Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "XBOX GAMES SHOWCASE 2025"

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

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Now of course I cannot say the phrase that a lot of Sony ponies love to get across because when it comes to Xbox not having no games essentially that is no longer true. As when it comes to the Xbox game showcase 2025, you have to know that a lot of things to showcase showcase and a lot of things are also on the Xbox game pads. Now why do I bring that up? it's because when it comes to the Xbox game pass, right? Xbox Game Pass subscription prices. When it comes to the Xbox Game Pass and them showcased in a lot of different games than the Xbox showcases also highlight how they're coming day one at Xbox Game Pass, a lot of people try to say, hey,

with the game pass, it's not as intuitive because it's too expensive. Now, don't kill me. I swear there are people on this. internet out here saying that so with that being said I just want to read off a couple of prices right when it comes to the Xbox game pass standard you have the monthly addition that's $15 a month you have the Xbox game pass for PC that's $12 a month the first month for new subscribers is $1 if you want to pay it in full the Xbox Game Pass core is $75 for the whole entire year at some point you

should probably think to yourself i am wasting my money buying these games outright the xbox game pass has to be one of the most cost effective ways to be a gamer in 2025 and if you say otherwise then you are just completely misguiding the public because when it comes to the xbox game pass and the prices and the hundreds upon hundreds of games and not only games but new games that are coming day one i would be hard you would be hard you would be hard press to find anything, any other ecosystem that cares about your dollar more than the Xbox game pass. I'm talking to PC players and Xbox because I play Xbox games on PC. I don't even have an Xbox. And I'm out here playing on the Xbox ecosystem because of the game pass in its

connection with PC players as far as like I said with Xbox game pass for PC is $12 a month. So with that being said, y'all already know the high praise that I have for the Xbox game pass. that I think that was pretty obvious and I stated that in a way that you hopefully received it. So getting into the showcase and all of the games are coming to that Game Pass day one, well, not all of them, but all of them for like, except like two or three. So this event was fully digital as far as the live stream and it was on Xbox, YouTube and Twitch. It showcased new game reveals, updates, trailers, hardware across Xbox consoles, PC and Xbox GamePass, of course. then you have the emphasis on Xbox play anywhere which if you don't know there's an app which essentially lets you play the Xbox game pass from wherever whether you're on your phone you could beam it to your phone I don't know why you would because I tried that one time and I was like you know what this is cool but I can't see anything so anyway it's just like a whole it works like what's the PlayStation version of that because that's why I was using for Assassin Cree shadows

the remote play that's what's called okay so ps well the playstation version is called the ps remote it's essentially like that you could beam it to anything as long as you have the connection uh available to be able to play it across the world i know some people had a hard time playing it on the tablets or ipads literally you could play it on whatever i kid you not i thought it was a scam for it like you no way i could that's why i boot it up on my phone i was like there's no way i could just play this game on any device and loo behold it pulled up then the entire assassin create gameplay and the UI on my phone. And I was looking at it.

I was like, I can't see anything, but this is wonderful. So anyways, if you have an iPad, I would say that's one of the best ways to have something as mobile and also be able to play games from anywhere. But besides that fact, they also said when it comes to a lot of these games that come to the Xbox Game Pass day one, as you already know, it's going to be a lot of praise for the Xbox Game Pass. But putting that to the side, y'all probably don't want to hear about the plethora of games that they revealed.

Of course, for the Xbox games is that there, just put your nerd hat on because we're about to go through several games. And let's just say I'm not going to highlight all of them, but I'm going to highlight some of the most important ones. Starting off the top reveals for the Xbox Game Pass, what Xbox Games showcase. Ninja Guideon 4 was revealed and it's the first sequel in 13 years. Code developed by Team Ninja and Platinum Games where there's two protagonists Yakumo and Ryu. No, not Ryu from Street Fighter, Ryu from Ninja Garden. So the setting is de-manifested Tokyo goals, well, de-manifested Tokyo, and of course, you're trying to stop a dragon. And with the gameplay, there was a lot of brutal or brutalities and, let's just say violent gameplay, right?

And that's what you could come to assume, especially when it's being developed by Team Ninja. So anyways, that's coming to Xbox Series X-SPS5 and PC. Now, of course, at first glance, you're like, hold up now. This is an Xbox game pass. When this is an Xbox game showcase and what platform did I just see you or I just hear you name? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, some of these games that showcases also come to PlayStation. To put that to the side, I was highlighting the Xbox game pass. I was not highlighting the fact that Microsoft had all their exclusives in the world.

But we will get to a certain exclusive that a lot of people are going to be upset about. So anyways, Beast of Reincarnation. I don't really care too much about that. one but they says from game freak which made Pokemon action with uh near um they say it has action with near autonomy and princess monocle vibes and you hunt corrupted beasts and futuristic japanese style world and i'm not going to lie to you as far as playing shadows i just love the japan setting like that's just one of the as far as the history and document i've never been a historian but i just loved it to know how they came about with the designs for certain things for certain

things in Japan because it just looks immaculate. So anyways, this is another game set in that area as far as a beast of reincarnation. And then we had, well, Japan and Tokyo is different, right? Tokyo, isn't that same thing? Let me see. Tokyo, that's definitely the same thing. Why not just separate them? Yeah, it's capital of Japan.

Why do I think that? I don't know. Brain fart or whatever. So anyways, my point still stands. So getting into the blood of Dawn Walker, It's a dark fantasy sandbox RPG by Rebel Wolves, the ex-Witcher 3 devs. So I don't know what they had to do to get the X put in front of the Witcher 3 devs, but seemingly people don't care as the blood of Dawn Walker is very hyped up,

and a lot of people are excited for it. So I'm just naming off some of these games to showcase what obscure type games they had, and of course we're going to get to the bigger ones than the second. And then we have Mudane Two Hearts, which is the third-person stealth action, set in near future Korea during reunification and then two protagonists which is a north korean soldier and k-pop idol trapped in terrorist conspiracy what in the junk cook is this i'm looking at this whole plot line i'm thinking to myself that bt s end up making a whole video game about themselves anyways that's a joke that's a joke the k-pop community don't come after me so with that being said

clockwork revolution also was revealed which is the first person to RPG with time bending mechanics and there's no release date likely post 2025 but it's coming out on the Xbox series X slash S and PC now let's get into the games a lot of people was clamoring for and excited as far as a reveal right out the gate super meat boy 3d started off with a bang because guess what they out here using pipes in their trailers now obviously if you look at a pipe coming out of the ground you're gonna think is Mario But no, that is not the case as Super Meat Boy tease the pipe, a Mario style pipe, mind you. But Super Meat Boy is the person who jumped out over the pipe.

But when it comes to the game, it's essentially the same. It's a platform. Well, not the same. Let me disrespect Mario games. But it's the same mechanically, right? Platforming, 3D environment, player controls a cube of meat. You guys. See, that's the problem.

A player controls a cube of meat. rescuing girlfriend from weird jar baby the gameplay of course is brutal platforming with saws grinders and spikes seeming like this is straight out of that one hot dog movie i forget what it's called but there's a whole adult let me see adult hot dog movie i forget what it's called um let's see animated hot dog movie that's not what it's called i see it right here they have the whole ah sausage party that's what it is sausage party that's what this reminds me of maybe sausage party characters is going to make a a cameo and super meat boy you know i mean maybe they got to bring all to meat you know what i'm saying you guys see that's the problem anyways all childishness is

set to aside let's get into the next reveal that actually had people very excited which was gears of war reloaded because if you don't know gears of war d day where is that stuff to come out gears of war d day gears of war d day is said to come out in 2026 it does not seem like it has an official date okay so it's just coming 2026 with gt a 6 coming out in 2026 i would assume that every single game is coming out at least three to four months before gta 6 so gta 6 release date may 26 of 2026 okay so january march april may So if a game is coming out after February, you can almost assume that it's not going to have a long lifespan. Because when GTA 6 comes out, it's going to be like a black hole in a gaming community.

Nobody's going to be playing anything else. Now, of course, I'm going to play different games. I'm just talking about the masses. So anyways, I would assume it comes out January or February as far as the Gears of War D-Day release. But they are putting out the remake of the original Gears of War, which features 4K resolution. 120 FPS and then of course you have cross play and cross progression it includes all post-launched that's fire because as a massive fake fan when i ran through the game once more as far as the legendary edition it was nice to not have to download all the individual dLC for the particular

game but i will say the biware devs did say some of the dc coding got lost when they made that transition to the remake so hopefully it doesn't happen for gears of war but it seems like when it comes to older games, I don't know if it's because, you know, the internet, it was a new thing back then. You know, I'm not trying to call them ancient, but let's just say they just can't find the files at all sometimes. And hopefully it's not the case for this.

Hopefully they have all the post-launch D.C. Because I forget what particular D.O.C. mission buyerware loss, but they said they literally don't have their original coating. Like, they don't know where's that. So because the original, let me see, Gills of War came out a while ago as far as the first one. Gears of War, War and release state. Okay, 2006, goodness gracious.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's almost 20 years ago. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? Sometimes I look at this, I think to myself, man, am I really getting that old? No, this was like, all right. So anyways, that game is set to have a lot of the hardcore

and people looking forward to Gears of War D-Day, I'm excited as with this being showcased, a lot of people already was clamoring for Gears of Word D day. So now they're probably like, you know what? Gears of War is already one of my favorite games of all time. Let me hop into it once more. So when it comes to the release day, August 26 of this year, which once again goes back to my theory about a lot of games trying to avoid a GT6 black hole. And I think Gears of War D Day would end up coming out either January or February, 2026. but you know that's that's um yet to be seen all right and then as you see on right on the screen

right now analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio invincible has a video game like now you ain't you ain't hear me uh i didn't misconstrued anything as far as what i just said invincible not the amazon tv show i'm not talking about season four i'm not talking about blank that's about to show up in season four i'm talking about Invincible showing up in the video game forum as now when it comes to Invincible versus this is a 3v3 tag fighting game and before you brush it off just thinking it's a cash grab right just know this is developed by the same OG team that may kill her instinct as far as Maximilian he has great coverage on the Invincible versus game because he actually played it so I would go to him for more in-depth conversation about the gameplay mechanics but what I would say invincible versus is showcasing or is it's seeming to be a highlight in the fighting game community it's seeming to be a highlight in the video game community to the point where it's deeper than it looks there's layers upon layers in this fighting game and a lot of people

don't even know that the original killer instinct team is working on this they just think it's just some random mini clip developers out here putting together a fight game with invincible characters apparently this game this game is way deeper in it than it looks and my source is Maximilian because they're gonna be like you haven't played the game how do you know maxi million is one of the greatest fighting game if not the greatest fighting game creator of all time and he said he actually had hands on time with it because i was wondering i was watching his reaction to the original trailer right he didn't really he wasn't that surprised he's like oh it's nice and then he let the cat out of the bag basically saying i've been

playing older bills of this game for quite some time so this is this been in development, which is good news for Invincible fans out there that are hesitant thinking this may just be rushed to capitalize off of the Invincible IP. This been in the works for quite some time. So anyways, this game is set to come out 2026. I would also say that when it comes to this game, is it set? No, this is one of the biggest things. Okay, so this is what I was talking about as far as exclusives, right?

Invisible versus is set to come out Xbox specifically. And not specifically. exactly Xbox exclusive what it says PS5 right here am I tripping why does I say PS5 I don't mind says it says PS5 I swear invincible versus was gonna be let's see invincible versus platforms in the showcase they just had Xbox I wonder if it's just for the uh it's such release for PC PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X well I stand corrected it's actually coming to PlayStation Okay, I swear in the showcase, it only showed Xbox Because I remember covering this game

I forget when I think I was reacting to something And I was looking at the end And I was like, hold up, is this only for Xbox? No, no, it's a Marvel token, I'm tripping. Okay, I was looking at Marvel token And it only said PlayStation And I was like, oh, is Marvel token not coming to Xbox?

So I got a flip-flop. All right, my fault. When you cover games for a living, sometimes you get mixed up. But Invincible, yeah, that's my fault. Invincible versus is coming. in every platform. At first, I thought Xbox gamers got it exclusive, but lo and behold, PlayStation is still the only platform

and company out here taking highly sought after fighting games for themselves. As if you don't know, Marvel Token is going to be exclusively for PlayStation. So with that being said, that is some of the major releases for the Xbox game showcase. Of course, can't forget how the Rog ally and Ally X was showcased as far as being a handheld optimized for Xbox games. And I think this is very important in the gaming community. Because like I just said, with the PS remote play, you can play it on anything.

But I will say, like I said earlier, when I said, I was using a PS remote. And I was, you know, I was basically in disbelief that I could work that well. And it actually worked that well to the point where I was able to put the whole AAA studio console game on my phone. right and it didn't look good at all right that's what handhelds are for to optimize for video games to to give you a better look at console games in a handheld device so if you was wanted something dedicated for that i would say the rock ally is going to be a great acquisition but the price has not been announced now one thing led to another the rock ally may be eight hundred dollars hundred dollars and honestly i wouldn't be surprised if they come out with a bundle that you see

the four-figure price that four-figure price tag is going to be egregious if we see it combined with some other games so all i got to say is i would assume this is not going to be a cheap acquisition as as far as the specs it has a uh amd rising z2a for the CPU 16 gigabytes of RAM, 512 gigabytes SSD plus a micro SD battery is 60. I think that's watts. Let me make sure. Sometimes I forget. I don't know.

I just be having brain force. Let me see. 60. I believe that is W.H. It's watts, right? It's W. H watts. Okay.

So, yeah, it is. Okay. So when it comes to that, then the weight is 670 grams. basically one pound at 1.4 pounds and then of course you have the triggers like the hall effect analog and then when it comes to how the Xbox ally expects that is the extreme version right so that comes with a lot of extra stuff it has the AMD risin AI z2 extreme instead of 16 RAM it has 24 ram as far as 512 gigabytes of storage it has one terabyte of storage instead of 60 watt hours you have 80 watt hours you get the point right and it's beef well it's not that heavier it's 1.5 pounds instead of 1.4 and then of course

it comes with a USBC one throw the USBC and one Thunderbolt four point uh port which the Xbox ally does not have so the reason why to show the Xbox ally X first is because it's probably going to run you at least eight to nine hundred dollars at the very least I think they didn't show the price for a reason they just want you to showcase they just want you to highlight how good the handheld looks and then they're going to going to charge you out there you know what for it so definitely interesting marketing strategy but i think if one thing show me with the nintendo switch two is that i don't think gamers will ever come together to uh lower the price tag if they care about a console enough right i'm looking at the

nintendo switch two that's priced fairly in my opinion so i'm not mad at the nintendo switch two but the games that exclusive i don't know if it's exclusively but the games that are on a nintendo switch two let's just say there uh the price tag as far as mario cart world and along with the nintendo switch two price i think at some point somebody just has to call it out like when is nintendo players gonna get a backbone we have to know when they're going to get a backbone because nintendo is doing whatever they want whatever they please with the price tag they could mark up luigi mansion to be ninety dollars and guess what are the luigi players gonna stand up of course not so anyways with that being said um with that being that

like the main thing i want to just showcase is just how consumers really dictate the price tag the nintendo switch two was selling like hot cakes to the point where we don't know when the second wave is going to come about in the u.s right so now nintendo's looking at that and they completely are disregarding the drop the price chance and movement that was going on because it was basically like y'all made our nintendo switch two sell out in seconds while we listen to y'all as far as dropping the price and you know personally i'm thinking to myself why would they listen so anyways um with that being said game compatibility oh the reason why i said that's because you're talking about the xbox handheld so uh if you want the xbox ally expects just know it's way

more powerful than the Xbox ally so the Xbox ally X is more powerful than the Xbox ally I don't know why they wouldn't just give them different names but there you go the X is more powerful so I know I know soccer moms are going to be flabbergasted when they walk into the store so you're telling me that the X means yes I'm telling you that's more powerful but it's only an X on that they're gonna be confused anyways um Xbox game showcase was a phenomenal outing. I think it's one of the better ones because of all the games coming to game pass. I think if you had to pay $70 individually for every single game, then this game pass wouldn't be as high ranking for me personally. But people, especially in

this economy, when people always acting like they don't have any bread, let me, let me chill. Some people don't have money out here. But let's just say, if you don't have any bread and you're not champion the Xbox game pass and you're a gamer, I don't know what you're. you're doing in society because at some point we have to band together for great products if something's great and it's also cost effective shouldn't we highlight it everybody's like oh PlayStation versus xbox xbox is winning when it comes to pro consumer Xbox Xbox game pass is one of the most pro consumer tactics i've ever seen ever so it's comparable to like how games go on sale for steam Like as far as it being pro-consumer

Xbox is doing a phenomenal job It showcasing that hey for And like I just went over the prices But I could do it again as far as $10 a month or $75 yearly Or as far as the Xbox GamePass standard It's $15 monthly For Xbox Game Pass for PC is $12 monthly

For the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is $20 monthly Basically let me tell you this If one game is $70 and you like two games out of is Xbox game showcase guess what the Xbox is is way more than worth the price you're basically stealing games at that point so anyways um yeah w to Microsoft they had the best showcase by far because of everything coming to the Xbox game past day one and i think that's just one of the greatest things in the gaming industry as of right now especially where everybody's

saying that they don't have a lot of exposable income if you're a true gamer and want to be able to play all of these games when it comes out Xbox game pass is the option not one of is the best option if you want to be a gamer and also have some type of responsibility with your spending habits so that being said click my link sure in my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about the Xbox game showcase the any of the games i highlight it uh did they speak to you did they jump out as far as getting your attention? And also, will you be, if you have a PC, because if you have a PlayStation,

then I think the cheapest thing would probably be getting an Xbox console. But I already had a PC. And once I realized Game Pass was on PC, I was like, oh, that's, I'm definitely not getting an Xbox console. But anyways, are you more inclined to play games on an Xbox Game Pass, now that you know all of the games, that are coming to it in the future.