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There’s a lot of 360 games that can look better if they’re played on an Xbox One X and/or Series X. You don’t need a special version disc or anything, and they shouldn’t cost any more than normal, and there’s no up charge if you already own the game.

ryanflucas wrote:

Mostly no, some games yes.

Anyone play HiFi rush? Worth it at 50%off?

Oh heck yeah man Hi-Fi rush was a good time. It was like Devil May Cry but with musical rhythm.

Hi Fi Rush is so good.

I wanted to like that game, and I got through about half of it, but the gameplay is really annoying at times. The premise is cool, and the art style is interesting, but it just became not fun to play. For example, there is a timed sequence with instant death in which you have to use the right commands at the right time to call in another character to quickly solve a puzzle while lava is coming toward you.

MrBean wrote:

MrBean wrote:

Do it! Though, if you aren't good at timing and rhythm games, you might have a tough time since combat is tied to the beat.

That game is great. I struggled with the timing but there are settings to make that less critical and I had fun with it. Never got all the way through it though, you really need to have at least some rhythm to get the most out of this.

FWIW there was some FPS that had a similar mechanic where you were supposed to kill enemies on beat with the music. I really sucked at that too. Hi-Fi Rush has a lot more going for it though.

I was TERRIBLE at that game. Shame, a good shooter gone to waste.
Hi Fi Rush was easier to handle and fun as hell. AND it was a huge surprise because it just appeared, no advertising or anything.

Don't be fooled by these crazy end of the year Xbox sales, a lot of them will be going to GamePass come 2024 thanks to the Activision Blizzard deal in January.

Game Pass users, there's a bunch of games on sale only for GPU and one of them is Immortals of Aveum Deluxe Edition for EIGHT BUCKS!
I'm enjoying it, it's like a Doctor Strange shooter with magic and mystical guns. The overacting and bad voiceovers are on purpose, it's like playing a bad action fantasy B movie.

The full game is $8? I see the upgrade to the deluxe version for $8.99 but the game itself is still ~$30. I'm interested in trying the game but there is a lot of belief that it'll hit GP since it didn't sell well.

It was only $8 for the deluxe edition for a day. I had it in my cart and went back with rewards points I cashed in, and it was back to $32ish. I should have jumped, but hopefully this means it’ll be on Game Pass soon.

Oh derp, HiFi Rush is on gamepass, nice. It, along with a ton of Bethesda stuff started showing up in my msft employee discount store recently.

Nice, looks like a fun game to play with the 6 year old.

I enjoyed Hi-Fi Rush, but @Bleed_DukeBlue's comment is valid and having the access via GP likely skewed things for me and my overall view. If you're not great with button press timing you can get frustrated if you have to repeatedly attempt at least a dozen interactions like I had to do. And I didn't actually get better at that either.
I generally enjoyed the vibrant colors, the goofball protagonist, the side characters, the general beats overall and in most cases you didn't have to be crazy precise deal damage and progress through the story. The final boss fight was also a challenge for me since I wasn't a pro with timing. I played it on normal which I believe gave a slightly higher weight to nailing the timing vs. the easy mode that basically allowed you to ignore that timing.

Walmart is selling the Series X for $349

Groo wrote:

Everyone is. I fudgeed up and should've waited a month. I still got mine on sale, but...yeah.
The Diablo IV edition was $349 NEW ONLY on Gamestop last week. And i keep the Forza bundle for $349.

Super great deal.

Minecraft Realms - redeemed a 6 month code, got us 183 days. Redeemed another 6 months, still shows 183 days. Did I just waste money?

Also, how does sharing a GPU actually work?

Getting my kid an XSX for Xmas and I barely play Xbox. Should I make his Xbox the "home" Xbox? He plays Minecraft and now Realms.

We'll more than likely never be online at the same time but I debate if I shouldn't just get him his own gamer tag and a GPU? Now that I've seen realms, I may play with them from time to time.

That and I'd like him to have options to switch between Xbox's easily.

Have done zero homework, no idea how this works.

My son uses an XSX downstairs, and I off-and-on have an Xbox upstairs. I don't play it often though.

What I do is this:
-I use my Xbox account as the main account for everything. I add GPU to my account and set that up as the primary account on the XSX.
-He then just adds a profile to the XSX that links to his own XBL account (that I setup for him).
-He just uses his user on the XSX and has access to all the GPU stuff since my account is primary there. It's pretty hassle free.

The only gotcha is that to DL games from my existing library (unrelated to GPU), he has to switch to my account to do so. So I come login to allow him to do that. Once the DL is kicked off though, he can switch back to his user and not need to go back to my user.

Definitely make them their own XBL account. Otherwise they're going to be adding to your friends list, impacting your achievements, and you won't both be able to play together (or separately at the same time).

@Anxiouz this helps, thanks. Which console is set as the home and does that matter?

Thanks!

"His" console is set as home and we consider that the "main" Xbox. And it absolutely matters.

Setting a home console means other users can access the home user's content and that's why you can only have 1 home machine. And are limited to setting a home machine like 5 times.

My setting his console as my home allows him to just use his user like normal but since I set it as the home xbox for my account it lets him access to play online with friends and GP games. But we never really login with my account on that machine at this point.

One side effect of that is that when I try something on a 2nd xbox I get a brief "checking if you can play this" message since it basically checks that you're not logged in on another machine since my account is access content not on my home machine. On the 2nd xbox I can 100% of everything (GP, access my library) because it's tied to my user.

So with that recent Insomniac hack/leak (which shouldn't have gone as far as it did, basically doxing every employee and making their info public), if you ever wondered why there was no Sunset Overdrive 2, it's probably because the first game only made them a $567 profit.

https://insider-gaming.com/sunset-overdrive-insomn...

Loved Sunset Overdrive, was always hoping for a follow up! Absolutely insane that's all that it made. Margins seem relatively small on most games now a days anyways, which is everything has micro transactions for ongoing revenue streams.

Sunset Overdrive was a good time. It was like the closest thing I felt to a Jet Set sequel. Happy to see Sega is finally returning to Jet Set too soon!

Can’t wait for a new Jet Set. I hope the rest of the games are gonna be good too. It’s be great if the last Golden Axe wasn’t that Beast Rider game, or if the last good Shinobi wasn’t on Genesis like 30 years ago.

My expectations for JSR3 have dropped dramatically with the reveal that it will be open world.

https://www.ign.com/articles/jet-set-radio-reboot-...

Cause we really need another sandbox open world game. Ugh.

benstylus wrote:

It can be argued that Jet Set was always kind of open world. Though I found both previous games more akin to the "open-world" style of the 'Yakuza/Like a Dragon' games. As long as it's more interesting than, say, 'Ghostwire Tokyo''s open world, I'm down.

DCGX wrote:

The second one for sure (and it's part of the reason I don't like that one nearly as much).

The first one had pretty structured levels, though, and except for that part where you have to grind to the end of the crane to jump across a gap, they are really well designed. And even that crane part is more a controls issue than a design issue.

Well there’s an open world style of game I don’t mind when it’s I guess called closed ended open world similar to games like God of War 4/Tomb Raider 2013, and even Dead Island 2. But the huge open world sandboxes become quite overwhelming.

I too am tired of a giant sandbox and try to stray away from those, especially with action games. It's annoying. Using the Tomb Raider reboot as an example of how an open world game of that type is a great example.
Same deal with the recent Shadow Warrior games. Just open world enough...I'd love to track down more of those and I'm 100% happy with a linear 15 to 30 hour campaign. Hell, I'm happy with a 10 hour linear campaign lol.

I miss those days where 15 hour games were the sweet spot.

The slides in that presentation for the remakes all looked poorly translated. I'm not convinced it literally means non-linear open-world.

If it was something like Sunset Overdrive which was fun to traverse, reasonable in size, lots to do on the way, and there was fast travel...I'd be totally fine with it.

TalonJedi87 wrote:

That first Tomb Raider reboot, like the recent ones, was the most PERFECT length for a single player game ever. And it tricked me into thinking the game was over and i still had 3 or 4 more hours, well done.
I also remember the Deus Ex reboot being perfectly paced. Both games were mildly open world.

Oh yeah see when a game like Tomb Raider 2013 is a 12-15 hour ride, I’ll be more inclined to keep playing to 100% it vs say an Ass. Creed game that’s 4x that length with 292833828 check box things to do that don’t really matter or aren’t very interesting.

Anxiouz wrote:

So I don't think I paid attention and now I'm getting ready for tomorrow. Made my kid a Gamer Tag and now I have to figure out what to do with the Xbox's.

So with two Xbox's - Dad + Kid and two GT's - Dad + Kid.

What's the best way to do this?

- Sign into Kids Xbox as Dad's GT - and set as home?
- This enables Kid to get full access to GP, under his own GT?
- Then on Dad's Xbox, I can still access GP, under my GT, just with the delay on validating access (like the Switch does)?

- While on his GT, either console, will his saved games be backed up, and be able to play online? Or is it he only gets access to the GP library not the other XBL functionality?

Thanks!

Is the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller worth the price? They are as low as $96 for red but I'd probably go $130 for white if getting one, then maybe I'd buy a paddle/thumbstick kit on Amazon at a later date. I wear out thumbsticks often so was thinking about upgrading.

EDIT : Please let me know if there other upgraded controllers you guys recommend

To piggyback on back4more's comment, has anyone tried out the Nacon or GameSir Hall Effect analog sticked controllers? They're wired only I believe, but are noted for being pretty solid, cheaper at around $40 and those drift-less sticks are intriguing.

I've had interest in the Elites, but the original $150 price was too high for me, the sub $100 is 'better' for sure, but the extra paddles are at least 75% of the reason I'd even want one, so I'd need to buy them too and clearly that raises the price... so I'll be curious if anyone has thoughts on them as well.

Sorry for the delay, I've been out.

MrBean wrote:
Yes. Then "switch user" and login and set his user/GT to auto-login on that machine. So your user/GT is on there but not logged in or actively being used.

Yes. You should have 2 users on the Xbox, 1 with your GT and 1 with their GT. When a user with GP sets the console as home, all users/GTs on that machine can access GP/online.

Yes. But not nearly as slow to validate. It does a check to see if you have cloud saves to sync in case your user/GT had played something recently on the home console.

Honestly I'm not sure about this one but I think only the GP owner can use the cloud saves. What we've been doing is on my son's xbox he copies his game saves to a USB drive on occasion (as a manual backup).

He will have access to GP and online multiplayer for sure, that's all my son uses. I don't know if he would see GP discounts in the store (we buy everything on my account so that we have just 1 big library).

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