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HarryBizzle

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There’s no pleasing some people. I got £40 off with vouchers and just traded our old VCR Xbox One in for £70!
 

It seems lovely. So fast that it feels like an upgrade from my One X. 

 

As unexciting as the UI is compared to PS5’s, it just works so well. 
 

 

Have queued up a load of games to download - has anyone tried Control on Series S? You’re presumably getting the base Xbox One version with a smoothed out framerate. I’m tempted to wait for the next gen patch, but knowing 505, they’ll probably take it off Game Pass when that launches. 

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15 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

Have queued up a load of games to download - has anyone tried Control on Series S? You’re presumably getting the base Xbox One version with a smoothed out framerate. I’m tempted to wait for the next gen patch, but knowing 505, they’ll probably take it off Game Pass when that launches. 

I think the version on gamepass is the last gen version just so it may not get the upgrade. It's only the "ultimate edition" that will get the next-gen patch at the moment. No idea if that'll change on gamepass though.

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19 minutes ago, moosegrinder said:

Apparently the grinding when you open a menu is no longer present, which is worth the price alone tbh.

 

Grinding?

 

 

 

I gave Ori a go at 120fps. I honestly couldn't tell the difference. I wonder if it might be a bit more noticeable in a 3D game.

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23 minutes ago, jamesy said:

I think the version on gamepass is the last gen version just so it may not get the upgrade. It's only the "ultimate edition" that will get the next-gen patch at the moment. No idea if that'll change on gamepass though.

I think it's unlikely since the ultimate version packs in DLC which is not typically (ever?) the deal with 3rd party gamepass stuff. 

 

I hope not anyway, I bought Control Ultimate in the recent sale and am waiting for the patch! 

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21 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

I gave Ori a go at 120fps. I honestly couldn't tell the difference. I wonder if it might be a bit more noticeable in a 3D game.

Put me in the club of people who can't tell the difference between 60/120 fps. The difference between 30 and 60 is night and day for me but that jump to 120 is pretty much imperceptible, although I'm still holding out hope that I'm just missing something!

 

If you're after a 3D game, the Master Chief Collection is all 120fps now, played through the entirety of Halo CE and it certainly felt smooth, but smoother than 60fps? My eyes must be old.

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3 hours ago, HarryBizzle said:

Woohoo!

 

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The wife: “so does this mean you’re taking your PS5 to CEX?”

 

So does it? :P

 

2 hours ago, HarryBizzle said:

Have queued up a load of games to download - has anyone tried Control on Series S? You’re presumably getting the base Xbox One version with a smoothed out framerate. I’m tempted to wait for the next gen patch, but knowing 505, they’ll probably take it off Game Pass when that launches. 

 

I started it the other night. I have nothing to compare it to having never played it on any previous console but it seems very smooth to me. Although I should point out I'm perfectly happy playing on a telly limited to 1080/60, so my smooth might be your horrible jaggy jerky eye-poison.

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I gave No Man's Sky a go, as it's got a Series S patch and there seems to be something very wrong with it. In both quality and performance modes, it made me want to puke in about 10 seconds. Nothing outside of VR has ever done that to me before. Felt like treacle and loads of slowdown. Maybe I need to close it or restart the console or something.

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1 hour ago, HarryBizzle said:

 

Grinding?

 

 

 

I gave Ori a go at 120fps. I honestly couldn't tell the difference. I wonder if it might be a bit more noticeable in a 3D game.

 

Yeah even on One X you open the menu in game and every transition to it would be a crunching, grinding slideshow.

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1 hour ago, Darren said:

 

So does it? :P

 

Tempting as it is, I really love the thing, so no. I normally don’t mind selling stuff to CEX if they’re offering more than normal, (I think I made like £20 profit when I decided PSVR wasn’t for me), but I think this stuff has gone too far and don’t want to feed into it any more.

 

And to be honest, I feel like I’ve mostly rinsed Game Pass over the year so am keen to catch up on Playstation exclusives.

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Auto HDR feels like it's had a big tweak. Not sure if that was part of the last firmware update or if it's the kind of thing they can update without needing to do that. Watching my son play Slay the Spire now and it looks absolutely fine; in the first week it was a mess of dazzlingly bright text and UI boxes. Will do some testing on a few other titles tonight but hopefully they've toned it down a bit from the eye-searing experience it was at launch.

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I've played the Xbox Series X every night since I got it, which is a big step up from previously where I might dip my toe into a game once or twice a week (at most).

 

I reckon it's almost entirely to do with the SSD making picking up and play a lot more tolerable. (Oh, and shiny newness, but mostly the SSD).

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4 hours ago, Garwoofoo said:

Auto HDR feels like it's had a big tweak. Not sure if that was part of the last firmware update or if it's the kind of thing they can update without needing to do that. Watching my son play Slay the Spire now and it looks absolutely fine; in the first week it was a mess of dazzlingly bright text and UI boxes. Will do some testing on a few other titles tonight but hopefully they've toned it down a bit from the eye-searing experience it was at launch.

 

I turned it off when I went to play Steep because it was awful, really overdone, blown out. Crap.

 

Turned out that wasn't Auto HDR, they released it like that.

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7 minutes ago, Alshie said:

 

I turned it off when I went to play Steep because it was awful, really overdone, blown out. Crap.

 

Turned out that wasn't Auto HDR, they released it like that.

Ubisoft are the worst at hdr. I don't know what the deal is, it's absolutely atrocious in Valhalla, washed out and dark like it's permanently dusk. 

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4 minutes ago, deerokus said:

Ubisoft are the worst at hdr. I don't know what the deal is, it's absolutely atrocious in Valhalla, washed out and dark like it's permanently dusk. 

 

 

That’s just England.

 

 

Anyway, I’m impressed with the Series S so far. Apart from how quick and small it is, I’ve played a few games and other than No Man’s Sky, am totally happy with the performance - on a 4K TV. Gears 5 looks pretty much the same as it did on One X, except I’m pretty sure I can feel the reduced latency they’ve been talking about. Having just come from an OG One, which is a 30 FPS blur fest that feels like you’re playing in treacle, it’s a huge step up.

 

I’m looking forward to seeing what devs can do with it over the course of the generation.

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21 minutes ago, deerokus said:

Ubisoft are the worst at hdr. I don't know what the deal is, it's absolutely atrocious in Valhalla, washed out and dark like it's permanently dusk. 

It’s fine in The Division 2, AC Origins and AC Odyssey though? It looks good in Watch Dogs Legion at night as well, it’s just the game itself is quite ugly during the day.

 

Haven’t played Valhalla yet so can’t comment on it there.

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9 hours ago, MNFRMTMRRW said:

And so have Microsoft. Gears 5, Tactics, Forza Horizon 4 etc. all look and feel fantastic. 

Oh yeah, all the tarted up last gen games are brilliant. I just want something new to get excited about. Sony have at least got a few new games already released and on the horizon, and while the majority are cross gen, you know they’ll look and play amazingly on the PS5.

 

I’m hoping Halo is as good as I want it to be, but other than that, what’s coming?

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16 minutes ago, MNFRMTMRRW said:

Output from 23 studios. 

Yeah, I know! I want to see something, that’s all!

 

Other than a few announcement trailers, what have we actually seen from any of those studios? And do we know when any of these games are due?

 

It just feels really quiet from MS to me. I thought now the launch is out of the way, they’d be ramping up the games marketing, to keep the momentum going.

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