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@NEStalgia Damn, PC gaming is still expensive. I guess that's why I've been mainly console for so long. Also, I got my processor model number wrong, it's a Ryzen 5 7640HS not 8640HS. I don't know what difference that makes.

@NEStalgia The games I was playing 1440p/120 they were set on high and some of them I was using DLSS on quality. Those aren't brand new games though but it was doable and on older games I was running 4K/120 and wasn't even maxing out anything. The last game that I played that was I guess considered newish was Horizon Zero Dawn and I played it at 1440p/60 with everything on high using DLSS on quality and capturing at 1440P/60. I was hitting 85% GPU Max and CPU was like 3%. As you already know, it varies greatly form game to game. My laptop is a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i I think. I forget the exact model number. It has an AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS, Nvidia RTX 4060 8GB and from what I can tell it's one of the higher wattage ones, 32 GB of RAM, OS drive is a HQ Hyinx 1TB SSD and my game and capture drive is a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro. It came with 16GB of RAM, I upgraded it to 32GB and I added the Samsung 990 Pro. Those things were not included in the $900 price I paid. Now that I think about it, I have a few games that run at 4K/120 or 1440p/120 on the Series X. Doom Eternal runs at 4K/120 without ray tracing and Mass Effect Legendary Edition runs at 1440p/120, one of the Battlefields runs at 4K/120, I forget which one, Star Wars Battlefront 2 runs at 4K/120.

@NEStalgia Damn, really? $750 for 1080p/60. I have a gaming laptop that can do 1440p/120 on most games while capturing, that cost me $900.Oh wait, I just realized I got that thing on sale. I think it was normally $1,500. So I do see your point. Still, that much for 1080p/60? Something doesn't seem right with that. An Xbox One or PS4 is like $120. I guess I was right for sticking with console gaming for so long. I just recently got the gaming laptop. I really only got it for capturing my Xbox consoles, then I realized that "it is a gaming laptop" so I went down that rabbit hole.

@NEStalgia Really, it's still that expensive huh? I thought maybe that would have come down a bit since 2020. I'm guessing we're getting at least Xbox One / PS4 performance out of these APUs in cheap PCs now.

I think PC may be where everyone goes for gaming. The console space is turning into a s_h_i_t show. Integrated graphics is getting pretty powerful, so the price of getting into PC gaming could be as cheap as getting a basic PC from Walmart.

@JayJ Yes, this. Can we just just go back to that? Oh wait, they don't want us to own anything. The need to either shut down Game Pass or reserve it for games that don't make money anymore and use it as a way for game preservation. It creates an incentive for them to participate in game preservation if people will pay for it and then everyone gets the guarantee that digital games will stay accessable.

@Kevw2006 You can get it at Walmart for $5 on disc, even the Series X version. I was just there and saw it with my own eyes. Too bad I already have it.

I think the gaming industry as a whole is being destroyed from the inside out. For some reason, greed has become the priority. They seem to forget that money rolls in when you make good products. Instead, they try to cut corners to maximize profit. They don't realize our should I say, have forgotten that the best way to maximize profit is to make and sell products that people can't resist. Also, maybe the gaming industry is moving too fast. Maybe we dont need huge open worlds in 4K. Maybe just focus on 1080p or 1440p/60, make them the equivelent of being set on high or ultra and focus on content, story, gameplay. You know, the things that actually matter. We play games to engage in a story and become part of it. Graphic fidelity should not be where all of the budget is focused. I have a feeling that is where a lot of the problem is. All you have to do is look at Nintendo and the proof is there. I understand that these companies have to make money, but it seemed to be working just fine in the Xbox 360 days. Maybe they should look to back then and see what was working and do that now.

@Kooky_Geezer Yep, me too. That's why I have multiples of each console. For digital and physical games.

@Kooky_Geezer No need to go back in time to choose another box. Just enjoy the box/es that was/were good. That's what I do. I only game on Xbox consoles and PC and have been since day 1 and even I've pretty much decided I'm going full PC if they don't stop doing things that are detrimental to the gaming industry. I bought 2 more Series X when they were $349 for the Diablo bundle just as backups because they were gonna be my last consoles. Also because they were rumored to be the last disc based ones as well.

@PapaGlitch Go ahead, say what you want, just change some letters to punctuation that look like the intended letters and you'll be fine.

I think I'm getting old. The most portable gaming device that I want is a laptop. It's mainly due to screen size and I really don't like holding that much weight and holding it closer to my face than I would a controller. After a while, it's just uncomfortable. A laptop has a much bigger screen and you can use a normal controller. The only downside is that it doesn't fit in your pocket, but I don't think any of these current portables will fit in a pocket either. My gaming PC is a laptop and it is hooked into my gaming TV most of the time, so I guess I already have my version of a switch. I do have a handheld Anbernic device that I play from time to time for retro games. It's only a three and a half inch screen, but it's very lightweight and the graphics don't have lots of detail, so it works out.

@ironcrow86 I just got that game on PC (digital) and Xbox 360 (physical) this week. I cant wait to play it.

@Scummbuddy Does it do anything extra? I'm still contemplating if I want to get the Stella internal mod, I forget exactly what it's called. I don't feel like installing it myself, so I'll probably just find another 1.1 Xbox and send it into them to have it done. I already have the Xbox2HDMI and the Pound adapters. They seem to work just fine even though I prefer the pound cable. It's just a little more accurate I think. I would really like a true HDMI output though.

I wonder if this is better than the pound adapter and the Xbox2HDMI adapter.

@Gollum I have them packed away, they are nowhere in my way. I hate clutter so bad, so I know what you are saying. I'm just trying to do my part in video game preservation.

@Gollum I stack up on consoles when they are cheap or need minor repairs, refurbish them and then archive them for the future. I have 6 OG Xbox ver. 1.1, 8 Xbox 360 (5 are S, 3 are E). Then I went and got 2 more Series X Diablo bundles when they were $349.

@Yorozayu I am definitely not hinged or sane and have never claimed to be.

@Yorozayu Fu©k pronouns. As far as I'm concerned, if there is a they/them, they have a multiple personality disorder and need to seek mental health assistance. Male is male and female is female. If you feel like the opposite sex, by all means be how you want to be. Just don't try to tell me your something you are not. Gender is not an opinion and not negotiable. BTW, I go in the womens restroom all the time when the mens is jacked up. There is no law against it and if trans people can do it, I can do it too.

I think there is hope. Indika and morbid look like the kind of games we should be getting from the AAA developers. I guess indie is the new AAA and AAA is just suck.

I went on the Xbox 360 store just to see what non B/C free games that I wanted and I finally got Doritos Crash Course. I'm not 100% sure but that one may actually be B/C. Anyways, I got it after all of this time. I still need to see what I'm gonna buy, other than Call of Duty Classic. I've been holding out for years just to see if that one will ever go on sale and it never has to my knowledge. I'm going to wait until July 23rd out of principle.

@CERBERUS40000 I have no problems with Xbox Live on my Xbox 360 or playing an Xbox 360 game on my Series X and connecting to Xbox Live that way. Maybe you are having some technical issues.

@Doomcrow Your name suits you well.

I will choose performance if my options are 30 and 60 fps. If my options are 60 fps and 120 fps, it really depends on the situation. What good is all of that extra detail if you can't see it properly? It is hard to see detail in motion at 30 fps. Games screens are moving a lot most of the time. One of the reasons higher frame rates exist is for that exact reason.

@Kooky_Geezer "Blah blah blah, Xbox is failing because they aren't doing what I want them to do, blah, blah, Microsoft doesn't know what they are doing, blah, I bend over for PlayStation blah, blah, my butt hurts, blah, blah, Xbox sucks, blah, its the end of Xbox, blah, blah, blah". Yes, yes, we've heard it a million times already. Nobody cares, we are too busy having fun, enjoying what we have. Meanwhile, I'm watching Sony and Playstation self-destruct and nobody seems to notice.

@Scrubchub That's how long it takes to make games now. I should say that's how long it takes to correctly make games now.

Maybe, just maybe.... We forget about all of the companies business and let them worry about it. We should all just focus on enjoying all of the wonderful games that exist, since that's what we are all in it for.

@Moby Finally, I knew I wasn't the only one.

@PrinceOfPorgs98 Thank you.

@Kooky_Geezer Exclusives aren't the only reason people buy a specific console. I personally buy a console because I like the hardware, ecosystem and simplicity, among a bunch of other things. Exclusive games rarely have anything to do with my hardware purchasing decision. How can you say they don't care about Xbox users anymore? Are they taking something away from us? I could understand what you're saying if they released games on every platform except their own Xbox platform, but all they are doing is expanding where they sell their products. They are a business that is their job, it is their job to sell their products to as many people as possible in as many places as possible. It is their job to make as much money as possible. It has nothing to do with loyalty. It's getting really old hearing schit like this from people like you. They are trying to bring as many games to as many people on as many platforms as possible. Explain to me how that is a bad thing? I've been playing video games for over 40 years and I've been waiting all that time to see what's happening now, happen. I'm tired of different hardware from different companies having specific games. What is wrong with the games being everywhere possible? That's one of the problems PC people have with console people, that kind of exclusive nonsense mentality. If you want to talk about lack of loyalty, go look at PlayStation and how they are alienating their entire customer base and stealing from them.

Is it a free mod?

@BacklogBrad Oh ok, cool. Yeah it does look absolutely awful. I don't know what they're doing lately. I used to like going around in the UI and doing whatever, now I avoid it at all costs. Turn on Xbox, start game as quickly as possible and forget about the UI.

@BacklogBrad They asked us for our opinion.

@Nintendo4Sonic Is Dino Crisis 3 any good? I heard it sucked so I didn't get it. Now it is expensive for some reason.

@Ralizah So, like the Great Value brand at Walmart?

I'll give them a tip. Finish a game and I'll buy it and maybe if it's good enough, I'll pay full price for it.

Im playing, "Let's monitor router traffic to figure out how to block Microsoft ad servers on my Xbox."

The whole FU©K!NG thing is a game pass ad! They took away my groups and replaced them with ads! I didn't realize that I'm still pissed off about this until I read this article. I did some research on this. I have figured out that legally, we can charge Microsoft or any company for that matter, for advertising space on our screens. We can send them a contract asking for absurd amounts of money. I am asking for $10,000 per pixel per frame per second for example. If they do not respond or agree to said contract, which they won't, you can get a cease and desist order from a judge to force them to remove the ads. You can also claim that they changed your contract without your knowledge or consent. Contrary to popular belief, hitting an agree button is not legally binding because they cannot prove who who clicked the button, plus there is no disagree button. It's a funny trick they try to pull with that, they try to force you to agree to a new contract or deny your access to your device and content and that is illegal as well. If you have a contract with them that grants you access to a device and content they cannot take away access and content because you do not agree to a new contract. Both sides are still bound by the current contract. I found out they had to change the terms of service to allow the dashboard to contain ads and I never agreed to it. Also even if someone agrees to it they can always change their mind at any time and send Microsoft a letter in writing stating such and then at that time they will be legally required to remove the ads. I say everyone do this so these companies cannot take over our devices and get free advertising space in our homes. I think everyone should demand absurd amounts of money for advertising space on our TV screens in our private homes. Maybe then they will stop doing this or maybe everyone will get paid if we present them with a reasonable offer. Rant over.

You can claim the free Fallout 76 on Xbox and PC. On the website it says you can pick one, but I got codes for both and they both worked.

@kihaennem Damn it. So what other games are like that?

Wow, I've never seen a game like that. That's the kind of creativity we need going forward. Now if only the greedy corporations would let people work and create masterpieces.

@NEStalgia it is very interesting times in the video game industry. Just when I was thought it was going downhill enough for me to not really exit gaming, but exit new gaming on console, it seems like things are turning around a little bit. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I still think I made a good decision to buy two more Series X when they were dirt cheap to prepare for the all digital console refresh. I really hope if they go all digital with the next Xbox that they at least have a Blu-ray attachment drive.

Is its code name "payback" because it's gonna be free to play to payback everyone for being ripped off? What they did was straight up theft. They should've given a new DLC for free for every one of them they removed to the people who were affected.

@GuyinPA75 Same here. I destroyed my Destiny 2 disc when they started vaulting content. I did decide to keep my Destiny 1 disc because that one is alright.

Ubisoft are you listening? That is Sofa King stupid.

@GamingFan4Lyf that's what I do and I also wait until I can get it used. The clock is ticking on that last part though with everything going digital only.

@ChopperCampbell I just noticed you replied before me.

@BleedingDreamer You can't get your Microsoft account banned for saying something Microsoft doesn't like. I think party chats are the same way. I think only in game chats are monitored. Plus, I think Discord is multi-platform, so you can communicate with people no matter what they are using.