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

Grr.

Ah well, I'll get a bit of single player practice in for now I guess, and we can see whether they've fixed it in a couple of days.

xbox live cod4 in-game chat:
dude 1: "dudes, would you ever like lick a girl's asshole"
dude 2: "uh... yeah, but only in the shower tho""

!!!

Hahahah oh man. I was aobut to say "it's been to long since I was on XBLive" but really I won't get class statements like that, instead I'll get, like, people saying faggot a bunch. Which is why I don't really go there anymore. THat and all I play is N+ and Ikaruga on my xbox.

yeah the faggot/nigger stuff really puts me off.

uh-oh quoted of context.

This is kind of an advantage of playing GTA4 on my tv: the volume is really low compared to what I normally use my tv at that I can't hear much of what's being said; and I don't use the mic unless it's a coop game where coop matters (not like in team deathmatch). Yeah, I could turn up the volume, but I can hear explosions and the songs on the radio, but not the crap other players say, so overall it's good.

what's worse was I was only online to play some cod4 with my little bro, who was also in the same game and is also only 12

what's the story with xbox's breaking? I've read bad things but am considering buying one anyway, seems to be so many great games. I'm tempted to shell out for the elite as I've heard it's more reliable.

I think, don't quote me, they're sorted it out now; it was something to do with the heatsinks buckling when warm - some hardware issue that they've ironed out anyways...

either way they all come with a 3yr warranty that covers the red ring of death

Just make sure to wait a few more days Ronan, as a price drop is apparently imminent

ah good tip! thanks a lot.

MS announcements at E3 today included a brand new dashboard interface. Make that a brand new COMPULSORY dashboard interface. Hmm.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/microsoft-giving-the-xbox-360-a-totally-new-dashboard/

It's weird - I think the new dashboard looks good, but I don't like the avatars at all (they remind me of those horrible yahoo avatars). Everything about the re-design looks slicker, more adult, then they dump these goofy cartoony characters everywhere. It's almost like this was designed by a giant corporation rather than by an individual with design sense and vision :)

Heh.

I guess the avatar will be an upgrade on my tiny picture of Karen Allen from Indy 4, but like if I wanted a Wii I would've bought one.

I finally downloaded Pinball for XBLA. I think this might be the best pinball video game I've tried. The ball physics is surprisingly solid.

The Too Human demo is pretty lame. For some reason I thought maybe it would be good.

god it was terrible eh? i maybe played 10 minutes, 7 of which was cutscenes, and i was like "fuck this, ticket to ride time"

I bought the arcade last weekend, got pre-loved versions of GTAiv and Burnout paradise with it at a tenner a pop too (some special secret deal). Feels very very odd not to be playing on a sony console.

Seeing as I haven't got it on-line and won't for a while as we have games stuff in the spare room upstairs and all the b-band gubbins is in the lounge - do I really need the hard drive? How reliable are the wireless bridges?

ugh, that fucking wireless adapter. be advised that it doesn't support WPA2 despite all the claims it makes to the contrary on the packaging.

porkpie, do you have a laptop / wifi in your house?

I connect to live using my macbook as a wireless bridge via this setup and I'm sure something is similar using a PC: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/17/how-to-share-your-macs-internet-connection-with-your-xbox/

sure there is something similar*

we do, and that looks like a good idea - one other potential solution is that weird plug based network doohickey.

yeah, there's also the plug-in wifi adapter for the 360 itself - I didn't buy this because i. it's a travesty that the 360 doesn't ship with wifi as standard, ii. it's quite spendy at £50/60 and iii. I am cheap

I use an Apple Airport Express which also lets you stream music wirelessly to your stereo, in addition to serving your xbox with a net connection,

You should look for used 20GB hard drives, since a bunch of people upgraded to 120GB HDs when they came out... they were insanely cheap for a while. may have petered off by now, but still.

The next month's worth of releases on Live look extremely good. Its been a long time!

July 30th, Geometry Wars 2
August 6th, Braid
August 13th, Bionic Commando: Rearmed
August 20th, Galaga Legions

I use an Apple Airport Express which also lets you stream music wirelessly to your stereo, in addition to serving your xbox with a net connection,

-- Euler, den 17 juli 2008 21:10 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

wait a minute, explain how this works please?

Sure. The Airport Express can be used to extend your network, so that a device plugged into it gets an IP address just like it was plugged into your main router or modem or whatever. And it still works as a normal Airport Express so that you can play sounds to your stereo.

To set it up, the easiest way (if you have an Apple router hooked up to your modem) is just to run the setup wizard in Airport Utility, and say that you want to extend your network. It handles all the details of copying MAC addresses, etc. Or you can do it manually. I've gone both routes with success both times.

Does that help?

jeff don't forget the 27 of august, castle crashers!

yeah - people seem excited about that one, but I don't know anything about it. What's the deal? The art I've seen doesn't make it look like my kind of thing...

That helps, Euler, thanks. Just realized I don't have an Airport express, silly me... I'm on Live anyway, but streaming music sounded cool although it's pretty pricey - as everything Apple.

I don't have much faith in Bionic Commando, looks pretty poor, but if they pull it off it would be great.

You could just do what I do. I run a program on my Mac called Connect360 that syncs up my Macbook to my 360, so I can watch movies + play music off my Macbook onto my television. If you don't have a Mac, it's even easier to connect them up (or so I'm told -- I don't actually know how to do it).

castle crashers looks like gameplay-wise it's taking a page out of double dragon or those TMNT games, a crazy beat 'em up with special moves and shit but at the end of the level you have to fight the other dudes on your team for the treasure, i think.

:(

Jeff has sucked the fun out of Geometry Wars 2 for me, by racking up a bunch of scores I'll never even come close to beating, all within the first 24 hours. 7 million plus in evolved? 12 plus in sequence?? Dude! Boo!

OK ive got a tech question for y'all:

If I have an N wireless router and I get an N wireless usb adapter do you think that would work on XBOX360? As far as I can tell its wireless thingy is a B or G.

I would think a better option would be to get a wireless adapter that connects through the ethernet port, no?

hmmm..yes. i didnt think of that

Fixed mine! take that red rings!

what are you playing these days gukbe? (not long till you're back in the country, I hear! good news)

(webinar = czn)

it was broken for a few months, so i haven't played anything really. we fixed it last night and all i've played is rock band. Have I missed any quality games?

Geometry Wars 2 is bad-ass!

12 plus in sequence??

35mil in Sequence last night. Watching a video really helped me a lot.

The problem I'm having with GeoWars 2, is that once I start playing I have a really hard time stopping. The little games, like pacifism and deadline are the worst offenders I've ever come across of that just one more kind of feeling. I actually have to consider twice before turning that thing on, as it's turning into such a time sink

p.s. eurogamer has just rated Braid 10/10

lol massive price dump

braid looks great!

it's beautiful

and wicked clever

it's like a little bit of theatre

the music reminds me of nick cave's score for metamorphoses

Okay, I just amazonged an Xbox 360 with a 20gig drive, a wireless adapter, a spare wireless joystick with recharger and battery pack, GTA IV, text message kit, 4000 xbox points and a year of live gold.
Someone tell me I haven't just fucked up.
And while you're at it, suggest four or five older games that I need to go get to start building a library. I'm already gonna snag Mass Effect and Bioshock; should I get gears or halo 3 or what?