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

ok as a dude that loves burnout and a dude that is finding singularity woefully FPS sameish and boring, pretty sure ill be trading this in for split/second. u peeps best not be lying :)

oh man thx u guys, split/second fucking owns

haha yes. such a dumb guilty pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless. i must buy blur once its dirt cheap too.

so this huluplus service is pretty lame, even for the free trial week huh

dunno yankee

why don't xbox let you have iplayer/4od or... I dunno, APPS? on your dashboard?

man trust me you arent missing anything wrt to huluplus, u filthy imperialist

does seem odd that 4/5 years into the life of the console, and 3 years since the launch of the app store, with all the infrastructure in place... they still don't let you download ~apps~ to the console other than some lameo facebook/twitter/last.fm apps.

iplayer would be glorious

I dl'ed the hulu thing, but it wanted me to register & I was like, can't you just use my stupid xbla registration? plus, isn't it just a way to watch tv shows? I dunno, the layout seemed fine to me, about the same as the espn3 one. I didn't really check what shows it had b/c I don't know anything about tv, but I was curious to see what it was. dunno why they're charging $8 a month for it with advertising! can't imagine it'll be a big hit at that cost.

Apparently the thing with iplayer is that MS won't give anything at all to non-gold members, but the BBC aren't allowed to have a UK version of iplayer that's stuck behind a paywall.

I hit up a friend who gave me his hulu plu login for my ipad, it's worth it for the criterion

trans.: microsoft are dobbers
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huh?

I dunno if this is gonna fly, but would it be possible to either deindex this thread from Google, and/or to remove my gamertag from this thread? I'm happy to friend anyone here on xbla, but I'd also like to keep my identity on ILX at least google-independent of my identity on xbla.

can you link to the individual post w/yr gamertag?

does this work? (the most exciting post ever!)

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

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

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

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

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

here too

Grand Theft Auto IV -- It might feature crime and prostitutes.

Grand Theft Auto IV -- It might feature crime and prostitutes.

sorry about all this

thanks a mil dude for getting these!

whats your GAMERTAG nhex?

same as my username.. got lucky that those 4 random letters weren't taken. we gotta get some AE on next week! any of y'all are, of course, welcome to friend me too!

well i would but i really suck at that game. i cant get past level 3 on arcade at all

Tried out the El Shaddai demo - quite pretty, and it's got that goofy Grasshopper-style weirdness I like, but the combat is pretty weak

Agreed. The gameplay is boring. Amazing visual style though.

yep, ditto.

new doublefine thingy trenched is stupid as hell too. sigh.

Eurogamer liked El Shaddai a lot, and suggested that the game is much more varied than the demo would suggest.

Backbreaker Vengeance is a lot of fun.

Child of Eden is nice but I don't think I would buy it full price, and definitely not a reason to get a Kinect.

Hi, are any of the newish (last 6months or so) arcade games worthwhile?

sooooo, I guess I'll be buying this:
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2011/07/19/15-things-videogames-can-learn-from-bastion/

hell yes, this looks great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX48y24t9iU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Sh-b1jtX0

damn, that QT3 article pretty much sold me

everything about it sounds great...except maybe the actual gameplay, which looks pretty rote?

so that catherine demo

huh

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Bastion looks AMAZING - is it coming to PC or is it a foul and contemptible 360 exclusive (DAMN YOU SHADOW COMPLEX/REZ HD/SWOS 07)

downloading bastion now, it's just the kind of game i'm itching for right now.

demo was quite fun. if i weren't so busy right now it'd be a definite buy.
I also really liked the Catherine demo!

i kinda can't get over how fun bastion is; the voice acting alone just makes the game feel so much more immersive and real and important than other games like it, and the gameplay's just so well balanced between hack-and-slash and tactical real time battle

honestly the only thing i'm afraid of is feeling that it's way too short when i'm done (i'm maybe 6 hours in; i've heard it described as a 10-15 hour game in reviews)

Bastion is great btw -- i'm loving it.

couldn't sleep last night so i downloaded From Dust (and then fell asleep). hope it's good.

wow the reviews seem really split between great and awful

for what? From Dust?

yup. but they all mention the same things, so maybe it's just a matter of how annoyed you get by bad a.i.

when i'm killing them, not so annoyed. when they're killing my party members, very annoyed.

Catherine demo was pretty weird.

It's like Indigo Prophecy meets Q*Bert?

well put!

i agree except i enjoy qbert

man, i gotta play that demo

tried from dust again last night, it just feels buggy as hell. i finally got a little dude to touch the totem and walk back before the tsunami hit, but right before he got to the village he started walking across the ocean (!), stranded himself on a little island, and then wanted my help to get back. :/

it looks a little like black and white 2011?