My Hat...I tip it to you good sir!Originally Posted by Mirimon
My Hat...I tip it to you good sir!
I have always owned low budget mobile phones as I only use my phone for calls and text and a pay as you go contract that I top up with £10 once every 2 months. There was a time I moved out into a new home and had lots of new things to purchase and was on a really tight budget for a while and so didn't bother with connecting the phone line and internet for a couple of months as a new line installation costs a lot. (My entertainment was an xbox)
I was also a language student in Japan several years ago, I stayed for a year and flat shared with a couple of other students in some cheap place that had no internet. (We were entertained by a Wii)
I watched the PS4 UI video, and I swear they're ripping off Facebook, but replacing Farmville with Killzone.
Also, on the Kinect inclusion, it truly boggles my mind how anyone sees this as a negative.
That argument is like complaining that your cell phone has some dumb camera (or two) built into it.
I feel like john oliver "That was my point". you are arguing a "im leaving and never looking back" post with out any reasoning behind it warrants the respect of opinion yet my opinion holds no merit?
also never asked for help with my beliefs? please get back on topic please.
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About the UI: Thats too bad.
Where is this vid I'd like to see the fail.
About the Kinect:
The side of the argument I take is that it's a useless peripheral to me. The only Kinect Games I've bought are exactly one. Fable for my wife. That was nothing but looking at a horses a$.$ for half the game. I have what came with the star wars bundle and that was horrible too.
We should have the choice if we want it not. Pushing into the home will only make more Kinect Mics in our games like this one. It's going ton increase the horrible audio experience we're getting in all games as is.
There is a market but it's not exactly a huge one.
Does the product work? Yes.
Did they improve it? Yes.
Lower the cost of the box by making it available to anyone that actually wants it. Mine just sits there waiting for when I want to talk to my out of country friends. That is a rarity.
I'm not touting the conspiracy theorists point of view of it always there and possibly spying on me so that camera analogy is rather a weak point in why we should be saddled with the device.
What is a good reason for us to be stuck with it?
er.... that post you quoted isn't an argument to anybody's post....
do you need some water or something??
@Reverend Blood..
no.. vastly different on all accounts.. your analogy of the cell phone is way off as well. if having a camera really matters, you can get the eye for 60 and still spend less in total than buying an xbox..., the concept that m$ force the product on to people, and then demanded a much higher price with it.... cmon now....
as for connectivity.. as a person living in area rife with tornados and floods... i can tell you.. not even the best coverage of cell phones will have you connected all of the time.. with breaks in service sometimes lasting much longer than 24 hours..
as a person who still contracts overseas and to combat zones.... for R&R a system without the need for internet will be highly prized over a useless brick. Even in Qutar, they networked a massive LAN party room to play nothing but halo.. talking about nearly a hundred people playing (despite having to constantly replace units every other week from burning out, as they were being used far more than the average xbox). even in some hell hole like the Triangle of death, where mortar attacks were a bed time lullaby, internet was through highly restricted channels, and we were lucky to see anything close to fresh fruit, we networked several systems between tents for our off time activities. Playing socom we did convoy escort and PSD scenarios, effectively practicing our ttp's and sops for contact while relaxing in a slightly less stressful environment.(mind you, that was on a ps2 soo old and shot up from bosnia and iraq that it did not look at all like a console..still plays to this day, while new xbox's were burning out every 4 months, and required additional converter systems to even turn on.)
in one place they wanted to do a Dell contract to set up a bunch of chat stations.. at about $1200 a pop... (yes.. that was the contracted bid), i actually turned them on to using a bunch of playstations, saving alot of $$ up fron and in the long run reliability and durability, being able to double for other R&R purposes....
online only.. has pretty significant effects on their market.. and shows they plan to sell to only a few categories of people, leaving some locally, and MANY globally out of the loop on that.
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Just wanted to post some general thoughts by a person who will be buying an Xbox One.
I'm getting both, eventually, but I'm getting the X1 first. All other issues aside, its about the games. X1 just has more of the ones I want to play; Titanfall, Halo, Forza. And the majority of the other games shown at E3 that I want, like Destiny, Final Fantasy XV, Kingdom Hearts III and The Crew are multiplatform anyway.
About the X1's problems, I can only say that most don't apply to me. I rarely buy anything used (I'm a big stickler for keeping discs pristine) and I tend to only buy games I'm reasonably sure I will like so I rarely trade in anything. I have stable internet, and when it does go down (usually in a storm) It comes back quickly and I generally do other things anyway besides gaming when its off.
The Kinect is my only real issue. I'm a mute so I couldn't use it even if I wanted. I do think its stupid you have to plug it in for the system to work, so mine will probably just get tape over the camera and shoved in the corner facing the wall and forgotten about.
That's what I will be doing with my Kinect when I get the system. It's confirmed you can do everything with another controller and the hand gestures and voice commands are really just "Extras". I still dont see a real viable reason to increase the price and force it on 100% of XB1 owners.
Its funny that two big, "Core Audience" games that were being made for the Kinect one- Ryse and Crimson Dragon- are now X1 games that either added controller support or ditched Kinect completely.
Yup! people just aren't that into it.
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