Xbox One Console Thread

[Guest]

Picked up ori in the blind forest because it was £8. I was a so,utterly loving it until I got to the bit where you have to outrace the water in the tree. What a horribly shitty piece of games design. I know it's making you use all your skills you've unlocked until that point, but it feels horribly floaty and unfair where you need the controls to be ridiculously precise. Spent an hour trying to do it and have given up. Will try it again tomorrow, but otherwise it's been deleted.

I struggled and struggled and struggled.

So I left it for a day or two, came back to it and nailed it in a few tries.

[Shimmyhill]

Installed the Xmas Xbox late last night. Controller is nice. It was good that a smattering of 360 games showed up like old friends. Took an absolutely age to update and install everything. I found the UI confusing: as an example it took me an absolute age to figure out how to get to my list of installed games and my download queue. Maybe I'll play something today!

Just wait until you try and find the settings

[footle]

I found Ori was impossible to play after a drink. And fine doing the same ginzu tree bit the following morning.

You don't have to be *that* fast: the water rises at the rate you do for the most part.

[Graham S]

Is there a Gamertag list? Can you add friends from a computer?

[SeanR]

Hey, this forza5 is alright, isn't it?

[Don Wiskerando]

Is there a Gamertag list? Can you add friends from a computer?

It's in the first post and yes you can add friends at xbox.com. Just log in with your GT and then you can manage your account add/remove friends from there.

[Wickedkitten]

Just wait until you try and find the settings

Settings was easy, it's everything else that is hard right now

[MattyP]

Installed the Xmas Xbox late last night. Controller is nice. It was good that a smattering of 360 games showed up like old friends. Took an absolutely age to update and install everything. I found the UI confusing: as an example it took me forever to figure out how to get to my list of installed games and my download queue. Maybe I'll play something today!

You should be grateful you weren't exposed to the old dash!!

Quick shortcut to your stuff right trigger pull and press A.

Home button move left on the left stick settings at the bottom.

Still not great but a big improvement over the old one...

[Yoshimax]

You just press start for settings.

LT/RT navigate vertically and LB/RB navigate horizontally.

[Mr Do 71]

Installed the Xmas Xbox late last night. Controller is nice. It was good that a smattering of 360 games showed up like old friends. Took an absolutely age to update and install everything. I found the UI confusing: as an example it took me forever to figure out how to get to my list of installed games and my download queue. Maybe I'll play something today!

Pin Settings

[bignige]

You just press start for settings.

LT/RT navigate vertically and LB/RB navigate horizontally.

Start no longer works for settings?

Press left on D pad once. It's 2nd from bottom on the black strip (friends, parties, messages, notifications, settings and snap an app)

[Yoshimax]

Start no longer works for settings?

Press left on D pad once. It's 2nd from bottom on the black strip (friends, parties, messages, notifications, settings and snap an app)

Wow neither it does !

snapping to the left - double tap the glowing white button, press RT then A and you're in settings.

[Graham S]

I copied or moved all my interesting 360 saves to cloud storage. How do I get em all onto the One? I probably won't renew Gold after the first few months.

[CarloOos]

As far as I'm aware they're accessed automatically, even silver accounts have cloud saving now. I've never manually moved or saved anything to anywhere.

[Boozy The Clown]

I copied or moved all my interesting 360 saves to cloud storage. How do I get em all onto the One? I probably won't renew Gold after the first few months.

They'll appear magically when you play the game.

[SeanR]

They'll appear magically when you play the game.

Yeah

[Revival]

Release list for January 2016:

G Prime: Into the Rain | 6th January |

Hypervoid | 6th January |

Lovely Planet | 7th January |

Unepic | 9th January |

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India | 12th January |

Gone Home | 12th January |

Heroes Reborn: Gemini | 12th January |

The Banner Saga | 12th January |

Rebel Galaxy | 13th January |

Oxenfree | 15th January |

Zheros | 16th January | Free on Games with Gold

Resident Evil Zero | 19th January |

A Boy and his Blob | 20th January |

Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space | 20th January |

Dungeon of the Endless | 20th January |

Electronic Super Joy | 20th January |

Life is Strange Limited Edition | 22nd January | Disc version

Resident Evil Origins Collection | 22nd January | Disc version

Zombi | 22nd January | Disc version

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 | 28th January |

AIPD | 29th January |

Lego Marvel Avengers | 29th January |

Sebastien Loeb Rally EVO | 29th January |

This War of Mine - The Little Ones | 29th January |

Blues and Bullets: Episode 2 | ?? January |

Factotum 90 | ?? January |

[Transient Curse]

Oxenfree is one to look out for, I think.

[Wiper]

Some great games making their way from PC there - Gone Home, The Banner Saga and Dungeon of the Endless are all brilliant, brilliant games. I've also heard very good things about Lovely Planet and Rebel Galaxy, but I've not played them.

[rafaqat]

Gone Home is ace. Played it on PC a while ago and managed to finish it the same night. Short game but a really nice experience.

[Dudley]

Gone Home is ace. Played it on PC a while ago and managed to finish it the same night. Short game but a really nice experience.

Yeah, there was a debate over if it even was a game but I don't mind either way.

What it WAS was a lovely way to spend an evening experiencing a story. The mechanics seem almost irrelevant.

[Yoshimax]

Hyper void is out on the 6th looks amazing:

[jonamok]

Looks Mint (er).

[CeC4CoL]

Xbox One New GPU Architecture?

http://www.overclock.net/t/1586236/various-microsoft-xbox-one-will-get-a-new-apu-based-on-the-upcoming-polaris-gpu-architecture

[Petrousgyre]

Almost certainly nonsense. Splitting their hardware base would be suicidal on Microsoft's part. That twitter account you quoted is from the same guy that was convinced, amongst other crazed speculation, that the Xbox One has a second discreet GPU which MS simply hasn't turned on yet.

[Kryptonian]

Almost certainly nonsense. Splitting their hardware base would be suicidal on Microsoft's part. That twitter account you quoted is from the same guy that was convinced, amongst other crazed speculation, that the Xbox One has a second discreet GPU which MS simply hasn't turned on yet.

There are a few people in the thread with this stance:

They don't seem to be able to comprehend that a potentially split user base where people with original machines not being able to run games optimised for a different spec might be a problem.

[Uzi]

Are peoples still waiting on Gears codes?

[rafaqat]

Not sure. My son's account hasn't received them yet but I think that might be because he deleted the message from MS.

[SeanR]

Microsoft apologists are the best!

[rafaqat]

It would be suicide for MS if they released a new hardware spec.

I'm trying to imagine a way that they could make it work and each time all I can imagine is a lot of pissed off people.

I don't think a hardware upgrade at this stage could help them on sales. They're doing well compared to last gen, but they've lost this one to Sony's juggernaut. Better concentrating on the next gen for a proper fight back.