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LudicrousSpeed on 29 August 2021
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SKMBlake said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

GamePass is constantly evolving and getting better, the place it was in four years ago is completely different than now. It’s not all that similar to Now either, because it offers bigger games and offers them day one at times, too. It’s also offering DLCs now. It’s not going to have a huge effect on sales until it reaches a wider audience, which MS is working on with xCloud and the GamePass smart device. 

Yeah but we saw that half of the "day one" games coming out this year were pretty lackluster (Outriders, The Medium, The Ascent, The Falconeer) so it started this trend where when a game is announced "day one Game Pass", people started to think that will probably bad rated.

Never played Falconeer (which released in 2020 by the way, not this year) but there's nothing "lackluster" about the other three games. And I don't see anyone perpetuating this supposed thought of bad rated games except jaded gamers invested in console warz. I don't give those people or their input any worth at all. I actually pity them, to value the rating journalists give a game over their own experience. My most played game of all time is a 58 on Metacritic. Look at a game you mentioned, Falconeer. In the 60's meta on Xbox. Yuck! Why should I even waste my time! Same game on Switch, 80 rated. What a laughably flawed way to look at things.

Also idk what you're talking about with half the day one games this year being "bad rated".

80+ rating:
Cyber Shadow
Yakuza Collection
Flight Sim
The Show 21
Psychonauts 2
Genesis Noir
Octopath Traveler
Undertale
Knockout City
Hades
Dodgeball Academia
Art of Rally

70+ rating:
Wild at Heart
The Medium
Rain on Your Parade
MechWarrior 5
Outriders
Worms Rumble
Cris Tales
Atomicrops
Omno

The only two games I have come across that launched on Xbox this year and reviewed below a 70 are The Ascent, and Last Stop. I've never played Last Stop, but Ascent is far from a bad game imho, regardless of what the almighty reviewers say. What exactly do you consider to be a "bad rating", lol? Because to me this list shows that even if you for some reason give a shit about meta scores, GamePass offered a ton of day one Xbox games and a vast majority of them are quite good.