Speaking of bowling and humor, you can win a chicken once you score a turkey in bowling, who can become one of your best real estate managers. Also, I can't believe I just wrote this.
lol that's not the weirdest thing. Remember in LaD, if you did the Lobster side quest, you get Nancy as a Poundmate? lol she helped me in quite a few battles. I think LaD had a secret hero, too, if you did well in the stock market side game. I never got her but I heard she was especially helpful when you fought Kiryu since he didn't hit women. Call me an incel but that's a BS game mechanic.
For PC, the Steam Black Friday / Fall sales are also by far the best times to refresh you collection if you're looking to try a lot of games you might have missed, including AAA titles released over the last couple of years being severely discounted. I remember Fallout New Vegas was like $3, Sleeping Dogs with all DLCs were also low single digit $, Far Cry 3 for $3, all Bioshock games for ~$10 total, as was a lot of great games priced like that. It's my favorite time to shop games I wouldn't have played otherwise, or that I was on the fence about. For $20-40 you can stock up on so many new games for your library that you have enough play until the next year's fall sale. It's definitely my favorite games sale.
I'll definitely be looking at the PC sales too but I didn't want to invest anymore in PC games since I'm probably going to sell my RX 580 at some point. I don't think games would run well on the dGPU on my MBP, the Radeon Pro 555. That's like 2 GB of VRAM, if I remember correctly. Anything after 2013, or something, is going run like shit beyond Low settings, I think.
I have the MS Rewards GCs, or will have them, so that should be about $100 if I redeem all my points from the past year. I may just do $50 or something for actual games and continue to pool points for an MS Store GC for a controller when this one inevitably gets the stick drift.
If I were to get the GC and get some games, I'd look at some RPGs. I recently beat 12 and was making my way through 13 on PC before getting the Series S. I may get 15 and keep it on the backlog. I don't want to build too large of a backlog because the big games I wanted to catch up over the next few years are some of the Bethesda games like Dishonor, Fallout, etc., and they're all going to be on Gamepass indefinitely. Maybe I just use those Rewards points to extend GPU.
Also, Rockstar announced a remastered GTA Trilogy:
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/10...rilogy-definitive-edition-coming-november-11/
$60 seems a bit much. I've read comments justifying it by saying each game is definitely worth $20 or so, so together they're worth $60. You'd think for 15+ year old games, it'd be closer to $40 but...I guess not. I'm sure it'll go on sale for Christmas or something. SA is coming to Gamepass so that's something. I'm more interested in GTA 3. I owned SA and Vice City on PS2 and bought 4 a year ago for the 360 for like $5. I also got GTA V for free from the Epic Store giveaways, but haven't played it. The first GTA I ever played was 3 at a friend's house in 2003, but I never owned it or got past the first 20 minutes or so of the game. That's the one I'm more interested in getting, if I were to start back in to it. And I don't think GTA 1 and 2 were played by most people since 3 was what really put the series on the map.
Also, do you recommend the Atmos or DTS app? I do have the official Xbox wireless headset but I'm not sure on its capabilities. Kind of dumb MS makes you pay for the license for one but, again, if I'm using a GC....might as well?
