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Hey everybody!
It's another Xbox, console hardware and Xbox Live thread! Here we talk about never-ending sales, Play Anywhere titles, backwards compatibility, the bemoaning delay of exclusives, what happens if you don't hate cross-platform play, and how to get the most out of Game Pass! Whee!
Games with Gold
As always, for those with the paid XBL membership "Xbox Live Gold", four free titles are made available for download for limited timed--two on Xbox One (which require continued membership) and two on Xbox 360 (which are yours in perpetuity). Additionally, all Xbox 360 titles are among the backwards compatible (more on that below).
Xbox Game Pass
Like the Xbox-only service EA Access, Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft's own subscription gaming catalog service ("Netflix for video games") with over a hundred periodically rotating titles, making it attractive for digital only libraries and people who want to try first party new exclusives (which will make the rounds on the service at the time of their launch). There is no limit on how many games you can download and install from it, and access is for as long as the subscription holds--permanent purchases made from the catalog are discounted 20%, and DLC by 10% It does not require Xbox Live Gold (though you would need that for multiplayer access). Game Pass also extends to Xbox Play Anywhere games on Windows 10, just look for the separate download and purchase buttons on the Microsoft Store app.
Xbox One Backwards Compatibility with the Xbox
It's not just for the Xbox 360 anymore! In addition to more than four hundred Xbox 360 titles, more than thirty 'Original Xbox' titles are now playable on the Xbox One (both 'base' and 'X' variations), with some visual upgrades (such as resolution bumps to 1080p and beyond, not capable on the original console, and improved framerate). Most recent additions include a truckload of classic Star Wars titles, including both original Battlefront titles (the non-microtransaction ones), Republic Commando and KOTOR II. They work the same way as Xbox 360 titles and do not have additional achievements, and can be purchased from the Xbox website or played from a physical disc (break out your old libraries!). Want a list without the box art? There's one!
The Xbox E3 Briefing (10 June)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVBP6BWuDrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6GAxUVs37c
https://youtu.be/48_RexU9hqk?t=54m53sIndividual trailer/reveal items can be found here.
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Additionally, you can find the forums Xbox Live gamertag list here, and the form to sign up here.
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maybe, but you certainly don't want them carrying over the end of one thread into the start of a new one.
That's right. We run a tight ship here in the Penny Arcade Xbox Thread.
A TIGHT ship.
Unrelated to that, I miss Aisha Tyler doing Ubisoft's presser.
Or, like LostNinja said, widely unrealistic promises and expectations.
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It's a terrible game.
OK now somebody else go.
That's putting aside beating prostitutes to death with a dildo bat, which is embarrassing to the point that I would sometimes deny playing SR3.
I like them because I can't stand GTA's "satire." I'm weird, I know.
I never played it, but would like to for the price of $0.
That's actually not a bad line of reasoning, and one I hadn't considered, since a lot of the biting satire of GTA falls flat in my experience, and the game works better as a sort of perverted time capsule than brilliant satire.
Though I guess that explains why I don't really like what I've played of SR either.
Whereas Saints Row is sort of American satire of American culture... of the Friedberg/Seltzer variety.
Whereas the background stuff in Saints Row feels more or less like an extension of what's going on with the characters without trying to be meaningful.
Yeah, I don't get the hate. It wasn't a perfect game by any means, and the open world could've been better but it's a really fun game. It's the singleplayer Overwatch experience I've been wanting since Overwatch launched. Hopefully Volition gets a shot at an improved sequel, or some other studio makes a similar kind of game.
I've always found it weird how people always zero in on the whole "killing prostitutes" thing (or killing women in general) in games like GTA/SR. These are games where you can kill anyone. Cops, constructions workers, cab drivers, and random pedestrians of all races and genders. I've played quite a bit of both, and never came across a mission where I was told I had to murder prostitutes. It's a choice made by the player. You can just as easily choose not to do it.
those credits should be deposited into your account same as ever. will just be the last time. nothing seems to carry over from Xbox Rewards to the MS Rewards.
Yeah, it's an inherently disingenuous argument used by many a concern blogger. There was a point where this argument was even used for the Watch_Dogs game too.
Saints Row 3 did however require you to kidnap a pimp and at one point you were also running around naked and on drugs or something so... there is that.
Don't forget "Whored Mode".
This Crackdown 3 news kinda really stinks. Even if I'm excited for the usual big franchise instalments and any delay at this point is clearly a decision not made lightly, if Microsoft can't pull something big out of the bag for E3 people will just continue to run away with the narrative that Xbox has completely dropped the ball on their in-house development.
Really when it comes down to it, I want to see them take risks on their software like they did for their services and their hardware. The sentiment even opposing the doom and gloom is that the stage has been set for this brand to cash in on this constant stream of goodwill. The platform and everything around it is ready to wow us with something new and exclusive exclusive, something that doesn't just seem safe and conservative, something like a Cuphead or Ori or a We Happy Few on a bigger first-party scope/budget. Something that makes Phil Spencer go on twitter again and say "I initially thought about opening the show with this but had to give deference with our big EA/Activision marketing contract, watch this space."
(Also completely wishful thinking, but when I hear from him talking about committing to Japnese developers, I wish it wasn't just paying lip-service to the same Bandai-Namco or Square-Enix franchises. Like literally he replies to someone that yeah they're going to commit to JRPGs on the E3 show and all I can think its "oh great so it's either the usual Final Fantasy or Dark Souls stuff, k")
We've seen the platform consistently mature into something great, but we just need the last missing pieces.
Given the announced estimations, and how long conferences actually end up taking, that sounds about right.
oh! that's nice. usually when they do the Gold sub for a dollar its only open to new subs.
I'm not gonna touch that first part because hoo boy
But also like...there's a whole mission in SR3 where you steal a cargo container full of people being trafficed into the city, and then you can decide to free them, for some XP, or keep them as your own prostitutes for a cash bonus. Like, if that's not something to tug the collar about then I don't know what is.
But anyway:
1. Agents of Mayhem is...fine? I picked it up for like $7 on sale a couple months back on Steam. The characters are ok and the moment-to-moment gameplay is mostly fun, but the missions are really repetitive, often making you go through randomly-generated underground lairs that all use the same assets and look exactly the same.
2. Saints Row IV is one of my favorite games of all time, because it abandons all that """satire""" bullshit. It doesn't try to be edgy or cool or dark, it stays away from the GTA formula and it works so much better. It's just fun. Hell, they get rid of all that shit I talked about earlier vis-a-vis treatment of women and sex workers.
Wishful thinking, I know, but a boy can dream and hope.
Isn't that a Nintendo quote?
To say nothing of one that's been defied on occasion.
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