The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
[Xbox] Another Big Sale to see out this thread!
Synthesis
Honda Today!Registered User regular
Honda Today!Registered User regular
"The Best Place(s) to Play."
A whopping half-year since the 2020 launch of the Xbox Series consoles, it's a surprisingly late-dated new Xbox console, PC and mobile thread! Here we talk about backwards compatibility, minifridges, actually successful game subscription services, the actual meaning of the word "exclusivity", the Bethesda acquisition going through, and the totally inevitable arrival of Xbox Game Streaming on Switch. Just a matter of time!
Games with Gold
The original unified network for consoles is still alive and not increasing in price (for now)! Since the beginning of time, users with a "Xbox Live Gold" paid membership will have four free titles made available for download for limited timed--two on Xbox One (which require continued membership) and two on Xbox 360 or original Xbox (which are yours in perpetuity). As with the previous generation, all four are playable Xbox Series hardware. Yes, you do need to actually obtain them within the overlapping four-week opportunity window. Yes, you can get Xbox Live Gold through a normal subscription fee, buying discounted months of membership through vendors, or abusing Xbox's overly-generous reward program. Following widespread pushback, Microsoft relented on a region-by-region Gold price increase as well as lifting the barrier on "Free to Play" titles, making their services available without the Gold service in the first half of 2021. While original Xbox titles are not playable on original hardware (for obvious reasons), all Xbox 360 titles are (more on that below).
Xbox Game Pass for Console, PC, and Game Pass Ultimate, or "The Best Value in Gaming!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Zz0Og6UuALike the populations of the Republic of China or Democratic People's Republic of Korea, more than 23 million people can't be wrong! Xbox Game Pass for Console is Microsoft's own subscription gaming catalog service ("Netflix for video games") with a few 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). And now, it's been formally introduced for Windows 10 as Xbox Game Pass for PC, which includes a number of PC-only titles that can be installed through Windows 10's Store App or Xbox App, whichever you prefer. However, both services come with their own separate fees. If you want them both, you may wish to consider the Caddilac of Netflix for Games, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: for less than the cost of the both individual services, you can have your Xbox Game Pass on Console and PC and Xbox Live Gold subscriptions in a single plan! Because nothing bad ever came from bundling services! For the time being, it remains possible to extend your Game Pass subscription based on unrelated services "credit" (for example, one year of EA Access translates to four months of Game Pass Ultimate), so make sure you do your research when you're stocking up. Oh yeah, it's complicated.
In either service, 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 still does not require Xbox Live Gold (though that is part of Game Pass Ultimate). Since 2020, Game Pass Ultimate comes with an additional perk you may be familiar with...
Xbox Game Streaming
https://youtu.be/J4FF_mHhwqwLike Google's Stadia that everyone's been talking about and the Playstation Now service that Sony never talks about, Xbox Game Streaming (formerly "Project Xcloud") replaces your grandparents' Xbox game from the ancient era of streaming a console over your home network to the sexy future of piping your game in from The Cloud on your mobile devices, covering a substantial fraction of the total Xbox Game Pass library. No longer in free beta, it is now part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (and presently available on Android phones, PC via Windows 10/11, and iOS via some weird browser voodoo). Play console-quality games on mobile! Take advantage of all the normal Xbox Live services! Drain your phone battery before you know it! Still probably not coming to other consoles no matter how hard you ask, but you know where it is coming? Windows 10 personal computers through your desktop!
Streaming available in the following regions, courtesy of XDA-Developers:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Slovakia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
A full list of current Xbox Game Streaming titles is available courtesy of the excellent Windows Central website, alongside a full list of touch-compatible titles which are playable without the prerequisite compatible controller.
Xbox Backwards Compatibility Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oe1LUJyCCsSay hello to the most extensive backwards compatibility library since Sony left the Playstation 3 unconscious in a bathtub full of ice! Since early in the Project Scarlett reveal, Microsoft has committed to bringing the whole of the Xbox One library forward to the Xbox Series consoles, alongside the existing Xbox One-era software backwards compatibilty libraries on all previous Xbox consoles since 2001 excluding Kinect-based titles on Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Yes, we are as shocked as you. In addition to almost six hundred Xbox 360 titles and more than forty "Original Xbox" titles, the whole Xbox One library should be is available, with visual upgrades on a case to case basis (including resolution multiplying, framerate improvements, and Auto-HDR, which can be manually accessed on a per game basis--check out the Backwards Compatibility page for any given game's settings). Curious if your favorite Xbox 360 or older game is playable? Check it out!
Xbox Series S and Series X joining Xbox One
Yes, many of us are still waiting on our new consoles. For the luckier among us, here's some of what we're enjoying and what we're looking forward to!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafkZa-gyKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOd3uMyjts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kUV2YvHNYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ixdADPpC9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMiwfcDaDvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdsYhvbeMT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUhtH0lWfVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNlv8UIqVY2021 Xbox Summer Games Showcase (ft. Bethesda and a bunch of other companies)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YnVzOA2wNs(Captioned Audio and ASL versions available on Xbox's Youtube Channel.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YnVzOA2wNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-LlfIXT8to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjDMwsbaSd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqesvrf87DA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuri4lT7jI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8KVJGJQBPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBK1MMC5KQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTTGThC4aes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6I2rP3-B9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUfUnA2iEZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re3fTP_ObrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebO8Xe7pjfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a43aVdqBbxs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr__hTXlDZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo0airOqCjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcjnHHxHV3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18OP8BZc6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8XsBgB7U0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7KHZE27V8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4VPBqpxHXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPfm3IClc0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sc9tFOpnUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3qBSUQqdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkOcpZEk4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7XDCvpIqoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyLpnLiLP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgrue9p6Y1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lljMQevCWOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9DCiI8QBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClhDyC0ZECs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6XpfaWbko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH9n37B7Yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxX-4U5uJqkXbox 20th Anniversary Showcase
Yes, we're all that much older!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmhRditAffU&ab_channel=XboxPenny Arcade Forums' Game Clubs
Pax Arcadia
Arcade Squad (Gears of War series)
The Bees Knees (Halo series)
Additionally, you can find the forums Xbox Live gamertag list here, and the form to sign up here.
Synthesis on
+5
Posts
:tell_me_more:
"Best multiplayer matchmaking times in the Titanfall franchise*!"
*Definitely excludes Apex Legends.
ya, Apex is super good, I agree.
If only the sequel had good multiplayer too.
It does , even better then the first . I liked one don’t get me wrong but I loved two .
Edit- in the true timeline where we got titanfall 3 we could find out wtf happened with graves from 1->2 . Was always confused why Sarah was in charge come TF|2.
Idk if you can blame that on the devs, there are lots of games that once the developers move on to other titles become swarmed with cheaters. Check like, every single CoD game on the 360 still online.
If Titanfall 2 was ever abandoned in a similar way, there would still be fun parts of the game to play. Multiplayer is all 1 has, and it's currently not playable in a way you could recommend to anyone. It's kind of silly to claim it as the best right now, someone might believe that and go and try it.
Idk I'm talking purely mechanically, it's still the best. Also um... The Xbox version exists and plays fine?
Is there a player population on 1 console? PC games often are the only way to dig into very old multiplayer focused games.
If I could have any multiplayer game back in its prime, it'd be the old Assassin's Creed multiplayer. The multiplayer mode in those games was incredible and it's a damn shame Ubisoft has never gone back to it.
When you got someone in a sleeper hold and got to whisper something horrible in their ear as you snap their neck
Cod4/ MW2 lobbies were something fucking else . Then those devs /executive left and started respawn/titanfall but Titanfall lobbies never got that fucking nuts and aggro . 360 chat in general was beyond fucking aggro . Annoying at the time kinda makes me giggle now.
Steam ID: Good Life
XBL - Foreverender | 3DS FC - 1418 6696 1012 | Steam ID | LoL
no love for Super Monday Night Combat?!
No, because they didn't love me (a lowly console player)
More interesting weapons and abilities, more modes, locked Titan classes let them get real interesting with designs and mechanics
I will say I wish TF|2 got some of the better maps from 1, but I think on the whole it's the more fun package, definitely kept me playing way longer
Steam | XBL
Still the TF2 campaign is amazing.
But was it the Cold War? The titan fall 2 charged burst fire grenade launcher?! Side note I wish I was good enough to use the Cold War/softball such cool weapons but it’s hard to use them in such a fast game.
It's gween
And for as bad as the updates on One X and Series X for Cyberpunk, its nothing on the PS4 version. That big bitch is 100GB and the latest update was nearly 35. Sony sucks at compression.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
And all I kept thinking was that when you give devs so much space they're going to use it. And not always in a positive manner. (I started the blame with Win95.)
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Steam | XBL
It was not a particularly good one.