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I just meant online multiplayer peggle. Don't know how it works, yet.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaait, online peggle? DLing now.

yes I am very interested in this, d/ling demo now

it reminds me of the best pinball games, where you can have little skill but still see a lot of flashing lights and sounds and points piling up so you feel like a bad-ass.

tried geometry wars for the first time tonight and was much more O_O over that.

i am not RRODing, but i seem to be getting stuck at the signing in screen with the pulsing green circle. worrisome.

ok yeah i am hoping that there is some central problem w/xbox live, otherwise i think my xbox has just taken a dirtnap.

I couldn't connect to xblive last night - was thinking it was my network...

does anyone have a problem with the picture being slightly shimmery at times? or is it my tv?

there is no multi-peggle in the demo though to make clear. it's addictive and fun but i'll wait til next month to decide if it's worth the points.

i dunno if i can buy the same game three times.

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pc/ds/360

wow Peggle is great! I (knowingly) fell for the "if you bought this then you'd get an achievement", but then played for another 2 hours afterward so I don't regret the $10. I'm anxious to try the multi.

The screenshots of Fight Night 4 look amazing. Very excited for this game.

Started ranked duelling in peggle tonight. Played 5, won five, got up to number 33 on the overall leaderboard! Played two more, won both, should easily have put me in the top five...except both were against CHEAP MOTHERFUCKING CUNTS who unplugged as I played my winning shots, denying me the wins as far the leaderboards are concerned. Played one more, got a horifically shitty final bounce, dropped down to 130something. Gnyah.

i played some gta:tlatd team deathmatch the other night, dudes were ragging on my name in the lobby and then, they all switched teams so i was on my own, vs two teams of 3. one team had 2 helicopters and was constantly blowing the shit out of me, and then i received an XBOX live message from one of the other team, saying "you come into the subway and we fucking kill you". it was a little unsettling.

haha!! jeez

yeah, gta stories like that are what keep me from embracing the wider multiplayer experience. I play with friends on there a lot, but whenever we recruit someone from the general population (a prison term, like Brucie notes, used intentionally) I'm shocked at their idiocy. I mean they can play pretty well, but the crap they spew while doing it, ridiculous.

Online Peggle I think I can get with. I played local multi with my kids and wife yesterday. At one point my two-year old beat my six-year old, without even moving the stick at all. She was so proud, her first video gaming! My son took it in stride, thankfully. Then my wife beat me 10 times in a row. I guess there is skill to this after all!

Yeah, I also schooled ledge in the skill of peggle last night. :)

2-1 wasn't it, more or less? that's hardly schooling! i still maintain it's just luck.

uh oh, PEGGLE BEEF!

2-1 wasn't it, more or less

Haha, two huge drubbings versus one close thing. And then you dropped out!

peggle ragequit??

brutal pwngglage

After my wife went up 10-0 last night (we ended the night with her 15-2) there was serious domestic discord. I am holding out that it was mere beginner's luck, except that I've only been playing for one day too.

stevie, what's your Live name that they were all ragging on?

And then you dropped out!

what, now it's a sin not to sit playing the same repetitive game all night long? ;)

you ragequit reg delmot, admit it! anyway I'll be done for playing in some of these flatmate-on-flatmate passive-aggression multiplayer peggle sessions! if you see me on, hit me up

Peggle just ate my entire afternoon and evening, yikes.

it'll do that.

mordy, it was stevietonychick, my actual name, which made the ragging sting all the more.

i think i need to hone my peggle skills a bit more before going into online matches again. you bastards.

I wonder if any of you know a good resource for learning which games are "region free", meaning that they can be played on both a US and European 360? I'm moving to Europe from the US and am considering just buying a new 360 when I arrive, rather than bringing my US one along and buying a European power supply for it---the latter, as I understand it, will cost almost half the price of a new 360. Let me know if you think I'm on the wrong track here. But I ask about the region free games since I have a bunch already and don't want to buy new games in Europe (at first, at any rate, I'm only staying for a year at this point).

It varies title to title, annoyingly. But yeah, plenty of US games will work in the UK.

Overly complex compatibility list here.

― JimD, Friday, 21 November 2008 09:40 Bookmark

Oh, sorry, that's not so useful without the link. But if you search this thread for the word "region" you'll get it.

Thanks, Jim. All my games save GTA4 and the ones I'm already planning on selling are PAL compatible, so no real problem.

Two other related questions, if anyone can help me:

1. I was considering bringing my hard drive with, and then plugging that into the European 360. In particular, I'd like this so that I can continue to play my xbla games. Is this going to work?

2. Will my US controllers work?

I suspect the answer to both is 'yes' but maybe someone here knows better?

Pads will be fine, the hard drive question is a bit of a tricky one though. I'm not 100% sure on how it works, but as far as I know the DRM which ties an XBLA game to your hard drive ties it to the specific console, as well as (or maybe instead of) to the drive itself, so if you take the drive off and plug it into another console, the games stop working. This is to stop (for example) two kids buying and completing a game each, then swapping hard drives, thus cheating MS out of two additional sales. I could be wrong about this though, it's not something I've tried myself.

eek, ok, that would changes things. I'll have to look into this further.

when i switched from using my bro's xbox360 to my own, i simply transferred my XBLA account to the new machine, and transferred my save games via a memory card thingvum - might that solve the problem? obv i had to redownload the XBLA games.

ok, that would be cool; I'm trying to avoid having to buy a new hard drive too, but I guess those don't cost that much at this point.

or maybe I'll troll the Paris craigslist for a used 360 instead.

Guys, I am sorry. I want to play SF2HD with you. But I recently got my F3 back. And I need to play that. Obsessively. My (second character) redhead firecracker just blew up Megaton. Cause she's fucking psycho like that.

hahaha, okay, i'll stop inviting you.

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seriously, launching this with braid and then following it up with add on bullshit for relatively unpopular games is LAME

no offense to anyone who likes either of them, but ninja gaiden II and battlestations midway DLC seems pretty C list IMHO

agreed

maybe the Braid sale was too popular.

they're doing alien hominid HD for half price next week (400 points)so thats something i guess. anyone played it/have any thoughts on it?

It's fantastic but very very hard.

Anyone here playin' Left4Dead, or are zombie FPSs passé?

ive been on a six day work week since january that has destroyed my blocks of 2 hour zombie killing free time, which is sincerely and completely :(