Talking Point: Looking Back, What Are Your Fondest Memories Of The Xbox One Era?

The Xbox one x.
Gears of war, Forza Horizon, Halo and Tomb Raider exclusive, just to name a few.
The days of the E3 shows, Phil Spencer making a difference in the right direction.

I bought an X1S bundled with Forza Horizon 3. As with the Series S it had a lovely white finish to it. A very handsome console I always thought.
I never bought that many games for it, but I had fond memories of playing above said game along with The Division 2 and Ghost Recon Wildlands online with friend, Recore and State of Decay 2.

Eventually sold it to a works colleague before buying a Series S some time later. Was, of course, happy that FH3, The Division 2 and a handful of other digital titles I purchased transferred over - but I had no doubt they wouldn't, including some coming over to my PC. This is the one aspect that Microsoft has gotten absolutely right.

I stand by that the One X was the last good Xbox console.

It was my main console after the PS4 Pro disappointed me and Jim Ryan's era began.

Xbox One is the only console I have right now and I use it pretty much everyday and I don’t plan on buying another console to upgrade as I’m happy enough to be honest.

Xbox One was like the time I went on a long hike from the top of a mountain down into a deep valley. At the very bottom I stopped and looked back longingly to the top of the mountain in the distance, remembering how great it was up there. The view was better, the air was cleaner, I was on top of the world. Down in the valley it was hot and humid, mosquitos were everywhere and it was a lousy experience. It makes you appreciate the good you had, when you may have taken it for granted at the time.

@Techno92LFC My condolences.

I was an Xbox one owner, as a 90's kid as soon as I saw that a new killer instinct game was coming I was sold.

I loved the Xbox one, despite all the negativity around it, it actually remains one of my favorite consoles to this day. I don't actually own an Xbox one anymore because I have a series x but I still play a lot of Xbox one games

I can't remember the exact timeline but towards the end of the generation Xbox suddenly pulled backwards compatibility, the Xbox one X and game pass on the gaming world and it looked like they were setting themselves for a true challenge to Sony.

The studio acquisitions were nice additions too and seemed to cover a broad church of interests.

It looked really exciting and I was so happy to have the majority of my library on Xbox.

Shame they just didn't make anything more of it.

I'm a big fan of the Xbox 1. I remember waiting in line at best buy to pick it up at midnight on launch. So many great games throughout it's life.

I will die on the hill that the kinect and all in one concept was sweet when i still had cable/satellite tv and a netflix subscription.

The best moment from the Xbox one era was just before don mattack ruined the Xbox brand forever at e3 at the announcement of the console such bliss before he gave us an underpowered (always online) console bundled with the amazing Kinect everyone just wanted to throw money at that was my favorite moment 🧎

None I didn’t have one.

Yea, Xbox One was a bit of a disappointment for me after the 360. I also went over to PlayStation 4. Series X brought me back but honestly it feels like the highs of the 360 era are well over.

Held out until 2018 and got a One S with two controllers and three games as a gift. It is a cracking system and I enjoyed loads of games: Resident Evil 2&3 remakes, Far Cry 5, Ori games, Dishonoured 2 and Death of the Outsider, Doom and Doom Eternal, the Wolfenstein series. I got a Series X two years ago, which to all intents and purposes is just a more capable version of the system. It’s a pity that the One S is just gathering dust on a shelf now. If I hadn’t upgraded I reckon it’d still be getting used alongside my Switch.

RYSE Son of Rome still blew my mind of how good the graphics were for that console.

All I can ever think of is this:

Seriously though the good era was when the One X launched and Xbox seemed to be coming back swinging. Sadly that lasted, what, 2.5 years? It was a great 2.5 years though.

@Balaam_ Is the Series era like the 3rd world bus terminal in the desert you have to go through after you got out of the valley, then?

Scalebound getting cancelled

Halo the MCC & backwards compatibility , that’s pretty much it. the ps4 carried 8th gen for me

i hate the Xbone for what it did to xbox . it’s actually the first & only console i hate 😂

Using my "xbox one s" at all times...
Do not have any remorse... Solid console worth more than what I paid for it...

My memories were of not owning any Xbox till the Series X.

The launch games which were underrated (Ryse/Dead Rising 3) and that 2015 backwards compatibility announcement with Rare Replay. Chills!

Ahh yes the console that made me switch back to Playstation for the first time since the PS2…so I would have to say my fondest memory was…when it was over

I was still using my Xbox One until about...7-8 months ago? Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, they were like, we're not even bothering with the Xbox One, it's only on Series X. That's when I started to get the message that it's time to scan that card and get a Series 😂

Jurassic World Evolution 2, Alien is Dark Descent, Armored Core 6, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, etc? Those are my Series X games transfered over and upgraded from Xbox One.

Tekken 8, Iron Harvest, Classified France '44, Company of Heroes 3, Sonic X Shadow came after the Series X.

Xbox One...wasn't quite the "revolution" to my gaming habits that 360 was. 360 was, " get over that corpse that is Sega, that the Sony monopoly operation left behind, and you're a strategy gamer now." 😂.

360 had a giant influx of, what was at that time strictly a PC genre. Halo Wars, Command & Conquer, Universe at War, Supreme Commander, Red Alert, on and on. Microsoft at the time probably just thought it as a content dump 😂. But it introduced console players to awesome game genre that they had limited access to at that time.

Xbox One kicked it off with Halo Wars 2, Gears Tactics...it was basically the system where I continued my transformation into 90% Strategy. It was also the birth of Gamepass.

Personally, I think Series X is gonna wind up being more fondly remembered than Xbox One! Granted it's been slow in ramping up 😂...but Series X is looking to have a furious finish!

Playing Overwatch 1, Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon 3 online, with my kids. Wonderful memories. Even if one kid only wanted to get drunk and shot out of cannons.

@nomither6 id include Forza bit yeah xbox one was the beginning of the end and we're in the death throws now sadly.

• Buying a One S at a nice discount, and then binging on Halo MCC and Rare Replay.
• Finding out that all kinds of random '90s gems that I had missed, like Guardian Heroes, River City Ransom, Radiant Silvergun, and Monster World IV, are available for a few bucks each.
• Playing 2v2 on Halo 2's Colossus, after someone decided to set it to 50 kills and give us all energy swords. Maybe that's a normal and popular config (I'm a n00b at Halo in general), but it made for some Mario Party-esque hilarity and tension.

For me it was always the fantastic industry leading backwards compatibility and how great of an upgrade console the One X was for it's time, especially given the way it introduced enhancements for older games. That and I always greatly preferred the Xbox One controller over the PS4 controller.

The some of the best things about the X1 was when they dropped Kinect from the X1 bundle, playing Fable Legends the game got cancelled but it did look interesting. Finally adding backwards compatibility for x360 titles. Getting my hands on a X1X which was so much more powerful then the original VCR x1. Finally with getting a series S, I no longer needed my X1X. Do kind of miss having a physical disc drive but at nearly half the cost of a series X I can manage.

I got the Xbox One day one and never took the Kinect out of the box. I still have both! My abiding memory from that generation was the disastrous presentation that effectively sealed the fate of the Xbox brand.

I also managed to get a Project Scorpio Xbox One, which I still have, and I bought the Gears of War 4 Collector's Xbox One S, which I also still have.

Those 4 Xbox One consoles that I bought, go nicely with the original Xbox 360 that I got day one, and the 3 Collector's 360 Consoles that I bought (Halo, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, and Gears of War 3), all of which, I still have.

Indeed, this is the first generation where I have only actually owned one console. I was tempted by the Halo Collectors Series X, but just couldn't justify the outlay when my Series X wasn't that old...

Easily my least favorite Xbox console but I do have some fond memories. I got the system in August 2014, a $400 bundle that included a digital code for Madden. I got it to play Forza Horizon 2 and Sunset Overdrive and both games lived up to the hype. I also picked up Killer Instinct and Dead Rising 3 that year and had a blast with those. In 2015 it was Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Tomb Raider and Forza Motorsport 6 and then in 2016, I really enjoyed Gears of War 4 and Recore. It slowed down after that but those 3 years were a decent stretch.

Best thing to happen that gen, however, was backwards compatibility, which was made even better with the arrival of Xbox Series X. It's a shame MS discontinued the program.

Handful of occasions & yes it's my current, the Xbox the One X. Family have a PS5s launch/Slim & launch Series X I have no interest.

Barely use. VCR is a 2020 OS offline system for testing & One X is for Blu-rays/YT/games/Soundcloud on & off basically. But not as infrequent as during 8th gen. XD

So occasionally more then I'd usually leave larger gaps of never using it because family have the others. Series X maybe has had more use by family then Xbox One VCR/One X, doesn't feel like it. For me I never touch Series X as no need to. I could get Syberia remake as Series X copy in EB but otherwise, no interest.

PS5 played Ratchet RA, hated it (RA/2016 worst in series, potential is weak & I have better ideas for it) & Space Marine 2 was what I expected but good enough. No interest in 9th gen weak game design, so 8th gen & under for me & 20+ games of old gen backlog/collector pickups beaten.

Xbox One even besides the launch DRM/other aspects cough PC issues prior leading up to it. FM5 was eh, Ryse was ok but eh, the games were fair though. Turn arounds were fair. Consoles were fair per model/changes even if the Kinect part well didn't use much & the touch button is annoying on launch model as is PS4 as well, & 360 Slim now that own one of those.

Back compat, the 2013 OS when it had the Windows 8 features were good. Used Kinect once for gesture tutorial or COD AW MP once for mic. Used it once for Kinect Rivals as well when got that few years ago now. XD Got 360 Kinect & used it a few times for testing as never owned one but always did Xbox One Kinect.

Sunset Overdrive I hated then became one of my favourite open worlds once I gave it a 2nd go, ReCore was good yes I'm one of those likes those types of games that are underappreciated yes I like Balan Wonderworld as well.

FM5 was terrible or to me felt like Gran Turismo 1 & I still somewhat think that due to how it's content is handled then after 6 & 7 I bought during 9th gen physical for whatever I could find in EB/2nd hand stores or just enough time had passed, I changed my mind even if I hate 6 when I bought it in the last few years & still because of how it remixed/what it added didn't change my mind on the progression being so eh.

The Impulse Triggers were & still are a good feature. Very underappreciated feature.

Otherwise not a lot, I barely used the system, the games are 'fair' but not my favourite era, prefer OG/360 more,

I still barely use it. The CD app is great. Soundcloud is good enough to use on it then Sony with no CD support or only Spotify. Xbox offering more apps/Windows store is a good & bad thing there.

The YT app responding to the right stick is nice, it's no Switch right stick on the OS support but it's still something PS4 YT app doesn't do nor touchpad when the DVD/blu-ray menu is good for touchpad but still good on Xbox like 360's.

Never liked the PS2/PSP/PS3 menu but PS4/360/Xbox One I do like.

OS wise hmm I'd say either 2013 as still that fair Metro design like 360. Or the customisation one Xbox/MS cut so the one before the garbage/worst one we have now. XD That or the 3rd one Xbox One had maybe was fair? I find the 2nd maybe was ok I forget & the 4th/or Series consoles 1st was a bit eh. Or was that the 2nd one. I forget as the minor changes or the eh design in areas to navigate, or look visually are just eh I can't.

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Though when I do I don't mind it but I still prefer to use a PS/Nintendo system unless it's a OG/360 game I really want to play that is. On those systems too.

I don't care for gamepass but I see benefit in it.

Dead Rising 3 I got to late, same with Quantum Break, Crackdown 3, FM 6 & 7, never played Killer Instinct or certain others, not my thing.

I'd say I own a fair amount of the exclusive 1st party, no Bleeding Edge or Sea of Theives, no Indie exclusives, no Ubisoft Kinect classic Fighters Uncaged sequel for Xbox One launch. No Twisted Pixel's launch title. Got Lucky's Tale and it's ok.

Ryse was ok but also why I don't like GOW2018, Hellblade is better but still won't play it. Just not the camera/controls I want to experience let alone GOW2018 being so eh tasks. I could stand Tomb Raider 2013 but others in that format nah just couldn't the segmented regions, tombs and tasks/collectibles type that aren't open world but have aspects like them just in smaller spaces.

It's an ok gen but I barely used it & I still barely use it now.

Other than Metro on PSVR2 not much I could say to care about on either PS5 or Series X really.