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ErrEff posted:Checked out Xcloud on my iPhone, had to use a VPN since it’s not officially available in my country. Connecting a controller to a modern phone or computer is relatively easy these days and so much better - there's even a lot of phone clips available now!
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I said come in! posted:The Nvidia chip on OG Xbox had a lot of custom code on it, and a custom version of Direct X, which is why emulating that console is very difficult to do. The OG Xbox, despite popular opinion, is not just a PC inside a console case. It really was its own unique closed system that could do a lot and was pretty powerful for the time. As a PC Guy at the time, early DirectX 8 ports of Xbox games were REALLY frustrating. That early Halo port is a good example - yeah, Gearbox hosed some stuff up, but they were also dealing with a game whose origjnal version expected features a TON of people's otherwise-fine GPUs just didn't have.
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Akuma posted:I wish every platform handled cloud saves the way Xbox does, where it just works. I had Limbo installed on a VCR Xbox I got from someone YEARS ago. I redownloaded it on my Series X and it brought over the save no hassle.
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Jul 4, 2021 23:32
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Laserface posted:You can run Spotify on your Xbox while playing games. Three fields entertainment provided instructions on how to do it to avoid licensing costs for good music in Dangerous Driving. Yeah, I found that it's so well integrated into the Xbox (especially being able to control it through the home button) that I cancelled my Apple Music subscription and signed up to Spotify instead. 
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Jul 5, 2021 02:58
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Fanatic posted:Yeah, I found that it's so well integrated into the Xbox (especially being able to control it through the home button) that I cancelled my Apple Music subscription and signed up to Spotify instead. derail but Spotify is vastly superior to apple music in every possible way so you did the right thing.
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Jul 5, 2021 03:02
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iPhone/iMac/AppleTV user here. Apple Music blows and Spotify rules.
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Jul 5, 2021 07:47
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It's a dumb hill to die on but blaring Spotify over your game and turning the music down is the "throw your battery operated radio in your backseat" music solution that we are stuck with and it still pales in comparison to the games that did it right during the OG Box days, like the GTA Double Pack was mind-blowing when it released for Xbox.
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Jul 5, 2021 08:15
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I used Spotify when I played Wreckfest and it was incredibly seamless and functional. The fact that it is instantly accessible from the home menu with full controls is awesome, or you can just use your phone. I can't imagine it being any better than that.
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American McGay posted:I used Spotify when I played Wreckfest and it was incredibly seamless and functional. The fact that it is instantly accessible from the home menu with full controls is awesome, or you can just use your phone. I can't imagine it being any better than that. The versimillitude of it being projected in game by your car that you are driving and not just a straight up replacement of any game music that exists at all. But I am willing to say I'm in the extreme niche on this one.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Not if you use any apple stuff tbh I do and it still fuckin sucked. the curated playlists are also bullshit, at least the ones I was interested in. American McGay posted:iPhone/iMac/AppleTV user here. Apple Music blows and Spotify rules. correct. the UI is nicer Love/dislike works as you would expect it to you can share playlists with other spotify users because not as many people use Apple Music Spotifys algorithm is better and recommending poo poo than whatever dweeb got the job of curating playlists. I put my Apple music playlists and loved songs/albums into spotify and immediately it was recommending me new stuff that was perfect for me, and still 1 year on after switching. Apple musics hit ratio on 'for you weekly' or whatever was so horrendously bad and out of touch with my tastes I spent several hours reading the internet trying to figure out what I was doing wrong to not get anything out of it. Turns out its just fuckin garbage!
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Jul 5, 2021 09:24
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Doctor Nutt posted:The versimillitude of it being projected in game by your car that you are driving and not just a straight up replacement of any game music that exists at all. But I am willing to say I'm in the extreme niche on this one. Yeah, I'm with you on that. It was cool to be able to control the music through an in-game radio. Having eurobeat that began playing as a race was starting in Sega GT was awesome since it would pick up as the race progressed, for example.
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Jul 5, 2021 09:31
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You could burn music to the hdd during the 360’s early days. There’s 2 dozen songs I immediately associate with Oblivion purely because I heard them on repeat 100 times while playing it
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Is xCloud on consoles yet? I just tried it on my Mac, it seemed OK for slower games but DOOM Eternal was not good. It'd be really good to just hop straight into games to try them, I assume that's the plan.
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Jul 5, 2021 09:52
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Lube Enthusiast posted:You could burn music to the hdd during the 360’s early days. There’s 2 dozen songs I immediately associate with Oblivion purely because I heard them on repeat 100 times while playing it The Wii did this too and let certain games use it.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:. It'd be really good to just hop straight into games to try them, I assume that's the plan. Yeah they said they're gonna use Xcloud to demo console games in the future. Flight sim will be first though.
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Jul 5, 2021 11:44
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The 360 had a whole thing where if you burned music to the hard drive and played it (or played it off of an iPod, or a media share on your network or whatever...) it'd automatically mute the in-game music to stop it from getting in the way. I'm surprised and sad that nothing's imitated this since.
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The Kins posted:The 360 had a whole thing where if you burned music to the hard drive and played it (or played it off of an iPod, or a media share on your network or whatever...) it'd automatically mute the in-game music to stop it from getting in the way. I'm surprised and sad that nothing's imitated this since. The 360 also had a system wide setting that would set all games vertical look to invert. Don’t know why that disappeared either
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Jul 5, 2021 11:57
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irpoweroutlet posted:The 360 also had a system wide setting that would set all games vertical look to invert. Don’t know why that disappeared either Because invert look is Wrong
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Jul 5, 2021 12:51
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invert look is the way
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Jul 5, 2021 13:33
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The wrong way
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Soul Glo posted:The wrong way
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Jul 5, 2021 13:41
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controlling my dude like an airplane makes me feel alive
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Sony still has the universal invert thing on ps5 but it doesn't work half the time.
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Max Payne on PS2 broke me of my invert perversion. Aiming with standard controls makes more sense to me now as I imagine my crosshairs are my eyeballs looking around or actually just pointing a gun at stuff. The real sickos are the people who invert mouse look on PC.
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I can force myself to play a game non-inverted but I assume it's like how you can force a person to write with their non-dominant hand. I've always thought of the stick like a neck and thinking of it like eyes instead doesn't make it not awkward. One of the main reasons I got the Elite controller was so I can make the second preset exactly the same as normal just always inverted because there's some games in 2021 that still don't give you the option.
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A Plague Tale next gen patch just came out. 42gb update on X
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You can train yourself away from inverted; I did it, and all it took was not playing any games that use the right stick for 3 months. Easy!
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More of A Plague Tome at this point.
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I used to play with invert pitch on growing up, but that's because my first exposure to a game where it mattered was SOCOM 1 and that game had its invert setting on by default
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Whatever Goldeneye does when you're holding R is the correct way. Also flying a vehicle is different than aiming a gun. Flying is always inverted.
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Akuma posted:You can train yourself away from inverted; I did it, and all it took was not playing any games that use the right stick for 3 months. Easy! Deadly premonition 2 cured me
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Real hurthling! posted:Deadly premonition 2 cured me That was a bad game. Put me off 3D games altogether for months. Yuck.
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irpoweroutlet posted:The 360 also had a system wide setting that would set all games vertical look to invert. Don’t know why that disappeared either It’s hard to find good info online about that feature, called ‘Game Defaults’, as it’s been so long and the name is terribly generic, but I did find this support article for Fallout 3: https://help.bethesda.net/app/answers/detail/a_id/10046/ quote:THE CONTROLS FOR FALLOUT 3 ARE SWAPPED; THE LEFT ANALOG STICK IS THE CAMERA AND THE RIGHT STICK IS MOVEMENT. CAN I SWITCH THEM? This feature was kinda hidden, so seeing Bethesda support it so fully that you couldn’t configure it in-game is funny.
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Y inversion is for olds, X inversion is for complete madmen.
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American McGay posted:Whatever Goldeneye does when you're holding R is the correct way. Traveling through the city with your batcape in a Batman Arkham game? That’s inverted. Controlling the flight of a remote batarang? Nope, not inverted! 
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Mierenneuker posted:Traveling through the city with your batcape in a Batman Arkham game? That’s inverted. I have never ever been able to pilot the batarangs in those games.
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Inverted movement controls
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normal vs inverted is a easy divide, it's just if you see yourself as the character moving their eyes or as an abnormally focused domininatrix that grabs the character by the back of the head to make them look at things
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Is xCloud on consoles yet? I just tried it on my Mac, it seemed OK for slower games but DOOM Eternal was not good. It'd be really good to just hop straight into games to try them, I assume that's the plan. Not yet. I just tried it on iOS though. Seemed fine for Into the Gungeon, which is a very fast-paced game, but it seemed quite responsive. Then I tried Sea of Thieves and got like 1.5 seconds of latency. Also every time I’ve tried it the sound has been hosed up and crackly.
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