Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 534 59.5%

  • Series S

    Votes: 105 11.7%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 234 26.1%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    898
From what brief stuff I've read, you can automate everything in MS Flight Simulator. Just tell the flight computer where you want to go to and it does everything - take off, navigation and landing so you can just sit back and enjoy the view. (At least I hope that turns out to be true and wasn't made up nonsense!)
 
Not really digging The Ascent. The artwork is superb but there seems to be a lot of running about to get to where you need to go. Have finished the first main mission at level 4 and now it’s sending me to an area for the next main quest with level 14 baddies? Am I supposed to be doing side quests to level up?
 
Relentless81 said:
Only side mission I did was to go to some traders but the stuff they had was pointless anyway. Im only level 4 and just finished the second mission. It's hard and I've been killed a few times but retreating to cover seems to work for me

The loot bot thing seems pointless, doesn't pick anything up!?
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it’s weird. I died about 10 times on the way to The Grinder getting past level 14 and even a level 20 baddie but it suddenly decided to respawn me away from them into a new area with level 6 enemies so back on track again now. Going to keep playing as I totally love the environments.
 
kevlar69 said:
Exactly..so why buy loads of gift cards before you're ready to spend them?
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PiKe said:
Not really time to redeem them when stock goes so fast.
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This was back in December and who knew when the Microsoft Store would ever have stock in. So I converted all my points in money so I could add Series X and checkout as quickly as possible. There is no time to do all the conversion from points to £ at checkout as it can take up to 24 hours. As it happened, the MS Store never seemed to have X stock when I checked but they had a plentiful supply of Series S. So I went for that. Even now nine months later, I've never seen X available on the MS Store website when I've personally checked.

But on the bright side, I've had many good hours with the Series S. I've earned more MS reward points with the console that you can do on PC alone so that's 1/3 off a Series X already in 7 months that I've saved.
 
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timmy85 said:
I'm starting to lose patience with my series X. I've a small list of games growing now that I am unable to play. All 3 crash my series X and the console powers off before they ever load to the main menu.

The Ascent
The Medium
Back 4 Blood beta

Video showing what I mean-

https://youtu.be/YuQb-B_fNQs

I've tried the normal OS version, insider beta ring releases. Have tried different displays, different resolutions and refresh rates.

Tried a system factory reset, tried re-downloading games. Nothing fixes it. Reached our to MS support on twitter, they turned around and said contact the game studio(s).

Flight Sim and other games work fine. :confused:

I'm thinking of returning the console to very under it's warranty and trying to get my hands on another one.

I can't keep this as it is, never knowing if the next game I want to play will work or not?!
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I would send it back and hope they give you a new one. If they test your unit, they’ll probably just turn it on and say nothing wrong and send it back. But I couldn’t live with that. Games aren’t supposed to crash on consoles, full stop.

It was curious watching your video though, you didn’t even get the full Ascent splash screen during boot, only a Game Pass logo. Never seen that before.
 
HomeTownHobo said:
I wouldn't send it back beacuse the consoles shutting down on 2 games that are known for being buggy and a Beta. I bet it's the game themselves causes the issue and nothing to do with the console. Get your money back on the games. Especially back for blood. Massive let down compared to Left4dead series.
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You make a valid point but booting up The Ascent without its splash screen displaying is just weird in itself. It looks a bit like a GPU problem in my mostly-ignorant opinion.
 
Well. What an utter load of tosh Hades is. I can’t see anything about this game that has caused all the praise it has received. In my eyes, Children of Morta is ten times better. Thanks Game Pass indeed as it’s saved me from buying two flops now (The Ascent and Hades).

Now I’ve got that off my chest - has anyone here bought any films from Xbox? I’m really tempted to buy the six Lord of the Rings films in UHD but I don’t know what the quality would be like. The single review says only the first film is 4K, the others are SD which surely can’t be right.
 
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Benny said:
I would be keen to know this too. I have pulled back from the brink of purchasing these so many times based on the reviews. I have the first trilogy on DVD but the quality just isn't there.
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I think I might just go for it using my MS Rewards points but not sure whether to hang fire a wee bit longer in case there is a sale and I can get them even cheaper.
 
Benny said:
I would be keen to know this too. I have pulled back from the brink of purchasing these so many times based on the reviews. I have the first trilogy on DVD but the quality just isn't there.
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So it seems to me like The Hobbit trilogy is in crystal clear 4K. Looks fantastic. The older Fellowship trilogy I can’t make my mind up if it’s upscaled 1080p or whether it is 4K but looks a bit softer due to the 10 years time difference in technology. At a normal viewing distance probably can’t tell but I was sitting very close to my TV for the inspection.
 
Benny said:
thanks for the update mate. Yeah guess it was down to how they produced it initially? as to how well it fairs when remastered. Yeah you can defo see the difference in quality from the Hobbit to the Fellowship trilogy.
Still solid films at least to me, really enjoy them.
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Having watched a bit more of Fellowship, it's definitely 4K but just not as sharp. As you say, still very good films though. It's unheard of for me to spend £50 on movies but ITV haven't shown Frodo trilogy for aeons now and I was desperate to continue on from Hobbit trilogy which has been on this week.
 
Jordan Harley said:
Is the series x really worth nearly double the money over the series s? I currently own a series s and the only thing that annoys me is the storage?
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If you're on a 4K display, absolutely. I am having Fear Of Missing Out with my Series S lately and been putting off playing a lot of Game Pass stuff because I want to have the games in a higher resolution. But you still can't buy an X easily! Madness.
 
Kreeeee said:
Don't get me wrong, the X is easily the better console, but it's not as clear cut if you value loading times, frame pacing, and stable high frame rates over resolution.
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It was my original intent to go with Series S+PS5+PC in the first place but I became fond of the S with things like Quick Resume that I sort of put the PC on the back burner.
 
Wow, it'll have been many years since I played Quake. Shame there is no Quake II. I was hoping they'd bring back the excellent soundtrack that was on the PC CD-ROM, not available on digital versions.
 
BuffetSlayer said:
You know you can just put the soundtrack files in the base folder and the game will use them just like the original did? They are available for free online.

Clearly this may not be possible on the series X but on both PC and quest 2, I am rocking the original Trent Reznor soundtrack.
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No, I haven't really investigated it since I last played Quake II (via Steam) many moons ago. I will check it out.
 
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