X-BOX Megathread 2023

[DFF]

13 minutes ago, apsham said:

Control is on sale right now so it's the perfect time to grab it, along with the DLC before it's gone.

Yeah, that's a standard tactic for games coming off GP - Microsoft discount the games by round 20% in the run up to them leaving. 

[apsham]

44 minutes ago, DFF said:

Yeah, that's a standard tactic for games coming off GP - Microsoft discount the games by round 20% in the run up to them leaving. 

Lunar New Year sale puts it at 70%+ off right now.

[King Ellis]

I thought there was just a standard discount throughout a titles time in Game Pass, sort of a way to entice you into buying it permanently, I didn't realise it was tied to when it was being removed.

[apsham]

2 minutes ago, King Ellis said:

I thought there was just a standard discount throughout a titles time in Game Pass, sort of a way to entice you into buying it permanently, I didn't realise it was tied to when it was being removed.

There is a discount when it's on GamePass in general, yeah - I don't know if they're saying that it starts at 10% and bumps to 20% closer to release though.

[Your Mom]

So every time I start to enjoy Dying Light 2 it makes this really obnoxious noise that never stops. With other games you would hear that noise and the game would crash but this game never crashes it just makes the noise. Maybe cut down on the "500 hours of gameplay" and fix that noise?

[apsham]

I haven't run into that yet (though the loudness of the beep that tells you your immunity is getting low makes me constantly jump) but they are pushing a patch this week that will hopefully solve your issue.

[Baddar]

Microsoft have stock of the Series X (buying from the UK at least) if you're still chasing one.

[VerbalPuke]

I tried playing Army of Two, what a disappointment. The controls in that game are just dire. 

[Your Mom]

Does it hurt to constantly keep a game in Quick Resume? Like Dying Light 2 doesn't really have save points and I never know if I'm going to lose progress so I've just been keeping it running lately

[apsham]

14 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Does it hurt to constantly keep a game in Quick Resume? Like Dying Light 2 doesn't really have save points and I never know if I'm going to lose progress so I've just been keeping it running lately

I've had instances in games (Guardians of the Galaxy) that have never left my Quick Resume for days, and they've done some odd things like slowed down massively, been glitchy, etc. - it's all down to how the game makers implement their stuff. As a general rule, I'll hard close down something every 1-2 days or so depending on how much I'm using it but theoretically you should be fine. If things act up, it'd be step 1 of me problem solving though.

[Bobfoc]

Given how quickly games can load on an SSD, I can't imagine that booting up a game is much of an inconvenience now.

[King Ellis]

I don't know if I really trust quick resume unless I can back out to a menu. I lost progress a couple of times on FH5 but I'm not sure if that's not down to the weird way it saves, like I think I ended up reading that you have to essentially force a save by going to one of your houses or whatever.

Apparently it screws with your 'play time' as well as it can treat it as if you've been playing the entire time the system was off. But of a trivial one but some people are interested in how long it took them to beat a game etc.

I didn't realise that quick resume worked on backwards compatible stuff as well. I keep being surprised when I open Timesplitters 2 and it's just on the main menu. This might be a way to finally do that 14 day survivor thing in Dead Rising 

 

[apsham]

I was going to say as well - Quick Resume is really hurt as a feature in something like Forza Horizon 5 that has that "always online" feel when it comes to making saves and tracking progress and giving rewards, etc.

[FLiam]

I find that when using quick resume on Valhalla after a few days away - it doesn’t save my progress so I have to reload the game anyway otherwise it flat-out refuses to save.

[Ruki]

Guardians of the Galaxy coming to gamepass this month. So glad I held off on buying it!

[Regia]

As dumb as it sounds, I love the fact that lawn mower simulatorn coming to game pass march 10th so I no longer have to stream play it. Its a surpringly relaxing game. 

[Bobfoc]

Lawn Mowing Simulator is a much more exciting prospect for me than Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Schlitzbrille]

40 minutes ago, Regia said:

As dumb as it sounds, I love the fact that lawn mower simulatorn coming to game pass march 10th so I no longer have to stream play it. Its a surpringly relaxing game. 

 

20 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

Lawn Mowing Simulator is a much more exciting prospect for me than Guardians of the Galaxy.

Please note that your complimentary Dad Kits are in the mail as I type.

[9 to 5]

2 hours ago, Regia said:

As dumb as it sounds, I love the fact that lawn mower simulatorn coming to game pass march 10th so I no longer have to stream play it. Its a surpringly relaxing game. 

To think Kirkland died for this to happen.

[Schlitzbrille]

5 hours ago, 9 to 5 said:

To think Kirkland died for this to happen.

If we sacrifice enough naughty Velma shirts he will be returned to us.