People are bitching way too much about the XBONE

[McMarbles]

Microsoft and Sony are both serving us shit sandwiches. The difference is that Microsoft is serving us big runny donkey turds on storebrand white bread, while Sony is using fresh artisanal ciabatta rolls, heirloom tomato, fresh lettuce, applewood bacon, chipotle mayo, and just a thin layer of shit.

At the end of the day, you're still eating a shit sandwich, but Sony at least put some care into it.

Dude DRM doesn't work, Anyone worth their ass will crack it in a month. That said the just deal with it attitude you present is unreal.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Dude, I ain't fer it, I'm agin it!

 

[Imper1um]

Spoiler: Well..

This is a list of the exclusives, first the PS4:
1-Deep Down - Meh.
2-Drive Club - Driving Game #813!
3-Knack - Pikmin kind of thing...interesting.
4-The Order: 1886 - Not bad.
5-Killzone: Shadow Fall - Generic Shooter #915!
6-Infamous: Second Son - This time...we get to Electrocute people...with my brother.


Now for the XBONE:
1-Ryse - BEHOLD the rise of "Quickiest Timiest!"
2-Quantum Break - I swear, this is like the 8th TV Series that integrates Gameplay and TV, and none of them do it right. Interactive Television my ass. At the very most, they mention a prominent player on the game on the Television show... one season later.
3-D4 - It would be interesting...if they didn't half-ass the Cel Shaded. Either go all the way, or not at all.
4-Sunset Overdrive - So...Left 4 Dead in Pastel Colors?
5-Crimson Dragon - I have to admit, this isn't bad...if it didn't seem so boring with no sound.
6-Project Spark - Not interested. Seems like an entire kids game, and the fake, scripted "having fun" the players were having on stage bored me to death.
7-Dead Rising 3 - They took zombies in a mall fun genre, and switched it to Zombies in the open world, down to your house, with gritty and "real" zombies. Half the fun of the first and second game was that it was just ridiculous to play; you're killing Zombies...in a mall.
8-Forza Motorsport 5 - Hardly an exclusive...I thought there's a PS4 Counterpart (not Forza, something else)?
9-Halo - Generic Shooter Number 5. Heck, they are even using Master Chief probably just because everyone recognizes Master Chief. I bet they will do the "Bioshock 2" treatment for the storyline; use the jaws of life to rip open the story so that way they can squeeze out another installment of "Master Chief Shoots lots of the same aliens." You also can bet they add another overpowered rifle that gets nerfed to pieces in the first patch, then buffed beyond belief in the next one.
10-Killer Instinct - Yay a game from a studio that hasn't made games in two decades. I'm not worried...at all. I mean, the animations are jumpy, the gameplay is just a rehash of what they made twenty years ago, but I bet it will be alright.
11-Untitled Black Studios Game - Uhh...cool.
12-Fantasia: Music Evolved - Yay, a Disney game. We all loved how Epic Mickey turned out, right?
13-Kinect Sports Rivals - Of course you need Kinect sports...so we can all do what gamers do best: Yoga [http://youtu.be/KOxdMQhDMIU?t=57s].

To be honest, both "exclusive" lineups...are terrible.

 

[krazykidd]

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10-Killer Instinct

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Here, lemme help you with that.

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10: Generic Fighting game with characters we remember. Killer Instinct was never that deep of a fighter to begin with.
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10pt2: Free to play game with only one character unlocked and microtransactions out the butt put force not by the original developer but by a developer that makes shovel ware trash. I was actually happy with Killer instinct till I heard that.

F2P fighting game seems like a pretty good idea on paper . Think of it as a demo. You can :

A) play it and decide you don't like it.
B) play it and decide to buy the full game ( which will be available at 60$ with everything )
C) play it and decide you're only interested in a few characters and only buy those characters .

So say you aren't interested in the story, no need to buy the full game . Say you aren't interested in the full roster . No need to buy the full game .

As far as i know , the charcters you have , can play on every mode available for the game . So the idea seems pretty progressive . However , i can see this gettig exploited by publishers . But as long as that doesn't happen , it sounds like a good idea.

 

[Colt47]

When DRM doesn't let you play a game it doesn't matter how good it is. I've learned my lesson with Steam. I'm going to use my precognition powers that says the PS4 will have more JRPG exclusives later one and that's my favorite genre.

You really don't need precognition for that considering Japan isn't even on the supported list for Xbox One. Japan primarily makes games for it's local populace first and then exports if it looks like the game is very successful, and since there is no Xbox presence, the chance of them making an Xbox One game is fairly minimal. Also the PS4 allows importation of games from Japan, so even if they don't release the game to the states or Europe, people can still play them.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'll be honest, neither line-up looks terribly tempting. I'm guiding my decision based on the fact that the Xbox a) is more expensive, b) neeeds an internet connectiong, c) has no backwards compatibility, d) cannot swap games with buddies, e) same silly DRM rules for used games, f) the emphasis is on things OTHER than games, so you know just how lovingly they will keep up the game quality for the console and g) the PS4 is the opposite of A-F.

 

[Rariow]

As someone who lives in the middle of the mountains and often has their internet go away for days on end, I can't really choose based on the exclusives right now. If my internet goes away for more than 24 hours (Which it does about twice a month, usually for a total of 3-4 days), I can't play Xbone exclusives, no matter how many more or how much shinier they are. And guess what I tend to do when my internet's down and I can't lurk the web? That's right, play those videogames that Microsoft's decided I can't play.

That said, (and as hypocritical as it sounds after just having bitched about it) people ARE bitching way too much. I don't blame them, though. I don't think it'd've been so constant if not for the pre-E3 lul making it the only significant piece of gaming news to chew on for a couple weeks.

 

[ATRAYA]

Most of the Xbone's games DO look very uninspired... I suppose the PS4's lineup isn't MUCH better, but they also have fewer launch titles to be disappointed by. The only title on the Xbone that looks genuinely interesting is Sunset Overdrive, simply because it looks like a good bit of fun. But Dead Rising 3? Totally different from its predecessors (and not in a good way), ANOTHER Halo game when, speaking as a former Halo fan, they should have stopped at Halo Wars, and ANOTHER Forza game. I get that the only purpose of linear racing games is to show off new engines and technology (i.e., the Xbone), but it's still another launch title that isn't inspired. Ryse is just QTEs, so I won't even talk about it. There's a bunch of Kinect garbage...
Granted, Project Spark COULD be good, if they don't rip off Little Big Planet too much. :/

So, yeah, I have to disagree that the Xbone's launch titles aren't uninspired.

Looking forward to Killzone, the Order, and Infamous, however.