XBL Deals - 2017, Part II

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Countdown to 2018 - Dec 22 - Jan 4

Official site - Major Nelson

1 Month Gold for $1

1 Month Game Pass for $1

XB1 Daily Deals - Dec 22 - 31

Expired Dailies

Dec 31

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Dec 24

Dec 23



Dec 22


Countdown long deals (until Jan 4) - 360 deals in 3rd post

Play Anywhere

[*]Forza Motorsport 7 Standard Edition - $38.99 - 35% off
[*]Deluxe Edition - $59.99 - 25% off
[*]Ultimate Edition - $79.99 - 20% off
[*]Gears of War 4 - $19.99 - 50% off

[*]Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition - $20.00 - 50% off
[*]Middle-Earth: Shadow of War - $41.99 - 30% off

[*]Ruiner - $13.99 - 30% off
[*]Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure - $19.49 - 35% off
[*]Songbringer - $9.99 - 50% off
[*]Super Lucky's Tale - $19.49 - 35% off
[*]Tacoma - $9.99 - 50% off
[*]Voodoo Vince: Remastered - $7.49 - 50% off
[*]Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection - $19.49 - 35% off
XB1 - check marketplace for non-Gold prices, or just spend the $1

[*]Aerea - $15.00 - 50% off
[*]Agents of Mayhem - Total Mayhem Bundle - $25.00 - 50% off
[*]Arcade Game Series 3-In-1 Pack - $3.20 - 60% off
[*]Assassin's Creed Chronicles - Trilogy - $10.00 - 60% off
[*]Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag - $12.00 - 60% off
[*]Assassin's Creed Origins - $40.19 - 33% off

[*]Assassin's Creed Syndicate - $20.00 - 60% off

[*]Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection - $20.00 - 60% off
[*]Assassin's Creed Unity - $12.00 - 60% off
[*]Assetto Corsa - $17.99 - 40% off

[*]Astroneer - $11.99 - 40% off
[*]Aven Colony - $17.99 - 40% off
[*]Axiom Verge - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Baja: Edge of Control HD - $23.99 - 20% off
[*]Bastion - $7.50 - 50% off
[*]Batman: Arkham Knight - $10.00 - 50% off

[*]Batman: Return To Arkham - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Batman: The Enemy Within - The Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $14.99 - 40% off
[*]Batman: The Telltale Series - The Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $7.50 - 70% off
[*]Battle Ages City of Gems (1200) - $5.00 - 50% off
[*]Battle Islands Pile of Gold (1200) - $5.00 - 50% off
[*]Battle Islands Commanders Pile of Gold (1200) - $5.00 - 50% off
[*]Battleborn - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Battlefield 1 & Titanfall 2 Ultimate Bundle - $32.00 - 60% off
[*]Battlefield 1 Revolution - $24.00 - 60% off

[*]Battlefield Anniversary Bundle - $59.99 - 40% off
[*]Battlefield Bundle - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Bioshock: The Collection - $19.80 - 67% off
[*]Black & White Bushido - $6.50 - 50% off
[*]Black the Fall - $10.49 - 30% off
[*]Blood Bowl 2 - Legendary Edition - $30.14 - 33% off
[*]Borderlands: The Handsome Collection - $19.80 - 67% off
[*]Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - $6.00 - 70% off
[*]Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition - $13.20 - 67% off

[*]Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Zombies Chronicles Edition - $44.99 - 25% off

[*]Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered - $29.99 - 25% off
[*]Call of Duty: WWII + Destiny 2 Bundle - $89.99 - 25% off

[*]Call of Duty: WWII - $44.99 - 25% off

[*]Candleman - $10.04 - 33% off
[*]Child of Light - $4.50 - 70% off
[*]Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Ultimate Edition - $17.16 - 67% off
[*]Conan Exiles - $33.49 - 33% off
[*]Constructor - $20.00 - 50% off
[*]The Crew - $12.00 - 60% off

[*]Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin - $16.00 - 60% off
[*]Dark Souls III - $19.80 - 67% off

[*]DC Universe Online

[*]De Blob - $14.99 - 25% off
[*]Dead Alliance - $12.00 - 70% off
[*]Dead By Daylight: Special Edition - $17.99 - 40% off
[*]Dead Island Definitive Edition - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]Dead Island Retro Revenge - $2.00 - 60% off
[*]Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]Dead Rising - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Dead Rising 2 - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Dead Rising 2 Off the Record - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Dead Rising 4 - $13.20 - 67% off

[*]Dead Rising Triple Bundle Pack - $23.80 - 60% off
[*]Deadcore - $4.00 - 50% off
[*]Defense Grid 2 - $2.25 - 85% off
[*]Destiny 2 - $38.99 - 35% off

[*]Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - $9.00 - 85% off

[*]Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition - $9.90 - 67% off
[*]Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition - $12.50 - 50% off
[*]Demon Hunter Bundle - $18.00 - 50% off
[*]Dirt 4 - $30.00 - 50% off
[*]Dishonored Definitive Edition - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Dishonored The Complete Collection - $40.00 - 50% off
[*]Dishonored: Death of the Outsider - $20.09 - 33% off

[*]Dishonored 2 - $25.99 - 35% off
[*]The Disney Afternoon Collection - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Don't Starve Together: Console Edition - $9.74 - 35% off
[*]Doom - $20.09 - 33% off
[*]Dovetail Games Euro Fishing - $9.25 - 50% off
[*]Dragon Age: Inquisition - GOTY Edition - $13.20 - 67% off

[*]Dragon Ball Xenoverse - $12.00 - 70% off

[*]Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 - $30.00 - 50% off

[*]Dragon Ball Xenoverse Super Bundle - $50.99 - 40% off
[*]Dreamfall Chapters - $15.00 - 50% off
[*]Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour - $6.60 - 67% off
[*]Dungeon Defenders II

[*]Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition - $20.09 - 33% off
[*]The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition - $30.00 - 50% off

[*]The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - $25.99 - 35% off
[*]The Escapists 2 - $16.99 - 15% off

[*]Euro Fishing: Urban Edition - $12.50 - 50% off
[*]The Evil Within - $6.60 - 67% off

[*]The Evil Within 2 - $35.99 - 40% off
[*]Evolve - $7.50 - 75% off

[*]F1 2017 - $32.99 - 45% off
[*]Fallout 4 - $20.09 - 33% off

[*]Far Cry 4 + Far Cry Primal Bundle - $23.10 - 67% off
[*]Far Cry 4 - $16.00 - 60% off

[*]Far Cry Primal - $20.00 - 60% off

[*]Farming Simulator 17 - $16.00 - 60% off

[*]FIFA 18 & NBA Live 18: The One Edition Bundle - $32.00 - 60% off
[*]FIFA 18 & NHL 18 Bundle - $40.00 - 60% off
[*]FIFA 18 And Need For Speed Payback Bundle - $50.00 - 50% off
[*]FIFA 18 - $24.00 - 60% off

[*]Final Fantasy Type-0 HD - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Final Fantasy XV - $20.00 - 60% off

[*]For Honor Standard Edition - $19.80 - 67% off

[*]Forced - $7.50 - 50% off
[*]Fortnite - Standard Founder's Pack - $20.00 - 50% off

[*]Forza Horizon 2 Complete Add-Ons Collection - $29.25 - 75% off
[*]Game of Thrones - The Complete First Season (Episodes 1-6) - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]Gears of War: Ultimate Edition - Day One Version - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Gems of War Legendary Starter Pack - $25.00 - 50% off
[*]Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved - $4.95 - 67% off
[*]Get Even - $15.00 - 50% off
[*]Goat Simulator: The Goaty - $9.00 - 70% off

[*]The Golf Club 2 - $16.00 - 60% off
[*]Grand Theft Auto V - $30.00 - 50% off

[*]Halo 5: Guardians - $14.99 - 25% off

[*]Happy Dungeons Golden Start Bundle - $22.50 - 50% off
[*]Hasbro Family Fun Pack - $16.00 - 60% off

[*]Hawken - Triple Mech Pack - $20.00 - 60% off
[*]Homefront: The Revolution - $9.00 - 70% off

[*]How To Survive: Storm Warning Edition - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]How To Survive 2 - $8.24 - 45% off
[*]The Hunter: Call of the Wild - $29.99 - 25% off
[*]I Am Bread - $3.25 - 75% off
[*]Inside - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]The Jackbox Party Pack 4 - $16.74 - 33% off
[*]Jettomero: Hero of the Universe - $10.39 - 20% off
[*]Just Cause 3 - $12.00 - 80% off

[*]Just Dance 2018 - $40.19 - 33% off
[*]Killing Floor 2 - $23.99 - 40% off
[*]King's Quest : The Complete Collection - $15.00 - 50% off
[*]Kingdom: New Lands - $6.00 - 60% off
[*]Knight Squad - $3.75 - 75% off
[*]Kona - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]L.A. Noire - $29.99 - 25% off
[*]Lara Croft And the Temple of Osiris - $3.00 - 85% off

[*]Lego City Undercover - $20.00 - 50% off
[*]Lego Jurassic World - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 - $41.99 - 30% off

[*]Lego Marvel's Avengers - $10.00 - 50% off

[*]The Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game - $19.80 - 67% off
[*]Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $11.99 - 40% off

[*]Lego Worlds - $15.00 - 50% off
[*]Life Is Strange Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Deluxe Edition - $17.49 - 30% off
[*]Little Nightmares - $10.00 - 50% off

[*]Mad Max - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Madden NFL 18 - $24.00 - 60% off

[*]Mafia III - $16.00 - 60% off

[*]Maize - $13.39 - 33% off
[*]Mantis Burn Racing - $7.50 - 50% off
[*]Manual Samuel - $2.00 - 80% off
[*]Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite - $35.99 - 40% off

[*]Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series - The Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Bundle - $30.00 - 50% off
[*]Mass Effect: Andromeda - Standard Recruit Edition - $12.00 - 60% off

[*]Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 & 2 Combo Pack - $17.99 - 40% off
[*]Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience - $19.49 - 35% off
[*]Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor - GOTY Edition - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]The Minecraft: Story Mode Bundle - $14.00 - 60% off
[*]Minecraft: Story Mode - The Complete Adventure (Episodes 1-8) - $9.00 - 70% off

[*]Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two - The Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $12.50 - 50% off
[*]Mirror's Edge Catalyst - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Monopoly Family Fun Pack - $6.00 - 70% off
[*]Monopoly Plus - $7.50 - 50% off
[*]Mount & Blade: Warband - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]Mr. Pumpkin Adventure - $2.00 - 50% off
[*]The Mummy Demastered - $13.99 - 30% off
[*]Murdered: Soul Suspect - $4.00 - 80% off
[*]MX Vs. ATV All In Edition (Limited) - $30.00 - 75% off
[*]N++ (Nplusplus) - $11.24 - 25% off
[*]Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 - $15.00 - 50% off

[*]Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy - $48.99 - 30% off
[*]Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy - $27.99 - 30% off
[*]NBA 2K18 - $38.99 - 35% off

[*]NBA Live 18: The One Edition - $9.90 - 67% off
[*]NBA Playgrounds - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Necropolis - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Need For Speed Deluxe Upgrade - $4.49 - 10% off
[*]Need For Speed Payback - $30.00 - 50% off

[*]NHL 18 - $24.00 - 60% off

[*]One Piece: Burning Blood - $15.00 - 75% off

[*]Ori And the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Overcooked: Gourmet Edition - $7.09 - 67% off
[*]Overwatch GOTY Edition - $30.00 - 50% off
[*]Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 - $6.50 - 50% off
[*]Path of Exile First Blood Bundle - $11.99 - 40% off
[*]Payday 2: Crimewave Edition - $8.00 - 60% off

[*]Phantom Dust Multiplayer Content Pack - $7.49 - 50% off
[*]Pixel Piracy - $4.95 - 67% off
[*]Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 - Frosty Standard Edition - $10.00 - 50% off

[*]Portal Knights - $11.99 - 40% off

[*]Prey - $25.99 - 35% off
[*]Prison Architect: Xbox One Edition - $9.00 - 70% off
[*]Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 - $35.99 - 40% off

[*]Project Cars 2 - $35.99 - 40% off
[*]Prominence Poker

[*]Prototype Biohazard Bundle - $16.50 - 67% off
[*]Pure Farming 2018 Digital Deluxe Edition - $44.99 - 10% off
[*]Quantum Break - $20.00 - 50% off
[*]Raid: World War II - $23.99 - 40% off
[*]Rayman Legends - $5.00 - 75% off
[*]ReCore - $14.99 - 25% off
[*]Resident Evil - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Resident Evil 0 - $10.00 - 50% off

[*]Resident Evil 4 - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Resident Evil 5 - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Resident Evil 6 - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Resident Evil 7 Biohazard - $24.89 - 17% off

[*]Resident Evil Revelations 1 & 2 Bundle - $29.99 - 25% off
[*]Resident Evil Revelations - $13.99 - 30% off
[*]Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition - $12.00 - 60% off

[*]Resident Evil Triple Pack - $23.80 - 60% off
[*]Resident Evil: Deluxe Origins Bundle - $13.20 - 67% off
[*]Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration - $19.80 - 67% off

[*]Rocket League - $11.99 - 40% off
[*]Rogue Stormers - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Rogue Trooper Redux - $16.74 - 33% off
[*]Rugby 18 - $38.99 - 35% off
[*]RWBY: Grimm Eclipse - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Ryse: Legendary Edition - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Saints Row IV: Re-Elected - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell - $6.00 - 60% off
[*]Screamride - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Shadow Warrior 2 - $16.00 - 60% off
[*]The Shadow Warrior Collection - $21.00 - 70% off
[*]Shiny - $6.99 - 30% off
[*]The Sims 4 - $34.99 - 30% off

[*]Skylar & Plux: Adventure On Clover Island - $4.50 - 70% off
[*]Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition - $4.50 - 85% off
[*]Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition - $12.00 - 70% off
[*]Sniper Elite 4 - $35.99 - 40% off
[*]South Park: The Fractured But Whole - $30.00 - 50% off - $40.19 - 33% off

[*]Spheroids - $3.99 - 50% off
[*]Star Wars Battlefront II - $35.99 - 40% off

[*]State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Steamworld Dig - $2.50 - 75% off
[*]Subnautica - $13.39 - 33% off
[*]Subterrain - $6.80 - 60% off
[*]Sunset Overdrive - $7.50 - 75% off

[*]Super Cloudbuilt - $10.00 - 50% off
[*]Super Time Force - $4.50 - 70% off
[*]Surf World Series - $11.24 - 25% off
[*]Tales From the Borderlands Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $3.75 - 75% off

[*]Tekken 7 - $30.00 - 50% off

[*]The Telltale Batman Bundle - $16.00 - 60% off
[*]The Telltale Games Collection - $44.00 - 60% off
[*]Thief - $4.00 - 80% off
[*]This War of Mine: The Little Ones - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Titanfall 2: Ultimate Edition - $16.00 - 60% off
[*]Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Standard Edition - $24.00 - 60% off

[*]Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege + The Division Bundle - $35.00 - 50% off
[*]Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - $20.00 - 60% off

[*]Tom Clancy's The Division - $15.00 - 70% off

[*]Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - $7.50 - 75% off
[*]Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 - $19.80 - 67% off
[*]Trackmania Turbo - $12.00 - 70% off
[*]Trials Fusion - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]Trials of the Blood Dragon - $7.50 - 50% off
[*]Trove Fast Fortune - $14.99 - 25% off
[*]Trulon: The Shadow Engine - $8.00 - 60% off
[*]UFC 2 - $16.00 - 60% off

[*]Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 - $12.50 - 50% off
[*]Unbox: Newbie's Adventure - $15.00 - 50% off
[*]Valkyria Revolution - $23.99 - 40% off
[*]Verdun - $6.00 - 70% off
[*]Vermintide - Digital Value Pack - $39.99 - 20% off
[*]Virginia - $4.00 - 60% off
[*]The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season - $6.25 - 75% off
[*]The Walking Dead: Season Two - $6.25 - 75% off
[*]The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - The Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) - $10.00 - 60% off
[*]The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries - $4.50 - 70% off
[*]Warframe

[*]Watch Dogs2 - $18.00 - 70% off

[*]What Remains of Edith Finch - $12.99 - 35% off
[*]The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - $20.00 - 50% off

[*]The Wolf Among Us - $6.25 - 75% off
[*]Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - $35.99 - 40% off

[*]Wolfenstein: The New Order - $11.99 - 40% off
[*]Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - $11.99 - 40% off
[*]Wolfenstein: The Two-Pack - $20.09 - 33% off
[*]WRC Collection Fia World Rally Championship - $71.99 - 40% off Price History
[*]Wuppo - $14.99 - 25% off
[*]WWE 2K18 - $35.99 - 40% off

[*]X-MORPH: Defense - $13.39 - 33% off
[*]XCOM 2 - $19.80 - 67% off

[*]Yooka-Laylee - $20.00 - 50% off


​​Some notes
  • You cannot currently buy any Xbox 360 content on xbox.com using your account balance, you can only use an active credit card or PayPal. To use your balance, you must make purchases on your console.  Unfortunately, even "purchasing" free content through the web site like trials requires an alternative method of payment tied to your account, though adding an empty MasterCard / Visa gift card that is registered for online purchases will work.  Xbox One games can be purchased on the web site with your account balance.
  • Some sales are intended for Gold subscribers only, as noted within each section.
    On Xbox One, Gold trials of any length work for sales and Games with Gold.  You must be an active Gold subscriber (paid or trial) to play Games with Gold purchases.
  • On Xbox 360, you must have at least a 1 month Gold subscription for sales and Games with Gold.  Neither 48 hour trials, 14 day trials nor free weekends qualify.

[*]All known sales and information on sales should make their way into the OP. Major Nelson usually updates his blog with new sales information every Tuesday.
[*]ALL OFFERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE! No information within this thread can or should be construed as accurate (or still valid), therefore ...
[*]Always verify Xbox Live Marketplace prices before your purchase!
[*]Spend wisely, have fun, and enjoy!
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I still think it's a decent argument. Generally only hardcore people have a PC strong enough to play stuff at max settings, but playing at the same settings as a standard Xbox One or PS4 isn't that difficult, and many of the most popular PC games will run on toasters, like DotA 2 or Overwatch.

You've got to keep in mind that at this point Xbox only really has a strong footing here in the US. PlayStation has been king of Europe since it came into existence, and PC is more widespread in many European countries, hence the focus on PC much more during Gamescom than E3, or the Russia only Halo Online.

Though consoles make up a much larger percentage of the overall market, think of how many of those are more casual players that only play sports or CoD or whatever and wouldn't care about the majority of exclusives anyways, or young kids that are happy with whatever they're given.

 
I heart fast load times.

The reviews for the just-released Samsung T5 Portable SSD have been very positive so far.  I would love to have it as a companion to the Xbox One X - even if it doesn't look like the X will make use of USB 3.1 Gen 2.  (10 GBps load times would've been amazing!)

But that one terabyte version is still 80% of the cost of the Xbox One X itself, though. Why can't we get 2GB of SSD speeds at $250 yet?  LoL.

 
Cage017 said:
This might make you feel better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxwGDFVCXE

I can honestly say I never thought of trying the beams on the Guts Man stage. I mean, how crazy would it be if someone actually jumped on each of those platforms in the Guts Man stage and got through every time?

And even crazier .... a CAG posted their attempt on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To8ZQxJr4cQ Guts Man starts at 12:23

Can't say I've ever tried speedrunning, though. I'd rather go at my own pace with games and play it naturally without using cheats and glitches. Getting to the end of the game was enough of an achievement for me (with Mega Man, it's playing it in a different order almost every time and still beating it).

#cheapass[patient]gamer
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Just saw this, that trailer is pretty funny. "...and sometimes total fucking bullshit." Yep. Also, describing MMZ as 'the Dark Souls of a series which was already Dark Souls." The ranking system in MMZ2 and onward stresses me out so much I can't enjoy them, but the original is still a great (and very unforgiving) game.

 
Donken said:
What kills me is when PSN locks in deals on these exclusives that make no sense, like this Secret of Mana remake that should be coming to all platforms. I want Phil out making these deals on Xbox.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/25/16201488/secret-of-mana-remake-ps4-vita-windows-pc-release-date
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But it does make sense. Final Fantasy XV sold a higher margin on the PS4 and the XBox is a barren wasteland for JRPG's and the last few home console Mana sequels came out on PS2 and PS1.

 
Here is some more info on the Definitive Edition of ReCore (from Señor Ybarra) --> https://www.recoregame.com/upcoming-updates-new-adventures-recore-definitive-edition/

UPCOMING UPDATES & NEW ADVENTURES IN RECORE: DEFINITIVE EDITION

New Adventure

  • “Eye of Obsidian” is a brand new chapter in the ReCore story. Join the plucky Corebot, Violet, and journey into the permanent midnight of the “Starving Sea”, a previously unexplored region of Far Eden where ancient enemies plot their revenge on the last remnants of humankind!

New Companion

  • T8-NK Corebot (“Tank”)

New Areas to Explore

  • 2 New Overworlds
  • 10 New Dungeons
  • Dynamic sandstorms in Far Eden’s Shifting Sands regions. Brave the storms to defeat more dangerous enemies and earn more valuable loot.

New Weapon Modes

  • 3 new weapon modes for Joule’s Energy Rifle (switch to these instead of the charge shot)

Load Times

  • When dying, reload times for combat encounters went from 30-60 seconds to < 5 seconds
  • Restarting traversals and arenas are now instantaneous (was a load before)
  • Optimized Level/Area Load Times

Prismatic Cores

  • Added P-Cores for additional game play rewards and made them show up on the map from greater distances
  • P-Core requirements fixed to a single value for the entire E-Tower. (Once you’re in the E-Tower, you no longer need additional cores.)

The Map

  • The Map displays everything that needs to be collected (audio logs, chests, prismatic cores)
  • The Map shows all visual parts of dungeon maps
  • Objective Markers improved
  • Map improvements (greater visual detail, better iconography, improved zoom functionality, more game elements show up like power cells, audio logs, etc)

Fast Travel

  • Fast Travel points now allow the player to complete Stash Transfers, Swap Cores and set their Companion Party Configuration without having to go back to the Sandcrawler
  • The player can now warp anywhere there is a Fast Travel node via the Map
  • Intra-Level (e.g. within The Cradle) fast travel warping is now instantaneous
  • Added a few new Fast Travel nodes (Granite Steps, Lonely Basin, The Cradle)

Gear

  • All new AoK gear for all Corebots
  • Armor stats now make each Set vastly different from one another & the Perks have been refined and polished
  • Blueprint Inventory now sorts by Armor Type, Color and LVL requirement

Combat

  • Improved the Combo Meter to encourage much higher combo amounts, with the ability to chain combos for a longer period of time.
  • At high combos (more than x10), the player now keeps some of the combo meter after using an extract!
  • Global weapon tuning, enemy health and damage balancing, and late game encounter improvements

General

  • Enhanced visuals (increased resolution and HDR support)
  • 20 New Achievements and 500 gamerscore.
  • Increased level cap from 30 to 40
  • 4 new bosses and Tank challenges
  • Various UX and Feedback fixes (Core Pulling HUD, Combo Counter feedback & wordsmithing, menu navigation)
  • Audio for pickups, combat feedback, rewards improved
  • Dialogue from Corebots and Violet is no longer in the Corebot language and is now readable

 
bardockkun said:
But it does make sense. Final Fantasy XV sold a higher margin on the PS4 and the XBox is a barren wasteland for JRPG's and the last few home console Mana sequels came out on PS2 and PS1.
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I'm glad I have both consoles cause damn I need to play Secret of Mana. Game holds a special place in my heart.

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bardockkun said:
But it does make sense. Final Fantasy XV sold a higher margin on the PS4 and the XBox is a barren wasteland for JRPG's and the last few home console Mana sequels came out on PS2 and PS1.
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The original is a Nintendo game, why not make the remake available on everyone including Switch and Xbox. I could play it on PC but I don't like sitting at my computer so now I'll end up just playing the old one on my SNES mini instead. Just saying, they would have got an easy sale out of me if it came to Xbox. That was my first RPG as a kid. I replayed it on Wii when it came to that virtual console.
 
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But it does make sense. Final Fantasy XV sold a higher margin on the PS4 and the XBox is a barren wasteland for JRPG's and the last few home console Mana sequels came out on PS2 and PS1.
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The original (the one being remade) is a SNES game. No idea why the remake isn't on the Switch.

 
Masters_93 said:
The original (the one being remade) is a SNES game. No idea why the remake isn't on the Switch.
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I'm sure Sony gave them a bucket of cash. No way they would make a Vita version that will sell 10's of copies instead of a Switch and Xbox version unless Sony shot the Money cannon at them.
 
Masters_93 said:
The original (the one being remade) is a SNES game. No idea why the remake isn't on the Switch.
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Because the Switch is getting a compilation of all the 16-bit games in one collection probably. That and I think Square Enix is doing a wait and see approach with the Switch before releasing too much on it.

And in the end Playstation IS the JRPG console. To think or assume every Square Enix game that hasn't been a decade in development is going to make it to XBox is unrealistic.

 
David Hibiki said:
Yeah the XBox hate is strong online. I understand MS fucked up at the start of this gen with the Kinect and DRM policies before getting reversed... but damn. Almost at the point I wish PSN would go offline for a few days just for them to shut up.
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Funny, that already happened and also funny how easily gamers' memories will forget it.

akathatoneguy said:
On the topic of exclusives, I'm not in the camp that believes being a console exclusive means nothing. A lot of people who play on consoles don't care about playing on PC and to people like that, being on XB1 and PC might as well be the same as XB1 exclusive. I know PS fans make fun of it, but if it's not on PS and it's on XB1, that's exclusive enough to me.
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I really hate the rebuttal "but yeah it's also available on PC so it's not an exclusive". Ok, then, should you be more or less happy you can only play that game on one platform? That usually throws a wrench in their logic wheel. Some of my favorite games are multiplatform these days, it's just the direction the industry is going and in a good way. That said, it's funny my GT isn't thatForzaguy lol. I love racing games and there's no better place to play them on than the Xbox 360/One.

 
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Here is some more info on the Definitive Edition of ReCore (from Señor Ybarra) --&gt; https://www.recoregame.com/upcoming-updates-new-adventures-recore-definitive-edition/

UPCOMING UPDATES &amp; NEW ADVENTURES IN RECORE: DEFINITIVE EDITION

New Adventure

  • “Eye of Obsidian” is a brand new chapter in the ReCore story. Join the plucky Corebot, Violet, and journey into the permanent midnight of the “Starving Sea”, a previously unexplored region of Far Eden where ancient enemies plot their revenge on the last remnants of humankind!
New Companion
  • T8-NK Corebot (“Tank”)
New Areas to Explore
  • 2 New Overworlds
  • 10 New Dungeons
  • Dynamic sandstorms in Far Eden’s Shifting Sands regions. Brave the storms to defeat more dangerous enemies and earn more valuable loot.
New Weapon Modes
  • 3 new weapon modes for Joule’s Energy Rifle (switch to these instead of the charge shot)
Load Times
  • When dying, reload times for combat encounters went from 30-60 seconds to &lt; 5 seconds
  • Restarting traversals and arenas are now instantaneous (was a load before)
  • Optimized Level/Area Load Times
Prismatic Cores
  • Added P-Cores for additional game play rewards and made them show up on the map from greater distances
  • P-Core requirements fixed to a single value for the entire E-Tower. (Once you’re in the E-Tower, you no longer need additional cores.)
The Map
  • The Map displays everything that needs to be collected (audio logs, chests, prismatic cores)
  • The Map shows all visual parts of dungeon maps
  • Objective Markers improved
  • Map improvements (greater visual detail, better iconography, improved zoom functionality, more game elements show up like power cells, audio logs, etc)
Fast Travel
  • Fast Travel points now allow the player to complete Stash Transfers, Swap Cores and set their Companion Party Configuration without having to go back to the Sandcrawler
  • The player can now warp anywhere there is a Fast Travel node via the Map
  • Intra-Level (e.g. within The Cradle) fast travel warping is now instantaneous
  • Added a few new Fast Travel nodes (Granite Steps, Lonely Basin, The Cradle)
Gear
  • All new AoK gear for all Corebots
  • Armor stats now make each Set vastly different from one another &amp; the Perks have been refined and polished
  • Blueprint Inventory now sorts by Armor Type, Color and LVL requirement
Combat
  • Improved the Combo Meter to encourage much higher combo amounts, with the ability to chain combos for a longer period of time.
  • At high combos (more than x10), the player now keeps some of the combo meter after using an extract!
  • Global weapon tuning, enemy health and damage balancing, and late game encounter improvements
General
  • Enhanced visuals (increased resolution and HDR support)
  • 20 New Achievements and 500 gamerscore.
  • Increased level cap from 30 to 40
  • 4 new bosses and Tank challenges
  • Various UX and Feedback fixes (Core Pulling HUD, Combo Counter feedback &amp; wordsmithing, menu navigation)
  • Audio for pickups, combat feedback, rewards improved
  • Dialogue from Corebots and Violet is no longer in the Corebot language and is now readable
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Hoping that as long as I have it loaded before 8/29 I will get the update. I just installed the other night. I was going to wait on this game as I heard it needed updates, but then the updates came.
 
I just noticed I have about $4 of MS funds that were somehow promotional and is expiring on Monday. So, what would be a better buy: Oblivion or Fallout 3?
 
Masters_93 said:
I just noticed I have about $4 of MS funds that were somehow promotional and is expiring on Monday. So, what would be a better buy: Oblivion or Fallout 3?
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Definitely oblivion. It's a more hilarious game than f3. All the bad voice acting and stupid ai makes its hilarious to play and watch npcs kill each other an say dumb things like "stop right there criminal scum!" when you just picked up a apple an moved it.
 
Masters_93 said:
I just noticed I have about $4 of MS funds that were somehow promotional and is expiring on Monday. So, what would be a better buy: Oblivion or Fallout 3?
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We have a saying for things that are hard to compare and hard to make a decision. That's a tough one.

"You can argue this until the cows come home."

Lol, I think it boils down to do you like Fantasy Past or Post-Apocalyptic Future.

 
Spybreak9 said:
We have a saying for things that are hard to compare and hard to make a decision. That's a tough one.

"You can argue this until the cows come home."

Lol, I think it boils down to do you like Fantasy Past or Post-Apocalyptic Future.
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I always thought Oblivion looked like hot garbage and I wasn't a big fan of the rifts or w/e they were.
 
Just used my free GS Funko code that was linked here the other day. Thank you to whoever posted that again. Picked up a Scarif Stormtrooper today.
 
SIX min WHISTLE said:
I don't know how many here are interested, but the former lead writer of Half-Life that left Valve a couple years ago posted an outline of Half-Life 3's plot last night, written from Gordon's perspective. It's suspected that an NDA ended as it's just shy of 10 years since Episode 2 released. He originally changed all the names to protect him from legal stuff, but someone fixed it for easier reading. The first and final paragraphs are very likely in reference to Laidlaw himself and the Valve situation.

His site has crashed from all the traffic, here is the fixed version, text in spoiler if you want. This is probably the only resolution we'll ever get at this point, but I guess don't read it if you're holding out hope for the game to actually happen.

https://pastebin.com/q9DMFa7c

I hope this letter finds you well. I can hear your complaint already, “Gordon Freeman, we have not heard from you in ages!” Well, if you care to hear excuses, I have plenty, the greatest of them being I’ve been in other dimensions and whatnot, unable to reach you by the usual means. This was the case until eighteen months ago, when I experienced a critical change in my circumstances, and was redeposited on these shores. In the time since, I have been able to think occasionally about how best to describe the intervening years, my years of silence. I do first apologize for the wait, and that done, hasten to finally explain (albeit briefly, quickly, and in very little detail) events following those described in my previous game (referred to herewith as Episode 2).

To begin with, as you may recall from the closing paragraphs of my previous missive, the death of Eli Vance shook us all. The Resistance team was traumatized, unable to be sure how much of our plan might be compromised, and whether it made any sense to go on at all as we had intended. And yet, once Eli had been buried, we found the strength and courage to regroup. It was the strong belief of his brave daughter, the feisty Alyx Vance, that we should continue on as her father had wished. We had the Antarctic coordinates, transmitted by Eli's long-time assistant, Dr. Judith Mossman, which we believed to mark the location of the lost luxury liner Borealis. Eli had felt strongly that the Borealis should be destroyed rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the Combine. Others on our team disagreed, believing that the Borealis might hold the secret to the revolution’s success. Either way, the arguments were moot until we found the vessel. Therefore, immediately after the service for Dr. Vance, Alyx and I boarded a seaplane and set off for the Antarctic; a much larger support team, mainly militia, was to follow by separate transport.

It is still unclear to me exactly what brought down our little aircraft. The following hours spent traversing the frigid waste in a blizzard are also a jumbled blur, ill-remembered and poorly defined. The next thing I clearly recall is our final approach to the coordinates Dr. Mossman has provided, and where we expected to find the Borealis. What we found instead was a complex fortified installation, showing all the hallmarks of sinister Combine technology. It surrounded a large open field of ice. Of the Borealis itself there was no sign…or not at first. But as we stealthily infiltrated the Combine installation, we noticed a recurent, strangely coherent auroral effect–as of a vast hologram fading in and out of view. This bizarre phenomenon initially seemed an effect caused by an immense Combine lensing system, Alyx and I soon realized that what we were actually seeing was the luxury liner Borealis itself, phasing in and out of existence at the focus of the Combine devices. The aliens had erected their compound to study and seize the ship whenever it materialized. What Dr. Mossman had provided were not coordinates for where the sub was located, but instead for where it was predicted to arrive. The liner was oscillating in and out of our reality, its pulses were gradually steadying, but there was no guarantee it would settle into place for long–or at all. We determined that we must put ourselves into position to board it at the instant it became completely physical.

At this point we were briefly detained–not captured by the Combine, as we feared at first, but by minions of our former nemesis, the conniving and duplicitous Wallace Breen. Dr. Breen was not as we had last seen him–which is to say, he was not dead. At some point, the Combine had saved out an earlier version of his consciousness, and upon his physical demise, they had imprinted the back-up personality into a biological blank resembling an enormous grub. The Breen-grub, despite occupying a position of relative power in the Combine hierarchy, seemed nervous and frightened of me in particular. Wallace did not know how his previous incarnation, the original Dr. Breen, had died. He knew only that I was responsible. Therefore the grub treated us with great caution. Still, he soon confessed (never able to keep quiet for long) that he was herself a prisoner of the Combine. He took no pleasure from her current grotesque existence, and pleaded with us to end his life. Alyx believed that a quick death was more than Wallace Breen deserved, but for my part, I felt a modicum of pity and compassion. Out of Alyx ’s sight, I might have done something to hasten the grub’s demise before we proceeded.

Not far from where we had been detained by Dr. Breen, we found Judith Mossman being held in a Combine interrogation cell. Things were tense between Judith and Alyx, as might be imagined. Alyx blamed Judith for her father’s death…news of which, Judith was devastated to hear for the first time. Judith tried to convince Alyx that she had been a double agent serving the resistance all along, doing only what Eli had asked of her, even though she knew it meant he risked being seen by her peers–by all of us–as a traitor. I was convinced; Alyx less so. But from a pragmatic point of view, we depended on Dr. Mossman; for along with the Borealis coordinates, she possessed resonance keys which would be necessary to bring the liner fully into our plane of existence.

We skirmished with Combine soldiers protecting a Combine research post, then Dr. Mossman attuned the Borealis to precisely the frequencies needed to bring it into (brief) coherence. In the short time available to us, we scrambled aboard the ship, with an unknown number of Combine agents close behind. The ship cohered for only a short time, and then its oscillations resume. It was too late for our own military support, which arrived and joined the Combine forces in battle just as we rebounded between universes, once again unmoored.

What happened next is even harder to explain. Alyx Vance, Dr. Mossman and myself sought control of the ship–its power source, its control room, its navigation center. The liner’s history proved nonlinear. Years before, during the Combine invasion, various members of an earlier science team, working in the hull of a dry-docked liner situated at the Aperture Science Enrichment Center in Lake Huron, had assembled what they called the Bootstrap Device. If it worked as intended, it would emit a field large enough to surround the ship. This field would then itself travel instantaneously to any chosen destination without having to cover the intervening space. There was no need for entry or exit portals, or any other devices; it was entirely self-contained. Unfortunately, the device had never been tested. As the Combine pushed Earth into the Seven Hour War, the aliens seized control of our most important research facilities. The staff of the Borealis , with no other wish than to keep the ship out of Combine hands, acted in desperation. The switched on the field and flung the Borealis toward the most distant destination they could target: Antarctica. What they did not realize was that the Bootstrap Device travelled in time as well as space. Nor was it limited to one time or one location. The Borealis, and the moment of its activation, were stretched across space and time, between the nearly forgotten Lake Michigan of the Seven Hour War and the present day Antarctic; it was pulled taut as an elastic band, vibrating, except where at certain points along its length one could find still points, like the harmonic spots along a vibrating guitar string. One of these harmonics was where we boarded, but the string ran forward and back, in both time and space, and we were soon pulled in every direction ourselves.

Time grew confused. Looking from the bridge, we could see the drydocks of Aperture Science at the moment of teleportation, just as the Combine forces closed in from land, sea and air. At the same time, we could see the Antarctic wastelands, where our friends were fighting to make their way to the protean Borealis; and in addition, glimpses of other worlds, somewhere in the future perhaps, or even in the past. Alyx grew convinced we were seeing one of the Combine’s central staging areas for invading other worlds–such as our own. We meanwhile fought a running battle throughout the ship, pursued by Combine forces. We struggled to understand our stiuation, and to agree on our course of action. Could we alter the course of the Borealis? Should we run it aground in the Antarctic, giving our peers the chance to study it? Should we destroy it with all hands aboard, our own included? It was impossible to hold a coherent thought, given the baffling and paradoxical timeloops, which passed through the ship like bubbles. I felt I was going mad, that we all were, confronting myriad versions of ourselves, in that ship that was half ghost-ship, half nightmare funhouse.

What it came down to, at last, was a choice. Judith Mossman argued, reasonably, that we should save the Borealis and deliver it to the Resistance, that our intelligent peers might study and harness its power. But Alyx reminded me she had sworn she would honor her father’s demand that we destroy the ship. She hatched a plan to set the Borealis to self-destruct, while riding it into the heart of the Combine’s invasion nexus. Judith and Alyx argued. Judith overpowered Alyx and brought the Borealis area, preparing to shut off the Bootstrap Device and settle the ship on the ice. Then I heard a shot, and Judith fell. Alyx had decided for all of us, or her weapon had. With Dr. Mossman dead, we were committed to the suicide plunge. Grimly, Alyx and I armed the Borealis, creating a time-travelling missile, and steered it for the heart of the Combine’s command center.

At this point, as you will no doubt be unsurprised to hear, a Certain Sinister Figure appeared, in the form of that sneering trickster, the G-Man. For once he appeared not to me, but to Alyx Vance. Alyx had not seen the cryptical schoolmarm (no male equivalent) since childhood, but she recognized him instantly. “Come along with me now, we’ve places to do and things to be,” said the G-Man, and Alyx acquiesced. She followed the strange grey man out of the Borealis, out of our reality. For me, there was no convenient door held open; only a snicker and a sideways glance. I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart. And what remained of me would be even less than that.

Just then, as you have surely already foreseen, the Vortigaunts parted their own checkered curtains of reality, reached in as they have on prior occasions, plucked me out, and set me aside. I barely got to see the fireworks begin.

And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists. I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it. Except no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode.

Yours in infinite finality,

Gordon Freeman, Ph.D.
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I'm glad they never made the third game since this sounds very unsatisfying. While Half-Life 2 had some interesting gameplay ideas, the story lost me entirely, and with this I have to accept that the third game would not have redeemed the series.

 
Colddecembersnow said:
Funny. I had an argument on the last XB thread about them eventually fading out the FatBox in favor of the S and (at the time) Scorpio but everyone kept talking about the S being limited run and it making sense to only keep the Scorpio around for 4K.
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It was pretty much known from the beginning that the S would be taking over for the core system once they had sold through so not sure who you would have been arguing with.

 
Colddecembersnow said:
I always thought Oblivion looked like hot garbage and I wasn't a big fan of the rifts or w/e they were.
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Well yeah it came out in 2006. A lot of people wanted Oblivion to be remastered over Skyrim because like it hasn't aged well and it could use the pick me up. That said, the vast scope of the game is still commendable and many portal gates have still not been discovered by me. I'm notorious about exploring and just going on about side quests or working on the guild quests personally.

The fact that Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion doesn't age well shouldn't persuade you not to pick it up now (esp at that price). It's like saying don't go and play Super Mario 64 because it's all polygonally &amp; it's like $4.

PS: Whomever decides to pick up Oblivion, highly recommend its DLC, Shivering Isles. It's very imaginative, throws in a few cool scenarios and new enemies into the mix. The voice over for the king is great, scottish parody of a High King Sheogorath.

 
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Encase anyone glazed over that recore update there IS some HUGE news.

If you made it to the last dungeon and stopped playing it like me and many others, they removed the prismatic core requirement to proceed to the higher floors.

That and death load times are down from 30 seconds to 5 (or less).

Might be one of the best updates for a game I've seen in a long time. Also the first title that I said "fuck this, I'm done!" only to go back.

 
blinknot4 said:
They get progressively better. UNS4 is the best one I have played.

For the 3 new ports - you can actually get a bundle of all 3 and you are basically getting one of them for free. Buy them individually for $20 - or get the bundle for $40.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/naruto-shippuden-ultimate-ninja-storm-trilogy/bnvmw9kwtjh0

(As Hibiki pointed out, the digital Legacy bundle is erroneously missing the 4th one.)
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It's been fixed after my tweet was re-tweeted a bazillion times and liked.

ubiquetous said:
But my UNSL physical copy has everything in there, right? It came in the mail, I just haven't loaded it up yet. I do have copy of Ninja Storm 4 I got a while back so I'm okay there. Just wondering if my unmet expectations will leave my soul crushed this weekend.
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Your copy is fine. This was for digital purchases only.

 
Donken said:
What kills me is when PSN locks in deals on these exclusives that make no sense, like this Secret of Mana remake that should be coming to all platforms. I want Phil out making these deals on Xbox.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/25/16201488/secret-of-mana-remake-ps4-vita-windows-pc-release-date
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There are way too many of these situations PS4 and PC but no Xbox version, back the truck up to the door for the Chrono Trigger remake Phil, that's all I'm saying. I think he's had enough time now, he's canceled a lot of games, but if you don't care about Battlegrounds late this holiday what is he bringing to the system?

 
My Fortnite love affair is still going strong. I just can't stop playing the damn thing.

I am always so tempted at this time of the year to grab Madden. Probably do what I did last year - play the 10 hour preview from EA Access and then have my fill and skip buying it...
 
Reading through the steam reviews of PUBG paints a pretty ugly picture of the game right now. Apparently the devs highly prioritize streamers and people have been getting banned for killing streamers, or honking a car horn near streamers. They also added in cosmetic microtransactions while the game was in early access which they stated they wouldn't do, and apparently some of the cosmetic items are camo which adds an actual strategic value to them rather than just appearance. Also apparently if you turn the world detail really low you can basically have X-ray vision over distances. The game looks and runs like shit anyways, what made it great was the moment to moment gameplay and the tension it creates, but I might pass if these issues are still ongoing on PC when it launches of the xbox
 
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Reading through the steam reviews of PUBG paints a pretty ugly picture of the game right now. Apparently the devs highly prioritize streamers and people have been getting banned for killing streamers, or honking a car horn near streamers. They also added in cosmetic microtransactions while the game was in early access which they stated they wouldn't do, and apparently some of the cosmetic items are camo which adds an actual strategic value to them rather than just appearance. Also apparently if you turn the world detail really low you can basically have X-ray vision over distances. The game looks and runs like shit anyways, what made it great was the moment to moment gameplay and the tension it creates, but I might pass if these issues are still ongoing on PC when it launches of the xbox
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The streamer part is the only thing that can keep me from buying it. If I got banned from a game just for honking a car horn because "harassment" I would be fucking livid. There are too many streamers in the world to think that you wouldn't run into one that might try that shit on Xbox if it's still a problem when the game releases.
 
MrshllJcb said:
Reading through the steam reviews of PUBG paints a pretty ugly picture of the game right now. Apparently the devs highly prioritize streamers and people have been getting banned for killing streamers, or honking a car horn near streamers. They also added in cosmetic microtransactions while the game was in early access which they stated they wouldn't do, and apparently some of the cosmetic items are camo which adds an actual strategic value to them rather than just appearance. Also apparently if you turn the world detail really low you can basically have X-ray vision over distances. The game looks and runs like shit anyways, what made it great was the moment to moment gameplay and the tension it creates, but I might pass if these issues are still ongoing on PC when it launches of the xbox
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well won't have to worry about the detail slider most likely on the xbox one version, and the people that got "banned" which is like one day in PUBG are trolls and I bet car horns are just flat out removed now thanks to them. Unless it's a ghillie suit which I've seen a couple times in over 100 hundred hours of play the "camo" aspect is way overrated. Even then sitting and being a sniper is going to only get you so far and you would have to been lucky enough to pick the right landing area to be setup in the smaller circle areas anyway. Steam reviews are laughable source of info and honesty these days, the tension will still be there but I'm more worried how already clunky controls will translate to a game pad. The aiming mechanic really is built for mouse and keyboard, which makes that fact that the Minecraft beta now supports this more interesting.

 
MrshllJcb said:
Reading through the steam reviews of PUBG paints a pretty ugly picture of the game right now. Apparently the devs highly prioritize streamers and people have been getting banned for killing streamers, or honking a car horn near streamers.
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Just to add to this, from what I understand the issue stems from people watching streamers to locate them in game. Which makes sense, how are you supposed to track down the one guy in 50 you want to harass? The issue of whether someone taking advantage of your stream is cheating seems contentious to me. IMO, streamers need to recognize the risk they are taking, esp. if they stream w/o delay.

Having watched some streams, sound is a critical way of tracking opponents and if they want to advertise themselves so be it. Hell, I was watching Shroud drive around and he was belting the horn non-stop as a way of saying "Come and get it!"

Cosmetics microtransactions in early access, what a world. "I just can't wait to dump all my money into this game, who cares if it's still in beta!"
 
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But it does make sense. Final Fantasy XV sold a higher margin on the PS4 and the XBox is a barren wasteland for JRPG's and the last few home console Mana sequels came out on PS2 and PS1.
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But as long as they keep not releasing them, it'll remain a wasteland. A Steam version means an X1 port would be so simple to make that it's clearly a business decision with Sony.
 
MrshllJcb said:
Reading through the steam reviews of PUBG paints a pretty ugly picture of the game right now. Apparently the devs highly prioritize streamers and people have been getting banned for killing streamers, or honking a car horn near streamers. They also added in cosmetic microtransactions while the game was in early access which they stated they wouldn't do, and apparently some of the cosmetic items are camo which adds an actual strategic value to them rather than just appearance. Also apparently if you turn the world detail really low you can basically have X-ray vision over distances. The game looks and runs like shit anyways, what made it great was the moment to moment gameplay and the tension it creates, but I might pass if these issues are still ongoing on PC when it launches of the xbox
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the cosmetic stuff doesn't really make a difference in game, but I agree they shouldn't be in an early access game and funding an early access esports event. Having said that, the 4 man squad main event just started if anyone wants to watch pro PUBG lol my friend's competing so i'm watching either way

https://www.twitch.tv/playbattlegrounds

 
p0rn0saur said:
well won't have to worry about the detail slider most likely on the xbox one version, and the people that got "banned" which is like one day in PUBG are trolls and I bet car horns are just flat out removed now thanks to them. Unless it's a ghillie suit which I've seen a couple times in over 100 hundred hours of play the "camo" aspect is way overrated. Even then sitting and being a sniper is going to only get you so far and you would have to been lucky enough to pick the right landing area to be setup in the smaller circle areas anyway. Steam reviews are laughable source of info and honesty these days, the tension will still be there but I'm more worried how already clunky controls will translate to a game pad. The aiming mechanic really is built for mouse and keyboard, which makes that fact that the Minecraft beta now supports this more interesting.
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As far as I can see, Gillie suits are in crate drops (in-match crates that drop from planes so everybody nearby flocks to it for whatever's inside) and nothing on the Steam marketplace is actual camo. Just dumb bits of clothing with camo print on them that get covered by armor, backpacks, etc once you start gearing up in game.

Nobody playing the game normally will get banned for harassment because it's hard to accidentally do that stuff and it requires video evidence to even report people on PC. It's a non-issue.

 
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