Xbox: This is the Jan 6th of gaming.

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1glitch0 posted:

Is this not going to be on Game Pass? The gently caress we doing here?

let me help you:

edit: Perfect snipe. No regerts.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 18:32

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# ? May 27, 2024 01:00

RandolphCarter: Jul 30, 2005

For my fellow Grounded-heads who�ve had the game turn into a stuttering mess: check around the trash bags. The ants there have become hoarders. I just destroyed 1000+ apple and hot dog bits.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 18:50

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

nom epique posted:

Now you will have two pieces of expensive plastic with no games op. In all serious I’m just about as disappointed as can be with Xbox.

Sounds like you just don't like video games op, maybe you should consider rehoming your consoles, since you're clearly incapable of giving them the care they deserve.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 18:51

CV 64 Fan: Oct 13, 2012; It's pretty dope.

Imagine thinking the series X with Game Pass and emulators isn't a great value

# ? Oct 25, 2022 19:02

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

nom epique posted:

Gosh Xbox is junk. Definitely regret copping at this point. Would like to sell but I�m so disgusted with the lack of games I�m temped to just run it over with a bulldozer or huck it off a bridge at this point. Pure junk.

Mod challenge?? You gotta film yourself crushing your consoles now.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 19:11

Lammasu: May 8, 2019; lawful Good Monster

New preview on High On Life. It actually looks pretty interesting. Also, entire movies in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4JZR8ULkY

# ? Oct 25, 2022 19:46

otter: Jul 23, 2007; Ask me about my XCOM and controller collection

word.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Got myself an early Christmas present with my tax return in the form of a Series X from Microsoft's online store. I may have also spent more of said tax return on one of those shiny Lunar Shift controllers too. It is very pretty, and I like the rubber grips on the outside of the handles.

Now I just gotta wait for my XboxSeX to turn up in the mail in a few days so I can play games with it. (I've got Game Pass Ultimate, and a shitload of X360 games ready and waiting to play on something that doesn't sound like a jet engine in takeoff)

edit: Also is the PDP Media Remote worth getting at all for BluRay's, DVD's, etc?

I bought and recommend the 8bitdo remote. it's nice.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 20:08

John F Bennett: Jan 30, 2013; I always wear my wedding ring. It's my trademark.

Anyone playing Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2 that just came out today?

I don't know much about this one but the description and videos make it seem pretty cool.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 20:13

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

Lammasu posted:

New preview on High On Life. It actually looks pretty interesting. Also, entire movies in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4JZR8ULkY

This looks fun! I wonder what the budget was between this and scorn? I dunno why I�m comparing the two, but for some reason both occupy a similar space in my mind, despite this appearing to be an actual game and not just touch gross stuff simulator (which it may also have)

# ? Oct 25, 2022 20:37

External Organs: Mar 3, 2006; One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."

John F Bennett posted:

Anyone playing Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2 that just came out today?

I don't know much about this one but the description and videos make it seem pretty cool.

Oh poo poo! Is this on gamepass?? I've always wanted to play it

# ? Oct 25, 2022 21:01

John F Bennett: Jan 30, 2013; I always wear my wedding ring. It's my trademark.

External Organs posted:

Oh poo poo! Is this on gamepass?? I've always wanted to play it

It is not, sorry!

# ? Oct 25, 2022 21:20

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

I played it when it first hit early access and thought it was more of the same but somehow even more janky and with graphics that would have looked cutting edge ten years ago. If it's out on Xbox now, maybe it's been significantly improved since then?

# ? Oct 25, 2022 21:29

Moonshine Rhyme: Mar 26, 2010; Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate

The mount and blade developers are well known for their completely glacial update speed. The core idea and gameplay loop is really solid, but a lot of the systems around it are not and have not really seen much improvement since the game came out on PC a couple years ago. If the core gameplay loop of building and recruiting an army while leading the battles personally looks good to you, you will probably enjoy the game. If you were hoping to engage with some of the later game systems like building your own kingdom or actual diplomacy with nobility, you will be disappointed.

Riding around on a horse and chopping dudes up is great though

# ? Oct 25, 2022 21:46

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

Yeah, the meat of the gameplay is fun enough, but they'd really been hyping more complex RPG/relationship systems and the world and it's inhabitants feel just as hollow and lifeless as ever.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 22:10

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

John F Bennett posted:

Too bad. I haven't played the second one since the time it originally came out, but I'm really enjoying the last installment. The AI seems to have been much improved, and it also looks very good.

problem is unless they changed it all the civs and units are very samey which is a problem when they were attempting to market it via SC2 streamers as a competitive mp title.

# ? Oct 25, 2022 22:54

SUNKOS: Jun 4, 2016

American McGay posted:

https://twitter.com/zh_switch/status/1584601755706396689?s=46&t=Ma-QYCAAnnYV38kfraSmZA

Xbox Stays Winning.

American McGay posted:

Yeah, there's a retail version. Just open Edge on your Xbox and type in tinyurl.com/mryset5w

Seems to be working flawlessly for me so far, although it's running off an ancient 32GB thumb drive so load times / performance might be able to be improved a bit I don't really know how any of this works I'm just gonna play Burnout 3 in 4K60 for the rest of my life.

Holy loving poo poo what the gently caress this is nuts. The last I saw of emulation on PC was Burnout 3 still had the sky glitch but it looks like that's fixed? I have a 4TB external drive hooked up to my XSX for all my XB1 & 360 games, will that work with putting emulators on or do I need a specific emulator-only storage device?

I still love playing Burnout Revenge via BC and Burnout Paradise remastered owns but Burnout 3 would be sick as hell especially with all the upscaled graphics. Would be great to have access to other classics as well like SSX Tricky, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, Silent Hill 2 (the original version that doesn't suck) and Killer 7 and maybe even some Japanese shmups? This is awesome. That YouTube video you linked made it look like you can add custom game tile art to the library as well? They really thought of everything :stare:

Does PS3 emulation work as well? I know that's come far on PC and I really miss playing Katamari Forever. How about SNES emulation and whatever that Nintendo one that covers GameCube/WiiU etc. (Dolphin?) is and MAME? Do they work as well?

Thank you for posting this! Xbox Series best console ever :swoon:

# ? Oct 25, 2022 23:50

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

There�s no PS3 emulator on xbox

# ? Oct 25, 2022 23:53

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Man Grounded is very good looking and almost cartoony it sometimes makes you forget how loving brutal it can be, laff. I fell into a hole and got mobbed by 2 soldier ants and got fuuuuuucked up!

# ? Oct 25, 2022 23:54

SpiderLink: Oct 3, 2006

SUNKOS posted:

Holy loving poo poo what the gently caress this is nuts. The last I saw of emulation on PC was Burnout 3 still had the sky glitch but it looks like that's fixed? I have a 4TB external drive hooked up to my XSX for all my XB1 & 360 games, will that work with putting emulators on or do I need a specific emulator-only storage device?

I still love playing Burnout Revenge via BC and Burnout Paradise remastered owns but Burnout 3 would be sick as hell especially with all the upscaled graphics. Would be great to have access to other classics as well like SSX Tricky, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, Silent Hill 2 (the original version that doesn't suck) and Killer 7 and maybe even some Japanese shmups? This is awesome. That YouTube video you linked made it look like you can add custom game tile art to the library as well? They really thought of everything

Does PS3 emulation work as well? I know that's come far on PC and I really miss playing Katamari Forever. How about SNES emulation and whatever that Nintendo one that covers GameCube/WiiU etc. (Dolphin?) is and MAME? Do they work as well?

Thank you for posting this! Xbox Series best console ever

I think you'd need a different hard drive because of formats, but I haven't looked into it in a while. You could probably get by with a 1 TB if you're not going for full ROM sets. Dolphin is correct.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 00:18

Rev. Bleech_: Oct 19, 2004; ~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

Since they moved the retail Retroarch to the Discord server, the goddamn thing doesn't load my MAME Roms. I'm sad now.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 00:41

The Illusive Man: Mar 27, 2008; ~savior of yoomanity~

So is Microsoft actually chill about running emulators in retail mode now? Last I looked into it several months ago, the going wisdom was �it�s possible this could get you banned, but they don�t seem to care�.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 01:24

hatty: Feb 28, 2011; Pork Pro

they still get taken off the store three times a week so not really

# ? Oct 26, 2022 01:26

American McGay: Feb 28, 2010; by sebmojo

The Illusive Man posted:

So is Microsoft actually chill about running emulators in retail mode now? Last I looked into it several months ago, the going wisdom was �it�s possible this could get you banned, but they don�t seem to care�.

The only risk is to the developer accounts that publish them. If you�re able to snag one while it�s up they can�t take it away or punish you because of it.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 01:32

External Organs: Mar 3, 2006; One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."

Trek To Yomi is drowning in style. I musta missed people talking about this one in here when it came to gamepass.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 03:41

Seltzer: Oct 11, 2012; Ask me about Game Pass: the Best Deal in Gaming!

External Organs posted:

Trek To Yomi is drowning in style. I musta missed people talking about this one in here when it came to gamepass.

The game genuinely looks incredible. The world design and style are amazing.... then you have to play it. About 30 minutes in I quit and just hoped they wouldve made like a Goemon clone with those assets instead.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 05:00

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Yeah it looks fantastic but I don't think I played it for more than an hour, I bounced off of it super hard

# ? Oct 26, 2022 05:19

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

Speaking of looking fantastic, my partner's been playing the new plague tale and holy moly that is a good looking game. Every time I walk past I end up doing a double take because I'm gobsmacked by how pretty it is.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 05:30

Toaster Beef: Jan 23, 2007; that's not nature's way

The new Plague Tale is a beautiful, solidly constructed game that is wildly overstaying its welcome. I have something like an hour left and it feels like it should've wrapped up at least three hours ago. It's souring me on an otherwise good experience.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 08:05

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

otter posted:

I bought and recommend the 8bitdo remote. it's nice.

Ooh, cheers! :tipshat:

# ? Oct 26, 2022 10:56

TheScott2K: Oct 26, 2003; I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

Plague Tale is absolutely beautiful and not fun

# ? Oct 26, 2022 11:28

Zwille: Aug 18, 2006; * _{For the Ghost Who Walks Funny}

I�m probably missing something re: plague tale but I gave up on the first big stealth sequence where they stop holding your hand, probably gonna give it another shot on narrative mode because it�s very pretty indeed.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 11:45

Wee Bairns: Feb 10, 2004; Jack Tripper's wingman.

Trying to install that amazing looking PS2 emu, but the store just hangs upon opening the link. Is this just the store delisting it for a bit or something?

# ? Oct 26, 2022 12:03

Beastie: Nov 3, 2006; They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.

Wee Bairns posted:

Trying to install that amazing looking PS2 emu, but the store just hangs upon opening the link. Is this just the store delisting it for a bit or something?

It did this to me yesterday so I am wondering the same.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 13:20

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

John F Bennett posted:

Anyone playing Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2 that just came out today?

I don't know much about this one but the description and videos make it seem pretty cool.

I think it is really good as long as you don't care about the old school PC game vibes (aka terrible graphics, weird interface, very little handholding, etc). It's a pretty unique game series that doesn't compare to much of anything I can think of. It's sorta like Total War but you are in the fights beating rear end while doing some basic tactical orders. I loved it when I played the early access version a year+ back

# ? Oct 26, 2022 14:04

External Organs: Mar 3, 2006; One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."

I was watching a few videos and it seems like while the graphics aren't great you do get a ton of characters on screen sometimes, so maybe that's the tradeoff.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 14:06

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

Despite its age, PS2 emulation is definitely somewhat of a hot topic right now, especially with Sony offering PS2 games through its subscription service. Yes it's a poor selection on Sony's side and they should be embarrassed, but the fact remains that they're doing it and Xbox is literally in a legal situation with Sony right now and can't look like they don't care about people using their console to break DMCA and allow people free access to their competitor's content (some of which you can actually currently buy/subscribe to) illegally. So I'm not terribly surprised if they're wielding the banhammer a little more aggressively than usual on this, it could easily be a dumb thing like that which ultimately torpedoes their $69 billion deal in military hardware (in software form).

# ? Oct 26, 2022 14:10

ColdPie: Jun 9, 2006

TheScott2K posted:

Plague Tale is absolutely beautiful and not fun

This describes basically 95% of non-indie games for the last 20 years.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 14:18

ErrEff: Feb 13, 2012

Beastie posted:

It did this to me yesterday so I am wondering the same.

It did indeed get delisted. Microsoft have gotten a little more aggressive lately about taking these retail apps down from the store.

However, the devs just keep uploading them again. Microsoft doesn't seem to mind this odd cat-and-mouse game, somehow.

Look up "gamr13" and it should come up easily (not the store, I mean in a search engine).

ErrEff fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Oct 26, 2022

# ? Oct 26, 2022 14:52

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TheScott2K posted:

Plague Tale is absolutely beautiful and not fun

i got a few minutes in, after you chase the little kid. i could tell the characters were going to be annoying, the aliasing (especially on her hair) was incredibly distracting and the nauseating framerate made it unplayable. another win for gamepass

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Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "At the end of the day
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Xboxfail.

Plaguetale looks perfect on PC with maximum settings.

# ? Oct 26, 2022 16:06

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