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Yay!

 

Series X arrived this morning :) . 

 

I put up a dinky little shelf, and now there's a corner of my 'office' (it's what I call it, others may refute this somewhat, but screw 'em), and I'm now installing...

 

Gears of War 2 

 

Yup.

 

Fuck all the haters ;) 

 

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18 hours ago, sandman said:

Quick resume on Sniper Elite 4 simply doesn’t work. You can’t move when it loads and you have to quit and start again!

 

It's not as bad as Assassin's Creed Valhalla, which still has the bug that means Quick Resume often stops the game from saving, or causes it to overwrite your most recent saves with something ancient it's dredged off the Ubisoft servers. The game's been out six months now and they still haven't fixed this, it's an absolute dumpster fire unless you remember to manually quit the game each time you finish playing.

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Just traded my bedroom One S in for a Series S at game. Such a dinky little thing. Have kept hold of my One X for under my living room TV as I have a ton of discs, stuff like the Horizon's that can't be purchased on the digital store. Nearly convinced myself to look into replacing that with a Series X but sense prevailed.

 

Now to try some old games with Series enhancements.

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20 hours ago, shirubagan said:

Same thing with Hellblade. 

 

I do wonder if there is anything to do with what other games you are playing. I played through all of Hellblade on the series X and it never once failed to quick resume perfectly every time.

 

It's weird that people seem to be having issues with certain games that others don't, and then some seem to just fail for everyone. The only things that make sense to me are issues with rights checking, online connection, or the game that is currently 'live' not releasing it's resources properly.

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1 hour ago, amc said:

Just traded my bedroom One S in for a Series S at game. Such a dinky little thing. Have kept hold of my One X for under my living room TV as I have a ton of discs, stuff like the Horizon's that can't be purchased on the digital store. Nearly convinced myself to look into replacing that with a Series X but sense prevailed.

 

Now to try some old games with Series enhancements.

I give it 24 hours before the speed benefits of the ssd sway you.

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After seeing Horizon 5 last night I realised I’m going to need one of these by November. Series S is freely available here in Denmark and the fact I could have one tomorrow is really tempting but I should wait for the Series X to be available really, shouldn’t I? I’m pretty sure I’d end up resenting the S in a “here’s what you could have had” way when everyone is playing Horizon at 4K/60... :hmm:

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Just now, Bojangle said:

After seeing Horizon 5 last night I realised I’m going to need one of these by November. Series S is freely available here in Denmark and the fact I could have one tomorrow is really tempting but I should wait for the Series X to be available really, shouldn’t I? I’m pretty sure I’d end up resenting the S in a “here’s what you could have had” way when everyone is playing Horizon at 4K/60... :hmm:

 

If you can afford it, then yes wait for a Series X

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Oh, I have Game Pass Ultimate locked in for years. I'm happy to hold on to the One X in the living room purely for the disc games I own and will enjoy the myriad of older game enhancements both the One X and bedroom Series S bring. They both do different jobs in that regard right? Differing results for the same games, higher frame rates on the S and higher resolution on the One X, seems to be the case with certain games anyway.

 

I've just played Black on the Series S and it's pretty insane what the machine can bring to older titles.

 

A Series X would be a pretty superfluous upgrade to my One X in the living room though, I have a 2tB Nvme Series X beating PC on the living room TV and day and date release parity on Game Pass going forward. Glad I stuck with just a Series S for now.

 

I'd enjoy the QoL stuff a Series X would bring to the main TV but I'll have enough fun in the bedroom with Series S. Ooer!

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On 13/06/2021 at 14:50, Popo said:

I have never played a Flight Sim game before. Are they games? Is there a win state? Are there challenges (“do a barrel roll!”)? That kind of thing? 

There’s this thing called achievements 

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I'm fine with Flight Sim not having a 'game' to it and particularly want to just explore. Kinda like I just stopped playing any race in FH4 and just drove around because it was a lot more relaxing. I am hopeful that Flight Sim is not so dense and technical if someone wants to just explore the world chill out, and swoop and soar around a bit?

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I hope so. The last time I played in-depth (admittedly, Flight Sim 98) you could make it as complicated or as simple as you wanted. Like, pick a plane, runway, jam open the throttle and enjoy. I did love that it came with a manual that could leave a dent in the floor if you dropped it, if you really wanted to get into the weeds.

 

Hoping the new one comes with silly mini games too, like crop dusting.

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Wow. The Series S is one snappy little bugger. Fucking awesome fun getting a new machine, especially one that has a ton of software on tap. Currently exploring older stuff that's enhanced. 

 

Really is a cracking little console compared to my slothenly One S. Controller feels good too, the sticks feel similar to my Elite 2 so I'm guessing they've tightened them up a little. Much preferred. 

 

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If the S had a disc drive that would be all I need (only got a 720p telly and can’t see that getting upgraded for a few years), but it would need to be replacing my Xbox One as the primary disc-based movie playing device, so I’ve got to hold our form an X!

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I would absolutely buy a new TV before even thinking about the series x. Even last gen consoles will look much better on a less ancient set. Doesn't have to be crazy expensive, the lidl by me has a 4k one for less than 400. Won't be great but better than 720p.

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8 hours ago, JoeK said:

Yay!

 

Series X arrived this morning :) . 

 

I put up a dinky little shelf, and now there's a corner of my 'office' (it's what I call it, others may refute this somewhat, but screw 'em), and I'm now installing...

 

Gears of War 2 

 

Yup.

 

Fuck all the haters ;) 

 

 

I set mine up and my daughter insisted the first game we used to showcase the behemoth was Zuma.

 

Still, we had a lot of fun!

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Just now, ilpostino said:

 

I set mine up and my daughter insisted the first game we used to showcase the behemoth was Zuma.

 

Still, we had a lot of fun!

 

Everything looks great on it! Yup, 30fps and all that, but I can live with that really - also, the thing's worth it to have a 4k version of Red Dead Redemption. So many titles from the 360 era have aged so gracefully.

 

 

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2 hours ago, MrPogo said:

If the S had a disc drive that would be all I need (only got a 720p telly and can’t see that getting upgraded for a few years), but it would need to be replacing my Xbox One as the primary disc-based movie playing device, so I’ve got to hold our form an X!

 

Tbf, if the S had a disk drive it would also be about £150 more, not having a drive is heavily subsidising that price.

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