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TuVictus

@NEStalgia I played the first Bioshock when I was in middle school, I believe (I'm a young adult), and I was a child scared out of my pants from the Resident Evil Remake, but Bioshock never ever struck me as horror. Maybe suspenseful, but it didn't even cross my mind, honestly. I remember getting internet a year or so later and joining gaming sites and being confused when people kept describing it as a horror game.

I never felt scared. The only part any of them that I considered "scary" was a jump scare in the first game involving a surgeon and his shadow. I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people that find it "scary" but when compared to actual horror games it's pretty much just a big power trip, which takes away any feeling of horror, anyway.

Also, thanks for the Darksiders 3 write up. I think I'll feel pretty much the same as you more or less in that I'll probably just see it as more of the same in terms of combat with added "souls" difficulty. In particular your part about how the first two games were similar in blatantly wearing their inspiration on their sleeves resonated strongly as someone going through the first game now. That metacritic score is a joke, though, I sincerely doubt I'll find it to be anywhere near accurate, but I suppose it's always a possibility. On the bright side, it should get pretty cheap soon enough.

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DarkRula

I'm 660,000 away from the most expensive house in Horizon 4. Just got to race hard tomorrow and I'll get it. Then hopefully I'll get extremely lucky with those super wheelspins you get for buying it and reclaim about 5 million back.

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ThanosReXXX

@redd214 Yeah, that's kinda what I expected. And "only" a couple of hundred bucks is only a couple of hundred too much for me, considering what I've said in the previous comment. Spending that amount of money for just one peripheral that I will only use every once in a while represents a pretty reasonable stack of games in my book, and I'd rather buy those than a steering wheel, much as I enjoy them when I actually do use them.

The most I ever paid for a steering wheel, is around $50, when it was on a considerable discount.
It's a König Gaming steering wheel (original price $79.99), that came with pedals included.
I bought it for use with the Wii, but it is also compatible with the other two consoles from that generation:
https://www.konigelectronic.com/gaming/universal/ps2gcuxbox-w...
And before that, I had bought the Mad Catz MC2 MicroCON steering wheel for the GameCube, which also came with pedals, and which I primarily used with R: Racing Evolution:
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Don't know anymore what I paid for that one, because it's too long ago, but I do know that I also bought that at a massive discount, in a toy store.

@NEStalgia Well, I didn't buy Black on sale either. Bought it little over a month ago for the price that it currently sells for, and that is $9.99, and that's already pretty damn cheap, and the game itself is absolutely worth it. How much more should they discount it for? Personally, I don't think that a game like this should cost less than an indie or an Xbox Arcade title, regardless of the fact that it's an older game.
(heck, Nintendo sells NES games for $6. Just sayin'... )

And that $9.99 was well worth it for me, to not have to swap discs all the time, so I can just play it from the hard drive...

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'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.'

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX Haha well I have to make back the $22 or so Square-Enix stole from me by putting FFXIII trilogy half price 3 days after they launched it and asked me to pay. You're right though $10 is fine. It's just that it's a game I'm entirely unfamiliar with so it's kind of a "try it just because Thanos recommended it" expense

You know I actually had the official 360 wheel......I ended up using it like twice. All the wires....having to clamp it to a desk....I'm not playing at a desk/table anymore so that just doesn't work, and is such painful setup. Shame it doesn't work with X1 though (even though I'd still likely not use it.)

NEStalgia

redd214

@ThanosReXXX yeesh I remember those lap mounted ones when I was a kid, may as well just use the controller at that point. Makes a world of difference but if you don't use it at least once or twice weekly like I do I see your point. Glad you know your limits

@NEStalgia setup isn't really that bad at all. Takes less than a minute or 2,by the time a game is loaded up already ready. I don't sit at a desk either, built myself a stand that folds up nicely into a closet by the TV and slides right up to the couch. Only cost maybe $30 and an afternoon of time.

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ThanosReXXX

@Dezzy OG Xbox games on Xbox One S offer 4x the original resolution, better frame rate and some cleaned up textures, while on Xbox One X the list of added/improved features is considerably longer:

According to the wiki page on backwards compatible titles:

Backwards compatible original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles will benefit from becoming Xbox One X enhanced with the following:

Improved framerate stability
Games utilizing a dynamic resolution will hit their max resolution more often, or at all times
16x anisotropic filtering
Forced V-sync
Variable refresh rate compatibility (when used with a compatible display)

The original Xbox game Black, for example, goes up to 8 times the resolution, so that doubles the resolution of that on the Xbox One S.

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'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Ah, okay. In that case, I can understand being slightly reserved about the purchase.
I more or less assumed (my bad) that you already knew the game, but I guess I was wrong...

Oh well, in the end, it's of course all up to you, but in all honesty, I don't think it's going to get much cheaper than that, and personally, I have no problems whatsoever recommending this title to shooter fans. Everyone that I know that has an Xbox, last gen or current gen, knows and has played or owns the game, and they all like it, so at a certain point, it becomes a bit more than just a personal opinion.

And I can most definitely attest to the fact that me and my friends don't always agree...

@redd214 Well, with the included leg clamps, or whatever these things are called, it was actually pretty close to being in a go-kart for me. And of course, you could also stick 'em on a desk, so that you could get a more realistic distance between the chair and the steering wheel.

A friend of mine had actually mounted that first one I mentioned on a frame, at an angle, and the pedals as well, and that did indeed feel a bit more realistic, but yeah... for me it was already more than enough. Still got both of them, stored in the guest bedroom on top of a closet, so if ever I feel like playing a racing game on the ol' Cube or Wii, I can simply grab them out of their box and install them. And they are much simpler to store than an entire professional setup...

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'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia By the way:
You should have just used that Xbox 360 "air wheel" that I ultimately didn't end up buying...
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(and no, it isn't really called the Xbox 360 air wheel; that's just the nickname that I gave it. It's actually called the Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel)

'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.'

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redd214

@ThanosReXXX without any tension to simulate a real wheel don't really see the point in the air wheel, the FFB is what makes it worth it in the first place.

Ahh well it works for me and like I said makes a huge difference much like a fighting stick does for fighting game enthusiasts. You guys think it's a pain to set up a simple wheel, then you guys might have a stroke setting up VR lol

redd214

Banjo-

@redd214 Yosheel says that he is too lazy to press a button for quitting a game. I had fun playing racers at the arcades so it's probably fun having a similar setup at home. The closest thing I have is Wii Wheel.

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ThanosReXXX

@redd214 Which is exactly why I ultimately didn't buy it. I was tempted, though, even just for the novelty of it.
I remember grabbing it off the shelves and pondering the purchase several times in a couple of different stores where they sold it, but I put it back each time, and bought a game (or two) instead...

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'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.'

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@redd214

P.S.

I don't think it's a pain to set up: that was just NES, for me it's simply too expensive, and I don't have the room in my apartment to install a setup like that, regardless of the fact that I can potentially fold it up to store it.

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The Mad Catz steering wheel for GameCube actually did have force feedback, and it felt pretty realistic to me, so it really got me more immersed in the game than the standard controller. The König steering wheel did not have force feedback, well at least not on the GameCube or Wii, but perhaps it did on the PS2 or Xbox, which I never owned, so I wouldn't know.

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'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.'

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redd214

@BlueOcean it is quite fun indeed if you can deal with a wire or two lol. Well worth it for the added control if you play a lot of racers.

Spyro trilogy down to $28 on Newegg also, enter code EMCEERX32

redd214

Eel

Hm Microsoft customer service seems pretty slow.

I've been a several days waiting for them to give me the month of game pass promised in the box of my bundle, and when they finally reply it's to ask for more pictures of the box to make sure it reaaally promises a month.

But hey, usually when I complain about something online, things mysteriously speed up. So here I am. Complaining with unrelated people on a forum they won't read.

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Bloop.

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ThanosReXXX

@Yosheel Pictures of the box? I thought all bundles were the same across all regions. My free month of Game Pass was simply activated by using one of those scratch cards with a redeemable code on it, and that card was already inside the box.

'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.'

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Eel

Yup, mine didn't have a card for the game pass code. My brothers' did.

They wanted more pictures of the box. Not much I can do besides send them.

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redd214

@Yosheel had an issue with mine too when I activated it. Don't recall where I got the code from but it wouldn't register. Had it fixed in half an hour though. Hope you get it straightened out!

@ThanosReXXX Thanks for letting me know.

redd214

ThanosReXXX

@Yosheel Ah, okay. Still sounds a bit odd to me, though. Anyway, knowing Microsoft, it'll work out in the end, delays and all. Never had any complaint about them myself, concerning any service of any Xbox I own.

And I was actually a victim of the Red Ring Of Death on the Xbox 360, but they fixed that within the space of 10 days, and gave me a free month of Xbox Live Gold on top of the free repair, so I'm pretty satisfied with their service overall.

'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@redd214 Erm... you're welcome, I guess?

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