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

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There's Braid, Geo Wars (get 2, it makes 1 outdated, basically), Ikaruga, N+, EXIT, Ticket to Ride, Puzzle Fighter, Space Giraffe, Sensible Soccer, Rez, Pac-Man CE, and when they come out in a month, Galaga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

: ) cool

I'll probably be on around 10pm GMT, so send me an invite if you're around

anyone else fancy some gears (@approx. 10pm GMT)?

i keep forgetting ot add you forks! add me and i will remember! brilliam is my name!

oh right, you're brilliam! I had completely forgot : )

Anyone who hasn't added me (polyphonique) is welcome to do so!

Just went through whole thread; I'm gonna add all you guys as friends tonight.

Questions:
1) is the red ring thing pretty much done with for the new consoles? I don't have to worry about this shit, mehopes?
2) can i attach a regular harddrive via usb and never worry about space issues or does I need the ridic overpriced M$ pop in the slot drive?

you can add friends via xbox.com which is how I usually do it, with ilxors... I couldn't tell you how to add someone as a friend via text entry on the actual console : /

can i attach a regular harddrive via usb and never worry about space issues or does I need the ridic overpriced M$ pop in the slot drive?

I don't think you can use an external drive to store games or game content, but if you buy a game, you can delete it and re-download it whenever you want for free, so space shouldn't be a huge issue. I use my USB drive for music and video (AVI support, woot), which works great.

No red ring for me so far, knock on wood.

1) They've done some stuff to make it less likely, supposedly, but shit still breaks. It's not a terribly well designed piece of hardware & the fixes they have done are like, band-aides and crossed fingers. Not worth worrying about though, as the warranty covers RRD for three years and all other failures for a year.

2) No.

I've sent a request to pretty much every gamer tag in this thread.

What's yr username, Garrett? If you mentioned it, I missed it.

oh yeah - "je suis france"

just bought one, will post gamertag once i have the time to get online/am not spectacularly awful at one of the games i bought (bioshock, dead rising, gta4, burnout:paradise city, beautiful katamari out of obligation berfore it is impossible to find).

once i make some headway on these, prob find used copies of gears of war and orange box.

is there a list of the "more than 300 original xbox games" that work on this thing somewhere, or should i just start shoving things in there and see what happens?

is gears of war still worth buying at this point? serious q

I was amazed to see how cheap burnout:paradise is going for right now (like $20). it might be worth buying (hated the demo, loved the earlier versions)

backwards compatibility list here