Loading times for all series enchanted games. Doom Eternal and Halo Master Chief Collection take a few minutes to load into a level but on the series S the loading time is 2-5 seconds.
The game I am working on finishing is Persona 3 Reloaded with game pass. Flintlock is another not bad game that was recently added to game pass. Just finished Like A Dragon The man ... last month.
I personally thought the Dishonoured series was overrated. I've repeatedly tried to play though the games and I get both bored and frustrated. And the problem with Redfall was the game was barely playable and the developers didn't seem to care and just thought someone else would fix it. Redfall was likely the final nail in the coffin, in my opinion. One of the developers actually said "I can't believe they shipped it out was it was", implying that they expected someone else to fix and polish the game.
It was a great idea but the marketing was terrible. I would love to play this today. I think they really should of stuck it out and it could of turned into a success. Fable Legends was interesting and intriguing but it was cancelled right before it was nearly finished.
The only games that I personally prefer for the Nintendo consoles is Nintendo first party games. I almost always prefer the Xbox consoles for action oriented games and with most JRPG games getting a Xbox release I really don't need to worry about the Playstation versions.
Just finished Like a Dragon the man who erased his name, now started playing Doom Eternal again. Nice that South Park Shattered is on game pass since I can play it on my series S. Just finished Hellsinger on the ps4 after previous finishing the x1 and series versions with game pass. The last trophy I need is the torments but It's glitched and I have to replay the torments until it unlocks.
I think MS paid too much money for little real value. MS should of made a deal to simply split of COD from the rest of Activision games and make a deal for the rest of the catalog and the mobile gaming excluding COD.
Just finished The man who erased his name, overall reasonably satisfying. The games that are scheduled to leave that get preferential to stay generally are either multiplayer games or smaller indie games that are widely popular. From the list the Vampire Survivor is likely to stay.
The game that I am currently playing is Like a Dragon the man who erased his name. I believe the game is scheduled to leave in November. As for Legend of Mana, I'll just play it on my Vita.
What difference? What I see is the ps5 graphics looking not the best though the video and the different they are showing between the ps5 and ps5 pro is marginally, I think the ps5 looks a bit better then the ps5 pro. And it seems that on the ps5 lots of games drop the resolution to 30fps for better performance and only achieve 60fps with a drop in graphics. And the improvements are only showing small clips from 4-6 games.
Almost all x360 games offer with Games with gold were not bad. Originally the X1 titles were good but unfortunately the quality of titles on the X1 dropped off. Example the X1 version of AC4 black flag was offered after the launch of the X1, later after the launch of the series Xbox you got games like Aground and Awesonots.
It seems the issue for the musician is the buy out of any future royalties which can be a huge amount of money. Lots of actors will take less money initially to get a bigger future royalties.
Hear is what I don't understand. Sony has Playstation app which allows you to purchase ps4 and ps5 straight from the app, so long as you have a ps4 or ps5 linked to your account but MS don't allow you to purchase games directly from any Xbox app. MS does allow you to stream games that you have installed on your primary console. Sony doesn't allow any like that but instead insists you buy a PS Portal to stream games from a ps5. I don't understand how Sony is able to sell Playstation games on the Iphone in their app without paying Apple a fee? But MS doesn't want to sell subscriptions on mobile devices, I get it, but why can you buy Xbox games on the Iphone?
As much as I like the games I don't want to pay more then $5 to upgrade from the X1 to Series. Besides want a year or two the upgrade will likely be below $5.
Given they are working on two transformers games my conclusion is that they are Transformers War for Cybertron and Transformers Fall of Cybertron. Given that both games likely have the same or very similar engines likely you will see a mired game like Doom 1 and 2. Just a guess though. And in all likelihood they will be for the Series Xbox.
Cocoon is set to leave Game Pass on October 1. Star Wars Dark Forces remastered is either getting a permanent price drop or joining game pass on Aug 29, not sure which.
I believe the problem is trying to get games running at 4K and HDR10 and at the same time running at 60 frames per second. Older games might be at 1080p or 720p and can easily do 60 frames per second because their is less they have to do and they likely copy anime/ cartoon animation to render the games. And seriously how many people can actually see a noticeable difference without using video software to check the frame rate?
I think the translation is SE is getting a reasonable amount of money to launch the game exclusively on Playstation. Each game has to launch exclusively on the Playstation else SE will loose a big chunk of money Sony has or will give them. But I do think that sticking with Playstation only for FF7 and FF16 is hurting their bottom line.
This is what frustrates be about digital games. I don't personally care about preserving games forever but I do find it frustrating that the digital games can be pulled at any time by the publishers. When a developer or publisher creates a new remastered version the older version almost always get removed from the digital store. And sometimes it is removed from one console but is available on another console when it basically the same version. Or even DLC that is available but a few years later it's removed and unless you bought it when it was available you can no longer purchase it, ever.
Nothing new. The original Transformer and Transformer 2 for the x360 had in game adds which added ads inside the game, while you were online. I believe it was the same for the ps3 version.
Halo 3 ODST was a mix mashup of lots of different things thrown together. It was the first time you had a game that didn't focus on master chief and they did try something new. It was a mix of Resident Evil which was kind of interesting. The x360 version had terrible loading times but the Master Chief remastered version was better.
The tentative dates that I can see is Disney Sep 1, Parking, Slime 2 and Spider are Sep 15, Payday 3 Sep 16, Paw Patrol and Ace attorney Oct 1, and Solar Ash and Lies of P are March 16, 2025. The rest of the others have no information.
I doesn't matter if you wait to see it live. About a hour or two after the presentation is finished you can see everything YouTube, and you can skim through the presentation and only focus on what you're interested in.
I will admit Hogwards looks good but right now Steelrising Baselle Edition is on sale and that is what I am getting this week. Perhaps I'll get Hogwards another time.
Who care what Toystop thinks. The selection of games has drastically decreased over the years and its challenging to even find current generation games at Gamestop.
I don't see any point in getting themes that can only be used on the x360. About the last game I intend to get on the x360 is Tron which is the port of the original game which was released for the Atari 2600.
Actually much of the problem is the way MS wants to refer to the Series Xbox. MS insisting on calling it, Xbox Series X/S rather than just shorting it to Series Xbox. If MS stopped calling it Xbox Series X/S and just said Series Xbox it would make more sense.
Well I personally took advantage of loading 3 years of Xbox Gold and waiting for the offer and for $1 it was converted to 2 years of Game Pass Ultimate. So I have Ultimate until 2025. Still might grab a Xbox Gold 1 year which should extend my Ultimate, not sure now long but it might be worth it.
What they need is a corporate rebranding for Xbox. My suggestion is to move the corporate headquarters of Xbox outside of the US to Canada. Vancouver or Toronto would make nice places to operate from. Then suddenly Xbox is a Canadian company. Might give the Xbox the boost it needs. London Ontario would also be a good place for a corporate headquarters.
The last games I preordered were Transformers War for Cybertron and Transformers Fall of Cybertron. I believe I also preordered each of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy.
They might limit the market's available but I doubt they wouldn't focus on the Europe since it's a huge market. But this would also suggest that MS is focusing the Xbox in North and South America along with Asia, which are also big markets.
I find that the value of game pass is kind of overstated and it all coming soon rather the what currently available. Like the EA games are nice, but it's largely sport's titles and EA titles are only available 3-6 months after release. I might find 1-2 titles out of 10 I check out that I actually want to play. Most of the "good titles" are time consuming and are often better to just buy rather then try to finish it on game pass. For me the best part of game pass is to check out the full games and see if I actually like the game. Then it's can I finish the whole game in roughly a day, then I'll just play it on game pass. If I like it, but I'll take over a week or so of playing to finish it, perhaps I wait until it goes on sale and just buy the game. I thought Redfall and Atomic Heart would be good games, after seeing them on game pass I realized they were a hard pass.
Hard to tell which is better for me. I like Ultimate but Game Pass Standard sounds not bad, since all you lose is the EA catalog which is not that big, and I don't need to play games day 1.
I am happy that the points needed for a $5 Xbox card dropped but the points needed for Ultimate remained the same. I do like the play 5 times a week and get 250 points but I just stopped bothering with the game pass rewards, even though I have Ultimate since It's such a bother to get the 1000 points. But you do get points for using the Xbox app which is nice.
I have already gotten several good deals but there are lots of games that are still full price and haven't dropped, yet. Hoping to see Bullet Witch, X-Blade and Gauntlet 7 sorrows drop in price. Might get a few more if they also drop in price.
To me what matters is how the graphics look and how smooth the frame rate is. To me you don't need every game to support every feature in 4k and have 120 frame rate, it just needs to look nice and smooth. What I have found is the Playstation is better with slower graphics transitions like Asendia Rising and Sonic Plus, but for action oriented games like Devil may Cry, Witcher 3 I always prefer the Xbox.
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Re: Talking Point: What's Your Favourite Memory Of The Xbox Series X|S Generation So Far?
Loading times for all series enchanted games. Doom Eternal and Halo Master Chief Collection take a few minutes to load into a level but on the series S the loading time is 2-5 seconds.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 2-3)
The game I am working on finishing is Persona 3 Reloaded with game pass. Flintlock is another not bad game that was recently added to game pass. Just finished Like A Dragon The man ... last month.
Re: Arkane Founder Says Xbox Shutting Austin Studio Was 'Stupid' And 'Not A Good Decision'
I personally thought the Dishonoured series was overrated. I've repeatedly tried to play though the games and I get both bored and frustrated. And the problem with Redfall was the game was barely playable and the developers didn't seem to care and just thought someone else would fix it. Redfall was likely the final nail in the coffin, in my opinion. One of the developers actually said "I can't believe they shipped it out was it was", implying that they expected someone else to fix and polish the game.
Re: 10 Years On, 'Project Spark' Remains One Of The Most Ambitious Xbox Titles Of All Time
It was a great idea but the marketing was terrible. I would love to play this today. I think they really should of stuck it out and it could of turned into a success. Fable Legends was interesting and intriguing but it was cancelled right before it was nearly finished.
Re: Talking Point: Xbox & Nintendo Switch Owners, How Do You Split Your Third-Party Purchases?
The only games that I personally prefer for the Nintendo consoles is Nintendo first party games. I almost always prefer the Xbox consoles for action oriented games and with most JRPG games getting a Xbox release I really don't need to worry about the Playstation versions.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 19-20)
Just finished Like a Dragon the man who erased his name, now started playing Doom Eternal again. Nice that South Park Shattered is on game pass since I can play it on my series S. Just finished Hellsinger on the ps4 after previous finishing the x1 and series versions with game pass. The last trophy I need is the torments but It's glitched and I have to replay the torments until it unlocks.
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Xbox's ActiBlizz Deal One Year On?
I think MS paid too much money for little real value. MS should of made a deal to simply split of COD from the rest of Activision games and make a deal for the rest of the catalog and the mobile gaming excluding COD.
Re: Here's What Might Be Leaving Xbox Game Pass In November 2024
Just finished The man who erased his name, overall reasonably satisfying. The games that are scheduled to leave that get preferential to stay generally are either multiplayer games or smaller indie games that are widely popular. From the list the Vampire Survivor is likely to stay.
Re: Pick One: What Was Your Favourite Xbox Game Pass Game In September?
The game that I am currently playing is Like a Dragon the man who erased his name. I believe the game is scheduled to leave in November. As for Legend of Mana, I'll just play it on my Vita.
Re: Rumour: Microsoft Employees 'Completely Confused' About New Xbox Strategy, Says Insider
Hear is what happens when their is any merger
1 Regulatory processes
2 Promises to keep everything the same
3 Profits don't meet expectations
4 Layoffs
5 Reorganization
Re: Xbox Series X Vs. PS5 Pro: What Are We Missing Out On?
What difference? What I see is the ps5 graphics looking not the best though the video and the different they are showing between the ps5 and ps5 pro is marginally, I think the ps5 looks a bit better then the ps5 pro. And it seems that on the ps5 lots of games drop the resolution to 30fps for better performance and only achieve 60fps with a drop in graphics. And the improvements are only showing small clips from 4-6 games.
Re: Soapbox: 12 Months Later, I Definitely Still Miss Xbox Games With Gold
Almost all x360 games offer with Games with gold were not bad. Originally the X1 titles were good but unfortunately the quality of titles on the X1 dropped off. Example the X1 version of AC4 black flag was offered after the launch of the X1, later after the launch of the series Xbox you got games like Aground and Awesonots.
Re: Heaven 17 Musician Insulted By 'Pathetic' Offer From Rockstar Games For GTA 6
It seems the issue for the musician is the buy out of any future royalties which can be a huge amount of money. Lots of actors will take less money initially to get a bigger future royalties.
Re: Microsoft Says Native Xbox Cloud Gaming App Remains 'Impossible' On Apple Devices
Hear is what I don't understand. Sony has Playstation app which allows you to purchase ps4 and ps5 straight from the app, so long as you have a ps4 or ps5 linked to your account but MS don't allow you to purchase games directly from any Xbox app. MS does allow you to stream games that you have installed on your primary console. Sony doesn't allow any like that but instead insists you buy a PS Portal to stream games from a ps5. I don't understand how Sony is able to sell Playstation games on the Iphone in their app without paying Apple a fee? But MS doesn't want to sell subscriptions on mobile devices, I get it, but why can you buy Xbox games on the Iphone?
Re: LEGO Harry Potter Collection Getting 'Remastered' For Xbox Series X|S This October
As much as I like the games I don't want to pay more then $5 to upgrade from the X1 to Series. Besides want a year or two the upgrade will likely be below $5.
Re: Rumour: Microsoft Reportedly Working On Multiple Transformers Projects
Given they are working on two transformers games my conclusion is that they are Transformers War for Cybertron and Transformers Fall of Cybertron. Given that both games likely have the same or very similar engines likely you will see a mired game like Doom 1 and 2. Just a guess though. And in all likelihood they will be for the Series Xbox.
Re: Well-Known Leaker Reveals Major Xbox Game Pass Addition For September 2024
Cocoon is set to leave Game Pass on October 1. Star Wars Dark Forces remastered is either getting a permanent price drop or joining game pass on Aug 29, not sure which.
Re: Talking Point: Does Microsoft Have A '30FPS' Problem With Its Xbox Series X|S Output?
I believe the problem is trying to get games running at 4K and HDR10 and at the same time running at 60 frames per second. Older games might be at 1080p or 720p and can easily do 60 frames per second because their is less they have to do and they likely copy anime/ cartoon animation to render the games. And seriously how many people can actually see a noticeable difference without using video software to check the frame rate?
Re: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Producer Defends Lack Of Xbox Series X|S Release
I think the translation is SE is getting a reasonable amount of money to launch the game exclusively on Playstation. Each game has to launch exclusively on the Playstation else SE will loose a big chunk of money Sony has or will give them. But I do think that sticking with Playstation only for FF7 and FF16 is hurting their bottom line.
Re: Random: Xbox Fan Discovers Their '$13K' Copy Of Halo Is Only Worth $25
It's very rare to see Video Games that are actually worth the inflated prices they can sell for.
Re: SEGA Confirms Partial Delisting For OG Sonic Generations On Xbox
This is what frustrates be about digital games. I don't personally care about preserving games forever but I do find it frustrating that the digital games can be pulled at any time by the publishers. When a developer or publisher creates a new remastered version the older version almost always get removed from the digital store. And sometimes it is removed from one console but is available on another console when it basically the same version. Or even DLC that is available but a few years later it's removed and unless you bought it when it was available you can no longer purchase it, ever.
Re: Xbox Attracts Controversy Over New McDonald's Ad On The Dashboard
Nothing new. The original Transformer and Transformer 2 for the x360 had in game adds which added ads inside the game, while you were online. I believe it was the same for the ps3 version.
Re: Talking Point: Next Month Marks The 15th Anniversary Of Halo's Weirdest Console Release
Halo 3 ODST was a mix mashup of lots of different things thrown together. It was the first time you had a game that didn't focus on master chief and they did try something new. It was a mix of Resident Evil which was kind of interesting. The x360 version had terrible loading times but the Master Chief remastered version was better.
Re: Rumour: Xbox Handheld System Will Sit Alongside 'A Series X Successor'
It seems that Vert is finally getting a CPU candidate. I would which of the Neptunia games this CPU candidate will first appear the 24th or 25th.
Re: Here's What Might Be Leaving Xbox Game Pass In September 2024
The tentative dates that I can see is Disney Sep 1, Parking, Slime 2 and Spider are Sep 15, Payday 3 Sep 16, Paw Patrol and Ace attorney Oct 1, and Solar Ash and Lies of P are March 16, 2025. The rest of the others have no information.
Re: Four Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass In Early August 2024
Very likely Persona 5 Tactics and Like a Dragon Gaiden The man will be leaving Game Pass on November 16.
Re: Xbox Exec 'Recommends' Tuning Into Gamescom Opening Night Live Later This Month
I doesn't matter if you wait to see it live. About a hour or two after the presentation is finished you can see everything YouTube, and you can skim through the presentation and only focus on what you're interested in.
Re: Deals: Xbox Launches Into August With Massive 'RPG' & Ubisoft Sales
I will admit Hogwards looks good but right now Steelrising Baselle Edition is on sale and that is what I am getting this week. Perhaps I'll get Hogwards another time.
Re: Roundup: All The Xbox Reveals From The THQ Nordic Showcase 2024
Meh. It looks generally like reboots and remakes with a few sequels to mediocre games.
Re: GameStop Takes Jab At Xbox 360 Store Closure, Backfires Immediately
Who care what Toystop thinks. The selection of games has drastically decreased over the years and its challenging to even find current generation games at Gamestop.
Re: Bungie Is 'Deepening Integration' With Sony As Layoffs Hit Ex-Halo Developer
Who didn't see this coming. Bungie will slowly become Playstation game studios and Activision will slowly become Xbox game studios.
Re: 3000+ Themes & Gamer Pics Will Be Delisted On Xbox 360 Next Week
I don't see any point in getting themes that can only be used on the x360. About the last game I intend to get on the x360 is Tron which is the port of the original game which was released for the Atari 2600.
Re: Four Years Later, People Are Still Getting Confused By Xbox's 'Horrible' Console Names
Actually much of the problem is the way MS wants to refer to the Series Xbox. MS insisting on calling it, Xbox Series X/S rather than just shorting it to Series Xbox. If MS stopped calling it Xbox Series X/S and just said Series Xbox it would make more sense.
Re: Tomba! Special Edition 'Not Planned' For Xbox Despite Recent ESRB Rating
In all likelihood it will be a digital only release.
Re: Xbox Reportedly 'Exploring Potential' For Various New Game Pass Tiers
Well I personally took advantage of loading 3 years of Xbox Gold and waiting for the offer and for $1 it was converted to 2 years of Game Pass Ultimate. So I have Ultimate until 2025. Still might grab a Xbox Gold 1 year which should extend my Ultimate, not sure now long but it might be worth it.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Think This Generation Will Be A Short One?
I think Sony would like to release a new console every 5 years where as MS is fine with releasing a new console every 7-8 years.
Re: Sony PlayStation 'Regrettably Outspends Us', Says Xbox EMEA Marketing Boss
What they need is a corporate rebranding for Xbox. My suggestion is to move the corporate headquarters of Xbox outside of the US to Canada. Vancouver or Toronto would make nice places to operate from. Then suddenly Xbox is a Canadian company. Might give the Xbox the boost it needs. London Ontario would also be a good place for a corporate headquarters.
Re: FTC Calls Out Xbox's New 'Degraded' Game Pass Tier & Price Increases
Meh. If the FTC didn't spend 1 to 2 years just taking everything that Sony said as gospel then it would of likely worked out better for MS and Xbox.
Re: Halo TV Show Cancelled By Paramount+ After Two Seasons
Paramount created Star Trek Prodigy, then canceled the series after one season and sold it to someone else to develop.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Ever Pre-Order Xbox Games Anymore?
The last games I preordered were Transformers War for Cybertron and Transformers Fall of Cybertron. I believe I also preordered each of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy.
Re: 'Tipster' Suggests Xbox Will Stop Marketing Consoles In Certain Markets
They might limit the market's available but I doubt they wouldn't focus on the Europe since it's a huge market. But this would also suggest that MS is focusing the Xbox in North and South America along with Asia, which are also big markets.
Re: Talking Point: Have You Ever Bought Any Official Xbox Merchandise?
I will get thing, so long as they are available at the local Walmart. Even more if they end up on clearance.
Re: Reaction: Microsoft's Constant Tweaking Of Xbox Game Pass Is Becoming Exhausting
I find that the value of game pass is kind of overstated and it all coming soon rather the what currently available. Like the EA games are nice, but it's largely sport's titles and EA titles are only available 3-6 months after release. I might find 1-2 titles out of 10 I check out that I actually want to play. Most of the "good titles" are time consuming and are often better to just buy rather then try to finish it on game pass. For me the best part of game pass is to check out the full games and see if I actually like the game. Then it's can I finish the whole game in roughly a day, then I'll just play it on game pass. If I like it, but I'll take over a week or so of playing to finish it, perhaps I wait until it goes on sale and just buy the game. I thought Redfall and Atomic Heart would be good games, after seeing them on game pass I realized they were a hard pass.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
Hard to tell which is better for me. I like Ultimate but Game Pass Standard sounds not bad, since all you lose is the EA catalog which is not that big, and I don't need to play games day 1.
Re: Talking Point: Xbox Fans, How Are You Getting On With Microsoft Rewards In 2024?
I am happy that the points needed for a $5 Xbox card dropped but the points needed for Ultimate remained the same. I do like the play 5 times a week and get 250 points but I just stopped bothering with the game pass rewards, even though I have Ultimate since It's such a bother to get the 1000 points. But you do get points for using the Xbox app which is nice.
Re: Microsoft Announces Dates For The Final Two Xbox 360 Store Sales
I have already gotten several good deals but there are lots of games that are still full price and haven't dropped, yet. Hoping to see Bullet Witch, X-Blade and Gauntlet 7 sorrows drop in price. Might get a few more if they also drop in price.
Re: Digital Foundry Explores Why Some Games 'Run Better' On PS5 Than Xbox Series X
To me what matters is how the graphics look and how smooth the frame rate is. To me you don't need every game to support every feature in 4k and have 120 frame rate, it just needs to look nice and smooth. What I have found is the Playstation is better with slower graphics transitions like Asendia Rising and Sonic Plus, but for action oriented games like Devil may Cry, Witcher 3 I always prefer the Xbox.
Re: Xbox Series X|S Appears To Have Passed 600K Sales In Japan
The series Xbox is in third place but its has room to grow and is no were near market saturation.
Re: Apple TV+ Is Giving Away 3 Free Months To Xbox Users Right Now
To me Apple TV has almost no value. Even if it's "free" I don't use it or see anything on the service I want to watch.
Re: Xbox Patent Reveals What 'Keystone' Streaming Device Might Have Looked Like
I personally was sceptical about the whole idea largely because of the price point. It might resurface in about 5-10 years.