DPCyric

1 hour ago, Jason said:

Biggest thing keeping me from getting a Fold is that the outside screen is still just a little bit too narrow.

Sounds like the One Plus Open will be what you want (it is what I am waiting for).

On 7/25/2023 at 12:52 AM, SoberChef said:

So happy that Ermac is Konfirmed to be Koming back! As for Omni-Man v. Homelander ... two entirely different entities there honestly.

I think it will be cool to pit them against each other anyhow.

On 7/25/2023 at 9:04 AM, Dre801 said:

I just played through "Black" on my Series X.  Still holds up.

I seen your avatar and expected you to say the Transformer games  I do need to check out Black never got around to that one.

Picked up a copy of Alpha Protocol and now I am trying to decide if I need the Transformers 360 games 

Is there anything left of it?

1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

So the first two episodes of eight dropped last Tuesday, I finally got around to seeing them and man is it nice to have Timothy Olyphant back as Raylan Givens. So many of the creative team from the original show are back doing this limited series (or, if it does well, hopefully we get more seasons) so it's like nothing's changed even though 8 years have passed, the show is firing on all cylinders. Adding Boyd Holbrook to this world is perfect casting. I was surprised to see no one had posted about it now that the show is out. Anyone else watching?

I've watched the first episode 

The roster is looking great I was worried when this was announced because the characters I like came out after the first MK but I at least am going to be playing Smoke, Kenshi and Li Mei (Tanya looks cool too)! 

2 hours ago, BloodyHell said:

I admittedly just read the title.

 Lost Odyssey is pretty high priority I enjoyed the few hours I've played of it in the past.

On 7/16/2023 at 1:18 PM, DPCyric said:

Now that I have the Series X I'm looking for what I should pick up from the back catalog. I was pleasantly surprised to find I already own:

 

Lost Odyssey (I really need to play through this now)

Midnight Club Los Angeles

Burnout Paradise

 

I picked up:

 

Split/Second (which I've already started playing again love this game)

Asura's Wrath

 

I'm going to get physical copies of:

 

Blur

Too Human

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance 

 

What hidden gems do I need to find 

@Phaseknox @BloodyHell

55 minutes ago, Phaseknox said:

Is this song in it:

 

 

Dunno but there was an NIN lyric quote 

This one has the Core i7-10700K and an RTX 3070

This one has the Core i7-12700k and an RTX 3080 Ti for $550 more 

This one has the 3080 Ti but only 16 GB of RAM 

6 hours ago, Phaseknox said:

I didn’t know if he was a PC gamer, or not. 
 

You know that I’m the list king.  The Xbox and Xbox 360 were a couple of my favorite consoles, I played tons of games during their generations.

 

I’ve had Control in my backlog for a while now, and you just convinced me to play it sooner rather than later. 

I am but my PC is old and has just a 970 in it.

I do know that is why I had to troll you a little  Those are my favorite consoles the original Xbox has several of my all time favorite games and got me into online multiplayer games. The 360 generation had a lot of bangers but also Live Arcade which really got me into indie games.

You are going to love Control I took it up a notch today playing with the lights off and my Yamaha Pro 500's hooked up to my mini AMP 

8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Like 85% of those you can get on PC. Blue Dragon is backwards compatible though!

 

Also I've been looking into getting Enchanted Arms, looks like they just recently took it off of the Xbox store for some reason. Lame.

I had to troll a little there with a list that large 😅

Played some NGB looks great and I forgot how amazing the combat is (and how terrible the camera is )!

Played some Control that game is way more fucked up than I expected 

2 hours ago, Slug said:

 

I usually hit them first thing in the a.m.  Once people start waking up it's usually jampacked during con.

Still some of the best coffee I've ever had I love that place.

14 hours ago, Slug said:

First..whatever drink you do drink. :P  Water, tea, coffee, malort...

If Bee coffee roasters is still across the street coffee it is 

1 hour ago, Phaseknox said:

I don’t know if all of these are BC, or not:
 

Alice: Madness Returns

Alpha Protocol

Binary Domain

Blades of Time

Blue Dragon

Breakdown

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bullet Witch

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Butcher Bay

Dante’s Inferno

The Darkness

The Darkness II

Dark Sector

Deadfall Adventures

Dead to Rights: Retribution

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga

Dungeon Siege III

Enchanted Arms

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. 2

F.E.A.R. 3

The First Templar

Golden Axe: Beast Rider

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge

Indians Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb

Infinite Undiscovery

Knights Contract

Legendary

Lollipop Chainsaw

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North

Lost Odyssey

Magna Carta 2

Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Mindjack

Mirror’s Edge

Remember Me

Rise of the Argonauts

The Saboteur

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

Shadows of the Damned

Singularity

Spec Ops: The Line

Syndicate

Velvet Assassin

Venetica

Viking: Battle for Asgard

Wet

Wolfenstein

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

 

I'm sorry but I have a life 

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

Remember Guitar Hero? Tony Hawk? 

Tony Hawk 1+2 was fairly recently and I believe was successful. I'm certain that is a franchise Microsoft will leverage for Gamepass.

50 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

I mean no argument from me. I think CoD is awful and have thought so since MW2 pretty much. I'd happily take an every-other-year approach if I can't get my preferred just-stop-making-it approach.

I've always thought CoD was bad at a fundamental level but I have had fun playing some of them. I think they could do a mainline game every two years and do spinoffs in between.

7 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I asked that same question ten years ago :P

They have had some underperformers since then and are lucky to be back in the position they are. They really need to move to an every other year model.

20 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

 

Hoping for change from new corporate overlords while the old cronies still manage the day to day.  The one positive to come that we know of was Raven unionizing.

 

 

Activision has long had the freedom to do things in the way it wants.  They didn't need a buyout to be flush with capital.  And again, its the same people still making the decisions.

 

I'd love to be wrong.  Perhaps one day I will be.  But then we'll be taking about whatever would-be multiplatform new IP, revived IP or spin-off not coming to Sony and Nintendo platforms.

 

The main thing Microsoft enables Activision to do is save face on the harassment lawsuits.

 

 

Again, Activision has long been in the position to try something different.  Remember Skylanders?

 

 

Because they own Call of Duty, WoW and Minecraft now, among others.  Sony sees it as a gap in their portfolio, and they're not wrong.

Skylanders was a thing nearly a decade ago they have not been in the position to try something different in a long time. CoD sells and is what makes their investors happy, they had several flops outside of that and moved all the studios with flops to CoD development. Fortunately we have gotten some Crash games lately but they are way too reliant on CoD currently and how long is that really sustainable?

39 minutes ago, ShreddieMercury said:

 

Binary Domain is excellent and well worth playing through.

 

PURE was developed by Black Rock Studio, who went on to make Split/Second a couple years later.  I highly recommend finding a copy since you enjoyed Split/Second.  It's a different game, but the same DNA is there.

 

Geometry Wars 1 is available and is essentially identical to the version in PGR.  Geometry Wars 3 I actually think is very underrated, and it's my favorite.

Yeah I will absolutely get Binary Domain.

I'm not really into ATV games but I will see if I can grab a used copy to try it out at least.

I will have to get 1 and I already have the other Geometry Wars me and @Chairslinger were near the top of the leaderboard on the original GW and I am pretty sure he got really high up on some of the sequels.

Oh, I also picked up Control Ultimate edition since it was on such a steep discount while I already have it on PC from free giveaways my comp can't handle that and I've really been wanting to try that game out.

I picked up:

Ninja Gaiden Black (on the store)
Blur (NIB)

Metal Gear Rising (NIB)
 

Have an offer out on:

Too Human (NIB)

Couple things I see are still on the Xbox store and I am waiting for a sale on them.

Also picked up Elden Ring ($40), Scarlet Nexus ($12) and Mass Effect Legendary Edition ($17) 

1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said:

He was talking about Blood Wake which was hurt by not having online play.

I thought maybe but there is also another thread where we are discussing the online play should be free 

2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

When OG XBOX first came out, it was originally supposed to launch with online play: it was going to be like PC and just “work” based on the devs creating individual clients for their games. There’s early footage and interviews/panels talking about and showing off even Munch’s Odysee having online support. At some point before launching the XBOX, Microsoft must’ve decided to change the plan for online. Blood Wake got absolutely robbed by coming out before XBL, it was definitely meant for online play.

Wrong thread 

4 hours ago, ShreddieMercury said:

Wow this thread is for me, as these games are pretty much all that I play.  Blood Wake and Outrun 2 are not BC - I see both of those mentioned.  From my perspective the most essential BC games, and those I'm most thankful for are:

 

- Panzer Dragoon Orta, which runs at 4k/60, with HDR

- Jet Set Radio, which is now sadly delisted

- SSX 3, which runs at 4k/60, with HDR

- Ninja Gaiden Black, 4k/60

- NiGHTS into Dreams, with HDR

- Hydro Thunder Hurricane, which was developed by the creative team behind Blood Wake

- Max Payne 1 + 2, which are both 4k/60

- Binary Domain

- F.E.A.R., 4k/60, disc only

- PURE, amazing ATV arcade racer, disc only

- Split/Second

- Geometry Wars 1-3

- Left 4 Dead 2

 

I will take a look at my library shortly and add some more.  The Xbox BC program was pretty amazing.

 

 

Binary Domain is a good call that's one I have heard only good things about!

Already have Split/Second easily one of my favorite racing games. Actually if I ever get rich AF I'm starting a game studio and a heavily Split/Second influenced VR racing game will be developed by my team.

Is there any way to play shoot Geomtry Wars  outside of Project Gotham Racing? I absolutely love OG GW not so hot on the sequels.

11 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

They should just let everyone play multiplayer like on PC and let the library offerings speak for themselves.

Agreed but we all know that ain't happening