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

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?

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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.

pining for some gta action (have lent me ps2 to a friend) i have bought crackdown 2nd hand, over saints row. was this the wrong decision? anyone played both?

i also love n+, i am not a total neanderthal...

I have played both, and they're both fun. Crackdown has the advantages of being a lot more innovative than SR and not having idiotic writing and voiceacting and SR has the advantages of having way more to do than Crackdown and being a lot more like actually playing GTA, since it's a complete ripoff, albeit a well-done one.

Also, this may be a weird thing to say, but Saints' Row is a lot more morally repugnant than GTA, and that really turned me off. Like, in GTA, you can kill civilians, but you're not supposed to, really, and you don't get rewarded for it. In Saints' Row there are all these missions where it's like "We need to make the rival gang look bad! Let's drive to their turf and kill all the women who work in the stores there!"

Yes it's funny how GTA works on that level, for all it's labelled evilness and violence.
An important mission - you're in a hectic car chase trying to get back to base. BUT you sure as hell try your best NOT to run over any pedestrians or attract any extra 'lawful' entanglement. As you know you'll get all your weapons confiscated as well as failing the mission and probably losing a cool car.

And thus after a while you realise that mowing innoccents down just creates more hassle and no reward so you just don't do it, unless you're in a *really* foul mood of course lol.

cheers dudes... less enamoured with the idea of moral repugnancy so i guess i made the right choice!

Crackdown is a lot of fun, but other than that there's an open world you run around in, it's really not very GTA like. I did not play much of Saints' Row because the graphics really bugged me & the cut scenes were horrible. It's an ugly ugly game. Crackdown though is sort of beautiful - it's great fun to power up your character and to be able to climb higher and higher building collecting more and more power-ups so you can climb higher, jump further, etc.

The guys who play "Skate" on XBL are way too good. I beat the game and yet they're beating the living shit out of me. So humiliating. :/

Big price cuts in europe for xbox360. in uk arcade is £149, normal £199 and elite £249. hmmm tempting!

Boo, trying to play crackdown with stevie but it won't let us because we don't have the same amount of downloaded content. Sucks!

sorry about that jim! i started dling stuff but then couldn't get it up and running again... soon though!

i was up very late jumping and climbing to the top of buildings, it is an ace game

anyone else getting or heard about random crashes and full system stalls when playing cod4?

: (((

OK so it seems like it was because I was just about to earn my red rings

fuck sake, microsoft

O HAI

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2170/2367450478_040d7f9550_o.jpg

Oh - sorry. Send it in a.s.a.p and you should get it back in time for GTA IV, at least (I hope)