The 360 thread!

[Phineasfool]

I would consider getting Halo Wars if I didn't just suck so badly at RTS games.

[benedictw]

I played Halo Wars. It's wonderful. Most fun I've had with an RTS since the original Red Alert.

How did you find the control scheme?

[owen]

Picked myself up a 360 at long last yesterday, the NXE UI's very nice and swishy. Already had space giraffe and rez from xbla, so picked up geometry wars and street fighter HD to go with, loving the fact i can hit the Xbox button and switch between trancy goodness without moving any other Live Arcade games forumites recommend? (or community games either).

Oh, and would anyone know anywhere selling Live subscriptions and wireless adapters a bit cheaper? The wifi is incredibly overpriced for what it is.

[PaulEMoz]

R-Type Dimensions on Wednesday - 1200 points though, ouch. Kinda tempting, but I think most of us have learnt our lesson with Arcade games that don't get played after the first week, hmmm?

http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/950/950114p1.html

Looks a bit wank actually.

I always preferred Gradius to R-Type, and in fact I never really got on with the R-Type games. I'd probably have just blindly bought this tomorrow if it was 800 points... I think that 1200 is enough to make me consider whether I really want it (and deep down, I know the answer is no).

I'll download the demo though... maybe it'll change my mind for me.

[Mark]

Picked myself up a 360 at long last yesterday, the NXE UI's very nice and swishy. Already had space giraffe and rez from xbla, so picked up geometry wars and street fighter HD to go with, loving the fact i can hit the Xbox button and switch between trancy goodness without moving any other Live Arcade games forumites recommend? (or community games either).

There's loads of great stuff, so I'll just pick out a few. On XBLA Mutant Storm Reloaded is still one of my favourite shoot-em-ups. Galaga Legions and Omega Five are both worth a pop too. Pacman Championship Edition is very good, if perhaps a little short lived - but as a remake it did something I thought impossible and made me thoroughly enjoy Pac Man. Braid is a brilliant platform game that'll make you feel clever, and Castle Crashers is a cracking old-school scrolling beat-em-up. I'll round off with a personal favourite - Poker Smash - which looks like your standard match-3 puzzle game but is actually so much better than that if you stick with it.

As to Community games - I'd recommend Carneyvale Showtime, Weapon of Choice and Duotrix for starters.

[SiN]

I played Halo Wars. It's wonderful. Most fun I've had with an RTS since the original Red Alert.

How did you find the control scheme?

Scrolling is a bit iffy, but the rest of it totally "just works". Apparently, using the dpad to cycle through bases makes moving around the map easier. Overall though, really: "it just works".

SiN

[PVB]

Picked myself up a 360 at long last yesterday, the NXE UI's very nice and swishy. Already had space giraffe and rez from xbla, so picked up geometry wars and street fighter HD to go with, loving the fact i can hit the Xbox button and switch between trancy goodness without moving any other Live Arcade games forumites recommend? (or community games either).

Oh, and would anyone know anywhere selling Live subscriptions and wireless adapters a bit cheaper? The wifi is incredibly overpriced for what it is.

The wifi adapter may be expensive, but it works straight out of the box, whereas various bridges and such seem (going by comments on here in the past) to require a lot of faffing about and even then keep dropping connection.

It was cheaper before Xmas, dunno about now, but try your local Gamestation and such.

For Live subs and MS points, there's a few places on ebay (mentioned on here in the past), but check feedback before parting with cash.

Ultratron is a good game in the Community Games section.

[PVB]

Posted on Major Nelson on Monday:

Dashboard Update (aka the HDMI Audio fix)
Starting Tuesday morning at 0200 Pacific when you sign into Xbox Live you’ll be prompted for a mandatory dashboard update. The update addresses the issue that a few folks were having with audio and their HDMI connection.

This update will be rolled out to all Xbox LIVE members around the world over the space of a few hours, so you may not get prompted for the update immediately. Thanks for your patience.

It made my console do a restart, so don't connect to Live in the middle of a game, or you might lose your progress if you haven't saved.

[Deckard]

Anyone playing R-Type 2.5 yet ? I cant wait till I get home

[Kelloggs]

Anyone playing R-Type 2.5 yet ? I cant wait till I get home

I've queued it up for download; on my broadband line, it should only take... oh, about a week...

[Terrypantsman]

yep thats the 6th copy of R type I have now bought in my Life. Fucking Game I have such a love and hate relationship with this game.

seems a good version, the 3d version seems a bit quick compared to normal. HD is nice but i miss the striped sprites of arcade accurate versions.

just had a good annual play HD widescreen style.

Is nice and solid not used to the 360 joystick, its abit twitchey so i have found my self crashing into the scenery more than usual.

R Type balls to braces really.

being playing this game for 25 years now and I can only get to level 5.


one of these days I WILL get all the way too and past level 4 with out losing a life straight from the start. fucking game ..


should just go out and buy an arcade machine really , then i can kick it every time i walk past.

[owen]

The wifi adapter may be expensive, but it works straight out of the box, whereas various bridges and such seem (going by comments on here in the past) to require a lot of faffing about and even then keep dropping connection.

It was cheaper before Xmas, dunno about now, but try your local Gamestation and such.

cheers, had a bit of a mess around seeing if i could use the imac and link it like that but gave up, life's to short! yeah picked it up at gamestation for fifty quid, a tenner of the rrp new, but still horrifically overpriced.

In fact when you've thrown in a wifi adapter, (£60) xbox live (£40) and a rechargable battery pack (£15) on top of the £170 for the console itself, you're not far off the cost of a PS3. sneaky.

[benedictw]

a rechargable battery pack (£15)

Does anyone buy these? I just use some cheapy AA rechargables from 7dayshop and they get used in everything.

[Flabio]

I use a wired pad with my 360, it's not like I ever get far enough away from it to be a problem.

Works with my PC too.

[Jonesey]

That R-Type Dimensions - can you reconfigure the controls in the full game? The triggers are just a bit too awkward for me in the free demo.