The XBox One Thread

[Waitey]

How much was it?

 

[banther]

No need. I get 36 AA Duracells every 3 months from Amazon for £9 or something, on a subscription basis. Sure it's £45, but it's easy and convenient.

Just a heads up these are amazing and can be bought on eBay. I researched batteries (so cool) and these were top rated bang for buck;
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50240502/ not the boggo all yellow ones.

 

[banther]

No need. I get 36 AA Duracells every 3 months from Amazon for £9 or something, on a subscription basis. Sure it's £45, but it's easy and convenient.

Just a heads up these are amazing and can be bought on eBay. I researched batteries (so cool) and these were top rated bang for buck (£1.50 for 10);
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50240502/ not the boggo all yellow ones.

 

[jenic]

How much was it?

Just the £250 PCWorld offer.

 

[Cookie]

Just a heads up these are amazing and can be bought on eBay. I researched batteries (so cool) and these were top rated bang for buck (£1.50 for 10);
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50240502/ not the boggo all yellow ones.

Awesome work. Shall pick some of those up next time I'm in IKEA

 

[DeeKay86]

I enjoy it, although I don't think I could explain to anyone why I enjoy someone else opening a box lol.

I just wish I had so much excitement at xmas when I get socks.

tbh, I don't really do social media or any of that s**t so I just view your videos you post on here. How many views do you get/followers you got?

Man I've been away playing Halo 5 like a psycho it's incredible lol! I have about 550 subscribers and my best performing 'recent' video is my Nextbase dashcam review (almost 16,000 views now)

Need to make time to make more videos but I am so addicted to this game lol!

 

[Philip.]

Got Need For Speed in the post yesterday...
Absolutely stunning graphics, the car handling is a bit suspect though, lol.

Customization is great!

 

[DannyR]

Bit suspect, I played the Beta and was terrible. When you let go of the stick it's still turning, it had about a second response time. I was going to buy it to pick up and play but I just couldn't with that

 

[chris_pett]

What external hard drive is everyone using? Slowly running out of space now -_-

 

[-Jason-]

Been using this for a while and is problem free.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produ...|adp:1o1|kw:&gclid=CK2Q0oy4-cgCFRJmGwodPwwM0Q

 

[Philip.]

Bit suspect, I played the Beta and was terrible. When you let go of the stick it's still turning, it had about a second response time. I was going to buy it to pick up and play but I just couldn't with that

I was actually getting used to it last night, but it was VERY shite compared to Forza.

 

[Ex-User (72296)]

Mrs bought me Forza6 yesterday for Xmas.. is it as good as everyone makes out? I've never played Forza.

 

[banther]

What external hard drive is everyone using? Slowly running out of space now -_-

Probably unrelated but when I was researching it I found a really overly detailed analysis of SSD vs hard drive etc and the differences between was minimal therefore unwarranted expense.

Difference between top of the line hard drive and average was also tiny. Conclusion; just buy the best deal. Write speed etc has minimal impact on pic quality / load times etc.

Will try to dig it out.

I just bought a Samsung 1tb standard as hell one from John Lewis and does the job fine!!

Bit of a piss take with the internal storage. 500gb sounds a lot until BF4 takes up 40gb lol.

 

[Philip.]

Mrs bought me Forza6 yesterday for Xmas.. is it as good as everyone makes out? I've never played Forza.

Forza is a brilliant game. Last one I played was on the 360 (forza 4?) and I went through the career mode about 5 times!
Not hammered 6 as much on the One, been playing Fifa.

 

[Ex-User (72296)]

Yeah I can't get off Fifa atm, as rubbish as it is

Forza is a brilliant game. Last one I played was on the 360 (forza 4?) and I went through the career mode about 5 times!
Not hammered 6 as much on the One, been playing Fifa. :smiley:

Anyone fancies a game on Fifa - xbox live = IDavyy

 

[Daz.]

Forza is really good, online is hilarious.

But my god it's going to be a ball ache doing ALL the championships!

 

[Whitetac]

Bit of a dilemma, too many games out at the moment and I only want to buy one.

On the cards are ; FIFA 16, Skyrim online, Forza 6, Project Cars, MGS 5, Star Wars Battlefront or Fallout 4 (never played any of them before though!)

What would you guys recommend?! Too much choice!

 

[jenic]

As a car game fan I'd say Forza 6, not a fan of project cars with a pad, and even if you own Forza 5, 6 is worth the money for the extra cars/tracks/weather.

 

[James28]

Look on hot UK deals. If price is a factor they had a really good deal on elder scrolls online.

Going by the hype I don't think anything is going to compare to fallout 4 though.

 

[Whitetac]

Nah price doesn't matter, just want a decent game to get into. Thinking it's going to be either Fallout or MGS 5 now, never played Fallout so not sure what to expect from that.

 

[iain187]

Fallout will (probably) have a much better story than MGS

MGS is good for trying to sneak in and out of bases without being noticed but I don't rate the story at all

 

[Adamm.]

Entirely different games. You want to watch videos to get an idea really but out of those I say Forza.

 

[Philip.]

I really enjoying NFS now, lol!
The modifying part is really, really good!

 

[banther]

Definitely wait for Battlefront

 

[jenic]

Pneuma breath of life is currently free with gold and is well worth a look if you like puzzle games. Very short but kept us entertained for a couple of hours at the weekend.

 

[banther]

Not sure if the Walking Dead is still free on xbox gold but well worth a download. Good to play with the missus - like an interactive TV show.

 

[Dan The Top Bloke]

Not sure if the Walking Dead is still free on xbox gold but well worth a download. Good to play with the missus - like an interactive TV show.

Awsome game to play/ watch was hooked the whole way through.

 

[banther]

Awsome game to play/ watch was hooked the whole way through.

YEah was quite nice to have something to play together where there is no need for both to be controlling / paying full attention. Tempted to buy the rest tbh.

No one buy Minecraft StoryMode. Too short.

 

[Dan The Top Bloke]

dunno witch ending you had as i guess itll all be diffrent but the girlfriend got a little sad at the ending of mine haha bless. but yeah i may look into others.

 

[Jay_A]

Xbox one software updated this morning. I guess this is the new Windows 10 look / integration?

Looks good so far:smile:

 

[Marc.]

Mine hasn't

 

[-Jason-]

If you are in power save mode and not auto on you need for force the update or it will auto do it on the 23rd.

 

[Adamm.]

I think it's just rolling out in waves. I'm on power save mode and it decided to boot me mid game to update a few nights ago. Didn't need to do anything.

 

[Marc.]

I turned my Xbox back on and it gave me the option to force update in Settings, so it's done. Looks okay tbh. Can't find my Fallout 3 download though, I think I'll have to dig out the actual game disc.

 

[Welsh.Dan]

Xbox one software updated this morning. I guess this is the new Windows 10 look / integration?

Looks good so far[emoji2]

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Looks good. Might blow the cobwebs off mine, actually turn it on and do the update.

Then put it back into hibernation. Lol[emoji4]

 

[Marc.]

I've discovered that the backwards compatibility isn't fantastic really. Out of the 7 games I have that are on the launch list, only 1 appears to work...

 

[mace¬]

Tiger Woods on it?

 

[Marc.]

Tiger Woods on it?

Nope. Not yet, anyway - it's not on the list of launch titles. How often they'll add new ones, I don't know.

 

[Norris_309]

Can we download Dirt3 (360 game with gold this month) to play on the xbox one? it's in the list for compatibility.
But.. if I try to download it, it asks to set up payment details, I've got my credit card on my xbox account & it's showing on the console, but on xbox.com it doesn't see it?
Anyone else tried this, think it's only available until the 15th so wanted to try & get this.

 

[Ex-User (72296)]

I've had to 'update my control' (wtf?!), and to update it it needs to be plugged in with a usb to micro usb thing... Which I didn't get with my Xbox, what b****cks is that about?!