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

I just thought BK was boring. The old game had fewer stuff to roll up, but each item made an impact. With the fancy graphics engine you can roll up a ton of stuff, but it's just not as fun. Also, the story is half-assed and not very funny.

YAY MY XBOX JUST DID THE RED RING FOR THE THIRD TIME

How come every time I even read about someone getting the red ring I feel jinxed, like I should avert my eyes?

oh by the way, my gamertag is trdn89 - I plan to be on a fair bit in the near future as I get IRL trashed and drive around Paradise City aimlessly (and rapidly)

My 360 freezes after a few hours of play... but it never did the red ring thing. I have one of the original 360s (2nd or 3rd shipment out before the first Christmas it went on sale). I think I'm gonna get a cooling fan that attaches to the back. My goal is to leave the game on for a long time just so that I'll know if it will eventually get the red ring. MY 3 year warranty will be over soon. I better bust my 360 now.

question: has anyone from this thread had their 360 for more than say 6 months without it breaking? i eventually want to buy a 360 and i would like to buy it used but it seems that everyone has at least one break on them. is the failure rate really that bad?

according to an insider the failure rate is 30%. i've have been putting off buying an xbox360 until there's enough evidence that they've sorted this out. well that and lack of money. also, when are they going to put wifi into one of their consoles??? even nintendo, kings of cutting corners, put it in their machines these days.

A Seattle P-I blog has a good interview with a Microsoft employee re: the RRoD. Going to the main blog page (first link), much follow-up activity.

Holy fucking shit it is risen.

No. No, it's isn't.

http://www.blackratchet.org/etc/blam.gif

I just got my xbox live account working. I'll probably mostly be playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Settlers of Catan for now. My gamertag is REDACTED.

Any further thoughts on Beautiful Katamari? I loved the ones on PS2 but I never had one of my own, so I was excited that I'd be able to play it on 360. But the word is that it sucks? What's up with that? I played it on 360 for half an hour recently and it seemed fine to me---what am I missing?

I gave my reasons upthread, but if you enjoyed it you might as well rent it.

borrowing my brother's x-box 360 while he's away in iraq. i'll prolly buy my own sometime this year.

bought bioshock...pretty amazing!

Hey Will M, have you bought every single XBLA game ever?

Definitely not, there are so many shitty ones. But I've demoed maybe hal of them and bought about... 20% of them.

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.