The 360 thread!

[Phineasfool]

That's just ridiculous. They are about $150 now in the US, so around 75 pounds.

Make that about 95ish quid with recent exchange rates...

Ok, didn't realize the dollar had gained a little strength. 90ish quid isn't too bad then compared to the price here.

[Deckard]

Oh dear Rare, well frankly if you dont have an HD set you dont deserve to be playing their games anyway.....http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/05/rare- ... ext-issue/ amd whilst talking about rules for MS games is this true ?

"Fable II has an achievement that can only be obtained by having Fable II Pub Games, when their rules state that all 1000 points must be available from the game's original content."

See I can diss the 360 too

[Jamesac]

Where is this small text in the game? I've heard about it but haven't seen it anywhere.

James

[Flabio]

"Fable II has an achievement that can only be obtained by having Fable II Pub Games, when their rules state that all 1000 points must be available from the game's original content."

Not true. Another player can gift you the books you need to unlock the achievement. Which is also the only way to get the doll catcher one.

[Deckard]

Nice one

[KidQuaalude]

Where is this small text in the game? I've heard about it but haven't seen it anywhere.

James

The small text is in the tutorial bit at the start when people are speaking to you...I could barely read it when I played the demo on my SDTV.

[teamonkey]

Oh dear Rare, well frankly if you dont have an HD set you dont deserve to be playing their games anyway.....http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/05/rare- ... ext-issue/ amd whilst talking about rules for MS games is this true ?

The "small font" rule doesn't exist, for full games or XBLA. The issue's been widely misreported.

[Deckard]

Oh dear Rare, well frankly if you dont have an HD set you dont deserve to be playing their games anyway.....http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/05/rare- ... ext-issue/ amd whilst talking about rules for MS games is this true ?

The "small font" rule doesn't exist, for full games or XBLA. The issue's been widely misreported.

Thats as maybe but surely text in a game should be readable on a standard tv - bog standard stuff surely for designers......

[Flabio]

We have a few cruddy old 14" SD portable tellies knocking around for testing that sort of thing. It's a bloody nightmare for UI design though, having to stick within the 'safe zone' means you can't push the GUI out to the edges as much as you'd like to on a HD display.

[WiredWorm]

I can understand the SD stuff - but does anyone really play on such a small screen nowadays? I mean 14" is just tiny as far as displays go - we have a minimum of 17" for our work displays.

[The Captain]

I'd imagine there would be a fair number of 360s in kids' bedrooms with tiny supermarket-bought TV-DVD combis, for example - exactly the market that Banjo Kazooie will sell to.

I think this kind of this is just appalling. The text on Banjo Kazooie is ridiculously small anyway, HDTV or no, and there is also no option to change the speed of the text changing either. I've tried playing this with my family and I can't read the text boxes out fast enough, nor can my daughter read the tiny script at speed herself either.

Poor show.

[shock combo]

I play on a crappy SDTV although I do have a HDTV,
It's just easier to use the 360 upstairs so other people can use the one downstairs.

Here's a pic of my awesome telly from when the 360 screwed up and got the 1RROD before getting the 3RROD (notice the towel from using the towel trick)

[Deckard]

Actually I thought that was just me but the text did seem to zip along at a fair old lick - it wont bother me though as even though I played the 2 prequels to absolute death I wont be touching this with a bargepole.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=283006
7/10 seems a very generous score in my opinion admittedly I have only played the demo though.This would have never have happened back in the glory days of Nintendo...

[PVB]

I can understand the SD stuff - but does anyone really play on such a small screen nowadays? I mean 14" is just tiny as far as displays go - we have a minimum of 17" for our work displays.

I'd imagine there would be a fair number of 360s in kids' bedrooms with tiny supermarket-bought TV-DVD combis, for example - exactly the market that Banjo Kazooie will sell to.

My friend's son uses just such a 14" TV with his 360, so they are out there.

[Baggypants]

I can understand the SD stuff - but does anyone really play on such a small screen nowadays? I mean 14" is just tiny as far as displays go - we have a minimum of 17" for our work displays.

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edit: I'm replacing that with a 14" one off freecycle