Mass Effect 1 really looks great on 1X. I forgot how good that first game was compared to....whatever...that series became in 2. Shooting punctuated RPG play rather than just being a corridor shooter. Who knew?
@BrainOfGrimlock Never had a Saturn. I had a 32X! For like a week. Then decided it was worthless and thought Sega CD was the next console...and then the Saturn came out and I just kind of looked sideways and wondered what Sega is the real Sega and never bought another. Just like everybody else.
@ThanosReXXX " turn me into a pet or put me down isn't born yet,"
I dunno....I for one do not trust those avacado toast free range tofu sandwiches with lactose free pumpkin spice lattes. They may be poison. Or made of people. #MeatAndGreet
" tendency for political correctness and/or being a SJW, except predominantly towards their own good instead of actually towards other people."
Is there any other kind?
The part that everybody is like you describe isn't even the part that bother's me. It's the fact that those end up being the people that see the most success that makes me want to launch every nuclear missile ever made at myself.
@rjejr Even you can't be too lazy (or drunk) to participate in millennial bashing!
@ReaderRagfish That's not the XBox whispering to you. That's absurd. An XBox you haven't bought yet can't whisper to you..... It's just Cortana. Helping you with your holiday shopping. If you don't buy the XBox within 24 hours, Cortana will assist you in completing your holiday shopping by automatically ordering one for you from the Microsoft Store. It's ok. She has your credit card info on file. Don't worry about cancelling. Windows 10 will "need to install critical updates. This may take a while while your computer reboots" at that time to be sure your package is shipped without interference.
It feels great when you invite somebody who publicly complains about not being able to find players for playing Sea of Thieves and they don't even respond. LOL
@ReaderRagfish Thanks! Great videos. You ALL should watch this, at least the first minute.
@ReaderRagfish@BrainofGrimlock Saturn games will find their place on the ultimate console, the Xbox. I play Wave Race Blue Storm (the first time I got Wave Race 64 was on Wii U) since launch, my favourite character is Ryota, just because it takes a long time to adjust to controlling each character. He's kind of a Mario-balanced pilot and his "announcer", not really an announcer but a coach, is nice. I also completed this game but it's so demanding, the controls are realistic but La Razza Canal is a nightmare, one little mistake or being pushed by someone and you are scre*ed. To be a launch title allowed me to focus on this game though.
@NEStalgia Yeah, I hear ya. It's always the wrong people getting the short end of the stick. Not even talking about myself: I'll be fine eventually, because I've got a broad back, and I don't break easily, but there's a lot of people all around the world that are smarter and more deserving than all of these idiots combined together.
Oh, well. I guess most good endings are only reserved for books and movies...
Whaaattt??? You never owned a Dreamcast? Infidel...
And no, it IS the precious whispering to ReaderRagfish, trust me, I know these things...
That Cortana story is potentially even creepier, though...
'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.'
@BlueOcean If you remove everything before "youtube" and everything after "O6kN73PuygI",
then people will actually be able to see that video, my dear fellow Xbox fan...
@ReaderRagfish Aha, well, in some ways you're then already a member of the Xbox club, seeing as the Xbox was in large part inspired by Microsoft having worked together with Sega to make the Dreamcast (Microsoft made the Operating System, which runs on Windows CE, which is a special, embedded version of Windows), and when Sega dropped the ball for the last time, Microsoft picked it up and decided to create their own console.
Hence also the reason for so many Dreamcast exclusives appearing on the original Xbox. But part of me kinda suspects you already knew that (and if not, then you've learned something new). Anyway, the step from a Dreamcast to an actual Xbox isn't really that great.
Did you know that Black was an original Xbox game? @NEStalgia certainly did...
'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 I know, I never had a DC. I was fully PC Master Race during that time. Though I had a few DC "console exclusive" games on PC. Plus it was on sale, for, what, a year?
Cortana may indeed be creepier than a talking XBox, but, unfortunately, Cortana is real and the talking XBox is not. Well...the XBox also has Cortana on it....so in that sense it is a talking XBox....but it's still Cortana. She's everywhere. At once. She knows what you're doing right this minute. She watches you play DoA. She is not amused.
@ReaderRagfish Heck the sequel to Jet Set Radio, the greatest game Sega ever made, is an XBox exclusive! (And the original runs enhanced on X1.)
Been crazier this holiday than normal. My son's robotic's team is hosting a SSB4U tournament tonight, I'm supplying chips to sell and my Wii U. Which would actually make me almost on topic if only this weren't an Xbox thread. My sister keeps trying to talk me into Zoloft. It might come to that but I dodn't have the time to get any. I'm just holding out for NY to legalize recreational mj then I'm good to go.
Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
I'm enjoying FF13-2 immensely.
I don't understand why this game didn't get a better reception. The gameplay is excellent. The story so far is intruiging. The environments are cool and interesting.
My only real criticism is the time travelling level structure makes it feel a bit disconnected.
@ReaderRagfish Haha, yeah, I'd say that working together to actually create a console definitely means they were on pretty good terms.
So, just out of curiosity: which games do you have or do you play on it?
P.S.
It also pays off to find out if you've got a first gen Dreamcast or not: if so, you can play burnt discs, meaning you've got access to the entire, region free catalog of the Dreamcast, and besides that, there's also around 10 titles that were never published/released, due to various reasons, but these can now be found online, since the publishers have released them to the public domain. Propeller Arena being one of those games. Give that a watch on YouTube, it's a really entertaining game.
@NEStalgia Well, in that case, she's blind as a bat, because I've only been playing Mario Kart 8 and Pro Evo Soccer 2012 today. DOA must have been ages ago, and mostly on the Dreamcast...
As for an Xbox One whispering to people, enticing them to buy it, that is of course just the voice in your head, aka your other you, aka the devil on your shoulder, or whatever you want to call it. Some people even seem to hear deities and so on...
The download size is also slightly bigger than the Xbox 360 version, so they must have added something to it. Either that, or Xbox One file sizes are just more bloated by nature...
It is still a good game too, so well worth the asking price, in my opinion.
'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.'
@ReaderRagfish Well, if you need any recommendations in whatever type of game you like: I've practically played them all. And do look into those unreleased titles: might just be something amongst those for you as well.
Oh, and if you like crazy weird stuff, look for a game called Illbleed. There's truly nothing like it on any console.
(EDIT: just in case, that's ILLbleed, not three i's.... )
@ThanosReXXX Jet Set Radio was already a port with enhancements on Xbox 360. The Xbox One description (the one you linked) has no Buy button and says
Tag, grind, and trick to the beat in SEGA’s hit game Jet Set Radio!Fight for control of Tokyo-to, mark your turf with graffiti, tag walls, billboards, and even rival gang members! Perform tricks and flips on magnetically driven in-line skates, but watch out for the local police force!Now on Xbox Live Arcade, Jet Set Radio is part of Sega’s Heritage Collection series and now features lush HD visuals, developer interviews, and amazing fan-created graffiti.
They don't specify that it's enhanced on Xbox One. There are two listings with two different sizes but I suspect that the smaller file is for playing on Xbox 360 (the native platform) and the bigger file is for playing on Xbox One (including the 360 "emulator"/interface).
I have said this before, the Xbox store has improved but it's still confusing with Windows, 360 and backwards compatible download pages. Some pages even say "You can’t buy this on Xbox One" (but you can), others have the "Buy game" button and others don't for the same game and so on. Microsoft should make just one website and one database with all the titles. They are doing this apparently but haven't erased the old database so it all gets mixed through the links. I haven't played Jet Set Radio properly but it's definitely on my radar. I played once the Dreamcast version and it was fun. I tried Nights on X, is it me or the game has aged poorly? Or it's just that I haven't played enough so I am not used to the controls yet? Funny that reviewers said that he would replace Sonic eventually.
Let's go back to a brighter example. Final Fantasy XIII is not only X-enhanced but S-enhanced, a new term I just made up for the sake of clarity. I can't think of more examples at the moment.
@Dezzy ffxiii2 got a bad reception because it was ffxiii2. Similarly if fallout 81 is great, it will still be given a wide berth because it follows 76. Xiii was the best selling ff ever at the time because the series had such a good reputation. But after everyone got it and discovered it was barely recognizable as ff gameplay, people steered wide of it cautiously (and not wanting to revisit xiiis world). And once you expose the infallable at highly fallable, critically it will be scrutinized where previously it would have received a cursory exam. A bad game (or unwanted departure) doesn't fail. It's successor fails because of it.
Ffxv was supposed to be part of xiiis world as well, but they changed it into what it is due to avoiding association with the poor mindset around xiii. One falcie too many....
@ReaderRagfish Okay, let me see what I can come up with.
I'll skip multi-player brawlers and fighting games, seeing as you've already got the best of those covered, although I do have to mention Project Justice, as another good contender in the fighting genre...
As for the rest of the categories: here we go, and in no particular order, so I guess you'll just have to check out some videos of these titles, if you'd like to know more about them.
Oh, and mind you: these are my OWN recommendations, so they aren't in any way based upon any online reviews, so don't expect all of them to get the highest grades in official ratings, but I enjoyed them nonetheless.
Racing/simulation: Metropolis Street Racer 1 & 2, Daytona USA, Sega Rally 2, Hydro Thunder, 4 Wheel Thunder, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 1 & 2, F355 Challenge, Sega GT, V-Rally 2 Championship Edition, Test Drive Le Mans, TrickStyle, Crazy Taxi 1 & 2, Looney Tunes Space Race, Wacky Races, Vanishing Point, Killer Loop, F-1 World Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix, Redline Racer, Sega Rally Championship, F1 Racing Championship, Flag to Flag Racing, TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat, San Francisco Rush 2049, Speed Devils, Demolition Racer, Star Wars Episode I: Racer, Sno-Cross Championship Racing
RPG: Skies of Arcadia, Grandia II, Evolution 1 & 2, Time Stalkers, Armada, Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern
Action RPG: Berserk, Shenmue 1 & 2, Silver, Record of Lodoss War, E.G.G. (Elemental Gimmick Gear)
Horror/survival: any of the Resident Evil games, Dino Crisis 1 & 2, Illbleed, Blue Stinger, D2
Life simulation: Lack of Love, Seventh Cross: Evolution, Seaman
Vertical/horizontal shooters: Ikaruga, Gunbird 1 & 2, Gigawing 1 & 2, Mars Matrix, Psyvariar 2, Bangai-O, Triggerheart Exelica, Border Down, Last Hope, Under Defeat
Multi-directional/3D shooters: Rez, Outtrigger, Heavy Metal Geomatrix, Charge 'n Blast, Silent Scope, Virtua Cop 2, House of the Dead 2, Cannon Spike, Quake III Arena, Zero Gunner 2, Alien Front Online
Action/adventure: Jet Set Radio, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Ecco the Dolphin, Slave Zero, Cyber Troopers: Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Maken X, Head Hunter, Spawn: in the Demon's Hand, Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver 2, Urban Chaos
Rythm games: Samba de Amigo, Space Channel 5 1 & 2.
Platformers: Rayman 2, Super Magnetic Neo, Donald Duck Quack Attack.
Flight sims/arcade flying games: Aerowings 1 & 2 (second game being the better one), Airforce Delta (aka Deadly Skies in Europe), Aero Dancing i, Iron Aces, Starlancer
Sports: Virtua Tennis 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Cool Boarders Burrrn!, NHL 2K, NFL Blitz 2000, NBA 2K2, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, WWF Attitude, WWF Royal Rumble, ECW Hardcore Revolution, Sega Sports Jam, Extreme Sports, Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, Sega WorldWide Soccer 2000 Euro Edition, Virtua Striker 2, Sega Bass Fishing, Sega Marine Fishing
And then there's the unreleased games I previously mentioned, which can be relatively easily found with a bit of Googling or torrent searching:
Propeller Arena
Millenium Racer: Y2K Fighters
Hellgate
Ballbreakers aka MoHo
Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas
PBA Bowling
Geist Force
Toejam and Earl 3
Half Life Gold
Half Life Blue Shift Expansion Pack
Max Steel Covert Missions
@BlueOcean Well, there was no need for any other examples, since the topic was Jet Set Radio. And no emulator I know could make a difference of more than half a Gigabyte, so if that would be due to a pack-in emulator, then that's one big-@ss program, for sure....
EDIT:
I did also link to the 360 version, in case you didn't notice
@Delibheel Mine's... well, mine's pretty clear, since I never change names. You're welcome to add me. And just FYI: even if you don't chat or play with other gamers in your list, there are games, such as the Forza Horizon series, that'll allow you to share points with people that are in your friends list. So, at no cost to me, you'll also get a percentage of points from me if I win races, and you can add another player to your team, and then you all get the goodies.
So, it's not sharing the money, because the actual player keeps the entire price, it's just that a percentage is doubled, and then divided between crew members. Once the connection is made, you'll also see the other's cars driving around in your game.
Don't know if there's any other games that work in that way, but there probably are.
Interesting. I don’t really play that one game, but that’s an interesting system nonetheless. Sounds like a nice incentive to have friends that play it, kinda like playing together without playing together.
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