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Xbox 360 really sucks
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I bought Gears of War and Mass Affect. It came with a Forza/Marvel coaster, lol. I would pick up some Xbox live arcade games but the pricing structure is pissing me off. It's deliberately trying to make it so I have leftover points.
Debating Eternal Sonata or waiting for PS3 version since it's got added stuff and my PS3 gives me better audio. Without an optical out port my Xbox isn't gonna get any better than stereo. I will buy Blue Dragon maybe and thinking about a shooter that is any good online. 30 minutes of Gears of War online left me wondering why Gears of War was popular online. It seems like the shooters I'd buy to play online, COD4 and Rainbow 6 Vegas, I already got on PS3. There's Halo 3 but don't really like it all that much to be honest. Maybe I'll get Shadowrun, seems like my kind of game.
Debating Eternal Sonata or waiting for PS3 version since it's got added stuff and my PS3 gives me better audio. Without an optical out port my Xbox isn't gonna get any better than stereo. I will buy Blue Dragon maybe and thinking about a shooter that is any good online. 30 minutes of Gears of War online left me wondering why Gears of War was popular online. It seems like the shooters I'd buy to play online, COD4 and Rainbow 6 Vegas, I already got on PS3. There's Halo 3 but don't really like it all that much to be honest. Maybe I'll get Shadowrun, seems like my kind of game.
Uno and Bomberman Live are must have arcade games.
Yeah but seriously, fuck the Microsoft Points system. They don't sell them in small enough units so I can buy the game without having extra points just chilling out. I will investigate and if I can get like 3 games or something that I want and will work out exactly to be an amount of points I can buy, I'll get em.
Eh, I really have no problem with points sitting around. Something'll be put up eventually I'll want to download.
edit: I just wish the new Blood Bowl would come out already.
edit: I just wish the new Blood Bowl would come out already.
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Seriously just rent CoD and play with our Dbag/XYA members. You would probably love it lol. Gears sucks online fire, looks pretty and Co-op is great but thats it online. The offline campaign is great tho.
Fuck you, Annex is great.
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance isn't a bad game, if you like beat 'em ups. Unless of course your game glitches and you lose all the effort you put into unlocking costumes and characters... Ugh.
You on crack? Gears is sweet online.
And fire, the optical audio port is on the backish side of the VGA cables, the end that plus in to your xbox. Atleast mine has it there and i've had mine since launch so i dont know why they'd remove that feature.
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Its sucks;; Maybe some game types would be enjoyable but the whole host lag thing has never been as effective as what i have seen in gears. It honestly pushed me right away from the game after like a month.
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I would suggest staying away from Shadowrun. I liked the game when it came out and it was fun. The problem is noone really plays it anymore. The company just didn'd provide enough support for the game. Eternal Sonata actually has a really nice story to it.
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so why does it suck?
Whoosh. Get out of here.
Which is why Annex is great. Since it's entirely a team effort, Host advantage offers very little consolation. Sure, it's there. But kills don't mean shit other than making the other dudes have to respawn.
Alright, see the optical out, missed that. I've got a switch for optical so I'll just order a cheap cord to throw on the 360. Still need to organize everything to actually make room for it. As of now I've got an HDMI switch and an optical switch, With PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 to get their video/audio from each of them that way. Wii isn't actually plugged in at the moment, but when it is just the low def cables and out of the TV speakers for sound. Sorry Nintendo, all you deserve this gen, lol.
As for renting COD4, I don't really see the point. If I'm going to get a game to play multiplayer on the 360, it might as well be an exclusive I've skipped over and to own not rent. My real life friend(Prothall) is pressuring me to get Halo. In all fairness i got him into FFXI and Asheron's Call so buying a shooter to play with him is fair enough.
Shadowrun, without a persistent population could be problem, especially with no offline, even worse with me just on the 30 day gold trial still.
Still mulling over my options, maybe I'll get Perfect Dark Zero, I hear it's pretty decent.
As for Gears online, the host advantage isn't really the issue for me. Not even the people who are all hardcore. I instantly got into a game with people talking about how they've been a crew for years and me struggling not to get owned, but I don't see myself having that much fun even knowing what I'm doing. Too many better online games I've got right now for PS3 that I don't have to worry about a gold account for. To me, Gears is an offline game and that's what I got it for - the campaign.
Mass Affect I'm having fun with. It's got its fair share of problems, and I could easily make a rant about what's wrong with it, but it's been fun to play and the story is good. Let's just not go around calling it one of the best games ever made or having a story equal to Star Wars. It was overhyped, and I didn't expect that, but still a good 360 game for me to start out with. I'm only about 6 hours in(according to my save file) , so who knows it could get better and better as it continues).
It, by the way, took me a few hours to understand the combat system, and yes, it's a shooter - with RPG elements, not an RPG with a shooter engine.
Marvel I bought for the PS3 when it came out. I just plain didn't have fun playing it and didn't think any of the characters played like actual superheros.
Forza is fine but without my G25 logitech wheel being accepted, I doubt I'm going to buy any 360 racing games. Just chilling out waiting for GT5P.
I might pick up Marathon off the Xbox Arcade if I can work around a system to a few games I actually want without leftover points. I'm thinking about Marathan, that chess/checkers thing and the marble game.
As for renting COD4, I don't really see the point. If I'm going to get a game to play multiplayer on the 360, it might as well be an exclusive I've skipped over and to own not rent. My real life friend(Prothall) is pressuring me to get Halo. In all fairness i got him into FFXI and Asheron's Call so buying a shooter to play with him is fair enough.
Shadowrun, without a persistent population could be problem, especially with no offline, even worse with me just on the 30 day gold trial still.
Still mulling over my options, maybe I'll get Perfect Dark Zero, I hear it's pretty decent.
As for Gears online, the host advantage isn't really the issue for me. Not even the people who are all hardcore. I instantly got into a game with people talking about how they've been a crew for years and me struggling not to get owned, but I don't see myself having that much fun even knowing what I'm doing. Too many better online games I've got right now for PS3 that I don't have to worry about a gold account for. To me, Gears is an offline game and that's what I got it for - the campaign.
Mass Affect I'm having fun with. It's got its fair share of problems, and I could easily make a rant about what's wrong with it, but it's been fun to play and the story is good. Let's just not go around calling it one of the best games ever made or having a story equal to Star Wars. It was overhyped, and I didn't expect that, but still a good 360 game for me to start out with. I'm only about 6 hours in(according to my save file) , so who knows it could get better and better as it continues).
It, by the way, took me a few hours to understand the combat system, and yes, it's a shooter - with RPG elements, not an RPG with a shooter engine.
Marvel I bought for the PS3 when it came out. I just plain didn't have fun playing it and didn't think any of the characters played like actual superheros.
Forza is fine but without my G25 logitech wheel being accepted, I doubt I'm going to buy any 360 racing games. Just chilling out waiting for GT5P.
I might pick up Marathon off the Xbox Arcade if I can work around a system to a few games I actually want without leftover points. I'm thinking about Marathan, that chess/checkers thing and the marble game.