Honestly thought I was the only one who experienced this! I'd scroll through the gamepass and see games I know I'd really love, install them, but not put any times into them. I was even self aware of how I was never motivated to play a free game or game pass games as I didn't spend money on them, but genuinely thought it was just a me thing
I’ll admit, Starfield was meh, at most. After the whole “Starborn” thing, it really made me turn the game off. Todd needs to get off the Skyrim formula.
Played through the starborn main quest and yeah it was boring and I grinded to new game plus 8 or 9, which was painful. But after this I tried the factions and I have to say they're fantastic and really well written.
I've felt this pretty hard recently. Over christmas I had Game Pass, my Steam games blacklog, a bunch of ames on Epic, and handful of games on my Nintendo Switch and then I decided to spend a $250 gift card on even more Switch games. I ended up burning my brain out and just deleting a bunch of guff, selling my Xbox in favour of a Playstation and wittling down my Switch games to things I have to complete before I can move onto something else. Since then I'm sticking to buying my games only. If I buy Game Pass or Playstation Premium, I just download things, play them for half hour, and move on, or I just get overwhelmed and scroll through the same list for an hour. Buying physical is my way to go for a while. Since I've reguarded my PC as 'This is my social platform where I play games with friends'. My PS5 and Switch are now 'Singleplayer games.' and I've beaten Xenoblade, God of War 2018 and soon to be ToTK since Christmas, its been nice to take choice away from myself. It was nice to see that someone was having the exact same problem that I was having. I really like your video, it's struck a chord with me.
I mean it feels pretty clear with gamepass that it’s not a rental. Do you think you own any of the movies you watch on Netflix? I agree that it erases that line a bit and I tend to prefer to buy physical - even if the discs are mostly useless now. I am fully aware that all of these games are not products I own. I wish the industry was different in a lot of ways but it’s been heading down this path for so long that it would take way more than just a few people unsubscribing to game pass to stop it. For what it is - I think it is worth the price - but I understand how others might feel that way.
@@KlumpGamez I’m a gamer, not a movie buff. And yes, a lot of people wished things were different, but none of you have the discipline to punish these companies for anti-consumer practices. Worse, a lot of players will support a good cause online, but buy these garbage things in private. Y’all are mindless consumers. Like dogs salivating at a bone. Sorry if this comes across as rude, but you know it’s true. Players have the power, but the companies push manipulative and addictive “experiences”, because they want you to think with your emotions instead of your brains. And it works. Mark my words, if the next generation of consoles will even have disc drives, they’ll be released in smaller numbers. But gamers will buy the garbage anyway.
@@Hynotama if you think it’s mindless because I made an informed decision as a consumer and decided that the value of renting games through gamepass is worth the fee - that I don’t know what to tell you. Also how is GamePass ransomware? I don’t think it’s gonna release all my personal information unless I keep paying for the subscription lol
Me when I don’t own gamepass: man look at all these great games I could play for only $15 a month!!!! Me when I own gamepass: eh none of these games really look fun right now
I just got PC Game Pass and this is so true! But also its fun being able to play a different game everyday. Probably not good to start hundreds of games and never beat them but I already been doing that since childhood. Dozens of games that I started but lost interest in. But now with gamepass its a low price instead of spending $60 on a game and never playing it ever again after a week.
Thank you my friend! Ironically the Xbox One was my first Xbox (had Nintendo and Sony stuff). Mostly just got it so I could have all 3 major consoles at once. Hoping the Series X will be the one I fall in love with
@@KlumpGamez The Xbox One was the first major console I remember getting. (I already had a Xbox 360 so I wasn't really there at launch) and it always made me annoyed because playstation would always get these heavy hitter exclusives meanwhile I felt like I was poking at my Xbox One saying "Do something"
@@BooperDooper-u8p I got an Xbox One to play all the old COD Zombies games, that alone made it my favorite console out at the time. PlayStation exclusives really don't do anything for me, and the Wii U was the Wii U. (I had a Wii U, but basically stopped playing it after the Switch came out and games stopped releasing.)
@@LAST_STAND_FAN I guess I just respected PlayStation more over the years because I felt like they were the ones the consistently cared about making games for their consoles. Yet again, if you have any console. I personally don't give a shit. Play whatever you want, no one's going to put you on a hitlists besides maybe Twitter.
I am feeling the same way about Game Pass. I chose X over PS 5 mainly for back compact games, for as a primary PC gamer I haven't had a chance to play Fable, Crackdown (Which I love btw, dumb fun game). What I think is important to point out is that you can still buy the games on game pass, and the game pass is offering additional discounts on the games in the library. So if you like to buy games, I'd say that Game Pass is like a glorified demo like service which allows you to actually fully try the games without any time restrictions and eventually buying them if you'd like to own them. Like for example, yes you can stream movies left and right nowadays, but people still enjoy buying their favorite films just for the sake of owning them (in a relative sense that is). In general, I'm still inclined to buy the games, though I'd like to own them on Steam tbh, but heck I can't keep up with ever-changing hardware :D. Another thing that I think is worth mentioning, is that by buying games on sales we are creating a backlog, and are pretty much putting ourselves in shackles of "I bought I need to complete". With Game Pass, I can finally drop games I don't enjoy playing. Like Dead Space remake, which I would have bought for sure if not for Game Pass because I like survival horror, but this time it just didn't click. And so what, I just dropped it and play the games I actually enjoy. I think subscription based services are the future.
The game pass discounts are definitely an added perk of the service for sure! While I’m not the most stoked on subscription services being the primary way I experience games, I like it as a secondary option. Glad you’re enjoying your time with Game Pass!
This was the same for me. When I subscribed to GamePass, I had no idea what to play because there were so many random options. People said Celest, but I saw it was a generic 2D game that I don't really like. Halo Infinite got low reviews. Hades is a game that you need to be a really good player to be good at. Fallout 3 (or 5, who knows?) had the worst graphics, so I didn't bother). No one likes racing games like Forza or Gran Turismo. I eventually canceled GamePass and got a Switch. That was then I got lots of stuff I like! For those wondering, get Mario, as it's amazing. I will update later after I beat Mario.
Yo that sums me up over the last 2 years, mostly played a lot of Halo and GTA5, bought it when they removed it, OH and bought all the Final Fantasy games to paly thru. But ya, GamePass does paralyze you, I let mine run out and going to leave it for a while.
These types of services that shower you with games are only good for conpletonists and for people that like to play every genre of games. Because there is always a title wating around the corner and more points for your gamerscore or platinum trophy for your collection. I decided to jailbreak my ps3 and the moment I got to see the list of games I could play I downoaded about 30 games, only o delete more than half because I needed space to play another few I wanted, some of them I had played already
I would suggest playing lies of p and Starfield. Starfield gets a lot of flack but blasting off into space for the first time is pretty cool I can’t lie.
I feel like the menu system in Starfield would piss me off. Maybe I’ll try lies of p but I got burned out of Elden Ring in 40 hours and idk if I’m ready for another souls style game
Haha it’s different for everyone - no shade on that! Was just sharing my personal experience. May also be a little biased as I definitely have more interest in a majority of Nintendo’s and Sony’s games than a typical Microsoft release. Really stoked for Indiana Jones later this year though!
Great video I sold my series x because it felt weird to own a console where all of my games are playable by subscription only. Like i have this engrained look in my mind where I'm obliged to rush through as many games as possible before my monthly subscription ends and I don't like that when i play my games
Also your point about focusing on certain games because you bought rings true with me and several of my recent ps5 games like I'm currently doing with jedi survivor
@KlumpGamez I'm enjoying it but I'm baffled at how buggy this game is compared to the original in so many more ways than one plus I dunno I find the story to not be as engaging as the original but that might be just me because I'm only half way through the game.
@@shawklan27 see I felt almost the opposite on the story lol. To me both games were fairly buggy which is unfortunate but I was able to power through that at least
@@KlumpGamez you won’t regret it it’s one of those games that you look at and you’re like I mean it doesn’t really look like my thing etc, but it reminds me of halo 3 odst, the gears of war horde mode and the original battlefronts put together with dialogue from destroy all humans /Futurama hahaha it’s great
Used to have like a 3 year subscription to gamepass, but ended up not renewing. I just played a few games regularly without exploring too much of the catalog. Since then I just went back to buying what I want to play.
Finally someone who gets it. I genuinely avoid playing single player games on Xbox because GP has too many games and sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the choices I have. Too much of a good thing lol
Good vid man. I only got Game Pass ultimate last week because my Xbox gold was running out and I have a pc now. The Dishonored games are some of my favourites, but looking forward to playing High on life and some others. There was even some games I wanna try like Homestead Arcania whoch seem a bit diff from my usual games. Plus Palworld is just added I think so saves me buying it. On top of that I got a bunch of games on g2a that I wanna play through first, so I am doing a play order. So lik I did GoW ragnarok, doing Arkham Origins next, then Shadow of Mordor
I’ve been currently playing remnant 2 and it has been a lot of fun. If you like looter shooters with many bosses to fight you’d enjoy it. It’s best to play with a friend though.
I personally found that narrowing the backlog to 10 games i want to beat worked wonders for my ability to actually complete anything from my backlog of probably 500 games
the fact you think hi fi rush is Microsoft's best game in a long time and the fact that it....actually is really tells how much of a grip they have on the consumer. game is dogwater, mid tier garbage.
@@NostalgiaNet8 that’s fair but I think that game isn’t as much of a success as it is if Microsoft wasn’t attached. I think the shadow drop during the developer direct was a big deal for this game
