Computer games.

[navidson]

Xbox and PS have a game sharing feature.

Anything bought digitally, be it your xbox live membership or a game, counts twice. One for you, and one for your friend.

My friend and I take turns buying the games we like digitally and always play them together across two xbox's.

Our library of games is ridiculous.

In order to do it (on xbox anyway), go into settings and change your 'home xbox' to your friends account. Set your friends 'home xbox' to your account, and boom, you've done it. These accounts never need to sign in or anything, I only play on my account but I get access to everything either one of us have bought.

How long has this been a thing?! I'm a PS user and never seen this advertised

 

[B17BLG]

Xbox and PS have a game sharing feature.

Anything bought digitally, be it your xbox live membership or a game, counts twice. One for you, and one for your friend.

My friend and I take turns buying the games we like digitally and always play them together across two xbox's.

Our library of games is ridiculous.

In order to do it (on xbox anyway), go into settings and change your 'home xbox' to your friends account. Set your friends 'home xbox' to your account, and boom, you've done it. These accounts never need to sign in or anything, I only play on my account but I get access to everything either one of us have bought.

This sounds excellent

 

[blue4eva77]

Xbox and PS have a game sharing feature.

Anything bought digitally, be it your xbox live membership or a game, counts twice. One for you, and one for your friend.

My friend and I take turns buying the games we like digitally and always play them together across two xbox's.

Our library of games is ridiculous.

In order to do it (on xbox anyway), go into settings and change your 'home xbox' to your friends account. Set your friends 'home xbox' to your account, and boom, you've done it. These accounts never need to sign in or anything, I only play on my account but I get access to everything either one of us have bought.

Wonder if this works when two xbox's are in seperate countries. My xbox was bought/registered to the U.S but I have friends in the UK.

Never tried it for some reason

 

[Abraders]

Wonder if this works when two xbox's are in seperate countries. My xbox was bought/registered to the U.S but I have friends in the UK.

Never tried it for some reason

No reason it shouldn't work dude.

 

[Kenshin]

How long has this been a thing?! I'm a PS user and never seen this advertised

Each person registers the other as their home console.

Means games they have bought work fine under your account and your gsmes just need an internet connection to verify them

 

[Abraders]

How long has this been a thing?! I'm a PS user and never seen this advertised

Since the beginning my frandel!

I think for ps it's labelled something to do with family sharing.

 

[navidson]

Since the beginning my frandel!

I think for ps it's labelled something to do with family sharing.

Man alive - All these years of purchasing games I could have been a mingebag and piggybacked my (more affluent) brother's collection!

 

[heatmeiser]

Probably a long shot but does anyone else here play Paladins? Sick of queuing with random idiots.

 

[Abraders]

Probably a long shot but does anyone else here play Paladins? Sick of queuing with random idiots.

Played it, not keen. Prefer Overwatch myself though as a free game I guess it's an alright alternative.

 

[Abraders]

Man alive - All these years of purchasing games I could have been a mingebag and piggybacked my (more affluent) brother's collection!

I luckily caught onto this game-sharing notion straight away, has saved me a fortune/allowed me to play many games I may not have otherwise because my friend buys them!

 

[heatmeiser]

Played it, not keen. Prefer Overwatch myself though as a free game I guess it's an alright alternative.

Yeah Overwatch looks impressive but as a competitive game it's horrible.

 

[Abraders]

Yeah Overwatch looks impressive but as a competitive game it's horrible.

I don't really think it is (horrible).

No worse than League of Legends imo.

Constant balancing is sorting jobs, and they're making changes to competitive for the upcoming season to make it more balanced etc.

The actual ranking/season rating is awful mind, but it is in every game.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Bit of a noob question, but I'm watching our kid play Zelda breath of the wild on the wiiU and it seems off the scale. Just the world and physics of the gameplay look immense - Is this a benchmark game at the moment, like the frontier of gaming, or is it just normal?

 

[Tubey]

Bit of a noob question, but I'm watching our kid play Zelda breath of the wild on the wiiU and it seems off the scale. Just the world and physics of the gameplay look immense - Is this a benchmark game at the moment, like the frontier of gaming, or is it just normal?

It's a really good example of its' genre, which is called 'open world', but nothing particularly revolutionary. Skyrim blew everyones minds away in 2011 and is the same thing in essence, for example, and you can even go back as far as Morrowind in 2002.

Even the likes of Grand Theft Auto 3 in 2001 could be argued as the first truly 3D open world sandbox game.

 

[ijjysmith]

Bit of a noob question, but I'm watching our kid play Zelda breath of the wild on the wiiU and it seems off the scale. Just the world and physics of the gameplay look immense - Is this a benchmark game at the moment, like the frontier of gaming, or is it just normal?

I've not played this new Zelda but here it's very good.

But there are lots and lots of open world games as Tubes says these days.

Some are great, some have these big gaming areas but not a lot to do in them. But if the games story is good then sometimes it doesn't matter. The Mafia games, well 2 and 3, are good examples of big open cities, but not a lot actually going on in them, but have great stories to keep you interested.

I'm a big fan of open world games in general though.