@BlueOcean If you're not a fan of chibi, or heck we'll go all weeb and flat out call it kawaii, you might find less to like in that game. It exists as pure fan service for classic FF fans, mostly, but it doesn't hold back on the saccharine cuteness. Even Ifrit is kinda cute as a wolf thing. I haven't played the demo, do you know what part it goes up to? The game opens up around Nether Nebula, the first dungeon after Cornelia. That's the first proper dungeon with lots of random encounters, imprisms, etc. The feel and music, etc is very FF4 in this part. The battle system is a weird hybrid of Pokemon and FF4, and exploration is very FF4. And yes, if you don't get the right "Pokemon" bosses are brutal. It's a weird game, but I'm enjoying it a lot (had it on PS4 but stopped playing when I heard it was coming to Switch, I can get a lot more time with it in handheld, and the game was designed for hybrid handheld play with Vita, so it's perfect.) I don't have an aversion to chibi though, so if the world isn't enjoyable to you, you may not feel the game too well. And Tama will the-drive you to the edge of the-sanity.
Hitman Go is interesting for what it is. I think of it like the AC Chronicles games...an interesting "small" spinoff. The Fall doesn't sound familiar, so I definitely missed that one!
Deus Ex: Yeah, if you're good with physical WiiU games, definitely get Human Revolution there (It may even be digitally available on WiiU if that suits you, not sure.) Good GamePad use (but be warned they moved tutorial text to the GamePad and the text is a little small), and it makes inventory management much nicer. It was intended purely for WiiU, and then the WiiU tanked and they panicked and ported it to all "previous gen" platforms. Stellar stealth/action/dystopian sci-fi game/series. Director's Cut includes the Missing Link DLC too, a stand-alone campaign that bridges the events before the end, setting up Mankind Divided.
(Note since you haven't played the originals the game kind of has more poignancy if you know where things end up at the start of the first game (last chronological game other than the semi non-canon Invisible War): At the start of DX1 humanity is in almost full collapse, a terrorist/resistance organization is rising, a plague is running rampant, vaccine is scarce and is reserved for the most elite, civilization is near-apocalyptic win-doth most buildings being ruwn slums except for the elite of the elite, and there's a full-on conspiracy organization plotting all these events shown in the opening scene. You play J.C. Denton, the first (well, second) of the "nano-augments" that have replaced and obsoleted the mechanical augments who are now unwanted scraps of society, as a UN policing agent amidst all this. The first mission goes south and you learn things aren't as they seem and hidden hands are pulling a lot of strings.....) Going into Human Revolution knowing that lies at the end of these stories helps to frame what you're looking at and the meanings lurking under the surface. I won't spoil the rest of DX1 in case you somehow ever get to play it via remaster or something, but that backdrop makes sense as you see the beginning of the mechanical augments as "the future" in HR, knowing where that all went. Plus a lot of names, locations, and events are left in notes, hacked terminals etc that mean something if you played the original. It's fun easter eggs for those in the know to see the people who were ultimately running the shadow governments, where they were and how they wormed their way to power as a side story.) Innocuous seeming people that ultimately were the kingmakers.
The color palates are interesting. Human Revolution is filtered in gold-hue. It is intended to signify a golden age and renaissance theme. Mankind Divided doesn't really have a filter signifying it's back to reality. OG DX has a blue filter, and is always night...it's a somber, dark tale of descent of society amidst the fruition of conspiracies. Invisible War as a purple filter....frankly I think it's just because OG XBox was good at purples. It was a total rebuilding of society (or was it?)
Nah, 1S isn't noisy, I was just mocking my own HDD listening. Yeah I have one of those launch PS4s.....Pro is nearly as loud! PS3 and 360 were worse though!
@DarthNocturnal Simpler in design, because of it having no disc drive, from what I got from the article. @Yosheel Yup, probably Xtra Slim or something like that.
Here's the video, for those of you who prefer watching over reading:
Personally, I'm REALLY not interested in this "Xbox One S Slim", seeing as I like my disc-based games, and my ownership of them, so this "sell your disc-based games and get a digital key in exchange" program that Microsoft will start with participating retailers can go shove it, for all I care.
'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.'
I just bought one But well, I guess they're not that different from the S.
I do not think that you are interested in the disc-less model, are you? The other new model, XS, will be cheaper than the official S price but you bought S with a big Black Friday discount. Besides:
Microsoft is moving forward very carefully as it knows that a sizeable portion of its users do prefer to buy physical games and not download them. For that reason, a revised version of the Xbox One S, which is reportedly due to launch later in 2019, will include a disc-drive. However, the intention with this second new model is to focus on cost reduction, so existing features may be trimmed and changed elsewhere.
Two things are clear:
Firstly, the disc-less Xbox One is digital only.
Secondly, the "XS" will be like the S and will have a disc reader but it is expected to be smaller and cheaper than S so they assume that existing features may be trimmed or changed.
Interesting revisions of hardware (maybe those were the "new console(s)" referenced at E3 with only one being Scarlett and the others being these, rather than the bizarre "streaming box" rumor.
So it begins. The first discless console. I bought XBox specifically for digital-only so it's not the end of my world, but a part of me is dying inside. I'm glad they're focusing on retaining disc support though. Makes me wonder about Scarlett....
@NEStalgia Scarlett will be two consoles, the cheap one without disc reader and the premium one with disc reader, no reason to worry, Microsoft knows very well that gamers want that.
EDIT: I will reply the big comment in a little while, I did not forget.
@NEStalgia The first discless console? There's already dozens of them: they're called cartridge-based...
But if that really is what they're considering for Scarlett, although they don't even seem to be sure yet, then backward compatibility might also be undergoing massive changes. Now, we can still use all the discs we own that are compatible, but with this digital-only thing, I would be all but forced to exchange my precious disc collection, that I've lovingly and patiently collected, over the space of more than a decade.
I'll die before I'll trade all these in for a digital code, that can be made null and void at Microsoft's whim, any time in the not too distant future when even Scarlett isn't supported as a platform anymore. Thanks, but no thanks.
I guess that if Scarlett is a really exciting new platform, with must have titles, I'll just keep playing the older games on my current consoles, which is basically what I've always been doing, so in that respect, I won't lose too much. I'll just have to make some more space underneath the TV...
Would have been nice though, having one machine that plays them all.
And that "bizarre" streaming box rumor could easily be that discless model, seeing as it will not only be a digital-only platform, but it will of course also have more focus on Game Pass, and who knows how that service will evolve? Perhaps that is what streaming only is going to become.
@BlueOcean Good point, the obvious answer just came and went over my head. At least it's not a streaming box
Also, yippee, that means I can get the cheaper digital only one if it's not missing anything else, since that's been my whole methodology with X! And then I can shell out on more HDDs to listen to if I can't just plug my X one(s) in with all the games on it.
Of course this E3 will be just Nintendo and MS, and Larry Hryb playing Switch all week....
@ThanosReXXX First physical media-less console (excluding things like Ouya) I meant
I think Blue has it right, they'll include a disc drive in one model. What we don't know however is if the disc drive will support physical Scarlett games, or if it's just for BC games. They may not know yet either and may determine it based on XS sales. Although the irony is, if they really do make everyone exchange disc games for physical games it will have two effects: 1-It will finally install the "XBone" DRM plan they wanted with One only they can make it a "feature", and 2-CDKeys will have boatloads of $4 games
No matter the problem, you can always solve it with more power strips!
I imagine the focus on Game Pass/Subscription/XCloud will become a growing focus across the whole spectrum of products, not just the disc-less one. They already push game Pass exceedingly hard for what it is, so I predict it will indeed expand (I predict a Game Pass Premium or something at some point. With whatever that entails.) Maybe a true Netflix for Scarlett. I found it interesting that Phil commented last week about offering all kinds of ways to buy games, and that some people prefer buying to own and that's great, etc. etc. It seems more "alternate access" schemes to ownership will be a growing theme beyond just the ~100+ games of Game Pass.
One thing about Microsoft's digital I find interesting in a legal sense, every purchase page has a "Buy to Own" button if it's on GP/GwG. The fine print may say "this is licensed software and you have no rights to it" etc. But if the sales page told you in big text you own it....legally....they can be compelled to actually render it as property if it came to the courts. And would be a pretty easy case.
And they will still win E3, as Nintendo shows us how to shop for apples at the Nooking's store for 47 minutes, and Sony's building a pyramid to memorialize themselves in another timezone.
I haven't played the demo, do you know what part it goes up to?
It looks like the first "world", grassy and sunny, and it ends with a boss fight. I found Yuna along the way, who I remembered immediately because I had beaten FFX recently. It is quite short. Chibi or kawaii, this is the best definition: cute in the context of Japanese popular culture.
The Fall doesn't sound familiar, so I definitely missed that one!
Deus Ex: Yeah, if you're good with physical WiiU games, definitely get Human Revolution there (It may even be digitally available on WiiU if that suits you, not sure.
Yes, it is digitally available on Wii U. Thanks for the background in Deus Ex.
Nah, 1S isn't noisy, I was just mocking my own HDD listening. Yeah I have one of those launch PS4s.....Pro is nearly as loud! PS3 and 360 were worse though!
I have also heard that you could fry eggs on the original PS3 that has a convenient horizontal design.
@Yosheel Don't you dare to complain after a 50% off Xbox One bundle. Seriously, this generation games take a long while to download. The default power settings are instant-on so it will be also downloading through the night which will help.
First off, that info is not only mentioned in/linked to in the article, and when I paraphrased Phil Spencer the last couple of times, you basically called it empty marketing speech. I'm kinda baffled...
What I meant with the change in Game Pass, possibly towards a streaming-only service, would obviously not be limited to just one model Xbox One and/or Scarlett. I figured you would understand that, from the way I phrased that, but whatever...
It will be the same as it has been across three models Xbox 360, and as it is now across all three models Xbox One. Microsoft has no reason whatsoever to start changing that, to make some kind of alternate version of the service for different models of the console. But regardless, none of that prevents Microsoft from making one of the consoles a streaming-only box, so that could still very much be on the table.
As for the "Buy to Own" thing, fine print aside, the software might be "ours" once bought, but even if a court case would rule in favor of real ownership, that still doesn't prevent Microsoft from ending the service tied to that software, because that's a separate entity. So, what you'd end up with, is basically a car without wheels, sitting in its digital parking space on your Xbox hard drive, but not being able to run and not going anywhere, until you decide to put it in the shredder to safe some parking space for newer, shinier cars that will run, for as long as Microsoft will provide a set of wheels for them, and a network of roads to drive on...
Until of course some smart hacker unlocks that and we can all mod our Xbox One's and keep playing until we're grizzly/even grizzlier old men...
@Octane I'm genuinely sorry, but I had no idea that I used an offensive word. I don't even know which word you meant, and seeing as you apparently deleted it(?), I can't rephrase it in a way that will pass the censor bar... (something which I've always hated about moderators, no offense. I don't mind the warning, but please don't butcher my comment, I'll correct it myself, if necessary)
'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.'
@Yosheel Now I'm even more confused. Which comment of mine are we talking about then?
I've been racking my brain concerning the offensive word, and it would seem that comment #6,022 is also missing a word/sentence. Or I'm just imagining things...
'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.'
Well, we can't leave the comments unedited and wait for the user themselves to edit it. I'm sure understand why that wouldn't work.
On top of that, I'm not sure how the profanity filter works, but we keep getting notifications when profanity isn't edited out (though sometimes it doesn't do that oddly enough). So I rather deal with it right away than have the messages clog up the report page.
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