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Post by Xeogred on Jul 25, 2020 19:13:03 GMT -5
Was thinking about this today... this is probably my personal breakdown of modern day Xbox:
Halo - Wish I still cared but can't. Gears of War - Don't care.
Forza - Don't care.
Fable - Don't care.
Rare - (Everwild) Who? Rare closed in 2002. Ninja Theory - Don't care. Double Fine Studios - Don't care. - Stalker 2 - Heck yeah, but this is coming to PC for sure. Phanstasy Star Online 2 New Genesis - Why keep the "2" when it looks like a brand new thing? Looks cool, but I need a miracle to get into online stuff thesedays. Obsidian Entertainment - The best thing Xbox has going for them, for me. But their games will more than likely land on PC too, so I can play them there hopefully. Avowed looks like Obsidian doing their own Elder Scrolls now too... and I'm not complaining. Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas was better than any of Bethesda's developed titles and since Bethesda has been on a fast downward spiral into crapville, Obsidian making their own spiritual successors to those types of games is cool with me haha.
So yeah, Obsidian is like the only thing exclusive to Xbox that I guess I care about and as mentioned, hopefully all their stuff lands on PC. It's probably going to be very easy to skip Xbox for another generation.
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Post by Sarge on Jul 25, 2020 19:23:08 GMT -5
Fable is pretty good, though, even if I haven't actually beaten one yet. My brother has finished all of them, though.
I gots nothing against Ninja Theory, either - I enjoyed Enslaved: Journey to the West.
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Post by Xeogred on Jul 25, 2020 19:36:24 GMT -5
For me, I missed Fable 1 but always heard people talk about how it was hilariously short. I played and beat Fable 2. It was fine... but not enough to gain my loyalty. So that was a one and one series for me. Enslaved from a story/world design was awesome, but I thought the combat was really dull. Everything else Ninja Theory has ever done just doesn't look like my cup of tea at all. I can't stomach to look at "DmC"...
Forza actually sounds legit to me whenever I hear about them. But I'm not $60 + new console levels of interested in a racing series.
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Post by Sarge on Jul 25, 2020 19:39:16 GMT -5
I hated DmC tonally, but it played nice.
As for Fable, yeah, it's fairly short... but not that short. A straight run according to HLTB takes around 12 hours. Extra puts you at 20. Plus, if you're playing a version with the extra content (Lost Chapters), that probably bumps up a few more hours. That's prime ARPG territory, in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 1:49:39 GMT -5
DmC had weak writing and characters, but the art direction and gameplay were pretty good. I enjoyed it a good deal more than Enslaved.
I don't know about the gameplay, but the Hellblade games look pretty interesting to me in terms of setting and tone, too. I figure the second game will also end up on PC.
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Post by Ex on Jul 26, 2020 2:03:45 GMT -5
DmC and Fable were both games I tried in their original incarnations, on their original platforms, and ended up not finishing either. I doubt I put more than thirty minutes into either game, before shelving them. I then later went and bought their 7th gen ports. Maybe the second try I'll "get" what's great about these games. So might as well make that second try look a little nicer via their up-res'd ports.
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Post by Xeogred on Jul 26, 2020 8:36:48 GMT -5
I say all that, but I might sucker into buying an Xbox One if brand new ones fall to $99 or $149 someday. Would be cool if some of my Xbox/360 collection upscales nicely with one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 9:38:01 GMT -5
I loved Fable on the Xbox. I've beaten it twice. Never bothered with the sequels (or anything "7th gen"), but the original was very charming and I have very fond memories of it.
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Post by anayo on Jul 26, 2020 9:43:13 GMT -5
I say all that, but I might sucker into buying an Xbox One if brand new ones fall to $99 or $149 someday. Would be cool if some of my Xbox/360 collection upscales nicely with one. I've seen base model xbox ones for as low as $80 pre-owned. However my understanding is that only the xbox one s offers any framerate improvements when playing older xbox titles. I would personally go for a xbox one x for the price range you indicated - not for any of its contemporary games, but for the novelty of playing Ninja Gaiden Black and Panzer Dragon Orta and so forth in 4K.
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Post by Xeogred on Jul 26, 2020 11:01:27 GMT -5
I say all that, but I might sucker into buying an Xbox One if brand new ones fall to $99 or $149 someday. Would be cool if some of my Xbox/360 collection upscales nicely with one. I've seen base model xbox ones for as low as $80 pre-owned. However my understanding is that only the xbox one s offers any framerate improvements when playing older xbox titles. I would personally go for a xbox one x for the price range you indicated - not for any of its contemporary games, but for the novelty of playing Ninja Gaiden Black and Panzer Dragon Orta and so forth in 4K. Hmm that's good to know. Yeah it's almost solely Ninja Gaiden Black that makes me want one of these haha.
With them stopping production on the Xbox One X now... I can't tell how the prices will go. Maybe they'll be phased out and super cheap, or become sought after rarities that command a higher price over time? If anything though, the last two generations got really cheap hardware and software wise for Xbox, compared to the other consoles. Wonder if that will be the case this time too.
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