Supposedly Psychonauts 2 has been removed from the app again…?
This confirms a shadow drop for me.
If they want you to preload, they want you to play immediately after the drop.
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They did, but that was mishandled and many projects ended up being canceled.
Xbone generation was bad for Ms not only for the public facing, they canceled tons of projects.
- Stormlands from Obsidian
- Fable Legends
- Scalebound
- Press Play AAA project (after max and the magic marker and before the 3 game pitch)
- Twisted Pixel AAA project (post lococycle)
- Phantom Dust Reboot
And those are only the ones we know of.
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The fact that Psychonauts is coming to Game Pass later this month tells us that 2 won’t be releasing soon as in a shadow drop this week. Can’t see that happening. Probably indeed a E3 surprise.
It makes sense too. Let the people try out and finish the first game this month and release the sequel in June.
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I have it downloading at around an average of 30 Mbps.
Jez liked this as well.
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Man, it sure would be surprising if it does just release this month. I mean, without any real further marketing. Probably because since it’s a GP day one anyway, many people just get to play it. Still, I’m going with June.
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I would love to see it out this month or next. Psychonauts 1 was a fun game outside of the Meat Circus of coarse.
I wonder if it’s a combination of it’s on Gamepass so people will play it there and it was supported by backers on that one site (can’t remember the name) so they will get their copies.
I also wonder if MS maybe sees this as an opportunity to test Gamepass as a marketing machine. Like just putting out a game on the service day one with no marketing or press and seeing how well it does using word of mouth from 20 + million potential users.
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I mean the original (which sold very poorly) has come to be regarded as a cult classic…so theres a core audience ready and waiting.
A shadow drop during the E3 conference would do the trick as well…
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I mean it works for music and Netflix has dabbled with it as well. Game Pass does give them the avenue to do shadow drops because there is already an audience of over 20 milion who will be able to download the game.
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I never played it, so I’m looking forward to later this month. But it sounds that area you mentioned isn’t exactly great?
Whoever is involved with the running of the microsoft store, sorry to put it bluntly, very incompetent…
Everything leaks. lmao
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No, it’s still good, just spikes in difficulty far too hard on that level. I played it at launch and quit at that level, when it became backwards compatible I played the game again and beat it. It was still the most difficult of all the levels, but I am more patient now and persevered through it. I love the game over all and am really looking forward to playing the sequel.
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Omg Psychonauts was a 88?! Damn I really need to play this
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88 is too low for how fantastic the game is tbh.
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So is the Psychonaut coming to gamepass the xbox og version or a different version that has achievement points and other non xbox og benefits?