Topic: General Xbox Series X|S Thread

Do you guys think I should wait until I can get a Series X before I play Yakuza Like A Dragon?
I wanted that to be my first Series X game, butttt it might be a minute till I can finally get a Series X and I do want to play it pretty badly.

I guess I could always catch up on Yakuza and play 3,4,5 when they come to game pass before Like A Dragon.

@NEStalgia If that’s the case that we’d have to buy the Hitman 1 GOTY Edition Upgrade to play the missions on 3, then I’d probably buy it as it would be more convenience than having to download Hitman 2 just to play the missions from 1. But as an early buyer paying for the most expensive complete edition, I’d still feel like I’m being screwed over. There is an Hitman 3 Access Pass: Hitman 1 Complete First Season on the MS Store, which is the edition I bought for Hitman 1 but it says it’s “not sold separately” only the Hitman 3 Access Pass: Hitman 1 GOTY Edition is available but like I said it says I own it (even though I’ve never bought it) but I can’t do anything with it as nothing shows up in the Installed or Ready to Install.

I’m not sure if Hitman 1 and 2 are optimised for Series X with native 4K and 60fps in Hitman 3 but I’d like to know if they were.

@MaccaMUFC yours is a little different than mine. Yours says you own it... Mine doesn't. But i got my version of 1 as a preorder bonus for the gold edition of 2. I previously had 1 on ps4 and decided to unite the series on xb since it cost nothing to do so.

So they're may be 3 groups. Goty owners that it shows they own the pass and it works. Complete owners that it says they own the pass but it doesn't work. And complete owners that got it by preordering 2 and it doesn't even show it as owned, since it's neither version, it was just a pre-order distribution. Ugh!

@MaccaMUFC i found one thing that said you have to download the hitman 1 legacy pack within hitman 2 before you can import 1 through 2 into 3.... And that that requires an ioi account since it's done through their website..... But ours already works in hitman 2 so I'm not sure that's retirement.

@LeanerFasterStronger Yakuza lad runs like trash on everything, pc included. It's probably worth it in series x, considering even on an x it barely holds decent framerate at 4k, I'm afraid of how it runs on older consoles. Otoh since it doesn't run that well in general you may not care much about the difference. It's pretty on x, I'll give it that. everything is "better" on x of course. But it depends what differences make it worth waiting for you.

@NEStalgia Thanks for the insight, I think that seals the deal, I'll make it my first game when I finally get my hands on a Series X. I'm sure it would look fine on my One X but meh, no need to rush into it when there's so many good things to play on Gamepass.

@MaccaMUFC I ended up breaking down and buying the Legacy Pack. My setup was a little different than yours, in that I thought Legacy Pack was what I already had from the Hitman 2 Gold Edition preorders....maybe I had to do something manually to redeem it and never did, or something. But I noticed Patient Zero was available in Hitman 2, but Sapienza, Hokkaido, Marrakesh, etc. were not. So mine was a slightly different situation.

But the Complete Season 1, I'm not sure does legitimately qualify. If you check IOI's site and all the instructions (including PC) for the transfer, it says GOTY Edition or Legacy Pack is required, and says nothing about Complete Season 1.

I suspect it has to do with the publisher debacle, where Complete Season 1 is technically not their product, it belonged to Square-Enix before they bought back their stock and split off. The whole thing has been a mess, but it's largely Squeenix's fault. Up through Complete, Enix was publishing and IOI was part of Eidos, then Squeenix. Then Squeenix cut their funding and started shopping a buyer. Then IOI ended up buying back their own value and going solo while working on 2. That's part of why the launch of 2 was a mess. Technically Complete Edition is just the old game. The maps were remade totally for 2 and sold separately with 2. But 1 GOTY owners got it free. I think 3's mess is really a carry over of 2's mess. It imports 2 just fine, but because 2 has some shaky import issues with 1,that carries to 3.

As far as I can tell, 3 can only import GOTY and Legacy Pack. And buying Legacy Pack gives you GOTY.....but not the executable so you can't run it separately as a stand-alone game, it has to be run within 2 (or 3.) Legacy Pack is on sale for $20 which seemed like the cleanest way out.

It's definitely a debacle, but it's also not really their fault, it's the legacy of Square-Enix's presence in the first game. PC has a bigger debacle, where 3 is apparently yet another Epic/Tencent Games Store exclusive, so anyone that bought 1 and 2 on Steam now has a split library and an overall mess.

Really bummed that Medium ended up being pretty divisive

Just finished reading PureXbox's review and I'm probably not getting it until a sale. I was really looking forward to it considering it was being made by some veterans from the Silent Hill crew

Looks like Persona 5 Strikers will be my first major new release in my 2021 backlog

@TheFrenchiestFry One of the advantages of Game Pass - you can still play the game and not be influenced by reviews. It may be divisive, but you may be one who loves the game and if you aren't, you haven't spent money on buying the game if you have Game Pass.

It was not a game I was overly interested in buying but having Game Pass means I will at least try it...

Yep, Game Pass is great like that.

I was really looking forward to The Medium and so far, a few hours in, I'm loving my time with it. But then I wasn't expecting a AAA experience.

My advice is turn the lights off, soak up the atmosphere, and just give it an honest go.

I'm a couple of hours into The Medium and I'm really enjoying it, the music is very reminiscent of Silent Hill as is the split world and the overall look of the game.

Also I'm playing on Series S and despite the reported resolutions (which I'm assuming are for each screen) it actually looks really nice

Question regarding Halo....do I have to get the entire MCC or can i individually download Halo CE? I want to start at the beginning and just saw MCC is 138 GB

@Krzzystuff You can download the games individually to my knowledge. It just locks you out of playing the other ones

@TheFrenchiestFry i just tried and it let's me choose ODST and one other part as optional but the rest is all in the big package. I'll have to beat some games and get them off the SSD before I start Halo i guess. Forza 7 is getting a strong look to see if it's going to be getting the boot at almost 100G.

@Krzzystuff Not 100% but I think once the main MCC (ODST and Reach are dlc) downloads a bit you should be able to start it. Then in the overall menu you can select separate campaign or multiplayer segments for each game. Probably need the 138Gb space to select the download though.

Did anyone playing the medium have to turn the brightness down? The default setting looked really washed out on the image.

Edit: so I’m not sure if it was a bug but after I actually started the game I checked the brightness setting again and it was waaay too dark. So set it to default and it seems good again.

Only an hour or so in but enjoying it

Hey folks. What are the best budget non SSD options for external storage for series x?

This controller disconnects are starting to really annoy me, it’s happening pretty much every time I play now. MS need to sort this quick.

Has anyone got a decent fix until then? I usually just plug it in with a wire and it works but even that’s stopped now.