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What is this Xbox party thing? What does it mean???

it's for "hanging out"; it's so you don't need to listen to all the racism and nonsense on xbl

ah. cool.

more specifically, what's cool about it is that you can start a chat, and have it going while you play multi with friends. I don't know if there's a way to just talk to your friends in the party while you play, while not talking to the others in the game. That would be good, though.

you mean like if 8 of you are in a party and you join a game of cod4 but get split up, and you only want to talk to the people on yr team in the party? no way to do that unfortunately : /

yeah that's what I'd like, too bad

yes!!!!!!!!

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/12/19/source-microsoft-is-funding-crackdown-2-development-and-ruffian-start-up/

still haven't completed ikaruga : (

still haven't completed level 2 of ikaruga : (

RE: Ikaruga.... "For every hour of playing your amount of continues will go up to a maximum of 9 continues/6 hours. After 7 hours, you'll have unlimited continues."

The furthest I've gotten on 1CC is to the midpoint of level 3 or so. Would love to 1CC the game someday, but don't think I'll ever have enough time to put into it to learn all that and pull it off. If you guys need help, watching the replay videos that you can download off the leaderboards so you can actually watch how people 1CC the game is extremely useful & mind-blowing.

Yeah, a friend who's good at it came over a while ago, and I haven't actually touched it since seeing him play. Realising how much work goes into getting anywhere just killed my interest, tbh.

This just happened:

http://blog.gameshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/red_ring_death.JPG

oh no....

on a brighter side, i just bought left 4 dead, and once i get my shit together on it, i am hoping to crew up w/some of you peeps instead of suffering through 14 yr olds.

I WILL CREW UP WITH YOU TO PLAY L4D ><

I'm down for some l4d

my condolences, polyphonic : ((((

i'd also be up for l4d.

i will l4d too. we should nerd it up and set an official time.

awesome

Goddamnit, getting this thing repaired is a fucking nightmare. Fuck you, Microsoft.

down with l4d as well.

Anyone want to play some Madden 09 with me this wonderful NFL morning?

I would love to but I only have madden 08 (and even that doesn't work!)

are we going to get some l4d on the go at some point dudezzz?

I would love to, unfortunately tho the person i was going to borrow the game from has lost it. so i may have to buy it myself sadface.

ack would play but only have Madden 08 too. I only played it once on xbla and thought I would suck it up but the other player dropped out thus leaving my record a perfect 1-0.

I would totally play you if my system wasn't in Missouri.

I am totally up4left4dead. How about tonight? I can drop in from, say, 11pm GMT onwards?

I totally would. But still no copy.

You can borrow mine!

Oh, hold on...

Earlier this week I received an email that said "Your console is repaired and being shipped". Today I finally received the shipment... of my hard drive. :(

wait - why did you send in your hard drive? You're supposed to remove it b4 inserting the 360 into the coffin...

I was unclear about that!

rrod guys :(

it's not the full ring though - it goes 3/4 of the way round, am I clutching at straws? It certainly didn't boot up after 3 tries this morning (typically just when I needed it to keep the boy quiet). It id it last night when I opened the disc draw, but a re-boot got it back.

so not impressed, only got it in September or so.

3/4 IS rrod, isn't it?

3/4 is RRoD

2/4 is over-heating

sorry, chris! : ( I've had two RRoDs now, but I'm still a 360 apologist

RIP PORKPIE'S XBOX

wow this resident evil 5 demo has done a great job of convincing me never to buy this game. blaaaarrrrgghh what fucking unfun dreck.

i's a bit early to break out a 40 for the box, so mega-strong coffee it'll have to be.

If I was working I wouldn't mind so much :(

SFIV is out in a month too : /

john have you played the demo co-op? a LOT better. I played the og japanese demo cuz I'm stylin like tht and hated it (unfun dreck) but played this one co-op online w/my lil bro and it worked a lot better. they shd've reversed the levels in the demo, cuz the second level has a lot gentler beginning

I mean on 1P it's basically one big escort mission : /

i's a bit early to break out a 40 for the box

I'm not sure I get you here but are you saying you have to pay for the box to ship your xbox back? At least in the US MSFT sends you a box free if you ask. It took a few days. But my recent rrod only took 2 weeks from original night of doom until happy return.

I'm moving to Europe this summer and kinda worried that my xbox will rrod while I'm over there and that it'll suddenly be tricky to get it fixed since it's an American model, but I guess I should only worry about that if...when it happens.

http://www.freewebs.com/suicidalsouljah/Images/40ozMONEY.jpg

oh hell yeah, I get it now. It's going to be a long day.

I finally bought Bully and now just want time to play it! Someone said on the Fable 2 thread that Bully was to GTA as Fable 2 is to Oblivion. I'm enjoying Fable 2 a ton and have had my struggles with GTA so I am PUMPED about Bully; plus I love school.

wow, just had my worst xbox live experience yet

was playing some dude on ranked SF2HDR with deejay and he was beating me comfortably 2-0 (mostly because I was playing and responding to e-mails at the same time). so I perfected him by trapping him in a crossup loop that he didn't seem to know how to deal with, then almost perfected him again, in the third round when I crossed him up twice in a row, he quit!

I messaged him "the problem is you don't have any rhythm" :D

he sent me a voice message (in french) which definitely mentioned "merde" and "motherfucker"

he then proceeded to spam me with "invites to chat" for the next 31 minutes; apparently there's a glitch where you can hammer the a-button on the invite and it will just send out tonnes of them and you can't "block communications" from a private chat invite

looooooooooooool

his GT is "stonehenge XIII" in case you ever come across him

Can someone explain here how you would go about returning a rrod 360? Like, just in case?

thx for the tip cozwn, will try the 2 player coop when i get a chance.

Can someone explain here how you would go about returning a rrod 360? Like, just in case?

You have to request a repair on the xbox website. Then they will either send you a box or tell you to go get one yourself. I had to go get one myself, but they sent me a printable UPS label, and I brought the box to UPS and they shipped it for free. I just had to pay for a box and some bubble wrap.

If they tell you that you have to pay to have it repaired, I suggest calling and talking to someone, which worked for me even though my "1-year warranty" had expired. You do not need your receipt, just the serial number on the box.

Also, they have several steps that they ask you to do (check to see if the power supply is working, etc.) before they'll initiate a repair.

I finally bought Bully and now just want time to play it! Someone said on the Fable 2 thread that Bully was to GTA as Fable 2 is to Oblivion. I'm enjoying Fable 2 a ton and have had my struggles with GTA so I am PUMPED about Bully; plus I love school.

Yeah, Bully was a very pleasant, easy gaming experience. When I bought Skate the other day there was a kid in front of me in line with Bully, and I was thinking "wise choice, my young friend." He was probably thinking "WHO IS THIS OLD DOUCHE BEHIND ME IN LINE".

Bully was a very pleasant, easy gaming experience.

Yeah, this sounds great to me. I appreciate the idea of a gaming gauntlet, proving you're hardcore and awesome at gaming (I put that I beat Rygar on NES on my CV (not really)), but ultimately I just want to have fun.

MSFT didn't ask me any questions about power supply or whatever when mine had rrod. I just went to the website, chose the "three red rings" option, and that was it. I didn't even have to enter anything about the warranty, just the serial number (which is on the back of the xbox too, not just on the box).

thnx for info guys. I hope I never need it but...

sn4rly y0w

I only just now got that /o\