MisterFrodo17

@hug_niceman: Whenever I have a subtitle just stay on screen, if I pause and turn the subtitles on and off again, it'll go away. I'm playing the Xbox One version on Series X, though, so I'm not sure if it'll work on your platform.

Visual bugs like that aside, I'm honestly having a pretty great time with it. I think I've been lucky though in that I haven't hit any major bugs. I do think the story and particularly the sidequests get much better after Act 1, so I'm kinda bummed they don't give you more interesting side stuff from the get-go.

I'm over 40 hours into Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and I'm having a fantastic time with it. I loved Odyssey, and the ways this expands on the RPG elements of it (such as building relationships (and romances) with NPC's in the settlement) definitely hits the right buttons for me. I don't think I'll have it done before Cyberpunk comes out, so now I'm debating if I'm comfortable buying Cyberpunk before finishing it... hopefully I can have some self-control and wait.

I also have been making my way through the Control DLC; I finished the first one a couple weeks ago and am into the second one now. It's been a while since I played the base game, so I've been really enjoying getting back into that, and I'm liking the Alan Wake references of the second DLC.

Finally, though sales and Game Pass, my friend and I now have three games-as-service we're "playing" together: The Division 2, Avengers, and Anthem. Oddly enough, of the three... I think I've had the most fun with Anthem so far. I bounced off it after doing the trial when it came out, but the moment-to-moment gameplay is still a lot of fun, and playing with him helps make it more enjoyable than matchmaking with randos. I enjoyed the campaign in Avengers, but the multiplayer seems pretty repetitive, and I don't enjoy it as much as either of the other two (or Destiny 2, for that matter, which I'm waiting for the Series X update to jump back into).

Also that same friend and I finally finished up Chris's campaign in Resident Evil 6, and that game is still one of my favorite games of all time. I know it's a bad game, but I love how unabashedly over-the-top and crazy it is. I'm glad for the direction that RE went afterwards (I loved the RE 2 Remake), but part of me still would love to see them deliver a more polished version of RE6's over-the-top action in the future.

Fun fact: Bunger is voiced by Tom Taylorson, who voiced Octodad in, well, Octodad, but also the male Ryder in Mass Effect Andromeda!

The more you know...

I got a Series X, and I'm really enjoying it! This is the first console I've bought at launch, and while it is a more incremental upgrade, I'm still having a good time. I've been playing a lot of Valhalla as my shiny game at launch, and I've also been finishing up some titles in my back catalog (I finished the first Control DLC and The Outer Worlds last night. Being able to easily carry over my Xbox One saves via the cloud is fantastic.

For me, one of the biggest things is getting a solid 60fps in certain games. Valhalla feels super smooth, and Fallen Order at 60fps is a revelation. It's honestly made it tough for me to switch to 30fps games at times, and I hope that we'll be seeing some patches to unlock frame rates on Xbox One games.

I also splurged and bought a CX OLED right before launch. While I'm still not sure I should have spent all that money, the games sure look good on it!

@plan6: Yeah, that's a really good point, and it sucks. :-( Part of me was hoping for a situation where employees wouldn't have to crunch to complete the next-gen versions, but that feels naive at this point.

@plan6: Aren't the actual "free upgrades" not coming until 2021? I believe the deal at launch is that the Series X/S and PS5 will be backwards compatible with the Xbox One/PS4 versions, and the actual next-gen upgrade won't come until next year.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/cyberpunks-ps5-xbox-series-x-2021/

I definitely am! I bought it on Xbox all the way back in 2016 but have only beaten White Orchard. I've been thinking of getting back to it and finally trying to do a full playthrough, and this is the perfect opportunity.

Assuming it's not crazy buggy or bad, Assassin's Creed Valhalla. I'm excited for it but I'm waiting to see some reviews before locking in my purchase.

Other than that, Jedi: Fallen Order and Red Dead Redemption 2; I'm currently on second playthroughs of both on the One X, and I'm especially curious to see how the former plays on the Series X. I'm hoping it'll be able to hit a solid 60!

I would say it's a key factor. I have a lot of Xbox One games, including a fair-sized backlog, and the idea that I can play them on the Series X with better frame rates and load times when I get it in November is very tantalizing. Plus, hearing that the PS5 seems to be compatible with all the PS4 games I own makes me more interested in getting it sooner rather than later, though I plan to wait and see how well the BC works on PS5.

I usually hold on to older consoles for a while, but this may be the first time I get rid of them when I get the new ones, (I already plan to give my sister my One X) and that's purely due to BC.

@justin258: Just wanted to say this was a fantastic response and explanation! Thank you for posting this.