Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. We will see what the critical average works out to be, and this user score may drop in time as more and more reviews come in, but so far, this is a pretty unequivocal success for Xbox and a great moment for developer Tango Gameworks.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. This joins similarly high scores on Steam, where the game has 98% positive reviews from players, and those are ones that even have to pay for it, as it costs $30 there.

Geez, I guess I really gotta play Dynasty Warriors 9 and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, huh? Someone really likes them.īut yes, as it stands, Hi-Fi Rush is a top 10, close to top 5 rated game by users for this entire console generation, indicating there just isn’t much negative to say about it. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – 9.1.GOTY contenders/winners God of War Ragnarok and Elden Ring have user scores of 7.9 and 7.7 respectively, for whatever reason. Again, you'll definitely attract people who are curious and they will download but by in large, being on Game Pass isn't going to automatically convert these people to downloading a particular title.įor what the title is (and I think it's a pretty niche title), I'd say the results are very good and I imagine Microsoft/Tango are happy with the results.Īlso, using Vault-Tec & Bernd Lauert Game Pass examples above, I put that into spreadsheet form, so it's easier to compare all these Game Pass titles.Here, I suppose we can consider context of user scores, as they are subject to console war bombing or just tend to go down with more and more reviews counted. And being on Game Pass won't change that. / 4:29 PM EDT 0 Microsoft has announced new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in late January to early February, which includes Hi-Fi RUSH, GoldenEye 007, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The reason this is the case is the average person simply don't find many indie games attractive, no matter how good they may be. With a few exceptions, almost all of them get very few downloads. There are (I think) quite a good amount of high quality, very good indie games on Game Pass (that also have high Metacritic scores - Pentiment, anyone?). Other examples that hammer this point home are indie games. Sure, you'll get people who are curious and want to check it out but by in large, people who aren't interested in the game will simply never download it. Just because it's on Game Pass doesn't mean people are going to automatically download a title. The game still needs to be appealing to people. At the end of the day, Hi Fi Rush is simply not a very mainstream title that appeals to most, average people.

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