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Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

I bought it at 90-percent off during the Summer Steam Sale. It's taken me almost 30 years to realize that I don't like Crash Bandicoot and it's definitely a skill issue. I hate the open pits and I'm having really bad depth perception. I'm feeling a little salty and keep thinking that if it were a Mario game, Nintendo would get absolutely roasted. But when plucky upstarts Sony does it, it's cute and endearing.

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I finally have the current gen trifecta with the purchase of an Xbox Series X. A local game store released an app, and as a promo to get people to download it they offered 15% everything on the app. Well I downloaded it and saw they had the Series X priced at $320. After the coupon it was only $270, which is less than half the current new price, so I decided to jump in. I don’t know how much I’ll use it, but it’s nice to have the compete set of Xboxes.

Hell yeah, it's a good Bluray player at the very least.

[ian]

If the series X had more than Forza Horizon 5 after 5 years, and the $270 you paid was in dollaridoo's, I would have chosen it over a PS5, and gotten it 4 years ago.

Wasn't gonna pay the same price for a worse system, with a worse controller, and a worse GUI, and no games though.
On deep discount is the only way I see getting a series X as well.

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I finally have the current gen trifecta with the purchase of an Xbox Series X. A local game store released an app, and as a promo to get people to download it they offered 15% everything on the app. Well I downloaded it and saw they had the Series X priced at $320. After the coupon it was only $270, which is less than half the current new price, so I decided to jump in. I don’t know how much I’ll use it, but it’s nice to have the compete set of Xboxes.

Hell yeah, it's a good Bluray player at the very least.

That’s how I pitched it to my wife when she asked if it will work the same as the old Xbox. Even more amusing, the first game I booted was Final Fantasy XIII-2 to see what it looked like with the 4k patch.

Buying the latest gaming system to watch movies and play 360 games, what a mad world.

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I finally have the current gen trifecta with the purchase of an Xbox Series X. A local game store released an app, and as a promo to get people to download it they offered 15% everything on the app. Well I downloaded it and saw they had the Series X priced at $320. After the coupon it was only $270, which is less than half the current new price, so I decided to jump in. I don’t know how much I’ll use it, but it’s nice to have the compete set of Xboxes.

Hell yeah, it's a good Bluray player at the very least.

That’s how I pitched it to my wife when she asked if it will work the same as the old Xbox. Even more amusing, the first game I booted was Final Fantasy XIII-2 to see what it looked like with the 4k patch.

Buying the latest gaming system to watch movies and play 360 games, what a mad world.

I'm sure my Series S is impressed that I turn it on every 3 months to play Carcassonne. If Xbox doesn't have the current gen exclusives, it's got all the Xbox Arcade games I bought in my twenties.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

A mild word of warning about the Xbox Series X blu-ray drive: it's the same one that's in the One X/S (circa 2017), so it doesn't play 100GB triple layer discs. So if you buy a 4K movie that's triple layer, it probably won't play it.

It's alright with everything else though.

PS5 plays triple layer discs.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

I also bought the Crash Trilogy last week. Never really cared for the Crash games, except for the demo of the first one. Still, for the price, worth a pick up.

[ian]

A mild word of warning about the Xbox Series X blu-ray drive: it's the same one that's in the One X/S (circa 2017), so it doesn't play 100GB triple layer discs. So if you but a 4K movie that's triple layer, it probably won't play it.

It's alright with everything else though.

PS5 plays triple layer discs.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

I also bought the Crash Trilogy last week. Never really cared for the Crash games, except for the demo of the first one. Still, for the price, worth a pick up.

Crash Bandicoot was diminishing returns for me, absolutely adored the first game, never really liked any of the others for more than sort of an hour or 2, but liked them enough to at least play every single one on multiple occasions.

Interesting with the 4K triple layer playback. I will admit, I haven't used my One X as a 4K player since I got my PS5, BUT the PS5 is probably the worst DVD player in the world. The quality of simply any DVD on the PS5 is atrocious, while those same DVD's on the same TV with literally any other player ever made including the one X look half way civilised.

I don't even know why they bothered to include DVD playback at all (or why they've kept the red laser on the PS4 even, when it couldn't play CD's)

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Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

I also bought the Crash Trilogy last week. Never really cared for the Crash games, except for the demo of the first one. Still, for the price, worth a pick up.

There's some sort of inverse property law between full-price and cheap/discounted games: The less I spend on a game, the more I play of it. I have to remember that the next time I think I should buy a new AAA game for full price.

A mild word of warning about the Xbox Series X blu-ray drive: it's the same one that's in the One X/S (circa 2017), so it doesn't play 100GB triple layer discs. So if you but a 4K movie that's triple layer, it probably won't play it.

[...] the PS5 is probably the worst DVD player in the world. The quality of simply any DVD on the PS5 is atrocious, while those same DVD's on the same TV with literally any other player ever made including the one X look half way civilised.

I don't even know why they bothered to include DVD playback at all (or why they've kept the red laser on the PS4 even, when it couldn't play CD's)

I'd blame it on weaponized incompetence. MS and Sony are hoping for physical media to die off during this hardware generation. My theory is both added half-assed physical disc support just to speed up that process.