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 daedalus-templarius wrote:
Halo reveal blew my mind, so badass.

$500 is steep, but it is basically a really powerful PC I guess.

Games look awesome.

Enjoyed the press conference.

$500 is steep, but it is basically a really powerful PC I guess, except for all the benefits of a PC...

 Soladrin wrote:

 daedalus-templarius wrote:
Halo reveal blew my mind, so badass.

$500 is steep, but it is basically a really powerful PC I guess.

Games look awesome.

Enjoyed the press conference.

$500 is steep, but it is basically a really powerful PC I guess, except for all the benefits of a PC...

Well, I already own a monster PC for all the other benefits of owning a PC. Like running photoshop, haha

I'll tell you this. A powerful PC will run a game at more than 60 FPS

Not that anything higher than 40-50 really matters but if it's a pissing match

Well if Sony's price is high (it will be) then things are looking up for Nintendo eh?

Not unless they start releasing some games lol

 LordofHats wrote:
I'll tell you this. A powerful PC will run a game at more than 60 FPS

Not that anything higher than 40-50 really matters but if it's a pissing match

I generally don't care about framerate as long as the game runs well and doesn't have excessive tearing/fps shifts.

So going higher than 60 isn't something I care much about.

It shouldn't be anyway. I know a guy who brags about running Crysis 1 on ultra high settings (everything maxed) with 200 FPS. The human eye only process at 40-50 frames and most monitors can't refresh that fast either so welcome to pointless land

As has been stated above...

US$500 (£420, €380), €500 (US$665), £430 (US$670).
When most of the 'super features' for TV and game integration it's shouting about to make it so great, and so it'll integrate so amazingly into your home theatre system won't work in the EU (or hell, anywhere not america), what are they giving us to make up for this, and to account for the £110 price increase.

My problem is - the PS4 doesn't hold any exlcusives to draw me, and the exclusive in series such as Halo on the Xbox, that will be continued on the XBO, I want to continue.

Using Halo as an example, I'm 8 games, 2 series and half a dozen or so books in, and I kinda want to see how the story ends... that won't be possible on the PS4.
Obviously I won't be getting the XBO at release anyway and will wait for a price drop... but yeah...

Dragon Age Inquisition's trailer was in engine.

why xbox one? I think xbox 720 or xbox 3 sounds way better. Another title i would love to see it called is the xbox E, which stands for Xbox Evolved! Duh duh duh! doesn't that sound awesome. And as for the halo show by mr spielberg, that is just pure win I hope

Battlefront 3 has been officially confirmed by EA.

And across the interwebs, there was rejoicing.

I think Titan Falls looks pretty good....... For a 360 game. Still, it looks like it could be ALOT of fun.

However Compared with the battlefield 4 64 player stage show, it kinda looks a little quaint. 'Aww look at pwetty mechs shooting the non-deswucktable buildings, aww look at the twenty four players and the tiny map, soo cute'.

I cringed badly, then chuckled, when the pretty halo fembot said 'Halo 5 will be the first in the series........... To deliver blistering 60 FPS'...... Wow, still my beating heart, woopty doo.... Yeah i'm being sarcastic...

 Perkustin wrote:
I think Titan Falls looks pretty good....... For a 360 game. Still, it looks like it could be ALOT of fun.

However Compared with the battlefield 4 64 player stage show, it kinda looks a little quaint. 'Aww look at pwetty mechs shooting the non-deswucktable buildings, aww look at the twenty four players and the tiny map, soo cute'.

I cringed badly, then chuckled, when the pretty halo fembot said 'Halo 5 will be the first in the series........... To deliver blistering 60 FPS'...... Wow, still my beating heart, woopty doo.... Yeah i'm being sarcastic...

Wow, you're kind of a dick aren't you?

Ha! If her stage presence was robotic and insincere (which it was) and she was pretty my comment's pretty valid.

 Perkustin wrote:
I think Titan Falls looks pretty good....... For a 360 game. Still, it looks like it could be ALOT of fun.

However Compared with the battlefield 4 64 player stage show, it kinda looks a little quaint. 'Aww look at pwetty mechs shooting the non-deswucktable buildings, aww look at the twenty four players and the tiny map, soo cute'.

I cringed badly, then chuckled, when the pretty halo fembot said 'Halo 5 will be the first in the series........... To deliver blistering 60 FPS'...... Wow, still my beating heart, woopty doo.... Yeah i'm being sarcastic...

I'm with this guy, almost.

Titan falls looked pretty boring. Another sci fi shooter, with elements of brink/mirrors edge. Also throw in some dropped in mechs ala blacklight. It doesn't seem revolutionary as much as it just seems like catching up to current ideas. What I wouldn't give for an FPS with fresh elements. Naysayers be damned, but I thought syndicate was a very stylish and refreshing attempt at FPS's. It had it's problems I guess, but it was still fresh.

Halo 5 looks like another Halo. What I'll never understand is people spewing all sorts of hatred for the CoD franchise when Halo does the same thing. Oh well.

Killer instinct made me pause in thinking if I'd get a xbone, but only when someone on my facebook mentioned it. After seeing it in action, it kind of looks like another street fighter, and the announcer voice really struck me as a "Remember my voice? Buy this game because you remember my voice!". I think I went into a bit bitter because that same facebook post had people talking about how awesome the series was when they never even played it back in the day.

So far indifferent about the whole situation. Still not convinced to buy a xbone at all, still perfectly happy gaming on my PC.

Did they address any of the issues that have galvanized the community over the past weeks/months beyond what they posted last week?

 Necroshea wrote:
Halo 5 looks like another Halo. What I'll never understand is people spewing all sorts of hatred for the CoD franchise when Halo does the same thing. Oh well.

For me, at least, it's the plot and the universe that keeps me hooked. Too bad I'll be missing this one, at least I've got the last Kilo Five book to look forward to.

500 bucks for the xbone, and it requires an internet connection... looks like my nephew wont' be getting it heh.

 Necroshea wrote:


Titan falls looked pretty boring. Another sci fi shooter, with elements of brink/mirrors edge. Also throw in some dropped in mechs ala blacklight. It doesn't seem revolutionary as much as it just seems like catching up to current ideas. What I wouldn't give for an FPS with fresh elements. Naysayers be damned, but I thought syndicate was a very stylish and refreshing attempt at FPS's. It had it's problems I guess, but it was still fresh.

Agreed, mostly.

I remember first playing Crackdown on the 360 at a friends house, i played it for hours. It felt truly 'next gen'; the way the game was structured, the way you levelled up. The insane mobility and freedom of movement and just the pure emergence in the gameplay, do it your way dude. In alot of ways, for me, the 360 gen didn't quite deliver on Crackdown's promise. Sure there have been some great games but alot of their DNA remains from the PS2 era. We're still seeing games with loads of set pieces, eight hour campaigns and levels that feel like movie sets with lots of smoke and mirrors to fool you. In games with 'choices' it still just feels like the developers is running constant damage control in order to take away the impact. In Deus Ex 2 in '04 (i kinda liked it, sue me) i remember Chad Dumier telling me that my 'cavalier attitude to human life was disgusting' after i mowed down everyone in the police HQ (an optional activity, which serves no in-game purpose), i thought 'that's pretty darn neato!'. That was just the choice and the consequence all handled in one scene with one line of dialogue, However in '12 it wouldn't be a gross exaggeration to say that's about as far as Mass effect 3 went.

The thing that impressed me about the Battlefield 4 footage was the use of the stunning technology to enrich gameplay, collapse the road from underground, destroy the skyscraper, it all added to the gameplay.

 Melissia wrote:
500 bucks for the xbone, and it requires an internet connection... looks like my nephew wont' be getting it heh.

Is that your way of saying that Christmas will be fun in his house?

I haven't seen anything on battlefield yet, but I'm sure it looks good. A pity EA will never allow it to become available outside of origin.

MandalorynOranj wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
Halo 5 looks like another Halo. What I'll never understand is people spewing all sorts of hatred for the CoD franchise when Halo does the same thing. Oh well.

For me, at least, it's the plot and the universe that keeps me hooked. Too bad I'll be missing this one, at least I've got the last Kilo Five book to look forward to.

Same, I don't really play multiplayer for things like Halo and Gears, it's all about the story for me.

Though I understand Necrosheas point - the only redeeming feature for me is the single player, whenever I've come into contact with CoDs single player it's been very lacking.

I lost interest in Halo around the time of Reach. Still played 4 and all that, but it just got boring at that point. Two things really stuck out to me as annoying.

The idea that MC has "luck" as a thing. That's just...stupid.

The shift from shooting fleshy aliens to robots. I find absolutely nothing redeeming about shooting wave upon wave of robots.

daedalus-templarius wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 daedalus-templarius wrote:
Halo reveal blew my mind, so badass.

$500 is steep, but it is basically a really powerful PC I guess.

Games look awesome.

Enjoyed the press conference.

$500 is steep, but it is basically a really powerful PC I guess, except for all the benefits of a PC...

Well, I already own a monster PC for all the other benefits of owning a PC. Like running photoshop, haha

If you have a powerful PC, there's not much reason to buy an XBone then anyway. Almost everything worth playing is going multi-platform these days, especially Xbox titles. And most mid-end and higher gaming PCs pack more than enough power to do what the XBone will be able to do anyway. Spend a couple hundred dollars upgrading whatever may need to be upgraded, and just use that instead.

LordofHats wrote:It shouldn't be anyway. I know a guy who brags about running Crysis 1 on ultra high settings (everything maxed) with 200 FPS. The human eye only process at 40-50 frames and most monitors can't refresh that fast either so welcome to pointless land

This is false. The human eye can recognize upwards of several hundred frames per second, and there is no known limit to how many FPS the eye can actually process. The eye/brain doesn't actually process information in an "FPS" kind of way.


All that aside, $500 as the launch price is pretty ridiculous in today's market. I'd consider anything at $400 to be pushing it. Let's hope Sony learned from their mistakes this time.

I really dislike this direction that console developers are going in, trying to turn their game consoles into full blown PCs, at a cost that is rolled on to the consumer. The reason you buy a console in the first place is to avoid the complexity and cost of a PC.

 Fafnir wrote:

If you have a powerful PC, there's not much reason to buy an XBone then anyway. Almost everything worth playing is going multi-platform these days, especially Xbox titles. And most mid-end and higher gaming PCs pack more than enough power to do what the XBone will be able to do anyway. Spend a couple hundred dollars upgrading whatever may need to be upgraded, and just use that instead.

Nah.

I like sitting on my couch.

Don't bring up the tired "oh but you can build a pc for your couch downstairs so you don't need a console" either, because I don't care.

You don't have to build. There are companies that offer pre-built just for that purpose!

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
500 bucks for the xbone, and it requires an internet connection... looks like my nephew wont' be getting it heh.

Is that your way of saying that Christmas will be fun in his house?

I'm planning on getting him more games for his 360 instead.

Sony just confirmed. Disk based games and no online requirements. Microsoft had better sit and have a think. I think sony's going to run away with this gen if they don't

EDIT: Also no restrictions on used games

Where did you ever get the idea that Xbox One does not have "disc based games"?

You have the option of buying games on disc or digital download.

And as well, Sony did not "confirm" diddly. They talked in nice vagueries which make people think they're confirming things.

When I said Disc based I meant in the sense your disc was used for more than a 1 time install.

It seemed pretty clear cut to me what he said, I may however be considered naive at times, Preferring to think people mean what they say not half talking.