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Man, I can't believe how good of a marketing gimmick the whole achievements/gamerscore thing is. Anyone else find themselves renting games for the sole purpose of gaining achievements (I haven't touched a sports game since the original Madden Football on SNES).

Anyway, all this system really needs is some more good games. PDZ is pretty good, but none of the upcoming games really excite me that much. Let's just get Halo 3 out here already.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It'll be awhile before Xbox 360 has anything remotely close to Halo-caliber. Easily the system's biggest downfall, but at least there are still tons of ways to have fun killing time with the arcade/downloadable trailers/demos/etc.

And is it just me or does the built-in DVD playing functionality suck? Only good thing about it is you're not required to buy an accessory to play DVDs.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sorry, but Tube's Law dictates that any games involved in comparisons between itself and Halo will end up being complete flops upon the date of release.

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

Originally Posted by galen

So is it possible to walk into a store, grab a 360 and one game and purchase them yet, or are we still whores to the "package" system?

I go to Best Buy fairly often, and they don't have any units. They have games, and accessories...but no consoles.

Nope. My Wal-Mart has a couple core systems in there to just pick up every week or so, but nowhere around here can you just walk in and pick up a premium yet.

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

I would've put down PDZ ages ago if it weren't for achievements, and my desire to not leave attainable ones unattained.

Plus, the half-assed achievements are probably only hurting them in the long run. People (such as Gamerscwhores like myself) will rent their shitty sports games more, but will actually purchase them less, which is where the money actually counts.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Bahamut Zero

ps tube did you drop out of college for more 360 time. Lately it seems you are always on.

People always ask me this since I just leave my 360 on all the time. I figure I'll get back on within a couple hours, so I don't bother turning it off at all. Especially in DOA4; I leave it on overnight, during work, during school so I can eventually get the "Played 100 hours" achievement. It's a miracle it hasn't overheated and died yet.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Supposedly when the official camera thingy comes out, you'll be able to take pictures and use them as your avatar. Probably won't end up happening though because of too many wang pictures. As it stands now, all the default avatars suck just as bad as the ones you can buy. I honestly would pay a one-time scam fee of $1 if I knew I was getting one that wasn't shitty so I didn't have to change it later.

How ya doing, buddy?

He's saying you can put your own pictures as your background for free by simply connecting your 360 to your computer and importing your picture from there.

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

Quote:

Xbox 360 Back Compat Update
Posted: March 29, 2006 @ 5:06 pm (1 day ago) By: Major Nelson

A new backward compatibility update is now available for the Xbox 360. You can see the complete updated list here.

Don’t have Xbox Live? Download the update to your PC here

[More details on Xbox.com]

New games:

BLACK™
Star Wars Battlefront™ II
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9

Updated games:

Darkwatch™
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
Half-Life® 2
Fable®
Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
Forza Motorsport™
Ninja Gaiden®
Ninja Gaiden® Black
SSX 3
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® Chaos Theory™
kill.switch
World Series Baseball® 2K3

Edit: Reminder: You need to play an original Xbox game on your Xbox 360 while connected to Xbox Live in order to get the update.

'Bout damn time. Now we just need Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge. Except for how they won't.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It's obviously depicting human beings interacting with each other in a type of game and enjoying themselves while doing it; making a comparison to how one can enjoy oneself while playing a 360.

Marketing 101

There's nowhere I can't reach.

A bigger HDD that isn't intended to replace the standard 20GB one, as predicted in that article, would be completely pointless. Ever since about day 3 as a 360 owner, I've been on my toes with disk space. A 100GB drive that you could just swap out would be a blessing. But who the hell would buy one if it's just treated as a giant memory card, since we all know how useful those are. Oh, and $100 for 20GB is a joke. Imagine buying the 100 gig one. We're talking like, $350 for that shit.

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

It's really this simple, try to follow along carefully:

Buying a Core package is complete idiocy regardless of what your intents are for your Xbox 360.

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

What is wrong with people.


Couple Find Love Through Xbox LIVE
>> It's weekend again ... so here's a bit of entertainment news
From ananova.com:

Quote:

A couple are planning to marry after they "met" while playing their Xbox's 4,300 miles [that's ~6920km] apart.

Claire Wilcox, from Cardiff, played Xbox golf with American Shane Nelson, from Missouri, after he joined her virtual game online.
They chatted for hours after the contest and they began a cyber-romance. One month later, Shane proposed.
Claire accepted Shane's proposal after visiting him.
They will wed in Cardiff in July, and plan to set up home in the US.

Read More: ananova.com

I was speaking idiomatically.

Because then you're paying the same price but not getting a wireless controller, headset, HD cables, etc. It's not rational.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

No, they stopped that at like the end of January.

FELIPE NO

I didn't even care about wireless controllers until I started playing with one. It's awesome to go to the kitchen to get food or something while I'm still pressing buttons for some reason.

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I'm not huge on voice chat, but sometimes I do just put the controller in my pocket and go to some other room while still listening/talking to the conversation. Like one of those hip hands-free cell phone deal-i-os.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Nope. Although it's rumored that the 360 cam will let you use custom pictures, including wangs.

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Why was that dude's post deleted that was making fun of the guy for saying "M$FT".

It was totally deserved.

DAMN COMPANIES SELLING OUT AND TRYING TO GET PROFIT AND STUFF

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

Give me an option to turn off disc autoplay already.

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Originally Posted by Dark Nation

They already have that for starting up the console, unless you're talking about something else.

To change the settings for Startup:

From the Main Blades, Navigate to System -> Console Settings -> Startup -> Xbox Dashboard.

Yeah, what she said.

I will often start up my 360 by pressing the eject button and putting in what disc I plan on playing, which unless done very fast, will skip the dashboard. But I don't want to immediately get into the game, I want to chill out in marketplace and check out my thousands of fan messages first.

I was speaking idiomatically.

All of my original Xbox games run great. The downloadable versions can be disregarded due to their ridiculous price, but the emulation works fine and they only list "issues" with the games because they're being responsible and covering their bases since they don't want people whining if they run into some tiny irrelevant issue.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

236     Robotron: 2084      2006      65
237     Bankshot Billiards 2     2005     65
238     Feeding Frenzy     2006     65
239     Dig Dug     2006     65
241     Ms. Pac-Man     2007     65
246     Gauntlet     2005     65
247     Crystal Quest     2006     64
248     Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe     2007     64
256     Texas Hold 'em     2006     63
258     Fatal Fury Special     2007     63
260     Contra     2006     63
261     Marathon: Durandal     2007     63
262     Triggerheart Exelica     2008     63
264     Missile Command     2007     63
265     Time Pilot     2006     63
266     Track & Field     2007     63
267     Hardwood Backgammon     2005     62
270     Hardwood Spades     2005     62
271     Pac-Man     2006     62
273     Frogger     2006     62
274     Mad Tracks     2007     62
278     Root Beer Tapper     2007     61
281     Super Contra     2007     61
288     Geon: Emotions     2007     59
289     Soltrio Solitaire     2007     59
292     Arkadian Warriors     2007     59
293     TiQal     2008     58
295     Rush'n Attack     2007     58
297     Aegis Wing     2007     58
298     Defender     2006     58
299     Rocketmen: Axis of Evil     2008     57
300     Double Dragon     2007     57
302     Xevious     2007     56
304     Gyruss     2007     56
310     Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe     2007     55
312     Battlestar Galactica     2007     55
315     Centipede & Millipede     2007     55
318     Boogie Bunnies     2008     54
319     Spyglass Board Games     2007     54
322     Brain Challenge     2008     54
324     Tetris Splash     2007     53
328     Ecco the Dolphin     2007     53
331     Battlezone     2008     52
338     Yie Ar Kung-Fu     2007     51
341     Wing Commander Arena     2007     51
342     Novadrome     2006     50
349     Shrek-N-Roll     2007     49
353     Mr. Driller Online     2008     48
354     Scramble     2006     47
355     Tempest     2007     47
358     Street Trace: NYC     2007     45
360     Discs of Tron     2008     44
361     TotemBall     2006     44
363     Word Puzzle     2007     44
364     New Rally-X     2006     43
366     Tron     2008     43
368     Bliss Island     2008     42
369     Cyberball 2072     2007     41
371     Screwjumper!     2007     40
376     Rocky and Bullwinkle     2008     37
381     Yaris     2007     17

Fun games getting the "f-you" treatment:
Feeding Frenzy
Crystal Quest
Texas Hold'em
Contra
Marathon
Mad Tracks
Geon: Emotions
Arkadian Warriors
Aegis Wing
Spyglass Board Games
Brain Challenge
Tron

NOTE: OPINION

FELIPE NO

My list doesn't take into account conversion rate, which only Microsoft has the numbers on.

Also, since it's going on conv. rate only and not sales, you could still see popular games getting canned if enough people downloaded the trial (but not full version). Unlikely, but going purely off their statement for delisting eligibility, it's possible.

EDIT:
Copy+Pasting the top 10 list also serves to show how pointless basing delisting off metacritic is. Who cares what websites rate games if the consumers are enjoying them. Stupid.

How ya doing, buddy?

Here is a cleaned-up and more focused list, for anyone who cares, which filters out games younger than 6 months and games with no conversion rate (free). I have conversion rates for all 2005-2006 games in an excel sheet somewhere, but beyond those, it's up to Microsoft to release the numbers.

236     Robotron: 2084                   2006     65
237     Bankshot Billiards 2             2005     65
238     Feeding Frenzy                   2006     65
239     Dig Dug                          2006     65
241     Ms. Pac-Man                      2007     65
246     Gauntlet                         2005     65
247     Crystal Quest                    2006     64
248     Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe       2007     64
256     Texas Hold 'em                   2006     63
258     Fatal Fury Special               2007     63
260     Contra                           2006     63
261     Marathon: Durandal               2007     63
264     Missile Command                  2007     63
265     Time Pilot                       2006     63
266     Track & Field                    2007     63
267     Hardwood Backgammon              2005     62
270     Hardwood Spades                  2005     62
271     Pac-Man                          2006     62
273     Frogger                          2006     62
274     Mad Tracks                       2007     62
278     Root Beer Tapper                 2007     61
281     Super Contra                     2007     61
288     Geon: Emotions                   2007     59
289     Soltrio Solitaire                2007     59
292     Arkadian Warriors                2007     59
295     Rush'n Attack                    2007     58
298     Defender                         2006     58
300     Double Dragon                    2007     57
302     Xevious                          2007     56
304     Gyruss                           2007     56
310     Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe     2007     55
312     Battlestar Galactica             2007     55
315     Centipede & Millipede            2007     55
319     Spyglass Board Games             2007     54
324     Tetris Splash                    2007     53
328     Ecco the Dolphin                 2007     53
338     Yie Ar Kung-Fu                   2007     51
341     Wing Commander Arena             2007     51
342     Novadrome                        2006     50
349     Shrek-N-Roll                     2007     48
354     Scramble                         2006     47
355     Tempest                          2007     47
358     Street Trace: NYC                2007     45
363     Word Puzzle                      2007     44
364     New Rally-X                      2006     43
369     Cyberball 2072                   2007     41
371     Screwjumper!                     2007     40

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