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

I think I have 20 XBLA games. Short-burst gaming is the kind I like the best lately.

I downloaded that Chess game, but so far it's too easy. I am a terrible chess player but the computer is somehow worse.

I did a games compare with you guys and I'm amazed at how many XBLA games you have. I have bought a total of two in the last year.

polyphonic - which chess game did you download? There are two on live. The first one that came out is supposed to be pretty crappy - but the newer one - chessmaster - has been a good program in the past (not sure about this version). I actually have the ps2 version which has tons of features & was plenty challenging for me. There must be difficulty setting on there right?

It's Chessmaster. I haven't discovered the difficulty setting yet, but I haven't looked very hard.

The music in the game is ATROCIOUS. If I didn't have a music drive hooked up, I might never be able to play it.

yeah, there are just so many quality arcade games, and they're so easy to buy... there are still four or five old ones that i plan to get during the next dry spell.

that said... poker smash looks like some clever, quality puzzle fun, and ikaruga is coming, which i know if an AMAZING game already and I don't own, N+ is an addition to a game that I already consider one of the best platformers ever, Castle Crashers looks brilliant, they're making X360 Peggle... I probably will not see a dry spell for ages

LOVING undertow. ENJOYING Rez. REVELLING in burnout paradise. NOT VERY GOOD AT brother's copy of Call Of Duty 4.

Rather disappointed to learn that next week's release of Discs of Tron doesn't feature online play. I was really looking forward to that... now I'll pass. Slightly regretting I just signed up for another year of gold too...

They're releasing that next week on XBLA?

http://kotaku.com/354194/discs-of-tron-rezzing-on-xbla-next-week

i wonder if they're breaking embargo or something, i haven't heard this from anyone but them!

scratch that, joystiq said it too.

I played a bit of the PC version of Peggle. It's an okay timewaste but I don't love it.

Tried some games yesterday at my brother's house... Every Extend Extra Extreme isn't so much a port of the psp game, but a completely different game under the same skin. I guess I prefer the 360 version, which includes a straight up geometry wars style shooter and a decent time attack mode. I was surprised the game had no bosses though and no real progression (unlike the psp version which has levels you move through and unlock, and a variety of bosses to face). Fun for the hour or two we put into it, but I'm not sure it's worth ten dollars (I might buy it if there's some kind of sale for four or five bucks).

On the other hand, Undertow - I think I would have been unhappy if I'd spent the time to download that when it was free. Also Omega 5 is pretty much garbage. Both shooters just feel way too clunky

looks like (no surprise, I guess) that Kotuka story about Discs of Tron not having multiplayer was wrong. It does have it, though I couldn't find a game with anybody else on live (lately it seems like people only play halo or call of duty?). Port isn't bad. Instead of a spinner (obviously), you aim the curser with the right joystick - which seems to work okay - giving the game a little bit more of a twin stick feel. I used to love the game - but must admit - it's actually pretty lame and limited. At least it was only five bucks.

Fuck, Carcassonne is pure crack.

does anybody here play Spades on xbla? I've been playing some multiplayer spades but I'm finding the degree of microphone chat unnerving. Is there usually a lot of microphone chat on xbla (not just on spades, but generally)?

sounds like typical xbox. I thought there was a way to mute everybody, but from their FAQ it looks like you have to select each player?

....................

MUTE THE PLAYER
This is your most effective tool. If you don't want to hear them, turn them off!

To do this, select their gamertag from the Players list, and then select the Mute option.

I finally had my first run-in with stereotypically racist/sexist/homophobic etc. asshole dudes on Live the other day, while playing COD4 (of course). It really sucked. It's not even fun to mock those idiots. One guy totally burned another by calling him a book-reader, to which the offended party responded with "I don't even know how to read books". It so perfectly lived up to the Live cliches that I almost wonder if it was some sort of performance piece, or something.

Yeah - sometimes it's hards to tell the difference between the idiots and the intentional griefers. It's obviously not just xbox live that can be shitty like that though - any kind of anonymous group experience, probably. Perhaps xbox live gets more than their fair share as it attracts more teenagers? However, I've heard some pretty shitty stuff playing TF2 on the PC too.

"I don't even know how to read books," is a pretty funny line though

yeah I think I just need to get used to playing online. I haven't run into any serious rudeness, just a lot of bragging about how much dope they're currently smoking, and I don't hear about it when I'm just hoping for a good game of Spades or Settlers of Catan.

er, don't want to hear about it

Wait, you guys read books?

it was some sort of performance piece, or something.

OMG YOU GAVE ME IDEAS

n+ marked the 10,000th Microsoft Point I've spent. GUYZ I HAEV A PORBLEM D:

wo is that like 10,000 dollars

that is like... $147.50

so should I buy n+ tonight?

Wednesday!
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/t/triggerheartxboxlivearcade/

worse than spending 10,000 points, this weekend my gamerscore cracked 10,000

oh man i am so going to also get trigger heart :|

AND YES YOU SHOULD GET N+ possibly the best game on xbla.

and i finally beat bioshock last night, it was really, really awesome. i actually didn't except to like it as much as i expected, but man. i really connected with it.

I did pick up N+ over the weekend - yes! I didn't actually play it too much, just the tutorial and intro levels, I guess, about fifteen levels. And it seems pretty neat. Definitely I'm still surprised every time I die, how violent that is, and how funny - it makes dying okay (like in Team Fortress 2). The music is good too. It's just a really nicely presented game and seems fun. There's so many levels though!

I'm curious about the level editor - I want to try that out too - a pretty cool feature right there.

I recently got the achievement for dying 1000 times. 15 points. awesome.

I finally got a 360 today (premium pack for just £90!). So I've harvested all your gamertags - expect requests. I'm still Jimdoo.

Bought Dead Rising, PGR4, Burnout Paradise, Mass Effect. Haven't tried the latter two yet, PGR will be fun as soon as I give it proper attention. Dead Rising could turn out to be lovely, but man, the text is SO tiny when you only have a normal telly. It's almost unplayable as a result!

Then went online, and got E4, which I LOVE, and Rez, which i've been craving for months.

And what's pleasing me most, so far, is the fact I finally have a way of wirelessly streaming divx video from my PC to my living room TV! At last, I get to watch LOST from a sofa! (Oh yeah, I'm quite excited about this Lost game too, even though I'm sure it'll turn out to be ropy).

Congrats!

There may have been a Dead Rising thread? That game is TOUGH, especially the first time through. In a way I'd say the game is broken - I'm not sure you can really beat it without resorting to gamefaqs. There are a lot of tricks that seem like they weren't the way the game was purposely designed, but more like exploits. It can be clunky at times too. But seriously, once you get to know the game, get your head around its somewhat fucked design, it can be one of the most fun games out there. It can get really frustrating though - especially your first time through. I recommend just fooling around with it for a while working to build up your stats & quitting about at the halfway point and starting over - since your stats carry over it makes the game a lot easier (more health, strength and being able to carry more supplies and weapons). I don't think it's possible to get to the true end anyway w/o bulking up your stats first...

I'm back, bitches. Anyone play *cough*CoD4*cough*? It's all anyone plays these days amirite?

There is a Dead Rising thread, btw.

I believe I am about to take the lead on the ILG leaderboard for CoD4. Put that it your collective pipes and smoke it.

dude there's no way that you have some of the dudes in your leaderboard, in that case. who is it woh's playing it all the time... shit, i can't remember now

I think you're the lead on mine. Who am I missing?

JimD - if your monitor is nicer than your TV there's a vga cable you can buy to hook your 360 to your monitor (at least you could see how that stuff looks in a higher resolution and read that text)...

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/

i think it's xbox player "chachee" who is someone on these boards... course now i can't rmember

I bought a Dell 2407WFP HC today and have it hooked up to my 360 over VGA and it looks... amazing : O

Annoyed that I don't have my CoD4 here yet.

Here's a question: I thought I read somewhere that Microsoft made a few XNA developed games freely available on the arcade recently but I can't find any... Anyone know anything? That ninja one looked good.

It's like I bought a new console basically... it looks THAT good. Dead Rising is insane.

They were free for a limited time - I think they came down last Sunday?

Ah, bad timing.

And yep, I've been considering grabbing a vga cable and plugging the 360 into my lovely big HD monitor. But it's just a bit impractical - monitor is in my bedroom, 360 in the living room, and the whole point of that is that I want to be able to stream video from my bedroom pc to my living room tv. Moving the 360 would prevent that. It'd be nice if I could stream in both directions!

czn: http://forums.xna.com/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=46554

i think that might answer yr questions!

i think it's xbox player "chachee" who is someone on these boards... course now i can't rmember

Yeah that was me and my roomie. His 360 died a few weeks ago and it doesn't look like he is going to get it fixed any time soon, so in the meantime I have bought a new one and started a new acct. New screenname is "fugexlac", and I'll play w/ anyone anytime.

Is REDACTED somebody on here?

Yes, it's me; see upthread.