The 360 thread!

[The Captain]

Lord Of The Rings Conquest is not worth the download - a dreadfully dated hack 'n' slash with little to do with LOTR except the music/art assets. License or no, there's absolutely nothing here that hasn't been done before and better a thousand times. When I first put it on I thought (until it started to move) that it might be on a par with Assassin's Creed visually - but I was very wrong.

It plays identically to the first, crap LOTR tie-in hacker but the camera is over the shoulder.

[benedictw]

Lord Of The Rings Conquest is not worth the download - a dreadfully dated hack 'n' slash with little to do with LOTR except the music/art assets. License or no, there's absolutely nothing here that hasn't been done before and better a thousand times.

Darn. I'll still d/l the demo, but its a wasted license.

[The Captain]

Lord Of The Rings Conquest is not worth the download - a dreadfully dated hack 'n' slash with little to do with LOTR except the music/art assets. License or no, there's absolutely nothing here that hasn't been done before and better a thousand times.

Darn. I'll still d/l the demo, but its a wasted license.

Don't take my word for it! I hate everything!

I'd trust the opinion of my two-year old son, though, who usually loves hitting things with swords, virtually or no. After five minutes of the LOTR:C tutorial he threw the joypad down and declared it 'rubbish', and it turns out he was right.

[juice]

Well in the interests of balance I tried the Jericho demo and really liked it. The lighting and atmosphere were superb.

Then I came across the QTE 'go down the shaft sequence', surely one of the most unnecessary, jarring and ill thought through pieces of game design in recent years, and switched it off.

Yup - thats the point where I also thought "fuck this" and deleted it. Nice graphics, but the enemies were dumb as a bag of spanners and although the graphics were nice, they didn't exactly grab me in a "horror" title vibe.

Shame.

Resurrecting something from the past...

I picked this up (along with Mass Effect) post-Xmas when taking back a duplicate game someone had bought me. I really should have read some reviews beforehand

I've only got a bit past the "QTE shaft" sequence (which was everything fog described it to be), but I'm not convinced that it's worth returning.

The voiceovers are crap, the enemies are dumb, the dream-child plot-thread is cliched, the initial handholding "tutorial" sequence is frustrating and it looks like AI behaviour for team-mates hasn't improved any in the last ten years.

It's a shame: beneath all the mediocrity, there's something interesting struggling to get out - the backstory of the supernatural task force, for one. I also like the "time-travel" idea alluded to on the cover.

But for the moment, it appears to fully deserve the 60% average rating on gamerankings, and is being returned to the pile of games I'll play someday when bored...

[Phineasfool]

So has anyone here tried Last Remnant? Was just wondering what was thought of it. A few co-workers tried it and didn't care for it, but their tastes don't exactly coincide with mine.

[chub]

So has anyone here tried Last Remnant? Was just wondering what was thought of it. A few co-workers tried it and didn't care for it, but their tastes don't exactly coincide with mine.

I picked it up cheap just after Christmas, but I haven't actually started it yet. As I understand it, it has quite a few technical issues, but an unusual battle system and looks worth a go if you like JRPGs.

[Flabio]

Last Remnant? Rather than post again, I'll link to the impressions I posted on my blog:

http://flabio.livejournal.com/214393.html

One thing I will add is that the plot has finally got going, but my word is it a slow starter. And the worst of the stuttering and frame rate drops go away if you do a HD install (sadly this doesn't fix the texture popping, which is truly awful).

[Bod]

Quote from GameSpot at the CES show ...

The talk has once again returned to the possibility of an Xbox 360-compatible Blu-ray player. In contrast with the "maybe, maybe not" stance the company took last year, Microsoft has come out definitely opposed to the option. In an interview with Seattle-based news site Tech Flash, Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices division, ruled out a Microsoft-supported Blu-ray player for three specific reasons.

"It's not a feature we get a ton of requests for," Bach told Tech Flash. "When you ask people the list of things they want to see us spending time creating in Xbox, Blu-ray is way, way down on the list. The second thing is, from a technical perspective, it doesn't help us in the core of what Xbox does, which is in gaming. We can't have publishers produce games on Blu-ray disc. Because then they won't play on the 28 million Xboxes we've already shipped. So it doesn't help us in the core gaming space."

Bach went on to say that the final reason is that a Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360 SKU simply wouldn't make much economic sense. "And so the scenario is," he continued, "OK, let me get this straight: I'm going to add something to the product that's going to raise the cost, which means the price goes up, consumers aren't asking for it, and by the way, my game developers can't use it."

Bach went on to reiterate Microsoft's commitment to serving video content digitally through Xbox Live. Specifically, he called out the Xbox 360's ability to stream high-definition video through a collaboration with Netflix, a service that was introduced with the New Xbox Experience dashboard update in November."

[Tarjei]

Which arcade stick to buy for Street Fighter 4, or will there even be any available? It's not that important that it's an actual stick, just a controller with a proper d-pad would suffice. They could just release it for the Wii, so I could play it with my Classic controller, ah, that lovely thing.

[Flabio]

If you're not bothered about it actually being a stick you should give the madcatz fight pads a go. Half tempted by one of those myself, and I already *own* a stick.

[Tarjei]

I saw that one, looks like it would do fine for me. But aren't those one in the whole so-out-of-stock-it's-ridiculous bunch? If not, where do I order one from?

[Jonesey]

Anyone know if there are any changes to the Resident Evil 5 playable demo?

If it's the same as the shyte Jap one I'll save myself a download when I get home.

[Rod_S]

Anyone know if there are any changes to the Resident Evil 5 playable demo?

If it's the same as the shyte Jap one I'll save myself a download when I get home.

Same as far as I can tell. Still on course to be 2009's biggest disappointment, then. The co-op, Christ...

[The Captain]

Isn't the first of the Fallout 3 DLCs out tomorrow? Don't mind if I do!

[WiredWorm]

Isn't the first of the Fallout 3 DLCs out tomorrow? Don't mind if I do!

Yep, although i've still not finished the main game yet. It's consuming my life right now.....