Topic: The everything Xbox thread

So someone I know that owns a Xbone was telling me the Backwards Compatibility is not great. I guess he tried to play Halo Reach local split screen (just two players) and it was running at about 15 fps. Is that true?

Quantum break and KI this week

@shingi_70: I'm gonna play Quantum for sure. But I'm kinda hooked on Hyper Light Drifter right now...

Still, this month's Games For Gold line-up looks solid.

Well, I'm now a little more than 25 hours into Tales of Vesperia (maybe closer to 26 or 27).

I've really warmed up the cast. Largely due in part to the nearly endless "skits" that pop up, getting you invested into the characters is something I think the Tales series does better than pretty much any other JRPG series. From a personality standpoint, Raven is my favorite party member. I also like having Judith around, though (and thanks to the fact that I just acquired the Special Flag, I now have her set as my walking around character).

Anyhow, I just got the airship, so things have really opened up, at least somewhat. There are some areas I can enter, but can't go too far into (locked door, etc.). Oddly enough, there are some areas it won't even let you enter. However, I can go to everyplace I've already been, plus, the next area I'm supposed to go to.

I'm housekeeping my friends place whilst he is in New Zealand until the end of this month, therefore I have got access to his Xbox One.

He was more than happy for me to play Quantum Break that popped through his letterbox a couple of days ago and as a big fan of Max Payne 2 and enjoying Alan Wake outside of the repetitive flashlight 'shooting' mechanics, I am REALLY disappointed with their new game.

It is literally like this; walk a little bit, read some emails on the nearby computer, bump into some enemies, use the rather underwhelming time powers to run and gun your way through an area then watch a TWENTY MINUTES episode that I have absolutely no interest in.

If they were of good quality, I'd give it a pass however, they are cheesy (not in a good way...) and relatively unnecessary to watch seeing as you are given just two simple choices at the end of the 'episode'.

The graphics appear to be hazy for some odd reason too - doesn't look good on my friends television. I played 90 minutes before groaning out loud at the controls being wrestled away from me, and not a moment too soon either (!)

I was thoroughly looking forward to this. I played Sunset Overdrive followed by the superb Ori and the Blind Forest instead of going back to Quantum Break today, which kind of says it all really. A real shame.

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@Peek-a-boo: I liked it, but I don't know about the Live action segments. I don't watch a lot of TV or many movies to really form an opinion about it, but it kept my attention. I enjoyed the game play and yeah, the searching for narrative objects kinda annoyed me too. It was fun reading them for a moment, but got tiresome pretty quickly, especially in areas that had about 15 of them to find.

I forgot about Ori! I got to get back to playing it.

There's been many people that have really enjoyed Quantum Break, whilst there are quite a few others who are fairly nonplused about it. I haven't really changed my stance on this game, I'm gonna wait for a sale to pick it up, knowing that I will probably like it- Uncharted 4 is in the same boat- as I'll be too occupied with Dark Souls 3, Fire Emblem Fates and Overwatch soon to care about games outside my radar.

I just beat Quantum Break.

Wow. What an excellent game. I think that was hands down the best story I've ever experienced through a video game. In fact, I think that story could have made for a Hollywood movie, AND been one of the best of the year at that.

The gameplay was surprisingly good too. Not as solid as say, Infamous Second Son was with the mechanics and powers (of course, that game was very gameplay-based), but it was still really good. Equal mix of good (not great but good) gameplay, exploration and platforming, coupled with such an extraordinary story which was told in an excellent fashion (LOVED the live action segments- very well done, dang near television quality even, what made it even better was that it was the exact same actors from the game so it matched up perfectly)... all that combined made for one heck of a winning AAA formula.

I mean, this game sucked me out of my Fire Emblem Fates Conquest binge- and kept me hooked all the way to the ending, and FE is my fave franchise. Not too many games can make such a claim.

Heh, goes to show how different folks have two very different experiences with Quantum Break!

Glad you enjoyed it; wish I could say the same though. I groaned every single time the episodes begun whereas you seem to think they are comparable to the best that Hollywood has to offer...

It seems to be a marmite game - you either like the game, or you don't.

Looks like a new Xbox One revision is due out in June, which will hopefully shrink the VHS player lookalike into something more modest and modern.

There's some new information and documentation on the FCC filings page that points to a new revision with new model numbers and new (and potentially upgraded) components such as a wireless chip.

I reckon this will be revealed on nearly all gaming websites in the next 24 hours, but we won't receive any official announcement until E3 at the earliest.

Seems that Microsoft are not playing the Xbox One-point-five card just yet.

But even then, you didn't need to upgrade your 3DS.

@DarthNocturnal: That's the risk you take when you buy a system a significant amount of time after launch, I know how you feel as I bought my Xbox One on August 4th with Rare Replay. I got a really good deal so I'm not too fussed, I really wanted RR there and then after all so even with hindsight I still probably would've bought it when I did.

It's weird really, if either of Sony/Microsoft were to reveal an upgrade of sorts of their consoles at E3 (chances are both will so that's great) I personally will be more miffed at Sony doing so, especially if the upgrade is as big as rumoured, and that's despite the fact that I got my PS4 in the launch period. Not that I give that first 18 months of this gen any credit at all, filled with rushed cash grabs and remasters. As much as I've loved playing dozens of games on my PS4 over the last year, I would feel a bit burned by Sony doing this, particularly since I bought a 2GB internal hard drive for the thing just a few months ago before these rumours started.

It's just greed in my opinion.

@DefHalan: Arguable, if you wanted Hyrule Warriors Legends then upgrade was necessary as the game plays terribly on a standard 3DS.

@DarthNocturnal: Right, I was just saying the XBox 1.5 was never going to be a completely new machine. It would basically be the New 3DS to the 3DS, but I doubt they would even do exclusive games.

I think that if this revision is a 'slim' model with an upgraded wireless chip, the ability to play UHD Blu-ray and perhaps an internal power supply (PSU) too, then I am sure it would be a welcome revision, especially given the size of the current console and the overly large 'brick'.

I have my doubts about an Xbox One-point-five because unlike the PlayStation 4K, there is nary any leaks or chatter about such a thing. And whilst I don't take Phil Spencer's words for gospel, he did openly say that he is not particularly interested in creating a halfway house.

We will see!

@peek-a-boo How were the controls for Quantum Break? I saw Jaxson's view point but I think I'm of a similar mind set to you on this one. I don't really care about the "episodes" or whatever but at the same time my One has been in a coma so long I'm at impulse buy status just to get a new game. At the same time I have a few Nintendo games coming out this month (star fox and bravely default) and I'm not not out of stuff to play. I'm trying to decide if I want to give Quantum Break a shot or pick up the latest two yakuza games since their prices went down in Japan.

@Ryu_Niiyama:
This is coming from somebody who really likes Quantum Break.... Play the games you're more interested in for now and wait for QB's price to drop, which could happen as soon as mid-Summer.

@Ryu_Niiyama: I played a little bit more of Quantum Break before I begun Dark Souls III yesterday and, after playing up to the second episode, I realised that I just wasn't having that much fun with it despite being impressed with the production values and the effects during combat.

The best way I can describe the game is that it is a fantastic average game. I can't say I was ever having that much fun with it. I wasn't bored or anything, but it never once crossed the threshold of 'this is brilliant!', for me.

Max Payne 2 and Alan Wake (to a lesser extent) are still the best work Remedy have done whereas I feel that Quantum Break is a remarkable unremarkable game, if that makes any sense to you.

In any case, just like Gamer 83 says so above, wait for the game to eventually drop in price.

@peek-a-boo , @Gamer83 Thanks for the advice. I'll hold off. I'm not really hurting for new stuff to play anyway. I just have this really bad habit of liking to continually get games for all my systems. Feels like I wasted my money somehow when I let a system go a while without playing it as I have with the One. Waiting on Crackdown and Scalebound is so frustrating.

I just got the Dell Inspiring All in One and hooked it up to my Xbox. Pretty useless... I think it's finally the PC I like. It just proves that Dead Rising 3 on Xbox One was going to beat PC, right off the bat.

I'll be playing Sunset Overdrive when it comes out on Games with Gold. Pretty nice.

EDIT: Oh ya. I have $30 bucks for when a good deal shows up. That's also pretty nice...