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[Varteras]

StarCraft was never ported to console? Huge miss there….

Why Real-Time Strategy Games Rarely Come to Home Consoles

Real-time strategy games are usually PC exclusives. Here are a few reasons why we often don't see them on home consoles.

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[twilo99]

Omg, look what I found!

It’s a shame we never got a TV show or some sort of animated series based on Star Craft .. there is an insane amount of material in there

 

[ManaByte]

StarCraft was never ported to console? Huge miss there….

 

[Ridicululzz]

Excited to try out Mech Warrior

 

[dorkimoe]

Always wanted to give Dead Island 2 a go. WIll also play the COD campaign!

It sucks. First was way better imo

 

[xrnzaaas]

I haven't heard of any of those games that are leaving. That's a great leaving month too.

Lonely Mountains Downhill is pretty great indie game. Your objective is to reach the bottom of the hill on a downhill bicycle as quickly as possible and without mistakes. Really fun to look for shortcuts and other ways to end up higher on the leaderboards.

 

[Punished Miku]

Never had a mech game truly click for me, but I will give this a extended try. Would be nice to find an entirely new genre. They definitely have big budget cutscenes. Just have to see if the gameplay holds my attention.

 

[Darsxx82]

COD BO campaign and Mech Warrior 5 for me. Maybe some surprise shadow drop on Thursday??
Anyway I have several pending games to finish. I'm incredibly hooked on EXPEDITIONS MugRunner.... I never thought a game like this could do it .

 

[Punished Miku]

COD BO campaign and Mech Warrior 5 for me. Maybe some surprise shadow drop on Thursday??
Anyway I have several pending games to finish. I'm incredibly hooked on EXPEDITIONS MugRunner.... I never thought a game like this could do it .

I tried that for 5 min and realized I need to like print out the controls on a sheet of paper to have a reference at all times.

 

[VanCityGamer]

I continue to think Game Pass on console has taken a step back over the past 3-6 months. Noticeable drop in quality to me. Glad to see CoD though.

 

[Fess]

Day 1 on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign

 

[Mister Wolf]

Never had a mech game truly click for me, but I will give this a extended try. Would be nice to find an entirely new genre. They definitely have big budget cutscenes. Just have to see if the gameplay holds my attention.

I'll definitely be playing. Maybe we can try the co-op. I've had love for the Mechwarrior series since:

 

[Darsxx82]

I tried that for 5 min and realized I need to like print out the controls on a sheet of paper to have a reference at all times.

I had the same impression while I was going through the tutorial, but then it didn't take long for me to get the hang of the controls and now it's all instinctive. The game is a challenge (physics control, choice of stages, mechanics...) and I think it looks fantastic.
EXPEDITIONS is definitely my discovery of the year and a personal surprise. If it weren't for Gamepass I would never have discovered it.

 

[Topher]

• October 16 | South Park: The Fractured but Whole
• October 17 | Donut County
• October 17 | MechWarrior 5: Clans (Day One)
• October 25 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Day One)
• October 29 | Ashen
• October 31 | Dead Island 2 (PC, already on console)
• November 5 | StarCraft: Remastered (PC)
• November 5 | StarCraft II: Campaign Collection (PC)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming on October 25.

Coming to Game Pass: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, StarCraft & StarCraft II, and More - Xbox Wire

Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, StarCraft I & II, and more!

news.xbox.com

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[poppabk]

Day 1 on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign

Yep MWIII was the first CoD I had played since Black Ops 2, and I enjoyed the campaign - and that was a throw away campaign, hoping they have a proper 8 hour campaign for this one.

 

[Fess]

Yep MWIII was the first CoD I had played since Black Ops 2, and I enjoyed the campaign - and that was a throw away campaign, hoping they have a proper 8 hour campaign for this one.

MW3 was the first COD I played since the 360 launch Was surprised how much I enjoyed it, people were so down on it, I thought it was great, took me 7 hours to go through it.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

MW3 was the first COD I played since the 360 launch Was surprised how much I enjoyed it, people were so down on it, I thought it was great, took me 7 hours to go through it.

It was great, enjoyed it more than MWII campaign and the building level is an all time classic already.
The MP is the best cod has ever been, sledgehammer has gotten a lot of flack in the past (sometimes deservedly so), but they absolutely killed it with MWIII MP and post launch support.

 

[joeygreco1985]

Donut County was delightful. I purchased it after it fell off of game pass last time

 

[Fess]

and the building level is an all time classic already.

Yeah omg that was great! That was my favorite. And also the level with the big field and high grass where you tried to enter a bunker. I played that like a MGS game, crawled in the grass and carefully sniped guards.

 

[Rush2112]

How does someone on xbox play starcraft well?

 

[Agent_Nobody]

How does someone on xbox play starcraft well?

It’s still PC only (well except for the N64 version).

 

[dorkimoe]

How does someone on xbox play starcraft well?

they dont, they get a PC

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

How does someone on xbox play starcraft well?

 

[hemo memo]

Don't sleep on Donut County. It's short, but it's good.

Also, South Park is really great.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Hoping Mechwarrior 5 Clans at least fixes the ally AI, it made the game next to impossible to play solo after a certain point because the AI would follow commands for exactly 5 seconds before reverting to doing stupid shit again, forcing you to babysit them the entire mission by spamming commands non-stop.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

StarCraft was never ported to console? Huge miss there….

Too tied to a mouse presumably.

IIRC Diablo on consoles plays more like a traditional ARPG than the clickfest of the earlier games on PC.

 

[Spyxos]

Wow, what a great month.

 

[skit_data]

This was a good reminder that I need to buy and finish all the Starcraft 2 campaigns. I played Wings of Liberty at launch and it was awesome, but I never played the other two campaigns because they released quite a few years later than WoL.

 

[Thebonehead]

I hate to tell you my man, but best throw away every tv in your house as they're all xboxs now

 

[joshwaan]

PC Game Pass...

Well cost them 70 billion for COD so you should be eating well for a change

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Isn’t Dead Island 2 also in the PS+ higher tiers this month as well? Weird. Or maybe I am wrong.

A bunch of interesting stuff I will check out.

 

[adamsapple]

Isn’t Dead Island 2 also in the PS+ higher tiers this month as well? Weird. Or maybe I am wrong.

A bunch of interesting stuff I will check out.

No, you're right. It came out on PS+ this month as well.

It's like how Capcom's games (RE2/3 remake came out on both at the same month(s) as well, publisher free-for-all deal, I guess.)

 

[Bulletzen72]

If people haven't played it before, don't sleep on Ashen! It's a pretty great souls like game.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Always wanted to give Dead Island 2 a go. WIll also play the COD campaign!

It sucks. First was way better imo

It's good (DI2), I even bought the DLC.

 

[GloveSlap]

Looks like i'm finally going to play the Starcraft games. Is Starcraft remastered a good remaster though?

 

[Mephisto40]

Coming to GamePass Ultimate

 

[adamsapple]

Will SC1 and 2 have achievements? i-e are they the MS store versions now?

 

[Punished Miku]

If people haven't played it before, don't sleep on Ashen! It's a pretty great souls like game.

Flintlock is far better. Same studio.

 

[Elitro]

Never bought the final chapter of SC2, might have a go this time