The 360 thread!

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:48 am 0

ThetaReactor wrote:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/xbox/xbox-36 ... 321260.php

Waaaaaaaaaaaant!

First faceplate I've seen that I thought would look cool on the Box. Page seems to suffer from troll central.

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:23 am 0

Yeah, ok, looks like I'm finally getting a faceplate for my 360. There's just nothing cooler than a fuzzy cow-pattern.

James

peter_cushion · Post by **peter_cushion** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:51 am 0

So did they not have time to finish that Two Worlds before release or what? I think the 'ambition' and 'talent' were seriously out of line somewhere there.

Worth downloading the demo just to be amazed - it's as though the whole thing is going to fall apart at any moment.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:18 am 0

peter_cushion wrote:So did they not have time to finish that Two Worlds before release or what? I think the 'ambition' and 'talent' were seriously out of line somewhere there.

Worth downloading the demo just to be amazed - it's as though the whole thing is going to fall apart at any moment.

Have you played the full game or just the demo?

I felt the same way about the demo, but haven't got the full game to compare.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:22 am 0

Live will be down for some time for maintenance today (13th)

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007 ... 11-13.aspx

It's NOT the autumn dashboard update.

peter_cushion · Post by **peter_cushion** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:27 am 0

PVB wrote:
peter_cushion wrote:So did they not have time to finish that Two Worlds before release or what? I think the 'ambition' and 'talent' were seriously out of line somewhere there.

Worth downloading the demo just to be amazed - it's as though the whole thing is going to fall apart at any moment.
Have you played the full game or just the demo?

I felt the same way about the demo, but haven't got the full game to compare.

Just the demo - but having read the reviews they all mention how bad it is so I think it's fairly representative of the finished *hah!* product.

The reason I downloaded it is because I heard someone say that it's the closest thing to Diablo on the 360 so I gave it a go. Closest thing to Monty Python and the Holy Grail more like.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:29 am 0

peter_cushion wrote: The reason I downloaded it is because I heard someone say that it's the closest thing to Diablo on the 360 so I gave it a go. Closest thing to Monty Python and the Holy Grail more like.

I love the way NPCs melt through walls/doors/fences, T2000-like.

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:01 am 0

Well, I have Two Worlds (the full version) and I fun it 'simple, good fun'. It isn't as polished as it could be, and the ability to make powerful weapons by simply adding the same weapons together is pretty nice. However, this technique which makes it special also makes it horrbily broken... In the beginning of the game, you will get slaughtered many times, while later on, you will basically do one-hit-kills all the time... Or meet creatures which will one-hit-kill you...

The good things:
- As soon as you know how to work a bit with alchemy, you can start really boosting your character.
- It feels very satisfying wading into combat "Dynasty Warrior"-like, hitting several enemies with one swing... To bad you seldom have as many enemies as DW... If it happens, you've just wandered into a full camp of Orcs and you will die quickly...
- The landscape graphics are rather nice; I've had more 'wows' in this game than in Oblivion... Too bad the landscape isn't that varied...
- Heaps of sidequests to do, although it almost always involves 'killing stuff'
- If you kill a certain group of enemies, and later on you heear that there is a quest where you must kill them, you will automatically solve that quest... I haven't had any 'can't to the quest because I killed someone vital' quests yet, as long as you go off killing 'unnamed monsters'.

This bad things :
- enemies always seem to attack you in groups of three, so if you meet a wolf, you know there are two others nearby
- after a while, you're a one-hit-kill monster
- while the dialogues are all full-speech, they can sometimes last a VERY long time (thank you for the skip-button)
- the way to check the map and the quests is horrible
- you are almost forced putting all your points in strength, just to carry all the stuff you find...
- It is unpolished in a lot of places, and you really don't find many women (and they look like the men) in the game.

I like the game, for me it's a bit of a cross between Diablo (skill distribution points, the RPG aspect), Oblivion (the landscape) and Dynasty Warriors (you can hit several enemies in one swing)... It's probably worth a 5/10 or 6/10 game in the general reviews, and it's probably no everybody's taste. It is fun for 'quite a while' (until you are tired of one)hit-killing the monsters)...

I waited for the update that would fix the lag on the multiplayer, but my 360 died, so I can't comment on that (yet/anymore).

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:50 am 0

The Fall Xbox 360 dashboard update has been revealed to our colleagues at OXM from Microsoft and it's looking very good indeed with gaming classics and films on demand.

December 4 is the date you'll need to watch out for; that's the day you'll be able to download and play Halo. Yes, Halo as in the Xbox game, through Marketplace, on your Xbox 360.

...

Games cost about 1200 Microsoft points (about ten quid), which according to us puts them a little over what you'd pay for them second hand.

The initial list of downloads includes Halo, Fable, Fahrenheit, Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex and Burnout 3.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=175527

Bod wrote:Where the hell is Sensi Soccer?

I believe it's being held back to improve online play.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:04 pm 0

I wonder if they're adding achivements to those games? Thats about the only way I'd even consider playing through Fahrenheit again...

fog · Post by **fog** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:07 pm 0

Tuur wrote:
The Fall Xbox 360 dashboard update has been revealed to our colleagues at OXM from Microsoft and it's looking very good indeed with gaming classics and films on demand.

December 4 is the date you'll need to watch out for; that's the day you'll be able to download and play Halo. Yes, Halo as in the Xbox game, through Marketplace, on your Xbox 360.

...

Games cost about 1200 Microsoft points (about ten quid), which according to us puts them a little over what you'd pay for them second hand.

The initial list of downloads includes Halo, Fable, Fahrenheit, Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex and Burnout 3.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=175527

Nice. Looks like a bigger HD is now essential then.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:46 pm 0

Fable

Flabio wrote:I wonder if they're adding achivements to those games? Thats about the only way I'd even consider playing through Fahrenheit again...

Surely you could find out, no?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:04 pm 0

Flabio wrote:I wonder if they're adding achivements to those games? Thats about the only way I'd even consider playing through Fahrenheit again...

If they're adding achievements then they become worthwhile, but if they're just plain janes then you may as well buy second hand copies for 3 or 4 quid a pop, if you can find them.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:19 pm 0

Pah - I bought the Halo Triple Pack for my 360 from Amazon Marketplace for 15 quid. Thats Halo, Halo 2 and the Halo 2 multiplayer map pack. I imagine it could be bought for even cheaper now.

Phineasfool · Post by **Phineasfool** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:49 pm 0

Looks like a multiplayer demo of Timeshift has been added, at least in the US.