Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 294

doubleofive said:

You don't have to be online constantly. You DO have to have the Kinect on constantly.

Xbox One is watching you!

The machine needs to be logged into the account to identify the game is being used by the authorised user.

So you can switch off the console but you can't play any of your games on it unless you are online and logged in.

If you get banned or the service is closed the machine becomes a brick.

So far, it is really starting to sound like all the things some of us worried about the most with the next Xbox have been confirmed to be true concerns.

My interest in getting the new Xbox is now completely gone, as used games and lending/borrowing play major roles in my justification of keeping up the video game habit. For PC games, there are ridiculously cheap Steam sales, and for the consoles there are second hand game purchases. Unless Microsoft decides to start doing something similar to Stream sales to cater to us budget gamers, then this console just doesn't sound like it will mesh at all with my gaming needs. 

An Xbox One exclusive Halo TV series was just announced with Steven Spielberg involved.

Feels like too little too late. A few years ago, I think I would have eaten this up, but now I feel like there has been so much Halo, it is hard to get excited about any of it. Halo 4 went a long ways in quenching my thirst for another good Halo game. When Reach came out I was cautiously looking forward to it, and when I finally got to play it, it just didn't come through for me, leaving me longing for some more real Halo. I loved every second of playing Halo 4, it went a long ways in fulfilling that longing left by Reach, perhaps too far. Maybe in a way for me it was that one last fun joyride with an old fling before saying 'goodbye' and moving on.

I don't think I am at all alone when I say that Halo has lost its magic for me. If I am ever to get excited about another Halo branded thing again, it is going to have to be pretty groundbreaking, which was what made us love Halo to begin with.

It's sitting in my collection waiting for the right moment to strike like Beyond Good and Evil did.

Gods I loved that game until the impossible boss.

Meanwhile...

This made me giggle :

Let's get this straight XBOX ONE... It has to be online most of the time, the camera and mike have to be on all the time and it can distinguish between eight different bodies and monitor heartbeat and extrapolate mood from face recognition tech.

And people are to volunteer for this?

LOL 

http://www.artemis.eochu.com

Anybody ever played this? Gonna give it a go on the weekend.

I don't have the things it plays on.

Looks a bit like a lot of games I already have.

And you can buy (actual) patches for $25!

So...Spent about 6 hours on the bridge simulator game with a crew of 4. Ideally you'd want about 6 or 7. Takes a little while to get used to the interface as each station has unique options. 

We rotated after each round so that everyone got a chance to sample the different roles. Playing as the captain can be a bit intimidating as you really have to keep tabs on everything. communication is key.

The most fun was probably helm control as it has the most basic layout and trying to fly evasively can be a blast.

We'll probably do it again very soon with a larger crew - or ideally, two crews ala Enterprise VS Reliant style gameplay.

on a sadder note - this came up in conversation afterwards - http://www.ign.com/blogs/splitmindeddude/2013/06/01/oculus-rift-engineer-dies-at-33

Anybody play State of Decay yet? It looks pretty amazing. Thinking about buying it, it is only $20. Trying to figure out if I can justify an extra twenty bucks on video games this month, since I am going to be blowing $60 on The Last of Us next week.

doubleofive said:

FUN FACT: We kept all of our receipts, so I was able to show the manager the exact day he sold us the original 360 5 1/2 years ago.

I don't know if I've already posted this but back in the late nineties the uk shopping chain Argos had a policy of 'no questions asked' returns until a fixed period.

A friend of mine went through a phase of buying an item of a particular kind, using it for a few weeks and then taking it back and then getting it again.

He got a greystation PSone, PSX or whatever we call these things these days and I got a copy of the first Resident Evil and we were playing it on a series of purchased/returned consoles.

One day it was my turn to pick up the console and when we got it back to his place and opened up the disc tray there was already a Resident Evil game inside.

Yep you've probably guessed it.

We left the game inside when we took it back and by pure lucky fluke paid for the same console back a few days later.

It was quite near Christmas so anyone could have got that machine with the free game but on that occasion the powers that be were watching.