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