What's Out This Week?

[dezm0nd]

Rest of the month

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – August 23
Midnight Fight Express [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – August 23
Saints Row [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – August 23
SD Gundam Battle Alliance [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – August 25
Train Life: A Railway Simulator [PC] – August 25
Pac-Man World Re-Pac [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – August 26
Soul Hackers 2 [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – August 26
Back 4 Blood: Children of the Worm DLC [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – August 30
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed [PC, PS5, XSX] – August 30
F1 Manager 2022 [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – August 30
ORX [PC] – August 30
Tinykin [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – August 30
Scathe [PC] – August 31

[Truk_Kurt]

Interested in Midnight Fight Express but will probably play later in the year. Have F1 Manager pre ordered though for the 5 days early access.

[dezm0nd]

Chenso Club [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 1
The Dragoness: Command of the Flame [PC] – September 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R [PC] – September 1
The Last of Us Part 1 [PC, PS5] – September 2
Lego Brawls [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 2

[dezm0nd]

Personally interested in Tinykin.

[ratsoalbion]

Personally interested in Tinykin.

Game Pass I believe?

I also have:

Immortality
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

On my calendar for Tuesday 30th...

[Alex79]

Yeah Immortality looks interesting. Still not played Telling Lies so might try that first as I think it's also on Gamepass.

Lego Brawls is interesting, I read an article that said it's a F2P game on all formats, which blatantly isn't true. I wonder if they planned to release it free to play then decided not to, but I'm not sure a Lego take on Smash is going to set the world on fire.

[dezm0nd]

Going to update this thread on Mondays from now on. It seems most upto date around this time as opposed to others when games are missing.

Circus Electrique [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 6
Rocksmith+ [PC] – September 6
Biomutant [PS5, XSX] – September 6
Disney Dreamlight Valley [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 6
Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 7
Block'Em! [PC] – September 8
Hyperviolent [PC] – September 8
Justice Sucks: Tactical Vacuum Action [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 8
Rift Sweepers [PC] – September 8
Roadwarden [PC] – September 8
Steelrising [PC, PS5, XSX] – September 8
Betrayal At Club Low [PC] – September 9
Broken Pieces [PC] – September 9
Catmaze [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 9
NBA 2K23 [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – September 9
Splatoon 3 [Switch] – September 9

[ratsoalbion]

Splatoon for me!

[ColinAlonso]

Splatoon 3 will likely be the only game I buy at/near launch this year. I'm only worried that the 200 hours I played the second game for has left me all Splatoon'd out.

[FrittteShopClerk]

My teenage son is very much into Splatoon so he's picking up 3 this Friday. I have already been informed of the changes from the second game and I only understood about 40% of the conversation.

Apparently, three team battles are rubbish.

[ColinAlonso]

Hah, I could get really excited for some game releases back in my teens too, GTA: Vice City comes to mind.

Apparently, three team battles are rubbish.

Ah, I guess he was also on Team Scissors during the test. Nintendo need to do some more game balancing on those battles.

[dezm0nd]

Fallout 76: Expeditions: The Pitt expansion [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 13
Little Orpheus [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 13
Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 [PC] – September 13
SCP: Secret Files [PC] – September 13
Sunday Gold [PC] – September 13
Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden [PC, PS4, Switch] – September 13
WW1 Isonzo [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – September 13
XIII Remake [Switch] – September 13
You Suck At Parking [PC, XBO] – September 14
Q.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary [PC, XSX] – September 14
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 15
Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 15
Fractured Online [PC] – September 15
Metal: Hellsinger [PC, PS5, XSX] – September 15
Ultimechs [PC VR, Quest 2] – September 15
Wayward Strand [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 15
Hidden Through Time: Definitive Edition [PS4, Switch] – September 16

Metal Hellsinger is on my list (and gamepass, luckily)

Loads of games. Hopefully there's at least one in there for everybody to enjoy

[Alex79]

Probably try You Suck At Parking and maybe Metal Hellsinger, but I didnt get on with the Crypt Of The Necrodancer and the Zelda rhythm games and it seems to share some of that DNA. Funny seeing the critically panned XIII remake turn up on Switch - would be nice if they just released the Gamecube version on there!

[ratsoalbion]

Re: XIII

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/new ... -a-remake/

[dezm0nd]

I presume they don't count it as a release on the other consoles as it'll be a free update. I think I enjoyed XIII at the time but couldn't tell you why.

[Alex79]

I presume they don't count it as a release on the other consoles as it'll be a free update. I think I enjoyed XIII at the time but couldn't tell you why.

The original? It was good, I really liked it. It was a fairly average FPS at the time, but the graphical style really carried it. We'd not seen quite so much cell shaded stuff back then so it was really striking to look at. I played a lot of it again just a couple of years back and it seemed to hold up fairly well I thought.

[Alex79]

Re: XIII

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/new ... -a-remake/

That's interesting! And very surprising really that they've put so much effort in to fixing it considering it can't have sold very well (I'm only assuming). Will be interesting to see how the re-re-make scores reviews-wise, if indeed anywhere does review it again.

EDIT: Just watched the video, they really have reworked those graphics! Looks a lot more like the original.

[DeadpoolNegative]

I have vague memories of picking up the PS2 XIII for a fiver, but being not that impressed with it. A few years later the original comic finally came to US shores, and seeing the characters as originally written and created made that voice cast look even more ridiculously wrong- Eve actually makes the most sense. I wanted to play the remake because I've read and enjoyed the comic greatly, despite its wild, byzantine plotting.

Then I read those reviews.

Really impressed Microids went above and beyond to fix it. Maybe someday they'll patch out that bug in Blacksad: Under the Skin that locked up the game about 45 minutes from the ending, and when I rebooted, refused to let a cinematic trigger so I could progress. And there's only one save file.

--Dan

[dezm0nd]

Fortnite Season 4 [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 18
Return to Monkey Island [PC, Switch] – September 19
Construction Simulator [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – September 20
Deathloop [XSX] – September 20
Hardspace: Shipbreaker [PS5, XSX] – September 20
Soulstice [PC, PS5, XSX] – September 20
The DioField Chronicle [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 22
Gundam Evolution [PC] – September 22
Potion Permit [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 22
Serial Cleaners [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 22
Session: Skate Sim [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – September 22
Slime Rancher 2 [PC, XSX] – September 22
Train Life: A Railway Simulator [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – September 22
DreamWorks Dragons: Legends of The Nine Realms [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 23
Tales of Tomorrow: Experiment [PC] – September 23

[Alex79]

Looking forward to Monkey Island, but currently playing Curse again, so I'm hoping I might just catch the first wave of sales by the time I'm ready to play it. Don't think there's anything else that takes my fancy this week, but I noticed AC Odyssey hit Gamepass along with Deathloop, so will be getting stuck in to those.