PS4 and Xbox One

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!