Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Food is good!
Except THAT food . That food is horrible and anyone who likes it is stupid.
So, I've recently learned that my new Samsung TV allows for streaming of XBox games with a controller. A few questions:
1. How laggy/playable is this service? Note I am going to be connecting from Australia. Are there local azure servers, or does it all come from Redmond?
2. Do these things stream in HD or is it a lower resolution to save bandwidth?
3. What games are there on XBox that I can't get on a PC or PS5? Is this worth getting?
4. What's the most economical way to get/maintain a GamesPass sub. Note that I already have an impossibly long list of games that I'm ignoring.
3. For XB1 games, basically Forza Motorsport 5 and Rare Replay. Nearly all of Microsoft's XB1/Series exclusives go to PC day and date now. More titles than that end up gamepass console but not gamepass PC, but are usually third party. The excellent XB360 backcompat needs a console though, not sure how accessible that is to cloud streaming.
For 4 I think it's still load up a bunch of Xbox Live Gold time and then convert it to Gamepass for a $1. This conversion only works when you don't have an active GP sub but you can do up to 3 years at a time
Honestly, if you have a PC and a PS5, I don't really see any real value in maintaining a Game Pass account just for streaming to your TV. Like 95% of the library is available to actually run locally on hardware you already have. Once the novelty of playing games on your TV without a console wears off, you're just left with a service where your games look worse and have more input lag.
Game streaming is great for when you're away from your console, or if you just don't have any console at all.
So, I've recently learned that my new Samsung TV allows for streaming of XBox games with a controller. A few questions:
1. How laggy/playable is this service? Note I am going to be connecting from Australia. Are there local azure servers, or does it all come from Redmond?
2. Do these things stream in HD or is it a lower resolution to save bandwidth?
3. What games are there on XBox that I can't get on a PC or PS5? Is this worth getting?
4. What's the most economical way to get/maintain a GamesPass sub. Note that I already have an impossibly long list of games that I'm ignoring.
1. Pretty laggy. Not Gaikai/PSNow bad, but still pretty laggy. I think that's only going to be more pronounced in Australia, most obviously. Really that's something you'll have to determine for yourself, unlike these other issues. There are genres of games where lag doesn't matter at all--I think there are more strategy games on Xbox than Playstation presently--and then genres where it's kind of a dealbreaker (for example, fighting games).
2. They stream in 1080p. Picture quality is actually shockingly good if you have the bandwidth for it, but it takes as lot of that. Fiber/high speed cable is basically a requirement for that avantage.
3. This is weird because not every Game Pass game is actually available for streaming. Like, it's not immediate obvious that "Xbox Game Pass" is a library subscription service, which happens to include game streaming as an option, and not the other way around. For starters, there are a few hundred PC Game Pass games that aren't available, because the streaming is based entirely on Xbox Series hardware; at best, you'll have the console versions of those games. The whole Age of Empires franchise that isn't available on console, for example. Sony has somehow done an even worse job at explaining it with their relaunch of Playstation Plus Pro Ultimate Edition, which is kind of impressive.
Moving on from that, all Xbox platform exclusives come to PC (so like all Playstation platform exclusives, except you don't have to wait). You can find all of them on the Windows store (which is how PC Game Pass functions), or Steam (with a few that I think are exclusive to the Epic Games Store; you'd have to check). Whether that's "worth it" is entirely subjective; two years since the launch of the Playstation 5, I've come from wanting to eventually buy a PS5(DE) and not being able to, to being able to buy one but realizing all the games are either on PC, or will be in a few months. This is the situation with Xbox, but even more protracted, because Microsoft's position of simultaneous releases (with a few exceptions--a few PC games launch a week after console, and Flight Simulator took several months to come to Xbox) and cross-platform saves and multiplayer.
4. Take advantage of the ludicrously generous deals; get up to three years of Xbox Live Gold, then pay an additional dollar to convert it to Game Pass Ultimate.
So, I've recently learned that my new Samsung TV allows for streaming of XBox games with a controller. A few questions:
1. How laggy/playable is this service? Note I am going to be connecting from Australia. Are there local azure servers, or does it all come from Redmond?
2. Do these things stream in HD or is it a lower resolution to save bandwidth?
3. What games are there on XBox that I can't get on a PC or PS5? Is this worth getting?
4. What's the most economical way to get/maintain a GamesPass sub. Note that I already have an impossibly long list of games that I'm ignoring.
4. Take advantage of the ludicrously generous deals; get up to three years of Xbox Live Gold, then pay an additional dollar to convert it to Game Pass Ultimate.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Food is good!
Blue wizard is about to die
Green elf shot a food
That fucker.
Never trust an elf ,duplicitous knife eared cretins.
EspantaPajaro on
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Don’t know if this is controversial but as it stands the switch pro controller and the xbone controller are tied for my favorite controllers of all time . Just comfy , good quality and generally great all around.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Food is good!
Blue wizard is about to die
Green elf shot a food
That fucker.
Never trust an elf ,duplicitous knife eared cretins.
Only in a post Tolkien universe.
In the original eddas and sagas dwarves and elves were basically the same race and adjectives for them were fairly interchangeable, even in the Poetic Eddas with their more formal language structure.
Though Volund was a right bastard by the end of his tale, if not entirely without cause.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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Sure glad I read The Name of the Rose before starting Pentiment so I have all the monastic terminology internalized right off.
I was surprised how easy it was to like Vampire Survivors. Yes, it was an indie hit that came out of no where, was almost universally praised, and inspired HoloCure (and probably lots of other clones), but I didn't expect it to be something I'd like. But it's got cross-platform saves (on Xbox at least), runs great on Xbox One as well as my Surface Pro, and is great when you're in the mood to just pass a little time somewhere. I doubt I'll ever make much progress unlocking things, but it's a big thumbs up from me.
I was surprised how easy it was to like Vampire Survivors. Yes, it was an indie hit that came out of no where, was almost universally praised, and inspired HoloCure (and probably lots of other clones), but I didn't expect it to be something I'd like. But it's got cross-platform saves (on Xbox at least), runs great on Xbox One as well as my Surface Pro, and is great when you're in the mood to just pass a little time somewhere. I doubt I'll ever make much progress unlocking things, but it's a big thumbs up from me.
I’m looking forward to getting its reasonably priced ($2) DLC expansion next week.
High on Life doesn't care whether you think it's terrible, so why should I waste your time spelling it out? This is a vapid action game and an empty, ramshackle satire locked in a defensive crouch of indifference towards both your and its own existence. It views being played as an ordeal for all concerned: as one shopkeeper tells you the second you appear, "the longer you take in here, the longer I have to look like I give a shit". Tallying its faults is giving High on Life more attention than the game proposes to deserve, so take the hint and click away. If you're after a good quality self-aware videogame comedy, try Psychonauts instead or the caustic yet engrossing Battleblock Theater.
"The worst parts of Rick and Morty" might be the most immediate turn off I've ever heard.
Game could be a literal receptacle for the rejected jokes/ideas they didn't put in the show.
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you'd be surprised how well you can make progress in Vampire Survivor unlocks/achievements, get the relics in the maps and you get access to what remains to be unlocked and it makes it fun playing all the different characters and weapon types.
High on Life doesn't care whether you think it's terrible, so why should I waste your time spelling it out? This is a vapid action game and an empty, ramshackle satire locked in a defensive crouch of indifference towards both your and its own existence. It views being played as an ordeal for all concerned: as one shopkeeper tells you the second you appear, "the longer you take in here, the longer I have to look like I give a shit". Tallying its faults is giving High on Life more attention than the game proposes to deserve, so take the hint and click away. If you're after a good quality self-aware videogame comedy, try Psychonauts instead or the caustic yet engrossing Battleblock Theater.
Since this is coming to game pass seems like a yikes.
Eh, TrueAchievements linked a bunch of reviews, pretty uniformly "this is a pretty good Game Pass game if you like the humor and Doom-style combat". I'm down with games like that. 10 hours, done, enjoyable something different.
Could be Take Two, their CEO has voiced support for the purchase. The submission seems to be English as well based on some spelling, people have observed.
High on Life doesn't care whether you think it's terrible, so why should I waste your time spelling it out? This is a vapid action game and an empty, ramshackle satire locked in a defensive crouch of indifference towards both your and its own existence. It views being played as an ordeal for all concerned: as one shopkeeper tells you the second you appear, "the longer you take in here, the longer I have to look like I give a shit". Tallying its faults is giving High on Life more attention than the game proposes to deserve, so take the hint and click away. If you're after a good quality self-aware videogame comedy, try Psychonauts instead or the caustic yet engrossing Battleblock Theater.
Since this is coming to game pass seems like a yikes.
Eh, TrueAchievements linked a bunch of reviews, pretty uniformly "this is a pretty good Game Pass game if you like the humor and Doom-style combat". I'm down with games like that. 10 hours, done, enjoyable something different.
I'll definitely check it out on Gamepass, if only to see RLMs Mike and Rich in the game
I still don’t get why they’ didn’t just make a Rick and morty game. Must’ve been a licensing thing
Squanch Games was founded by Justin Roiland (Co-creator of Rick and Morty and the voice of Rick... and Morty); Dan Harmon (the other creator of Rick and Morty) is not involved in Squanch Games as far as I know.
I still don’t get why they’ didn’t just make a Rick and morty game. Must’ve been a licensing thing
This isn't Roiland's company's first game, and there was a Rick and Morty VR game. So the answer is they already did, and he has a business not doing that over and over again.
I still don’t get why they’ didn’t just make a Rick and morty game. Must’ve been a licensing thing
This isn't Roiland's company's first game, and there was a Rick and Morty VR game. So the answer is they already did, and he has a business not doing that over and over again.
The Rick and Morty VR game was done by Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator people), not Roiland's game studio.
So I tried to set up a dev acc for my box, to use RetroArch without risk of having my acc banned (however theoretical that risk may be). After following some dead links (which I found on official MS store pages, mind you), and having to manually change the URL to even get to the MS Partners dashboard directory, I could finally enter my data into a form.
And even though PayPal is registered as a payment option in my MS account, I can only choose "debit card", which I won't have and sure as hell won't get for a one-time payment. So I thought "hm, surely this can be fixed" and tried to use the support feature, which is stuck on an infinite loop of "analysing", and no apparent means of contacting a human being. Good going, Microsoft!
So I'll install RetroArch in retail mode. Can't say I haven't tried.
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Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004484595
yeah, the DLCs weren't very good at all, which is a bummer because I loved the base game a ton
Calling it now if the acquisition goes through: ten years of Call of Duty on Playstation.
Equal to two games and matching DLC.
I think that's about as controversial as saying that video games are quite often good fun.
Steam | XBL
Food is good!
Except THAT food . That food is horrible and anyone who likes it is stupid.
Coming 2024: brand new Xbox exclusive military FPS, Duty Calls!
Steam | XBL
1. How laggy/playable is this service? Note I am going to be connecting from Australia. Are there local azure servers, or does it all come from Redmond?
2. Do these things stream in HD or is it a lower resolution to save bandwidth?
3. What games are there on XBox that I can't get on a PC or PS5? Is this worth getting?
4. What's the most economical way to get/maintain a GamesPass sub. Note that I already have an impossibly long list of games that I'm ignoring.
3. For XB1 games, basically Forza Motorsport 5 and Rare Replay. Nearly all of Microsoft's XB1/Series exclusives go to PC day and date now. More titles than that end up gamepass console but not gamepass PC, but are usually third party. The excellent XB360 backcompat needs a console though, not sure how accessible that is to cloud streaming.
Game streaming is great for when you're away from your console, or if you just don't have any console at all.
It’s 1080p now because of the switch to Xbox Series X for servers. Plus you get all the Series X Bells and whistles, except for 120hz and 4K.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/28/xbox-cloud-gaming-now-running-on-xbox-series-x/
1. Pretty laggy. Not Gaikai/PSNow bad, but still pretty laggy. I think that's only going to be more pronounced in Australia, most obviously. Really that's something you'll have to determine for yourself, unlike these other issues. There are genres of games where lag doesn't matter at all--I think there are more strategy games on Xbox than Playstation presently--and then genres where it's kind of a dealbreaker (for example, fighting games).
2. They stream in 1080p. Picture quality is actually shockingly good if you have the bandwidth for it, but it takes as lot of that. Fiber/high speed cable is basically a requirement for that avantage.
3. This is weird because not every Game Pass game is actually available for streaming. Like, it's not immediate obvious that "Xbox Game Pass" is a library subscription service, which happens to include game streaming as an option, and not the other way around. For starters, there are a few hundred PC Game Pass games that aren't available, because the streaming is based entirely on Xbox Series hardware; at best, you'll have the console versions of those games. The whole Age of Empires franchise that isn't available on console, for example. Sony has somehow done an even worse job at explaining it with their relaunch of Playstation Plus Pro Ultimate Edition, which is kind of impressive.
Moving on from that, all Xbox platform exclusives come to PC (so like all Playstation platform exclusives, except you don't have to wait). You can find all of them on the Windows store (which is how PC Game Pass functions), or Steam (with a few that I think are exclusive to the Epic Games Store; you'd have to check). Whether that's "worth it" is entirely subjective; two years since the launch of the Playstation 5, I've come from wanting to eventually buy a PS5(DE) and not being able to, to being able to buy one but realizing all the games are either on PC, or will be in a few months. This is the situation with Xbox, but even more protracted, because Microsoft's position of simultaneous releases (with a few exceptions--a few PC games launch a week after console, and Flight Simulator took several months to come to Xbox) and cross-platform saves and multiplayer.
4. Take advantage of the ludicrously generous deals; get up to three years of Xbox Live Gold, then pay an additional dollar to convert it to Game Pass Ultimate.
Steam ID: Good Life
Blue wizard is about to die
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004484595
Green elf shot a food
That fucker.
Never trust an elf ,duplicitous knife eared cretins.
Only in a post Tolkien universe.
In the original eddas and sagas dwarves and elves were basically the same race and adjectives for them were fairly interchangeable, even in the Poetic Eddas with their more formal language structure.
Though Volund was a right bastard by the end of his tale, if not entirely without cause.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Loved Pentiment, fantastic narrative journey and aesthetic.
And reading Eco is its own reward, as well.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I was surprised how easy it was to like Vampire Survivors. Yes, it was an indie hit that came out of no where, was almost universally praised, and inspired HoloCure (and probably lots of other clones), but I didn't expect it to be something I'd like. But it's got cross-platform saves (on Xbox at least), runs great on Xbox One as well as my Surface Pro, and is great when you're in the mood to just pass a little time somewhere. I doubt I'll ever make much progress unlocking things, but it's a big thumbs up from me.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6391da18d3bf7f1bcd58284a/Market_Participant_A.pdf
I’m looking forward to getting its reasonably priced ($2) DLC expansion next week.
"Market Participant Activision.
Signed, Kotty Botick."
Can’t say who it is, but can say who it’s not: Epic.
Since this is coming to game pass seems like a yikes.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Game could be a literal receptacle for the rejected jokes/ideas they didn't put in the show.
Eh, TrueAchievements linked a bunch of reviews, pretty uniformly "this is a pretty good Game Pass game if you like the humor and Doom-style combat". I'm down with games like that. 10 hours, done, enjoyable something different.
I'll definitely check it out on Gamepass, if only to see RLMs Mike and Rich in the game
Squanch Games was founded by Justin Roiland (Co-creator of Rick and Morty and the voice of Rick... and Morty); Dan Harmon (the other creator of Rick and Morty) is not involved in Squanch Games as far as I know.
This isn't Roiland's company's first game, and there was a Rick and Morty VR game. So the answer is they already did, and he has a business not doing that over and over again.
The Rick and Morty VR game was done by Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator people), not Roiland's game studio.
And even though PayPal is registered as a payment option in my MS account, I can only choose "debit card", which I won't have and sure as hell won't get for a one-time payment. So I thought "hm, surely this can be fixed" and tried to use the support feature, which is stuck on an infinite loop of "analysing", and no apparent means of contacting a human being. Good going, Microsoft!
So I'll install RetroArch in retail mode. Can't say I haven't tried.