flameboy Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 Woosh, Tomb Raider on Games with Gold for September! With the release of the new one coming up I thought this may happen so dust bite at the cheap price last month, glad I waited! Never played it before either... You are in for a treat, I just played Definitive Edition having already planned it last gen, still such a good game.
Ike Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Got my Elite controller yesterday, it feels amazing. Well worth the price. Need to buy the adapter to use it on Windows so I can actually use it. :p
Charlie Posted November 2, 2015 Posted November 2, 2015 Got my Elite controller yesterday, it feels amazing. Well worth the price. Need to buy the adapter to use it on Windows so I can actually use it. :p Didn't realise it was out already! Think I might need to get one for Halo...
Hero-of-Time Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 (edited) Here's the first 100 backwards compatibility games. Not too impressed. A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Alien Hominid HD Assassin’s Creed II Asteroids & Deluxe Banjo Kazooie: N n B Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Tooie BattleBlock Theater Bejeweled 2 Bellator: MMA Onslaught Beyond Good & Evil HD Blood of the Werewolf BloodRayne: Betrayal Borderlands Call of Juarez Gunslinger Castle Crashers Castlestorm Centipede & Millipede Condemned Crazy Taxi Deadliest Warrior: Legends Defense Grid DiRT 3 DiRT Showdown Discs of Tron Doom Doom II Dungeon Siege III Earthworm Jim HD Fable II Fallout 3 Feeding Frenzy 2 Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Gears of War: Judgment Golden Axe Halo: Spartan Assault Hardwood Backgammon Hardwood Hearts Hardwood Spades Heavy Weapon Hexic HD Ikaruga Jetpac Refuelled Joy Ride Turbo Just Cause 2 Kameo LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game LEGO Star Wars: TCS Lode Runner LUMINES LIVE! Mass Effect Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug XX Might & Magic Clash of Heroes Mirror’s Edge Missile Command Monday Night Combat Monkey Island 2: SE Monkey Island: SE Ms. Splosion Man Mutant Blobs Attack N+ NBA JAM: On Fire Edition NiGHTS into dreams… OF: Dragon Rising Pac-Man C.E. PAC-MAN CE DX+ Perfect Dark Perfect Dark Zero Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Pinball FX Plants vs. Zombies Prince of Persia Putty Squad R-Type Dimensions Rayman 3 HD Sacred Citadel Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage Shadow Complex Sonic CD Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Super Meat Boy Supreme Commander 2 Southpark The Stick of Truth Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas2 Torchlight Toy Soldiers Toy Soldiers: Cold War Tron: Evolution Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Viva Piñata Viva Piñata: TIP Wolfenstein 3D Zuma Edited November 10, 2015 by Hero-of-Time
Shorty Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 Is that confirmed? Heard there was a leak that was debunked.
Hero-of-Time Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 Is that confirmed? Heard there was a leak that was debunked. Yeah, this is the official list that got released yesterday. More titles will be added in December but as it stands it's a bit of a meh list.
Charlie Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 Has anyone picked up the Xbox One Elite Controller? I'm very interested but it is completely sold out right now and going for £165 on eBay!
bob Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 I'm not sure what the appeal is. Does it really allow you to be that much better at pwning n00bs??
Shorty Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 I honestly think people are being blindsided a bit :p I'm sure it's a lovely gadget but that price tag is a bit silly for some novelties that won't affect 99% of games. The biggest thing I've heard the Elite Controller do is... wipe someone's character and every item they were holding on Destiny
Charlie Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 I'm not sure what the appeal is. Does it really allow you to be that much better at pwning n00bs?? The big thing is you can access all the buttons without having to take your hands off the joysticks, meaning that you can aim and jump, aim and beat down etc. The build quality is also meant to be far better, the d-pad is better and there are 3 options to the joystick.
Kaepora_Gaebora Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 @Ike mentioned he picked it up on the previous page, apart from that...I don't know anyone digitally or in real life who has! If I had that sort of money I'd be on it in a heart beat, looks tremendous and as you say, @Charlie, better build design etc. Not that there's anything wrong with the current controller, I think it's brilliant, but I'm a sucker for shiny new toys Speaking of which, looking forward to the updated dash board tomorrow, hopefully makes it smoother although, again, I've got no problem with the current set up as it's easy to use and everything is where I want it to be. Still, happy to see them continually trying to improve things, the benefit of having to play catch up on your competition!
Charlie Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 Speaking of which, looking forward to the updated dash board tomorrow, hopefully makes it smoother although, again, I've got no problem with the current set up as it's easy to use and everything is where I want it to be. Still, happy to see them continually trying to improve things, the benefit of having to play catch up on your competition! I'd forgotten the new dashboard came out today. Was playing this morning before work and nothing as of yet. I just hope that joining parties is quicker and can be done in the background without having to essentially be afk whilst playing a game! Not good when playing online!
Kaepora_Gaebora Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 I'd forgotten the new dashboard came out today. Was playing this morning before work and nothing as of yet. I just hope that joining parties is quicker and can be done in the background without having to essentially be afk whilst playing a game! Not good when playing online! It went live at 8am from what I understand, so you may have just missed it, although I did have to go into system settings to start it going myself. I like it, the verticality is nice as well as going side to side, and the controller short cuts are easy to use too. If you double tap the home menu it brings up the sidebar where you can sign in, start parties, see friends list any time you want to, in game or not. My only disappointment is that backwards compatibility isn't available til 8pm tonight! So I'll have to start downloading all the games from XBLA and what not tomorrow morning
Hero-of-Time Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 It went live at 8am from what I understand, so you may have just missed it, although I did have to go into system settings to start it going myself. I like it, the verticality is nice as well as going side to side, and the controller short cuts are easy to use too. If you double tap the home menu it brings up the sidebar where you can sign in, start parties, see friends list any time you want to, in game or not. My only disappointment is that backwards compatibility isn't available til 8pm tonight! So I'll have to start downloading all the games from XBLA and what not tomorrow morning Thanks for the heads up. Tried to download it as soon as I got in from work but it didn't appear to be there. I then went to settings, as you suggested, and downloaded it manually. Looking forward to seeing how it is/runs. I hated the old setup, so this can't be any worse.....can it?
Kaepora_Gaebora Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 Thanks for the heads up. Tried to download it as soon as I got in from work but it didn't appear to be there. I then went to settings, as you suggested, and downloaded it manually. Looking forward to seeing how it is/runs. I hated the old setup, so this can't be any worse.....can it? Yeah I expected it to prompt me but nothing had happened, old fashioned way is the best! Be interested to hear your thoughts, as someone who didn't have any problems with the previous set up, I certainly like the style a lot more and how everything is layed out! But I'm not fussy, as long as it plays games...
Hero-of-Time Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 Played around with the new dashboard last night. Not bad but still not great. I like how by pressing left you get a little tab with stuff on. I hate how long it takes to look at achievements, though. I much prefer the 360 setup of just pressing the middle button and having everything on there. It was nice to see all the available games for backwards compatibility that I own just show up in my games and apps. That was a nice tough. I thought I would have to search for them all manually.
Kaepora_Gaebora Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) Played around with the new dashboard last night. Not bad but still not great. I like how by pressing left you get a little tab with stuff on. I hate how long it takes to look at achievements, though. I much prefer the 360 setup of just pressing the middle button and having everything on there. It was nice to see all the available games for backwards compatibility that I own just show up in my games and apps. That was a nice tough. I thought I would have to search for them all manually. Did the Gears of War games turn up on your install list automatically? Nothing on mine and when I find the games in store, just says is part of 'bundle only'. Thought we got to download those ASAP for buying the Ultimate Edition, not sure if it's timed instead though. Edit: forget that, it is timed, starting from 1st December! Apparently upgraded visuals exclusively for Ultimate Edition owners too, didn't realise that! Edited November 13, 2015 by Kaepora_Gaebora
Hero-of-Time Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 Did the Gears of War games turn up on your install list automatically? Nothing on mine and when I find the games in store, just says is part of 'bundle only'. Thought we got to download those ASAP for buying the Ultimate Edition, not sure if it's timed instead though. Edit: forget that, it is timed, starting from 1st December! Apparently upgraded visuals exclusively for Ultimate Edition owners too, didn't realise that! Yeah, you have to wait until December. If you have the game discs though you can install and play them now, though.
flameboy Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 Played around with the new dashboard last night. Not bad but still not great. I like how by pressing left you get a little tab with stuff on. I hate how long it takes to look at achievements, though. I much prefer the 360 setup of just pressing the middle button and having everything on there. It was nice to see all the available games for backwards compatibility that I own just show up in my games and apps. That was a nice tough. I thought I would have to search for them all manually. This is my biggest problem with the dashboard don't understand why achievements can't sit in that first tier of the side menu after friends and stuff do easier access... I still hate also how B on the dashboard has odd behaviour. To be perfectly honest it feels more like a reskin than a actual new OS...the performance improvements are more as a result of the features they have removed.
S.C.G Posted November 14, 2015 Posted November 14, 2015 I like the new dashboard, it seems quicker now at least though I would like the ability to customise things a bit more but it's perfectly usable. What I was more impressed with was the fact that all of the backwards compatible available games were just there, waiting to be installed, so I went with Zuma to test and not only did it work, was quicker but it seemed to have my original save present as well... how does that work? I was under the assumption that I would need to physically add all my saves to the cloud if I wanted to do that, so is it the case that Microsoft has moved all the available files on my behalf or that some games just go off the ahievements that you already have or something else as I'm genuinely curious about this; does anyone know?
Shorty Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 Must be more than just achievements, I'm assuming it's remembered the level you're up to, scores etc.. Maybe because it's a Windows Game too, it automatically saves to the cloud for cross platform play? If a deal comes up over Christmas for a bundle with Tomb Raider and Halo, I wonder if I'll be able to resist...
bob Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 Does anyone know if one Xbox live gold membership can be used across the 360 and the One? Or do you need to pay twice?
Shorty Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 There's just one service/subscription which you use to log in to either device.
bob Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 Ah coolio. That does make sense, but i wondered if there was some weird thing which meant they wouldn't let you share a subscription across devices.
Charlie Posted November 26, 2015 Posted November 26, 2015 Ah coolio. That does make sense, but i wondered if there was some weird thing which meant they wouldn't let you share a subscription across devices. Your membership is linked to your account so you can even log into someone else's Xbox who doesn't have Live and use the Live benefits there.
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