Yeah, the grunting was more amusing. Voiceover makes it less engaging to me, though it obviously appeals to more people that way.
I've really gotten back into Fallout Shelter again. Losing my first colony really irked me (had it going for years)... but I'm taken a liking to my third one. Though, if there were a way to have transferred the second one I started on IOS to my Play Anywhere version I'd have done so. But now I'm into a groove again, even has its own narrative now.
edit: the interface on console is kind of wonky, but on the tablet, I've accidentally levelled people way too many times and it's so annoying how imprecise the icons are, but other than that it's a fairly good port.
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I originally played Fallout Shelter via Bluestacks Android emulation on my Surface Pro (quite the power drainer, especially on a first generation device with an i3), though I'm sure I tried it again when it came to the Windows Store, if only to farm for achievements. Not sure how much progress it made, but in either case, it was a short, quick period of "Hey, this is pretty darn neat! I can organize my levels this way, and do that, and name some people...." followed by a long period of self-loathing.
Now I just play Azur Lane. They need to bring that over to the Windows Store so I can watch my warship-waifus duke it out in near-UHD on my Surface Pro 7.
Question on game pass. If I go the PC route for Outer Worlds, I was looking into it. Do you have to download the app? Seems it has terrible reviews in the Microsoft store.
Question on game pass. If I go the PC route for Outer Worlds, I was looking into it. Do you have to download the app? Seems it has terrible reviews in the Microsoft store.
No--as noted previously, you can just find it in the Windows 10 store (same place as the Xbox app), and install it there, along with any game on PC Game Pass (just double check and make sure the Store is noting you have a Game Pass license on your account, especially if you don't sign into Windows 10 with said account).
Right now, the Xbox app (which is still in beta, to MS' credit), mostly seems to do...what? General information and updates, and act as an alternative if you really hate Windows 10's built-in store (which, honestly, can either work like crap, or really, really well, and everywhere in between)? It practically sounds like Microsoft listened to enough bitching about the Store and thought, "Oh, geeze, we better set up an alternative aside from using your browser to install stuff on PC." So they rebranded the original Xbox app into the "console companion" (you know, the one that lets you do console streaming, messaging, capture sharing and downloading, and a fuck-load of other things), introduced this new, much simpler, much more limited app, which basically does two things (install Windows 10 Xbox games), which the old app used to sort-of do (link directly to store pages).
Unless it was some genius four-dimensional-chess plan to make everyone decide they really liked the console companion app. I genuinely suspect 90% of the negative reviews for the Xbox app are from people saying "Yeah, this sucks compared to what is now the console companion app." I know that's what I'd say. It's not that bad, assuming it works, it just doesn't do anything you couldn't do through a website and using the store itself.
Jedi Starfighter is Fine, and Final Station is pretty neat, at least.
The Sherlock Holmes games are always janky and bad but also at least have some neat stories and some really out-there concepts and twists.
I tried pretty hard to get through The Final Station after picking it up on sale. It's.....a game.
If I recall, Jedi Starfighter is basically the worse version of Rogue Squadron that you can play somewhere besides Nintendo, after they really turned the screws on exclusivity (the first title had a good PC port, Rogue Squadron 3D, but nothing after that).
I already have The Final Station off a Mixer mixpot, I think.
I don't mind adding another Sherlock to the collection, and Jedi Starfighter to the weirdly expansive OG Xbox Star Wars BC collection (is Obi-Wan BC? I actually finished that!), but yeah, overall not a strong month.
I can't remember the last time I played a games with gold game. I don't even redeem them anymore. There's just so much better stuff on Game Pass.
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I finished 'Afterparty'. Whoa boy does that game need some patches. Lots of hitching and crashes.
It might just be me but I had to come up with a work-around to even start the game (profile sign-in silently fails).
If you liked 'Oxenfree', and like Ashley Burch, it's definitely worth it, though. Even though it's on GP I bought it outright.
I finished 'Afterparty'. Whoa boy does that game need some patches. Lots of hitching and crashes.
It might just be me but I had to come up with a work-around to even start the game (profile sign-in silently fails).
If you liked 'Oxenfree', and like Ashley Burch, it's definitely worth it, though. Even though it's on GP I bought it outright.
I played about an hour of it, and oh boy do I love how this game looks and feels. It feels like a huge step up from Oxenfree in production quality. Also notable voice actress Janine Ghavankar is the one of the main characters, and overall the voice acting is top notch stuff.
Performance is spotty for sure already though. One screen transition was worse than a slide show, and the dialogue kinda cuts off a split second early sometimes, or something weird is going on sometimes that I can't quite put my finger on with the audio.
I tried pretty hard to get through The Final Station after picking it up on sale. It's.....a game.
If I recall, Jedi Starfighter is basically the worse version of Rogue Squadron that you can play somewhere besides Nintendo, after they really turned the screws on exclusivity (the first title had a good PC port, Rogue Squadron 3D, but nothing after that).
I liked Jedi Starfighter a lot. I thought the co-op was much better integrated than whichever Rogue Squadron game had it, and it was neat that the ships were quite different. I'd really like it to come to Steam, and give it a try with Remote Play Together.
I did think the previous game, regular non-Jedi Starfighter, was pretty weak.
I finished 'Afterparty'. Whoa boy does that game need some patches. Lots of hitching and crashes.
It might just be me but I had to come up with a work-around to even start the game (profile sign-in silently fails).
If you liked 'Oxenfree', and like Ashley Burch, it's definitely worth it, though. Even though it's on GP I bought it outright.
Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
He's signed on in the console in his own account, right? You made sure to invite him into Party chat (since he couldn't participate in the in-game chat within Monster Hunter) and everyone was switched to that?
Him and I are on the same Xbox. I signed his profile in on the second controller, but I was unable to send him a party invite.
I think Party support might only work for Xbox Live-compatible accounts (in other words, yours) and your guests. I don't think child or offline accounts (which child accounts might be like--I've never used one) will necessarily work. That would explain why you couldn't invite him.
Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
As Monster Hunter doesn't support local co-op, it wouldn't be possible for him to join a party for the game from the same console... only one can be active during play? If he signed onto like, another windows device and was added to the party, it probably could have worked?
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I can't remember the last time I played a games with gold game. I don't even redeem them anymore. There's just so much better stuff on Game Pass.
I mean, most stuff on Game Pass is extremely forgettable. More so than Games with Gold, I'd argue, but maybe this is just betraying my taste in games.
I'm sure this is hyperbole since I don't think you'd call DMC 5, Halo, Dead Cells, Metal Slug, and a ton of other games Forgettable. Shoot, a lot of games you've straight up praised are on there.
I can't remember the last time I played a games with gold game. I don't even redeem them anymore. There's just so much better stuff on Game Pass.
I mean, most stuff on Game Pass is extremely forgettable. More so than Games with Gold, I'd argue, but maybe this is just betraying my taste in games.
I'm sure this is hyperbole since I don't think you'd call DMC 5, Halo, Dead Cells, Metal Slug, and a ton of other games Forgettable. Shoot, a lot of games you've straight up praised are on there.
I repeat: "most stuff on Game Pass is extremely forgettable".
Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
As Monster Hunter doesn't support local co-op, it wouldn't be possible for him to join a party for the game from the same console... only one can be active during play? If he signed onto like, another windows device and was added to the party, it probably could have worked?
Different kind of party. My understanding of the situation was that the intent was to join Party Voice chat (game agnostic) and not the Monster Hunter party.
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Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
As Monster Hunter doesn't support local co-op, it wouldn't be possible for him to join a party for the game from the same console... only one can be active during play? If he signed onto like, another windows device and was added to the party, it probably could have worked?
Different kind of party. My understanding of the situation was that the intent was to join Party Voice chat (game agnostic) and not the Monster Hunter party.
Yeah, I suspect Child Accounts might be similar to Offline Accounts in that they have certain features disabled, including Party accessibility?
Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
As Monster Hunter doesn't support local co-op, it wouldn't be possible for him to join a party for the game from the same console... only one can be active during play? If he signed onto like, another windows device and was added to the party, it probably could have worked?
Different kind of party. My understanding of the situation was that the intent was to join Party Voice chat (game agnostic) and not the Monster Hunter party.
Controllers and accounts can only be logged into one thing on the same console. Two people cannot log into a single player game at the same time.
edit: Parental access is a different thing with relation to this problem.
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Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
As Monster Hunter doesn't support local co-op, it wouldn't be possible for him to join a party for the game from the same console... only one can be active during play? If he signed onto like, another windows device and was added to the party, it probably could have worked?
Different kind of party. My understanding of the situation was that the intent was to join Party Voice chat (game agnostic) and not the Monster Hunter party.
Yeah, I suspect Child Accounts might be similar to Offline Accounts in that they have certain features disabled, including Party accessibility?
That sounds like that'd be something prominently displayed as a 'feature' of a child account. I mean, heaven forbid if a child gets into my voice chat channel...they're gonna be learning some new words (including several that aren't actual real words).
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I am so annoyed that you can't get the stupid barbershop in Fallout Shelter until you get 50+ dwellers. While others on the reddit seem to battle with the ethics of free lunchboxes or scumming lunchboxes via the save editor, I just want to put makeup on my imaginary followers many hours sooner. Also debating adjusting the HP they have to actually retro endurance because it's so dumb that it doesn't do that for base endurance*. but eh... neither of these impacts achievements or their monetization, so... I'm leaning toward fair game.
Despite playing for many hours, the level of my dwellers has been stagnant as I tried to avoid level ups until I got the stupid endurance training facility at 35 dwellers...
Which segues into the part of the post I forgot to add: Frost Punk has anybody played it? Debating buying it to play next on Win10. Really wish more of these titles were play anywhere.
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I played a bit of Frost Punk on PC and it seems good? I couldn't really say more than that as it turns out I suck at modern RTS games.
I think everyone in my tribe died of Gangrene, Scurvy and Hypothermia (in a combined 'omni-fuck-you' from the Grim Reaper), and that was in what turned out to be the tutorial level. :bigfrown:
It's very well made though, presentation is top notch and if you are patient enough for FO:S this chugs along at about the same pace game-play wise.
I played a bit of Frost Punk on PC and it seems good? I couldn't really say more than that as it turns out I suck at modern RTS games.
I think everyone in my tribe died of Gangrene, Scurvy and Hypothermia (in a combined 'omni-fuck-you' from the Grim Reaper), and that was in what turned out to be the tutorial level. :bigfrown:
It's very well made though, presentation is top notch and if you are patient enough for FO:S this chugs along at about the same pace game-play wise.
Well, you were doing something right if they survived their gangrene long enough to develop scurvy and ultimately freeze to death... or you were just an evil overseer, lol.
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I mentioned it previously, but here's a bit more about the next Xbox Access program that's going to go in effect with an upgrade path to Project Scarlett when it's, you know, officially announced.
Which segues into the part of the post I forgot to add: Frost Punk has anybody played it? Debating buying it to play next on Win10. Really wish more of these titles were play anywhere.
I played Frost Punk on PC, though not on console. A very immersing disaster-based city building game, but quite hard (at least for me--I made the mistake of treating it like a conventional city building game I think). I'd definitely try it again on game pass, though I'm not sure how well it works on console.
Thanks for the ideas everyone. I'll play around with some of the child settings and stuff like that this weekend.
Long shot, but do you have Kinect? I remember being told a while back that was the only way to have multiple people able to be heard while streaming together from one machine, as individual controller/mic setups wouldn't work.
Maybe this is similar?
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Thanks for the ideas everyone. I'll play around with some of the child settings and stuff like that this weekend.
Long shot, but do you have Kinect? I remember being told a while back that was the only way to have multiple people able to be heard while streaming together from one machine, as individual controller/mic setups wouldn't work.
Maybe this is similar?
My kinect gave up the ghost about a year ago. I think I'll just have him sign into my phone or pc and let him do it that way. He doesn't want to play Monster Hunter with us, but he wants to talk about the game as we're playing. He'll grab my headset and tell my old roommate stuff about the monster we're about to fight, what kind of gear to grab, etc... We'll have to figure something else out to get all 3 of us playing together when Minecraft Dungeons comes out. My son is dying to play that one.
I probably missed any Mixer talk but I tried streaming from my Xbox for a while last night and it's dead easy and the VOD looks great. If you've ever thought about streaming, even just to record yourself for your own reference later, it's worth trying.
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I've really gotten back into Fallout Shelter again. Losing my first colony really irked me (had it going for years)... but I'm taken a liking to my third one. Though, if there were a way to have transferred the second one I started on IOS to my Play Anywhere version I'd have done so. But now I'm into a groove again, even has its own narrative now.
edit: the interface on console is kind of wonky, but on the tablet, I've accidentally levelled people way too many times and it's so annoying how imprecise the icons are, but other than that it's a fairly good port.
Now I just play Azur Lane. They need to bring that over to the Windows Store so I can watch my warship-waifus duke it out in near-UHD on my Surface Pro 7.
No--as noted previously, you can just find it in the Windows 10 store (same place as the Xbox app), and install it there, along with any game on PC Game Pass (just double check and make sure the Store is noting you have a Game Pass license on your account, especially if you don't sign into Windows 10 with said account).
Right now, the Xbox app (which is still in beta, to MS' credit), mostly seems to do...what? General information and updates, and act as an alternative if you really hate Windows 10's built-in store (which, honestly, can either work like crap, or really, really well, and everywhere in between)? It practically sounds like Microsoft listened to enough bitching about the Store and thought, "Oh, geeze, we better set up an alternative aside from using your browser to install stuff on PC." So they rebranded the original Xbox app into the "console companion" (you know, the one that lets you do console streaming, messaging, capture sharing and downloading, and a fuck-load of other things), introduced this new, much simpler, much more limited app, which basically does two things (install Windows 10 Xbox games), which the old app used to sort-of do (link directly to store pages).
Unless it was some genius four-dimensional-chess plan to make everyone decide they really liked the console companion app. I genuinely suspect 90% of the negative reviews for the Xbox app are from people saying "Yeah, this sucks compared to what is now the console companion app." I know that's what I'd say. It's not that bad, assuming it works, it just doesn't do anything you couldn't do through a website and using the store itself.
IIRC, it turned it that the legos not talking was just confusing for kids, as they had no reason to think that legos wouldn't talk.
Thanks, Lego Movie.
They've been doing that since Lego Batman 2 in 2012.
EDIT: Just did the math; the time between Lego Batman 2 and now is longer than the time between the first Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman 2.
Legos have been talking longer than they haven't been.
I wondered who would dissect the joke first.
Did you honestly have any doubt that it would be me?
A kind of weak offering for Xbox Live Games with Gold. Oh well. In retrospect, I really wish I'd organized a group to try out Friday the 13th.
The Sherlock Holmes games are always janky and bad but also at least have some neat stories and some really out-there concepts and twists.
If I recall, Jedi Starfighter is basically the worse version of Rogue Squadron that you can play somewhere besides Nintendo, after they really turned the screws on exclusivity (the first title had a good PC port, Rogue Squadron 3D, but nothing after that).
I don't mind adding another Sherlock to the collection, and Jedi Starfighter to the weirdly expansive OG Xbox Star Wars BC collection (is Obi-Wan BC? I actually finished that!), but yeah, overall not a strong month.
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It might just be me but I had to come up with a work-around to even start the game (profile sign-in silently fails).
If you liked 'Oxenfree', and like Ashley Burch, it's definitely worth it, though. Even though it's on GP I bought it outright.
Yeah I use gamepass, so I totally forget about games with gold.
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I played about an hour of it, and oh boy do I love how this game looks and feels. It feels like a huge step up from Oxenfree in production quality. Also notable voice actress Janine Ghavankar is the one of the main characters, and overall the voice acting is top notch stuff.
Performance is spotty for sure already though. One screen transition was worse than a slide show, and the dialogue kinda cuts off a split second early sometimes, or something weird is going on sometimes that I can't quite put my finger on with the audio.
I liked Jedi Starfighter a lot. I thought the co-op was much better integrated than whichever Rogue Squadron game had it, and it was neat that the ships were quite different. I'd really like it to come to Steam, and give it a try with Remote Play Together.
I did think the previous game, regular non-Jedi Starfighter, was pretty weak.
Friday the 13th is good fun with friends
I mean, most stuff on Game Pass is extremely forgettable. More so than Games with Gold, I'd argue, but maybe this is just betraying my taste in games.
I had heard about this...for some reason I didn't think it was coming to Xbox One. Neat, thanks for sharing.
Say I'm playing Monster Hunter with an online buddy. We are in party chat. I have my headset on and everything works great.
My son sits next to me on the couch and wants to talk to his "uncle" while I play. I have an additional headset, controller, and I already set up a child account for him. Is there any way for me to add him to this chat so he can talk with us even if he isn't playing the game?
We tried briefly the other day and ended up giving up on it.
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He's signed on in the console in his own account, right? You made sure to invite him into Party chat (since he couldn't participate in the in-game chat within Monster Hunter) and everyone was switched to that?
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I think Party support might only work for Xbox Live-compatible accounts (in other words, yours) and your guests. I don't think child or offline accounts (which child accounts might be like--I've never used one) will necessarily work. That would explain why you couldn't invite him.
As Monster Hunter doesn't support local co-op, it wouldn't be possible for him to join a party for the game from the same console... only one can be active during play? If he signed onto like, another windows device and was added to the party, it probably could have worked?
I'm sure this is hyperbole since I don't think you'd call DMC 5, Halo, Dead Cells, Metal Slug, and a ton of other games Forgettable. Shoot, a lot of games you've straight up praised are on there.
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I repeat: "most stuff on Game Pass is extremely forgettable".
Different kind of party. My understanding of the situation was that the intent was to join Party Voice chat (game agnostic) and not the Monster Hunter party.
Yeah, I suspect Child Accounts might be similar to Offline Accounts in that they have certain features disabled, including Party accessibility?
Controllers and accounts can only be logged into one thing on the same console. Two people cannot log into a single player game at the same time.
edit: Parental access is a different thing with relation to this problem.
That sounds like that'd be something prominently displayed as a 'feature' of a child account. I mean, heaven forbid if a child gets into my voice chat channel...they're gonna be learning some new words (including several that aren't actual real words).
Despite playing for many hours, the level of my dwellers has been stagnant as I tried to avoid level ups until I got the stupid endurance training facility at 35 dwellers...
Which segues into the part of the post I forgot to add: Frost Punk has anybody played it? Debating buying it to play next on Win10. Really wish more of these titles were play anywhere.
I think everyone in my tribe died of Gangrene, Scurvy and Hypothermia (in a combined 'omni-fuck-you' from the Grim Reaper), and that was in what turned out to be the tutorial level. :bigfrown:
It's very well made though, presentation is top notch and if you are patient enough for FO:S this chugs along at about the same pace game-play wise.
Well, you were doing something right if they survived their gangrene long enough to develop scurvy and ultimately freeze to death... or you were just an evil overseer, lol.
Oh, it doesn't have crossplay with the Steam version for a few more weeks. Aw man.
I played Frost Punk on PC, though not on console. A very immersing disaster-based city building game, but quite hard (at least for me--I made the mistake of treating it like a conventional city building game I think). I'd definitely try it again on game pass, though I'm not sure how well it works on console.
Long shot, but do you have Kinect? I remember being told a while back that was the only way to have multiple people able to be heard while streaming together from one machine, as individual controller/mic setups wouldn't work.
Maybe this is similar?
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My kinect gave up the ghost about a year ago. I think I'll just have him sign into my phone or pc and let him do it that way. He doesn't want to play Monster Hunter with us, but he wants to talk about the game as we're playing. He'll grab my headset and tell my old roommate stuff about the monster we're about to fight, what kind of gear to grab, etc... We'll have to figure something else out to get all 3 of us playing together when Minecraft Dungeons comes out. My son is dying to play that one.
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