@GarbonZoni haha, it was probably the best game I tried out that night. Nice and simple concept and easy for my 2023 brain to understand
A lot of them didn't seem to work for some reason. I had the Atari wired up through the VCR which was outputting through scart (my TV/monitor doesn't have its own RF input) and some games would literally make the VCR drop it's signal output to the TV for some reason. Really weird!
@BAMozzy yeah it's a tough one, some are just classics though, like I love a bit of Breakout. Unfortunately my paddle controllers seemed a bit skittish so I may have to try and find some new ones
@ralphdibny To be honest, I can't play those type of games anymore. I spent hundreds of hours playing games like Arkanoid, Pac-Man, Galaga etc but now find them extremely shallow and boring to play. That's not surprising really when I have games with much more complex mechanics, story arcs, character development and a LOT more variety in Game-play etc to play these days. I lived through that era, played them when they were 'new', cutting edge etc.
They are 'Classics' because they were some of the 'best' games of that era but that's like saying the Model T Ford is a 'Classic' and therefore should be available for anyone to 'drive'. It should be 'preserved' and was 'very' important to the History of the Motorcar but technology has advanced significantly and I couldn't live with a Model T today - not when modern cars are so much 'better'.
I don't have any issue with them bringing these back as they were as a 'historical' package (like Rare Replay) to give people a chance to play and understand the History of these Publishers/Studio's but as IP's, I wouldn't want the exact same 'Game-play' - either just Res-boosted and/or boosted Frame Rates or as a 'remaster'. If the brought back 'Skiing' for example, I'd want something more like SSX or Steep's skiing - either Arcade style game-play or more 'Sim' based with 'Professional' Skiing disciplines - Cross Country, Jumping, Freestyle, downhill etc...
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@ralphdibny I can see it not been the easiest to get going on modern TV's. I played far too much Asteroids and Crystal Castles back in the day. Bentley Bear lol
Can't decide where to spend my money in the Xbox sale. I'm thinking of DMC5, Re Village, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5, or FF XV. I already have most of the RE games, and DMC4, so KH or FF on xbox would be new on the system for me. Anyone have hard strong recommendations for one or the other? Sell me on something I want to buy please 🙂
It's something that often bothers me when doing the big shop. The price per unit on items having different unit measurements and requiring more thought than it should to actually discern the best deal.
I know it's been said before by others but the new Xbox home screen is really rubbish.
Just so much junk on there that I don't need to see or want to sort through to get to what I want to play.
It wasn't amazing before when you could only pin 7 groups to the home screen but pinning only 2 is a joke. The trade off of having like 14 Microsoft chosen and unremovable pinned items is even worse?!
I paid for the console and I paid for game pass, what more does MS want from me?!
It's just kind of lame that they can remotely nuke the UI of the console you bought and paid for at any time they want. I hope people kick up enough of a stink about this that it gets updated to be more user friendly and less predatory.
If I didn't need online for game pass, game downloads and license authentication, I would 100% keep my Xbox offline to avoid stuff like this. My TV is kept offline with no user agreements agreed to for this very reason. I don't think I could take my Xbox spitting out ads at me with another layer of ads on top spit out by my TV
More or less made my mind up, selling my Series X. It’s been fun commenting in the main stories, but I find Starfield to be dull and boring and I just don’t have the time to put in it, I was expecting more from its graphics too, but mainly I seriously hate the new ad infested dashboard with a vengeance, and MS show no sign of changing it. I dislike companies who do that on premium paid for items. As to what I get? Split between PS5 and the new Nintendo Console, may end up with both.
But yeah, I didn’t save up birthday and Christmas money to buy a console for £450, and then pay for Game Pass, only to endless ads shoved in my face. And then when I read COD will not be day and date on the service after the buy out, I have even less reason to keep it.
@S1ayeR74 ah that stinks you're not enjoying it. I love my Xbox for all the stuff that doesn't come to switch and for gamepass. Hope you find what you like my dude.
@NintendoByNature Thanks, I've been an avid supporter of Xbox, but for me the dashboard pushed me over the limit, if I could customise it like before it would be fine but the fact they've taken that away annoys me even more.
@S1ayeR74 I see that a that dashboard is a very common problem. My friend spoke a lot that Redfall and Starfield was a huge disaster for him. But the main reason why he sold his Xbox was that new dashboard.
@AnVold Yeah it's 15 or 16 rows of ads. And that's when you have Game Pass. Your OWN games should be front and centre like they were with the old dashboard. But it seems obvious to me MS are advertising and pushing hard so they can keep the Game Pass price as low as possible. I'd rather pay a bit more for no ads.
@S1ayeR74 that's crazy. It's a console, not a cheap Android mobile. It's sad that games, their quality and comfort of Xbox user base isn't a priority for MS.
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