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[Xbox/XBL] Battlefront II SP Sucked (but Gavankar was great): A Retrospective
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Hey, I used to play that!
It's another Xbox, console hardware and Xbox Live thread! Here we talk about absurd Game Pass discounts, Play Anywhere titles, backwards compatibility, cross-platform play, Terry Crews, the dreamy lads at Digital Foundry, and what games we loved from the turn of the century! Wow!
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 Next Xbox Console/"Project Scarlett"
What is it? What are they? Details are still scarce, but signs point to proximal launches of two consoles to replace the current Xbox One consoles: a less expensive, lower-powered system that will be similar in performance to the current Xbox One X, and a more expensive, higher-powered system that will be the Xbox One X's performance successor. Whenever more details come, be sure I'll be adding them! In the meantime, Microsoft has consistently promised continuity with existing Xbox One libraries, possibly to extend to Xbox 360 and original Xbox libraries. Forwards compatibility between Xbox One and the next machines? They're not ruling that out either!
The Xbox E3 2019 Event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeYQ-kPF0iQIndividual Showcase Trailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZByksfC4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ktN4bycj9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYVw0KqQiOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtgzKBrU1GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IP_EPLfvSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cASCytz8o9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4
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Yeah Metro Exodus has an absolutely awful save system. And on the highest difficulty quick saving is disabled entirely. So you are at the mercy of check point saves. One streamer had to save another streamer by copying a good save to fix his fucked one. If you're on console you're just flat out fucked.
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Hey, it's butter than VR!
Other takeaways: I think the AI for story mode is hard coded to counter every attempt at a throw, and I hate both playing as and playing against Brad Wong with a fiery passion.
We're gonna have fun this weekend.
Definitely. I love Ori, and think he should be the Xbox mascot.
Hadn't heard about the patch, though.
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They're referring to the change to the director's cut I would think.
Ori definitely belongs in a sort of "pantheon" of Xbox heroes and heroines, protagonists, or whatever you'd call them--along with the Master Chief, Cortana, the Arbiter, multiple "gears" from Gears of War, Cuphead and Mugman, Sam Fisher, and the survivor from Sunset Overdrive (just because that's such an excellent game). Maybe Ryu Hayabusa too, as his most famous modern incarnations are still very closely associated with Xbox, but as discussed in the last thread, Team Ninja basically killed Ninja Gaiden as a franchise very shortly after it went multiplatform, so maybe not anymore. It's hard to say if Ori is more deserving than all of those.
Basically, these are the characters I'd "draft" if Microsoft suddenly decided Xbox needed its own version of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale (probably don't call it that). Of course, considering how well that worked on Playstation--and how much stronger its historical line-up is then Xbox's--it'd probably be at least as big a mistake.
Heh, I guess Microsoft could do what Sony did, and try and get a few characters who are barely associated with Xbox but technically on it. Noctis, 2B, Senua, Dante or Virgil from Devil May Cry. And a Big Daddy, why not?
imagine there will be a few that are happy to hear this news.
EDIT: RE Code: Veronica is also being added.
well they stopped making new games so...
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the very first one was kinda neat. it had cool snow effects for the time.
edit: Colonies was the gold version of LP1, with extra maps and modes.
I just want them to remake 0, 1, 3 and CV in the RE Engine now.
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Random character rule in 3... 2...
Steam | XBL
Pay KT some money to make an Xbox Warriors game like Warriors All-Stars and my $60 is theirs. Go all in on long-forgotten Xbox games. I'm talking Blinx the Time Sweeper, the lizard guy from Brute Force, someone from Armed and Dangerous, just go through all of the C- and D- listers, mash them up with a paper thin story about mixing dimensions or something and put it on a disc.
Sea of Theives was apparently Rare being Rare.
(Honestly given Game Pass' success I can only see their thirst for GaaS getting stronger)
AZURIK
vs
KELLY OUT OF GUNVALKYRIE
Ready? Fight!
(In all seriousness, I'd play the hell out of that.)
Steam | XBL
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It's primarily being made by a company called DLaLa Studios.
Lost Planet 2 having global leaderboards that never reset and are nigh impossible to crack for but being tied to several titles, accolades and achievements? lol.
LP 3 was fun too.
Colonies is just fancy Lost Planet 1.
So who the hell knows if it'll be any good.
Props to Microsoft for actually doing something with the IP, though.