Second Story Gamer discusses the positives and the negatives of the New Xbox Experience, from the new party system, to the avatars, to the organization of the service. It's a pretty comprehensive overview.
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Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"
@crow
Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.
Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc
I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.
I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
Some food for thought:
Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?
As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.
Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online
The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.
There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.
This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.
But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii
Um . . . you can change the themes. I just did that not to long ago with the NXE. In addition, I love the way the themes look now. Before, I couldn't read any of the text on the dashboard because the themes and background pictures were so vibrant and bright. Now, I can see everything great, no matter what theme i choose.
I am a huge fan of the NXE. He doesn't get across the point that it works SOOO much better than the blades. Its clean, cool, and impressive. It doesn't have the lags and catches of the old system. (Its pretty much Sony's XMB presented a different way).
I love the way friends are presented. Like he said, if you don't like it, just press the Xbox button on your controller and view your friends the old way. Don't complain about something that is still there. I like looking through friends both ways.
Avatars. THE BIGGEST FLAW OF NXE. OMG these things are hideous and completely miss the 360's target audience. They look very childish and all have very feminine tendencies. At least with the Wii you can make cool stuff like Darth Vader. Here you just get generic looking barbie dolls that you play dress up with. AND YOU HAVE TO USE THEM.
Netflix. How good your stream is depends on your internet connection. My first stream, I was sickened by the terrible quality. However, I have had GREAT streams since then. No where new great quality, but fine for watching movies. I LOVE THIS FEATURE.
I love the NXE. You will too. Just don't really expect alot of new functionality besides NXE.
I hated the blade dash board so much I opted not to get a 360. Over all it looks like M$ has listened to there fan base. Good for them.
Over all I like it. I think there will be much discussion about allowing the avatars to be turned off or made invisible for non-specific game use. As he stated...some of this is hard to test without other friends on the beta with you. I guess one of the best yet to be used features of this is the supposed fact the MS will now be able to update on the fly...so we will see how that pans out.
"there doesn’t seem to be an option to change themes in the interface."
I changed the Themes...
"Unfortunately, every time I try to activate the service, it doesn’t work at all." works for me... let me guess.. the guy does not know he needs to have a netflix account and login into netflix to activate the device?
when will someone that actually spend time on the NXE make a review? We have a bunch of people idiots trigger happy to bash the NXE. Sad.
as long as live doesnt crash during the holidays im ok. i could care less about NXE. just let me play all day online when i have free time during the holidays