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Chasiubao posted:You'd think people would be happy that there were so many fine-grained privacy options given the hullabaloo about the Kinect camera Some people will never be happy. Ever. With anything.
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BrokenKnees posted:Are there any decent universal remotes that would control both the 360 and an Xbone? Yeah, it's called the Kinect. Unless you're doing something super intricate you're covered. Seriously I haven't touched the remote for the TV, cable box, sound bar in months. I just yell at the TV like my dad used to do but this time it does my bidding. I touch the XBone controller when it's time to play. The Kinect is like having a surly robot in your living room who always thinks you're talking about it. You can't say "Xbox" anywhere near it, it's why the cool kids all say XBone. I'm also turned on by the idea of the NSA watching me play Titanfall and getting sweet gameplay tips. So there's that.
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Fame Douglas posted:A typical evening at Capt. Rainbowbeard's: Xbox, Turn On! Xbox, Watch TV! Xbox, watch WICZ-TV! Xbox, Volume Up! Xbox, Volume Up! Xbox, Volume Up! Xbox, Volume Up! Xbox, Volume Up! Xbox, Volume Down! Are... you watching me through my Kinect? 
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Mar 12, 2014 16:11
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I think the problem most people have with shooters is all the circlestrafing bunnyhopping twelve year olds who headshot, headshot, headshot. Probably while using mice and keys. Because that's not annoying as gently caress to play against at all. The advice I would give is to stay the hell away from deathmatch or hoppers containing modes like that, and concentrate on objective-based games. Sure, you'll still run into some assholes who don't seem to get the rules of the game mode they're playing, but at this point you're not actively trying to engage them, you're capping points and flags while the meatheads kill each other. Then, if voice chat is on (it isn't) you can hear their prepubescent little voices complain about how they don't understand how you got in first you DIDN'T EVEN GET ANY KILLS.
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Mar 14, 2014 02:37
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Saladman posted:Gosh it sure is terrible when people are good at playing games and make use of legitimate game mechanics. If you use a controller for an FPS on a computer then god help you. Buy the console version so that everyone else is equally gimped, buy a mouse and keyboard for your computer. Well that's, like, your opinion, man. ;p I'm just a little miffed at the XIMs, like an above poster mentioned, and the impossible things one can do with a mouse and keyboard. Real people can't do that, and I require realism in my murder simulators. You can turn all voice chat off, it's an option in Settings or Preferences somewhere. You can also disable the Kinect for voice chat, in a separate preference. You can also highlight everyone in the lobby one by one and press X to mute them.
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Mar 14, 2014 21:27
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Aphrodite posted:It's Call of Duty anyway, it's all about individuals. That is an excellent formula for screaming at the television. I get rolled hard when I try to gank someone on a crew. Besides, some guys are cool dudes to talk to. Good luck finding them randomly though.
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Mar 14, 2014 23:11
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Got steamrolled pretty hard by a bunch of second gens with mics last night. I was playing with my IRL friend who "couldn't" use his mic because he didn't want to "wake" the "baby". Because kids should be trained to leap up at the slightest noise from across the house, of course. Those make the most mellow and reasonable fun-loving adults! Luckily I do not have a hu-mon "ego" which would cause me to "care" about things of no real monetary value.
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Mar 15, 2014 17:27
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Seriously. Don't wake the baby. And don't be resentful of friends who are trying to follow this advice. They're doing it for the sake of their sanity. A real friend would be able to appreciate this. I respectfully disagree. The child needs to learn to sleep through the noise of adults talking at a reasonable volume, and hasn't as yet at this point 4 years in. No one's screaming here. I realize parenting is hard work, especially initially getting the child into good sleep habits. No adult should have the fussy sleep of an infant. But at this point, this is not about Xbones or Titanfall so I guess somebody else can have the last word because I'm not talking about this anymore. EDIT: About the Kinect switching profiles when you pass the controller along, who are you people that get to have friends just come over to pass the controller around? My friends all have to stay at home because children and I feel like a bad influence when I go over and their wives/girlfriends are always trying to find something else for them to do. The XBone's Kinect truly is the device for the future. It lets you know you're alive, and that you still have friends. CAPT. Rainbowbeard fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Mar 16, 2014 18:41
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Pornographic Memory posted:He's right though, if you get the "shot a hundred dudes" or the "played for an hour" cheevos in your dude shooter game you're a giant goony sperglord who should kill yourself. Those numbers are kind of low, brah. Seriously though I'm happy that the cheevos have their own separate app because now they're just out of sight enough to be out of mind for me. I... had a problem. Now, getting a cheevo is nice, but I don't care because hitting the Guide Button doesn't take me right to the list of
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Wasn't the best thing about consoles that you could pop a disk in and play it? Wow, that's the only benefit of consoles? Here I thought it was not having everyone huddle around your computer on hardware that needs near-constant upgrades to play the latest games using office productivity hardware to make your mans move. You learn something new every day!  Downloading games is GREAT. I've never had a problem with background downloads on my Bone doing their thing unobtrusively. Perhaps my settings are different.
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May 5, 2014 00:10
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May 5, 2014 01:16
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Dr VideoGames 0.299 posted:Oh boy, I guess they're running out of oxygen in the XBox Sucks Thread because we're doing here now, again, without provocation, because what is anyone going to do about it. Go ahead and wipe your asses on the walls, I guess. I really like the XBone, and wasn't really joking. Less money overall spent on hardware for the ability to play the most recent games, with an input device designed for playing them which wouldn't even be a thing if PC gamers (master race) had had their way over the years. All my guests love it too. Standing up to a PC gamer (master race) on Something Awful dot com forums is an excellent way to get a red title. Such is their tyranny. Better to tray them like a Tea Partier or grizzly and just play dead. If I get a red title because of this, remember me as a stupid newbie, not someone with a red title. EDIT: This board moves quicker than I gave it credit for. Never mind me! I've never tried to play a game right when I got it on the Bone, and I've been installing games on the 360 since it was possible to. Coming from the original Xbox, not having a hard drive seemed... foolish. CAPT. Rainbowbeard fucked around with this message at 18:07 on May 5, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 17:44
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Isn't the ESRAM thing basically just the Cell thing from last gen? As in, a hardware quirk that PC devs took a while to figure out if they even did at all? The in-house Playstation game devs really picked up the ball there near the end, you have to give them credit where it's due. It's too soon to get super worried about anything, I think.
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May 5, 2014 19:36
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Bobtista posted:You're basically saying "This 4.5 litre V8 is basically just the same thing as this 50cc moped engine, eventually my scooter will be as fast as a ferrari the tuning shop just needs to work out the kinks!" Is it really as bad as that, though? Is the PS4 that much faster? I don't see how what are effectively similar hardware configurations makes for a Ferrari versus a moped analogy. Another question: is raw computing power an excuse for less efficient coding? Consoles have always needed to work within certain limitations. I'm looking at reasons why things may work out, not why they wont. I can see those reasons.
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May 5, 2014 23:41
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Never stop being reasonable, WinnebagoWarrior. We need more like you.WinnebagoWarrior posted:Having access to the best technology often makes developers lazy I think. People will get excited about a game like Killzone because on a technical level, its looks great. Textures look great, jaggies are in check, runs smoothly. I always sense something like this under the surface in PC (master race) "discussions" but it's never addressed, because MORE POWER. Please, explain at length why I am in error, PC gamers (master race.)  Tim 'The Toolman' Taylor posted:I understand that more power is more power and that more power is better.
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That map was the quintessential Halo map, though.
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OldPueblo posted:My wife/kids now expect voice control of the TV regardless of what device they're on. They are always surprised when the 360 doesn't do their vocal bidding or they can't pause/play vocally while in the DVR portion (that did actually work till I messed with the remote codes). Kinect has been a success in my house for sure (with minor bumps). Overall though yeah I agree this is progress for the market. Give people what they want then hope they try the additional abilities later. Much like Windows 8 with a touchscreen. I know people that swore they'd never use a touchscreen on a laptop/desktop because <dumb argument>. Then they tried it and now enjoy the new control method offered. Your wife and children require... re-education. Don't they know about ESRAM or Peas? Framerate?!? How could you let this happen? They shouldn't be having FUN with CRAPPY HARDWARE! They need to know they're doing it wrong! (I actually have the same home situation. It's p. cool actually.) And yeah, that Spartan Assault game is kind of bland, at very, very best, only if you love twin stick shooters.
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Wheezle posted:God how dare she genuinely enjoy the gift you gave her. Take that poo poo back until she promises to adhere to your superior tastes. Better yet, till she's a PC gamer (master race.)
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Chamber 9 posted:I would like to preface with this: I am not posting this to troll or harass. I want to hear your side of the story; I'm genuinely interested. 1. I don't like Playstation as much as Xbox. The media box functionality is a definite plus for my household, as well. All my non-gamer friends and acquaintances really like coming over to my house because it is neat. They really don't care enough to get a game system when they could buy a Roku or whatever and pester me for tech help however. 2. Yes. Don't care. If I cared I would be a PC gamer (master race.) 3. Still coming out ahead versus PC users on money spent to play games. Plus I have rechargeable batteries just because they're a good idea in a household, and the included headset is fine. 4. Hell. No. 5. Hell. No. 6. What would I need that is Bluetooth, besides maybe a keyboard or mouse, two things I game on the Xbox to avoid? You can plug in an external drive starting Monday or thereabouts. 7. It's bigger if anything. Since it carries over and all from the 360. 8 + 9. Haven't given a poo poo about getting more than one console at a time since Sonic made fun of Mario's glandular condition. If you have to poo poo on the competition to get a sale, I don't want your product.* Sony attacking the Bone with ads shortly after the unveiling pretty much wrapped this console generation up for me. I have a media box that works and also plays games better than my computer, and the Kinect works as intended. I just want to play games, man. I can't play them all, not if I want any kind of social life. *This is also why I dislike PC gaming in general: the PC gamers (master race.) \/\/\/\/\/ I didn't follow any of that so I must have missed it.
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Yaoi Mandel posted:Why are people answering that guy sincerely? He's a loving idiot Why not? Getting out of the echo chamber every once in a while is good for you. It's why I visit PC threads.
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My girlfriend has a psychotic hated of remotes and prefers yelling at the TV for every function and keeping everything else in a drawer. So we have the cable piped through the bone to the TV. It's actually pretty neat and worth checking out in real life with other hu-mons around! Microsoft had a good idea they really didn't present well/have a receptive audience for. Plus, can pretend my TV is the computer from Star Trek.
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Yum yum, Ambrosia! I forgot this was Something Awful Dot Com and we are all deathly serious about video games 24/7. It won't happen again.
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Tora Tora Torrents posted:Snap center should be good for those who are kinectless. Well, that's why they're talking about it, pretty sure it's already a thing.
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Buckwild Dorf posted:Don't know if any of you have heard, but the Xbox One sucks. Just found out myself. Did it give you the cancer?
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/\/\/\ There's a game released this week called Sixty Second Shooter Prime that might scratch that Geometry Wars itch. It's fivebux, but I haven't tried it.
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TheChirurgeon posted:Can anyone recommend a good wireless USB keyboard to hook up to the Xbone? Preferably something that works with the YouTube and Twitch apps. I would be interested to know this as well.
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Funkmaster General posted:Xbox 360 had a feature where you could set common settings across games (such as look inversion) so you wouldn't have to worry about fiddling with the settings before starting a new game. I really miss this feature on Xbone. Is it maybe hidden away where I missed it or is it really gone? That kinda sucks. No, it's gone. I can't play FPS games on a controller without inverted y-axis. It's as bad as hardcore mouse+keyboard players insist it is otherwise.  Typing also sucks on the bone.
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The XBone Games With Gold for July are Max and the Curse of Brotherhood (still) and Guacamelee. Straight to free with that one. The 360's games are Gotham City Impostors and Battle Block Theatre. BBT is pretty good, comes with a level creator and such. http://majornelson.com/2014/06/26/xbox-live-games-with-gold-for-july-2014/
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Bob NewSCART posted:The future of entertainment. Imagine a data cap stomping on a human face... forever.
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LOL that one guy lives in a small town in TEXAS and gets better internet somehow than a lot of you guys. It's hardly "gently caress you, got mine" (though coming from someone in a small Texan town it's easy to see why one might think that,) it's proof that infrastructure can be added/improved in places where consumers demand it.
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I have Comcast in Chicago and the cap of 300GB a month has been "temporarily suspended" for over three years now. Decent enough speeds for gaming, 20/5, 30 ping. Yeah, yeah, I know, Comcast.
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Yes, the free Bone games are for all month. The sales change every week though. Guacamelee is pretty fun. Looking at a guide on GameFAQs (for what the unlockable moves were, mostly. The "Xbox Help" snap would be useful if I had never played a game before) I see there is more than one ending? Can anyone confirm this? Guacamelee isn't famous enough for sperglords to document every facet on a wiki I guess. And God drat Combo Chicken's loving combos. It's like the Dojo from Killer Instinct. Apparently you can chain some wicked combos once you get the hang of it, but on the other hand it's a Metroidvania, how much time are you gonna spend on it as opposed to a fighter?
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SmokeyXIII posted:Do you lose access to a GwG after the month is out? If you just got a month of Gold for the game, yes. On the Bone GWG is like Playstation Plus, you keep your free stuff as long as your subscription is current, unlike how on the 360 you keep the games forever regardless. I don't think it resets if you lapse your subscription.
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I used to care about my gamerscore and cheevos. But then the Bone hiding the loving things behind another app made me not give a poo poo. I had a problem guys. A serious cheevo problem. The Bone cured it.
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To be fair, the thing they just implemented for the double push of the guide button brings up the apps up a lot quicker now. I just need to make sure I stay off the cheevo wagon.
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/\/\/\ This is another good reason why I stay off the Cheevo Train now. I really liked the Achievements in Mass Effect; there was an in-game reward for getting them. CAPT. Rainbowbeard fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Multiplayer Achievements are the worst because they force you (if you are in the throes of active cheevo addiction) to play in a manner in which you might not normally play, interrupting the flow of the game, costing your team a win because you needed X ammount of Ys in Z matches.
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I got Steppin' Razor in Halo 3. The way things were set up when that game came out, it had to be done in FFA, and that game mode (at the time) had just enough players to do it... if they were all kind enough to stand still and let you sword them. If anyone was engaging anyone else, it was practically impossible to do because they wouldn't respawn in time if killed.. I set my language to Korean or something and boosted.
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Did you get the piece behind the golden door in the Devil's office? You need 10 gold medals for that.
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