-HP- Posted November 21, 2013 Report Posted November 21, 2013 I don't think this has been posted yet, there's a lot going on right now, so here Adam Sess review of the xbone http://revision3.com/rev3gamesreviews/xbox-one-review Also, Forza 5 review for those who are into car porn! http://revision3.com/rev3gamesreviews/forza-5-review Quote
AlexM Posted November 21, 2013 Report Posted November 21, 2013 Yeah it's a shame they tried to apply the tiles concept across all their devices whether they would benefit from it or not. The idea of having a common interface across all devices is admirable but I can't really think of any real world implementation where that's ever come close to working. Quote
BaRRaKID Posted November 21, 2013 Report Posted November 21, 2013 Microsoft tiles are not that bad. As with anything that it's different and new it takes some time to get used to it, but after a couple of weeks of using them (in windows it gets better. You basically just have to look at them the same way you look at the app icons on your iphone, they do the same thing. Quote
Beck Posted November 21, 2013 Report Posted November 21, 2013 Microsoft tiles are not that bad. As with anything that it's different and new it takes some time to get used to it, but after a couple of weeks of using them (in windows it gets better. You basically just have to look at them the same way you look at the app icons on your iphone, they do the same thing. I've got Windows 8 at home and I really couldn't get used to them. Besides for PC use they are far too big when you have the accuracy a mouse gives. What was wrong with the icons we've been using for god knows how long? They are effectively those icons 10x bigger. The Metro screen felt like a big cluttered mess to me. Trying to find control panel was a nightmare on my first try :/ I've disabled Metro and restored the start bar now and I'm much happier. It works on tablets and phones and possibly on Xbox. But please keep that shit off my PC. Quote
-HP- Posted November 21, 2013 Report Posted November 21, 2013 Microsoft tiles are not that bad. As with anything that it's different and new it takes some time to get used to it, but after a couple of weeks of using them (in windows it gets better. You basically just have to look at them the same way you look at the app icons on your iphone, they do the same thing. After a few a weeks you would get used to anything, it does not make it right now, does it? Sprony 1 Quote
AlexM Posted November 21, 2013 Report Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) I actually prefer the tiles to the start menu now that I've heavily modified my win8. It's one less click to get to the programs I want and a larger selection. Here's what my "start menu" looks like right now. Of course this isn't totally ideal. Some things I'd like to control are tile grouping, tile size, tile transparency (so I can get grid ordering without useless tile space). Also remember you get all the auxilliary windows tools by pressing Win-X Is it perfect? Not even close Do I prefer it to the windows 7 start button method now that I've customized it? Definitely. EDIT: It's also really annoying that you can't style the metro start menu easily. Edited November 21, 2013 by AlexM Quote
-HP- Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 So aparently this is the xbox menu https://twitter.com/georgeb3dr/status/403794684507484160 You'd think installing a game would be priority on Xbox One dashboard? Find it /win 8 tiles suck, IMO. Beck 1 Quote
Zyn Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 So the console is released, and already plenty of reports of faulty ones, particularly damaged disc drives, all of them sounding like this: Even better, one guy got his console banned while getting it to run: http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/21/xbox-one-user-does-emergency-offline-update-as-instructed-gets-banned/ Quote
PogoP Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 They really fucked up with the bumpers on this controller. Everything else about it is really good, but the bumpers have so little feedback. They're really hard to press! -HP- 1 Quote
marks Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 Maybe you just have feeble girl fingers liam. Corwin and Minos 2 Quote
BaRRaKID Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 Microsoft tiles are not that bad. As with anything that it's different and new it takes some time to get used to it, but after a couple of weeks of using them (in windows it gets better. You basically just have to look at them the same way you look at the app icons on your iphone, they do the same thing. After a few a weeks you would get used to anything, it does not make it right now, does it? We're talking about changing a paradigm that is been in use for 20 years, worldwide, by millions (probably billions) of people and machines. There will always be some resistance, it's what we call "velhos do restelo". Technology needs and has to change over time, and it was about time MS changed their OS experience. Look at it from microsoft pov. There are so many different devices these days that the only way for microsoft to keep their market position is to unify all those systems with a single OS, having to mantain different OSs is impracticable. Tiles are not hard to work with, they are not a new or even a bad idea, like I said before it's the same paradigm that's being used on tables and phones, and the mouse as an input device won't live for much longer unfortunately, so we need to start thinking in a different way. The problem is that people don't really understand how far they can take the start screen, but that will change over time. Regarding the pic about the Xbox menu... it's right there on the right "Dead Rising installing...". People also need to realise that consoles stopped being just for gaming a long time ago, they're entertainment systems now and that makes it harder to keep things simple. This being said, for me at least, the device with the best user experience on the market at the moment is the ipad, it just works, it works well, and it's really intuitive. I've been an apple hatter for a long time but apple got it right and it seems like MS is now trying to catch up to them. Quote
-HP- Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 They really fucked up with the bumpers on this controller. Everything else about it is really good, but the bumpers have so little feedback. They're really hard to press! Yeap, it was the first thing I thought to myself when I hold it a few weeks ago. Now I actually see everyone complains about the same, guess I'm not alone They really screwed up the bumpers. Quote
-HP- Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 So the console is released, and already plenty of reports of faulty ones, particularly damaged disc drives, all of them sounding like this: Even better, one guy got his console banned while getting it to run: http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/21/xbox-one-user-does-emergency-offline-update-as-instructed-gets-banned/ Oh man... Xbox One Error E100 Bricking Consoles After Downloading Update http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2169713/xbox_one_error_e100_bricking_consoles_after_downloading_update.html Quote
-HP- Posted November 22, 2013 Report Posted November 22, 2013 Polygon reviewhttp://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review#console Quote
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