[360] Xbox 360 Discussion. Thermal paste, the delicious and nutricious snack of the future.

Originally Posted by Solis

Upgrade your computer, noob!

Actually, my connection's about as bad as yours, but it should only take around 30 seconds to load all those pictures. I can reduce the sizes if people want though, they just look most impressive at full quality.

I know you posted this before the new picture rules so I've editted your post so the pics are now URLs. In future though, please stick to thumbnails and links for images that big.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Mad Monkey23

Hitman, Oblivion, Saints Row(When Its Out).

Hi there.

You're fairly new so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt this time. Generally though, we try to encourage discussion in threads at Gamingforce. Whilst those might be your favourite games, you didn't tell us why you like them or why we should get them. Lists are no use to anyone without a bit of justification.

In future, please try to add a bit of content to your posts or you might end up saddened and disheartened when they all get deleted.

All the best,

Your pal, Shin.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It saddens me how many of my friends fall into the stereotype of European gamers only playing football games and racing games.

At least they could try something different once in a while.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I just saw the television ad for Saint's Row and it looks fucking terrible. From what they showed on the tv ad, it's a cheap San Andreas knock off only with ridiculous 50 Cent style characters, worse graphics and a god-awful soundtrack. The ad was even shot to look like the rather awesome San Andreas ads from back in the day.

If anyone buys this game, it'll only be because they don't own a PS2 or because their parents wouldn't buy 'em GTA. Laughably shoddy advert for what looks like an awful game.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Like I say, if you only compare it to all the other 360 releases, it's probably not so bad. From what I've read it has a fair bit of depth to it and I guess you can forgive the lack of next-gen graphics and pathetic voice acting. As soon as you start comparing it across consoles though, it loses appeal rapidly. If I were a fan of GTA style games (Which I am), I'd wait for Vice City Stories to tide me over until GTA 4 comes out.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'd get Dead Rising before I got DoA4, having played both. DoA4 doesn't really add anything to earlier incarnations except for flashier graphics.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Kilroy

Psychonauts, motherfucker. Do you play it?
Brilliant additions, for the most part. I-Ninja and Fahrenheit too.

I thought I-Ninja was PS2 only? Not that I ever got past the second level. I really should stop buying games I quite want at the same time as games I really want.

Most amazing jew boots

Well maybe not 10 years but yeah, the majority of PAL tvs these days support NTSC mode. At worst it'll run in black and white and he should be able to pick up a compatible set pretty cheap.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Macksis

I'm thinking of picking up a 360 in the near future. (Made the mistake of playing Geometry Wars and now I'm an addict.) But I have a slight problem. I'm not a fan of FPS. The kind people at Gamestop tell me that roughly 50% of 360 games are FPS. And the remaining 50% is split among all the remaining genres. How accurate is this assertion? Am I wasting money buying a system dominated by a genre I dont like?

If you planning on buying every single game that gets released for the system then maybe I'd agree with you but if 50% of the games on the system are FPS's, that means 50% of them aren't. There's more than enough very good games of other genres for you to be constantly occupied if you actually spend a bit of time playing them and there's plenty of non-FPS games scheduled for release in the future. In this day and age when so many games get released, worrying about genre dominance on a console is pretty dumb.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Any benefit the friends-of-friends list might have had for me is now completely negated by Miles' new GFF scoreboard thingy which is a far easier way of finding GFFers you want to add.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'd suggest that having a 360 without a gold membership is pretty silly as so much of the benefit of 360 ownership is the online play. It's only £40 for a year and you don't need to spend any MS points after that to get easily £40 worth of enjoyment in a year.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I like the sound of being able to set online status before I'm signed in. Much as I love playing with people online, some days you just want to play single player and it'd be easier to appear offline than to seem rude refusing game invites.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

You can always turn down invitations to games. People would understand. Just saying.

Oh no, absolutely but I feel bad telling Phong I don't want to play Halo or Rainbow with him, especially as rather than sending game invites he starts up private chat sessions (Which we normally forget we're in and wonder why nobody else in the game is talking to us...).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah, a 32 direction d-pad seems entirely pointless when there's an actual analogue stick sat right next to it. I would have thought a decent, 8-directional microswitched effort would be an infinitely better idea.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Who on Earth uses the d-pad to play Pro Evo?

I might actually pick this up anyway. The colour doesn't bother me and the last Pro Evo game I got was 06.

FELIPE NO

You not got the Legendary maps? I could have sworn I played with you on them...

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Xbox Experience? Wow, I thought that Experience as a management buzzword had died out with the 90's.

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Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Let's not forget this is from the company that brought us Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates doing nothing. They're hardly up on what's hip these days.

Haha, true. I guess that's the one edge Sony have always had over MS. Having associated movie and music companies means they're bound to produce something fairly relevant to modern styles and tastes once in a while, even by accident. The thought of Microsoft ever commissioning Wipeout without telling them to replace all the decent techno with screeching hair metal and dissaffected kiddie punk is laughable.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by ENEMY CONTROLLER

In reality it's because they don't have a skin color black as the night dark enough to represent my male self.

Where is the justice, Microsoft?

You're the whitest, black man alive dude.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by LeHah

His shirt isn't tucked into his trousers. At least try to make it look like you.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by russ

This is a concept that I can get behind. This is why I always play as a female character in any game in which I have a choice. Kotor, Mass Effect, Fable2, Oblivion for example. Hell, even in Goldeneye I played as Xenia.

Remind us again how many of your ex-girlfriends have left you for a woman?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I was at home for lunch so I installed the NXE and made an avatar. The new dashboard looks nice enough I guess but I never had any issues with the old one. I'm sure after a couple of weeks I'll get used to it and it'll seem like it was always like that.

I have to say that the new Guide button boxes are ugly though, like the one you get when you switch off the system from the controller.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I figured I'd be aloof and face the other way.

FELIPE NO

I think for the first few weeks as everyone plays with the new thing then a lot of people are going to have very similar looking gamerpics. I'll probably stick with that for a while then go back to using the HAWX plane.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Zip

you can also use the rb/lb in the avatar menu to change facial expressions

I managed to make my avatar smack his face on the inside of my tv by wiggling the right stick up and down. It was pretty funny.

Jam it back in, in the dark.