@dussan2: "Star Wars: Dark Forces" was great. The X-Wing / TIE Fighter series was incredible.

More recently, you have Star Wars: Squadrons. There is a single player campaign there.

@i2eaper0f5ouls: And in Assassins's Creed Syndicate - where unfortunately you were often stuck playing the character you didn't want for the mission.

It's been clear for a very long time now that Microsoft puts it efforts into Gamepass, and nothing into Games With Gold.

This selection is just another confirmation of that.

@jenovaschilld: Sean Connery did his last real Bond movie, "Diamonds are forever", in 1971 at the age of 41.

There is the "never say never again" unofficial Thunderball remake from 1983, but that movie features "an ageing Bond" - and at least personally, I much prefer the original.

Roger Moore played until he was 58, but the movies got progressively worse... In my book, he's the worst Bond.

@johnny0779: Other than Sean Connery, I think Craig was the best Bond.

Roger Moore's Bond wasn't taking himself seriously enough, Pierce Brosnan/Timothy Dalton just didn't make it as well as Craig in my opinion. In particular, I think the first Craig movie was well made - Casino Royale.

Hardy might be a good choice.

I don't want Idris Elba as James Bond. Elba is a brilliant actor, and from my POV, he can play all but three roles in the James Bond franchise.

* He should not be the Bond girl, obviously

* He should not be Moneypenny, for the same obvious reason.

* He should not be James Bond. James Bond is WASP incarnate.

Elba can be the prime minister, M, Q, Bond villain, 006 etc etc... but not one of these three.

@pillarrocks: Sony had far more exotic hardware than Microsoft in previous generations (PS3 especially), so emulation is a bit harder.

What they need is to compete with gamepass ultimate, and then they can stream old games that way.

@itchyflop: Sony has a much harder time providing backwards compatibilityt, and I keep getting surprised at why people are surprised ( ;) ) about Playstation's lack of backwards compatibility.

The Playstation 3 had chips and architecture that were very, very different from the PS4 and PS5... Playstation 2 was also rather different. Thus, you won't really get backwards compatibility this way.

Xbox was "luckier" - the original Xbox was an x86 DirectX box, and while the 360 was PowerPC it was a more conventional CPU than the SIMD Cell architecture Sony used in PS3 and the "emotion engine" used in PS2.

PS4 -> PS5 is much easier to have compatible, even though Sony's delivery mechanism seems a bit messed up compared to Microsofts (Note: I have an XOSX and a PS4, not a PS5 yet).

If Sony should provide backwards compatibility, this would work much better through Playstation Now... and hopefully, they'll make a combined service to compete with Gamepass Ultimate.

@Spartan_418: Just like Duckburg... nephews and nieces, not sons and daughters.

@thecupidstunts: Wheel of Time will be interesting.

It will also need a lot editing... it started out interesting, but very similar in structure to other books. A couple of books in, there started to be lots and lots of pages with nothing happening - other than braids tugged, ears boxed, and skirts smoothed.

Also, I'm a bit worried of the casting... I'd expect the Two Rivers to be more homogenous (a touch of inbred...) rather than ethnically diverse (Rand excepted, obviously). Diversity fits much better at metropols like Caemlyn - and especially in Tar Valon.