X-BOX Megathread 2021

[Your Mom]

Anyone try the new Halo yet? Just curious what the difficulty is like

[apsham]

Had a long day so I'm still waiting for the install to finish - but I do know it was at least 4 levels of difficulty and you can change it before you load into a save file if it doesn't suit what you're expecting. 

[Bobfoc]

I can't remember a Halo game that wasn't perfectly accessible on the easiest setting.

[Your Mom]

I started Grim Fandango and played for like an hour. I really love the voice work and the story is such a cool idea. What I don't love though is there is a lot of back tracking and unless I'm mistaken there is no run button. Makes for really slow going

[Bobfoc]

It's definitely steeped in the awkward trappings of turn-of-the-century adventure games. Inventory management and generally getting around can be a pain.

[Your Mom]

I think my driver is my favorite character so far. I'm curious what he has got up his sleeve when it comes to more car upgrades  

[tristy]

Hellblade 2 looks fucking amazing, holy shit.

[Your Mom]

There wasn't much to it but that Matrix thing is freaking amazing as a demo for Unreal 5! I can't wait to see what people can do with it

[VerbalPuke]

On 06/12/2021 at 18:57, Your Mom said:

All these flashy next gen games with amazing graphics and instead of all that I think I'm about to play Grim Fandango for the first time

I'm still playing Fable II right now, forgot how much silly fun it was. 

[Schlitzbrille]

11 minutes ago, VerBlue Christmas said:

I'm still playing Fable II right now, forgot how much silly fun it was. 

Did you break the economy yet with rent and system clock shenanigans?

[VerbalPuke]

21 minutes ago, Jolly St. Wentz said:

Did you break the economy yet with rent and system clock shenanigans?

No, I've just exploited weapons and jewelry sales buying low and selling high.

Also in the process of buying the entire gypsy camp and lowering everybodys rent. 

[IDOL]

My son really wants a new gen X-Box this year, and all that’s available is the Series S. Might have to stop being so stubborn and buy an all digital console against my better judgment.

Those storage expansion cards are crazy priced though. How is everyone dealing with the limited storage, especially since you can’t play the Series S games from an external SSD or HDD? Is it a pain to store X/S enhanced games on an HDD and have to move them to the main memory to play?

[tristy]

If my PS5 is anything to go by, moving a game back and forth to a plain ol' HDD takes a good bit of time, depending on the file size. I use an SSD for my Series S, and it's lighting quick. But buying an SSD is just about as expensive as buying the expansion card. I lucked out and my dad has a lot just lying around without shells.

It's not THAT big of a pain, only having 500ish gigs to play with. As long as you don't go nuts downloading everything on Gamepass or buying shit. I mean, yeah, it's gonna hurt if your son wants to play Forza or the Master Chief Collection, and those are well over 100gbs, and even DOOM 2016 is like 60+ GBs, but it's manageable.

Worth noting, though, that some X/S games are playable from an HDD/SSD - the Master Chief Collection, for example. It's got the X/S branding, but it loads up from the external harddrive. There's a list of X/S games on Reddit somewhere that you can store and play on an external drive. It's nothing ground breaking, just technically backwards compatible games that still have a few enhancements.

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If you want to check if it’s playable on an external HDD:

• ⁠Press Menu/ manage game and add-ons on the game of choice
• ⁠Go to File Info

⁠It will be playable on all drives if it says:

• App Model: XDK
• Console Type: XboxOneGen9Aware
• Gen: Durango

Or you can also try moving it to the Hard Drive, and if it gives you a Warning Sign, then it’s unplayable elsewhere

If it doesn’t, then you’re all good

 

[IDOL]

On 22/12/2021 at 03:02, tristy said:

If my PS5 is anything to go by, moving a game back and forth to a plain ol' HDD takes a good bit of time, depending on the file size. I use an SSD for my Series S, and it's lighting quick. But buying an SSD is just about as expensive as buying the expansion card. I lucked out and my dad has a lot just lying around without shells.

It's not THAT big of a pain, only having 500ish gigs to play with. As long as you don't go nuts downloading everything on Gamepass or buying shit. I mean, yeah, it's gonna hurt if your son wants to play Forza or the Master Chief Collection, and those are well over 100gbs, and even DOOM 2016 is like 60+ GBs, but it's manageable.

Worth noting, though, that some X/S games are playable from an HDD/SSD - the Master Chief Collection, for example. It's got the X/S branding, but it loads up from the external harddrive. There's a list of X/S games on Reddit somewhere that you can store and play on an external drive. It's nothing ground breaking, just technically backwards compatible games that still have a few enhancements.

 

Ah, nice! The Series S was a hit with my son this morning. Fortnite and all of the Plants vs. Zombies games were instantly requested.