The official I Love Games XBOX 360 and XBOX LIVE thread!

What's your gamertag zappi? I'm Jimdoo...

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now you can laugh at my scores!

Once I upgraded to a huge flatscreen I got way worse at GW2, I don't know what happened exactly.

Some of Jeff's scores are pretty scary.

yeh jeffs scores are wtf

wha? they're not all that - I haven't played too much yet (they should / will get better, I hope), but I did play a ton of the first game and a fair amount of the wii & ds versions so I'm pretty used to the concepts and controls. Polyphonic has the scary evolved score. I've mostly been working on deadline lately... I love its balanced, quick, intense flavor (as opposed to waves, with is too quick and intense to be fun / also I'm crap at it).

To be fair, my Evolved score was pretty fluky. My second best score on it is probably less than your high score on it.

anyone playing Geometry Wars 2 please add me, i wanna see your scores!

I would like to point out that the reason my score is zero is not because I'm that bad, it's because my internet is down at home. Although I am bad.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/12/microsoft-fires-game-test-contractor-who-talked-to-venturebeat/

Predictable, but still a little sad, I guess. He had to pay the price for talking...

o_O

• 7 november, gears of war 2
• 14 november, call of duty: world at war
• 21 november, left 4 dead

haha fallout 3 comes out the week before all that madness!!

awesomee!

That works pretty well for me, because I can happily skip the middle two.

I have finally attached a long patch cable to the back of the 360 and set up my 1 month free trial, my tag is ceepeebee, come laugh at my piss-poor stats.

Have only played a bit of GTA1v multiplayer so far in the unranked free area, and haven't been embarrassed so far, oh, apart from being on top of a silo with a rocket launcher, about to blow up some ridiculously tagged individual...only to crouch and hit the railing right in front of me :(

I'm prolly getting the kid an xbox 360 and want to play him online. Are there any not-too-gory, not-too-violent games that are good? Has anyone played Castle Crashers in online mode?

There are some really amazing parental controls on the 360. CC is kinda very gory though, although it is all really cartoony, if that bugs you.

How old's yr kid?

He's 8. I try to stay away from too many fighting games with him, although for some reason Star Wars gets a pass. (He kills me at the old Battlefront game.) I was thinking Castle Crashers because it does look cartoony, but I read somewhere that the online version was really buggy. (does anyone know if this has been resolved?)

Why do you want him to play online?

The online is supposed ot be fixed really really soon... but yeah, that game is way more fun if you play w/ people in the room w/ you! do it up!

what else is good and kid-friendly...? viva pinata comes to mind, obv. that game is wonderful.

Well this is all a bittersweet question, as I'm going to be temporarily living in another state from my son due to a job. I'm really behind on the games curve, I still play old xbox and ps2 (and wii when I visit family). But it looks soo fun to be on those headphones and talk smack while your playing someone. Sports games are a no-brainer; we'll definitely be playing Madden, but I'm looking for like an action game. I wish Force Unleashed had online multiplayer function!

the LEGO games? They've got punching, whipping, and light-sabreing, but that might all fall under the Star Wars exemption. I'm pretty excited for that new Batman one, myself.

yeah, he's pretty much conquered lego star wars. Ooh, I forgot about that Batman game...you can play that online with people, no?

Yeah, the Lego games seem like a sure thing. Did he try Lego Indiana Jones yet?

What about a racing game like PGR4 or something of its ilk.

NHL 09 and a soccer game might be nice options.

My nephew is obsessed with motorcycles, and always wants to play this terrible, broken motorcycle game for the PS2.

Also, my niece and nephew LOVE guitar hero.

thx for your help! Yeah, he's tried Lego Indy on my Mom's Wii...I thought it was a little bland, and he was more interested in Wiisports volleyball.

If he loves motorcycles you MUST get Burnout Paradise. It's like 20 or 30 bucks now, and if you download the free update that came out this week it allows motorcycles (it was originally cars only), and apparently the online play is utterly fantastic. I haven't gone online with it yet, but it is a sort of sandbox-y game, too, so you cna do events like races OR just piddle around and explore the city together and chat.

There's also a game called Pure that just came out, with ATVs and dirtbikes and such, apparently also a lot of fun.

You can play Katamari online, too.

On Xbox Live Arcade, there are some fun co-op games-- classic arcade games (ninja turtles, streets of rage), board games (carcassonne, settlers of catan, ticket to ride), top-down shooters (schizoid), some other ones I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Fracture demo was pretty awesome.

the pure demo is heaps of fun; fracture not so much; sorry forks, thought it was pretty generic : /

I liked what Fracture _suggested_, not so much what it was. Deathmatches where you can alter the terrain sounds like a good idea.

Pure is SSX on ATVs and that's not a bad thing at all.

Pure demo was strange - looks great, but i crashed about 12 times and still came first.

I feel like Burnout would've been too much for me at age 8-10.

I feel like it's too much for me now - so often it feels like I'm piling round this city at full pelt not having a clue where I'm going or what I'm doing..... still fun though. i suppose I just need to get used to the place more.

The first burnout game they made for the 360 is more straight-forward and also more fun...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/b/burnoutrevengexbox360/

Crackdown co-op was a lot of fun - the violence is pretty cartoonish. What about Marvel Ultimate Alliance? I never played it, but I know some have liked it A LOT

I love Marvel Ultimate Alliance but it's pretty violent...in a cartoony way, but still.

Anyone had trouble logging on the past couple of days? I know the whole system was down for maint on Sunday/Monday but I got disconnected last night and couldn't get back on.

Guy from the xbox live team's twitter page with some updates about the downtime: http://twitter.com/majornelson

Pain in the ass because I was going to get Megaman 9 off of live arcade and play that tonight.

Did anyone play Alone In The Dark? I picked a copy up in the PC World bargain bin yesterday for a tenner, not sure whether to bother playing it, or to just sell it on quick, while I can still make a profit off it.

ok, so if i'm going to buy Oblivion, do i buy the normal one used for cheap $23, or do i buy the "game of the year edition" with all the expansion packs included used for too goddamn much money $51?

san andreas now available as an xbox original... I might just buy it

I wouldn't buy the expanded oblivion just yet, if you're anything like me then the chances are you'll never get round to finishing the main game anyway. :)

Alone in the dark is shite, by the way. I decided this after spending 15 minutes putting a fire extinguisher on a platform, climbing a wall, pulling a rope to raise the platform, and then watching the fire extinguisher fly off in the wrong direction only to land back where it started. Over and over again.

anyone with any tips on underlooked but great xbox 360 games?

anyone played wartech: senko no ronde?

i have wartech, it is... hmm, how do i explain it. it reminds me of the dreamcast but not in the best way; like a great idea that's not executed perfectly, exactly. if you cna find it for $20ish, which is what i did, it's worth it. it's enjoyable. i've yet ot really play it online/learn it with a friend.

anyone want to run the NXE before the 19th? no live for you, then

anyway here it is

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AVHUHD0S

put it onto a FAT32 formatted USB stick or whatever, put it into the system and it comes up asking to update

to clarify, this is safe and fine and M$ has confirmed you won't be banned for doing it but you can't access live while using it (unless you got into the early beta obv)

Hmm. Well, I've installed this, primarily cos I fancied a play with the avatars...and they aren't working yet. Hey ho. At least it's let me install Fable 2 to my hard drive, which is pretty cool. Inter-level load times do feel a fair bit faster, and the fact the disc isn't spinning noisily all the time makes a pretty big difference too.

oh shit, sorry jim, yes you can't do avatars on it bcs tht stuff requires a live connection for access

similarly you can't watch .AVIs or other media codecs for the same reason

everyone is reporting that the noise is massively decreased which is a big plus for me

I'm moving to France next summer from the US. I'd like to bring my 360 with me. Does anyone here know if I can just switch the cord to the wall that plugs into the gigantic power brick, from US to European? Or do I have to get a new power brick?