The video game thread.

Rygar

Sorry to hear that Jason, that sucks. Glad everyone is ok.
Turning my Xbox to power saving mode as soon as I get home!

mca47

Jason P said:

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

Jason P said:

mca47 said:

Jason P said:

I'm still at level 12 so it is no cakewalk yet in Fallout. But I'm also working on a sneak / snipe build and just got that good laser (Righteous Authority) rifle.

I was at level 15 but my house burned up and I wasn't using cloud saves. I also learned the upside of digital games is that you can download them again.

You're house caught fire? Holy shit! Everyone and everything ok?

Everyone was OK but 99% of everything was lost. The value of the Beneroya LP will be going up as the limited edition count shrunk to 1999. It sucks big time but I still have all my fingers and toes.

Wow. What caused the fire?

An electrical fire started at my TV console. I think it was either my PS4 or my WiiU since they stay powered on. The F.D. couldn't establish the root cause but stated that the fire started there. I got home from work and the place was on fire, but it had probably been smoldering for a while before igniting.

Make sure you power down your gaming systems completely when done. You can shut the PS4 down but the WiiU will start up randomly when you are gone.

Wow! That's crazy! Did insurance cover everything?
I turn off all my systems when I'm done. I don't trust electronics to stay on, especially if i'm not around.

MayDay10

yeah, me too. I always power down. Especially since the past issues of the 360 melting its soldering and getting the rings of death

mca47

Yeah, I figure anything slapped together in China where they are making 20 cents per hour...should probably get turned off when you're not using it.

weekapaug19

So I'm having problems with my xbox one. Fallout is the only game to load, the others kick you back to the dashboard after 10-15 seconds. Anybody have this issue before?

mca47

weekapaug19 said:

So I'm having problems with my xbox one. Fallout is the only game to load, the others kick you back to the dashboard after 10-15 seconds. Anybody have this issue before?

I don't have a Xbox but a buddy does and had that problem. I guess you need to do a hard reset of the system. Either hold down the power button for 10 seconds or unplug it from the power supply. Apparently the RAM doesn't get reset if you turn the system off via the controller or put it in standby. When it "wakes up" it's still allocating the RAM to what was using it before as opposed to redirecting it to the game.
Try that and see if it works. My buddy does a hard restart of his system every week or two, or if loads fail back to the main screen. That's often after he's watching or streaming a show/movie or has opened a lot of apps recently.

WhatYouTaughtMe

weekapaug19 said:

So I'm having problems with my xbox one. Fallout is the only game to load, the others kick you back to the dashboard after 10-15 seconds. Anybody have this issue before?

I have not had that specific problem, but whenever I have had any issues a couple things have always worked.

1- if you have your power settings on "always on" the xbox never completely shutsdown. After a couple weeks of that, I had some slowdown and lag. Turned it to energy saving mode and I don't have that issue anymore. The drawbacks are it won't update games when turned off and it takes a minute to boot up when turned on. Also eliminates the ability to turn on using voice commands with the kinect.

2- If you hold down the power icon for ten seconds on the xbox while on, it will do a hard reset that clears the cache. Wait a minute for the power source to reset and then fire it back up as normal. This will also cause a longer boot screen one time afterwards. That is normal.

WhatYouTaughtMe

Also be sure to press the menu (start) button while over the tiles of apps and games you have recently used. If there is an option that says "quit", the app is still running in the background. Use that to shut it down.

weekapaug19

thanks....i'll try these out tonight. I did do the hard reset yesterday and that didn't seem to fix anything but i'll try it again

Rygar

weekapaug19 said:

So I'm having problems with my xbox one. Fallout is the only game to load, the others kick you back to the dashboard after 10-15 seconds. Anybody have this issue before?

Minecraft is the only game I have that has done this on a few occasions. It usually works fine the second time I load it.

mca47

weekapaug19 said:

thanks....i'll try these out tonight. I did do the hard reset yesterday and that didn't seem to fix anything but i'll try it again

Did you get it working? I did a google search and it seems like a lot of people have had it happen but the hard reset seems to be the most popular fix.
I hate it when shit doesn't work!
I had a problem with Bloodborne when I first got it. The damn PS4 would download the update/patch/whatever as the game was being installed. The update would download and install before the game would. Then the game wouldn't load as it was trying to load from the update or some shit. Annoying as hell! I found a work-around on the internet, but if someone just wanted to pop in the game and play and not do a search online, they'd have a $65 coaster.
That was the only time that happened, but it pissed me off!

weekapaug19

So I tried everything listed and nothing worked....then was talking with Microsoft for 2+ hours to two different people (the first one dropped me after a hour of troubleshooting). They both said it must be a problem with the discs and to take them to the place I bought them and ask them to replace the discs. This makes zero sense to me, and what company would just exchange games 1+ year old for free, if they even carry them anymore. What was really weird was that my 3 sports games didn't work, but my other 3 games worked fine.

So on my own I noticed a button that restores everything back to factory default....I did this and installed one of the games that wasn't working, and bam....works fine (tried uninstalling/reinstalling game before and that didn't work, so something with the factory default setting helped it). Now i just have to reinstall everything. Annoying, but at least one game works again. Microsoft doesn't know their own system and the employees I talked to don't know how to fix issues. Such a waste of time.

Rygar

You should call them back and tell them how to fix it

rgambs

Sonic is bullshit. A game designed to go fast and collect rings is fun, until you run into a spike and LOSE EVERY FUCKING RING YOU HAVE!!!
Bullshit.
Take half my rings, take all but a few, don't take all my damn rings.
Bullshit.

LetsGoMteers

Play Xbox One. A lot of COD, Battlefront, and Fallout right now. Really looking forward to The Division

Rygar

Did you get into the Division Beta? I just got my invite and installation done last night but haven't tried it.

Rygar

Which is irrelevant since there's a public beta coming....

LetsGoMteers

Rygar said:

Did you get into the Division Beta? I just got my invite and installation done last night but haven't tried it.

Yes I played the beta. It was solid. Think it's really gonna be a great game

SVRDhand13

Level 60 halo

LetsGoMteers

SVRDhand13 said:

Level 60 halo

Been on a COD kick lately. I need to get back to some Halo 5