XBOX GAMING THREAD | PHIL TRUE 4K

[hadowajp]

I use my cable box for the interface though. No way am I telling the thing to change channels I can press the buttons on the remote or my phone/iPad

 

[lobcity]

And when you snap TV the screen size is a joke

They need to let you toggle screen size or something. It's way too small and I'm playing in a 60"

It is I don't know what other than sports you can use this with. But it is my favorite feature and use it a lot, but they gotta make it bigger.

 

[100proof]

 

What is the read speed for usb 3.0 will you actually be able to play a game from an external

No one knows. I HIGHLY doubt you'll be able to run a game from an external drive.

I have no doubts you can run a game off an external but I'm guessing the load times would increase, usb 3 vs sata 2 is supposed to be anywhere from 10-20% speed difference if I remember right.

I'm more curious if you can run media from the external than games

 

[djyoung08]

After having enjoyed your xb1s for many months now, what do you guys like/dislike about it?
Due to recent good news about the xb1, i may become an xb1 owner sooner than expected.

Welp.. here's my wall of text

Likes -
- KINECT - As I've said before. I HAAAATED how much ms shoved that thing down my throat before i bought it. I now use it every time im using xbox one and firmly believe people that refuse to try / learn to use it are choosing to cut down their user experience on the xb1
- Never makes noise
- Love love LOVE the controller. I always hated that the OEM 360 controller had that webbed d-pad
- Plug in play battery is gawd mode
- It actually gets my 50+mb/s internet connection... my 360 was never "slow" but it just never utilize my full internet speed
- Overall, it FEELS like a fast machine when compared to the 360
- Ability to "minimize" a game... check something out real quick... and then go back to your game. (same applies to watching netflix, etc.)
- The "follow" feature on the friends list is cool... there are some youtube commentators that I added for kicks and giggles and thought it was cool that I can quickly compare stats, achievements, etc.

Disklikes
- The user interface... conceptually, I like it more than the very homely / juvenile look of the current 360 UI. However I feel it lacks the simplicity it needs to make the user have a better experience. For example: I shouldn't feel like I am "opening an app" to get to "my games and apps" I should be able to press RB to navigate to my Games, Apps, and Media EXACTLY how you can do it now, except populate with user owned content and make the STORE its own app.
- The speed of snapping parties/loading parties, my user experience with the party system is really poor, overall. I mean, it works...... but c'mon... My interpretation of the word "snap" is fast; quick; no delay.
- The inability to set your own background image and or color
- The inability to set your own color scheme based on a full scale color palate.
- The fact that user avatars have essentially been removed but for some reason still kind of exist... either let them live, or kill them...
- Forced game installs... this would not be a bad thing if the consoles were shipped with SATA3 SSD's, but I also understand that would have been too expensive to implement
- Inability to play media off external storage (supposedly coming soon though)
- No backwards compatibility (understandable... still hate it )
- The notifications stay on the screen WAAAAAYYYYYY TOO LONG, they're big and bulky, just yuck...

I could go on and on about what I dislike for ages.... I design custom software for a living... I tend to get extremely picky

 

[sole vintage]

Halo: The Master Chief Collection coming to Xbox One this year, collects Halos 1-4


Master Chief is getting a facelift with an HD collection of his exploits. We've learned that Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are being collected in a Master Chief-focused HD remaster coming from Microsoft. Our sources say that the set will zero in on Halo's most famous soldier to refresh audience's memories ahead of Halo 5's release, so curiosities like Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach likely won't be a part of the package. The game's developer is unknown at this point, but considering that Saber Interactive handled Combat Evolved Anniversary and is also working on an unannounced Xbox One project, the team is a likely suspect. Also unclear are plans for digital distribution, resolution and frame-rate (Microsoft bragged that will run at the next Halo will run at a "blistering" 60fps), piecemeal releases, or if the games will surface on other platforms as well (PC, anyone?).

Microsoft has gone on record saying that it would love to have Halo release more than once every three years. Its used different developers to fill that task since, but we're still pushing two years since Halo 4 launched. To commemorate the first game's tenth birthday, Microsoft released Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary for the Xbox 360, which served as a stop-gap for the 343 Industries-developed Halo 4; there's precedent for this sort of thing. This remake makes a lot of sense for Redmond for a couple of different reasons: it satisfies the more-frequent release desire and it helps fans get caught up on the story. It also gives them the chance to re-experience some of the best console shooters with better looks and sound -- everyone wins!

 

[blakep267]

This means that crackdown 3 is real
And quantum break and horizon 2 are releasing this year

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[Ricky D]

I personally wouldn't mind playing the Halo trilogy just for the story. I only played and finished Halo 3. I know you diehard fans would obviously want them to incorporate the multiplayer but do you think they would release multiplayer for all Halo games and then release Halo 5?

 

[blakep267]

I personally wouldn't mind playing the Halo trilogy just for the story. I only played and finished Halo 3. I know you diehard fans would obviously want them to incorporate the multiplayer but do you think they would release multiplayer for all Halo games and then release Halo 5?

I mean 5 would be a year away and a true made for next gen game. Plus I mean call of duty can be the same thing every year and still sell. And as people always like to bring up, people play cod just for the single player. So halo5 should sell well.

Now if they keep doing it annualized it'll plateau off

 

[100proof]

 

I personally wouldn't mind playing the Halo trilogy just for the story. I only played and finished Halo 3. I know you diehard fans would obviously want them to incorporate the multiplayer but do you think they would release multiplayer for all Halo games and then release Halo 5?

I mean 5 would be a year away and a true made for next gen game. Plus I mean call of duty can be the same thing every year and still sell. And as people always like to bring up, people play cod just for the single player. So halo5 should sell well.

Now if they keep doing it annualized it'll plateau off

I think HALO and other franchises that MS owns should drop every year but be different genres. I want to see an RPG in the Halo/Gears world like skyrim or mass effect.

 

[djyoung08]

A gears looking Skyrim game....

My life would be ruined

 

[blastercombo]

ARE WE GETTING HALO 2 MP? All I wanna know.

 

[39478]

Halo: The Master Chief Collection coming to Xbox One this year, collects Halos 1-4


Master Chief is getting a facelift with an HD collection of his exploits. We've learned that Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are being collected in a Master Chief-focused HD remaster coming from Microsoft. Our sources say that the set will zero in on Halo's most famous soldier to refresh audience's memories ahead of Halo 5's release, so curiosities like Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach likely won't be a part of the package. The game's developer is unknown at this point, but considering that Saber Interactive handled Combat Evolved Anniversary and is also working on an unannounced Xbox One project, the team is a likely suspect. Also unclear are plans for digital distribution, resolution and frame-rate (Microsoft bragged that will run at the next Halo will run at a "blistering" 60fps), piecemeal releases, or if the games will surface on other platforms as well (PC, anyone?).

Microsoft has gone on record saying that it would love to have Halo release more than once every three years. Its used different developers to fill that task since, but we're still pushing two years since Halo 4 launched. To commemorate the first game's tenth birthday, Microsoft released Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary for the Xbox 360, which served as a stop-gap for the 343 Industries-developed Halo 4; there's precedent for this sort of thing. This remake makes a lot of sense for Redmond for a couple of different reasons: it satisfies the more-frequent release desire and it helps fans get caught up on the story. It also gives them the chance to re-experience some of the best console shooters with better looks and sound -- everyone wins!

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[antidope]

Halo: The Master Chief Collection coming to Xbox One this year, collects Halos 1-4


Master Chief is getting a facelift with an HD collection of his exploits. We've learned that Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are being collected in a Master Chief-focused HD remaster coming from Microsoft. Our sources say that the set will zero in on Halo's most famous soldier to refresh audience's memories ahead of Halo 5's release, so curiosities like Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach likely won't be a part of the package. The game's developer is unknown at this point, but considering that Saber Interactive handled Combat Evolved Anniversary and is also working on an unannounced Xbox One project, the team is a likely suspect. Also unclear are plans for digital distribution, resolution and frame-rate (Microsoft bragged that will run at the next Halo will run at a "blistering" 60fps), piecemeal releases, or if the games will surface on other platforms as well (PC, anyone?).

Microsoft has gone on record saying that it would love to have Halo release more than once every three years. Its used different developers to fill that task since, but we're still pushing two years since Halo 4 launched. To commemorate the first game's tenth birthday, Microsoft released Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary for the Xbox 360, which served as a stop-gap for the 343 Industries-developed Halo 4; there's precedent for this sort of thing. This remake makes a lot of sense for Redmond for a couple of different reasons: it satisfies the more-frequent release desire and it helps fans get caught up on the story. It also gives them the chance to re-experience some of the best console shooters with better looks and sound -- everyone wins!

Well there goes all chances of that Halo 3 version having Multiplayer in it. No way in hell theyre putting out matchmaking for all the Halos then dropping 5, no one would play it.

I still have all my Halo discs so this means little to me. Idk why I even bothered to get my hopes up, I knew what it was. 

 
I personally wouldn't mind playing the Halo trilogy just for the story. I only played and finished Halo 3. I know you diehard fans would obviously want them to incorporate the multiplayer but do you think they would release multiplayer for all Halo games and then release Halo 5?

Nope. The dream is dead. Sad day bro, sad day. It would be flat out bad business if they did that. Theres no way they could make a good enough game out of 5 to steal multiplayer traffic from 1-3 at once, or any one of them as a standalone.

Honestly if Halo 2 Anniversary has multiplayer, Halo 5 is dead from the get go. They know it too, but they cant re-release it without it, because then they'll alienate the core fanbase which would also kill Halo 5.

Halo 5 has little chance of being a successful Halo game in terms of player population. It would sell well, but just like Halo 4, three months after release the population would die out. 

Their only chance is if they make a Halo game on par with the first three and I doubt they will with all their pandering to the casuals who abandon the game after six months anyways. Its a very simple concept that they choose to ignore: catering to the hardcore players has no effect on the casuals, theyre going to play it anyways and not even notice, but catering to the casuals ruins the game for the hardcore, because all those changes just ruin the game.

-AR starts

-Dynamic Spawns

-Equipment to some degree

-Campaign based maps

-Slayer and Objective having the same respawn times

-The nuke grenades

-Armor Abilities

-Sprint(which is probably never going away)

All things that didnt really need be there (although I liked equipment) and if they werent the casual players woudlnt have cared, but they impacted gameplay in such a drastic manner that it turned diehard people off.

 

[blastercombo]

So it's pretty much official, if halo 5 sucks I'm pawning my xbox

 

[Ja's 2¢]

The only thing I really dont like is how it turns off my TV everytime I turn it off, and when I turn it on while the TV is on, it turns the TV off. Its kind of annoying. I havent looked into stopping it though so it cant be that huge of a deal.

Do you know how or why it does that?

Absolutely no idea. I've just been blaming my Vizio for it, my direct TV does the same thing. When I turn the cable box off and on it does the same thing to the TV.

That is HDMI CEC tech. A lot of current TVs have that now as well as cable boxes, blu players, etc. To solve your problem there should be a HDMI CEC ON/OFF option in the menu somewhere of your TV, XB1, or cable box so check all three. I feel you on that because I love the TV being able to turn on/control everything with one remote, but at the same time get annoyed at the problem you mentioned.

Here's the official definition:

(HDMI Consumer Electronics Control) A control function that lets one A/V component control another if they are connected via HDMI cables. For example, inserting a disc into the DVD player would turn on the TV automatically or the A/V receiver, if part of the system. Using proprietary brand names, HDMI CEC initially worked only when components were from the same vendor. Increasingly, HDMI CEC works across vendors' products

 

[antidope]

I wish I had reps, I would rep you sir.

 

[Nawzlew]

Anyones console ever just randomly turn on? The light doesn't go on but I I can hear the internals working and fan spinning for like 10 seconds.

 

[murkn3m]

They creeping on you b

 

[Nawzlew]

I'm sayin'.

It's like middle of the night and I hear it and I'm like

 

[Ja's 2¢]

it's not background downloading?

 

[franco23x]

So it's pretty much official, if halo 5 sucks I'm pawning my xbox

I feel like it was a giant waste of money... hopefully watchdogs and whatever e3 surprises changes my mind.

360 is still da goat.

 

[Nawzlew]

it's not background downloading?

Could be it.

I have no idea

 

[deleted]

I'm sayin'.

It's like middle of the night and I hear it and I'm like

You're handsome when you sleep.

 

[dakingii]

Yall think these little

 

[dakingii]

As a matter of fact, of all the gaming websites/blogs i frequent ive never even heard any talks about the H2 remaster.

Only on NT have i heard people talk about it