Xbox one - intro for an old timer

[Adam B]

So I just bought an Xbox One S 1TB in the prime sale with some supreme man maths, the thing that swung it was MS making the one backward compatible to a lot of my old Xbox and Xbox 360 games

I would appreciate your time for some basic advice. I have not been a complete lazy arse and have googled various topics

I don't play much but have fun playing 2 player with daughter or on my todd for an hour or two a week when the other half is out.
I am not interested in rushing out and buying the latest games for £50, quite happy to buy 2 years later for £20
I am getting to old fart territory so prefer the original simpler Halo and Call of Duty to some of the later, overly complicated versions

So what do I need to be aware of?
I get the disc v download thing - assume all downloads are linked to my Xbox account so I could keep for future Xbox machines if compatible? is this forever or do they expire?
I see a lot of games are much cheaper to download if you have an xbox live gold account, the bundle came with a 1 month free subscription - can I splurge this month on lots of heavily discounted games, and then not renew the Live Gold thing? I still keep the downloads at the much cheaper prices?

[Adam B]

quite fancy wheel/pedals - bundle came with Forza horizon 3 which I think is decent

would be great to get answers on other questions though....

[Adam B]

simo1863 said:

how old is your daughter and what do you think you'll play together?

Gold is on offer at the moment so might be worth buying another year on top of your free month:

You should have gotten some free trials to gamepass in the box too. It's a subscription service to hundreds of games. Usually MS affiliated stuff like Halo and Gears but there are a lot of kids games on there as well. Look at the free trial and see how much you'd use.

she is 11, only played the 360 it over a few weekends - burnout racing game, and Halo 1 in co-op mode

I just bought Gold for £26.50, annoyingly it seems to have over-written my free month so I've got 12 months not 13

[Adam B]

I did look at that but given how little I will play it it probably isn't worth it for me

[Adam B]

vladcjelli said:

There's still a few out there, but don't just pick anything up expecting to be able to both sit on the sofa together and play.

We ended up buying a 2nd Xbox for another room(

how depressing - some of my fondest VG memories are me and 3 mates drinking beers playing 4s on Micro Machines on PS1

[Adam B]

OK so progress to date and a couple of Qs please

Shocked at how quickly the 1TB drive seems to be filling up, I am about 20% full with:

Sea of Thieves - full game stored as box came with a download code
Blazing Angels and Crimson Skies (old 360 games) - I understand the full game is stored and disc is just inserted to prove ownership
Halo 5 - I have physical disc so I think just updates and patches are stored on drive?
Fortnite - free download

what do people do with large collections of downloads only? Constantly remove and add new games? Takes ages as well despite hardwired to router (download speeds about 30-40 Mb/s)

What games do people recommend? I mostly like FPS (or co-op with my daughter) but open to different genres. I dip in and out for an hour or 2 so don;t want anything difficult to understand/control/follow.
Also I am quite happy with version 1 or 2 of a game rather than 5 or 6. Halo 5 is not highly rated but was only £3 on ebay.

Other than the above and my old 360 games I have / ordered / bidding on:

Forza Horizon 3 which came in bundle
Halo Master Chief collection
Call of Duty WWII
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
Titanfall 2
Gears of War ultimate
Destiny 2

and considering:
a footy game - FIFA but apparently 18 not much cop?
Forza Motorsport 7 - is this much different from Horizon 3

[Adam B]

thanks for the replies

aazer89 said:

Forza 7 has local multiplayer so would be good you and your daughter - horizon doesn't have this.

good to know - think I may get both, and then I am good for driving games, especially if MS make Burnout 3 backward compatible (big dumb fun) - maybe I will just spend a few quid on Burnout Paradise

I like my FPS like Halo, have pauses in between levels, bit of tactics as to approaching next battle, then fight, also not that interested in online just campaigns

The first WW2 COD was one of my favorites, think I gave up on COD: Modern Warfare as I got stuck on a particular level

I had to google PUBG - is this good fun on your own?

[Adam B]

designforlife said:

The wolfenstein games are brilliant, and the new DOOM is well worth a play through.

The two new (and third forthcoming) Tomb Raiders are great, good story and well put together, a really nice reboot to the series...both the wife and I have played all the way through both.

I would also say that GTA V is pretty much a "must play" title, the single player is hours of fun, and multiplayer is a good laugh too.

some more for the wish list, I actually know what they are too

thanks

[Adam B]

Thanks - don’t see those games in Gold but I have an update waiting for the store
Do I have to update to see this months offers?
Any current free games worth downloading? (Other than life is strange recommended above)

Edited by Adam B on Wednesday 1st August 20:07

[Adam B]

Sorry for all the dumb questions

I am sitting here watching Halo 5 painfully download, it has copied the 42gb disc and is now part way through downloading 56gb of “network”. What is network and why is it bigger than the damn disc?

[Adam B]

None of which I will likely use

It’s just like Windows I guess!!

Already yearning for old school stick a disc in and play

[Adam B]

Thanks - the other baffling thing I am finding is 100 different versions of the same game. Collectors, platinum, gold, metal bloody tin version.

The Hitman vanilla version is good? It’s free on Gold but it’s not GOTY if it makes any difference

[Adam B]

I fear Life is Stange is something similar as it only seems to be about 3gb in size

[Adam B]

JonChalk said:

it's free & you'll quickly decide if you like the gameplay.

yes if nothing else I will download and try the gameplay/style of both the free games - and if great buy the full thing on disc

[Adam B]

thanks Steven, I guessed some of that but useful

Steven_RW said:

2. And more importantly... bug fixes. They send a game to the printers usually ahead of it really being perfect. They then use that lead time to test and bug fix more. So when you get the disc on day 1 they already have made tonnes of fixes for ridiculous bugs compared to the version you have in your hand. You want to play that newer version to save you falling foul of these bugs which can be game ending or loss of save file etc. It seems that they don't just send the little bit of code needed to fix but instead give you huge chunks of files to make sure it embeds into your install 100% successfully.

Why would the bug fixes be 50% bigger in size than the whole original game? Seems crazy - could understand it if the 56gb replaced the disc 42gb, but not in addition

[Adam B]

The_Jackal said:

Forza Horizon 2 is free on Games for Gold right now. A hell of a game for free.

presumably not worth it if I have FH3?