@PolarExperience I do recommend you an Xbox One but if you are not in a hurry you can always wait until the rumoured new models are announced next year so you will be able to choose from among several models (two more models on top of S and X are rumoured) and price points. The new models would be a disc-less Xbox One S and a smaller Xbox One S. Xbox One X is the best and most expensive choice.
@ThanosReXXX I’m usually interested in RPGs, platformers or open world games, and puzzle games. @BlueOcean Yeah, I’ll probably wait until the new Xbox comes out to see if the OG XOne has been discounted to a reasonable price.
@PolarExperiencePlatformers Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Super Lucky's Tale, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rayman Legends, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot N.sane Trilogy, Sonic Generations/CD/Mania, Yooka-Laylee and whatever indie platformers you fancy. I have all those and many others, I think that I have every decent platformer available.
Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts is not a traditional platformer but I think that people that like creative games would love it. Building vehicles and playing with them is real fun. If you like a good challenge this game has optional super difficult challenges, especially LOG's Lost Challenges.
Viva Piñata, didn't care about it before playing it and it became one of my favourite games. Nuts & Bolts, Viva Piñata and Minecraft are the kind of games I would buy my kids if I had them and the kind of games I enjoy too. So yes, Rare Replay is a must-have.
RPGs if you mean fantasy RPG nothing better than the Final Fantasy games and the 360 RPGs that are backwards compatible including Fable. @NEStalgia is a RPG expert.
Open world: Forza Horizon 4 (casual open-world racer where you choose your own avatar), Sea of Thieves (beautiful and fun if you don't mind online gaming).
I am trying to ignore mature games that I like but I am forgetting games that you'd like, I'm sure.
Puzzle games if I play I play them on 3DS to be honest. You have some on Xbox One, obviously. Hexic HD is free. Somebody else could list more because I have no idea.
@PolarExperience I see that @BlueOcean has already given you plenty of examples, but here are some of my own:
RPG's:
An absolute must-have for any Xbox owning RPG fan, is Blue Dragon. Great story, great characters, and a pretty large game. On the Xbox 360, it came on two discs, and it is Xbox One backwards compatible.
Monster Hunter World. Travel an expansive, online world, with friends or alone, and hunt and defeat huge, dinosaur-like beasts. Another great game, and this one is current gen, so an Xbox One title.
Tales of Vesperia. A game from the Tales series, that has already had multiple games on multiple systems, Nintendo consoles included. The entire game is in anime style, and has a great story.
South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: The Fractured But Whole also still fall into your age category, so these are good as well, if you like that specific kind of comedy, that is..
As an honorable mention, I would like to add Child of Light. Not really a full-blown RPG in my opinion, although some would disagree, but it's a really nice game, made by Ubisoft, and is completely hand-drawn. I'd say it's an RPG-Lite, but if you want to find out more, just watch some YouTube footage, and you'll see.
As for more titles in that genre, I would indeed agree with @BlueOcean, that we should refer to @NEStalgia. He's played enough of them, to be able to tell you which are suitable, if you're only looking for E and T rated games.
Open world games:
Besides the already mentioned GTA V, which might not quite fall into the E or T-labeled category, there's also Saints Row IV. Saints Row is kind of a comedic spin on GTA, with a lot of over the top stuff, which goes a long way to set it apart from GTA's more gritty reality.
Sunset Overdrive. Imagine yourself being a kind of super-powered free runner, jumping all over town, except there's weird, alien creatures added to the mix, that you have to shoot with an a gun that's kind of a mix between a NERF rifle and a Splatoon gun, and all in bright neon-colored settings. Very hectic, but can definitely be fun, and because it all looks so comic book-like, the violence is subdued. And who doesn't want to rid the world of aliens, right?
Minecraft. Well, do I need to say more than just that name? Who doesn't know Minecraft? And it's on almost any platform available, so I'll assume you've already heard of it...
Puzzle games:
The Witness. You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles and you travel around and besides a main quest in the form of the puzzles, there is some freedom in which order you want to solve them, although sometimes you'll need to make one puzzle first, to be able to access the next, but that actually poses a nice challenge. Interesting story, in a beautiful, fully 3D world, in which you travel around and solve various kinds of puzzles to try and unravel a greater mystery.
Unravel 1 & 2. Two games in the "puzzle platform" genre. The first one introduces the character Yarny, a little living doll made from red wool. The puzzle element consist of navigating environments by manipulating threads of yarn coming from the body of your character. The second game introduced another woolen character, and new puzzle mechanics in which you must use both of them to solve levels. Both really cool and endearing games.
Braid. A completely hand-drawn puzzle platformer, in which you, as the main character, are on a quest to save a princess, and along the way, you have to solve all kinds of puzzles, presented as single screen platform levels. Sounds boring, perhaps, but it really isn't.
And then there's of course tons of block puzzle or "swap 3/swap 4" types of games, such as Tetris, Peggle, Hexic, Puyo Puyo, Puzzle Quest and Lumines.
Well, that's what I got for now, but if you want to know more about these games, I'd say look for them on YouTube.
Holy heck I'm away briefly and there's 5 pages of back-reading. The X1 thread is officially more lively than the PS4 thread. Mind=blown.
Also, Castlevania LoS 1 is, unfortunately not digitally available
@PolarExperience So @BlueOcean pulled me into game recommendations for someone not really looking for an X1, huh?
Hmm, well, I can say that my RPG category is my biggest category on my X1 because as Blue said, I'm an RPG enthusiast. How big, you ask? Big enough I exceeded the folder/group size and had to split RPG and JRPG into two categories.
That being said, if you're looking for non-M rated, that category will shrink a good deal. PS4 still has a number of JRPGs that X1 does not so far have, and is arguably a better bet if you're all about JRPGs (and Nintendo remains king. PS4 gets you Persona5, Ni No Kuni 2, Star Ocean, Phatasy Star, Dragon Quest 11, and the Kingdom Hearts compendium (I suspect that will also go to X1 and Switch eventually though.) and random assortments of Tales, Ys, NIS games, etc that are either Sony locked, or Sony and "eventually" Switch. So if by RPG you mean JRPG, then, no, XBox isn't the best choice, though it's currently the only current gen console to play FFXIII, XIII-2, and XIII- Lightening Returns on, and, like Switch, will have the rest of FF excluding 8 and 1-6 by next year. PS4 does have the FF14 MMO (pay per month) while X1 does not.
For "JRPG" there's FF (entire series coming in 2019 minus 1-6+8&14MMO), special note of FFXIII trilogy which is not on PS4 or Switch), KH3 (PS4 has 1&2 plus the PSP/DS HD ports exclusively for now), Nier: Automata (M rated though) Sword Art Online (which is not an MMO, it's an RPG about an anime which consists of characters being inside an MMO - this is coming to Switch too, though I expect it to run bad.) FFXV (M rated?), not too much else there that can't be had on Switch anyway.
Western RPGs are of course Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim (also on Switch), Elder Scrolls Online (MMO but no subscription required), King's Quest trilogy, Mass Effect 1-4 ( 3 was on WiiU), Dragon Age 1-3, Diablo (also on Switch), Witcher 2, Witcher 3, (VERY M rated), Jade Empire (very old, 4:3 letterbox, but very good), Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 (very old, dated, but classic.) Fallout (meh, interest waned), Deus Ex, Dragon's Dogma, Dark Souls 1-3....ok, yeah, a lot of the WRPGs are very M rated
There are JRPGs, and FF XIII may be a big feather in X1's JRPG cap, but yeah for JRPGs, Switch + PS4 is probably the surer path. But a lot of the bigger ones (also M rated) tend to be on X1 as well. For WRPGs X1 is the better place for them. Personally I'm not into the really niche anime driven RPGs. So my "PS exclusives" for JRPGs are down to: DQXI (coming to Switch), NNK2, tales of Bersaria, Persona 5, KH collection, Star Ocean, and Dark Cloud 1 & 2. I'll probably do FF series on Switch....maybe X1 but probably Switch.
It does depend on what you're looking for. There's plenty of non-M rated games. But of course a good deal of those cross over to Switch as well. JRPGs exist but it's X1's weakest genre (if you have access to another system....with the whole FF catalog coming there's still plenty for a lot of gamers for those that don't) while WRPGs thrive. Open world is still a big genre with tons of games....but, again, a lot of that is M rated. Then there's a lot of middle ground stuff like simulators, No Man's Sky etc. And all the racing and fighting games.
Ultimately if you're not interested in specific games you can't get on Switch, no need to spend money on another platform. Ignorance is bliss, and if I were full of bliss I'd also be full of more money.
@ThanosReXXX Blue Dragon, there's one I hadn't even heard of! Well that's going in my BC must haves bin. You know what's just been bumped back again? Black. Thanks!
MHW, cool as it is, I've been told by our resident experts (JaxonH and Tsurii) that MHGU is still the better game overall, for anyone that owns a Switch. Personally I switched to MHGU upon discovering that MHW's coop is horribly broken (you have to play it solo to be able to do it coop. Ugh!) "Co-op game of the year" award my rear....
Some of the others are also already on Switch, Vespyria is also coming to Switch day-and-date. South Park1&2, and Child of Light are also already on Switch. And your other recommendation to me, Earthlock, also is on Switch, so X1 doesn't open those up as new possibilities for Polar.
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I'll have to do a cursory scan of my RPG stack later on. I'm sure I missed a few things. Kings Quest is fantastic. Not fully an RPG...it's partly a point & click adventure/platform....thing. Oh and there's Darksiders/Darksiders 2. T ratings I think, and they are Zelda-like games, the second one being partly an RPG. Darksiders 3 just came out last week, but it's more Souls-like (heavy on the action, lite on the RPG.) DS1&2 were on WiiU but not Switch.
Open world has a lot of stuff, but a lot of that is Ubisoft (Farcry, Watch_Dogs, Assassin's Creed) that you may not be into, along with Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War (gritty lord of the rings based.), but I'll check my list for those too.
@NEStalgia What? Never heard of Blue Dragon before? Shame on you. It was already on back compat in 2016, if I remember correctly. I do believe @JaxonH also knows and likes the game, if I remember correctly.
And Black is bumped? That means revived, no?
It made me think of bumped threads, but those never make sense to me anyways...
As for those suggestions you made: @PolarExperience is only looking for stuff that is either E or T rated. But only mildly T, so to speak, so nothing really violent. I've thought of adding Darksiders myself in my recommendations to him, but ultimately decided against it, because it might be a bit too much towards late teen instead of E or T rated.
Oh, and more importantly: they need to be Xbox games. He might possibly be interested in buying one, so he wants to know what types of games are good on that platform, within the confines of the ratings I mentioned earlier...
'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.'
@ThanosReXXX The cover art rings a bell from long ago, but I'm not sure how I missed it back in the 360 era itself. Weird.
No, I mean bumped back behind Blue Dragon for the "next BC purchase" column
Yeah, I was just kind of recalling what's in my WRPG pile. XBox doesn't have the best catalog of early T RPGs. Tons of RPGs, but not so many "innocent" ones aside from the incoming FF. There are a few though I'll have to check my list for later. If looking mostly for that kind of game, I'm not sure X1 would be my recommendation over PS4 and Switch, as most of the ones it does have are ones also on those platforms, but it's missing some available on the others. Switch covers most of it, PS4 adds a little to it. X1 doesn't add all that much specifically to the younger-audience RPG category. Ohh, Romancing SaGa. They're old SNES/PS1 games ported but they're a newish collection.
I don't know, Darksiders, especially DS2 feels early teen enough. 1 is a bit grittier. I would think 2 is safe, except for that one section near the end that's a shooter in the burning Earth city.
Yeah, I just mentioned the PS4 ones to note what general audience RPGs are on there that aren't on here or Switch. It's worth mentioning.
Though I thought Polar wasn't really looking for an X1 until everyone started selling him one
@NEStalgia That's why I said he might be looking to buy one. And he only disregarded the Xbox platform due to thinking that there weren't any worthwhile games available on it, because thanks to mainstream picture/marketing/ads, he was only ever aware of all the dude-bro games available for it, and none of these are to his liking.
Good point concerning Darksiders, but for me personally, only playing the second part of a trilogy with an actual relevant story line makes little sense.
Good luck finding Blue Dragon. If you really want to buy it, you'll probably end up getting it digitally, seeing as the game itself in physical form is rather hard to come by these days. If I remember correctly, they also didn't manufacture that many copies in the first place, possibly due to it being a multi-disc game, and a new IP, so there were several costs and risks involved. But in RPG land on the Xbox, it's a definite fan favorite, and well-remembered game.
EDIT: And he's not just looking for RPG's. He also likes open world and puzzle games.
And I personally checked Microsoft's Xbox game page with the E filter enabled, and it came up with a list of over 300 games. And if you add the T rating to it, there's a couple hundred more, so plenty of games to choose from, methinks...
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