The 360 thread!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:49 am 0

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but it's Boogie Bunnies on XBLA tomorrow.

I know people who love this but after the novelty dancing-bunnyness wore off it didn't really do it for me. Poker Smash is apparently not too far off, and from what I've played it's much the better game IMO.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:42 am 0

Rod_S wrote: Paradise's launch which is definitely on The List.

I'm up in the air on Paradise - I want to like it - its burnout - but I'll have to wait for fora reviews I think.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:51 am 0

benedictw wrote:
Rod_S wrote: Paradise's launch which is definitely on The List.
I'm up in the air on Paradise - I want to like it - its burnout - but I'll have to wait for fora reviews I think.

9/10 in the new Edge.

Was that the sound of a pre-order?

Would be nice if LIVE WAS FUCKING FIXED in time for Paradise, mind.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:09 am 0

Rod_S wrote:Would be nice if LIVE WAS FUCKING FIXED in time for Paradise, mind.

I get the feeling that it's CoD4 as much as it is Live at the moment. I mean, you managed to download the 1.2G Turok demo without it canceling halfway through - a couple of weeks ago you wouldn't have been able to do that.

CoD4 was always really flaky in the matchmaking. In the beta you'd often lose connections and exit out to the menu screens. You'd probably see that three or four times in an evening of online play and that was only a tiny amount of people playing. I've been told that the situation didn't improve much in the full release before Christmas (the PC version's pretty dodgy too, even playing it on the LAN at work is sometimes hit and miss). I suspect that there's some really sensitive anti-cheat anti-lag code in there that just chucks you out on the slightest provocation and Live not being at 100% capacity sets it off. Other games should be more forgiving I think.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:25 am 0

teamonkey wrote: CoD4 was always really flaky in the matchmaking. In the beta you'd often lose connections and exit out to the menu screens. You'd probably see that three or four times in an evening of online play and that was only a tiny amount of people playing. I've been told that the situation didn't improve much in the full release before Christmas (the PC version's pretty dodgy too, even playing it on the LAN at work is sometimes hit and miss). I suspect that there's some really sensitive anti-cheat anti-lag code in there that just chucks you out on the slightest provocation and Live not being at 100% capacity sets it off. Other games should be more forgiving I think.

CoD was always perfect for me before Christmas, joining a game took seconds and I don't recall being booted or losing a connection. It's still great in the day but dies after about 8pm - the same time the Xbox dash starts choking and advertising banners stop appearing. Gotta be a Live problem hasn't it?

chub · Post by **chub** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:21 pm 0

fog wrote:
Rod_S wrote:Anyone picked up Burnout 3 Takedown from the Xbox Originals store? Does it still have Live functionality? Gotta say I'm tempted, but it's too close to Paradise's launch which is definitely on The List.
Almost but not quite. I was disappointed by Paradise but after playing the demo needed a Burnout fix so got Burnout Revenge new for Â£15. Everyone has their own favourites from the series (mine is 3) but I'm enjoying it so far.

Personally I'd like a Burnout which has the racing from 2, the road rage events from 3, and the Crash events from Revenge. I didn't think much of the Paradise demo from a Burnout point of view. I don't want to have to think about navigation when driving at those speeds, and having no restarts is a pain. I don't know yet if Showtime is any good, but not having the usual 'same-every-time' Crash events is a bummer. I'm interested to know why Edge gave it 9.

By the way I haven't had any Xbox Live problems myself using the dashboard, marketplace, or anything. So is it just CoD4 people who are having problems?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:57 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:CoD was always perfect for me before Christmas, joining a game took seconds and I don't recall being booted or losing a connection.

I was always being dropped from a match or the next match not going through. It was pretty darn flakey sometimes. (This was pre-Xmas).

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:39 pm 0

There's a new table for Pinball FX up on the marketplace - Nightmare Mansion. Sadly it's not free like the last one, but for 200 points I'll probably take a look when I get home tonight.

Details here.

Phineasfool · Post by **Phineasfool** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:19 pm 0

The problems with Paradise is enough for me not to get it. Not having crash mode is a big detriment for me. Having to drive all the way back to the beginning of an event to restart it is a pain also. Really don't understand the high reviews. 7-7.5/10 is my belief. Fix those problems and then you have a solid 9/10.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:57 pm 0

chub wrote: By the way I haven't had any Xbox Live problems myself using the dashboard, marketplace, or anything. So is it just CoD4 people who are having problems?

Some people aren't affected, as it seems it's dependent on which MS server/locality you connect to.

I'm still having Live disconnections, spinny thing for minutes at a time when flipping between blades on the dash, etc.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:34 pm 0

Phineasfool wrote:The problems with Paradise is enough for me not to get it. Not having crash mode is a big detriment for me. Having to drive all the way back to the beginning of an event to restart it is a pain also. Really don't understand the high reviews. 7-7.5/10 is my belief. Fix those problems and then you have a solid 9/10.

I see where you're coming from - but I am going to wait for forum impressions before saying yay or nay. An EDGE 9 goes a pretty long way though, but it does depend on what its really like. The demo didnt inspire me, but maybe a city full of races and such might get me going.

In some respects, Crackdown did the 'large city and racing (and random killings)' pretty damm perfectly.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:07 am 0

Rod_S wrote:Gotta be a Live problem hasn't it?

I don't have CoD4 (and my Live connection appears to be fine, not that I've had any sodding time to play since Xmas) but it could be a bit of both as TM says - it's probably sensitive to these things coupled with Live being in a bit of a shit state all of a sudden.

The really sad thing is that up until this point live has performed flawlessly - MS aren't doing themselves any favours with this one as I suspect lots of new people who'll have connected their 360s over xmas won't bother shelling out for subscriptions if it behaves like it has been.

Cheers

Bubba

Phineasfool · Post by **Phineasfool** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:13 am 0

benedictw wrote:
Phineasfool wrote:The problems with Paradise is enough for me not to get it. Not having crash mode is a big detriment for me. Having to drive all the way back to the beginning of an event to restart it is a pain also. Really don't understand the high reviews. 7-7.5/10 is my belief. Fix those problems and then you have a solid 9/10.
I see where you're coming from - but I am going to wait for forum impressions before saying yay or nay. An EDGE 9 goes a pretty long way though, but it does depend on what its really like. The demo didnt inspire me, but maybe a city full of races and such might get me going.

In some respects, Crackdown did the 'large city and racing (and random killings)' pretty damm perfectly.

If they just changed those 2 things it would be a definite buy for me as the driving around the city was cool. But that would only last so long before I wanted the old crash mode back.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:27 am 0

I am very much liking the look of this little beauty coming soon on XBLA

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/846/846125p1.html

Apologies if already posted

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:49 am 0

gravy wrote:I am very much liking the look of this little beauty coming soon on XBLA

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/846/846125p1.html

Apologies if already posted

That looks like very big bags of ace.