Topic: The everything Xbox thread

@Tasuki Oh, ok. I thought the list was games avaliable to be bought in the MS Store but I guess it's compatible games period. Good to know. Are they still adding games to it?

@jowe_gw No as I said before they are done adding games to the BC program.

@Tasuki oh. I missed that for some reason. Thanks anyway tho. I'll check out what games are in.

@jowe_gw Here's the full article

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2021/11/after-today-xbox-wont-b...

Well this is the only Xbox thing that matters until (insert Starfield release date here). I've never felt more mixed on business dealings in my life. Because this deal not going through is ultimately for the best for gaming as a whole but for the worst for Activision Blizzard employees.

Speaking of which, this came out today, because Activision Blizzard in late 2022 is still Activision Blizzard:

I had enough reason to boycott this company nearly 4 years ago, and they've not stopped once since then.

What does disturbing revisions to the game’s script mean? Especially for a Diablo game which isn’t a happy series anyway?

I am pretty sure if I understand it correctly, that thing by the FTC doesn’t actually do anything in any material sense and they haven’t made the right kind of challenge or whatever to actually physically block the deal going through, it is more of like a performative motion? It is all very convoluted.

So, is High on Life exclusive to Series X/S?

I'm asking because my brother has Xbox One. Has there been any mention of the game coming to Xbox One?

Km thinking of saving up for a series x cause I wanna play halo infinite and I heard it runs 3rd party games better

Spent the past couple of days playing and finishing Halo CE: Anniversary on Series X. First time playing through the remake.

Hadn't played through the game's campaign in near on 20 years, but I was reminded of how great it was - what a fantastic time for gaming the early 2000s was. Campaign, multiplayer, the game along with Halo 2 provided countless hours of entertainment.

Halo was the reason I got an Xbox way back when, and playing the remake was one heck of a nostalgia trip.

I honestly miss that era of gaming.

Got a series s and I can't understand how the cloud saves work or how to access them.

Forza Motorsport will be on Xbox One but with a catch, a cloudy one... Fun fact: an Xbox One's power is similar to that of a PC from 2009-10ish...

Who is playing Hi Fi rush? Feels like a nintendo game if you ask me.

@DannyBoi On Xbox save files are totally automatic and free. They are uploaded, downloaded and updated and all that you have to do is connect to the internet.

@NintendoByNature It's on my list on Game Pass so I will!

@Banjo- just finished last night. One of the best games I've ever played!

@NintendoByNature It really looks like a must-play!

Haven't played my Xbox in earnest in what feels like... well, since I bought it a year or two ago.

But today I fired it up to check for Dolby Vision blu ray settings, and started perusing Gamepass games.

Saw Soul Hackers 2, a game I didn't care enough about to buy, but would try for free. But I wasn't even sure if it was worth the time installing it. Then I saw the cloud icon and remembered you can stream it without installing.

My last experience with it was... ok. Pixelated and a bit laggy, but I guess good enough to get a quick taste of a game before deciding whether to download.

Now.

Idk if it's because I got faster internet now, or if it's because I'm running over ethernet instead of wireless, or if it's gotten better, or what, but this feels and looks like a native game. I genuinely cannot tell the difference.

Maybe more popular games have more ppl streaming and it clogs things up, so Forza Horizon 5 was a horrible experience for me last time, whereas this is a niche JRPG that released 1.5 yrs ago so almost nobody else is streaming it... but this is amazing.

Idk if it would hold up over wireless. I noticed last time when I was on my Xbox over ethernet it was noticeably better than on a phone with Razer Kishi over wireless. But even then, it wasn't nearly this good on the actual Xbox via ethernet. It just wasn't.

This feels like I just fired up an installed game without actually having to install it.

@JaxonH newer to Xbox myself( as of December 2022). It's alot more fun than I expected it to be. Lots of good stuff on GP to try out. I was skeptical at first, but its all some good fun. Nice complimentary piece to the switch. Anything that doesn't go to switch I buy on xbox. Have you payed hi fi rush yet? 100% worth your 11-12 hrs man, trust me.

@NintendoByNature
I haven't. As previously mentioned I practically never play anything other than Switch OLED and SteamDeck, and I've been waiting on a good sale for HifiRush. Though I may fire it up today with GamePass via cloud to try it out, assuming it's part of GamePass (which, it should be).

My brother was raving about it though, so I got an earful about it from him when it first released.