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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.

xbox live deal of the week!

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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 :(

I'm playing it when i get the chance, only just starting getting into it in fact. First time I was all 'meh it's ok' but seeing the appeal now. I'm a bit of a friendly fire maniac.

might be on it tonight, 10-12 gmt.

I'm on as Doc Roswell, but I'm not on all that often (after 9-10pm Pacific time, no idea what that is in GMT). Need to find more humans to play with because I die trying to save my AI pals.

Can someone give me a good reason why dropping in the middle of a game doesn't count as a loss.

Drives me crazy.

cuz then folks with bad connections would get screwed

Fuck em.

anyone picking up dishwasher?

^^^it's pretty good. quite emo with castlevania RPG-lite elements coupled w/that classic streets of rage/ninja gaiden gameplay and online co-op. worth 800 points I think :D

It's actually called dishwasher?

dishwasher: something of the samurai

dishwasher: dead samurai

yet another days of arcade game i don't care about-- shit, are they purposfully saving lode runner & flock & outrun to hurt my heart?!

oh also, space invaders extreme... hyped to actually pay fr that

i think i only like one-button fire games. really cannot be arsed to spend the time figuring out if i want to use a normal attack or super attack or slide - super attack decapitation combo or whatever. i just end up button mashing.

wow o_O

"While the majority of Xbox 360 owners continue to have a great experience with their console, we are aware that a very small percentage of our customers have reported receiving an error that displays "E74" on their screen. After investigating the issue, we have determined that the E74 error message can indicate the general hardware failure that is associated with three flashing red lights error on the console. As a result, we have decided to cover repairs related to the E74 error message under our three-year warranty program for certain general hardware failures that was announced in July 2007."

^^^they are also refunding ppl who have prev paid for an E74 repair

double o_O

no-one interested in outrun?

did anyone play the xbla banjo kazooie?

I did! I played through most of it, anyway. Stopped after collecting all the puzzle pieces/notes from each level. I didn't pay enough attention to the fairies throughout the game so I won't know the answers to the quiz, and I recall the final boss battle being a bit aggravating. Then again, that was a decade ago, and this game was unsurprisingly easier this time around than when I was 14. Looks/sounds great, though.

I would like to play Banjo-Tooie on xbla eventually as well. I've forgotten most of it except for the level with the dinosaurs and the hot/cold world one.

I'm torn

is it HDified?

I... think.. so.
It looked pretty sharp, anyway.

it turns out that sterling XBLA casual game ZUMA was all it took to get my girlfriend to stop worrying and love the XBOX that moved into her flat along with me