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Yeah it's just hard to motivate myself to upgrade from my current old TV unless I wanna get a legitimately good one, which will be annoyingly expensive
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Martman posted:Yeah it's just hard to motivate myself to upgrade from my current old TV unless I wanna get a legitimately good one, which will be annoyingly expensive If ever get the motivation people here are pretty knowledgeable and can work within what you want to spend. https://rtings.com is also an excellent resource for TVs and has categories including best TVs for Xbox or whatever niche you might want a TV for.
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Dec 19, 2020 18:21
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Now that I have a Series S I'm just gonna be a stubborn cheap gamer for a while, but some day I will set up my gamerzone to the utmost
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Dec 19, 2020 18:33
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American McGay posted:I don't think it's possible to buy a non-4K tv these days. For 40" and larger sets it's getting a lot harder and definitely something you have to go out of your way to get (I think it's largely older models still on shelves that might be a bit cheaper). Smaller sets there are still 1080p and even 720p screens being made. I said come in! posted:When I bought my Xbox Series X, my wife recommended I give the Xbox One X to her dad. I figured her parents would appreciate it as a 4K blu-ray player. But turns out too her dad wants to play video games on it. Xbox made a legit-nice video along these lines yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpJjbll2VU
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Dec 19, 2020 18:36
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He is baby boomer age and never showed any interest in gaming at all until now. So trying to find some games to gift him. I got him Forza Motorsport 7 Ultimate Edition as a digital code from Microsoft because its $28 right now and he really likes cars, and the game has tons of accessibility features that make it perfect for anyone. Trying to think of other games that fall into that category.
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Dec 19, 2020 18:41
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jabro posted:If ever get the motivation people here are pretty knowledgeable and can work within what you want to spend. https://rtings.com is also an excellent resource for TVs and has categories including best TVs for Xbox or whatever niche you might want a TV for.
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Dec 19, 2020 18:51
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I said come in! posted:Console games have been using something very similar to DLSS for quite awhile now. Although it could be that it's just simply not as good for performance, you're probably right. Nvidia really does consistently blow AMD out of the water in this area, so I was disappointed that the new consoles don't use Nvidia. how would they use nvidia what are they going to do put a freaking tegra in the consoles. no one else makes APUs at any kind of level close to amd theyre by far the best at it, theres no other option really unless you just want a smartphone chip.
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Dec 19, 2020 18:56
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univbee posted:Xbox made a legit-nice video along these lines yesterday. It’d be $61 For a full year of gamepass ultimate and live. It has forza 7 and horizon 4 on there, plus all the other games.
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Dec 19, 2020 19:40
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I said come in! posted:When I bought my Xbox Series X, my wife recommended I give the Xbox One X to her dad. I figured her parents would appreciate it as a 4K blu-ray player. But turns out too her dad wants to play video games on it. I strongly predict that he's going to get a Series X when Flight Simulator comes out. Just you wait.
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Dec 19, 2020 20:18
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univbee posted:Xbox made a legit-nice video along these lines yesterday. That’s a pretty good video, gaming with your kids rules. I have a nice Minecraft server with my boy that I plan on keeping up forever and we’ve played a lot of halo since getting a fancy new Xbox. For all the poo poo minecraft gets, it is an excellent learning tool. Both the game itself and all the poo poo you can do with it. My son is really excited about making mods for it but I’m not giving him unfettered access to the internet anytime soon so I put together my old gaming PC and threw Debian on it so he has a one to mess around and learn Java with. He’s both pissed off and intrigued by Linux. Lol
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Dec 19, 2020 20:37
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Stux posted:how would they use nvidia what are they going to do put a freaking tegra in the consoles. no one else makes APUs at any kind of level close to amd theyre by far the best at it, theres no other option really unless you just want a smartphone chip. Switch 2 will have DLSS before consoles get an AMD equivalent lol
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Dec 19, 2020 20:38
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Detective No. 27 posted:I strongly predict that he's going to get a Series X when Flight Simulator comes out. Just you wait. You are not wrong. Next time he comes over im gonna have him play it in VR on my pc.
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Dec 19, 2020 20:42
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I didn't know there was an xbox 360 version of the pimp my ride game microsoft should add backwards-compatibility support so I can ghost ride the whip in 4k 120 fps
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Dec 20, 2020 02:01
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Barudak posted:I still have my 1080p plasma and I will upgrade when it dies and not a day sooner A day sooner would be the logical choice if you think about it. No downtime. Unto the end is possibly the hardest game I’ve ever played, has anyone else tried it. Do I just have poo poo old man reactions?
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Dec 20, 2020 02:37
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Crafty posted:Unto the end is possibly the hardest game I’ve ever played, has anyone else tried it. Do I just have poo poo old man reactions? No, yes.
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Dec 20, 2020 02:42
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Barudak posted:I still have my 1080p plasma and I will upgrade when it dies and not a day sooner 
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Dec 20, 2020 02:58
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I bought Cyberpunk on the store just to get the 6,000 points reward and instantly refunded it before it had even downloaded. Great game, 10/10.
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Dec 20, 2020 06:00
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quidditch it and quit it posted:I bought Cyberpunk on the store just to get the 6,000 points reward and instantly refunded it before it had even downloaded. Lol I’m gonna do this.
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Dec 20, 2020 06:16
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cdpr really letting us live our cyberpunk fantasies
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Dec 20, 2020 06:20
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quidditch it and quit it posted:I bought Cyberpunk on the store just to get the 6,000 points reward and instantly refunded it before it had even downloaded. I did this too but at least went through the game intro to see how bad it was and haha, really bad on xbox one s
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Dec 20, 2020 06:20
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Omg i just got the deep rock galactica joke
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Dec 20, 2020 08:14
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quidditch it and quit it posted:I bought Cyberpunk on the store just to get the 6,000 points reward and instantly refunded it before it had even downloaded. This is genius but I’m terrified I’m going to get in trouble if I do it myself
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Dec 20, 2020 08:58
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Lube Enthusiast posted:This is genius but I’m terrified I’m going to get in trouble if I do it myself I know somebody who refunded and had the points removed so ymmv. Though I myself refunded Watch Dogs and got to keep the points so... ymmv?
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Dec 20, 2020 09:11
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Zachack posted:Apparently an expansion or something for Gears 5 (hivebuster?) just came out and is supposed to be really visually impressive. I heard this looks great even on Series S, interested in checking it out even though I am very much not a Gears Guy gameplay wise
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Dec 20, 2020 09:55
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Forza does seem like a good old people game because its like infinitely customizable when it comes to how difficult it is to play and/or beat the computer.
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Dec 20, 2020 10:12
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Forza has a old people’s/kiddies setting where it will brake for you and drag your car back on the racing line and you don’t lose any money over it.
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Dec 20, 2020 11:09
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hatty posted:Switch 2 will have DLSS before consoles get an AMD equivalent lol yeah and itll be on a mobile soc or something used for running software in a car. if you want a real combined chip the only option is amd. gets even more amd weighted when you go for performance to power ratios bcos the new consoles both have insanely low power draw for what theyre achieving.
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Dec 20, 2020 11:49
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Switch 2 is gonna use Apple Silicon 
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Barudak posted:I still have my 1080p plasma and I will upgrade when it dies and not a day sooner TVs are so cheap now I just considered it a moving expense.
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Dec 20, 2020 13:09
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Lube Enthusiast posted:This is genius but I’m terrified I’m going to get in trouble if I do it myself Ah I think they’ve just removed the 6,000 points but left the punchcard as completed, I can’t be bothered to do the sums but I’m roughly 5,200 points worse off today - maybe they’ve left the points on for the purchase? I dunno.
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Dec 20, 2020 13:37
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Check your email accounts for a marketing email from Xbox titled "Gifts for gamers made easy". If you click the trophy down at the bottom of the email, you'll get a five dollar gift card added to your account.
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Dec 20, 2020 15:04
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Is there a list of "must plays" on Game Pass? I just got a SeXbox after skipping a generation and signed up for 38 months of Game Pass Ultimate, and I grabbed some that I recognized the names of, but really there's a lot there and I don't want to check reviews on 100s of games.
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RodShaft posted:Is there a list of "must plays" on Game Pass? I just got a SeXbox after skipping a generation and signed up for 38 months of Game Pass Ultimate, and I grabbed some that I recognized the names of, but really there's a lot there and I don't want to check reviews on 100s of games. This will vary by taste, but Outer Wilds is up there for sure among the best games on game pass.
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RodShaft posted:Is there a list of "must plays" on Game Pass? I just got a SeXbox after skipping a generation and signed up for 38 months of Game Pass Ultimate, and I grabbed some that I recognized the names of, but really there's a lot there and I don't want to check reviews on 100s of games. Forza Horizon 4 Halo MCC (it's good now) Ace Combat 7 Gears 5 Control Doom Eternal Ori (both) Outer Wilds Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order
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RodShaft posted:Is there a list of "must plays" on Game Pass? I just got a SeXbox after skipping a generation and signed up for 38 months of Game Pass Ultimate, and I grabbed some that I recognized the names of, but really there's a lot there and I don't want to check reviews on 100s of games. To avoid just skimming the AAA games, - Frostpunk is a really good colony sim about keeping a colony alive in a word slowly freezing to death - Outer Wilds (NOT Outer Worlds, which is an unplayably boring game) is a fun freeform mystery game about trying to figure out why your universe keeps exploding every 20 minutes. - Subnautica is a survival game that takes place entirely underwater. - Hypnospace Outlaw is a clever game by the guy that made Dropsy about being an internet cop on late 90s software.
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I would really like to try Subnautica but that 30fps cap and with the terrible draw distance puts me off trying.
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Dec 21, 2020 00:38
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Thom12255 posted:I would really like to try Subnautica but that 30fps cap and with the terrible draw distance puts me off trying. I mean you're literally swimming through murky water. If you surface you can see for miles.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I mean you're literally swimming through murky water. If you surface you can see for miles. From the videos I've seen there is a huge amount of pop-in just a few ft in front of you under the ocean.
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whats on the horizon for the series X are there some next gen patches coming for last gen games we know about
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Super No Vacancy posted:whats on the horizon for the series X are there some next gen patches coming for last gen games we know about Fallout 4 is getting a 60fps patch sometime.
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