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

yeah, it rolls out to everyone tomorrow. if you applied for the trial, you should have access by now. i upgraded mine last night.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/

The parties system means that there's virtually no in-lobby chatter on games, which is annoying, because it means if you're not part of the party then you can't communicate with your team. Also, it makes Live more insular and decreases the chances that you'll 'connect' (ooh err) with someone randomly. The number of people on my friends list who I have from just playing random games of CoD4 is far greater than those I know from real life or message boards.

Also, you can cheat on S&D in CoD4 now, cause you can hear dead people.

this is kinda ugly. playing from hard drive is good though.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/stevietonychick/avatar-body.png

HI DERE

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Jex%20Blade/avatar-body.png

I love women and this avatar is sure to confuse people.

so i borrowed a 360 from a friend for a bit. i expected to hate it, but found that i actually really liked it. sucks for me, because now i will have to buy one (unless i can continue to sponge the 360 from him, which is only marginally likely).

give me your xbox purchasing advice! are their rumoured upgrades etc that i should be holding out for??

I like the new interface! maybe just because it's new, but it sure was due

now I just wish I had time to play anything...

anything at all...

give me your xbox purchasing advice!

What kind of games do you like?

Not a fan. It's like they changed everything but improved nothing (except that it looks marginally slicker). I HATE the avatars. Is there a way that I can never seen them again? The thing that makes the wii casual friendly isn't the mii shit, it's that when you turn the nice little box on, the first screen you see has all the info you need - there's a picture of your game and you point at it launches.

What kind of games do you like?

games are not such a problem; i have a large library of borrowable games available to me (another reason for thinking about finally taking the plunge), i was more interested in knowing about the hardware.

on the off chance that i have misinterpreted yr line of questioning via second guessing (which i think i may have), i mainly play FPSs. i finished gears of war on the borrowed 360 last night and YE GODS did i love that game (despite being the most over-macho thing ever).

(though i did have to stop playing for a while when one of the characters shouted "THIS IS BULLSHIT" and all i could think of from that point was the bit in peep show where superhans gets locked in the toilet)

Don't get the one that costs 199. The hard drive is too small.

Definitely get Xbox live gold for a year if you think you'll play online (great for fps's), definitely get a recharging station for your rechargeable batteries, and definitely upgrade to the retail headset over the cheap one that comes with the system.

Definitely don't get the HDMI cable unless you decide you can't live without it.

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

That was like a week ago though, who knows if any of it is still relevant.

doh :(

huge threads == not good for scanning

NXE has been totally broke for me tonight. Two total system lockups, which needed reboots to fix. Regular error messages from Live. And it wouldn't let me download any of the demos I've missed in the last couple of weeks: kept tellng me they just weren't available, despite having them at the front of its "hot new demos" area. So far, it's a ack of shit!

I mean sack. Oh, I do quite like the avatars though. Mine has come out looking quite a lot like me (10 years ago).

Forcing me to buy Gold Membership in addition to my preexisting Netflix account is such bullshit. I've basically gotta pay a monthly fee to watch on my television what I can already watch on my computer!

Dude just get a cable and connect your computer to your TV like any other godfearing American.

Forcing me to buy Gold Membership in addition to my preexisting Netflix account is such bullshit.

Yeah, why should you pay to stream video through the XBox Live service if you're not a subscriber? What a bunch of dicks!

^^^ just saw Mean Girls :D

(via XFlix)

as a pre intel chipset mac dude, i am ecstatic to pay for $4 a month to finally have access to instant viewing from netflix.

i will list my gold gamertag here in a few minutes and we can all be pals.

Hrm. How do I redeem a code on the new Live?

Nevermind.

My gamertag is Fairlie Arrow

(fwiw; I haven't played any online games yet)

oh man these avatars are sub-mii for sure, although the options seem STRANGELY FAMILIAR

my gamertag is nnnnnggggghhhhh, arrived at as a result of endless failures and terrible suggestions. it evokes how i felt about trying to make something up at the time.

I am sonderangerbot, shocka I know

I'd like to play some online but it's been so long since I played GTA4 and I'm afraid everyone has outgrown me by now

The new experience is nice enough. It's really just a wrapper for the same old shit.

A hugely needed one, though. I think the days of confounding Microsoft front-ends are slowly drawing to a close.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/fairlie%20arrow/avatar-body.png

lol I didn't know you could do that

Bought Pure on clearance at target today for $30. this is a really great game.

oh yeah also really surprised at how well the streaming netflix works.

Anyone wanna play GTA IV multiplayer with me? I'm having a hard time finding an online game to jump into.

Here's my dumb avatar:

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/polyphonique/avatar-body.png

I've added you newbs. Do I have you on my list Mordy? I'd be up for some GTA, haven't played for months.

Mine:

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/jimdoo/avatar-body.png

Slightly embarrassed by how idealised it looks, really. I'd like to make it a bit more realistically chubby and stubbly and 32, but it doesn't really give you the option.

Also, with I could have that jumper without that gold chain. But hey.

Jim, my SN is Shinefield

Ah cool, got you then. I'll try to get on for a game or two tonight.

Why is it that 80% of Live users have this really annoying, nasally, 13 year old voice?

Because 80% of Live users are really annoying, nasally 13 year old boys.

anyone else picking up left4dead on 360?

I'm gonna, yep.