All things related to the Xbox platforms
Titanfall bundle is a dead deal - no longer available or made. Honestly it would be a bad deal to get at this point, since you could get Titanfall on the cheap being a year old game.The bundles include a digital download code, so I guess if nothing else you could get a bundle and sell someone the games that came with it if you don't want any of the AC games...
Got a code last week for being a Day One owner. It got me a copy of Limbo, which isn't yet generally available on the X1. Was fun to replay this classic XBLA from the 360. Cleaned up most achievements last night. Only one I don't have is to beat the game in one sitting without dying more than 5 times. Not sure I ever accomplished that on the 360 either...
I loved Limbo. Still playing around with the idea of getting one. Wish they had some more special editions out like the COD version. Something with maybe some special color schemes. The white one I don't like. Wish they had a camo version or something. But I don't know I really don't use my PS4 at the moment. I just need some some multi player games to get me in the mood or something. Just waiting for the right deal to come along.
Get out your spray paint if you think you need a camo looking thing. I wouldn't expect to see any new "special" consoles until next fall when some more top game series come back around.
As far as the Kinect. I still like that I have one, but I use it 95% of the time for voice commands, 4.9% for Skype and very little for anything else. There are a few games out for it, one just hit last week, but typically not the type of games I want to play.
I would weigh the $100 savings now against:
1) If you later decide to get one, the standalong Kinect is currently $150
2) Do you think you would use voice commands to launch or snap games and apps? Do you think you'd do $100 worth of this? My most used commands involve snapping the Party or Achievement apps.
3) Do you have family members you would want to use Skype on the big TV screen with frequently? I don't do this much, but i know grandparents like to skype with grandkids, and the skype experience in call is very nice with the tracking/zooming on participants
As far as the Kinect. I still like that I have one, but I use it 95% of the time for voice commands, 4.9% for Skype and very little for anything else. There are a few games out for it, one just hit last week, but typically not the type of games I want to play.
I would weigh the $100 savings now against:
1) If you later decide to get one, the standalong Kinect is currently $150
2) Do you think you would use voice commands to launch or snap games and apps? Do you think you'd do $100 worth of this? My most used commands involve snapping the Party or Achievement apps.
3) Do you have family members you would want to use Skype on the big TV screen with frequently? I don't do this much, but i know grandparents like to skype with grandkids, and the skype experience in call is very nice with the tracking/zooming on participants
The Skype experience on it is nice, but I"m sure you have other means of doing a Skype call. Then again. May be easier to get young kids on camera since this will do a wide view of a room, tracks/zooms on activity or those talking.
Examples would be either if I'm talking it may find and zoom in on me, but if the dogs run through the room it will zoom out and may "pan" left/right a bit with their movement. I put "pan" in quotes, because the Kinect is stationary, it just has a good wide angle camera and everything like pan/tilt is just digital.
Examples would be either if I'm talking it may find and zoom in on me, but if the dogs run through the room it will zoom out and may "pan" left/right a bit with their movement. I put "pan" in quotes, because the Kinect is stationary, it just has a good wide angle camera and everything like pan/tilt is just digital.
I am glad I got the kinect. I know they have not made many games that utilize it much but it can do so much more. It logs you in when you turn on your device. Offers voice commands. Can be used for skype and other such apps. There is a lot it does. Hopefully they start making more games that use it.
The sign in the kinect offers is nice, if you have multiple users. They did add an option to select one account that is always automatically signed in as well, so if you only have one person using it most of the time you can get by with that. Anyone else would have to sign in manually.
The record thing on the xbox is pretty cool. I just watched some of @ndboarder playing Sunset Overdrive.
What did you watch that on?I think most of my recordings are just auto clips from games. They can program in certain points in the game (location, if you do something specific, etc) where it will record a 30-60 second clip automatically. Or at any point in time you can just holler out "Xbox Record That" (assuming you have a Kinect) to capture the last 30 seconds. I did this a lot to taunt some coworkers when we were playing a lot of titanfall.
I see that last week the game "Threes!" launched on Xbox One.
Not a huge deal in terms of a game shipped, but I see that this game can be snapped and played from the snap window. Interesting concept for smaller games like this.
On the Xbox you can "snap" an app, which has it take up around 20-25% of the screen on the right hand side.
This is the first game I know of that can be snapped and be played on the smaller portion of the screen. I could see people liking this if they use the Live TV functionality so you could play a small game like Threes while catching some TV or watching a show on Netflix/Xbox Video/etc
Not a huge deal in terms of a game shipped, but I see that this game can be snapped and played from the snap window. Interesting concept for smaller games like this.
On the Xbox you can "snap" an app, which has it take up around 20-25% of the screen on the right hand side.
This is the first game I know of that can be snapped and be played on the smaller portion of the screen. I could see people liking this if they use the Live TV functionality so you could play a small game like Threes while catching some TV or watching a show on Netflix/Xbox Video/etc