@NEStalgia I also prefer the paddles on the Elite controller instead of the stick click, but once you accept how basic Nintendo controllers are and that there isn't any option in BotW to map the dash button to any non-front button, I really appreciate being able to dash and move the camera at the same time in XCX.
Thanks for your reply, I was genuinely curious about your opinion because we have talked about the series before and I was very harsh with Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii).
I really hate some songs like both NLA tracks but some of the (instrumental) ones are great. The NLA songs would be fine if you only heard them once in your life but not in a loop while playing a massive game.
The combat is deep but I like it. There are things not properly explained like how do you heal, soul voices, etc., but once you get some practice it's good fun and I am still learning, there is a lot of combat styles and some can be frantic but fun. I am about to get a Skell. I use the manual camera which is better for combat.
The side quests are much more interesting than in the "first" game and I am enjoying my time with everything that the game has to offer. It's a very polished game considering the hardware limitations. Overall I am loving the game against all odds.
Don't bother with the non-Replay versions of the 360 games that are featured in Rare Replay. They are the same but, as DarthNocturnal said, the ones with the "Rare Replay" banner connect with the Rare Replay "game", which includes the Spectrum, NES, Nintendo 64, Arcade and Xbox games plus the museum with the rewards and bonuses. Congratulations! You got a wonderful collection of games where, more than ever, Nintendo and Xbox get mixed.
By the way, for anyone that is fond of Jago, Orchid and company the classic Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 arcades are included with Killer Instinct (3) Definitive Edition. Killer Instinct Gold is in Rare Replay.
You must be further in than me, don’t think i’ve seen that quest appear as yet? Suspect it may because i’m only just on the ‘relocation’ quest - am assuming you’re past that now!?
I know the feeling well though, fell down the proverbial ‘quest-well’ last night & it was 1:30 before I could so much as blink!
The next Halo news will probably be Halo Reach as an X-enhanced game because it's the only one not part of the Master Chief Collection since it's a prequel and it's also the only Halo not remastered and not X-enhanced. I suspect that Halo Infinite will launch around 2020 as a cross-generation title so it wouldn't be shown until 2019 (or even 2020).
So I just subbed to Game Pass. I never really had a concrete idea of what it was before now. It's extremely generous, there are so many games I can now try out that I otherwise never would have. Isn't this the Netflix for games everyone has wanted?
@Dezzy I hadn't heard them say it was current gen. That's fantastic, I had assumed next gen with only a trailer. Yeah, that's an E3 thing for sure. Especially since it'll be crickets from the Blue pavilion for inexplicable reasons. No orchestra or dancers required.
@BlueOcean Yeah the music problem...I'm not into rap. But it wasn't "bad" rap, it's just that no music with lyrics should ever be put on continuous repeat. Or worse, keep stopping then restarting at the beginning every time you cross an invisible boundary or doorway. Healing and soul voices are related. And that's probably the worst part of the game right there (other than doll insurance. ) I'm really really hoping that game gets a Switch "enhanced" port that fixes some of the problems and polishes it into the gem it really ought to be. I'd play it again. XC1, as well. XCX has the best side-quests of the series. XC2 does "ok' but too many of them are quests you can't actually finish until end-game but you don't know that, and many others require the reward from another quest to complete but you also don't know that. The worst require you to be in the right place at the right time. XC1 had dismal side quests like an MMO from 2001. Even real MMOs don't have quests that bland anymore.
Haha, yeah, Nintendo games on an XBox is beyond weird. Kinda cool but weird.
Also, am I the only one that keeps thinking of Beyond Good & Evil HD as part of Rare Replay? Ubi really nailed Rare's style. Shame they're doing....whatever they're doing.....with 2.
@Ryu_Niiyama you know, Oblivion is still my favorite TES for many reasons. And the X1X port is fantastic (looks better than it did on my super-rig back in the day, except for some ground textures.) But dang there were some annoying things. The first quest with Jensine/Thoronir.....getting into the accomplice's house and picking locks with little lockpick skill sucks, but waiting 15 real world minutes for Thoronir to drink in the bar, to tail him, then getting to the right spot in the guys house only for the save to be right when the guards magically know I went into his house and storm in like x-ray vision reminds me of some of the outdated things. How is that game almost 13 years old? Where did 13 years go!?!?! It also occurred to me that TESO is in fact better. Even if Oblivion remains my favorite. And at least the X1X port feels like the PC version. TES is in a weird spot. 4 years between TES3 and TES4. 5 years between TES 4 and 5. Now it's over 7 years since 5, and 6 doesn't look like it will be for years, with no TES on current gen consoles. Theoretically a decade or more between games. And they've spent that time fumbling around with first a mediocre Fallout, then a disastrous Fallout (I only hope that fallout spares TES6 from also getting the shared world treatment, but I doubt it.) But their problem is TESO. It really is TES6. It may be an MMO but it's an MMO designed mostly for solo play. And most of the quest lines, locales, stories, characters, etc they would have done for TES6 have gone into TESO. So what are they going to pull from for 6? And how will it distance itself from TESO? They may have to expand the lore to new areas or something. But I don't know if that would be as engaging as Tamriel, or just feel like a reboot/spinoff while TESO is the "real" TES.
@Dezzy I hadn't heard them say it was current gen. That's fantastic, I had assumed next gen with only a trailer. Yeah, that's an E3 thing for sure. Especially since it'll be crickets from the Blue pavilion for inexplicable reasons. No orchestra or dancers required.
It was unclear from the trailer but one of the devs has stated its current gen:
When you think about it, it would be weird to show a next-gen game that much earlier than announcing the actual console. They generally prefer to save those announcements to go with the console announcement because it helps generate early hype for launch.
I'm finally gonna be able to replay Mass Effect without having to mod in controller support like on the PC, and I can actually try out Dragon Quest! I actually haven't spent much time playing actual Xbox One games because I've just been having a good time going through all the older games I've missed.
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