Nicktendo Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 + 1 for Xbox One controller love. I've had mine for about a year now and it is easily the best controller on the market. It fits my hands like a glove and is great for a whole manner of games like FPSs, Racing (cough, analogue triggers, cough) and even Indie games which use the D-Pad. I've had no problems on Crypt of the Necrodancer, for example. I agree about the button layout though, going between Switch and Xbox is such a pain and I'm constantly getting A/B and X/Y mixed up.
Happenstance Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 I’m so glad they fixed the Xbox One pad. The first one they came out with had slightly different L & R bumpers to what we have now and they didn’t work nearly as well.
Goron_3 Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 Some other thoughts... The UI is absolutely horrendous. I honestly have no idea where anything is. GamePass is an absolutely terrific idea but Microsoft desperately need more exclusively games. I've been playing Banjo and Red Dead and thoroughly enjoying both but I wish they had more variety. Hopefully next gen...
Ronnie Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Goron_3 said: The UI is absolutely horrendous. I honestly have no idea where anything is. Assuming you've got the update the UI is better now, it used to be almost unusable. I got rid of all the homepage tiles so now it's all just 1 page, which improves it a bit. Edited July 7, 2020 by Ronnie 1
Zell Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 It's funny because I used to really like the original Xbox 360 dashboard, but they kept making it worse and worse over time. 1
Ike Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 Speaking of Xbox Controllers (well it's for xcloud really). 1
Goron_3 Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 That controller is gorgeous. Does it work on the regular XOX?
Ike Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Goron_3 said: That controller is gorgeous. Does it work on the regular XOX? They insist it's just for Android.
Esequiel Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 I have the elite 2 controller and it’s the best Iv ever used. It’s weighty, and so comfortable in my hand. I can never go back to ordinary controllers now, I have a 1S in the bedroom and the controller feels like a toy! 1 1
Kaepora_Gaebora Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 xCloud (still hope they change that name) will become an official part of Game Pass come September. If it stays the same price that's another great selling point for the service. I've actually been playing around with Stadia abit more as my free pro subscription runs out at the end of July. Gylt is a Luigi's Mansion lite experience, Destiny 2 and The Division 2 actually run fairly well on it when next to the router...the more I've played it the more impressed I've become with it, and the tech overall. However, the service just isn't appealing enough to warrant £10 a month to that, as well as Game Pass (when I eventually have to start paying for that) which gets me so much more. As long as Google stick with Stadia and actually get all the features out that they advertised it could be a success, but in the mean time the official xCloud integration into Game Pass is another reason to stick with Xbox for me. 1
Ronnie Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Wow, what a move from Xbox. Fantastic Can't see why anyone would bother with Stadia after this
Ganepark32 Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 For anyone interested, it seems that the summer games showcase demo event has started a bit early as a bunch of demos for indie games have appeared on the Xbox One store. They're mostly all smaller titles alongside a demo for the Destroy All Humans remake and there'll likely be more tomorrow and throigh the week leading up to the Xbox Games Showcase on Thursday. Still, I've got demos for Genesis Noir and Welcome to Elk downloaded to looking forward to trying them later. And looking forward to seeing what else gets added in the coming days. Can't remember if Spiritfarer and Haven were supposed to have demos coming as part of this or not but would be nice.
Kaepora_Gaebora Posted July 31, 2020 Posted July 31, 2020 Battletoads has finally been confirmed for release in late August Kind of understand why this wasn't any where near the Xbox presentation, however stylistically I like the look of it and seems to have a sense of humour...not sure I would have bought it but as it's day and date in Game Pass I'll definitely be giving it a go. 1
Ganepark32 Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 XCloud is officially launching in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on September 15th on Android phones and tablets. Looks like it'll bring with it pretty much everything that's available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on Xbox One (there'll probably be some omissions from the overall list but they're saying more than 100 titles out the gate). https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/08/04/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-cloud-gaming-on-september-15/ Obviously there's no iOS version currently due to Apple's policy with their store front but I presume it'll come somewhere down the line. Pretty cool that its being included as a free addition to Game Pass Ultimate. With the Xbox Love Gold yearly sub going away (by the looks of it the whole of Gold may be going for Series X coming), this taking the place of that makes sense. Looking forward to trying it out myself at some point. Also good on Microsoft for adding compatibility for Dualshock 4 controllers as well.
Ronnie Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 They continue making great moves, very impressive to add a feature like that to an already amazing service.
Goron_3 Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 Interesting. Presumably there's a latency delay? Might try this when it's out.
Julius Posted August 7, 2020 Posted August 7, 2020 Some third party mobile gaming accessories Xbox are promoting ahead of next month:
Cube Posted August 12, 2020 Author Posted August 12, 2020 My Forza Horizon 4 review, if anyone is interested https://djcube.co.uk/video-games/review-forza-horizon-4/ 2 2
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