PS4 and Xbox One

that's what I was just going to ask, if refurb is ok or not. reading online it seems pretty risky.

I would avoid a refurb just because deals are/will be plentiful with the new/slim/upgraded consoles coming out. Though X1 has already seen massive cuts this year, PS4 deals will be coming soon enough. Not to mention VR...

Based on the research I did after my old PS3 went tits-up, if you do get a refurb, make sure that they have legitimately reballed the GPU and haven't just done a reflow. The difference being that the reflow just involves melting the existing solder and is much less reliable, whereas a reball involves completely replacing all of the solder points on the GPU. It's more involved and therefore more expensive but well worth it if you want something that's going to last. And from what I've read, a professional reball may very well improve on the work done in the factory.

but there's no way to know what was done in refurbishing a specific console, right? i guess unless you have the knowledge to open it up and see for yourself.

Yeah, not without taking it apart. I guess if you buy it from a physical storefront, ask them to show you their (solder) balls. I doubt they'd have them if they don't use them.

there have been new PS4 deals for around 250 recently, keep an eye on https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4Deals/

and anyway, Bloodborne + Last Of Us + some of the exclusives coming in next year or two make PS the obvious choice for me.

I ended up getting a new PS4. Due to convoluted reasons, I ended up getting the Uncharted 4 bundle, which means I get play Uncharted 4 (yay) but also have an embarrassing PS4 with Uncharted 4 artwork on it (boo).

i only played the first 2 but i hear the 2nd is the best of the series so i feel confident in my determination that they are... not great games.

does the uncharted 4 artwork peel off

Scalebound cancelled http://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-exclusive-scalebound-has-been-canceled
Struggling to think what Xbox has for this year, that Rare pirate game and ... ?

Project Scorpio still seems to be on track for Holiday 2017

The Scalebound gameplay video was so incredibly stupid it's no loss.

Yep it looked bad. Scorpio sounds great on paper - but what games will there be for it? Xbox exclusives lineup seems fairly week, and unless they have a ton of stuff in the works, I have a feeling
that people will upgrade and then wonder why... reason being that most third party developers are going to develop for both the PS and Xbox platforms at the same time, thats just how it works financially, so it seems like the only major advantage to Scorpio if it doesnt have major exclusives would be improved framerate and resolution on those cross-platform third party games - which is great of course... but why not just get a PC?

crackdown 3 is the only thing i'm looking forward to this year, but i'm looking forward to it a lot - the first game was one of my favourites of the last gen

is there a good all purpose xbox one thread? trying to find out what's worth playing on the Game Pass.

(currently installed: Witcher III, Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Forza 4, Nier Automata, Doom, Gears 5, the 2nd Ori game)

forza horizon 4 is the best exclusive

i think yakuza 0 is on there now which is one of the best games of the past decade

some good indies: yoku's island express, steamworld dig 2, lonely mountains downhill

Some random ideas:

Two Point Hospital
Rocket League
Fallout New Vegas
Untitled Goose Game
Subnautica
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Bridge Constructor Portal
Hollow Knight
Life Is Strange 2
Minit
Slay the Spire
Ori 1
Astroneer
Children of Morta
Wargroove
Doom
Wolfensteins
Void Bastards
Steamworld Dig 2
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Dead Cells
Dishonored 2
Monster Hunter World
Tekken 7

I played thru LIS 1 on the PS3 but have been wary of LIS 2, is it comparable in terms of quality?

I forgot to mention I installed and played thru the first hour or so of Yakuza 0...seems ok so far but not totally sold yet

I've only done episode 1 of both Life Is Stranges. I know the second one didn't resonate as much with fans of the first, but I found it pretty moving. Maybe too corny for some.

Yakuza 0 really shines with some of the goofier side missions and mini games, IMO. The cabaret club game totally derailed me from the main storyline.

yakuza 0 is god tier

I feel like this chip shortage might end up giving my xbox one a slightly longer shelf life in terms of developers not wanting to release stuff only for next-gen consoles :)

Yeah they’ll release games for the prior gen and they’ll run badly and then they’ll apologize to the small number of complainers or whatever

Dear gamer, we are so sorry, please accept 400 game bux which can only be spent in the game store, in the hat section

I sold my XBox One X thinking I could get a PS5 this spring to play Tony Hawk and MLB.

Oooooops.

I know they couldn't have predicted the chip shortage (is this the same shortage hampering car production?), but it really feels like they rushed the release of PS5 and nu Xbox. Like, it could have waited a year to have the same impact, imo.

i believe it is the same chip shortage affecting cars

it seems like 6-7 years in the standard gap between Sony systems ('94, '00, '06, '13, '20). I agree one extra year would've been fine

for comparison
Xbox was '01, '05, '13
Nintendo was '83, '90, '96, '01, '06, '12, '17

not sure where the general gaming thread is but... i have to vent. picked up an xbox one s & controllers this week for ~150 quid... and this has been the most miserable gaming experience of my life.

this is my first modern console, after only ever playing PS2 growing up. I spent over a week creating accounts, typing in passwords, entering payment details, accepting privacy agreements, signing up for subscriptions, and hours of installing games overnight... but the select few games I wanted to play just won't run...?

forza horizon 4 hangs on launch, as does burnout paradise; other discs inexplicably stop installing halfway and get stuck (forza 7, FIFA, PGA Tour); some 360 titles won't run without a specific hard drive; the HDD is just about full with only around 4 games (!)... other games have crashed in the middle of playing... and the third party controller we bought has been disabled by microsoft!

all of this has just completely put me off... is this what modern gaming is like?

otm

just even about accounts and downloading

i cannot be fucked, ps2 emulator for lyfe

is this what modern gaming is like?

― maelin, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 5:28 PM bookmarkflaglink

barring the hangs and install issues that sound like some sort of hardware problem, all the rest is par for the course

consoles peaked with ps2, now they have all the drawbacks of pcs and few of the advantages

I had to set up an xbox account for my daughter, using my existing but entirely abandoned and long forgotten account as the family account, and it nearly killed me.

i dunno. i have had a ps4 and still have the xbox one (it's at a relative's house). the installing games thing is annoying but it does mean *much* faster load times.
i don't get how logging into an account is a huge pain. you have to do that to post on ILX
Also it's very easy to plug in an external usb drive to these consoles if you're running out of space. They both support it

Yes it's a more PC like experience but let's be honest it's nothing like as much of a faff than running a windows 11 gaming pc and you don't pay nearly as much for the machine

Also I've played Forza Horizon 4 and multiple versions of Fifa on the xbox one and they ran just fine - so yeah you've likely got a hardware issue

i had suspected a h/w issue, yeah... i'm going to return the console to the second hand shop and see about an exchange. such a frustrating few days. it was a gift from my wife, we just wanted to game together... have recently read pages and pages of users having issues with several new titles inexplicably crashing, though, h/w issues or not... i'm really busy with work all week and want some escapism in the evening. it should be fun, not hours of maintenance, online updates and privacy agreements.

idk. some modern indie games i've played have been a blast (life is strange & firewatch to name two), but many titles - perhaps moreso the physics - in this era of gaming feel sluggish, bloated and visually confusing to me too, in comparison to 6th gen and before. there's so much information on the screen at once, so many menus and settings to wade through...

...i think i am just getting old at 32yo!