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Thinking about buying a second Xbox for the house. Has anyone does this? Is it a pain to recover your gamertag on each Xbox every time?

Ok wow this just cause 2 demo

Thinking about buying a second Xbox for the house. Has anyone does this? Is it a pain to recover your gamertag on each Xbox every time?

I have a friend who has his profile saved on a memory card, and doing so allows him to avoid the hassle of recovering his gamertag when he goes from one box to another.

That would be the same as just moving the hard drive between the xboxes, right?

No, I think you still need to reauthorise content if you switch hard drives. Might only effect XBLA titles, but it's still a pain.

Also, a memory card is very small and a hard drive isn't.

toy soldiers = FUN

Perfect Dark today. yes/no?

dunno :/

some things are best left in memory

http://uppix.net/2/e/e/a45ee8975afb5065096b158e08fce.jpg

what is that?

any fule knos you can't play PD without the expansion pak

http://nintendorks.com/media/8/20090306-Perfect_dark_box.jpg
FOR MAXIMUM GAMEPLAY

short on atmos, got crap when the aliens came in. not quite sure why, obviously nothing wrong in principle with non-human baddies in fps, it just felt like they were no fun to engage, lacking in a certain animus.

Yeah but GOLDENEYE MAPS IN MULTIPLAYER OVER XBLA! C'mon.

the giantbomb crew were really down on it in their quick look
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-perfect-dark/17-2173/

Also, exec produced by Ken Lobb (ie KLOBB) himself.

Anyway, I'm getting it.

Has anybody bothered to try out the new Splinter Cell demo yet?

what's the consensus on darksiders?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaKP4WfG3F4

Dungeons slightly variable in quality and it turns into a bit of a slog towards the end but I played it all through and mostly enjoyed it.

Saw darksiders is about 15 quid on gamestation this weekend. Figure it's worth a buy.

What are people playing on xbox live atm? Signed up recently and not sure where to start as I don't have COD and no one plays PES09 anymore apparently :)

BiscuitVoodoo is the xbl name if anyone wants to kick my ass at a variety of games.

Does having a wireless adapter cause lag in x-box games? I still haven't got x-box live yet

I definitely prefer having a wired connection.

wired is better I imagine for downloading off XBLA but actual online MP only uses around 15kbps (if it's even that much) so I don't imagine you're at any disadvantage in tht respect going with wireless

I will say - I would never pay the price M$ asks for the wireless adapter. it's possible to bridge your internet from a laptop to your xbox but if you do that it is only possible to get a moderate (not open) NAT

that's not a problem unless you are trying to play with someone else with a moderate NAT or if you're playing halo 3 (for some reason it's really pernickety)

It is ridiculous what they are asking for with those adapters. You're way better off hunting down a cheap wireless bridge, or picking up a DD-WRT capable router that lets you turn a standard wireless router into a bridge. Also has the nice benefit of giving you a 5-port ethernet-to-wireless bridge instead of 1 port, so you can hook up any other systems/computers/set top players you have lying around.

i totally agree that the price is insane, but they do work pretty damned well. they're evil fucks.

got mine hooked up to one of those electric-plug based network systems, works pretty well.

I thought Darksiders was kinda fun but it's nothing special.

it's been pretty well received

huh this splinter cell demo kind of sucks

i mean i am prepared for shitty plot exposition and voice acting in my video games but this is just embarrassing. also game mechanics seem kind of broken? or i am just shitty at this.

how is perfect dark jim?

It's odd. It's all shiny and fast and smooth and HD, but at the same time it still looks like an N64 game, so that's sort of jarring. I've not played very much single player, online is great fun though. Maps may be a little unbalanced in retrospect - there are lots of little camping sites which weren't really usable in the original split screen multiplayer (you couldn't camp in them without everyone else knowing you were there) but are kind of unassailable once everyone's online. But I can't think of any other games where getting pwned repeatedly is still funny and fun.

Biggest problem I'm having with it though is motion sickness, which is really odd because I've not had that with any other fps since quake. 20 minutes in the temple and I need to go for a lie down.

I might as well give it a go.

The Splinter Cell demo is a lot less fun than the original Splinter Cell was, let alone all the games that have improved on it (like Batman!).

Game Room today. Snapped up Crystal Castles cos i <3 it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have been tested with a 360 controller - it's basically unplayable.

Not as bad as Asteroids Deluxe though, where the asteroids are almost invisible, for no apparent reason.

That's really one of the serious problems with this thing - the best of the early arcade games (Tempest, Centipede, etc) aren't going to work well with a 360 controller (they should put out a trackball and knob controller or something). The other serious problem is that the vast majority of these old Atari and Intellivision games are awful.

Still, I briefly tried Game Room out this morning and at least it seems like you can play every game for free for ten minutes (which is probably longer than I want to play any of them honestly) - not sure about this as the interface was confusing, then it stopped working, then it crashed my xbox, then I had to go to work. Definitely demo a game b4 you pick it up to see if the controls translate okay in the future.

Of course the most serious problem with this thing is you can play all these games perfectly emulated already for free and with very little effort, so spending a few bucks per game (even a halfway decent one) is hard to figure.

until they move into late 80's/early 90's arcade games, this thing is a joke

Better call than a Xbox wireless adapter: a used linksys router w/ third party firmware that turns it into a wireless bridge

Pay extra to play your game on PC AND Xbox?

fuk u ms

not even going to bother downloading the game room app

I did.

It suucks.

Epic Battlefield 1943 session last night with a couple of pals (taking turns on the same machine). First time I've played in ages but one of the guys is a pro and I picked up some tips, got some decent scores for the first time. Kinda warmed me to the idea of getting BC but I still doubt I'd spend enough time to make it worthwhile.

did anyone (in the US) pick up deadly premonition?

nope. did pick up Just Cause 2 however!

USB storage update tomorrow, I meant to pick up a 16Gb stick to try it out with but forgot.

geometry wars 2 is on sale this week for 400 points for other people like me that are late to the game

deadly premonition actually looks... OK... I think? I'd definitely pick it up if it was a £20 release over here like in america. unfortunately there's no word of a PAL version just yet

yeah that game room is laughable, dl it recently and could not believe that it wanted to charge me for such ancient crappy games that i can play legally and free elsewhere