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General and Gaming => Modern Video Games => Topic started by: gf78 on June 24, 2016, 11:00:47 am
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Received my Xbox One yesterday at 8:30PM (good job UPS ::) ) and immediately got started on setting it all up. The cables were easy enough, but the on-screen picture of the Xbox One Controller telling me to press the "Xbox" button did nothing to get the controller to sync with the system. Looking in the paperwork, nothing there indicated anything. The button would simply flash for a while then turn itself off. So a quick Google search indicated that I needed to press a hidden button on the left side of the console to enter pairing mode, then within 20 seconds press the pairing button on top of the controller. Viola. Up and running.
Next up, I got the basic settings plugged in and began a mandatory 1.5 gig system update. This took about 30 minutes. Pretty basic stuff for a first-time system setup. Since I have long since forgotten my Xbox Live sign-on info, I made a new account. It gave me a retarded default name and an ugly little avatar pic. Oh well.
Finally, I can pop Halo 5 Guardians in and play an actual game! Uhm...where is my option to start my game? When I put a PS4 game in, typically within a minute or less you can start playing at least the single player mode. Nope, not here. After a 20 minute (roughly) setup process for the physical connections (remember I had to google how to get the controller working) and a 30+ minute update, I now have to sit and wait nearly an hour for the counter to slowly crawl to 100%. Mind you, I declined the update to keep the process moving along smoothly, especially since the update was over 35 gigs! :o
Alrighty, I can launch the game! Halo 5 Guardians, here we go! Oh...I can't decline the update to play. No matter what I try. I get kicked back to the dashboard. I have to go manually turn off my Wi-Fi connection in the settings panel which by the way is buried in a panel on the left side of the screen. Alright, I'm in the game! The graphics are pretty sweet. The cinematography is excellent. The controls are tight and that shotgun has a pretty strong kick. Unfortunately, I'm tired as hell by this point having worked all week and been dealing with 100-degree days. My fat ass is spent.
So now I turn the Wi-Fi back on and begin the arduous 35 gig update. I figure I'll go to bed, get up in the morning and it will be done. So then I can pop the Master Chief Collection in and get it started downloading and I can be playing that by this weekend too. Well...from around 11PM last night to 6AM this morning, the update progressed to 35%. At this rate and if my download speeds remain fairly constant (which is a longshot), the update should be completed by about 7PM this evening. Again, that's a long shot with my inconsistent internet speeds.
So that's it in a nutshell. My first experience with an Xbox One aside from store demos. I'm sure the games will be fun once I get to play them. And the console is pretty. At this point though, I cannot interrupt the update process for Halo 5, so I can't even play the single player mode until it's done. I also can't remove the game and put another in since I don't have any installed yet. So basically, the Xbox One has absolutely zero function as a gaming unit until such time as this ridiculously large download completes. Hopefully this evening. Before bedtime.
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Yeah, the required disc-download for some games can be excruciating.
The PS4 doesn't require that? I didn't know that. I thought both systems required download to the hard-drive.
I would have loved to get a PS4 over a XBox One, I just couldn't afford it. I had to buy an HDTV, as well, because before I went current-gen I was still using a CRT-TV. So after a $200 TV, an extra $100 for the PS4 (vs. the XBox One) just wasn't in my budget if I wanted games to play on it, too.
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the ps4 requires just the disc data to be downloaded to the hard drive (which usually takes less than a minute). if their are any updates to the game after that you can still play the game before its downloaded so long as you don't try and play online. (so games like the division you are screwed)
Wow really? it didn't even tell you their was a sync button you had to push? that's garbage.
you should probably hard wire your internet to the console by the sounds of it. that way if their is something you don't want to download to play you can just pull the plug, also your downloads will go faster.
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Yeah, the required disc-download for some games can be excruciating.
The PS4 doesn't require that? I didn't know that. I thought both systems required download to the hard-drive.
I would have loved to get a PS4 over a XBox One, I just couldn't afford it. I had to buy an HDTV, as well, because before I went current-gen I was still using a CRT-TV. So after a $200 TV, an extra $100 for the PS4 (vs. the XBox One) just wasn't in my budget if I wanted games to play on it, too.
All PS4 games install to the HDD. The difference is that when you put the game in, the box pops up showing what game is in the drive. You see a progression bar at the bottom with a disc. Once it gets to about 5% which takes less than a minute, you can start playing the game. When it pops up telling you there is an update, you can dismiss it and get on with your gaming. When I got Uncharted 4, I put the disc in and within a minute I was playing. Some games are faster, some are slower. But having installed and played over 80 different titles on my PS4 since I bought it, none of them had an excruciatingly long install like this. Even Destiny installing all three expansions when the Taken King came out took less than an hour to get up and running completely.
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Let me know if you need a cheap Xbox Live Gold year subscription card or anything... I bought a whole bunch of them for cheapish when I used my 360 regularly, but of course now I never play the thing :-[
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Let me know if you need a cheap Xbox Live Gold year subscription card or anything... I bought a whole bunch of them for cheapish when I used my 360 regularly, but of course now I never play the thing :-[
That's something I'm going to be looking into soon. The cheapest I can find them is $39.99 on eBay right now. If you want, maybe we could trade? Any games I have that you were interested in?
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^ $40 is well worth it for the monthly free games, alone. You get two XBox One Games and two 360 games (they always make them backwards compatible when they put them on the free list) per month, digital versions of course.
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^ $40 is well worth it for the monthly free games, alone. You get two XBox One Games and two 360 games (they always make them backwards compatible when they put them on the free list) per month, digital versions of course.
Yeah, $40 isn't a bad price at all for a year of service. I just don't really have the cash to spend at the moment.
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I would charge you less than $40 if it were cash, but I'll look around your collection to see if anything's of interest! Otherwise, feel free to hit me up about them at any time since I have quite a few. :)
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I would charge you less than $40 if it were cash, but I'll look around your collection to see if anything's of interest! Otherwise, feel free to hit me up about them at any time since I have quite a few. :)
Will do! Thanks a bunch!
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Wow really? it didn't even tell you their was a sync button you had to push? that's garbage.
you should probably hard wire your internet to the console by the sounds of it. that way if their is something you don't want to download to play you can just pull the plug, also your downloads will go faster.
Yeah, it seemed silly to me. The 360 had a sync button on the console front and the top of the controller which was easy to see and if you didn't know, the manual told you what to do. The Xbox One just had a big picture of a controller indicating to push the power/home/X button. It never showed anything about the sync button on the controller or the system. Likewise, the little manual that came with the system just showed the same thing with a brief description. And the sync button is kinda hidden around the side of the system by the disc slot. When I was looking it over, I figured that's where you touched/pushed to eject the disc.
I'll probably run another wire from my router to the Xbox One sometime soon. But there is definitely a large discrepancy in the length of time it takes for the Xbox One to download as opposed to the PS4. It's also so much more evident when you take into account that you have to wait for the game to fully install before you can start playing. I guess I'm just spoiled by the PS4, but popping a disc in and getting into the game in a matter of a minute or so is fantastic. And even if (when) the game prompts you to download an update, I can still decline and start playing while the update is happening in the background. It just pops up with a message that "x" has finished downloading. I can then save what I'm doing, close the game and restart it. Update is applied and I'm back into the game in another couple of minutes.
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Wow really? it didn't even tell you their was a sync button you had to push? that's garbage.
you should probably hard wire your internet to the console by the sounds of it. that way if their is something you don't want to download to play you can just pull the plug, also your downloads will go faster.
Yeah, it seemed silly to me. The 360 had a sync button on the console front and the top of the controller which was easy to see and if you didn't know, the manual told you what to do. The Xbox One just had a big picture of a controller indicating to push the power/home/X button. It never showed anything about the sync button on the controller or the system. Likewise, the little manual that came with the system just showed the same thing with a brief description. And the sync button is kinda hidden around the side of the system by the disc slot. When I was looking it over, I figured that's where you touched/pushed to eject the disc.
I'll probably run another wire from my router to the Xbox One sometime soon. But there is definitely a large discrepancy in the length of time it takes for the Xbox One to download as opposed to the PS4. It's also so much more evident when you take into account that you have to wait for the game to fully install before you can start playing. I guess I'm just spoiled by the PS4, but popping a disc in and getting into the game in a matter of a minute or so is fantastic. And even if (when) the game prompts you to download an update, I can still decline and start playing while the update is happening in the background. It just pops up with a message that "x" has finished downloading. I can then save what I'm doing, close the game and restart it. Update is applied and I'm back into the game in another couple of minutes.
Some games have to fully install before you can play, others don't.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
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Or DOA 5? My god that took FOREVER off disc. I thought my system was going to die.
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The only Xbone game I played was Dark Souls III and I don't recall having to wait too long to start seeing "You Have Died" over and over again.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
Yeah....I know.
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I finally broke down a got mine a couple months ago when they had the white version with Quantum Break for $300, but I have to wonder if I should have waited for the S model instead. First console I've had brand new since the NES that my mom bought me, every other console I have has been used since then.
I don't like the interface. I prefer the 360's dashboard over the XBONE or PS3. It's faster, smoother and I know where everything is. I never even knew that the button on the left was for pairing (I don't remember seeing any mention of it in the documentation that came with my XBONE) until I saw mention of it here; my controller connected immediately and the console starts up a few seconds after the controller does.
Watch your hard drive space. Master Chief Collection is one of the bigger ones at over 60 GB installed IIRC but Quantum Break is still the king with the optional 75 GB of video. With the core version of Win10 and whatever else taking up a huge chunk of hard drive space, you may find yourself running low after installing only a handful of games.
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Watch your hard drive space. Master Chief Collection is one of the bigger ones at over 60 GB installed IIRC but Quantum Break is still the king with the optional 75 GB of video. With the core version of Win10 and whatever else taking up a huge chunk of hard drive space, you may find yourself running low after installing only a handful of games.
Why I ended up buying a 3T external harddrive for mine because I have about 1.5T worth of games on it.
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I've gotten used to navigating the dashboard, though I feel I can get to everything on the PS4 much easier and I prefer the PS4's customization options. I've noticed Windows and system software eats up a huge chunk of the HDD space, so I'm glad this system included a one terabyte drive. I'm not planning on picking many games up, but when I download the Gold freebies I'm sure it will really start eating into it.
I went ahead and picked up a second controller and Forza 6 for my racing fix.
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^ I wish I had gotten the 1 TB drive. I didn't realize that you didn't even have the option to play off of the disc until I got my system, so I didn't think I needed more than 500 GB.
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^ I wish I had gotten the 1 TB drive. I didn't realize that you didn't even have the option to play off of the disc until I got my system, so I didn't think I needed more than 500 GB.
Yeah, doesn't matter PS4 or Xbox One, both install the games. I've torn through the PS4 space in no time.
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Seeing all that green in your collection is causing me issues.
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Seeing all that green in your collection is causing me issues.
Causes you issues? Green didn't cause that. :P
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
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oh my godddd.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
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oh my godddd.
The bulk of the Rare Replay games installed at one time. The Banjo games, Viva Pinata games and Perfect Dark games installed separately as did a couple others. The longest installs were Perfect Dark Zero, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Kameo because those were 360 games. The N64 games installed in no time. And luckily with this game unlike Halo 5, after a little bit, you could start the main Rare Replay game up and start playing some of those titles.
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I wonder how that's going to work when they eventually drop the 360 online service. Will the people that buy the game later just get screwed?
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
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oh my godddd.
The bulk of the Rare Replay games installed at one time. The Banjo games, Viva Pinata games and Perfect Dark games installed separately as did a couple others. The longest installs were Perfect Dark Zero, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Kameo because those were 360 games. The N64 games installed in no time. And luckily with this game unlike Halo 5, after a little bit, you could start the main Rare Replay game up and start playing some of those titles.
random question for you. what would happen if you pull the internet plug/aren't connected to the internet? does a screen just come up saying you cant play them or something?
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I wonder how that's going to work when they eventually drop the 360 online service. Will the people that buy the game later just get screwed?
I don't know. Since it's backwards compatible titles, they should continue to work especially since inserting the Rare Replay disc starts all the downloads.
On a side note, I've really been enjoying Max the Curse of Brotherhood. And I bought the code off eBay for $1.50. It's probably well worth the original $15 asking price on Xbox Live, but $1.50 is a no-brainer and a complete bargain. I've always enjoyed these side-scrolling, physics-based titles where you have to really think about how to progress.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
...
oh my godddd.
The bulk of the Rare Replay games installed at one time. The Banjo games, Viva Pinata games and Perfect Dark games installed separately as did a couple others. The longest installs were Perfect Dark Zero, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Kameo because those were 360 games. The N64 games installed in no time. And luckily with this game unlike Halo 5, after a little bit, you could start the main Rare Replay game up and start playing some of those titles.
random question for you. what would happen if you pull the internet plug/aren't connected to the internet? does a screen just come up saying you cant play them or something?
Once the games are installed, you simply have to have the disc in the drive for them to load much like the PS4. I've tried starting the Rare Replay titles like Banjo-Kazooie who's "icons" are clearly Xbox Live download title icons/pics. If the disc is not in the drive, it pops up with a long winded message asking if you own this game, blah, blah, blah. It does that with any game you have installed.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
...
oh my godddd.
The bulk of the Rare Replay games installed at one time. The Banjo games, Viva Pinata games and Perfect Dark games installed separately as did a couple others. The longest installs were Perfect Dark Zero, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Kameo because those were 360 games. The N64 games installed in no time. And luckily with this game unlike Halo 5, after a little bit, you could start the main Rare Replay game up and start playing some of those titles.
random question for you. what would happen if you pull the internet plug/aren't connected to the internet? does a screen just come up saying you cant play them or something?
Once the games are installed, you simply have to have the disc in the drive for them to load much like the PS4. I've tried starting the Rare Replay titles like Banjo-Kazooie who's "icons" are clearly Xbox Live download title icons/pics. If the disc is not in the drive, it pops up with a long winded message asking if you own this game, blah, blah, blah. It does that with any game you have installed.
sorry I ment pre installation of games. are any of them actually on the disc?
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sorry I ment pre installation of games. are any of them actually on the disc?
Oh, gotcha. Yes, the games are actually on the discs. If you are not connected to the internet, they will install just fine and you can go on with the single-player. Kinda strange, but I have noticed that the installs take a lot longer if you are connected to the internet. I have no idea why. But a game that would take 5 minutes to install with no network connection will take 10 minutes (guesstimate) while connected. I don't know if it's because it's polling the servers for updates or what, but it definitely takes longer. Maybe it's installing updates simultaneously?
As for Rare Replay, I don't know if all 30 games are on the disc or not as I was connected to the internet while installing. Again, it took a while and it did tell me there were updates. I'm assuming all 30 games were on the disc as that would just be retarded not to be. But maybe I'm giving Microsoft too much credit.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
...
oh my godddd.
The bulk of the Rare Replay games installed at one time. The Banjo games, Viva Pinata games and Perfect Dark games installed separately as did a couple others. The longest installs were Perfect Dark Zero, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Kameo because those were 360 games. The N64 games installed in no time. And luckily with this game unlike Halo 5, after a little bit, you could start the main Rare Replay game up and start playing some of those titles.
I'm pretty sure you can just not download those 360 games if you don't want to, no? Or are you required to download everything?
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sorry I ment pre installation of games. are any of them actually on the disc?
Oh, gotcha. Yes, the games are actually on the discs. If you are not connected to the internet, they will install just fine and you can go on with the single-player. Kinda strange, but I have noticed that the installs take a lot longer if you are connected to the internet. I have no idea why. But a game that would take 5 minutes to install with no network connection will take 10 minutes (guesstimate) while connected. I don't know if it's because it's polling the servers for updates or what, but it definitely takes longer. Maybe it's installing updates simultaneously?
As for Rare Replay, I don't know if all 30 games are on the disc or not as I was connected to the internet while installing. Again, it took a while and it did tell me there were updates. I'm assuming all 30 games were on the disc as that would just be retarded not to be. But maybe I'm giving Microsoft too much credit.
Some of the games are on the disc. The 360 titles are actually downloaded from the XBox Live store.
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Just wait til you try to install Rare Replay. It does each game separately.
i just said "oh... my... god" out loud reading this
i wanted an xbone too... partially for rare replay...
...
oh my godddd.
The bulk of the Rare Replay games installed at one time. The Banjo games, Viva Pinata games and Perfect Dark games installed separately as did a couple others. The longest installs were Perfect Dark Zero, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Kameo because those were 360 games. The N64 games installed in no time. And luckily with this game unlike Halo 5, after a little bit, you could start the main Rare Replay game up and start playing some of those titles.
I'm pretty sure you can just not download those 360 games if you don't want to, no? Or are you required to download everything?
I don't think you have to download them. When you start the game without those 360 games being installed, you can select them in the select screen and it gives you a message that says they either aren't installed or require an update.
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Some of the games are on the disc. The 360 titles are actually downloaded from the XBox Live store.
That deserves a giant ::)
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After some solid use, I'm slightly conflicted on the Xbox One. So I figure I'll give my (updated) impressions in a "pros & cons" fashion now that I've come to grips with what the system has to offer.
PROS
It's a nice looking system, especially in the Doom get-up that mine has.
There are actually quite a few games that are exclusive that are a lot of fun to play and I've always been a sucker for Halo. Dead Rising 3 is actually pretty fun, mashing stuff together into insane weapons.
Microsoft has always excelled at their controllers and the 'bone controller doesn't disappoint. It's quite fun to use and the crazy feedback rumble it gives in the triggers in Forza 6 is neat, but not really a selling point IMO.
Turn 10 continues to crank out Forza games and the spit & polish is evident in Forza 6. It's drop-dead gorgeous. I don't know how Turn 10 can pump out a new Forza entry every two years and Polyphony Digital takes 5-6 or more to put out a new Gran Turismo. It stings even more when you see GT rehashing the same mistakes over and over.
The system runs cool & quiet.
Backward compatibility! This is actually a feature I am using which I typically & traditionally have rarely used on any console. There are several Xbox 360 games in the Halo and Gears of War series that I like to play and want to play again and being able to play every Halo game on one console is bitchin. Though sadly, the online component of Halo Reach has been neutered and removed from the game. :'(
I really, really, really want to get an Elite controller. The ability to map the four face buttons to the paddles will have an immediate benefit for me in online shooters when I don't have to take my thumb off the right stick to hit jump, melee attack, etc. I see one of these overpriced bastards in my near future.
Online play is smooth for the most part. I know Microsoft likes to brag about their Azure servers, but the online doesn't seem to be any better or worse than PS4 online gaming.
And last but certainly not least, adding an external HDD is fantastic. I haven't done so myself, but will be soon. The ability to just add an external drive instead of swapping one out to me is the best option. To add storage to my PS4, I would have to back everything up or worse - re-download it all. With the Xbox One, just connect the drive and you can use it.
CONS
While the system looks nice, even it's standard black incarnation, it is rather large compared to the PS4. The power brick is also cumbersome as expected. Luckily in my own area where my consoles sit, there is enough room for it to sit comfortably but I can see people having an issue with it's size.
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but when I eject a disc, within a second it often tries to suck the disc back in. Push the button, "ding." A second later "ding" and in the disc goes. :o No idea on this one.
For all the bashing the PS4 UI gets from Xbots (pulled that out of the archives!), the Xbox One UI is a hot mess. PS4 puts my games front & center to scroll through, organized by most recently used. Go to the end and you can view them all in alphabetical order. On the 'bone, you have to scroll to the bottom of the screen, select "games & apps" then....scroll through an alphabetized list of games lust like on the PS4 that 'bone users criticize it for! Hypocrisy at it's finest there folks.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, installs & updates are a pain in the ass. The installs take forever to begin with and most games don't offer an option to start playing while installing like the PS4 does. Also while PS4 will tell you there is a software update, you can cancel it and play the game while the update downloads in the background. Not so with the 'bone unless you turn your internet connection to it off to "trick" it into thinking there is no update. It took nearly two full days before I could even play Halo 5. Yeah.
SUMMARY
For me, the Xbox One is a great "second system" to supplement my PlayStation gaming, more so than the Wii U which has little aside from a couple "Mario" games that I really care about. There are unfortunate "quirks" to the system software-wise that are part of the Don Mattrick legacy of evil and lead to headaches like the install issues. In hindsight, the fact that my controller wouldn't sync "out of the box" may be attributed to it not being the controller originally paired with that particular system since Bethesda customized several of them at one time. But the poor documentation didn't help in this regard. I'll be playing upcoming games like Halo Wars 2 and Gears of War 4 and I'm cautiously optimistic about Recore. If you want to use backward compatibility, you better be online with enough bandwidth & unlimited usage as each 360 game you insert starts a full-game download from Xbox Live. I can only assume that the game code is altered from it's original form on the 360 disc to make it work on the 'bone and the fact that Reach has no online features and it has been removed completely from the in-game menu lends validity to this.
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speaking of UIs i think both ps4 and xbone's UIs are kinda meh
they really need to let us customise those damn game lists because once you have more than a few games it just gets really kinda messy to look at and idk
my OCD can't stand the 'recently played' set up PS4 has
idk
i can say i want an xbone for a couple reasons but i think i'll end up agreeing with your list of pros/cons there if i get one (and that'll be a hellishly long time before i cave because broke lmao)
it seems a lumbering as the size of the console (and power brick lmaooo), with the updates and such.
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After some solid use, I'm slightly conflicted on the Xbox One. So I figure I'll give my (updated) impressions in a "pros & cons" fashion now that I've come to grips with what the system has to offer.
PROS
Its large enough to allow 3-4 drinks to sit on it and condensate without getting stains on the coffee table
CONS
It costs about $350 more than a set of drink coasters. Controller appears to resemble a boomerang but does not fly back to you when thrown.
SUMMARY
A savior for avoiding drink rings but at an absurd cost to do so.
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I'm beginning to suspect you don't like the Xbox One Soera ;D
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Im transparent!
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speaking of UIs i think both ps4 and xbone's UIs are kinda meh
they really need to let us customise those damn game lists because once you have more than a few games it just gets really kinda messy to look at and idk
my OCD can't stand the 'recently played' set up PS4 has
idk
I was just thinking about this the other day. I'd actually prefer to have very few items on the initial bar if I could, which is why I love the Wii U's design. Everything is there how you want it, delete what you want, maneuver it around, it's simple and easy. With the PS4, sure it organizes by most recent, but I'd love to be able to delete stuff or organize it in a way that makes sense to me. I don't need the the TV/Video folder right up front as I never use the apps there because I own a computer and I'd love to delete stuff I'm not longer using. It's not a terrible UI, but it's not anything great.
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After some solid use, I'm slightly conflicted on the Xbox One. So I figure I'll give my (updated) impressions in a "pros & cons" fashion now that I've come to grips with what the system has to offer.
PROS
Its large enough to allow 3-4 drinks to sit on it and condensate without getting stains on the coffee table
CONS
It costs about $350 more than a set of drink coasters. Controller appears to resemble a boomerang but does not fly back to you when thrown.
SUMMARY
A savior for avoiding drink rings but at an absurd cost to do so.
LMFAO!
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Give me the XMB, but only show pinned applications and the last 3-4 loaded games/apps at the far left as "priority" apps.
Give me the "games and apps" app from X1, where it shows all installed games, then there is a tab with all owned games that are not installed.
Also, I'd just like to state that the fact that the PS4 doesn't allow external storage for games, in conjunction with PS+, is so ridiculous. I ran out of HDD space a year ago, so anytime I get something new (physical or digital), I have to go delete like 5 games. And then when I go look at my library it shows all of my games, installed or not. Too much storage juggling. Even the Wii U supports external storage (though it kind of has to, doesn't it).
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Aside from Dark Souls III (which I barely touched) the 'bone is collecting dust. Lots of dust. There is nothing out there that looks captivating on the horizon and with so many games I'd much rather play it seems like there is no use for it. It's like the last thing on my list since I'd rather play stuff in the backlog or stuff that is coming out for the Vita, PS4, etc.
Is it worth trading it in to Game Stop? Should it be sold online? Is there something out there that will eventually be worth getting?
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Aside from Dark Souls III (which I barely touched) the 'bone is collecting dust. Lots of dust. There is nothing out there that looks captivating on the horizon and with so many games I'd much rather play it seems like there is no use for it. It's like the last thing on my list since I'd rather play stuff in the backlog or stuff that is coming out for the Vita, PS4, etc.
Is it worth trading it in to Game Stop? Should it be sold online? Is there something out there that will eventually be worth getting?
I'll answer honestly the same as when someone asks me in person if they should get an Xbox One or PS4: Unless you cannot live without Halo and Gears of War, buy a PS4.
That's not to say that there aren't good games on the 'bone, but that if Halo and Gears aren't big draws for you, the PS4 will have way more than enough great games to keep you busy. My gaming interests for the Xbone include exclusives and games that I find really, really cheap.
Ori and the Blind Forest is fantastic (so far). The opening act had me pretty sad. It's one of those rare, touching games that pulls on this jaded geezer's heartstrings. I started playing Quantum Break last night and I have to say, it's pretty interesting. I liked Remedy's work on Alan Wake and so far, Quantum Break has been outstanding.
I have consistently wavered between Gran Turismo and Forza on which was my favorite. Damn DLC car packs all to hell, but Forza feels & looks like a better game series to me. It's like Polyphony Digital has never innovated past GT3 A-Spec. The newer the GT game, the less I have really enjoyed them. They are filled with goofy-ass elevator music and counter-intuitive menus. Car damage has been done for over 12 years now in other racers, but there is barely any in GT. Up until Gran Turismo 6, the majority of the cars didn't have an "in car" view to play from. I'm not even sure it changed for GT6 since I never played it al that much. And what good are 1000+ cars when there are 50 variations of Honda Civics and various other grocery-getters?
As for upcoming games, you are looking at Gears of War 4, Recore, Scalebound, Halo Wars 2 and a couple others here & there. Without a doubt, more Forza & Forza Horizon games will be on the way. Not much else aside from that as far as exclusives go that I can think of.
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I still want to get a Wii U, so maybe I could trade it into GS for one.
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I still want to get a Wii U, so maybe I could trade it into GS for one.
You could get $100 on a trade in for the 500gb non-Kinect version. A Wii U is about $230 used.
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Picked up a few additional goodies and figure I would give my opinion on them as they relate directly to the "user experience" on Xbox One.
First up, I bought a used Stereo Headset Adapter which is basically the little thing that connects to the bottom of the controller. The newer Xbox One controllers have a 3.5mm headphone jack built in, just like the Dual Shock 4 always has. Unfortunately on both systems, the only way to adjust the volume when using the headphone jack is to go into the settings panel and raise or lower it there. So while the adapter I bought is not necessary to use headphones with the controller, it does allow you to adjust the volume right there on the controller, mute the mic and adjust the balance between game sound and chat. So it was a well-spent $11. I wish there was a simple option like this for the PS4.
Next up is the Xbox One Elite Controller. The two best things about Xbox IMO has always been Halo and the controllers. Ever since the S controller on the original Xbox, I have loved the feel of Microsoft's fare. The Xbox One controller feels great, so it should come as no surprise that the Elite controller is even better. The app you use on the system to adjust the settings has so many options it can be daunting. Fortunately for those who just want to jump into the action, there are game "presets" made by developers and the community that you can select which give you the optimal configuration. Aside from the paddles and replaceable thumbsticks that everyone knows about, the actual "grip" of the controller bears mentioning. The handles have a textured finish which feels very comfortable in your hands and prevents any slipping, but the entire controller itself also has a soft rubberized feel to it. The "radar dish" d-pad that everyone thinks looks weird (and can be replaced with a standard "+" style job) really shines when it comes to fighting games or really, any other game that requires a rolling directional input. Next up is the trigger locks which are small switches on the back side of the controller. While your typical shoulder buttons work great for racers where the further you push, the more break & gas you are applying - they aren't perfect for games where you just really need to push a button. Locking the triggers changes them so they only have to travel half the distance. If you are playing a competitive shooter, the split second speed boost can make all the difference. And finally, the entire thing is also packaged like royalty. It has it's own carrying case with spaces to hold all the paddles, analog sticks, etc. And the included USB cable isn't a standard rubber cord but a really premium braided cord.
Is it worth $150? Is it necessary? I don't know. I guess it depends on the individual. Scuff and other "pro" controllers cost the same as or more than the Elite controller. Comparing this to my buddies Scuff controller, Microsoft did a good job on this. Every facet of the Elite controller is a step-up from the standard model. A nice touch is the analog stick shafts are made of metal and the opening they travel in is bordered with a separate piece of hard plastic.