The 360 thread!

[peter_cushion]

Unofficial quote from xbox forums:

What we know as of 0900 Central Time
After Maint last night DLC, Arcade, and other items are missing from Live.
People are getting errors when trying to access DLC or download new items.
No one knows why or when it will be fixed.
So far, no replies from Microsoft.
Publishers won't have a clue since they have no control over what happens on Live.
It appears the servers might have been rolled back a week.
We are all screwed until it's fixed.
This should cover 99.9% of the recent Why is "X" not on Live posts.

If you buy Magic or Sam and Max and it stalls at 1% or just craps out completely there are no refunds so don't bother asking. Once they fix whatever they screwed up it should download correctly from what other users are saying.

Oops!

[Bod]

Look like MS have updated the Xbox.com area whilst it has been down.
I just logged in with my 360 username & it's all a lot more swish now!

[disciple]

I'm confused, should I hold off turning on my XBOX till this washes over for fear of breakage?

[Mark]

I'm confused, should I hold off turning on my XBOX till this washes over for fear of breakage?

No, it'll be fine. As Flabio said - there's no console update - all the work has been done on Microsoft's servers. If you want to be safe, it's probably best not to try buying anything from the marketplace, but that's about it. I signed in earlier to have a look at the Space Invaders Extreme DLC, and everything worked a treat (didn't buy it - the info only mentions the emulated versions of the SI and SI2 and not the new levels for SI:E that were promised, so I thought I'd wait and see).

[chub]

This shows the current status of Xbox Live: http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/n ... tatus.aspx

Marketplace still has problems, but they're looking into them.

Here's their blog as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/xblops/

[disciple]

I'm confused, should I hold off turning on my XBOX till this washes over for fear of breakage?

No, it'll be fine. As Flabio said - there's no console update - all the work has been done on Microsoft's servers.

Cool ta. =)

[Deckard]

So its true then - http://gizmodo.com/5295868/balmer-confi ... 60-in-2010

[Flabio]

Not quite - http://kotaku.com/5296104/microsoft-the ... ew-console

All is confusion... (and don't ask me, I don't have a clue)

[CharlieF]

All is confusion...

Fantastic mechanism confusion. You couldn't buy promotion that would propagate so quickly.

I really hope this 'natural' controller thingy dosen't become the norm in a few years time. Don't get me wrong I'm all for something new and I get quite exiced about developments, but sometimes you just want to relax and play with minimal movement after a day at work.

[Anders]

Fantastic mechanism confusion. You couldn't buy promotion that would propagate so quickly.

I really hope this 'natural' controller thingy dosen't become the norm in a few years time. Don't get me wrong I'm all for something new and I get quite exiced about developments, but sometimes you just want to relax and play with minimal movement after a day at work.

I want both. The "natural" stuff can be default, but let me use a regular controller when I want to. This sort of thing should be inclusive and not shut anyone out.

[PVB]

Just completed a big mission in Prototype.

Had to collect genetic material from water tanks (by smashing them up before enemies hatched out of them, not easy), then collect more material from a Hive nest at the same time also protecting the Hive nest from a LOT of military, including a never-ending amount of helicopters and tanks.

That certainly got the adrenaline flowing.

[gravy]

I just did that one too.

It's not a bad game.

[PVB]

Even with dozens of civvies on the streets, loads of army guys, tanks, cars, helicopters and Hive all moving/burning/blowing up, I didn't notice any slowdown.

Once I'd finished the mission, I stood on the parapet of a building overlooking the area and it was great to see about three blocks of the city in flames.

[grue]

Not quite - http://kotaku.com/5296104/microsoft-the ... ew-console

All is confusion... (and don't ask me, I don't have a clue)

Hahah! Nobody wants to release a new console

Better late than never I say. It's about time developer were given the chance to try to peak the current hardware.

[gravy]

Even with dozens of civvies on the streets, loads of army guys, tanks, cars, helicopters and Hive all moving/burning/blowing up, I didn't notice any slowdown.

Once I'd finished the mission, I stood on the parapet of a building overlooking the area and it was great to see about three blocks of the city in flames.

Yeah the tech is dead good and the city is mahoosive. Did you get past The Specialist yet? I did that yesterday and found it pretty difficult compared to what the game had asked me to do so far. Here's some stuff I posted on another forum:




As with others here's the stuff that jarred a little.

* I don't like missions when I'm just travelling to the yellow star and it's been placed on the other side of the city

* Not too keen on the quicktime events for getting into tanks. Losing control AND taking damage from the surrounding enemies seemed like I was getting the worse of all worlds. It's pretty easy to health up by absorbing a few pedestrians before trying to get in a vehicle but that just feels a little bit grindy

* The difficulty curve is little bit spikey. Having to defeat the Specialist seemed a lot bigger challenge that what had gone before

* Character modelling and animation could be a bit better to be honest

* Found it a little hard to have any empathy for a character leaping around the city killing and consuming people in a particularly horrid manner

* No online


And stuff I like very much:

* The city is really big and really well populated

* The player control is really good, comboing pre-loaded jumps with glides and that left trigger air dash thing is very satisfying

* Running up walls, nothing better that zooming up the side of a skyscraper while the sun glistens off the windows

* Really looking forward to getting home tonight to play it some more. That's probably the best compliment I can give it


I reckon I've got another couple of evenings on it before I complete it.