Anya 0 Report post Posted February 9, 2006 Hurray for my bland initials-based SN. It'd be better if your name wasn't even actually Andrew. I called MS today about sending in this second 360. I talked to the girl on the phone for a bit and she agreed this whole thing is stupid. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2006 Hurray for my bland initials-based SN. It'd be better if your name wasn't even actually Andrew. I called MS today about sending in this second 360. I talked to the girl on the phone for a bit and she agreed this whole thing is stupid. So your getting another one I take it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2006 I got mine finally. bps21 is my gamertag How original . Hey mine's Scroby. As you know, mine is MattYoung. I didn't know I could have spaces in it, and I've wanted to change it to "Matt Young" ever since. You can...by adding those Microsoft points and paying whatever 80 of them works out to in real money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2006 Yeah, but not until I get a 360. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Downhome 0 Report post Posted February 14, 2006 It costs $10 to change your name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thoth 0 Report post Posted February 14, 2006 Some people are beginning to say that charging for everything on the Marketplace is officially ridiculous. Of course, Microsoft has fulfilled the 2 qualities needed for something like this: Obfuscate money from points, so it's harder to figure out how much a point is worth (400 points = $5.00, so therefore 4 points equal 5 cents and 1 point equals 1.25 cents.) Make things cost small amounts of points so the consumer goes "Eh, it's only a few points" and buys. Of course, you can always not buy these things. At the very least they could offer previews. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2006 So Full Auto came out today, I say rent it before you buy it. Doesn't seem like a good buy unless you really like the game, through that free face plate you get for pre-ordering is pretty nice. I'm hoping a pre-order person doesn't pick theres up so I can get the face plate. Fight Night Round 3 comes out next week. Then in the month of March many good games get released. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2006 Dead Rising for X-Box 360-- http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3148145 The first 360 game I'm extremely interested in that doesn't put immense focus on enormous jugs. It's Dawn of the Dead: The Game...but, you know, not "officially." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2006 Dead Rising for X-Box 360-- http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3148145 The first 360 game I'm extremely interested in that doesn't put immense focus on enormous jugs. It's Dawn of the Dead: The Game...but, you know, not "officially." The game looks like it will just be a great fun game to play. Also something to take out your frustartions on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUTT 0 Report post Posted February 19, 2006 IGN gave Fight Night 3 an 8.5. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2006 For those wondering if they should get Fight Night for the 360....the answer is yes, yes you should. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2006 So in an attempt to revive this thread, Midway annoucned that they are putting more games on Xbox Live Arcade for you to be able to download and these games are: - Defender - Paperboy - Root Beer Tapper......I have no idea what this is game is really about, I guess you serve drinks? - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 - and the last one annouced was Cyberball, which is future football playing. No release date has been annouced yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Evolution Report post Posted March 3, 2006 Rootbeer Tapper is a terrible game. Almost as awful as Timber. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2006 For those wondering if they should get Fight Night for the 360....the answer is yes, yes you should. I'm also very excited for Paperboy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2006 Paperboy? It best have the obstacle course or else its no fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2006 NBA JAM > Any other Midway game, IMO. Any other companies releasing games via Arcade? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2006 NBA JAM > Any other Midway game, IMO. Any other companies releasing games via Arcade? Oh that would be so awesome if NBA Jam got released as a online playable game over the arcade. I really want Maniac Mansion to be released. No nothing yet, but if I see anything and its not posted, I'll post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2006 NBA JAM > Any other Midway game, IMO. Any other companies releasing games via Arcade? Oh that would be so awesome if NBA Jam got released as a online playable game over the arcade. I really want Maniac Mansion to be released. No nothing yet, but if I see anything and its not posted, I'll post. Really? I posted in the 'Great Games No One Else Has Played' a few weeks ago, a buddy of mine LOVES it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2006 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter got a 9.2 from IGN. Review Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skullman80 0 Report post Posted March 13, 2006 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter got a 9.2 from IGN. Review As well it should. It's a fantastic game, and is exactly what "Next-Gen" gaming is about. Damn near flawless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted March 13, 2006 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter got a 9.2 from IGN. Review As well it should. It's a fantastic game, and is exactly what "Next-Gen" gaming is about. Damn near flawless. Yeah it's pretty damn awesome. Once some people I know (such as fellow board members) get online with it, I'm going to try online. I'm not great at it, so I'll probably get reamed. And "hyper-realism" mode is brutal. COD2 on "Veteran" status, with all the Germans suddenly turned into sharpshooters who specialize in one hit kills. I couldn't even make it out of the first mission. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted March 14, 2006 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter got a 9.2 from IGN. Review As well it should. It's a fantastic game, and is exactly what "Next-Gen" gaming is about. Damn near flawless. Yeah it's pretty damn awesome. Once some people I know (such as fellow board members) get online with it, I'm going to try online. I'm not great at it, so I'll probably get reamed. And "hyper-realism" mode is brutal. COD2 on "Veteran" status, with all the Germans suddenly turned into sharpshooters who specialize in one hit kills. I couldn't even make it out of the first mission. It takes time and practise and patience. Go through it beforehand quickly on rookie to learn where they pop out from. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2006 I ran across this rant on assemblygames.com (scroll down to XBOX 360 opinions), and it's making me rethink my interest in the 360. Are these true/as bad as they seem? Because I'm not too intrigued by it. Of course, it's a rant, not a "fair and balanced" article from a respected "game journalist," so I want to hear some other opinions on it. You know, sometimes simple is better. It's been many a year since I have been frustrated with a console. Intellivision had these discs in the controller that just plain hurt to use, along the sides it had these carpal tunnel forming buttons. Now some years later, I find great frustration in so called "features". My XBOX 360 gripes. 1. I don't want a console with a fucking operating system. Why don't I want a console with an OS, dashboard, or anything similar? I'm not a moron, and my time is valuable. Plain and simple. I don't enjoy logging in/out, configuring console color, stupid icon pictures, time, date, parental setting, remote control types, or installing crap on my pc so I can see pictures. My gripe? I set up my 360 and it takes me 20 minutes to get to the goddamn game. I'm not at work here. I don't want to be configuring a net appliance when I am trying to relax. Here's a hint for options for XBOX 720 Memory card Sound Options XBOX live No "themes". I'm here to play games; I want to see the console screen a total of three seconds per day if possible. I don't need a $5.00 Fast and the furious theme. I really don't need that bullshit, and I will probably hate your company more for foisting that upon me. What next? Hip Hop artist bootup sounds? Only $2.99 each? "Playas xbox booting up, betta watch out, playa in the house!!" 2. LOAD. SAVE. NEW. Deviate from this at your risk. Here I am playing Project Gotham Racing 3, and I decided I had made a poor choice in car. I want to delete the game, start a new one. Can I do so from in the game? NO. I have to exit the game, boot to the console, go to the menu that manages profiles, select the profile, select the game, delete the save. Exit the menu, restart the game, start the new game. There goes five minute of my life, when you could have just put a "NEW" button in the game. INEXCUSABLE. 3. Users I wanted to delete a profile on the machine. Is there a "delete" button? No. I have to exit that menu, go to the system menu, enter the manage menu, delete the user, exit , exit, and go back to profiles. SIX MENU CHANGES to just delete a profile. Well though out indeed! 4. Advertising and bloatware. My XBOX 360 HDD shows up as 12GB. That's right , 12GB. Guess what the rest is! I examined the contents and I find advertisement for adidas, several other "scoops" and a 350+ mb video about.... the HDD of all things. Now stop me if I'm going off the path here, but If I have made it to the menu that browses video on the HDD, I obviously DO NOT NEED to watch a video abouthow to use the XBOX 360 hard drive. P.S. You already have my $50 for PGR3. I don't need to see in game ads for Madcatz (they make all the crappy controllers), virgin megastore, or western union. Western union?? I soon expect to see ads in games for suppositories and adult diapers. 5. XBOX live harassment. I enjoy being pelted with reminders with every step I take in some games that I COULD BE ONLINE if I just paid for xbox live. I could have a social rank, emails, competition, and other sorts of things I am trying to leave behind by playing video games. No thank you. Upon logging in, you'll be subjected to a constant stream of "fag fuck fag fuck nigger shit fag noob fag nigger". Promptly remove headset and file it away. You won't have need for it again. 6. Controllers. I really enjoy it when the XBOX 360 arbitrarily decides that I am player two. Lacking any convenient switch that selects 1-4 on the controller, I must resort to endless button pushing, controller syncing, battery removing, and eventually hard console restart due to the lack of a 1-4 slide switch on each controller. This is so much better than say, playing a game. 7. Logging in. Amusing conflicts ensue. I loaded Project Gotham after Perfect Dark, and no matter of logging in and out would remove an error message about too many profiles. It was impossible to start a new game, even after the person logged out. Hard reboot ensued. Lovely. I was unable for the first time in gaming history, to put a game in a console and hit start. I was forced to manage "profiles" instead. 8. Console + Start buttons = hilarity Not only do you have a start button for your friend to accidentally hit during a game, there is also a console button. Combine any order of console, start or start, console for maximum frustration. 9. Living by the airport. The xbox 360 is not quiet. I would term it as "fucking annoyingly loud" to be exact. It alternates between loud whooshing and quiet humming.If you have a silent pc like me, it sounds like a 120mm fan on full blast.Which is really annoying considering A. It costs $400. B. No console has ever made annoying background noise the entire time it's on. It's like playing games with a hairdryer in the room set to low. 10. Backwards compatibility. Lies. Plain and simple. Can I put any Xbox game in ? No. Halo 2, yes. So what do I do? Log onto a computer( if you have one), download, burn, insert load patch. Mind you some games unsupported. If someone said that your car ran on petrol, but made you go home, download a new ECU code, flash the car computer, and some types of petrol would never work, you'd be at his door with a lit torch and said petrol. Plain and simple, it's bullshit. By the time you do all the steps to get your game to work, you could have turned on your old Xbox and been playing quite some time. 11. Frustration and the Japanese. I don't want to dislike the Xbox 360. I've played countless hours of DOA4. The hardware has real potential. These first gen game bear tidings of much much greater things. But... A healthy serving of frustration, ineptitude, crudeness, and unwanted set-top-box advert money whoring. The xbox 360 just strikes me as being too crude and unrefined for it's price. To the Japanese, it's just crude, hard to use, unfriendly, noisy, feels of old technology. In short I love my 360, but it's a love-hate relationship. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeneMean 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2006 It took me about 20 mins or so to do the initial setup on mine. The majority of that was spent creating an Xbox Live account since I never had one previously. That time would've been shortened dramatically if I would've had the foresight to plug in a USB keyboard to type in all my info instead of pecking away with the controller. After that initial setup I haven't had to worry about a thing. It's just turn on via the controller and play. His gripe about the HDD is fair. It does come preloaded with a bunch of stupid shit. Adidas commercials, an XBox 360 video and some of Titanic in 720p (which was pretty cool to watch once.) They should've preloaded some of those 500+mb demos if anything. My tivo came preloaded with a bunch of useless crap as well. Retail purchased PC's do this all time. It's a trend I don't see stopping any time soon. I think he's spot on about controller switching. I don't know of a convenient way to do that. That said my console has yet to switch me from player 1 to 2. Maybe the guy picked up the wrong identical wireless controller? I do think some of the dashboard features could be trimmed a bit but overall it doesn't bother me. It's not like you can get lost in it. I love the fact that I can plug my mp3 player in via USB and have 4gb of custom soundtracks at my disposal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2006 Thanks for the feedback on that GeneMean. MS employees comment on the PS3 delay: "This announcement certainly doesn't change any of our plans. We've blasted out of the gate with the greatest launch in the history of video games and we're keeping our eyes squarely fixed on today and on the Xbox 360 road ahead, including continuous new content and programming through our premier Xbox Live online gaming service, the delivery of 80 high definition games and shipping between 4.5 and 5.5 million consoles by June." Did they quietly fire Moore and replace him with Tony Schiavone? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2006 Ok the X-Box 360 is really turning me off reading this stuff. I want a video game system. I have a computer to do the computer stuff. I want it to go like this: A) Insert Game B) Play Game C) Turn off System D) Play another game later by repeating the same process. I don't want to get online, I don't want to watch commercials, I don't want to go to a start menu, I don't want to manage a ton of files, I don't want to mess with my IPod or whatever, I don't want to watch movies, I don't want to download patches, I want to insert the game and play. When I'm done I want to insert a new game and play. NOTHING ELSE. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Princess Leena Report post Posted March 18, 2006 Dama, the 360 is like a woman. You can't just insert into it, and hope to ejaculate without any other annoying things happening. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2006 Well then fuck it. I'll stick to my old systems until they get it right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted March 20, 2006 This'll sell some Japanese 360s... http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/cosplay/rumbl...taku-158485.php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted March 20, 2006 Well I'm sold. That will hold me over until DOAX 2 can come out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
