@stylon As it stands, there's been no confirmation either way. Given the publisher, I would imagine that it might be something that either gets re-released as a "full" Xbox One version, or that it'll turn up on back-compat as a pre-order bonus for the next AC title.
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi To be honest, they were shouting "It's fixed now" about a week after it came out, though I couldn't see any difference the patched version and the launch version
@stylon Indeedy, if you had the High Definition AV Pack, a fair few titles supported higher def output. From what I remember, Crimson Skies supported 480p, while a handful even supported 1080i. I know Enter The Matrix did, even though it was dire!
Kung Fu Chaos
OutRun 2
Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Jet Set Radio Future
Splashdown
Full Spectrum Warrior
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
I-Ninja
Mashed: Fully Loaded
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Project Gotham Racing 1 or 2
Shenmue II
SSX Tricky
Star Wars: Battlefront and the sequel
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe
TimeSplitters 2
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
@Ryno It basically means that for every race you do, you get 2x the experience points that you normally would, and they increase your player level. Your player level unlocks certain events and things such as new car parts (as far as I remember!) but I found that I would have unlocked everything even without the 2x rewards as the game hands them out plentifully.
At the moment, you can only buy Xbox 360 games via the Xbox.com store or via Xbox 360, not on Xbox One. It's something that's being worked on, I'm told.
If you pick them up at Xbox.com, you'll find that they appear on your "Ready to Install" list on your Xbox One though.
@Ryno It really depends on how you play. If you play a racing game without really caring about the brand or version of the car, then the Standard Edition will serve you well. However, if you play and think "I HAVE to have the 1994 Honda Civic (or whatever) or this game is going to suck" then check out the extra cars that come in the Deluxe Edition.
For my money, the VIP Pass wasn't really worth it. It gives you a five-car pack and 2x player rewards in-game. I didn't see the benefit of that as the game gives out rewards readily enough anyway
@Utena-mobile The back-compat Prince of Persia is the classic game from 1989. The Prince of Persia that ISN'T backward-compatible is the reboot from 2008.
I really like the classic one, but it sucks that the reboot isn't B/C, or any of the Sands of Time series.
@MaccaMUFC Hi Macca - I've checked it out, and it looks like the discount is only for the Deluxe Edition, which for some reason isn't available in the UK, only the standalone version is.
All other deals in the list should work in the UK though!
@flameboy84 I didn't yet, but I will do over the weekend. He's going to have a tough time of it. There were too many unanswered questions and really vague details on the day it got all the press attention, which were then answered or filled in after everybody had been and gone.
I think one of the problems here is the expectation that was generated which - I'll admit - we're a part of fueling. Nowadays, pretty much any time anyone from Xbox so much as Tweets something like "It's been a good day!", it gets analyzed, reposted, fired up on Reddit, and dissected to death until folks are at fever pitch.
If it was just "hey everyone, here's a free cat thing for your avatar" then that's cool. But because everyone instantly expected "something special" to mean games, store credit, free consoles, extra controllers and all manner of other stuff, it seems somewhat disappointing.
Gotta echo @flameboy84's sentiment about the beta program though. Can't really complain about problems in the beta program when it IS exactly that - a beta program. If the problems become too much, just switch out of the preview program and you'll get the features at the same time as the rest of the world. Hopefully (!) by that point, they'll have been tested and had major bugs squashed. I switched out as it was affecting some titles we had for review, and it took about 48 hours before I was back on the stock dashboard.
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi Buying Xbox 360 games via the Xbox One is a feature that will be added in due course. For now, you can go to xbox.com and sign in with your Microsoft account to "purchase" the games from there.
Then head into your "Ready to Install" list on Xbox One and the game will be there for you to download.
@Gamer83 ...good points, but in a fair few cases - oh, I could name some sports titles that I wanted to set fire to... - it was more like "Take a game home, put it in the system, try to play...give up because of the bugs that can't ever be fixed."
@KelticDevil You'll probably have to make your own! Only ever seen them from one tiny take-away place in my town and even I didn't know about it until I was casually browsing the menu yesterday.
"Hold on...this has...this has bacon AND a half-pound of beef AND cheese AND why isn't it in my face yet?!"
@Captain_Chao5 @KelticDevil I must confess that I had something called a "Monster Burger" last night and it was possibly the best thing ever made. Double quarter pounder with about another quarter pound of bacon and cheese.
Greatest thing I've ever seen with my own two eyes.
@Captain_Chao5 Yeah, that was one thing I forgot to mention in the review. I was trying to work out how to target a different wrestler in a Triple Threat match for ages and ended up having to Google it, mainly because the site listed in the help section just gave me an error!
@Captain_Chao5 Indeed, that's what it means, sadly. Sky Go (free) only works with mobile, PC, and Mac. Other devices (Xbox One and Xbox 360 included) will need Sky Go Extra. The PS4 version which is out already needs Sky Go Extra too :/
@The_Man There are some major flaws with your comment.
I assume you're laughing that the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that scored 81/100 on Metacritic and which sold circa 18million units could be considered to be "good", right? Absolutely, everyone should just assume your opinion is the fact, and anyone else who disagrees obviously hasn't played the game?
Seems fair.
You wade right in accusing the reviewer of not playing a game he's making distinct comments about and frankly, that made me stop reading the rest.
@JaxonH Honestly, I don't 100% know the answers to any of those questions!
I would imagine that any version of Fallout 3 would work, since the GOTY edition is just the standard game plus the DLC, and the standard version is...well...the standard version. Simply comes down to if Microsoft have enabled the console to read each specific version of the disc, I guess, unless the detection is smarter than that. I really don't know. I can't see that they'd leave one version out though.
Double and triple packs with games on the same disc might be more troublesome. The console just sees what's on the disc and downloads the Xbox One-packaged version of it, but I don't know if there's anything in there to account for two or three games being on a disc at the same time.
As for Mass Effect Trilogy...that's a thinker. Genuinely couldn't say. Mass Effect is available to Preview Program members at the moment, so maybe someone who has the Trilogy version can tell us?!
@VoodooTrumpet Not sure how "bitter" it is, to be fair. The reviewer wasn't a huge fan of the game and was honest about it, rather than hyping it up to the moon just because it's a huge franchise. Seems like exactly what reviews should be, to me.
@flameboy84 Naw, you've gotta have a residential Sky subscription as well, sadly. Which means I'm going to have to find a friendly family member who will let me bogart their subscription in order to use it.
@Utena-mobile I haven't found any "funny" costumes in there, no. You can force people to use specific outfits if you're creating your own level, but that's about it. There may be some in there - could be that I just haven't found them yet!
@Red620Ti Comes down to the devs, mainly. With the third-party titles, the developer has to go to Microsoft and ask for it to be added to the service. Then the devs have to make any required changes to make it work.
Given Majesco's catalogue of games, Bloodrayne is probably about the best they could have come up with.
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi To be fair, the same could be said of any adventure or horror game though. If you know what's coming, then generally the adrenaline isn't pumping as much. The only difference here is that it ties it into your player's health. Again though, you're less likely to die in any game if you know what's coming
@stylon I am told by an unofficial source that it will be, yes. Awaiting hard confirmation from Microsoft, but I don't see why it wouldn't be compatible.
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Re: Final Fantasy XV Gets Limited Edition Xbox One Controller in Asia
@lifelower Ah, dang it! Thanks for letting us know. Will update the article.
Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Eighty Three
@Dpishere Welcome to the club!
Re: Sociable Soccer Kickstarter Cancelled, But Game May Still Make it to Xbox One
@Tasuki Sensi copyright is held by Codemasters now, so he wouldn't have been able to.
Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Eighty Three
@TheIronChimp Jonah Lomu Rugby is easily still the best rugby game ever made, for my money. Might have to source a copy of that myself this weekend!
Re: Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Bonus Weekend Deals Go Live
@stylon As it stands, there's been no confirmation either way. Given the publisher, I would imagine that it might be something that either gets re-released as a "full" Xbox One version, or that it'll turn up on back-compat as a pre-order bonus for the next AC title.
Re: New Project Cars DLC Adds Three Tracks and Four New Vehicles
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi To be honest, they were shouting "It's fixed now" about a week after it came out, though I couldn't see any difference the patched version and the launch version
Re: Rainbow Six: Siege Open Beta Launches For All on Xbox One Today
Note, this has now been delayed for a bit... http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1337222-Rainbow-Six-Siege-Open-Beta-Status?p=11165518#post11165518
Re: Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Still a Possibility But 'Very Challenging'
@stylon Indeedy, if you had the High Definition AV Pack, a fair few titles supported higher def output. From what I remember, Crimson Skies supported 480p, while a handful even supported 1080i. I know Enter The Matrix did, even though it was dire!
Re: Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Still a Possibility But 'Very Challenging'
@Grannamir_BR Yeah, Forza 2 was definitely an Xbox 360 release.
Re: Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Still a Possibility But 'Very Challenging'
@stylon Ooh Black..forgot that one. Cracking game!
Re: Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Still a Possibility But 'Very Challenging'
Kung Fu Chaos
OutRun 2
Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Jet Set Radio Future
Splashdown
Full Spectrum Warrior
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
I-Ninja
Mashed: Fully Loaded
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Project Gotham Racing 1 or 2
Shenmue II
SSX Tricky
Star Wars: Battlefront and the sequel
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe
TimeSplitters 2
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Yeah...yeah...I could go for that...
Re: Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
@Ryno You're welcome! Enjoy!
Re: Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
@Ryno It basically means that for every race you do, you get 2x the experience points that you normally would, and they increase your player level. Your player level unlocks certain events and things such as new car parts (as far as I remember!) but I found that I would have unlocked everything even without the 2x rewards as the game hands them out plentifully.
Re: Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
@Utena-mobile
At the moment, you can only buy Xbox 360 games via the Xbox.com store or via Xbox 360, not on Xbox One. It's something that's being worked on, I'm told.
If you pick them up at Xbox.com, you'll find that they appear on your "Ready to Install" list on your Xbox One though.
Re: Well, This Is One Way of Getting Round an Exclusive Advertising Deal...
@Dief88 Ha! I didn't notice that! Good eye.
Re: Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
@Ryno It really depends on how you play. If you play a racing game without really caring about the brand or version of the car, then the Standard Edition will serve you well. However, if you play and think "I HAVE to have the 1994 Honda Civic (or whatever) or this game is going to suck" then check out the extra cars that come in the Deluxe Edition.
For my money, the VIP Pass wasn't really worth it. It gives you a five-car pack and 2x player rewards in-game. I didn't see the benefit of that as the game gives out rewards readily enough anyway
Re: Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
@Utena-mobile The back-compat Prince of Persia is the classic game from 1989. The Prince of Persia that ISN'T backward-compatible is the reboot from 2008.
I really like the classic one, but it sucks that the reboot isn't B/C, or any of the Sands of Time series.
Re: Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
@MaccaMUFC Hi Macca - I've checked it out, and it looks like the discount is only for the Deluxe Edition, which for some reason isn't available in the UK, only the standalone version is.
All other deals in the list should work in the UK though!
Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Eighty Two
@flameboy84 Hah, might be an idea actually. Will see what I can do.
Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Eighty Two
@flameboy84 I didn't yet, but I will do over the weekend. He's going to have a tough time of it. There were too many unanswered questions and really vague details on the day it got all the press attention, which were then answered or filled in after everybody had been and gone.
Re: New Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Playlist Emerges
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi That's weird. The codes aren't supposed to go out until December 1st. Maybe your code for 3 and Judgment will turn up then?
I haven't had any codes yet, but I've got GoW3 via Games With Gold from way back so I'm kinda in the opposite situation.
Re: Microsoft's Thank You Gift For NXOE Preview Program Users Is...
I think one of the problems here is the expectation that was generated which - I'll admit - we're a part of fueling. Nowadays, pretty much any time anyone from Xbox so much as Tweets something like "It's been a good day!", it gets analyzed, reposted, fired up on Reddit, and dissected to death until folks are at fever pitch.
If it was just "hey everyone, here's a free cat thing for your avatar" then that's cool. But because everyone instantly expected "something special" to mean games, store credit, free consoles, extra controllers and all manner of other stuff, it seems somewhat disappointing.
Gotta echo @flameboy84's sentiment about the beta program though. Can't really complain about problems in the beta program when it IS exactly that - a beta program. If the problems become too much, just switch out of the preview program and you'll get the features at the same time as the rest of the world. Hopefully (!) by that point, they'll have been tested and had major bugs squashed. I switched out as it was affecting some titles we had for review, and it took about 48 hours before I was back on the stock dashboard.
Re: Devil May Cry 4 Price Slashed in This Week's Deals With Gold List
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi Buying Xbox 360 games via the Xbox One is a feature that will be added in due course. For now, you can go to xbox.com and sign in with your Microsoft account to "purchase" the games from there.
Then head into your "Ready to Install" list on Xbox One and the game will be there for you to download.
Re: Eko Software and BigBen Bringing Handball 16 to Xbox One and Xbox 360 This Month
@Red620Ti I wonder if kicking the ball is allowed in handball?
Re: Devil May Cry 4 Price Slashed in This Week's Deals With Gold List
@stylon Glad it's of use. We'll continue to do that, going forward.
Re: Yes, Microsoft Will Be Running Digital Black Friday Deals
@Utena-mobile Sadly not, at the moment. It's on the way though, we're told.
Re: Could Rocket League Be Coming to Xbox One?
@Jalol86 Absolutely agreed. I got totally hooked on it!
Re: Microsoft Takes Swing At Sony With New Backwards Compatibility Advert, Hits Nothing But Air
@Gamer83 ...good points, but in a fair few cases - oh, I could name some sports titles that I wanted to set fire to... - it was more like "Take a game home, put it in the system, try to play...give up because of the bugs that can't ever be fixed."
On the whole though, you're right of course.
Re: Microsoft Hints at Something Special For Preview Program Members
@KelticDevil You'll probably have to make your own! Only ever seen them from one tiny take-away place in my town and even I didn't know about it until I was casually browsing the menu yesterday.
"Hold on...this has...this has bacon AND a half-pound of beef AND cheese AND why isn't it in my face yet?!"
Re: PSA: Backwards Compatibility Will Roll Out 12 Hours After NXOE
@santaglause Have you tried hard rebooting the console? The digital back-compat games should appear in the "Ready To Install" list.
Plus at the time you posted the comment, backward compatibility was still a few hours from being launched fully...
Re: Microsoft Hints at Something Special For Preview Program Members
@Captain_Chao5 @KelticDevil I must confess that I had something called a "Monster Burger" last night and it was possibly the best thing ever made. Double quarter pounder with about another quarter pound of bacon and cheese.
Greatest thing I've ever seen with my own two eyes.
Re: Review: WWE 2K16 (Xbox One)
@tylertreese Dream matchup.
Re: Review: WWE 2K16 (Xbox One)
@Captain_Chao5 Yeah, that was one thing I forgot to mention in the review. I was trying to work out how to target a different wrestler in a Triple Threat match for ages and ended up having to Google it, mainly because the site listed in the help section just gave me an error!
Re: Sky TV Finally Coming to Xbox One Via New App
@Captain_Chao5 Indeed, that's what it means, sadly. Sky Go (free) only works with mobile, PC, and Mac. Other devices (Xbox One and Xbox 360 included) will need Sky Go Extra. The PS4 version which is out already needs Sky Go Extra too :/
Re: Review: Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One)
@The_Man There are some major flaws with your comment.
I assume you're laughing that the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that scored 81/100 on Metacritic and which sold circa 18million units could be considered to be "good", right? Absolutely, everyone should just assume your opinion is the fact, and anyone else who disagrees obviously hasn't played the game?
Seems fair.
You wade right in accusing the reviewer of not playing a game he's making distinct comments about and frankly, that made me stop reading the rest.
Re: First 104 Xbox 360 Titles to Support Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Announced
@JaxonH Honestly, I don't 100% know the answers to any of those questions!
I would imagine that any version of Fallout 3 would work, since the GOTY edition is just the standard game plus the DLC, and the standard version is...well...the standard version. Simply comes down to if Microsoft have enabled the console to read each specific version of the disc, I guess, unless the detection is smarter than that. I really don't know. I can't see that they'd leave one version out though.
Double and triple packs with games on the same disc might be more troublesome. The console just sees what's on the disc and downloads the Xbox One-packaged version of it, but I don't know if there's anything in there to account for two or three games being on a disc at the same time.
As for Mass Effect Trilogy...that's a thinker. Genuinely couldn't say. Mass Effect is available to Preview Program members at the moment, so maybe someone who has the Trilogy version can tell us?!
Re: Review: Rise of The Tomb Raider (Xbox One)
@Captain_Chao5 It's OK, NaughtyOttsel22 has now been banned.
Re: Review: Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One)
@VoodooTrumpet Not sure how "bitter" it is, to be fair. The reviewer wasn't a huge fan of the game and was honest about it, rather than hyping it up to the moon just because it's a huge franchise. Seems like exactly what reviews should be, to me.
Re: Sky TV Finally Coming to Xbox One Via New App
@flameboy84 Naw, you've gotta have a residential Sky subscription as well, sadly. Which means I'm going to have to find a friendly family member who will let me bogart their subscription in order to use it.
Re: Review: Rise of The Tomb Raider (Xbox One)
@Utena-mobile I haven't found any "funny" costumes in there, no. You can force people to use specific outfits if you're creating your own level, but that's about it. There may be some in there - could be that I just haven't found them yet!
Re: First 104 Xbox 360 Titles to Support Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Announced
@Gamer83 I've been told that the codes for the back-compat versions of GoW1, 2, 3 and Judgment will be sent out starting December 1st.
Re: Review: Rise of The Tomb Raider (Xbox One)
@KelticDevil @Tasuki @Gamer83
Things appear to have gotten off-track somewhat. Let's draw a line under it starting with this very post, please.
Re: First 104 Xbox 360 Titles to Support Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Announced
@narcoss Yes, that's exactly what it means.
If you bought it digitally on Xbox 360, it'll be free for you to download and play on Xbox One.
Re: First 104 Xbox 360 Titles to Support Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Announced
@Red620Ti Comes down to the devs, mainly. With the third-party titles, the developer has to go to Microsoft and ask for it to be added to the service. Then the devs have to make any required changes to make it work.
Given Majesco's catalogue of games, Bloodrayne is probably about the best they could have come up with.
Re: Review: Rise of The Tomb Raider (Xbox One)
@NaughtyOttsel22 Your loss.
Re: Pineview Drive Set to Bring More Horror to Xbox One
@A_BabyRed_Yoshi To be fair, the same could be said of any adventure or horror game though. If you know what's coming, then generally the adrenaline isn't pumping as much. The only difference here is that it ties it into your player's health. Again though, you're less likely to die in any game if you know what's coming
Re: Initial Backwards Compatibility List of 100 Xbox 360 Titles Will Be Announced on November 9th
@ItsaJamisonThing Red Dead is top of my wishlist, too!
Re: Review: Guitar Hero Live (Xbox One)
@jongred Indeed, Rock Band 4 is compatible with practically any USB microphone.
Re: Xbox One Chatpad Set to Launch in November, Though Dates Unconfirmed
@stylon I am told by an unofficial source that it will be, yes. Awaiting hard confirmation from Microsoft, but I don't see why it wouldn't be compatible.
Re: Review: Guitar Hero Live (Xbox One)
@stylon "The white and black colours don't help either... wish they had used up and down arrows."
They have...sort of. The "guitar pick" style icons point either up or down to help you out