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I kept waiting for the PS5 to get a meaningful markdown before I finally got one. Figured $400 was as good as I was going to be able to do for the foreseeable future. I’m scouring Facebook marketplace for old Rock Band equipment because I think my kids are old enough to really enjoy it now, and the PS versions of the gear seem easier to find.

Also excited to add a bunch of PS exclusives to my huge backlog of Xbox and PC games I never have time to play.
 
My kid finally raised his half of the money for the PC I bought. We set it up last night so we'll have a fun weekend ahead of us. Of course today I get an email from Nintendo that my spot on the Switch 2 waiting list came up. Lol it was an option back in May but I'll pass for now.

Looking back on the last few pages for ideas, KCD2 seems to be one of the favorites. Steam has it on sale for $42 if anyone was waiting for a price cut. I'm going to grab the original for $6. I was never a huge fan of that type of game but at that price why not. Most of my wishlist isn't on sale at the moment.
 
My kid finally raised his half of the money for the PC I bought. We set it up last night so we'll have a fun weekend ahead of us. Of course today I get an email from Nintendo that my spot on the Switch 2 waiting list came up. Lol it was an option back in May but I'll pass for now.

Looking back on the last few pages for ideas, KCD2 seems to be one of the favorites. Steam has it on sale for $42 if anyone was waiting for a price cut. I'm going to grab the original for $6. I was never a huge fan of that type of game but at that price why not. Most of my wishlist isn't on sale at the moment.

Highly recommend KCD1 but if this isn’t your type of game you will likely hate it.

KCD2 is much improved game and will be much more forgiving/accessible to you. They are both incredibly hard until you level up a few times..
 
Finally finished spiderman 2. The venom final battle just went on forever. Good game, not really a fan of that though.
 
@TLEF316 are you in on the Battlefield 6 beta?

Doesn't officially start until tomorrow, but yeah, I'll be playing.

I got into Battlefield Labs for the 2 day "stress test" back in early July but not any of the others (They've been doing tests since like May and some people were in it every week with multiple different builds). It was fun but I had some issues with wonky, floaty mouse movement so I had a hard time shooting. (not an issue for me in Bf2042, so its not a "I'm getting old" skill issue) Hopefully they've ironed that out now (seems like they have based on the creator event last week)

Seems like they've realized MOST of the mistakes they've made over the past 3 games and are going back to a Bf3/Bf4 style formula. But I still have some concerns.

- No server browser for the main game (just for portal). I know most games just rely on match-making now (for ease of getting into games and stupid skill based match making) but I miss the days of community servers so you always knew what map you were picking.

- They haven't announced their post-launch content yet. Again....I miss the Bf4 days when they had Battlefield Premium and guaranteed 16-20 new maps in the first year and a half post-launch. Now everyone does the stupid seasonal "battle passes" that will come with like 1 or MAYBE 2 maps, a couple of new weapons and then a bunch of dumb cosmetics that I couldnt care less about.

Long story short......I hate when Fortnite did to gaming, especially in the shooter genre.
 
Playing a lot of Arma Recorger. Milsim.

It’s phenomenal. Not a lot/almost no single player. Mostly online

I picked up Arma 3 and it's just to confusing for me. Maybe I'll spend some time on it this weekend and see if i catch on

I wish I could play arma III but it’s not out for the consoles.

Apparently you have a lot more co-op and single player stuff.

Yeah, takes awhile to figure out what do do- not a lot of hand holding.
 
Anyone try the new Madden (@Todem?) I started the 10 hr. trial last night, and was really surprised. Best Madden since... I dunno, but this is a good football videogame. I'll be buying this one.
 
Anyone try the new Madden (@Todem?) I started the 10 hr. trial last night, and was really surprised. Best Madden since... I dunno, but this is a good football videogame. I'll be buying this one.
I love madden every year but this is excellent. Very challenging. I usually go 15-1 or 14-2 against the cpu and I’m currently 3-3. Good stuff.
 
Anyone try the new Madden (@Todem?) I started the 10 hr. trial last night, and was really surprised. Best Madden since... I dunno, but this is a good football videogame. I'll be buying this one.
All on it and CFB 26. Best football games in decades.
 
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Anyone else a Final Fantasy Tactics fan? I'm looking forward to the remake in September.

I will pick it up eventually, big fan of that genre, Ogre tactics reborn was pretty well done if you missed it a couple years ago.

Unicorn Overlord has some flaws, but is probably the best modern game in that genre.
 
Jagged Alliance 2 is one of my all-time favorite games from the 90s, and I just found out they came out with a Jagged Alliance 3 fairly recently. They've tried to do things with the Jagged Alliance franchise over the years that didn't work, like make a real time strategy version, so my expectations were low. But JA3 is awesome - it's basically just an updated version of JA2. Definitely worth a pickup if you played the JA1 or JA2 back in the day, or you're a fan of the Xcom style turn based tactics games.
 
I've been playing The Blue Prince on Xbox (also available on PS5 and PC, I believe). It's a very well-done, low-fi puzzle game. Premise is that there's a 45-room mansion that's basically a grid, 5 rooms across and 9 rooms lengthwise. On the first day, you start in the entrance hall, and there are 3 doors -- to the left, straight ahead and to the right. When you click on a door, it gives you the option of "drafting" one of three rooms, such as a closet, hallway (with another door on the opposite side), or other rooms with three or four doorways. The goal is to get to the "antechamber" on the far end of the house. The constraints are that entering each room costs one step, and you get only 50 total steps (with chances to earn more through certain items). Some rooms require gems to draft them, and some doors require keys. You can also draft shops that take coins you collect. If you run out of steps, or you're unable to draft any other rooms, then you end the day, and the next day you start over in an empty house that you have to create a new layout for.

I'm about 15 in-game days into the game, and I've seen that the average to complete it is about 30 days. There are a ton of inventive puzzles to solve and a lot of "let's see what this does." There's very little explicit instruction -- for example, some rooms have furniture-sized chess pieces in them, and I have no idea what it means yet. It took me probably 5-6 in-game days to get the hang of things, but now that I'm into it, it's pretty fun figuring everything out.
 
I've been playing The Blue Prince on Xbox (also available on PS5 and PC, I believe). It's a very well-done, low-fi puzzle game. Premise is that there's a 45-room mansion that's basically a grid, 5 rooms across and 9 rooms lengthwise. On the first day, you start in the entrance hall, and there are 3 doors -- to the left, straight ahead and to the right. When you click on a door, it gives you the option of "drafting" one of three rooms, such as a closet, hallway (with another door on the opposite side), or other rooms with three or four doorways. The goal is to get to the "antechamber" on the far end of the house. The constraints are that entering each room costs one step, and you get only 50 total steps (with chances to earn more through certain items). Some rooms require gems to draft them, and some doors require keys. You can also draft shops that take coins you collect. If you run out of steps, or you're unable to draft any other rooms, then you end the day, and the next day you start over in an empty house that you have to create a new layout for.

I'm about 15 in-game days into the game, and I've seen that the average to complete it is about 30 days. There are a ton of inventive puzzles to solve and a lot of "let's see what this does." There's very little explicit instruction -- for example, some rooms have furniture-sized chess pieces in them, and I have no idea what it means yet. It took me probably 5-6 in-game days to get the hang of things, but now that I'm into it, it's pretty fun figuring everything out.
I gave this a shot but got bored. I may have to revisit it.
 
I've been playing The Blue Prince on Xbox (also available on PS5 and PC, I believe). It's a very well-done, low-fi puzzle game. Premise is that there's a 45-room mansion that's basically a grid, 5 rooms across and 9 rooms lengthwise. On the first day, you start in the entrance hall, and there are 3 doors -- to the left, straight ahead and to the right. When you click on a door, it gives you the option of "drafting" one of three rooms, such as a closet, hallway (with another door on the opposite side), or other rooms with three or four doorways. The goal is to get to the "antechamber" on the far end of the house. The constraints are that entering each room costs one step, and you get only 50 total steps (with chances to earn more through certain items). Some rooms require gems to draft them, and some doors require keys. You can also draft shops that take coins you collect. If you run out of steps, or you're unable to draft any other rooms, then you end the day, and the next day you start over in an empty house that you have to create a new layout for.

I'm about 15 in-game days into the game, and I've seen that the average to complete it is about 30 days. There are a ton of inventive puzzles to solve and a lot of "let's see what this does." There's very little explicit instruction -- for example, some rooms have furniture-sized chess pieces in them, and I have no idea what it means yet. It took me probably 5-6 in-game days to get the hang of things, but now that I'm into it, it's pretty fun figuring everything out.
I gave this a shot but got bored. I may have to revisit it.

At the start, I had some runs where I completed a day in maybe 30 minutes. Now I've unlocked enough stuff where a run can take a couple hours. There was definitely an inflection point where it went from "I guess I'll play some of this" to "man I need to go to bed but I just want to do one more thing, actually just two more things."

One thing, if you have a choice of platforms: You can't save in the middle of an in-game day. You can only save once you finish the day. On Xbox, though, you can pause and turn off the system, then resume the game once you turn it back on. You can't do that on other platforms.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
There could be some console specific games that I don't know about but since I don't know where you "left off" at but both Kingdom Come games are solid. The Indy James game was big. Baulders Gate 3.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?

Elden Ring
Red Dead Redemption 2
Witcher 3
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
Ghost of Tshumina
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?

Elden Ring
Red Dead Redemption 2
Witcher 3
How tough is Elden Ring? Along the same lines as other Demon Souls games?

I did play Wither 3 on the PS4 I lbelieve.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
There could be some console specific games that I don't know about but since I don't know where you "left off" at but both Kingdom Come games are solid. The Indy James game was big. Baulders Gate 3.
Kingdom Come, I seem to recall looking at that in the past. I need to find some good gameplay videos of that one. Thanks.

Loved BG games, just not sure if I am up for something that deep on a console. Loved those in my PC days.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
Ghost of Tshumina
Assassins Creed type of game? I'll check it out.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
Would also highly recommend Red Dead 1 & 2 (think they even have a digital bundle together on the online store) and Ghost of Tsushima as mentioned above.

If you like "zombies/zombie-like" things, or if the show got you curious at all, would also have to recommend The Last of Us series.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
Ghost of Tshumina
I want to play this game, but my 7 year old likes to watch as I play these games, which is why I can’t revisit red dead 2 which I’d love to do. Is this game semi-appropriate for a kid that age to follow along?
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
Ghost of Tshumina
I want to play this game, but my 7 year old likes to watch as I play these games, which is why I can’t revisit red dead 2 which I’d love to do. Is this game semi-appropriate for a kid that age to follow along?
7 might be young. You can turn off the blood. But you have to kill a lot of people
:shrug:
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?

Elden Ring
Red Dead Redemption 2
Witcher 3
How tough is Elden Ring? Along the same lines as other Demon Souls games?

I did play Wither 3 on the PS4 I lbelieve.

Same type of difficulty, as in learning boss and enemy patterns and dying over and over to accom[plish this. However, Elden Ring is open world so you can access lots of places to get ingredients to build out your character to be "overlevelled". It's how I like to play because learning dodge and parry timing is not my cup of tea.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?

Elden Ring
Red Dead Redemption 2
Witcher 3
How tough is Elden Ring? Along the same lines as other Demon Souls games?

I did play Wither 3 on the PS4 I lbelieve.

Same type of difficulty, as in learning boss and enemy patterns and dying over and over to accom[plish this. However, Elden Ring is open world so you can access lots of places to get ingredients to build out your character to be "overlevelled". It's how I like to play because learning dodge and parry timing is not my cup of tea.

Yup. To me, Elden Ring feels easier than the other Souls games simply because of the open world nature - if you have trouble somewhere, no problem, go somewhere else. Abnd like you said, you can overlevel if you want. Even just going on multiple suicide runs to open the map and get good gear is cool. Plus, the summons help greatly with bosses, and Torrent is the best videogame horse ever.

I'm playing now with my level 300 toon (NG+3) - still finding new stuff.
 
My usual Elden Ring run is as follows

- Get some basic starter gear from the soldiers near the starting area.
- Do the boulder trick to get to level 65 or so.
- Go around collecting as many smithing stones, golden seeds, and other upgrades as you can without fighting bosses. You can get your weapons leveled pretty high early on.
- Finally take on the first dungeon. You will steamroll it.
- Unlock Moghwyn Palace, and use the bird leveling trick to get to 150+.
- Do the Radahn boss that opens up the underworld areas. Again, you should steamroll.
- Go on another run of smithing stones, and golden seed upgrades.
- Play the rest of the game.

You dont need to dodge/parry at all! Making yourself overpowered is satisfying as hell in this game.
 
Howdy. Been away from this thread for years but finally got a PS5 and am wondering, what should I get for this thing? Like a wide variety of game styles, but offline. I have no desire to play multiplayer. Played all the Assassin's Creed games other than the new one. Far Cry series. XCOM. God of War. Uncharted. Mass Effect. All the Demon's Souls stuff. What are the games people just really love on this console?
Would also highly recommend Red Dead 1 & 2 (think they even have a digital bundle together on the online store) and Ghost of Tsushima as mentioned above.

If you like "zombies/zombie-like" things, or if the show got you curious at all, would also have to recommend The Last of Us series.
I have had a few friends mention RDR. Might do that. Nice break from the AC series. I played LOU on PS4 and have LOU II, but packed it away in storage while waiting in a rental for our home build to finish, so would prefer not to pay for it twice.
 
Loved BG games, just not sure if I am up for something that deep on a console. Loved those in my PC days.
don't think it's console specific but don't quote me on that. I do play mostyly console but I think a lot of newer games are xbox-playstation-pc
I just have to wonder how inventory control and things like that would be on a console. Seems like it would be a lot of menus to wade through!
 
Ok, I’m old so please forgive me. I’ve tried to learn this on my own, and think I have, just want to be sure I understand it.

I don’t game too much, but my kid is getting more and more into it. We have an X Box One S. It came with a 500 gb hard drive. The operating system alone uses up around 140 gb of that, leaving 360 gb or so for games and apps. And now games must be downloaded to the machine, as I assume the optical drive is too slow? This has worked for a while, but now these games are getting HUGE. My son plays Fortnite and it’s like 100 gb by itself, as is GTA5 which I apparently still had on it (and may play again if I get bored). Needless to say we ran out of space pretty quick.

I looked at upgrading the drive, but apparently the easy thing to do is just use an external ssd. Fine. Looked up a 1 TB one and they aren’t cheap. Did some more digging and see that also made an Xbox one X, which had some upgraded hardware and came with a 1 TB hard drive. Found one being sold locally for $80, seems like a deal. Would likely then try to sell the one a for $50. Seems like that’s the smart move? Then later if we run out of room get an external ssd, and hopefully they’ll be a bit cheaper by then?

Also, am I right in stating that the games must be on the hard drive to play them now?
 
Ok, I’m old so please forgive me. I’ve tried to learn this on my own, and think I have, just want to be sure I understand it.

I don’t game too much, but my kid is getting more and more into it. We have an X Box One S. It came with a 500 gb hard drive. The operating system alone uses up around 140 gb of that, leaving 360 gb or so for games and apps. And now games must be downloaded to the machine, as I assume the optical drive is too slow? This has worked for a while, but now these games are getting HUGE. My son plays Fortnite and it’s like 100 gb by itself, as is GTA5 which I apparently still had on it (and may play again if I get bored). Needless to say we ran out of space pretty quick.

I looked at upgrading the drive, but apparently the easy thing to do is just use an external ssd. Fine. Looked up a 1 TB one and they aren’t cheap. Did some more digging and see that also made an Xbox one X, which had some upgraded hardware and came with a 1 TB hard drive. Found one being sold locally for $80, seems like a deal. Would likely then try to sell the one a for $50. Seems like that’s the smart move? Then later if we run out of room get an external ssd, and hopefully they’ll be a bit cheaper by then?

Also, am I right in stating that the games must be on the hard drive to play them now?

How many games is he playing at once? I usually have about 5-6 before I run out of space.

Once I finish a game I usually remove it from the console. You can always redownload anytime. It will keep all your saved games intact.

I haven't used a disc for console gaming in forever. But I seem to remember they recommend installing from the disk to the hard drive anyway for performance.
 
Ok, I’m old so please forgive me. I’ve tried to learn this on my own, and think I have, just want to be sure I understand it.

I don’t game too much, but my kid is getting more and more into it. We have an X Box One S. It came with a 500 gb hard drive. The operating system alone uses up around 140 gb of that, leaving 360 gb or so for games and apps. And now games must be downloaded to the machine, as I assume the optical drive is too slow? This has worked for a while, but now these games are getting HUGE. My son plays Fortnite and it’s like 100 gb by itself, as is GTA5 which I apparently still had on it (and may play again if I get bored). Needless to say we ran out of space pretty quick.

I looked at upgrading the drive, but apparently the easy thing to do is just use an external ssd. Fine. Looked up a 1 TB one and they aren’t cheap. Did some more digging and see that also made an Xbox one X, which had some upgraded hardware and came with a 1 TB hard drive. Found one being sold locally for $80, seems like a deal. Would likely then try to sell the one a for $50. Seems like that’s the smart move? Then later if we run out of room get an external ssd, and hopefully they’ll be a bit cheaper by then?

Also, am I right in stating that the games must be on the hard drive to play them now?

How many games is he playing at once? I usually have about 5-6 before I run out of space.

Once I finish a game I usually remove it from the console. You can always redownload anytime. It will keep all your saved games intact.

I haven't used a disc for console gaming in forever. But I seem to remember they recommend installing from the disk to the hard drive anyway for performance.

There are only a few games that’s he’s playing on it.

Can you break down that “it will keep all your saved games intact” comment? Let’s say I play GTA5 o e weekend and get 20% done. Then stop playing it and end up removing it to make space. If I redownload it from disc, am I still 20% done or am I starting back over from the beginning?

Many of the games saved on it are the “Lego” games that are meant to be 100% completed when played. They only take up 10-20gb each, but I’d hate to lose all the progress made on them. My wife loved playing the Harry Potter ones and I liked the Marvel ones.
 
Ok, I’m old so please forgive me. I’ve tried to learn this on my own, and think I have, just want to be sure I understand it.

I don’t game too much, but my kid is getting more and more into it. We have an X Box One S. It came with a 500 gb hard drive. The operating system alone uses up around 140 gb of that, leaving 360 gb or so for games and apps. And now games must be downloaded to the machine, as I assume the optical drive is too slow? This has worked for a while, but now these games are getting HUGE. My son plays Fortnite and it’s like 100 gb by itself, as is GTA5 which I apparently still had on it (and may play again if I get bored). Needless to say we ran out of space pretty quick.

I looked at upgrading the drive, but apparently the easy thing to do is just use an external ssd. Fine. Looked up a 1 TB one and they aren’t cheap. Did some more digging and see that also made an Xbox one X, which had some upgraded hardware and came with a 1 TB hard drive. Found one being sold locally for $80, seems like a deal. Would likely then try to sell the one a for $50. Seems like that’s the smart move? Then later if we run out of room get an external ssd, and hopefully they’ll be a bit cheaper by then?

Also, am I right in stating that the games must be on the hard drive to play them now?

How many games is he playing at once? I usually have about 5-6 before I run out of space.

Once I finish a game I usually remove it from the console. You can always redownload anytime. It will keep all your saved games intact.

I haven't used a disc for console gaming in forever. But I seem to remember they recommend installing from the disk to the hard drive anyway for performance.

There are only a few games that’s he’s playing on it.

Can you break down that “it will keep all your saved games intact” comment? Let’s say I play GTA5 o e weekend and get 20% done. Then stop playing it and end up removing it to make space. If I redownload it from disc, am I still 20% done or am I starting back over from the beginning?

Many of the games saved on it are the “Lego” games that are meant to be 100% completed when played. They only take up 10-20gb each, but I’d hate to lose all the progress made on them. My wife loved playing the Harry Potter ones and I liked the Marvel ones.
If you uninstall the game, it should retain your saved data if you want to download and play again later. I don't recall if it keeps the save games on your hard drive or the cloud (the latter, I think).
 
Anyone here play FIFA/FC ultimate team? PM me if so, apparently co-op going to be a big focus in FC26 when it comes out soon. I love it but none of my friends play it.
 
Ok, I’m old so please forgive me. I’ve tried to learn this on my own, and think I have, just want to be sure I understand it.

I don’t game too much, but my kid is getting more and more into it. We have an X Box One S. It came with a 500 gb hard drive. The operating system alone uses up around 140 gb of that, leaving 360 gb or so for games and apps. And now games must be downloaded to the machine, as I assume the optical drive is too slow? This has worked for a while, but now these games are getting HUGE. My son plays Fortnite and it’s like 100 gb by itself, as is GTA5 which I apparently still had on it (and may play again if I get bored). Needless to say we ran out of space pretty quick.

I looked at upgrading the drive, but apparently the easy thing to do is just use an external ssd. Fine. Looked up a 1 TB one and they aren’t cheap. Did some more digging and see that also made an Xbox one X, which had some upgraded hardware and came with a 1 TB hard drive. Found one being sold locally for $80, seems like a deal. Would likely then try to sell the one a for $50. Seems like that’s the smart move? Then later if we run out of room get an external ssd, and hopefully they’ll be a bit cheaper by then?

Also, am I right in stating that the games must be on the hard drive to play them now?

How many games is he playing at once? I usually have about 5-6 before I run out of space.

Once I finish a game I usually remove it from the console. You can always redownload anytime. It will keep all your saved games intact.

I haven't used a disc for console gaming in forever. But I seem to remember they recommend installing from the disk to the hard drive anyway for performance.

There are only a few games that’s he’s playing on it.

Can you break down that “it will keep all your saved games intact” comment? Let’s say I play GTA5 o e weekend and get 20% done. Then stop playing it and end up removing it to make space. If I redownload it from disc, am I still 20% done or am I starting back over from the beginning?

Many of the games saved on it are the “Lego” games that are meant to be 100% completed when played. They only take up 10-20gb each, but I’d hate to lose all the progress made on them. My wife loved playing the Harry Potter ones and I liked the Marvel ones.
Every game I've played and reinstalled has maintained save games. I think you have to go in and specifically delete them manually.
 
Ok, I’m old so please forgive me. I’ve tried to learn this on my own, and think I have, just want to be sure I understand it.

I don’t game too much, but my kid is getting more and more into it. We have an X Box One S. It came with a 500 gb hard drive. The operating system alone uses up around 140 gb of that, leaving 360 gb or so for games and apps. And now games must be downloaded to the machine, as I assume the optical drive is too slow? This has worked for a while, but now these games are getting HUGE. My son plays Fortnite and it’s like 100 gb by itself, as is GTA5 which I apparently still had on it (and may play again if I get bored). Needless to say we ran out of space pretty quick.

I looked at upgrading the drive, but apparently the easy thing to do is just use an external ssd. Fine. Looked up a 1 TB one and they aren’t cheap. Did some more digging and see that also made an Xbox one X, which had some upgraded hardware and came with a 1 TB hard drive. Found one being sold locally for $80, seems like a deal. Would likely then try to sell the one a for $50. Seems like that’s the smart move? Then later if we run out of room get an external ssd, and hopefully they’ll be a bit cheaper by then?

Also, am I right in stating that the games must be on the hard drive to play them now?


Also, having a hardwired connection directly from you modem to your xbox console is highly preferred.

If you cant leave it wired all the time - at least hook it up when downloading games.
 
Anyone played the new Battlefield beta? I haven't played battlefield since BF1 but a buddy of mine is trying to get me to play with him. Am I going to hate it if I haven't played a shooter in 10ish years?
 
Hades II in a couple of weeks - full 1.0 release on Sept 25th. It’s exclusive to the switch for a bit on the console side. I’ve put 200 hours in but will start a new save file at full release. I am pumped for everyone to play this game, it’s so good.
 
Anyone played the new Battlefield beta? I haven't played battlefield since BF1 but a buddy of mine is trying to get me to play with him. Am I going to hate it if I haven't played a shooter in 10ish years?

So the Open beta was several weeks ago. There's ongoing tests going on right now,(technically under NDA, but all kinds of leaks are coming out) but they're invite only (you had to have signed up and then get picked)

Open Beta was fun. Showed lots of potential, but they've strayed a bit from what Battlefield used to be.

If you haven't played a shooter in 10 years, you may struggle. The game is pretty twitchy.
 

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