Topic: The everything Xbox thread

In my honest opinion, the Xbox One and its previous consoles don't have a lot of impressive games. All they have are shooters and other crud. They don't have many JRPGs. That's what I don't like about the Xbox and its previous and current models, they lack good games and JRPGs.

Now the PS4 and Nintendo Switch have a great library of games, including JRPGs. I used to like the Xbox and the 360, but due to lack of games from Japan and horrible manufacture problems with the Xbox 360 (AKA the Red Rings of Death), I gave my Xbox 360 away. PS4 and Nintendo Switch have a lot of great games (including JRPGs), the 3DS does too, but the PS4 and Switch have better games. That's why I like the PS4 and Switch better than any incarnation of Xbox consoles. Forgive me for posting this.

Thanks for sharing with us all your loads of ignorance.

To be fair all the adventure games, RPGs, puzzles, platformers, simulators, and etc are likely covered by the "other crud".

@Delibheel That's a good point.

But other than roads, sanitation, education, agriculture, and aqueducts, what have the Romans ever done for us?!

@NEStalgia Oh I believe you, I was partly joking. I bought the game at launch and the non-tagged versions were released afterwards. The original Rare Replay releases have the Rare Replay tag so keep those only. Don't worry about save files, there aren't separate save files. Let me know if it works. If you want to get rid of the "ready to install games" you can do that, press the Menu button and select Hide from list. You can always redownload them on the store if you search them. I know I can launch every game from Rare Replay so it's possible, let's find a solution for you.

By the way, question about Final Fantasy XV Comrades. I have it in Ready to install but I haven't installed it because it used to be included with Final Fantasy Royal Edition (still is, but now it's a separate download). So my question is, is Comrades still included in the Final Fantasy XV file? Because I don't want to have Comrades duplicated as it is a waste of storage, you know what I mean?

I am not the biggest fan of games like farm simulators, Animal Crossing, etc. but Viva Piñata is one of the best games I've ever played, it's so rewarding, relaxing, nice... Relaxing but not boring.

I'll have a look at your vertical resolution question (Conker's Bad Fur Day) because I can't check at the moment.

Yes.

Where Xbox 360 remasters were available, Xbox One's shiny new backwards compatibility functionality was utilised to excellent effect, while the rest of the titles employed direct emulation of the original consoles, with no actual remaking or remastering in play - though the 1080p resolution boost was clearly worthwhile.

Rare's Microsoft debut - Grabbed by the Ghoulies - is treated to an Xbox One-specific 1080p60 conversion, seemingly ported over from the original source.

So basically all games in Rare Replay are 1080p, even the Spectrum ones and Grabbed by the Ghoulies is 1080p60fps instead of 480p30fps (a remaster). The 60fps is heaven-sent, completing that game is quite tricky - but I loved it too. The 360 games were the first 360 backwards compatibility games so typically 720p as you know. Please note that the performance videos in the article are dated, NOW Nuts & Bolts run better on Xbox One than on 360. I noticed Nuts & Bolts (and other games) even smoother on Xbox One X.

Article (backwards compatibility performance is dated):

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-vs-rar...

Yes, but they don't have things from Japan. Japan makes better games than the West. I am a fan of Japan and their games. Hence why I think PS4 and Switch are better than Xbox because the two systems have games from Japan while Xbox and its past and present consoles have Western games that only cater to FPS and hack and slash fans. Rare Replay is a good game, but it doesn't scratch that Japan itch.

Sorry for saying this, but I personally feel that Japan and its game studios make better games than Microsoft and any Xbox company related to them.

@Alantor28 Nah, it's more something like this: Xbox >>>>> Ouya > Knack >>> Switch.

@Alantor28
Jet Set Radio/Future
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Lost Odyssey
Blue Dragon
Ninja Gaiden Black
Most Japanese multiplats like FFXV, AoT, DMC5, RE2, RE7, Shining Resonance Refrain, MGSV...

Just a few games on Xbox from Japan...

Not sure why you need to come to the Xbox thread and tell us all why you dont like Xbox. Seems a bit childish.

The PS4 seems like a better fit for you. Nothing wrong with that. Personally I find most JRPGs to be boring, derivative grindfests full of tired tropes, but thats just me.

Sorry about that, but there's also the Switch for games made by Japan that make it to the west. So forgive me for saying about why I disliked the Xbox.

@NEStalgia In the imaginary words of the semi-immortal, and slightly deranged Titan that I adopted the name from:
"Fear not, little ones, for I have returned, and all will be good in the Universe again..."

If you were living over here, I would inquire if you still own all your limbs and connected appendages, seeing as the Dutch have the rather unique habit of lighting their own fireworks, instead of having a single, national event that you just go to and watch how actual pyro-technical professionals light something up...

It actually did result in quite a few casualties, as it usually does, each year, but they keep doing it regardless.
And the amounts of money spent on it: absolutely crazy. Oh, well it does make for a rather unique experience,
and I kinda like it. The watching it, that is. I'm not crazy enough to spend money on stuff that is just literally going to go up in smoke in a mere matter of minutes...

Anyway, best wishes and here's hoping your luck will improve, even if only ever so slightly. Then again: anything would be an improvement, right?
And if things stay the same, it would at least appear as if you've got the funds to support all the mishaps...
(sorry, couldn't help myself, there)

Well, 2018 ended, so it was time to buy another console. And no: not the X, although that will still be bought at some point, but I just HAD to get a Switch first. Got a bundle with a 64GB card, pouch and screen protector, and Breath of the Wild to go with it, but funnily enough, I ended up installing a lot of free to play games and demos on it, and after having done the first bit of Warframe, I ultimately binge-gamed my way, or more accurately:
I still AM binge-gaming my way through Fallout Shelter.

What an annoyingly simple and addictive game that is.
But it's probably still better than the main series' latest installment...

@ThanosReXXX You think that's a unique thing of the Dutch? You haven't been stateside in a while have you? The 4th primarily and New Years secondarily neighborhoods sound like warzones of tons of people lighting fireworks, usually over other people's roofs. Much of it is illegal or "kinda" illegal, but of course, you call the cops and they show up an hour or two after it stopped "nope, don't see anything here" (insert Don Knotts voice.)

Meh, one year of splurging on video games and I'm suddenly "rich" No, I just do nothing but stay at home and play video games and go to work, so I dump the budget on that...not like it could buy anything more useful for the same money here Plus that's like 8 years of games

Congrats on the Switch! (It's about time! ) You're in for a real treat with BotW!

I haven't played Shelter, but pretty much anything is better than '76. Heck even listening to my hard drives is more fun than '76....

@BlueOcean Nope, I have all the Rare Replay tags, but it still won't find them. I imagine if I reinstall it all maybe it will work, but it doesn't make sense to redownload it all if it's working (more or less) so I'll probably leave it as-is. It's annoying but not a problem. I did give Ghoulies a shot though. Wow that's GREAT, and looks great too! I never expected that from it. It reminds me a little of the arcade version of Luigi's Mansion in some ways....it's really clever (and predates Luigi's Mansion.)

FF Comrades: That's interesting, for me it automatically downloaded it like it was a patch, but installed separately. I'm not sure why it's being handled like a separate game. I wonder if it has something to do with the new fast download/piecemeal downloading stuff they're rolling out? I'm not actually sure if it's still inside XV, or if it's like Rare Replay and just runs it externally now.

Nuts & Bolts really is gorgeous and smooth on the X.....it makes it really fun to play again!

@Alantor28 I don't think anyone will say that XBox (an American console) has more games from Japan than Nintendo (a Japanese company that leads sales in Japan), but the gap is rapidly closing with Playstation, as Playstation abandoned Japan and became more or less an American console as well. More and more the same Japanese games are on both platforms if they're on one. Take a look at the focus from Square Enix on FFXV, FFXIII, bringing all of FF over to XBox (and Switch), KH3 on XBox, etc. Capcom unveiled DMC5 at XBox's stage. Nier Automata is most definitely a better looking/running game on X1X versus PS4. Soul Calibur VI, DoA6 seem to have a 1X focus and should run best on X. Japan buys Nintendo and basically only Nintendo now, but Japanese developers seem to be really paying a lot more attention to Microsoft now as MS courts them and Sony takes them for granted while chasing the Western money.

And best wishes to all of you other crazies as well.
No exceptions: fire and forget, water under the bridge and all that...

It's a new year, baby, and there's plenty of clean slates to go around. Cheers.

@NEStalgia Well, unique enough apparently, that two American/Canadian comedians made a video about it, that's even trending on the web, apparently. But yeah, I do know to some extent: I've seen enough crazy videos about people launching rockets from certain anatomical places they're not supposed to be launched from, and what not, but believe me: it's nothing like what they have over here.

On the day before New Year's Eve, the fireworks started at around 5.30 - 6pm (the children are legally allowed to start then, midnight is reserved for all the drunk adults), and it lasted until around 3am the next morning. All across the country, and practically without pause (leaving the city streets covered with thick patches of red paper, ashes and semi-burnt cardboard boxes, the next day)...

Yep, truly nothing like it anywhere...

Fallout Shelter is fun, if you like management sims. It's more or less in the vein of Theme Park, except with a side-on, sliced through underground bunker view...

@DarthNocturnal The LOTR LEGO games were free on Steam a couple of weeks ago...

@NEStalgia I'm certain this qualifies as ''unique''; and no, this isn't California.

It just runs externally now. They were quite clear that it was just an attempt to get the MMO-fans playing it, who didn't want to bother with the main game.
That's almost definitely not gonna happen though. It's not well fleshed out enough to compete with other MMOs.

@Octane Is that a picture of those fires caused by those WAY too high pallet stacks?
The streets looked quite eerie there, almost like volcano ashes and embers were floating around.

The damage was pretty extensive as well. Wonder if any of the people involved are going to get some kind of punishment or fine to pay.

Hey everyone, I would like to say I am sorry for the trouble I caused in this Xbox thread. And to BlueOcean as well. Anyone has a system they can enjoy and we should respect their decisions to enjoy them.

@NEStalgia Grabbed by the Ghoulies is also very gamey, isn't it? The art style is cool, the characters might be a bit simple (originally an Xbox game) but the environments hold up well. It's a good challenge and I guess that the 60 fps on Xbox One makes it more enjoyable now and the HD output more beautiful than back in the day. I completed everything but I suspect that without the extra responsiveness that 60 fps allow it would have been more frustrating. Rare games aren't easy usually but they have that gamey thingy that makes me want to beat them, like a well-balanced difficulty or something.

❤️ Do not worry.