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Banjo-

@Woomy_NNYes No problem.

Xbox One S 1 TB renewed by Amazon for $210:
https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-One-Console-Certified-Refurbished...

Xbox One S 1TB (new) Minecraft bundle for $229:
https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-One-1TB-Console-Minecraft-Discont...

There are also Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Horizon 4 bundles but they are more expensive. Forza Horizon 4 is included in Game Pass if you are considering the subscription. If not, compare the Forza Horizon bundles with the games sold separately.

If you ask me which one I prefer, Forza Horizon 3 or 4, I don't know what to answer because I love both but 4 might be the winner.

Banjo-

Switch Friend Code: SW-6404-5318-0807

redd214

@Woomy_NNYes I had a 1tb, caught a deal and paid under $200 if I remember correctly.

redd214

BruceCM

From my recent experience of how quickly the storage goes on xbox.... Definitely don't get a 500GB model unless you have an external hard-drive or get one immediately

SW-4357-9287-0699
Steam: Bruce_CM

Banjo-

@BruceCM And he wants to get big games not available on Switch so 1TB better than 500GB because the price difference is minimal.

Banjo-

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Eel

You could wait for Black Friday (or your local equivalent). You'll likely be able to find a good deal then.

And yes, at least 1tb should be good.

230 for that minecraft bundle sounds decent though. I got mine for 200 (that same bundle) last year.

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My Nintendo: Abgarok

Eel

I want a Viva Piñata ship.

Leaving a trail of multicolored water and soggy paper in its wake, until it inevitably sinks.

Bloop.

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SMM2 Maker ID: 69R-F81-NLG

My Nintendo: Abgarok

BruceCM

Yeah, @BlueOcean .... Depending what shops they have selling pre-owned, they can get good deals on them, too

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redd214

Inside Xbox was a bit lackluster. The camo controller and Idris Elba were the best parts lol!!

But seriously outside of the crossplay in PUBG is a a big deal too, though I have never and probably will never play it, Im glad the walls are slowly breaking down. Hope its a standard next gen!

redd214

Banjo-

Devil May Cry 5 available now on Game Pass!

Banjo-

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Dezzy

@DarthNocturnal

Did anyone actual play AOE3? Or that online thing they did?

I honestly haven't heard much about the series since AOE2, which was one of the best games ever made.

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

Dezzy

They announced that Gears Tactics will be released on Xbox One as well as PC.

Which is reassuring, given that I thought they'd already said that.

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

Grumblevolcano

@Dezzy They didn't, until now it was a PC exclusive like Age of Empires.

Grumblevolcano

XBontendo

@antdickens Hey it's me again. You ever consider bringing back Pure Xbox?

XBox/Steam/Epic: owendershot | Switch friend code: I don't remember, these codes are crazy, I'll check later.
Playstations are fine, but I don't have one.

XBontendo

Hey, I'll take it

XBox/Steam/Epic: owendershot | Switch friend code: I don't remember, these codes are crazy, I'll check later.
Playstations are fine, but I don't have one.

ThanosReXXX

@antdickens Wait, WHAT???

Would be nice, though. I'd immediately subscribe, and I know of at least twenty others on here who would as well.

'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.'

NEStalgia

I'd probably ignore Pure XBox as much as I ignore Push Square, but it would be great to see all the same!

@DarthNocturnal 3 really was a huge mistake though.... Nothing about that game was AoE. It was a Warcraft III wannabe, and shredded absolutely everything that made an AoE game AoE.

The problem is really that AoE 3 is basically Banjo Nuts & Bolts on many levels. "Ensemble" was only "Ensemble" in name only at that point, all the real talent, including the founders and original AoE designers, was gone by that point. Rick & Tony Goodman founded Ensemble. Rick was really the mastermind behind AoE in general. During the development of 2 he'd left and founded Stainless Steel, but his template for the game had already been set as a huge influence on the sequel. Brian Sullivan was gone by then as well. Bruce Shelley technically directed both 2 and 3, but without the influence of any of the original creators, and the Sid Meier circle of friends behind the first two, he ended up with a studio that was a shadow of its former self during a time when Microsoft was very into enforcing "the Microsoft Way" of developing things, and that effect was very, very, very visible in all their games of the time (I'd heard first-hand a number of cases of the internal turmoil at that time. Nobody actually wanted to be there, and nobody wanted to make the products they were being told to make, nor the way they were being told to make them. Imagine being a games creative, and basically, having the people behind Power Point telling you how to make it, and the marketing department telling you want you're going to make. Tim Schafer's joke on stage at E3 this year about Excel was only half a joke. That's not how things work when you're bought by Microsoft under Spencer, but that is how things worked in the early oughties.)

AoE III was born from that mess.

Meanwhile Goodman made Empire Earth which was basically the real AoE 3 but never got the credit it deserved because Sierra was the publisher right when they were embroiled in the Vivendi buyout/nightmare, and everything was caught in limbo.

@Dezzy Ooohh Gears Tactics for XBox too? That's awesome!

NEStalgia

Dezzy

Lol I feel bad for the people who had an Xbox-specific site or channel this generation.

I noticed one of the main Xbox youtube channels just switched into general gaming stuff and kinda hoped the audience understood.

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

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