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A mate of mine's Halo download was taking HOURS last night. His internet isn't that slow and he downloaded a 450mb download in less than 5 minutes. Any tips to get the old girl running a bit quicker? I remember someone saying something on here before.

Wire it into the router, open ports, disable quick boot.

Also remember, halo is downloading something stupid like 30gb these days.

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This is the thing, I'm currently playing through Shovel Knight and it's BRILLIANT. It's a shame people wont play it because it's so expensive.

When I saw that it was so expensive I had to double check what the price was. £12 is not expensive for such a well made game. I can't remember how high it featured on my top ten list but I know it was there because it is exceptional. Anyone not playing this because it is a whole £12 frankly doesn't deserve to play something so wonderful the miserable bastards.
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Really?! I don't remember ever seeing a Spectrum game for more than £3.99 (and considered those far too expensive unless it was an established favourite series), although I was probably only about 8 when it was replaced by an Amiga and so probably paid little attention at the time and have forgotten most of what did register!

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Navigation and recording stuff are valid enough reasons in my book. I disconnected mine for a while last week and having to hoke out the controller to do some things was terribly annoying. Much happier/handier just shouting at the tv. But as I've been using the Kinect from day one, you might have a better experience seeing as you have not used it. But once you DO get used to it, there is no going back.

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Really?! I don't remember ever seeing a Spectrum game for more than £3.99 (and considered those far too expensive unless it was an established favourite series), although I was probably only about 8 when it was replaced by an Amiga and so probably paid little attention at the time and have forgotten most of what did register!

There were loads of pricepoints... £3.99 would be a mid price or premium budget game.

On c64 budget was £1.99- £2.99 or £3.99 for premium budget.

Full price started at about 5.99 when I started buying in about 83 ish... but it soon settled at about 8-10 quid .. I think speccy was a quid or two cheaper for full price apart from Ultimate who were always priced as £9.99...

so £12? that was unusual at time.. not out of question but not the run of the mill full price game.

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It's kind of difficult to compare, really. Adjusting for inflation, a C64 would have cost £1,368 in 1982. I remember my dad paying £400 for a disk drive for the BBC Micro. Wagon Wheels were bigger, too.

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All this adjusting for inflation malarkey isn't that sensible for games. Games cost £40 on PS1 and they are £40 on PS4 (errr ok they were on PS3 and I reckno new gen will settle at £40 again soon) so technically they are a bargain allowing for inflation.

It doesn't work like that with luxury items that have a low physical cost per unit... you charge what you think the market will bear. If they priced games at £80 they wouldn't sell that many and they'd make less money so they pitch the price at that point they think will maximise the number of people who will buy it... and then they cut the price to find a new bunch of consumers willing to jump in at the lower price before they are too late and the 2nd hand market sell to those group :)...

Games prices haven't defied inflation for 20 years due to charity ;)

So in this case They are pricing shovel knight at £12 as their research will tell them that they will net an optimum number of punters willing to pay that... and then there will be a sale at 33% off in a couple of months and others will buy at £8. there is no point selling the game at £8 if "enough" punters will pay 12 to increase the revenue and profit

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I didn't realise but you can now Miracast to your xbox one if you're in the preview program.

I'm going to try it out with Brutal Doom :eyebrows:

To get the wireless display app launch the preview app and then select "quests" and start the relevant one which will take you to the app on the store.

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I didn't realise but you can now Miracast to your xbox one if you're in the preview

I'm going to try it out with Brutal Doom :eyebrows:

To get the wireless display app launch the preview app and then select "quests" and start the relevant one which will take you to the app on the store.

It'd be pretty hard to play games using the wireless display, it's fractionally behind the main display and you'd really notice it if trying to control a character.
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It'd be pretty hard to play games using the wireless display, it's fractionally behind the main display and you'd really notice it if trying to control a character.

It doesn't seem to work with Windows 10 anyway so couldn't try it.

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MrPogo

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Doubt anyone else cares, but I've finally joined the next gen and ordered an Xbox One through Tesco with Click and Collect for tomorrow (£299 with Forza Horizon 2, COD: AW and a 3 month live sub) :D

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Is it worth getting a kinect at this stage? I was thinking my wife might like the exercise stuff (is it any good?) but besides navigation and recording stuff I can't come up with any other reasons for one really.

Xbox go to Netflix/now TV/bbc one/etc. Xbox select. Xbox play. Xbox pause.

The many other ways I have of dealing with media don't get a look in; which also means that since this is fifty percent of my use of a console/TV I'm cinfused when I switch to the Ps4 with its less robust system.

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It's kind of an awkward question - people who have it will tell you yes I wouldn't do without it whilst those without it will tell you they get by just fine.

If you've got kids then I'd say that on top of the fitness app for your wife would close the deal. Lots of stuff for kids/family to play with it - As rough a time as it gets KSR is great fun when you've got a family of 3-4+ all playing with their scanned in avatars. I'm surprised the scanned kinect avatars weren't made available at an OS level.

There's also a lot of cheap stuff for kids like the breakout game, fruit ninja 2 etc.

As simple and daft an example "xbox pause" and "xbox play" are great when you're watching video and don't want to switch on the pad to do it before having to manually disengage the pad again to save battery (which annoys me using sky player on ps4 as it completely obscures the screen as you navigate multiple options)

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Release list for May:

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | 5th May |

Project Cars | 8th May |

Slice Zombies | 8th May |

Spectra | 8th May | Delayed to June

Ultratron | 8th May |

AirMech Arena | 12th May | Free to Play

Lifeless Planet | 13th May |

Schrödinger's Cat | 13th May |

Blues and Bullets | 15th May |

Nero | 15th May |

Farming Simulator 15 | 19th May |

The Witcher III - Wild Hunt | 18th May |

Carmageddon: Reincarnation | 21st May | Might be just the PC version date not 100%

Rogue Legacy | 27th May |

Blood Bowl 2 | 29th May |

Beach Buggy Racing | ???? May |

Magnetic - Cage Closed | ???? May |

Steamworld Dig | ???? May |

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Release list for May: Wolfenstein: The Old Blood        | 5th May  | Project Cars                      | 8th May  |Slice Zombies                     | 8th May  |Spectra                           | 8th May  |Lifeless Planet                   | 13th May |Blues and Bullets                 | 15th May |Farming Simulator 15              | 19th May |The Witcher III - Wild Hunt       | 18th May |Carmageddon: Reincarnation        | 21st May |Beach Buggy Racing                | ???? May |Magnetic - Cage Closed            | ???? May |Steamworld Dig                    | ???? May |

Plus Ultratron, May 8th. Ace twin-stick shooter.

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Want Wolfenstien, although I might wait a week or so before snapping it up.

I really love last year's Wolfenstien - amazing FPS game I've played in ages, has nice mixture of all-out action and stealth, and feels like classic FPS yet has modern feeling to it too. (Um. Not sure how to word that better :/)

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Xbone Kinects are down to £42 at CEX and I have one put aside at my local, but I'm not sure whether to pull the trigger on it or not. Are they worth owning beyond the voice recognition stuff? Can it control a TiVo box plugged in through the bone? Any non-motion games make worthwhile use of it?

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Xbone Kinects are down to £42 at CEX and I have one put aside at my local, but I'm not sure whether to pull the trigger on it or not. Are they worth owning beyond the voice recognition stuff? Can it control a TiVo box plugged in through the bone? Any non-motion games make worthwhile use of it?

TiVo control. Yes.

I run my virgin TiVo through it and do the who "Xbox go to TV". "Watch BBC" thing.

It's really nice.

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