentation, Microsoft Flight Simulator is purposely designed in celebration of Flight Simulator fans around the world. -
Minecraft Dungeons (Mojang Studios/Xbox Game Studios)
Fight your way through an all-new action-adventure game inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe! Up to four players can band together to battle their way through new-and-nasty mobs across action-packed and widely varied levels in an epic quest to defeat the evil Arch-Illager. Minecraft Dungeons will be coming to Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass, PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 starting in Spring 2020. -
Phogs! (Coat Sink)
In Phogs! you play as a duo of dogs, Red and Blue, on a captivating, puzzle-filled adventure playable solo or with a friend in co-op mode. Linked by a stretchy belly, you’ll need to stretch, bark and bounce your way through obstacles and challenges across three vibrant worlds themed around Food, Sleep and Play. Filled with hilarious physics-based gameplay and sneaky secrets – Phogs! is an adorable family-friendly game coming to Xbox in 2020. -
Project Resistance (Capcom)
Capcom’s Project Resistance is a new 1 vs. 4 asymmetric online survival horror experience set in the world of Resident Evil. Unleash your inner evil as a cunning Mastermind or join the fight as one of the resourceful Survivors desperately trying to escape every obstacle the Mastermind puts in their way! -
Roller Champions (Ubisoft Montreal)
Roller Champions is a free-to-play, skill-based, team PvP sports game. Try out the PC E3 Demo and feel the thrill of the competition! Roll up to 100 miles an hour, dash into opponents, wall-skate to the sky, and dunk while thousands of fans scream your name! Compete in matches between two teams of three and roll up to glory, and to bigger stadiums by winning matches and fans. Ride on the walls of the arena, tackle your opponents, and dodge them at just the right moment to make as many laps as possible. The arena awaits you! -
She Dreams Elsewhere (Studio Zevere)
She Dreams Elsewhere is a surreal adventure RPG about dreams and the extent to which they mirror reality. You play as Thalia, an anxiety-ridden, comatose woman who delve into her dreams and confront her inner nightmares after realizing she’s trapped in a coma. Unfortunately, some nightmares are harder to confront than others… It’s a deeply personal narrative dealing with real world themes such as mental health and self-identity combined with strategic turn-based combat, mind-bending levels, and a surreal, visually-striking world ripe for exploration. Welcome to your nightmare – enjoy your stay! -
SkateBird (Glass Bottom)
Grind on bendy straws, kick-flip over staplers, and carve killer lines through cardboard and sticky tape parks. Above all else, skate birds try their best!
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Respawn Entertainment)
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a new third-person action-adventure title from Respawn Entertainment. This narratively-driven single player game puts you in the role of a Jedi Padawan who narrowly escaped the purge of Order 66 following the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. On a quest to rebuild the Jedi Order, you must pick up the pieces of your shattered past to complete your training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the iconic lightsaber – all while staying one step ahead of the Empire and its deadly Inquisitors. -
Streets of Rage 4 (DotEmu)
Famously known for its non-stop action and electronic dance influenced music, the Streets of Rage series has gained the status of cult classic throughout the years. Considered one of the best beat ’em up series of all time, Streets of Rage finally returns with a brand new episode. Featuring hand-drawn visuals from the team behind Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap remake, Streets of Rage 4 builds upon the classic trilogy’s gameplay with new mechanics, a fresh story and a gauntlet of dangerous stages with a serious crime problem. -
The Good Life (White Owls)
She arrived in town only to find it was smack dab in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but sheep as far as the eye could see…and for some people, all the townspeople transform into cats and dogs at night. The Good Life is an unusual game about a pro photographer trying to pay off a debt while getting to know the locals and trying to uncover the secrets of the happiest town in the world. -
Tunic (Finji)
Tunic is an action adventure game about a small fox in a big world, who must explore the countryside, fight monsters, and discover secrets. Crafted to evoke feelings of classic action adventure games, Tunic will challenge the player with unique items, skillful combat techniques, and arcane mysteries as our hero forges their way through an intriguing new world.
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Wasteland 3 (inXile Entertainment)
Wasteland 3 is a post-apocalyptic RPG from inXile entertainment, set in the perpetual nuclear winter of Colorado. Players will face challenging tactical combat, explore an interactive world, and engage in a deep story full of brutal ethical decisions. Create and customize a squad in single player or co-op, and whether you go in guns blazing or try to smooth over a situation through peaceful negotiation, your choices will mean life or death for those trying to survive in this harsh and unforgiving world.
Also, expect to get more Game Pass, Project xCloud, and Project Scarlett news.
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Couple of the highlights from the Inside Xbox event at X019:
Everwind - (Rare) New IP
Grounded - (Obsidian) New IP, coming to Game Preview
West of Dead - in Xbox Open Beta, register at www.westofdead.com
Kartrider: Drift - coming to Xbox
Sea of Thieves - new content update
Rust - Coming to Xbox
Bleeding Edge - (Ninja Theory) new trailer, launches March 24
Planet Coaster (Console Edition) - (Frontier) - (never thought this would happen!!)
Tell Me Why - (DontNod)
The Artful Escape - (Annapurna)
Yakuza Franchise - coming to Game Pass early 2020
Drake Hollow - coming Game Pass
Halo: Reach - (343 Industries) available 3 December, Xbox One and Win10 PC, on Game Pass
MS Flight Simulator - new trailer
Age of Empires IV - (World’s Edge - new dedicated AoE Studio) new trailer, new gameplay trailer, set in Medieval era
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - out now on Steam and MS Store, included in Game Pass for PC
Crossfire X - (Xbox Studios, Smilegate Entertainment, Remedy) Free to play, FPS, coming 2020, Xbox only
Last Stop (Variable State) - reveal trailer
Fornite - Darkfire bundle avaialble
Minecraft Dungeons - coming April 2020, will be on Game Pass
Jurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park - (Frontier) JWE DLC, coming December 10
Final Fantasy - 9 FF titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2020
Kingdom Hearts - 1 and 2 coming to Xbox in 2020, free KH3 Demo available for Xbox today
Wasteland 3 - (InExile) available May 19
Project xCloud:
More games being added to the Preview programme, more countries will be added - Canada, Japan, Western Europe, bluetooth controller support, (including Sony devices), XCloud will be brought to Win10 devices next year, 1 month of EA Access this month, Madden and other EA games being added to xCloud library, in 2020 game streaming will be available for games you own, Game Pass games will also be made available.
Xbox Black Friday:
Lots of specials (“in selected markets”) 
Xbox All Access:
Subscription service for Xbox One Console, Game Pass Ultimate, Xbox Live and Gold, auto upgrade to new console for fixed monthly fee. UK and ?, US in late November
Game Pass Ultimate:
GPU subs getting 3 months of free Discord Nitro starting now Not available in SA
Game Pass:
(Found a complete list of all the Xbox Game Pass games announced and update the post on the Game Pass thread)
Available Now
- Rage 2
- The Lego Ninjago Movie
- Remnant from the Ashes
- The Talos Principle
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Coming “Holiday”
- The Witcher III - Wild Hunt
- Darksiders III
- Halo Reach
- My friend Pedro
- Life is strange 2
In 2020
- Yakuza Franchise
- Final Fantasy Franchise
- Minecraft Dungeons
- MS Flight Simulator
- Bleeding Edge
- Grounded
- Wasteland 3
- Ori: Will of the Wisps
ID@Xbox:
Lots of indies working on multiple titles:
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Decent summary of the whole event, including the odd thing or two that I missed, with a bit more detail:
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Absolutely amazing!
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Holy moly! 
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Holy shit!! Age of Empires 4!!! That looks so amazing. Also how in the hell is Microsoft Flight Simulator going to live up to that trailer? Like seriously, that looks unbelievable!
The Game Pass additions are amazing, and new IP’s looks interesting, and Project XCloud is going to have up to 1900 games, so will completely dominate Google Stadia in totality. Super excited for all the news from Xbox.
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Microsoft Flight Sim had the best trailer, by FAR! 
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I’m a little hesitant about that Ages 4 footage, truth be told. Maybe I was expecting more than 60 seconds of cutscene footage, given they haven’t talked about it for two years after the announcement.
Also, I hope it breaks some new ground. Medieval has been done so many times. I think I was expecting something different.
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December’s Xbox Games With Gold:
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Very happy about the Jurassic World game!
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If it ends up as part of XGP for PC at some point, I’ll gladly try it again. I could never get it to work properly through Steam, despite all the advice online. It kept crashing every time the game starts up. I got it to work ONCE, played the tutorial, saved and quit the game and it refused to start up again after that. It’s a pity, as I really really want to play it…
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microsoft gave me 3 pounds for free, for cyber monday
gotta love my uk account
used it to buy a 360 copy of red faction guerilla
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Maybe a bit late to the party (and I did try searching for a dedicated thread) for MasterChief Collection. While I have been looking for a good story or narrative rich experience to play, I decided to try MCC and started with Reach.
The game starts off great with an awesome intro scene and while I love a good sci-fi experience this was feeding into that for me. The game (or rather the remaster) looks awesome and seems to be building up, then came the combat… now I dunno if this is just my set up or environment as I am playing on OG Xbox One with TV speakers but I was left rather underwhelmed by the experience and somewhat offputting. The gun sounds seem to be very flat with no real ‘kick’ to them, they seem to lack any substance. The rest of the audio from voices to music sounds awesome so I’m wondering if it’s me or poor balancing on their part.
Anyone have any input?
My controllers don’t have headphone jacks iirc.