You should be able to. MS points aren’t set to fully expire until June 2015, & they’ll be converted into your respective real-world currency on One.
And it’s unrealistic that they’d ever permanently lower the price of Live under its current subscription model. It’d be quite an undertaking to somehow compensate existing subs with months’ (sometimes years) worth of service already paid for in advance. Actually adding more value to Live is probably easier for them & better for the consumer.
Yeah, that’s what I was feeling also. More value is more important and basically dire after the E3 fiasco.
I’m pretty upset that the reviews for Lair Crimson Dragon have been so awful. http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/crimson-dragon
I didn’t expect it to be great, but… I was really hoping that it’d be one of the games that convinced me to pick up an XB1 sooner rather than later. Maybe when I’m back in FL at the end of the year they’ll have it available in the MS stores so I can test it and see for myself rather than writing it off from the reviews of others (can you tell I’m a stubborn Panzer Dragoon fan? 
)
Reviews are a stupid concept now IMO (I can figure out what games I want to play for myself), but for what it’s worth Killer Instinct scored higher than Killzone and Dead Rising 3 on IGN.
The family was big Sega fans back in the day (dad bought Sega Saturn before Playsation) so I’m all about my rail shooters. I’ll be checking it out regardless.
Game journalists need to quit comparing/associating this game with Lair. . Lair wasn’t the spiritual successor to the Panzer Dragoon series with Yukio Futatsugi directing it and Saori Kobayashi composing the soundtrack. Some of these reviewers never even played a Panzer Dragoon title, which I feel is crucial to reviewing this game since 90% of the people who consider it are going to be PD fans. The only thing I really care about when I finally get around to playing this game is if it feels like a pretty Panzer Dragoon 1, 2, or Orta. If it has at least that going for it I’ll enjoy it, because that’ all I’m really looking for out of it.
Yeah, if anyone expected a rail shooter to score well in this day and age, is probably your own fault when you get disappointed.
Let’s face it. If you are about panzer Dragoon, you’re getting it, regardless of scores. Rail shooters are niche upon niche,…
The only person in the gaming industry who’s opinion of Crimson Dragon I’m actually interested in hearing is Nick Rox. I respect the man’s passion for the series and I’ve always agreed wholeheartedly with his views on what makes the games enjoyable.
…Hopefully him, shidoshi and Casey will do a new, long overdue WAHP soon.
I don’t really know that any of the journalists (if you can call them that… maybe “bloggers” is more accurate?) have been *comparing *it to Lair. However I personally associate it simply based on the fact that it’s: a launch game, it scored poorly, and it involves dragons. There’s not a whole lot of depth or thought that goes into the association – you’re not going to find some deeper meaning there.
What I have seen come up a few times in the reviews is that the camera changes sometimes and forces you into taking hits that you wouldn’t have in other similar games, which is a pretty annoying flaw for an on-rails shooter. I’m definitely going to try it, and I’m hoping the issue is overblown, but if not I will likely skip out on the product. I’m a big fan of voting with my wallet.
The only reviewer I trust is my got damn self.
Trust me, I’m fully aware of the difference between a videogame journalist and a blogger. And at the time of posting that I actually hadn’t even read your post here mentioning Lair. I was in a discussion on another forum yesterday about Crimson Dragon and Lair and simply carried the thought over here.
Anyhow, those camera issues don’t sound too good. I had high hopes for this game after they decided to ditch the Kinect-only controls and started saying that it was, for the most part, a completely different game from when it was being developed for the 360. I’ll probably still give a shot when I get a One. After all, it’s only $20 and with bad reviews and poor sales it’ll likely go down even more before long.
I know you don’t like KI, but PREACH.
I havent read a review in several years. I just watch gameplay videos.
On the contrary I’ve been a fan of KI (and Rare for that matter) since it was released on the SNES. So much that I don’t need to buy up decade old KI merchandise and look up facts to show my appreciation for the franchise (cough Max cough). The problem is I don’t want to support a game that is funded by a company that doesn’t deserve my support.
Lol I might be the only guy who still rents games before I buy them.
Meh, while I ‘understand’ the stance, “I” don’t feel its right.
Just because someone hasn’t played a previous version of a game should have no baring on their ability to review a game. If a game is that ‘niche’ then those in that niche, should pick it up almost regardless. The reviewers are for the general audience. someone like me, who has never played a ‘dragon shooting rail game’, but was interested in this one. It’s like if I pull out SF4 (any variant), it could be a 95% to me, but to the average Joe that game could EASILY be a 65-75%. so as someone in the genre, my review can easily eschew the results and artificially inflate them to the average Joe who actually needs a review.
Again, I understand the stance, but reviewers get unfairly blitzed by fans and those who like something, when they are rating for the general populace.
I still have my XBOne reservation…still trying to figure out ‘returning it’ or getting the console (I know I shouldn’t, but come on…KI).
That’s a very sound opinion and hard to argue with. Admittedly, my views on this particular situation are kind of biased being that I’m such a fan. You’d think, though, that with so many gaming publications around, there would be at least one critic at most of them who has played even 1 of the previous Panzer Dragoon’s… that way they could give Crimson Dragon some better context. It also wouldn’t be much of a chore for them to blaze through PD 1 or 2, or even Orta before playing CD, considering the length of those games. Basically, it’s a small miracle that this game even happened and journalists don’t seem to be putting in the extra effort into appreciating that fact.
Edit: Looks like someone at Destructoid, who is actually Panzer Dragoon fan, gave it a good score:
Sounds like good new for us, huh?
I just think it’s a weird spot to be in for entertainment reviewingt - if you are already a ‘fan’ of something - you are naturally going to review to a harsher extreme - either too favorably, or bash it too hard. You’ll look past some of the important factors as you chew into details that only the niche fans may care about. Now on the flipside, you do still need those more educated reviews, but I can’t bash someone for giving a game styling they’ve never played a negative review. If I review Katamari and Minecraft, the score would be horrible even though to fans of those series and that styling, it could be a good entry. So we should crucify reviewers and should just cast as wide a net as possible.
And DAMN the KI footage on the front page. I’ve avoided this thread and all things KI since I decided to hold off getting an XBox, but man it looks enticing.
I’ll be your sponsor. Call me the next time you relapse. Our look at a random Xbone bashing gif.
you have to look at reviewers as a whole to get a bigger picture and figure out where that places you.
lets say i’m “meh” on fps’s. this fps has some really good scores from people really into fps’s, but fairly average scores from a majority of reviewers. even though apparently the game has some appreciation from people who know more about shooters than myself, i’m going to side with the general consensus because that’s where i find myself in the grand scheme of things.
but if its fighters, i will obviously know better than random joe reviewer, so i can throw all those reviews out the window. I might be slightly knowledgeable about platformers, so i might side with the opinions of someone who knows the genre well and has explored the game a bit.
reviews are just a cross-section of the public, and you are part of that cross section. what the collective review process has become isn’t finding which single reviewer you connect with or going with the masses. its about reading the content, judging it as a whole, and determining where your interests sit in comparison to the average. in metacritic age, everything boils down to a score, and people can use these scores to generate hits which influence revenue and all this other shit… you yourself just need to have a filter and read their content to see if their opinions are a match with what you’re looking for.
reviews are far from perfect, but you’ll never know more about most games than someone who has played it unless you are balls deep in it. and you’re never going to really understand if you’re going to like a game based on a score. that is the unfortunate part of reviews that you need to turn off if you are a smart consumer.
Coming up to the launch. Most of the people on SRK getting this are obviously getting this for KI. Others may be getti
ng it for Dead Rising 3, Ryse, Forza 5, Crimson Dragon or one of the multiplats. Whichever it is it looks like the Xbox One is set to do well past the nay saying and might even put fighting games on the map in a new, fresh way. Titanfall is coming in the near future and set to be the “CoD killer”. Available only on Xboxes and PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oi0mrnOqps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha9-hnEQjIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy0f7dsQRlM
The CoD Killer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eLu_3j0bk
Kinect 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQPTt9NepMA
The Dashboard/All in One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3jSN1s2RyE
Dat Megaman Trolling (0_0)’
I stil lhave to play through my copy of DR2+DLC, one of those ‘having a 2 year old means I can’t play when I want to’ games.