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hmm, looks lovely, but please use other scenarios than battle of britain for demo

Kinda like Splosion Man, especially on mute.

any uk folx have far cry 2 they're looking to get rid of? I have swaps

anybody else playing 1 vs 100 tonight?

hey holy shit, i just got selected to be in the mob!

oh you cashed out you piece of shit cunt motherfucker aaaagggggggghhhh

Ouch. I was playing last night (UK tho), and one of the Ones got down to 3 remaining mob members, which is apparently the best anyone's ever managed. Can't remember what she actually won after all that, but it was almost nothing. Seems increasingly apparent that your chances of winning anything are tiny, and if you do win something it's unlikely to be worth more than about a fiver. But I'm still finding it fun.

She didn't get anything, she got the answer wrong (the one about which ghetto Schindler's List was set in, I think). I was egging her on to win.

I like playing this, but the "superhard" game isn't all that great, a third of the questions were about alpine skiing and at least 4 were "Who won the Master's cup in 19xx?". I think they must compile that one from the answers everyone gets wrong in the other games.

so for watching movies you've downloaded on your tv via your xbox, what's the best solution? the one time I tried before my memory is that watching stuff over your network or whatever is awful and just not possible, I used a friend's external hard drive instead and connected that to the xbox and that was fine.

but I have no usb stick or ext hard drive....

External hard drive is how I do it, although I successfully watched one via USB Flash memory as well.

weird...this time around the streaming over the network is working perfectly. does it like some file types more than others?

crybaby, cry more
http://redlynxgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1439

I stream everything over wifi and it's generally pretty fantastic, as long as I stick to SD. Which isn't a problem given that I'm mostly watching old Doctor Whos. I'm wired from my server to my router though, then wireless to the 360. Would no doubt be a lot more sketchy if both connections were wifi.

The Batman demo is quite good

weird...this time around the streaming over the network is working perfectly. does it like some file types more than others?

You do have to download an upgrade in order to play AVIs. Otherwise it should work for most normal types.

9/10 for this week's Trials HD release...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/trials-hd-review?page=1

does the 360 play divx?

Mine does!

welll awright!

Apparently there's even a way to get it to recognize .srt subtitle files, but I've yet to delve into the facts on that one.

great update to xbox live. games on demand is gonna make me very poor. and insta-netflix is much improved.

anyone picking up trials?

Nah, got bored of it very quickly on steam. It's just too frustrating.

i don't know about the us prices but games-on-demand here looks way too expensive to be useful

Yeah, the prices for games on demand seems way too high, given the present used market. I get that this is a way for game companies to eliminate the used market (and borrowing and renting too). But I don't see this taking off at this price point. On the other hand, I'm shocked at how low iPhone game prices are. I bought Civ:Rev last summer for US $60. I bought a close-out copy for my brother for $30 a few months later, feeling a little silly at myself for my impatience. Then I bought it for DS two months ago, used, for I think $14. Now it's available for iPhone for $5. And they're all basically the same game (the DS version doesn't have the civilopedia and the iPhone version doesn't have multiplayer).

I bought the hell out of Trial HD this morning, cozwn. Played through about half(!) the content. It starts out VERY easy. You have to unlock the medium difficulty stuff for a halfway challenge. Doesn't seem as hard as the PC game, maybe because there's more easy tracks (than were originally released on PC). I imagine the hard and extreme tracks will offer plenty of frustrating challenge though, but I've yet to unlock either. The mini-game stuff wasn't super compelling (played through half). The controls feel good and the game looks great. Didn't try the level editor, but still a little bummed you can only share with friends. Don't know if I will get obsessed enough with the game to mess with the leaderboard competition. Feels like a very solid release to me - definitely looking forward to getting home and digging a little deeper into it.

there's some kinda loop i'm out of here. trial? qu'est que c'est? "xbox trial" is not most enlightening search.

or i could just scroll upthread

voila...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQAmbTEOJG8

i think that might turn me into angry shouty man

ben ouais, c'est vraiment possible

Looks like a very shiny version of those millions of trial/motocross/bmx bike games you get on miniclip, freeonlinegames, etc.

Put more time into Trials HD and I'm digging it. It's definitely one of those games (like Geometry Wars) where it's good fun and motivation to go against your friends in the leaderboards... it shows your friend's scores all the time. The game didn't really get tough / frustrating until I got to the "hard" levels (perhaps 'cause I'd put a fair amount of time in Trials 2 on PC and the mechanics are basically the same). Only ten tracks left to complete (who knows if I can beat them all), but I definitely see myself going back and improving on the tracks I've already done. Great first day with the game, in any case.

You're all a bunch of wimps if you don't pick this up. At least try the demo!

How do you unsubscribe from xbox live? Aside from not entering in new credit card information when your credit card expires.

You actually have to call in to xbox support. It's a pain.

A super pain. I called India last year, told them to take off my card, entered a repaid card for the next year and then they started charging my card anyways. They ended up giving me 4 months for the trouble, but they make it way to difficult. Never give them your cc in the future.

ok new netflix is AWESOME

Love new Netflix!!!!!

yeah though I get the feeling it shoulda been like that from the start.

Trials HD and new Netflix are both bad-ass.

agreed

Ah, netflix, how I long for thee. :-(((((((((((((((((((((((

Are they never gonna sort that out for England

etc

Maybe. But I don't know whether I believe it.

(woah, that was my 1000th post).

fuck this game in the fucking fuck

IN THE FUCKING FUCK

Trials? Told you.

it's great, so compulsive but so so difficult

it doesn't help that I have a friends list full of ppl playing it; it's tweaked the only competitive bone I have left in my body