Topic: The everything Xbox thread

I look forward to the new Xbox, my God does it look nice and I suppose they'll release the new battletoads game on it. Last Xbox I bought a lot of games for was the very first Xbox , the last two Xboxes ( 360 and one ) have not been as good as it. This new Xbox is going to be something big .i think😁

What?

Who is Ninfan? I’m clearly not a television.

@Zuljaras, I'm guessing he thinks your username is a character from a video game, and wants to know who it is.

@RR529 Did not think of that!

@Ninfan I made that name 14 years ago when I started playing World of Warcraft. Now it is my permanent nickname in everything

I tried WoW for a bit but wasn’t able to get into it as much as my friends. I did like the RTS Warcraft games a lot.

Happy to see Reforged has got such a warm reception. Blizzard looks like it’s going to have another banner year 🤥

@NotTelevision I got refunded by Blizzard! I pre-ordered Reforged on 18 August last year. I was hopeless to get a refund but I told them in the ticket that I will continue to request refunds until they give me my 40 Euros back!

@Zuljaras That’s good. Hope those who are disappointed are able to do the same.

@NotTelevision Unfortunately no Most people are not refunded because they played like 2-3 hours. I only played during the beta and did not even opened after release.

@Zuljaras Oh boy. I guess as long as the game technically works, there is nothing players can do from a legal standpoint. The narrative the last couple of years is that Activision/Blizzard doesn’t put effort into anything that can’t be turned into a live service e-sport. This debacle definitely reinforces that claim.

@NotTelevision Actually you can. Your bank can get your money back if you contact them but then Blizzard will ban your entire account

Also people now are getting banned in the forums because they advice people how to get refund. For example Live Chat is almost guaranteed refund then the online ticket system.

@Zuljaras Craziness. At least your story has a somewhat happy ending with the refund.

Finally decided to give the Crackdown 3 campaign a real try.

It's actually not that bad at all. I like the graphical style, I really like the world design, I like the basic gameplay mechanics, although it would've been far better if they'd gone with an Uncharted style cover shooter approach.

The only really big issue with it so far is the story is super generic garbage that they spent about 1 day writing.

This could've very easily been an awesome game though, if they'd just made a few adjustments.

I paid no attention whatsoever to the story. It's a game for the gameplay, and I enjoyed it for that.

The mayhem part isn't even that fun though. That's the other problem. The part that's fun is exploring the city, the platforming challenges, and shooting stuff.

Feels like they went with the complete wrong emphasis in the gameplay department, and it could've been a much better game as cover shooter/platformer/stealth/puzzle approach rather than the very arcadey button masher.

Few new games coming to Game Pass

On the topic of Crackdown, I played thru 3 over a weekend with one of my neighbors. Was decent enough fun but was largely forgettable overall. Had some fun elements though hopefully makes a comeback in some firm.

Its rly nice

@Dezzy Crackdown is supposed to be more of a futuristic "how your character is becoming a supercop" kinda game, with a bit of a GTA sandbox vibe, so it's not meant to be a cover shooter. I haven't played the third game extensively (only the demo, and although somewhat entertaining, I have to agree with the general sentiment about it), but I've found that the first game is actually still the best so far, and the second one is also more entertaining than this new effort. Missions in the first game were also more interesting, in my opinion. And the story, although it has always been quite thin and arcadey, at least made sense in the first game.

These first two games are still free to download from the online marketplace, if I'm not mistaken, so you could try them out, to see if you like the previous games better, or at least to get a better idea of what the game was originally like.

@DarthNocturnal There's no real need to search. On Xbox One, any and all freely available DLC of a game is automatically downloaded along with the game itself, so you'd only need to do that for DLC that you'd still have to buy.

@DarthNocturnal Hm, weird. Maybe it's a setting in the console? I for one can't remember a single Xbox 360 game that I own, that hasn't automatically downloaded it's own free DLC when available. I have never had to manually select anything, unless I had to pay for it.

The size of the game you mentioned could definitely be proof of that, but you can't compare Xbox 360 game sizes 1:1, though, because with every single game, a little bit of extra data is included, because of the fact that each Xbox 360 and OG Xbox game on the Xbox One comes in a self-contained package with its own emulator (which is also the reason that you can't play them straight from the disc), but that's only a GB or so at most, and probably less.

EDIT:
Come to think of it, another factor of increased file sizes could be upscaled textures, especially on the Xbox One X.