XBOX GAMING THREAD | PHIL TRUE 4K

[djyoung08]

its goona be a good year...

 

[sole vintage]

 

[seandon23]

THANK YOU BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL BABY JESUS

THIS!!!! ALL I NEEDED TO GET THE XB1

 

[putting in work]

This is more of the type of racing game that I like because it's not to sim like.

Not about that sim life of putting all the hours into the game... Halo and COD yeah, but never done it was a racing game.

 

[100proof]

My must haves so far







plus halo and FH2

 

[shottadru]

KI anyone ?

 

[spizike231]

Xbox One just won everything with Halo: Master Chief Collection.

 

[pr0phecy718]

Xbox One just won everything with Halo: Master Chief Collection.

I gotta admit, I'm considering buying an xbox one just for that collection

 

[Nawzlew]

 

[hoosiergunner]

This is more of the type of racing game that I like because it's not to sim like.

Not about that sim life of putting all the hours into the game... Halo and COD yeah, but never done it was a racing game.

I mean Horizon is a nice game and all, but racing on circuits >>>>>>> racing on streets. Nice that Forza 5 got the Nurburgring tho.

 

[nelson999]

 

This is more of the type of racing game that I like because it's not to sim like.

Not about that sim life of putting all the hours into the game... Halo and COD yeah, but never done it was a racing game.

I mean Horizon is a nice game and all, but racing on circuits >>>>>>> racing on streets. Nice that Forza 5 got the Nurburgring tho.

x2.  I had a lot of fun with Horizon. Playing online with buddies and hitting up that canyon road or finding a nice corner to drift was tons of fun.

but i would like the game better if they incorporated some real tracks into it.  Laguna Seca, Road America, Sebring, Nurburgring, etc

 

[kingfoamnyc]

The rumors were true. 343 Industries is indeed working on a 10th anniversary edition of Halo 2, but that classic 2004 shooter is going to be bundled alongside Halo 3, Halo 4, and the original Combat Evolved as part of The Master Chief Collection.

What is The Master Chief Collection? Well, it looks to be one of the slickest greatest-hits compilations in recent memory. On a single Xbox One disc, you'll find remastered versions of all four Master Chief outings, each spruced up to run in 1080p and at 60 frames per second. And because this is the 10th anniversary of Halo 2, 343 is giving that game a bit of extra attention--think of it as a similar graphical upgrade to the one Halo: Combat Evolved received three years ago, right on down to the ability to switch between new and original visuals with the tap of a button. (Halo: CE Anniversary is also included on the disc.)

The whole thing is organized in a way that feels like listening to your favorite band's entire back catalog on shuffle. See, you don't launch each game separately from the others; instead, you access all of the campaign missions and multiplayer--yes, there's online multiplayer for all four games--from a single shared menu. And from there, you can mix and match in a way that few--if any--greatest-hits collections have ever allowed before.

Here's how it works. While you could load up Combat Evolved and play that through to completion before moving on to Halo 2, you can also queue up a setlist of missions from all four games. So you can play through every single Warthog mission in succession--or all the Flood missions if you're a masochist--without having to jump back out to a main menu. But you can also create your own continuous, cross-game setlists. That's because all these missions are unlocked from the start--343 is assuming you've played all this stuff before--and the overall game works in such a way that each of these older engines is loaded simultaneously under the hood to make it all flow smoothly.

(A quick note about campaign co-op: Like Combat Evolved Anniversary, online co-op has been applied to Halo 2. But all four games are sticking with their original player counts. So that means Combat Evolved and Halo 2 support two player co-op as they originally did, while Halo 3 and Halo 4 allow for up to four players total.)

Now let's talk about online multiplayer. Yes, it's there--even for Combat Evolved, which never featured network support in its original Xbox iteration. That may come as a surprise considering that the reasoning 343 used for not including multiplayer in Combat Evolved Anniversary was that it wouldn't feel the same going from offline to online. Instead, it shipped that remaster with access to Halo: Reach multiplayer. So what has changed?

In short: dedicated servers. All four games feature multiplayer running on dedicated servers. So now, according to 343, the multiplayer for Combat Evolved--and the other three games--won't have to rely on the peer-to-peer networking that the Xbox 360 used, thus providing an experience that better mimics Halo CE's offline immediacy.

Maybe that's the real reason; maybe it's not. Whatever the case may be, it's just cool to see online multiplayer returning for those earlier games--all of which run in their original engines, exploitable glitches and all. So yes, according to 343, all those tricks and exploits (think EXP boosting) you discovered in earlier games are still there, because the developers wanted to preserve the original character of these games--like a snapshot in time from before the dawn of patching and title updates. Except, you know, with all the downloadable maps included.

But what's really neat is that, like in the campaign, you can choose to play in multiplayer hoppers that shuffle up each game on the go. So in the pre-match voting screen where players cast a vote for one of several potential map-and-mode combinations, you might be choosing a match on Halo 2's Ascension, CE's Hang 'Em High, or Valhalla from Halo 3. And just like that, when the votes are decided, you'll be whisked over to that game's original multiplayer engine.

Assuming none of the multiplayer magic was lost in the transition to 60-frames-per-second gameplay, all of this adds up to one very cool package. For $60, you've got what is essentially the ultimate Halo collector's edition, and a ticket to transport back in time to the bygone era of early Halo multiplayer. And for story buffs, there are new cinematics that tease the events of Halo 5: Guardians, as well as full access to Ridley Scott's upcoming Halo: Nightfall episodic series. It's easy to feel cynical about remakes as a quick cash grab, but this is one case that looks to put all those other greatest-hits compilations to shame. The Master Chief releases on November 11 this year

 

[hoosiergunner]

x2.  I had a lot of fun with Horizon. Playing online with buddies and hitting up that canyon road or finding a nice corner to drift was tons of fun.

but i would like the game better if they incorporated some real tracks into it.  Laguna Seca, Road America, Sebring, Nurburgring, etc

Even 1 track. Why couldn't they have made this game take place around LeMans? or the area around the Nurburgring? Give me one racing circuit.

 

[noblekane]

Damn that master chief collection

 

[shottadru]

E3 thread is jokes man. Please go read it. 

 

[carver]

Gonna download ufc and max before bed hope my xbone shuts itself down afterwards

 

[shottadru]

I heard UFC is dope I need to try it out. Max is cool, I played like a half its good cuz it was free lol

 

[blastercombo]

UFC is a fun masher IMO but maybe I just don't know how to play. Wouldn't buy it for more than 15buck doe

 

[nelson999]

UFC will be fun to play at buddies houses but not a game i will buy and play by myself.

i downloaded the Demo and was board after one match

 

[blastercombo]

UFC will be fun to play at buddies houses but not a game i will buy and play by myself.

i downloaded the Demo and was board after one match

Got about 5 in and was done. It's just overly complex for its own good. I get that they wanted to add all the MMA elements but it's not gonna work that way

 

[xsourdieselx]

KI anyone ?

Damn I was at work but I'm off the next two days

 

[blastercombo]

Man KI lobby and invite system is beyond trash. Whoever tried to invite me today that POS wouldn't let me join. After 29mins of trying I was done

 

[memphissfinest]

The rumors were true. 343 Industries is indeed working on a 10th anniversary edition of Halo 2, but that classic 2004 shooter is going to be bundled alongside Halo 3, Halo 4, and the original Combat Evolved as part of The Master Chief Collection.

What is The Master Chief Collection? Well, it looks to be one of the slickest greatest-hits compilations in recent memory. On a single Xbox One disc, you'll find remastered versions of all four Master Chief outings, each spruced up to run in 1080p and at 60 frames per second. And because this is the 10th anniversary of Halo 2, 343 is giving that game a bit of extra attention--think of it as a similar graphical upgrade to the one Halo: Combat Evolved received three years ago, right on down to the ability to switch between new and original visuals with the tap of a button. (Halo: CE Anniversary is also included on the disc.)

The whole thing is organized in a way that feels like listening to your favorite band's entire back catalog on shuffle. See, you don't launch each game separately from the others; instead, you access all of the campaign missions and multiplayer--yes, there's online multiplayer for all four games--from a single shared menu. And from there, you can mix and match in a way that few--if any--greatest-hits collections have ever allowed before.

Here's how it works. While you could load up Combat Evolved and play that through to completion before moving on to Halo 2, you can also queue up a setlist of missions from all four games. So you can play through every single Warthog mission in succession--or all the Flood missions if you're a masochist--without having to jump back out to a main menu. But you can also create your own continuous, cross-game setlists. That's because all these missions are unlocked from the start--343 is assuming you've played all this stuff before--and the overall game works in such a way that each of these older engines is loaded simultaneously under the hood to make it all flow smoothly.

(A quick note about campaign co-op: Like Combat Evolved Anniversary, online co-op has been applied to Halo 2. But all four games are sticking with their original player counts. So that means Combat Evolved and Halo 2 support two player co-op as they originally did, while Halo 3 and Halo 4 allow for up to four players total.)

Now let's talk about online multiplayer. Yes, it's there--even for Combat Evolved, which never featured network support in its original Xbox iteration. That may come as a surprise considering that the reasoning 343 used for not including multiplayer in Combat Evolved Anniversary was that it wouldn't feel the same going from offline to online. Instead, it shipped that remaster with access to Halo: Reach multiplayer. So what has changed?

In short: dedicated servers. All four games feature multiplayer running on dedicated servers. So now, according to 343, the multiplayer for Combat Evolved--and the other three games--won't have to rely on the peer-to-peer networking that the Xbox 360 used, thus providing an experience that better mimics Halo CE's offline immediacy.

Maybe that's the real reason; maybe it's not. Whatever the case may be, it's just cool to see online multiplayer returning for those earlier games--all of which run in their original engines, exploitable glitches and all. So yes, according to 343, all those tricks and exploits (think EXP boosting) you discovered in earlier games are still there, because the developers wanted to preserve the original character of these games--like a snapshot in time from before the dawn of patching and title updates. Except, you know, with all the downloadable maps included.

But what's really neat is that, like in the campaign, you can choose to play in multiplayer hoppers that shuffle up each game on the go. So in the pre-match voting screen where players cast a vote for one of several potential map-and-mode combinations, you might be choosing a match on Halo 2's Ascension, CE's Hang 'Em High, or Valhalla from Halo 3. And just like that, when the votes are decided, you'll be whisked over to that game's original multiplayer engine.

Assuming none of the multiplayer magic was lost in the transition to 60-frames-per-second gameplay, all of this adds up to one very cool package. For $60, you've got what is essentially the ultimate Halo collector's edition, and a ticket to transport back in time to the bygone era of early Halo multiplayer. And for story buffs, there are new cinematics that tease the events of Halo 5: Guardians, as well as full access to Ridley Scott's upcoming Halo: Nightfall episodic series. It's easy to feel cynical about remakes as a quick cash grab, but this is one case that looks to put all those other greatest-hits compilations to shame. The Master Chief releases on November 11 this year

SWEEET MOTHER OF GOD. THIS FAR EXCEEDS WHAT I EXPECTED. SALUTE TO 343 FOR THIS WHILE ALSO WROKING ON HALO 5. IM COPPING.

IN OTHER NEWS IM BEYOND HYPED FOR DESTINY. THAT E3 TRAILER

 

[ii flash ii]

That's an instacop... Playing Halo 2 again

 

[bossdonvah]

Ufc isn't overly complex you dudes just wanna button mash