@stylon I played the alpha solo and it was enjoyable enough. That said, I did get teamed up with a random guy for one mission and it was actually really good fun. I was more than likely very lucky.
@shonenjump86 Ha! That's a good point. I checked the numbers and the only other ones were two "comment to enter" competitions and the Xbox E3 Liveblog (so that doesn't count).
@stylon I've looked into it, and they're still having problems with ratings and certification in the UK/EU/AU. Latest status is that it'll be a little while yet, sadly. Don't hold your breath, but it is still on the way!
@LuckyPenguin We're going to change that to February for now. Sadly, there's no official release date as yet, so it'll probably be one of those games that just turns up out of nowhere one day!
@TwilightAngel If anyone was using these comments threads to constantly go on Sony rampages and attacking Push Square, they wouldn't be doing so for very long.
Hence KelticDevil still being around to to cause trouble.
@stylon It appears that Microsoft has removed it so it no longer works. (Just about to update the story.) It looks like it was being tested for a future B/C release, rather than being a full and final launch.
@VanillaLake With respect, I am not "annoyed and intolerant" at "fair and respectful criticism." Your criticism was NOT fair NOR was it respectful for the reasons that I, and others, have stated.
You seem to be under the assumption that anyone that doesn't share YOUR OPINION is "incorrect" and that their words are "not relevant." Both terms are offensive when you're judging a review, frankly. Then, when you're called on it, it's all our fault and we don't understand the difference between opinion and fact.
I didn't comment on KelticDevil's "insults" because they weren't directed at me and didn't necessarily cross any lines. Yours were aimed at the site that I run, and therefore at the job I've done as the Editor of the review in question, as well as a member of my staff. You stated that I'd let irrelevant and inaccurate statements through to publication. Yes, I'm going to defend that. Why? Because you're wrong.
Agree with a review, disagree with a review - that's all fine. Tell us you don't trust our opinion. Tell us you won't read the site anymore. That's all fine with us because people have opinions that differ. When you understand that, you'll be the better for it.
I don't want you to fake recognition. I want you to understand what a review is, what a fact is, and what an opinion is.
@VanillaLake The first one doesn't back you up as it's an opinion. "We don't believe that there's anything here that completely offers any satisfactory answer to all the weird happenings in this zombie universe."
"We don't believe" is the key point. They might have been satisfactory to you, but not to the reviewer.
And the second one is 100% an opinion. You're saying that it is a fact that one game is scarier than another. It isn't. Some people say that clowns are scary. I don't find them so. Which opinion is "correct" or "a fact" as you're calling it?
But don't worry about us changing the review. We would have corrected a factual inaccuracy, but someone who's predetermined to be in love with the game because they're a fan of the franchise disagreeing with valid criticisms from our reviewer? I think not.
@BAMozzy The perception of that depends on when you signed up. The price for the service hasn't changed for me since they started adding Games With Gold, and I'd be continuing my subscription anyway, so I see it as free.
Always nice to see folks wishing for developers to lose their jobs because of the direction of a game series, when they haven't actually played the new game.
@Tasuki Wouldn't say that they're abandoning everyone when every week, the Xbox 360 sale list is generally longer than the Xbox One list.
As noted in the article, there's a massive sale coming up that will feature over 200 titles. You can bet your bottom dollar that a large percentage of those will be Xbox 360 titles.
@KelticDevil I feel much the same way about Nintendo on a lot of your points, I have to say.
I love a lot of their games and I've owned every Nintendo platform since the NES, but they just seem colder to their audience than the other two manufacturers, and way more stubborn. Their online service has improved a little lately in terms of functionality, but was absolutely lame for WAY longer than it should have been. Friend Codes were an absolute embarrassment.
Three things annoyed me this time around. Wii Fit U was bordering on offensive. The game that sold the Wii (aside from Wii Sports) to families and non-gamers...updated with tons of new stuff! Only it's practically identical. Great.
Then Wii Sports Club was much the same deal. Hardly any improvements to Wii Sports to the point that it didn't warrant a purchase. Make enough improvements, advertise them, bundle it with a console, and it'll sell through the roof. But no.
amiibo is the third thing. To me, it feels like most of their focus is now on those toys, which people seem to love spending hundreds of dollars on. Plus their "inability" to make enough of them, which was a blatant move to falsify demand that nobody really seemed to see.
I want their new system to totally blow me out of the water, but I can't imagine it'll do anything other than what the Wii and Wii U did. Reliance on classic Nintendo IP, one or two of which will make launch day interesting. Tons of third-party support on day one, then those publishers will drop away in favour of Microsoft and Sony's next efforts when Nintendo's console - which will be named something laughable, no doubt - doesn't sell very well due to some inherent flaw, such as forcing the GamePad on everyone.
@sorethumbed I remember the first entire game I wrote (a football management game for the Amstrad CPC) weighed in at a massive 12KB, including graphics.
@Utena-mobile "Also, didn't the Xbox website on PC get hacked recently?"
No, not even close. A private certificate key was exposed which could POTENTIALLY allow for "man-in-the-middle" attacks. Microsoft revoked the key and publicly issued an advisory to clarify the situation.
@KelticDevil @stylon - Indeed, Major Nelson is advertising that Feeding Frenzy 2 is 50% off, but it's showing at regular price for everyone. Glitch, methinks.
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi Fair enough. I do see where you're coming from, but like GraveLordXD says - he hasn't run into many glitches within 70hrs. The only ones I've run into are the ones mentioned in the review. Sometimes it does come across as if Bethesda get a free pass and I see that, but like I say, it does depend on luck, to an extent. I can only criticize bugs that I see.
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi It also depends on how many glitches other people are running into.
With an open world game like this, you might find ten different glitches within ten minutes, but I might only find ten across forty hours. The glitches I happened across are noted in the review and the game survives all of those glitches for me by filling the non-glitch time with truly fantastic gameplay.
"Other games that do the same" in terms of glitches might not make up for the errors and bugs in the way that Fallout 4 does.
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Re: Review: Amazing Princess Sarah (Xbox One)
@stylon I couldn't possibly comment.
Re: Replay - VHS Is Not Dead Is Fast-Forwarding to Xbox One
@stylon Yup, I'm old enough...even though I was an Amstrad lad back in the day. Green screen monitor or bust.
Re: Open Beta For Tom Clancy's The Division Coming Soon?
@stylon I played the alpha solo and it was enjoyable enough. That said, I did get teamed up with a random guy for one mission and it was actually really good fun. I was more than likely very lucky.
Re: Warner Bros. Confirms LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens for Xbox One, 360
@TurtleWhacks A good point!
Re: Don't Worry, Sony Has Been Prevented from Trademarking "Let's Play"
@shonenjump86 Ha! That's a good point. I checked the numbers and the only other ones were two "comment to enter" competitions and the Xbox E3 Liveblog (so that doesn't count).
So yay us!
Re: Don't Worry, Sony Has Been Prevented from Trademarking "Let's Play"
@KelticDevil Well yeah, that too...that too.
Re: Weirdness: Did This Kinect Sensor Just Find a Ghost?
@Pac-Fan Awwww yeeeah.
Re: Gone Home: Console Edition
@stylon I've looked into it, and they're still having problems with ratings and certification in the UK/EU/AU. Latest status is that it'll be a little while yet, sadly. Don't hold your breath, but it is still on the way!
Re: Review: Dungeon of the Endless (Xbox One)
@LuckyPenguin We're going to change that to February for now. Sadly, there's no official release date as yet, so it'll probably be one of those games that just turns up out of nowhere one day!
Re: Don't Worry, Sony Has Been Prevented from Trademarking "Let's Play"
@TwilightAngel If anyone was using these comments threads to constantly go on Sony rampages and attacking Push Square, they wouldn't be doing so for very long.
Hence KelticDevil still being around to to cause trouble.
Re: Competition: Win Clockwork Tales: Of Glass And Ink For Xbox One!
And our winners here are Alan Pettit and Sean Crabb. We'll drop you an email shortly with your prize!
Re: Compulsion Confirms We Happy Few Will Launch on Xbox One via Game Preview in 2016
@VioletTusk We didn't have time to get to it this weekend, I'm afraid. But worry not, WGAYPTW will return next week!
Re: Prospect's PC Platformer Unbox is Coming to Xbox One
@jongred Hmmm...I didn't think of that initially, but now you've mentioned Monkey Ball, I'm feeling it for sure. Good call!
Re: Star Wars: Battlefront Next Free DLC Takes You to Tatooine
@Utena-mobile As far as I'm aware, it'll be free forever.
Re: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Sneaks On To Xbox One Via Backwards Compatibility
@stylon You're welcome, my child.
Re: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Sneaks On To Xbox One Via Backwards Compatibility
@stylon It appears that Microsoft has removed it so it no longer works. (Just about to update the story.) It looks like it was being tested for a future B/C release, rather than being a full and final launch.
It'll be on the list relatively soon, I'd say.
Re: 10 New Xbox One Backward Compatibility Titles Added
@KelticDevil A good shout, sir. We'll see what we can do.
Re: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Sneaks On To Xbox One Via Backwards Compatibility
@shonenjump86 Yep, it was announced during Paris Games Week in October.
Re: Pixel Piracy Sets Sail on Xbox One in February
@MegaKillScreen http://i.imgur.com/JYAVWj7.gif
Re: Review: Resident Evil 0 (Xbox One)
@VanillaLake With respect, I am not "annoyed and intolerant" at "fair and respectful criticism." Your criticism was NOT fair NOR was it respectful for the reasons that I, and others, have stated.
You seem to be under the assumption that anyone that doesn't share YOUR OPINION is "incorrect" and that their words are "not relevant." Both terms are offensive when you're judging a review, frankly. Then, when you're called on it, it's all our fault and we don't understand the difference between opinion and fact.
I didn't comment on KelticDevil's "insults" because they weren't directed at me and didn't necessarily cross any lines. Yours were aimed at the site that I run, and therefore at the job I've done as the Editor of the review in question, as well as a member of my staff. You stated that I'd let irrelevant and inaccurate statements through to publication. Yes, I'm going to defend that. Why? Because you're wrong.
Agree with a review, disagree with a review - that's all fine. Tell us you don't trust our opinion. Tell us you won't read the site anymore. That's all fine with us because people have opinions that differ. When you understand that, you'll be the better for it.
I don't want you to fake recognition. I want you to understand what a review is, what a fact is, and what an opinion is.
Re: Amazing Princess Sarah Gets Xbox One Release Date
@stylon Dunno what you mean...all looks ship-shape and Bristol fashion to me!
Re: Gamerscore Leaderboard, Hideable Ready-To-Install Games and More Coming to Xbox One Preview Today
@Zerodactyl You do need to be invited, but Microsoft isn't allowing people in at the moment, I'm told.
Re: Review: Resident Evil 0 (Xbox One)
@Utena-mobile No idea, since I haven't played the game. Maybe @anthinator can help?
Re: Review: Resident Evil 0 (Xbox One)
@VanillaLake The first one doesn't back you up as it's an opinion. "We don't believe that there's anything here that completely offers any satisfactory answer to all the weird happenings in this zombie universe."
"We don't believe" is the key point. They might have been satisfactory to you, but not to the reviewer.
And the second one is 100% an opinion. You're saying that it is a fact that one game is scarier than another. It isn't. Some people say that clowns are scary. I don't find them so. Which opinion is "correct" or "a fact" as you're calling it?
But don't worry about us changing the review. We would have corrected a factual inaccuracy, but someone who's predetermined to be in love with the game because they're a fan of the franchise disagreeing with valid criticisms from our reviewer? I think not.
Re: Review: Resident Evil 0 (Xbox One)
@VanillaLake If there are actual inaccuracies, rather than differences of opinion, then please point them out and I will ensure that they are amended.
If they are just differences of opinion, then please refrain from calling them "not correct."
Re: Review: Resident Evil 0 (Xbox One)
@VanillaLake "By the way, I don't agree at all with the review."
"If you want to read a much more relevant review just check PureXbox's sister web"
Our sister site gave it 8/10, as we did. Not sure how their review is "more relevant" than ours.
At the time of writing, we're also giving it the joint highest score it has obtained on Xbox One: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/resident-evil-0-hd-remaster
On PS4, it's averaging 7.2 from 16 reviews. You may be alone in thinking it deserves a 9 or 10.
Re: Deals With Gold Returns This Week With Big Forza Discounts
@VanillaLake It's being worked on at the moment, but there's no ETA on when that functionality will be available, sadly.
Re: Happy New Year: Here's The List of Xbox One and Windows 10 Exclusives Due in 2016
Cuphead is coming...it just doesn't have a date yet. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
Re: Microsoft's Own Cloud Tech Could One Day Power PS4 Exclusives
@jongred Not as far as I'm aware. I think they're just tweaking the drivatar system with each release. I might be wrong, though!
Re: Games With Gold For January 2016 Has A Killer Lineup
@BAMozzy The perception of that depends on when you signed up. The price for the service hasn't changed for me since they started adding Games With Gold, and I'd be continuing my subscription anyway, so I see it as free.
Re: Fable Legends Delayed, Open Beta Now Arriving in Spring 2016
Always nice to see folks wishing for developers to lose their jobs because of the direction of a game series, when they haven't actually played the new game.
Real nice.
Re: Feature: Our Top 3 Xbox Games of 2015 - Staff Lists
@tylertreese Kevin has been fired and replaced with Justin.
Re: The Banner Saga Gets Xbox One Release Date
@JaxonH Yup, it'll be PS4 and Xbox One, and the PC version is already available.
Re: Xbox Fitness Update Brings Kinect-Free Use and Downloadable Workouts
Some will be, yes.
Re: Ubisoft Registers New Assassin's Creed Related Domain - New Collection On the Way?
@stylon We can but hope!
Re: Star Wars Battlefront Prices Slashed in This Week's Deals With Gold
@Tasuki Wouldn't say that they're abandoning everyone when every week, the Xbox 360 sale list is generally longer than the Xbox One list.
As noted in the article, there's a massive sale coming up that will feature over 200 titles. You can bet your bottom dollar that a large percentage of those will be Xbox 360 titles.
Re: Review: Star Wars: Battlefront (Xbox One)
@Alpha Just an oversight. It'll be updated shortly.
Re: Review: Oyen Digital Shadow Mini SSD for Xbox One
@sorethumbed Mate of mine had one of them. SO jealous at the time.
Re: Phil Spencer Would Be Happy to See More Nintendo Games (or Games That Were Released on Nintendo Platforms First) on Xbox One
@KelticDevil I feel much the same way about Nintendo on a lot of your points, I have to say.
I love a lot of their games and I've owned every Nintendo platform since the NES, but they just seem colder to their audience than the other two manufacturers, and way more stubborn. Their online service has improved a little lately in terms of functionality, but was absolutely lame for WAY longer than it should have been. Friend Codes were an absolute embarrassment.
Three things annoyed me this time around. Wii Fit U was bordering on offensive. The game that sold the Wii (aside from Wii Sports) to families and non-gamers...updated with tons of new stuff! Only it's practically identical. Great.
Then Wii Sports Club was much the same deal. Hardly any improvements to Wii Sports to the point that it didn't warrant a purchase. Make enough improvements, advertise them, bundle it with a console, and it'll sell through the roof. But no.
amiibo is the third thing. To me, it feels like most of their focus is now on those toys, which people seem to love spending hundreds of dollars on. Plus their "inability" to make enough of them, which was a blatant move to falsify demand that nobody really seemed to see.
I want their new system to totally blow me out of the water, but I can't imagine it'll do anything other than what the Wii and Wii U did. Reliance on classic Nintendo IP, one or two of which will make launch day interesting. Tons of third-party support on day one, then those publishers will drop away in favour of Microsoft and Sony's next efforts when Nintendo's console - which will be named something laughable, no doubt - doesn't sell very well due to some inherent flaw, such as forcing the GamePad on everyone.
Re: Review: Oyen Digital Shadow Mini SSD for Xbox One
@sorethumbed I remember the first entire game I wrote (a football management game for the Amstrad CPC) weighed in at a massive 12KB, including graphics.
Took about 20 minutes to load from cassette tape
Re: Don't Worry, Microsoft Are Working on Making Xbox 360 Titles Purchasable on Xbox One
@Utena-mobile "Also, didn't the Xbox website on PC get hacked recently?"
No, not even close. A private certificate key was exposed which could POTENTIALLY allow for "man-in-the-middle" attacks. Microsoft revoked the key and publicly issued an advisory to clarify the situation.
Re: Microsoft Is Holding Another Huge Xbox Live Game Sale Later This Month
@freaksloan That'll be because the stock situation is always fluid but the newsletters/email blasts are set up to fire at a specific time.
Happened to me with a number of retailers this week, sadly. "Come get This Thing! It's cheap!" "Awesome!" "This Thing is sold out!"
Re: Deals with Gold Takes You to the Battlefield
@KelticDevil @stylon - Indeed, Major Nelson is advertising that Feeding Frenzy 2 is 50% off, but it's showing at regular price for everyone. Glitch, methinks.
Re: TV from Sky App Now Available on Xbox One
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi Indeed. Unless you want to watch live sport. At which point TV > Netflix.
Re: Deals with Gold Takes You to the Battlefield
@ElkinFencer10 They'll promote them when they aren't selling at full price...
Re: Review: Fallout 4 (Xbox One)
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi Fair enough. I do see where you're coming from, but like GraveLordXD says - he hasn't run into many glitches within 70hrs. The only ones I've run into are the ones mentioned in the review. Sometimes it does come across as if Bethesda get a free pass and I see that, but like I say, it does depend on luck, to an extent. I can only criticize bugs that I see.
Re: Review: Fallout 4 (Xbox One)
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi It also depends on how many glitches other people are running into.
With an open world game like this, you might find ten different glitches within ten minutes, but I might only find ten across forty hours. The glitches I happened across are noted in the review and the game survives all of those glitches for me by filling the non-glitch time with truly fantastic gameplay.
"Other games that do the same" in terms of glitches might not make up for the errors and bugs in the way that Fallout 4 does.
Re: Rejoice! Rocket League Is Totally Coming to Xbox One
@Tasuki No idea, but I'd imagine that XO players will be limited to playing XO players.
Re: This Week's Deals With Gold Spins Indies Into View
@Utena-mobile If you're Amy, then are you feeling shorter than normal? Apparently you've had 70% cut off this week!
Re: Platinum Games Is Working On the Next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game
@Red620Ti Aye, PS4 exclusive.