The 360 thread!

[Phineasfool]

A nice feature would be if it "learned" the tiles/options you visited most often and placed them on a "home" screen that it booted into. That way, you could side-step a lot of the stuff you weren't interested in (music/video playback for example). Maybe even offer a rudimentary way to place the tiles onto that screen, a bit like bookmarks.

Or maybe it already does (or is going to do) that? I dunno, have hardly touched the xbox since it updated.

The Quick Play section (see bottom-left of pic I posted above) shows recent stuff you've accessed, so any recent games should be in that.

As well as at least some apps. Netflix shows up in quickplay for me now.

[Fil]

Quick play is handy but if you want to get to the rest of your library you have to change tab 4 times and as already said, the marketplace isn't as accessible now. We also now get adverts with audio on our premium subscription service for items unrelated to the service itself. Also only the left hand side of each tab actually does anything useful, the rest is advertisements for other areas of the dashboard.

An Apple level RDF required to endorse this new update.

[SiN]

I cannot for the life of me understand why "games" is the FOURTH tab. I thought I purchased a videogame console system?

[The ghost of raids past]

What i dont get is why I can only see the activity of 3 friends as default and I cant see if they are in parties with who on the friend tab. I know there is a parties tab but I want to see all the information in 1 place.

[KidQuaalude]

Updated to the new dash, 5 minutes later the xbox freezes. I reboot and it RRODed.

[chub]

In case anyone likes difficult Japanese games, I just noticed that this week's XBLA deals are Radiant Silvergun, Guwange, Bangai-O HD and Hard Corps Uprising.

[PaulCunningham]

Microsoft seem determined to fuck up the best console I've ever owned.

[fog]

Microsoft seem determined to fuck up the best console I've ever owned.

They managed that a few months ago in my case. Even with the latest update my game library still takes up to a minute to load.....but the adverts manage to appear immediately.

[Jonesey]

Playable demo of The Darkness II is available (I know there are a few fans of the original on here - including me).
Had a go last night and I'm liking it!

[chub]

I haven't tried The Darkness 2 demo yet, but I had a go at the others:

Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning - looks like a cross between Fable and Torchlight, and is OK but completely generic.
Asura's Wrath - completely over the top with lovely artwork, but almost no gameplay and is mostly a QTE-fest.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 - I didn't play the first one, so have no idea how this compares. The battle system seems over-complicated and uninvolving at the same time somehow.
Scarygirl - a very pretty XBLA platformer in the 2.5D style, and was the demo I enjoyed the most

[PVB]

Never heard of the first Darkness game, but that demo looks like a right laugh.

[Jeck]

I loved the original Darkness - the Darkness II is pretty poor at capturing the spirit, feeling and class of the original, even though the abilities of the Darkness tentacles and such are far more interesting and playful. It's more like the comic-books, which aren't nearly as good as Starbreeze's take on it all. Oh, and shame on them for not using the voice-over artists from the original; Mike Patton and Kirk Acevedo we're a huge part of the appeal of the first game.

Actually, this is a bit of a bugbear with me, and one of the main reasons I'm finding it hard to warm to the new Hitman. Don't these developers realise how important the casting is?

[Muttley]

I loved the original Darkness - the Darkness II is pretty poor at capturing the spirit, feeling and class of the original, even though the abilities of the Darkness tentacles and such are far more interesting and playful. It's more like the comic-books, which aren't nearly as good as Starbreeze's take on it all. Oh, and shame on them for not using the voice-over artists from the original; Mike Patton and Kirk Acevedo we're a huge part of the appeal of the first game.

Actually, this is a bit of a bugbear with me, and one of the main reasons I'm finding it hard to warm to the new Hitman. Don't these developers realise how important the casting is?

Mike Patton has done Darkness II - in fact here's an interview with him about doing it from last August: http://www.gamefront.com/comic-con-2011 ... ke-patton/

[Jonesey]

Interesting.

[PVB]

Up to four player co-op in it too!

http://www.embracethedarkness.com/us/fe ... ure13.html

We're really excited to announce Vendettas, a co-op multiplayer mode for The Darkness II that can be played with up to four people! The story of Vendettas runs parallel to the events of the single-player campaign, and features a cast of characters with unique abilities and histories tied to the Darkness. Read about them below, and tell us which one is your favorite over at our Facebook page!