From The Consumerist:
"Reader Brad took his XBOX Live Gamertag to a friend's house. When he got home, he realized that he'd forgotten his memory card (with the Gamertag on it) at his friend's place.
He used the "recovery" service to get the tag back, but when he got access to his tag he realized that he could no longer use any of his saved games.
Microsoft responded:
We are unable to comply with your request to provide a free Memory Unit. Accessories such as that may be purchased from a retail location."
The voice actors for Arthur Morgan and Charles Smith have vaguely confirmed a claim by Rob Wiethoff (voice of John Marston) that big news related to the Red Dead franchise will be coming "before Friday."
I hope it's a remake of the 1st game. But it's probably just the PS5 version of Red Dead Redemption 2
I hope a PS5 upgrade launches on the same day as announcement & it costs no more than $10. I already bought the Ultimate Edition once, they got good money from me.
I stopped playing completely 2 years ago until they did 60fps. I really didn't expect it would take this long & I didn't want to start completely over on PC.
My wish is that its optimized for current gen machines, with some sort of story expansion. Undead nightmare 2! My 2nd wish is that it just shadow drops on the day of the announcement!.
For new players trying out Fallout 4, there are a few actions that gamers should avoid making as they journey with the Sole Survivor.
I think i made the mistake of giving Mama Murphy too many chems. Because I could never get my settlement past 98% happiness, and it even cost me the Platinum.
The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.
An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.
I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.
Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.
Well this is silly on Microsoft's part if true. How do you make a system and not think ahead about how it will be used in the future. I hope they are working on a solution or some sort of compromise. If not, people will simply just add this to the list of things, they have failed to fix in the past.
Of why the Xbox is the biggest pile of crap in existence
EDITED: See comment #3, since we can't delete comments.
Well, as a follow-up, Microsoft does warn against this sort of thing:
"How to move a gamer profile from one console to another.
As we describe in Take Xbox Live on Vacation, roaming with Xbox 360 requires an Xbox 360 Memory Unit to store your Xbox Live profile and your saved games.
While you can, in fact, perform the activity Recover Gamertag from Xbox Live to effectively import a fresh version of your profile to your console—or to your friend's console—you should know that doing this endangers your saved games, which reside on your memory unit or Xbox 360 Hard Drive.
With Xbox 360, your gamer profile can exist only in one place at one time, so downloading (or "recovering") it to a friend's system will invalidate the version of your profile that's still on your Xbox 360 Hard Drive, endangering any offline achievements and game saves since your last visit to Xbox Live.
Because your profile encompasses elements that are stored on your console and elements that are stored by the Xbox Live service, the safest way to game is to move your profile to a memory unit when you hit the road and when you return home."
So, while it sucks, and should probably be fixed, they do at least say "Don't do it that way". He did it that way, and it broke the way they said it could. Sucks, sure, but he was warned. Apparently recovering a gamer tag this way also gives the warning:
"Recover your gamertag only if your profile is corrupt or missing. Recovery will delete all games saved for that profile on any console."
SHOULD it work this way? No, probably not. Should he have been aware it worked this way? Yeah. So, really, in the end, the fault lies with him - though that doesn't make the system any less stupid.
If you get screwed by a stupid system, it sucks. But if you get screwed by a stupid system that warns you it's stupid, it sucks but it's also your fault.
There should never be a big red 'DON'T PUSH OR YOU'LL GET CANCER' button, but if there IS one, and you DO push it, and you get cancer - well, don't be an idiot.
Wow sucks to be that guy hehe.