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

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

thx!

i love all of the burnouts up until the last console one before this, and (keep in mind i have very little time in on this new one as of yet) so far i really like the free roam aspect of this one, not sure how the tracks/challenges will work out but lol is hueg factor is pretty good. much less realistic than the last one was re: bumping and crashes, but as a result more free-for-allish, which is what i always enjoyed about the previous versions.

yeah I'm really curious about the multi on it; spectacular crashes with people I know sounds fab

played a couple hours of Too Human last night. graphics are mediocre, cutscenes are plagued with poor dialogue and voice-acting, and the gameplay is kind of repetitive... and yet I still had a lot of fun playing it. the bad parts aren't that much worse than similar problems in Mass Effect, but there's a higher action-to-cutscene ratio, so it doesn't draga s much. and the gameplay is just like a dual-joystick shooter, but in a 3D environment. I understand people not liking the game, but passionately hating it feels like an overreaction.

Anybody fucked with nu-Galaga yet? Looks kewl.

nu-Galaga is out tomorrow. I will buy it sight unseen (read: I am skipping the demo!) and report back!

Played the Galaga demo, and it seems alright. Might get it somewhere down the road, after exhausting Bionic Commando and Geometry Wars 2.

they should release ISS pro evolution 2 (ps1/psx) on xbla

with online, it'd kill

Not impressed with the new Galaga (after a couple of games). It looks nice, but plays meh. Sort of wish I'd tried the demo first...

It's got to be easier to satisfyingly update Pac-Man than Galaga. There've been a few more shooters than 2D pill-popping maze-crawlers over the last 30 years or so...

I bought Galaga this morning, is pretty fun. Only got aobut 15 minutes of it, though. As far as I can tell though, the advances made in shooters have only made the new Galaga game looks less awesome. So far much prefer Pac Man CE

Force Unleashed demo is out. Downloading it as we speak...

a couple more hours into Too Human, and I think I'm enjoying it even more. but I've got a weakness for Norsey bullshit.

bionic commando is gorgeous, obv; and I don't mind the grappling/swing mechanic

but WHY WHY WHY didn't they update the physics/inertia?!!! you can't influence your movement in mid air? wut

isn't that kinda the point that they didn't?

yeah

: /

That bionic commando demo is whisper thin; there's about three minutes of content there, tops.

Those bastards -- it's like they want you to buy the game!

Just caught up with the new tags on here, so some of you now have requests from me (I'm Jimdoo).

Anyone see the big feature in edge about the dashboard update and all the other near future Live stuff MS have planned? I'm pretty psyched about a lot of it. Things like Primetime sound like great fun, to me.

Most demos give you more than the lightest dollop... I at least want to see boss fight mechanics.

the Madden demo this year was a waste; it was huuuuge, made you play the dumb "Madden IQ" thing, and then let you play the winning Giants drive in the super bowl. weak.

Yeah it was boring, and it didn't do a good job of convincing me to buy it again.

Force Unleashed demo = promising.

When I played through it I did poorly and wasn't sure I enjoyed it, but then my housemate played through and noticed that you can pick up tie fighters with the force and hurl them at stormtroopers. You can pick up dudes and throw them at other dudes. Kinda bad-ass, even if the graphics are only so-so and the controls are mediocre.

i finally bought an Xbox 360, got a good deal & there are now plenty of games cheap - bought Bioshock & Mass Effect for £8 each. i also bought some points via amazon cos they were 15% off, but holy crap do you get a lot of packaging just for a 25 character code - what a waste! just two quick questions 1) how do you delete friends from the friends list and 2) how do you check your points balance on the console, its not very visible.

dudes, Castle Crashers looks AWESOME, I bought immediately. Gotta do some multiplayer.

You think? I thought it looked like a flash game. Only glanced at a couple of screenshots though, haven't read any reviews or anything.

I played through the demo and it blew me away.
Yes, it's flash-lookin' boy, but beautifully realized and the music is hella great.
Plays (based on the demo) like a mix of Guardian Heroes and River City Ransom, which is like a video game blowjob if you ask me. Solid character building system with a lot of weapon/character specificity... and online multiplayer, which is still novel to me!