Topic: The everything Xbox thread

@NEStalgia AGAIN with the small letters? Why only with my avatar name? WHY???

And you just broke X018 for me. Now all I see when I close my eyes, is Reggie squeezing his "Pokeball"...

But again, and in all seriousness: and I need to stress, apparently, that it is just MY opinion, that I myself would be rather underwhelmed if it would only be Crackdown 3, and other confirmed, semi-confirmed and/or rumored games. I want to be surprised, amazed, wowed, and have a tiny chance of being blown away by some completely out of left field announcement.

THAT, and ONLY that, would constitute a "biggest Inside Xbox showing ever". It's not even just the word "biggest", it's also the added weight of the word "ever" that should at the very least mean something tangible and/or substantial.

Well, in my opinion at least...

@ThanosReXXX So... a revival of long dormant IP, plus some completely new IP, would do it for you? That's a big wish.
Then again, maybe this is the year they finally answer my wishes and give us a new Midtown Madness.

@ThanosReXXX not only yours.... Anyone who's nameu know by heart and can type without hitting the reply button

Yeah, Reggie seems to know how to handle his ball pretty well.

Oh and AoE remaster would be pretty huge IMO. Or an announcement that forza 8 is a mobile game..... Seems all the rage for big expo announcements

@DarkRula Well, now that you mention it, a dormant IP could be nice, but that's not what I meant, and not what I'm expecting either. Even dormant IP's are known, so when I say something completely new and surprising, even long dormant IP's don't qualify.

@NEStalgia Not to be a complete tight@ss or anything, but it does bother me a bit. I've seen several comments in which only my name is in lower case, such as the one where you also replied to FragRed.

Personally, I just either press the reply button multiple times to add the names of the people that I want to address, or I just hand-type them as they are. People chose these names for a reason, so I would assume that they would appreciate it, if I'd type them correctly, regardless of whether or not it's a bit more trouble for me to do so.

(and now I actually DO feel like a tight@ss, but I just can't escape the feeling, hope you get that)

At least they don't call you T-ReXXX!

_{Heh... Thanorisaurus ReXXX, poor little thing can't snap it's fingers.}

To be honest sometimes it's just easier to write the name yourself instead of fumbling about with the reply buttons for multiple people (specially on mobile).

@Yosheel Why would you need to be able to snap fingers if you can snap necks?

@tHANOSrExxx You're starting to enter @Ryu_Niiyama levels of OCD there......there's no cure, I'm afraid.

TECHNICALLY, blame the forum software. Most forums automatically map names to @ mentions. This one doesn't. Seriously, though, I'm about 50/50 with caps for usernames I'm typing from memory on a keyboard, but on a phone, I'm not dealing with alternating name caps....it's just too painful. Just getting the @ in there is too challenging. But at least I'm not giving you the rjejr Nintenod treatment

I also thought of a few other potential reveals: KH Story So Far is possible. It's weird to do KH3 without the prior games and the bundle of the old games is a new product. They could announce that there (and/or also Switch via Twitter after much like the FF series Switch Direct reveals that then also got applied to X1.) I already bought the $100 package on PS4 when it looked like that was the only way to get the old games for a bargain before they announced Story So Far separately, so it locked me into KH3 on PS4, either way, unfortunately. Though I don't mind. I may hate the DS controller, but KH and older FF are the only games that do still feel right on it for some reason. Maybe muscle memory.

@neStalGIA: When I had Morph in my username, people would often @ only the morph part.

There's a user named "morph" so he would often get notifications meant for me.

I also remember a user named ElectricMastro, who would get a bit angry whenever anyone spelled mastro as maestro.

@NEStalgia " ...new levels of OCD"

Says the guy who spends more time listening to his hard drives instead of actually using them like any normal person would...

And the @ is challenging? What the hell kind of crap phone are you using then? On my smart phone, the @ sign is a standard key that's easily accessible on the second page of the keyboard.

Mentioning rjejr isn't helping your argument either, though: he may not be able to type Nintendo correctly, even if his life depended on it, but I've never seen him mangle a username...

@Yosheel I see what you did there...

@ThanosReXXX You may be setting too high expectations, I found that Microsoft has teased some reveals.

Letting DLC be the first teases seems off if it really is a big show.

@thanOSreXxX Hey, if the XBox wouldn't flash the HDD lights every 90 seconds I wouldn't need to listen to it.

"on the second page of the keyboard" See, there you go. Difficult already Actually it's a "press and hold the comma" (or some other key) affair on gboard. It's not that big a deal, but I still, anything on a phone is annoying.

"rjejr" That's because rjejr is too lazy to type a username, so he just hits reply on the emails and never tags anyone outside them Sometimes I'm envious....

@yosheel That would be funny if rage meant for mods ended up sent to random people. Actually sounds entertaining.

@Grumblevolcano The bar for conferences has been set low. As long as they don't announce that Crackdown 3 is now a mobile game, they win the month. But yeah, that's in line with expectations so far. Including the 3rd party nature of most of it

@Grumblevolcano Not expectations plural, just a single one: something new and surprising, so I'm not asking too much at all. If it's just going to be a 1,5 hour show about:
"Hey, remember that game which we already showed twice and delayed three times? Well, it's finally finished now"

or:
"Hey all, have you seen those rumored titles roaming around on the internet? Well, they're all true"
"And remember those games we kinda revealed, but haven't really revealed yet? Well, we're gonna reveal them now"

Then that is simply going to be a disappointing show for me. Whatever it might mean to someone else, is up to each and everyone's own opinion, but this is mine. Even Nintendo manages to sneak in a little surprise title here or there, in the average Nintendo Direct...

And they themselves have literally called it "the biggest Inside Xbox showing ever", so it wouldn't be too unreasonable for people to be allowed to expect something from that, if you ask me.

@Grumblevolcano Is the big PUBG news that it's coming to PS4 Joking aside, I'm quietly hopeful the Microsoft are teasing something big when they say more exclusive looks

@nestalgia "press and hold comma"

That's what I said: a crap phone. I just checked, and what I said should be true for most decent smart phones, so just switching to page 2 of the keyboard, not some kind of weird button combo to get another key...

As for that hard drive stuff:
Got a new mystery for 'ya..

The external drive now/still behaves as I wanted it to, but every hour or so, it slowly lights up, the light remaining stationary for around 30 seconds, and then slowly dies again. So, no reading or writing action, just on for a bit, and then off again.

Sort of like the console is doing some kind of check/ping to see if the external drive is still connected. Not nearly as annoying as when I had the issue with the light remaining on at all times, but still kinda puzzling.

@ThAnOsReXxX They could surprise you and declare Crackdown 3 delayed until 2020! Actually, no, that wouldn't be very surprising at all....

YEESS!! You have my hard drive problem now!!! It's not just me!!! I AM NOT ALONE!! That's the exact issue I described having and the reason I have to put my ear to it to see if it's spinning up! Except mine is every 45-120 seconds, not every hour.

For the official, white 8TB 3.5" licensed Game Hub, putting my ear to it confirmed (mostly) that I don't believe it's spinning up the drive, but before I bought that because of that issue, my own 3rd party drives, every time that light came on, it would spin the drives up. 30+ spin-ups an hour would sure wear down a drive.

Though the weirder mystery: After the system update both xboxen had the issue. Then after a few days box #2 resolved itself. So currently, box 1 still does the light every 45-120 seconds on the HDD, but box 2 behaves normally and does not ever light up the drive or try to spin it up while in standby. So long as it's not spinning up the drive, it's not a problem, but it's still frustrating that I had to buy a whole other HDD to solve a console change, that doesn't seem to happen on all boxes.

And before Blue tells me I have only bad XBox luck, my PS4 Pro is still randomly beeping like it's trying to eject while playing games. That one I bought used though, so I can't rule out prior abuse.

@DarthNocturnal Fable 4 is the big one.

For all readers and curious folks, here's an article, that reiterates ALL that Microsoft has literally said/mentioned so far, concerning X018 and the Fanfest, so I hope that adds some clarity, and/or fuel to the fire:
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/11/03/xbox-x018-surprises-b...

@nesTALgia Well, they better crack down on Crackdown 3, and finally get this stranded IP finished, or else they can probably expect quite a bit of flak, because delaying it AGAIN would be beyond ridiculous...

Drives, or rather: the drive on this side of the ocean isn't spinning, just slowly lighting up, and then dimming again after a set period of time. First I did think it was reading/writing/updating/whatever, but in true OCD-NEStalgia fashion, I decided to time it, and that resulted in a fixed sequence of stationary for 30 seconds every time it lights up, but no more than one or two times per hour at most.

I might just have to break out Fable 3 if the fourth is announced at the event. Been a long time since I touched it. Fable 4 is the only one I know that's rumoured, but I'm pretty sure people have seen Battletoads is making a return and saying Banjo-Kazooie could be next [pretty sure that was also fuel for the duo getting in Smash Ultimate as well].

@DarthNocturnal Other rumors mention a new Banjo Kazooie game, an Age of Empires game, there were also rumors about a new Halo title, but these have already been denied by 343 themselves (or have they?), there's a rumor about a new Batman game, and then there's even a rumor that the newest game in the Splinter Cell series will be announced at X018.

Other than that, it's mostly just people throwing coins in the fountain, and hoping their personal wishes come true, but the rumors I mentioned, have some more weight to them, because all of them have various sources and can be found all over the web (the Banjo Kazooie rumor especially, is all over NeoGAF and Reddit), so some of them might be true.

@DarthNocturnal Fable, if real, would be pretty huge though. Other rumors are AoE remaster, and....I can't remember others!

@thaNOSrExxx They are between a rock and hard place, because they keep releasing games to not have too huge delays between exclusives, but then they end up getting so-so critical scores and kind of drifting along. FH4 is polished, Playground is reliable, but their other studios feel rushed. They need Crackdown 3 to be a "must have" the way Sony games tend to cement the platform. Hopefully this time they're there.

Interesting that with 3 Xboxes we have 3 different behaviors. One never lights the drive, one does it every hour, and one does it ever other minute. (With official drives they seem not to spin up, with 3rd party drives they seem to spin up.) Before the October update, I'm pretty sure that behavior didn't happen.