@DarthNocturnal A UE issue would really explain the absurd sizes of game patches these days....makes me mad at Epic. A code fix should be 20MB tops. These multi-gig patches are total asset swaps which never made much sense to me. A mesh and map should be 100mb max. Textures and audio are the large data. It never made sense patches have so much of the data archive in them. Though I blame the hardware vendors....why are they not just pushing deltas?
@NEStalgia So, you're warning @Zuljaras about a TL;DR, and subsequently try summarizing it by trying to squash him with a text wall of epic proportions of your own?
As for DoA, I wasn't talking about myself: I couldn't care less about the jiggle, and I already know that it's a great fighter game, otherwise I wouldn't own almost the entire series, so you're kinda preaching to the choir here...
As said before, completely agreed on KI. Never touched it since the first few times I played it, which is by now almost a year ago. For some reason, I still haven't deleted it, though. Got both the current version and the classic arcade version installed, and they're still there, hogging hard drive space...
Ah... Burnout Paradise. Already owned the Ultimate Edition, in physical form, way back on the Xbox 360. Great game indeed, and the one that almost made it feel like the classic Burnout games again. Almost, but not quite, and we've had nothing ever since, which is a damn shame.
A tip: for some good scores, crazy stunts and lots of secrets, go up the mountain, and try to find the old abandoned factories or steel mills, or whatever they were. (kinda forgot, since it's so long ago that I played it, but it is worth it to find them) I would use a car, not a bike, by the way. Makes the stunts a bit easier, and a car is more sturdy, obviously...
Oh, and try to smash as many billboards as you can: the whole map is littered with them. There are 165 billboards in total between the mainland Paradise Billboards and the Big Surf Island Billboards. (just looked that up to make sure), so you've got your work cut out for you.
Oh, and also from the page where I found that number, comes a bit of expert advice, which might definitely come in handy:
"Finding the billboard is only part of the challenge. Many of the Billboards are placed in awkward positions, which leads to you having to figure out how to smash through it, usually requiring exploration of the surrounding area to find a suitable building or ramp to jump from. A good example would be the one hanging above Franke Avenue near Paradise Square where you actually have to drive up the Downtown Garage on Fry Avenue. Once at the top, you have to drive off a ramp on top of the Paradise Trust Bank to the DJR Sports Store and off the back roof which leads into the Billboard."
"When a new Billboard has been successfully smashed through its debris will be scattered over the road. However, when you return, it will be rebuilt albeit with some holes revealing bare wood. This is to help the player tell which Billboards they've already collected alongside the game keeping track of the number of billboards you have smashed through individually according to the districts within Burnout Paradise and the Island. This can help when trying to track down the last one or two billboards limiting the search area to a single district rather than the entire map. To check how many Billboards you've collected in a certain district simply pause the game and scroll down to Discoveries, where it'll be listed on the right along with Smash Gates and Super Jumps for each district. "
Wish I would have known about all of that, back then... EDIT:
The page in question, in case you are curious for more info about the billboards: http://burnout.wikia.com/wiki/Billboards
@NEStalgia How exactly enhanced xbox games will not run on XboxOneX?
You just put the game in the console and play them. If you do not have the ability to download the enhanced graphics you will play with the normal ones.
Seen these rumors popping up about the next xboxes. I know I'm in the minority but I would definitely consider a digital only/streaming console. I haven't bought a piece of physical media in probably over a year {outside of switch games) so I wouldn't miss the drive. What are you guy's thoughts? http://m.ign.com/articles/2018/07/23/new-alleged-details-abou...
@Zuljaras Well, for one thing, you don't just put the game/disc in the console and play the game: it has to install first. You only ever play games from a hard drive, and that is the same on Xbox One and on PS4.
@ThanosReXXX LOL, perhaps less of a TL;DR, and more of a "rather than wading through 15 posts a day ago while we were trying to figure out the policy, here it is in one post"?
Ohhh...the fighting is why you own the whole series, huh?
Burnout Paradise, yeah, it's pretty different from everything else. One part pure arcade racer, one part platformer, one part collect-a-thon. I was hesitant about another racer when I already have 3 NFS games, Horizon 3, and Forza 7, with Horizon 4 on the way soon with Game Pass, but it's a very worthy addition as something very unique!
@Zuljaras No. If you buy an XBox One X Enhanced game on disc, you will be required to download the 4k texture pack before you can run the game on an XBox One X. If you run the game on an XBox One S, however, you can play it without the 4k texture pack (which the One S can't use.)
It's very stupid, and it's always possible they will change that going forward, but for now, to run an X1X Enhanced title on an X1X, you do need to download part of the game to run it, no way around it.
@redd214 Considering Phil said in the post show that he specifically mentioned the new XBox hardware after mentioning streaming to mitigate any assumptions that Microsoft was leaving the dedicated hardware for streaming, and that the streaming discussed the ability to put it on every device, I think that's pretty clear. (The same way Iwata mentioned NX after DeNA to mitigate anyone thinking Nintendo was going mobile, even though he sabotaged the already adrift WiiU in doing so.) We know they're introducing a streaming service, they said that on the stage. A set-top box for the streaming service like Apple TV and such makes sense (though "additional hardware to mitigate latency" makes no sense, you can't fix latency at the endpoint, it's a physics problem not a technology problem. That's like saying "I bought a better car so I'm not delayed by the traffic jams anymore" Unless the car flys it's not going to help. So that makes me skeptical. But he already said at the E3 show that the best experience is still going to be on the dedicated hardware, so even if they do that, the streaming box will still be the "S" compared to the "X". (And thoroughly unusable in many places. If not most places.) OTOH, that could extend the life of the X (and even S) for a long time since it could no doubt also be the streaming box. But that leads to another point. Why buy a magic XBox steaming box when an X1S could already do that?
Honestly the X1X is basically digital only anyway (why does it even have a disc drive?) given what we've learned in the past day in this thread OTOH I don't think Sony's going to go there this time....so that would really give Sony an anchor on the market with physical media......again....is MS prepared to do that?
That said, despite that I bought my X1X explicitly as digital only, I absolutely do not want a digital-only ecosystem. Not unless it's a Game Pass driven ecosystem with a Netflix style buffet of everything. Not only is that horrible for the many many (many many) people who simply can't do that, and were you one of them you would essentially be cut out of gaming....not cool..... keep in mind physical is also the last vestige of supply and demand pricing. Without its presence you're into fixed MSRP pricing forever and ever, and rest assured, the days of games going on sale for less than $30-40 will be over.
We buy consoles specifically because it's not Steam. Otherwise we'd just buy PCs.
@redd214 Well, if these rumors are true, and there are going to be two models, then obviously, the non-cloud version will be the one that I will be buying. I already have a cloud-only Set top box that controls what TV programs I can and can't watch or record (and store for only a year max), I don't need another one to also control my gaming habits...
@redd214 I think that seems pretty realistic, just having a streaming box would cause another 2013-like situation meanwhile it's pretty clear Microsoft is focusing on streaming so there being able to choose either a traditional console or a streaming box makes the most sense.
@NEStalgia Okay, confession time: I did say I own almost ALL of the DoA games, and in a previous comment,
I also told you that the only one that I don't own, is the most recent game, so you do the math...
Oh, and I never had an OG Xbox, so I only own all the old titles that were compatible with the Xbox 360...
@Matthew010 No, not just London: hot spots from all over the UK, so for example, some bits of Scotland as well. Here's a recommended watch for some detailed answers:
@DarthNocturnal Welcome to the club.
Did you get the entire bundle, all DLC included, or just the core game?
P.S.
Don't know if you played any of the previous games in the Forza Horizon series, but if not, then to avoid going through the same, slow progression troubles as @NEStalgia, I would recommend to experiment with the driving aid settings, until you find the ones that suit you best.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Apparently, there's also an Xbox channel that's called "Outside Xbox", as opposed to the official "Inside Xbox" channel.
I came across this hilarious playthrough video of the E3 demo, which I just HAVE to share: @DarthNocturnal Aha, nice...
As for those driving aids: I'd say switch on traction control, racing line and brake assist, but leave stability control off: it isn't a huge difference, and so far, I've done just fine without it. And having less aids switched on, gets you more experience points, and quicker...
So, once you "git gud", you should probably try to switch even more driving aids off, so you can gather up even more points per achievement.
Oh, and in case you didn't know:
The Hot Wheels and Blizzard Mountain DLC needs to be unlocked by opening at least three racing festivals on the map, which you do by simply winning events and by gathering experience points, so you can't access them right away.
Regular races do earn you a reasonable amount of points, but to get there quicker, do a lot of special events, stunts, and hunt the map for the so-called "barn finds", which are special events of their own, and pretty soon, you'll be doing loopings on the Hot Wheels track...
@DarthNocturnal " Can't remember if I redeemed Regalia, but I heard they're dirt cheap in the auction house anyway."
This made me laugh.....
@Matthew010 Seconding what Thanos said, I find, especially if I've recently installed/updated a lot of stuff the system starts to just run super slow and stuttery overall (not gameplay but the UI. Eventually gameplay may fail to load at all, or crash out.) If you have "instant-on" enabled, reboot periodically to prevent that. It's Windows 10 after all....
So, the achievement tracking is doing its job well. Just finished a championship on Blizzard Mountain, and despite the fact I have five to go, it's awarded me the complete every championship achievement.
@NEStalgia About that "instant on" setting: I just checked my settings and I actually have that switched on, as well as instant sign-in and automatic updates for system and games, but I've never experienced any problems so far, so no slow downloads, no freezing or whatever, so I am either REALLY lucky in that regard, or that's simply not the issue.
And as you may remember, I had a LOT of games to download, once I had the system installed in my home, seeing as I had two years' worth of free Games with Gold titles to download, install and update.
Well, not exactly ALL, but I did install a total of 68 games, the first time I powered the system up...
@ThanosReXXX Interesting. It could be a 1X issue, or it could be because I've been installing a fairly large amount of digital games (but so did you.) Or it could be because the game I've left suspended more times than not has been AC: Origins and it's a Ubisoft game.... take your pick.
My bet is "Windows Update" running in the background leading up to OS updates. It grinds Win10 PCs to a stuttering crawl too.
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