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I think I'll start relying on gaming sessions to remind me if I can't find that calendar.

New Site Feature: Achievement Reminder System

My hope is that this is just a one off thing and Microsoft steps in to fix the achievement system once and for all.

My policy has been that I'm willing to play a super-easy completion game once in a blue moon only if it's actually fun (and in a genre I enjoy.)

But much like Rhy, I've managed to avoid falling into the pit (even in the case of the Neo-Geo games, which are all fun games, but still make me feel like a mook, haha.)

Out of curiosity I checked Ratalaika's current library: they're up to near 100 games?! That seems like a much bigger issue than the few Xitilon games haha.

I'm just enoying the freakout in the forums over these games. People get so worked up over nothing lmao. I have no desire to play these but if others do, I say have fun.

I play the occasional easy game if it's super cheap, on Game Pass, or something like that. I don't go out of my way to buy a bunch of them.

Amen. People love to harp that, "Gamerscore is now meaningless." But it was that way from the start. GS alone never meant anything. It's why TA was created.

Since there were always games that took hundreds/thousands of hours to earn 1000gs, and always games that only took a day of playing or less to complete. Also Avatar.

Funny note: less than a day after I made this post, it already got pushed below my profile's visible friend feed due to all the people completing Xitilon games.

New games aren't a concern. I want it to run my Xbox ONE games at proper quality. The XB1 hardware was outdated seven years ago. Any newer games run horribly on it.

It was hard to use my XB1 already after being used to PC. And now Series X can run XB1 games at PC quality. It makes it hard to justify booting it until then.

Last gen was a totally different story; it didn't launch with back-compat. And while Dead Rising 3 became one of my all-time faves, it wasn't worth a launch purchase.

The "upside" is my work is nightmare mode again, so very little gaming time anyway. Though considering limited gaming time, loading time matters even more.

Xbox One X already solved that problem for me ... games run great on it.

I have an Xbox One X, too. With an external SSD to boot. The loading time is still absolute torture. Literally 10x as long as on PC ports of the same games.

That being said, it runs miles better than the original XB1. I appreciate it, and it'll serve me well enough until Series X is actually findable.

But it really shows how bad the CPU and throughput is (the two parts they didn't upgrade.) The really well-optimized games run and look nice, but they're outliers.

Load times never really bother me. That's "take a drink or check internet" time lol.

It was always funny to get used to load times being time to grab a beverage, take a bathroom break, etc. And then when you lose that, you go, "When will I pee?!"