NullZ3r0
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I think so too. But it's still a better alternative to the soy boys at that other place.
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Banjo64
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The Master Chief Collection and Ori and the Will of the Wisps can be played with their enhancements from any external drive.
In addition to those, certain other cross-gen enhanced games like Rocket League and Sea of Thieves can too.
Gears 5 and Forza Horizon 4 need the internal drive.
You can check which enhanced games must be stored on the internal drive by clicking start/pause/options on the game tile, then clicking ‘file info’.
If it says ‘gen; Durango’ / ‘console type; XboxOneGen9Aware’ it can be played from any external drive. If it says ‘gen; Scarlett’ / ‘console type; gen9’ it’s internal only.
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Great info, thanks.
Cornbread78
Member
Good info, TY.
Do you know if there are any loading time losses by moving the 360 game onto the external drive?
Bogroll
Likes moldy games
They will load slower but they still load a lot quicker than on XB1. XB1 games seem to load faster as well on a external drive than they did on the Xb1 console, so its a win alround compared to last gen machines.
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Cornbread78
Member
Nice, I just wanted to clear HD space for Borderlands 3 that I picked up at Target for $10 and Wolfenstein 2, which I picked up at WalMart for $5, lol. Plus I have a copy of Kingdoms of Amular on way as well as Magna Carta 2, which I overpaid for on Amazon
Cornbread78
Member
yeah, I'm all set with games on XBox until Avowed/Infinite drop later this year.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Avowed will not drop this year(its targeting late 2022-early 2023), but Starfield may be a 2021 title.
Banjo64
cumsessed
I’m not sure if you’re using a HDD, I use a SATA SSD and there’s barely any difference in loading compared to the internal. Digital Foundry did a comparison video, the difference is nominal.
asocirev
Member
You’ll continue to get varied opinions but my vote is to play them in release order. I wouldn’t skip 4 & 5 like many others suggest. I feel the hate for those entries has a lot to do with nostalgia clouded memories sprinkled with a dislike of 343i/MS. I never played any halo campaigns until the MCC collection released and I enjoyed them all.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Agree with this, 4&5 get shat on from people who like the original games and don’t like change. However, objectively they are still very good games, rated 87 & 84 respectively on Metacritic.
As someone who plays the MCC all the time, 4&5 online are still brilliant games in my opinion.
splattered
Member
My son and i used to play this quite a bit but always got our butts handed to us by opposing groups of enemies... our own team mates never would work together for some reason. Still a really neat and fun game, i will have to check the upgrades out soon.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
SSD is part of the reasons the games load faster on XSX, the rest is the difference the CPU makes helping the game move and uncompress data and help the game engine load it at runtime. They make quite an impact for BC titles.
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T-Cake
Member
Yeah, I’ve just compared loading Batman Arkham Knight and Battlefield Bad Company 2 on my PC SATA SSD vs Xbox Series S USB HDD. Both games were noticeably quicker on the Xbox! I was agog at how fast they are.
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Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Try Morrowind or Deadly Premonition from the internal one... mouth watering...
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Tickle My Tendies
Member
Is it just me or did Wasteland 3 get snubbed on a lot of Best Of lists this year? Plays great on Series X, and an amazing game all around (imo). Deserved more praise...
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ArtemisClydeFrog
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Chad Spencer
Roberts
Member
Yeah, GOTY. So many ways to do quests and eventually to end the story, the humour, attention to detail and, of course, the gameplay.
Tickle My Tendies
Member
A shame it seems to have flown under the radar somewhat.
Can't wait to see what inXile does for Xbox next, great studio
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CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Try Morrowind or Deadly Premonition from the internal one... mouth watering...
Also FO3. Loading is almost nonexistent and it makes playing so much better.
The only time I ever had a CTD on my Series X was in FO3, but it was only one and after about 150 hrs playtime instead of dozens of crashes on the 360. Old games on new consoles is drastically improved and much more enjoyable.
BusierDonkey
Member
When I built my first PC in 2016 I did so mostly for games like Fallout so I could get into modding. The time saved not waiting a full minute for a new area to load when you fast travel is worth the cost of the SSD.
I think old games minus their long load times is easily the best thing that came from faster storage.
nikolino840
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Jaguar Victory
Member
Looks like you scoundrels got your stimulus checks. XBOX Elite 2 controller is on backorder.
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splattered
Member
Yeah and we had another baby earlier this year but looks like we have to wait until this next year's tax return to get stimulus for her because she wasn't on our last years return (just in case anyone is in same boat as me and didn't know)
That being said my stimulus bought 0 games related items, literally went 100% towards general bills. This year was rough but at the same time was very good in helping us get our debt paid down.
nikolino840
Member
Jaguar Victory
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splattered
Member
Congrats on the baby!
Haha thank you!
I'm almost too old for this shit... i also hit 40 this year so this is definitely gonna be our last kiddo.
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Ray Tracing on Series S? That is shaping up to be a really nice little console for $300.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
STALKER for all I care could run at 360p, it's amazing get for Xbox. (hopefully it's coming to PS5 also, these studios deserve all the sale thy can get). Really happy that Xbox supports Slavic region this much. Lets say CDPR, 4A Studios (Metro), Bohemia Interactive (Vigor) now GSC Game World and yes Kingdom Come really took off after being on GamePass. So this is something Xbox does not get enough credit for.
Night.Ninja
Banned
I hate the fact that now every game has to point now that they have "Ray tracing"
Kagey K
Banned
Most people couldn’t tell if it’s there or not, so they have to make sure to emphasize it as a feature.
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Deleted member 471617
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Should finally be getting the Series X on Monday and will be playing Gears 5: Hivebusters as I have read and seen nothing but great things about it so im looking forward to playing it. Anyone else played it?
Roberts
Member
Yeah, it is pretty great. As I said it before, it feels like a really fun B-movie version of Gears. It’s short and full of action. Also, looks amazing.
Kagey K
Banned
It feels like a prequel to the escape game mode. It really should have been there at release to introduce you to the characters and story you play through in that mode.
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Deleted member 471617
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Nice. Really hoping that Gears 6 goes back to the more linear action packed setup as opposed to the open areas of Gears 5.
I don't play online whatsoever so I can't comment on the escape mode but I do know the characters are from that mode. I don't mind being introduced to new characters in Hivebusters.
Most people couldn’t tell if it’s there or not, so they have to make sure to emphasize it as a feature.
It is because approximations are well-enough (SSR and such). It is hard to notice raytracing when you are not looking for it. Raytracing will become revolutionary when it is used in gameplay such as looking in a mirror to detect an object that is not in the direct view of the scene (for example, detecting an enemy through a mirror in a spying game).
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Uuuh I hate to kill any expectations, but here's the whole thing:
Natsume is a japanese company that opened a US office in the late 80s/early 1990s, by around 1995 the US branch was divorced and became Natsume Inc., in 97 they published the first Harvest Moon, a game that wasn't developed by them, but rather by Victor Interactive. By 2003, Victor was acquired by Marvelous and renamed as Marvelous Interactive, but still continued to license to Natsume Inc. the publishing rights for the rest of the world until 2012, when Marvelous decided to use XSEED which they owned a year before due to its merger with the former owner AQ Interactive (Marvelous is a merger of AQ, Marvelous Entertaiment and Liveware).
But how they still keep using the name? Well, because the game's original name is not Harvest Moon, but rather Bokujo Monogatari, and with XSEED they brought a translated name: Story of Seasons. All the Harvest Moon games you now see are done by other studios and all of them were critically panned by players.
And now a little funny thing, Natsume Japan still exists to this day and they were renamed to... Natsume Atari (which doesn't have any relations to the Atari as we know).
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Concern
Member
bxrz
Member
His linkedin says "Responsible for product, strategy, and roadmap planning for all Xbox hardware - including console, accessories, hardware-related experiences, and more"
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Bo is raving about it. We don't agree on consoles, but tend to like the same games.
Karak
who I respect and usually agree with gave it the hidden gem award and now you're here telling us it's really good. Think I'm going to need to play this once I get caught up on my must-play games.
Concern
Member
I was hoping he was the new guy in charge of adding games to the bc list. At least thats the first thing that came to mind when seeing the tweet lol.
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