r/XboxSeriesX • u/Asleep-Sprinkles-760 • Apr 20 '24

This generation has been underwhelming Discussion

I bought a Series X at launch, and can’t think of a single game that has impressed me this gen. I’m a big Halo fan, and Halo Infinite felt like a letdown. I’m a Forza fan, and Forza Motorsport felt like a massive disappointment. I was exited for Starfield, but was underwhelmed after playing it.

It just feels like we’ve had no heavy hitters this gen, even 3rd party AAA games have been average at best. I guess the only hope I have left is with Gears 6, but aside from that, Microsoft needs to get their act together and start releasing some new games. It feels like games are taking way too long to make these days, we used to get bangers every year in the 360 gen. Even the Xbox One had more compelling games than what we have now

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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby Apr 21 '24

This gen has been about SSDs and faster load times. That's about it.

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u/FxHVivious Apr 21 '24

Literally my favorite thing this generation was playing Monster Hunter World without 45 minute load times.

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u/Averageguy0815 Apr 21 '24

The first thing I did to test out the series X was to start a quest in the guiding lands lol. Just to test out the SSD load times.

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u/FxHVivious Apr 21 '24

It's like night and day. Guiding lands would no joke take like 3 minutes to load on my old ass first gen Xbox One. Down to I think less then 30 seconds on my Series X. It's been a while though so my memory might be a bit off

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u/Averageguy0815 Apr 21 '24

Yeah it’s incredible. I actually timed it the first time and it was 12 seconds.

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u/benmur0 Apr 22 '24

Forza Horizon 5 took like 2 mins just to get to the main splash screen and then 3 minutes through all the loading screens on my original XB1, series X loads the game into the map in under a minute

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u/Funk5oulBrother Apr 21 '24

Thanks for reminding me to start this up again.

Time to attempt to kick Alatreons ass again. (It will take a long time)

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u/FxHVivious Apr 21 '24

I'm always floored by how fucking good that game is. It's already hyped in my mind and then I go back to it from time to time and remember that it's even better. Definitely an all timer.

I still never beat Alatreon or Fatalis though... As much as I love it I can never last too long into the endgame.

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u/busy-warlock Apr 21 '24

As someone who doesn’t have load times, I’m sorry. Worse is I’ve dumped enough hours in to know that the game just isn’t for me

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u/FxHVivious Apr 21 '24

I felt that way at first but MHW finally won me over. MH is one of my all time favorite franchises now, can't wait for Wilds.

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u/Gr8NonSequitur Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

I say without irony that the Series S | X is the best 360 ever made. I play a crap ton of 360 titles, and the experience is amazing.

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u/EscapedAlien Founder Apr 21 '24

Yep. I haven’t really noticed a major difference in most games, but the loading times are crazy

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u/Gottalovethecougs24 Apr 22 '24

Like it’s slow or fast?

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u/EscapedAlien Founder Apr 22 '24

Way faster, I barely even get a chance to fully read the loading screen tips for many games now

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u/Open-Science8196 Apr 22 '24

It’s really easy to see if you still have a Xbox one x. We use that upstairs as an entertainment center. Playing fallout 4 today has like 20x the load speed of my series x. Every death or fast travel

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u/EscapedAlien Founder Apr 22 '24

My usual loading time benchmark is GTA V, it takes like 45 seconds on my Series X vs a couple minutes on my previous One S

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u/techmaster242 Apr 21 '24

We have fast load times, but nothing to load.

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u/US_Decadence Apr 21 '24

PC players have been enjoying these features for over a decade now. It's kinda funny how people bring up SSDs like it's some feature and not just the industry standard anymore.

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u/SabresFanWC Apr 21 '24

It is a feature for consoles. Console hardware isn't constantly updating like PC. You have the same hardware for nearly a decade before the next upgrade.

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u/ChickenFajita007 Apr 21 '24

The PS4 and Xbox One could have been built with SATA SSDs, but both companies cheaped out.

SSDs were fairly ubiquitous by late 2013.

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u/DJ-VariousArtists Apr 21 '24

You could install an SSD in a PS4 (I had one basically the entire time I had a PS4) and the Xbox Elite revision had an SSD. Most of the gen they had SSDs. Not remotely the same as nvme’s.

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u/GamerOnABudgetYT Apr 21 '24

Xbox elite had a sshd not a ssd. But I know, myself included, put an ssd into the ps4 pro or Xbox one x

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u/ChickenFajita007 Apr 22 '24

All games (and the OS) were designed to run off of HDDs.

Many games saw little to no improvement in loading despite using a notably faster storage device.

The PS4 and XBox One simply didn't take good advantage of SSDs, even if you put one in.

You miss my man point: the consoles weren't built to take advantage of SSDs.

You can put a PCIe gen 5 NVME drive in a PC that only supports gen 3 speeds and it would work, but you won't take anywhere near full advantage of that gen 5 drive.

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u/SabresFanWC Apr 21 '24

Possibly. But consoles are in development for several years before actual release.

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u/ChickenFajita007 Apr 22 '24

True, but SSDs weren't new in 2011.

It was purely cost savings that prevented them from going SSD, no technological barrier.

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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby Apr 21 '24

I meant comparatively to prior generations.

If you have a Series S or X for awhile and then try to use an Xbox One, it feels like going back to the stone age, even though they use the same UI.

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u/Rain1dog Apr 21 '24

We had instant loading way before PCs had them. It wasn’t until optical drives came out before we went to long loads.

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u/GODAfroSaitama Apr 21 '24

Tell Helldivers that

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u/ChickenFajita007 Apr 21 '24

PC has a much larger playerbase than any one console, and likely has more than the entire console market combined.

Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox, LoL, Valorant etc.

And none of those are on Steam, which is obviously a massively popular platform.

The console market in total is only around 250-300 million users.

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u/mardegre Apr 21 '24

But I can’t record my Apex clips when I play on 1440p without huge stuttering

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u/blakkattika Apr 21 '24

This + GamePass has been real fun, but impressive AAA games are non-existent. It's a bummer

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u/XBL-AntLee06 Apr 21 '24

That alone has been worth the cost of admission to me. Quick resume STILL amazes me to this day. This generation has been great!

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u/sooobeat Apr 21 '24

Agreed, it was all about competing with PCs and to be honest I bought one instead of upgrading my PC and have been happy with my choice.

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u/darren_m Apr 22 '24

“I'm your truth, telling lies I'm your reasoned alibis I'm inside, open your eyes Sad but true” - Metallica “Sad But True”

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u/Beasthuntz Apr 22 '24

And BC games running at 60fps.

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u/ReallyHelpless_117 Apr 22 '24

Does not help that there are laptops cheaper than the PS5 and Xbox Series with SSDs, and runs similar games. The Steam Deck is cheaper than the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and runs the exact same games. This generation had made me move on from modern console gaming completely. I will not get a system after the PS4. I did not even get the Series X. Only S. And it was a waste of $300 tbh. Used it for PS1 games with a free retail exploit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '24

It absolutely has done a lot more then that

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u/thrillynyte Apr 22 '24

Show me the champion of the light 

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u/WissWatch Apr 21 '24

I guarantee your average Xbox owner has no idea what an SSD is. 

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u/krilltucky Apr 21 '24

Its been like the main selling point on every ad for both consoles. It would require them to not read the ads they saw the consoles in for them to not know