The 360 thread!

Beer Monkey · Post by **Beer Monkey** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:18 pm 0

rockwaldo wrote: Its the attitude that someone did it either out of stupidness or to spite you that i'm questioning to be honest.

It's poor production. If it was really at the last minute I can definitely understand, but it still needs addressing. At $400 for my 360, $50 a year for Live, and $5 for a classic game I do have high expectations, and I think I should.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:20 pm 0

rockwaldo wrote:Its the attitude that someone did it either out of stupidness or to spite you that i'm questioning to be honest.

I'd attribute it to the people in charge not giving a shit. The people who do care (The devs) don't get a say in it. The result is those godawful badly emulated retro games that keep getting shoved onto the handhelds.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:14 pm 0

Beer Monkey wrote:Yeah, god knows that nobody at geeky forums like Yak Yak give a crap about the accuracy of their classic games.

Considering how much I hated the original Frogger, I'm quite glad they haven't stuck completely true to form. The achievements add a new element of gameplay and I'd just turn the sound off if they had the original chip music. Yay progress!

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:10 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
Beer Monkey wrote:Yeah, god knows that nobody at geeky forums like Yak Yak give a crap about the accuracy of their classic games.
Considering how much I hated the original Frogger, I'm quite glad they haven't stuck completely true to form. The achievements add a new element of gameplay and I'd just turn the sound off if they had the original chip music. Yay progress!

now we're talking.

I hate the fucking game, always have done, yet i quite enjoy some of the achievements.....need a better controller mind.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:34 pm 0

Bit of a cross post, but it's about a new demo, so should be okay:

PVB, in the other 360 thread wrote:
GeeZa wrote:
Rod_S wrote:Project Slypheed:

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/sylph/

Sexy.
OK I'm now more interested, slightly. This is more like the stuff I'm looking for.
There's a demo of Zegapain on the Japan Live Marketplace now.

Similar 'Robots/Mechs In Space Shooter' type of game.

Edit: Better pics here: http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/z ... index.html

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:04 pm 0

Oblivion: The Vile Lair

â€˜The Vile Lairâ€™ is now up on Marketplace for â€˜Oblivionâ€™ owners to download. This content is 150 points and is available in the following Xbox Live regions: US, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:15 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Oblivion: The Vile Lair

â€˜The Vile Lairâ€™ is now up on Marketplace for â€˜Oblivionâ€™ owners to download. This content is 150 points and is available in the following Xbox Live regions: US, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand.

As the Oblivion Downloads site seems Bjorked at the moment, here's a brief description of the update:

This underwater hideout provides your infamous character with safe haven. Those willingly inflicted (or shall we say graced?) with vampirism will find a means to feed, and if necessary, a means to cure their infliction. Hire evil minions, pray to the dark god Sithis, and a host of other functions await.

sty · Post by **sty** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:03 am 0

I just realised that I never thought I would be looking forward to the release of Frogger!

odd this XBLA stuff,

anyway, I'll grab it this weekend I think

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:34 am 0

Bought Frogger last night and played it for a good hour or two - thoroughly enjoyed it - found that the achievements added a new incentive to keep playing despite it being f*cking frustrating at times.

Would have played longer but used some of the MS Point's i'd bought to also purchase Mutant Storm and Wik: Fable of Souls. Mmmmmm, Live Arcade!!!!

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:37 am 0

WiredWorm wrote:Would have played longer but used some of the MS Point's i'd bought to also purchase Mutant Storm and Wik: Fable of Souls. Mmmmmm, Live Arcade!!!!

Wik is fantastic exercise for your left thumb. Wait until you start trying to get the Loopnastics Achievement.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:39 am 0

Just racked up a decent score on Frogger.

Has anyone played online co-op, yet? I tried it last night, and even though I'd filled in all my frog-holes, it just carried on without clearing 'em. ?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:25 pm 0

Jesus christ. How fucking good does Mass Effect look?

*Bows down before Bioware* Does anyone know when it's due out. I WANT

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:22 am 0

Yeah, it looks fucking amazing! Hopefully really something special

. The graphics are great and all, but the character interaction blows anything else I've seen out of the water. Combat looks... interesting... although I wonder how it'll play out with respect to traditional RPG things like upgrading statistics, armour points e.t.c. Can't wait for it though!

Cheers

Bubba

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:31 am 0

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/c ... 180042.stm

This is so depressing.

In May this year Microsoft bought Massive Incorporated, a young but highly successful company that drops ads into online PC games.

In addition to the posters and billboards, Massive is introducing clickable multi-level video commercials that enable products to be ordered from within the game.

MSN is a huge technological innovator in terms of ad-serving technology, they've got a very large and substantive ad sales organisation. So bringing that technology into this industry will really enhance it

"Enhance" the industry by littering it with fucking adverts that nobody wants to see? These people make me sick. Coming next from TeamXecuter - Adbolcker 360. You can but hope.

peter_cushion · Post by **peter_cushion** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:40 am 0

Battle for Middle Earth demo is up. Also pirates of caribbean trailer in HD and a gamespot programme from last week's Arcade Wednesday thing.