5709

Buy it now while there’s still plenty of players. You never know when multiplayer games will go cold.

5710

Actually, you shouldn’t expect Crackdown before late 2016, and I would not be surprised if it is not out before 2017.

5711

So yeah I was trying to figure this out and don’t think you can independently control the volume, even through the cable box.

— Alan

5712

So can you no longer stream music in the background while playimg games?

5713

Sadly, no. Hopefully they’ll add it soon in one of the upcoming updates.

Right now I have to do the following: Start the game, snap Xbox Music to the side. Go upstairs to my PC, start Windows Media Player, select the playlist I want and select “Play to”, and select the Xbox One. Now when I go downstairs, the music is playing on the snapped Xbox Music app. However, it can’t be unsnapped without stopping the music, so you have to play the game like that. Very annoying. The 360’s interface was sooo much better.

5714

Geometry Wars 3 is coming out next week! I never really got into GW2 but having some multiplayer scoreboards and coop modes, plus now funky “3D” environments, should be interesting. It’s also being released under Activision’s revived “Sierra” label.

— Alan

5715

Geeze, I have the opposite problem of Gus. With Dragon Age, Far Cry 4, and GTA V (never played that far into it on the 360, so excited about the re-release) all hitting tomorrow, while I’m still playing Sunset, Halo TMCC (never finished Halo 1 or 2, so enjoying the remakes), AC Unity, and Alien: Isolation, I get dizzy trying to figure out what to play. Plus I still need to unlock my first car (Ford/Mercury Capri) in Forza Horizon 2. And Disney Infinity 2.0 and LEGO Batman 3 with the kid… Geeze.

So it’s not like there’s a shortage of games in general, though they may not all be Gus_Smedstad games. :)

5716

Yep, it’s mid-November alright!

5717

I know, kills me the industry continues this cycle. Luckily my backlog goes back to floppy disks, so I’m never at a loss of things to play in the summer.

5718

To be fair, Gus seems to be playing third party games on PC, so in that regard it’s understandable. But, yeah, I have the same problem as you guys. And only two hours until GTA V unlocks…

5719

Part of my problem is I don’t like many of the popular franchises. I’ve played earlier iterations in each series, and didn’t enjoy them. Dragon Age: Origin was the only one of the set that I finished, and I found that transposing Mass Effect style combat to a game with melee didn’t work for me, since most combats ended up a confused mess.

I was interested in Alien: Isolation until I read the thread here, which was pretty negative.

5720

<Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft>

Now that I’ve had my Xbox One for a week, I’m starting to see a clearer picture about what the team truly intended about its purpose. Since my TV is hooked up through it, the Xbox One is always on now…it’s always easy to see what friends are doing on it, switch over to a game, play around with Snap mode, etc. etc. It’s to the point where I’m already figuring I’d get new games for it instead of my PC in some cases, simply because it’s easy to switch between things.

Huh. Interesting.

5721

It would have been nice if Dragon Age had made its original ship date of October. The way it is, Bungie made out like bandits by shipping in September and practically having the market to themselves for 2 months. All anybody was playing for weeks was Destiny.

5722

Alien: Isolation looks like one of those games that people either love or hate. There are some folks who seem to absolutely adore it.

I do agree, especially as someone who bought the Xbone around the Titanfall release, that there really hasn’t been all that much released for the platform that has me feel like it’s been a hugely worthwhile purchase.

5723

Same could probably said of PS4. The first year of new consoles is usually a deadzone.

5724

Which goes to what I was saying - if the overall feeling is that there’s only one current game (Destiny in this case) for a month or so, there’s a title shortage. There should have been other games competing for attention with Destiny other than Dragon Age.

I bought my 360 about a year after launch, and I don’t recall it being that bad. Of course, that’s 8 years ago now (!) so maybe my memory is faulty.

5725

I bought a 360 in August 2006, and only remember playing Geometry Wars, GRAW, Rainbow Six: Vegas and Gears of War that year. Other notable games I picked up later were Oblivion, F.E.A.R. and Condemned.

5726

You gotta be committed to a game to install from floppies again. Those things were annoying. Remember idly snapping the spring loaded metal covers of 3.5 inch discs while bored waiting for the next disc prompt? I miss the metal clack as the cover snapped back into place. Sometimes it caught your finger, and that was half the fun. No one can play sexual torture games with their partner’s nipples with a download. Remember the later King’s Quests? They must have had 10 or more disks near the end of the 5 inch era.

5727

Uh, OK. The XBone doesn’t have floppies.

5728

I don’t think any single game actually came with more than 10 floppies, and that game was Darklands.

— Alan