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

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?

Gears of War i guess. I loved mass effect, I think someone here was saying it's a pile of shit tho.

Bear in mind, we're a wii household so the idea of online play is totally foreign and very interesting.

I'm also strangely intrigued by Viva Pinata.

Gears over Halo, but Call of Duty 4 over both.

Five older library type games...

1. Crackdown
2. Dead Rising
3. Oblivion
4. Forza 2
5. Skate

or if you've never played 'em on PC, the Orange Box is super solid and a super value.

The most important thing is to get online and download demos instead of wasting your money on games you don't know for sure you'd like.

You need ot get online and buy Xbox Live Arcade games. I tihnk they'd be up yr alley forks!

There's Braid, Geo Wars (get 2, it makes 1 outdated, basically), Ikaruga, N+, EXIT, Ticket to Ride, Puzzle Fighter, Space Giraffe, Sensible Soccer, Rez, Pac-Man CE, and when they come out in a month, Galaga Legions and Castle Crashers.

That's about the cost of two new retail games, if my math is good. And, honestly, I can't think of two retail games that are worth more, fun-wise, than all of those Arcade titles.

then you can play me at SWOS cos no-one else will : /

if you've never played 'em on PC

Isn't this sort of the problem with Xbox games, specifically shooters? Gears and CoD are available on the moused-up platform, and Halo 3 not appearing is even less likely than GTA IV...

4000 xbox points means I gotta try out about three or four I guess, right?
Braid, Geo Wars 2, Ikaruga, Puzzle Fighter maybe?

All those Live Arcade titles have trial versions you can check out for free.

Cool. Hope Amazon delivers the wireless connect and the system at the same time...

Some of these game already exist elsewhere. Have you played Ikaruga (DC/GC) much yet? Castlevania Symphony of the Night (PS1)? N/N+ (PC freeware)? Rez (DC/PS2)? Puzz Fighter? Exit (PSP)? Heck, have you played the Ticket to Ride board game? if so, then you may not want to play them again, or you may want to have updated better versions. up to you.

As far as the non-rehash stuff goes, like Space Giraffe is new, it can probably be skipped even though it's only 400 pts. Braid is pretty vital. Pac-Man CE is equally vital.

if I were you had had those 4000 points, I'd get Braid (1200), Pac-Man CE (800), Geo Wars 2 (800), Ikaruga (800), and save 400 for the next time you buy arcade games. Which you should do.

Wow, ALL this stuff is new to me... and fun! I just killed six hours fuckin' around! Yeah, I'll have some questions shortly.

I'm "forksclovetofu", add me!

Holy shit, I love xbox live.

yeah, it's great isn't it?

I've sent you a friend request, forks; see you have gears of war. fancy a game?

think you might be in some wack west-cost time zone tho??

I'm in New Jersey, so not so much. I have Gears of War, but I haven't fired it up yet! Got GTAIV, Gears, Bioshock, Mass Effect with Assassin's Creed and Orange Box on the way, but just got hung up playing with demos.

cool, let's play some gears!

Well, I gotta get home from work first... but I'll give it a shot. You're gonna demolish me of course.