The 360 thread!

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:17 pm 0

TEST!

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:18 pm 0

TEST!

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:00 pm 0

Flabio wrote:Yes, it's shit. But the way some of you guys go on you make it sound like we actually want the bloody thing to be broken.

You mean you don't?

And you all know full well that if this was Sony or Nintendo's online service suffering these problems they'd be doing things in pretty much the same way we are, only with less offers of free stuff

True enough, but (a) I'm not paying Â£40 a year for PSN or (thank christ) the Wii thing and (b) I also think the Major Nelson factor comes into play, by having him as "human face" to XBL, people /do/ expect answers now, and not just to be fobbed off. Must say I /am/ surprised that the free game wasn't US only though

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:37 am 0

http://play.tm/wire/click/1695527

They may be two very different games, both appealing to vastly different audiences, but that does not stop Rez HD And Chessmaster LIVE teaming up to hit the Xbox Live Arcade the Wednesday after next (30th January). Chessmaster LIVE boasts Voice-chat and Live Vision capabilities for head-to-head matches, along with competent AI for when you are playing offline - we guess the camera support is presumably so you can watch people think for a very long time. On the other hand, Rez HD will play pretty much the same as the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 game of old, but will have updated sound, and be enhanced visually thanks to the crazy technology of the world we currently live in.

Fingers crossed.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:38 pm 0

If that chess game's any good, next week will be rather expensive. Any good deals on points cards at the moment?

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:39 pm 0

Gah, Spinning Circle of Boredom again tonight - easy enough to get into the game (the Media blade seems to work ok) but still...

VNVObit · Post by **VNVObit** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:30 pm 0

kingdom under fire circle of doom demo available now for download
seem to be fortunate with access to live although I don't play multiplayers very often

Felonious Feline · Post by **Felonious Feline** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:33 pm 0

Burnout Paradise - Out in the UK on Friday....

Which is the better version to get?

Xbox - more ppl online, achievements
PS3 - better graphics?

Or am I the only one who wants another "fuck me, my eyes hurt moment"?

To be fair, I'm leaning towards xbox version as I'm a bit of an achievement junkie...unless anyone has a convincing argument otherwise?

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:35 pm 0

Felonious Feline wrote: Xbox - more ppl online,

LOL.

Felonious Feline · Post by **Felonious Feline** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:43 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
Felonious Feline wrote: Xbox - more ppl online,
LOL.

Harsh, but fair.... How about "theoretically more people online"?

or how about "by the time live is sorted my xbox will be screwed again, so it's irrelevant?"

lol.

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:19 pm 0

Felonious Feline wrote:
Rod_S wrote:
Felonious Feline wrote: Xbox - more ppl online,
LOL.
Harsh, but fair.... How about "theoretically more people online"?

or how about "by the time live is sorted my xbox will be screwed again, so it's irrelevant?"

lol.

I'm not even sure that's true. Given that the 360 has much more competition game wise and that PSN is free whereas XBLive costs, it's perfectly conceivable that there will be more people online on the PS3 version than the 360's.

I've no idea how the Live Gold membership and PSN user stats stack up mind.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:25 pm 0

Felonious Feline wrote:Burnout Paradise - Out in the UK on Friday....

Which is the better version to get?

Xbox - more ppl online, achievements
PS3 - better graphics?

Or am I the only one who wants another "fuck me, my eyes hurt moment"?

To be fair, I'm leaning towards xbox version as I'm a bit of an achievement junkie...unless anyone has a convincing argument otherwise?

The PS3 was the lead development platform for the game (and it shows in the demo, it's silky smooth, super-fast and glitch-free) but both versions should be pretty much identical. They're not ports of each other, each version seems to have been developed with the platform's strengths in mind. Can't go wrong with either if you want the game. Good news really.

One interesting thing is that Criterion admitted that they really like Blu-ray data reading because it's faster than DVD further down the disk.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:29 pm 0

FFS MS pull your finger out and get this Live stuff sorted - I know you can't organise a piss up in a brewery when it comes to operating systems and mp3 players but for once in your life you had a good product / service and now its doing my nut in

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:02 am 0

Deckard wrote:FFS MS pull your finger out and get this Live stuff sorted - I know you can't organise a piss up in a brewery when it comes to operating systems and mp3 players but for once in your life you had a good product / service and now its doing my nut in

It has got to be a hardware issue, being around this long. Perhaps a lack of servers, or maybe even bandwidth.

Or, perhaps they have a bottleneck in their Live software, and it can't scale this large yet.

It'll be interesting to see what the issue is/was when it finally comes out.

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:50 am 0

Dave wrote: It'll be interesting to see what the issue is/was when it finally comes out.

I doubt the real reason will come out - no reason for Microsoft to release this. They never said what the fault was with the RRoD either.

A couple of things I've noticed are the Spinning Circle of Boredom seems to happen even if the 360 still logs into XBL; and flicking to the media blade lets you launch the game as that blade works fine, even with the SCoB on the other blades, presumably because it doesn't need to download content for that blade.