The 360 thread!

[Phineasfool]

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.

What did you use the triggers for?

I just used move and A or X (whichever was fire).

[disciple]

Right trigger is AUTOfire, left trigger does the power up shot.

[SiN]

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.

Okay, I totally didn't say any of that!

[PVB]

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.

Okay, I totally didn't say any of that!

Oi!

Ged orf moi quote!

[Deckard]

Anyone have problems with co-op across the XBLA network on R-Type last night - I tried 5 games and didnt finish one before the system booted us out

[Rod_S]

Halo Wars is the most boring "game" I've ever played. Fuck me that was painful.

[Bubba]

Loved it - first Console RTS I'm likely to buy. Took an age and a half to download though!

Cheers

Bubba

[teamonkey]

Certainly a lot better than C&C3.

[The Caffeine Kid]

Anyone have problems with co-op across the XBLA network on R-Type last night - I tried 5 games and didnt finish one before the system booted us out

Left4Dead was kicking me out of online multiplayer yesterday. Maybe live as a whole was messing up? I hope it's more stable today.

[Kelloggs]

Is it just me, or is R-Type Dimensions a lot less forgiving than even the arcade original? I only ask, because last night I was struggling to finish the first level, then I fired up MAME on hard difficulty and sailed right through to the end of level 4 on one life. After over 20 years of playing this, I'd say Something Has Changed... mind you, the X360 analogue stick isn't doing it any favours, either, and the D-pad's no better.

[PVB]

Is it just me, or is R-Type Dimensions a lot less forgiving than even the arcade original? I only ask, because last night I was struggling to finish the first level, then I fired up MAME on hard difficulty and sailed right through to the end of level 4 on one life. After over 20 years of playing this, I'd say Something Has Changed... mind you, the X360 analogue stick isn't doing it any favours, either, and the D-pad's no better.

GameCentral (Channel 4 Teletext) reviewed the game today and mentioned the difficulty with the existing controller, so you're not alone.

[benedictw]

I have heard that people think its on the arcade equivalent of hard. Other people say that the game is a reimplementation, not an emulation. Don't know how accurate that is though.

[Terrypantsman]

another vote on mainly problems with the 360 sticks here.

[Rod_S]

I got continually pasted by the first wave of drones - hammering the A button to fire just doesn't feel comfortable enough, there's a reason twin stick shooters are the king of Live Arcade shmups.

Halo Wars felt like I was working in an application - the tutorial was crippingly slow and did a poor job of selling the concept. Clearly should've been Cortana doing the tutorial voice over, the Chief even.

When it got down to the actual game, there was no real motivation to play it over Halo CE.

[Ratsoap]

I breezed through level 1 on one life, which is something that I almost never did back in the day, I thought it must have been dumbed down. I used to play the ST version though, rather than the arcade, cos there weren't any where I lived.