I picked up an Xbox One X last week, and I bought several games to keep me occupied. As it turns out, the console came with a 30-day trial of Game Pass so I've completely ignored said games and only have been playing the Master Chief Collection
I've completed Halo 1 and Halo 2 anniversary editions so far. Since it's my first console FPS in a while I chose normal difficulty. Both are fantastic, and the nostalgia hit me hard. Halo 2 in particular looks
amazing and the difference in audio quality is crazy - especially through good headphones. The only niggles so far are:
- The Library in Halo 1 (surprise, surprise). Although to it's credit, it is a lot less samey looking than the original. Just the bloody pod infectors everywhere that lets it down.
- Another Halo 1 nitpick. Flood armed with Rocket Launchers hiding behind blind corners in the indoor levels. Insta-deaths out of nowhere just felt cheap.
- Brutes in the later levels of Halo 2. I lost count of the number of times I got one-shot by the things which seems unfair on normal.
I started Halo 3 last night and it's a bit jarring to be honest. Gameplay is great so far. However, although the graphics have held up pretty well (I suspect the X enhancements help), the face models and some of the human animations let it down. Plus the audio quality is a real step down coming from Halo 2: Anniversary. I think if I played it straight off the bat it wouldn't be as jarring, but given they did such a good job on the remasters it's hard to ignore.
Only complaint about the X so far is some of the game sizes. I understand the 100GB size of MCC since it's essentially 6 games. But Gears of War 4? That thing is bloody massive and took forever to download the updates even though it's a physical copy. Other than that the UI pretty responsive and it runs exceptionally quietly.