The 360 thread!

[benedictw]

Dunno about you guys, I'm was finding Arcade a touch tricky to find. Slightly surprised there seems to be so much community content up there. Couldn't see anything by PaulC anyway!

[benedictw]

If you haven't got it yet try going to settings and running a network test, when it gets to Xbox Live you will get the prompt.

Ahh, you're a star!

It wasn't showing up for me until I tried that.

Blimy, you created your avatar quickly.

Riks avatar:


Good likeness I think.

[Flabio]

Ignore the flashy stuff (although I am quite fond of the way going to the 'full info' for a game changes the background and lets you quickly look at screenshots etc...), the main improvements are the guide rather than the dash. Everything is a few clicks away once you've hit the guide button, very easy to jump around from there.

I'm not a fan of the fancy visual friends list, might be nicer now everyone on my friends list will have an avatar, but during the beta when only one or two people did it was a bit pointless.

[RiK]

[fog]

Live is working for me now

Dunno about you guys, I'm was finding Arcade a touch tricky to find.

Me too. It might be faster, but it certainly doesn't seem any easier to find things unless it's one of the promoted items....although maybe that's the point.

Slightly surprised there seems to be so much community content up there. Couldn't see anything by PaulC anyway!

Paul has something in testing (very nice it is too), but moving to the other side of the world kind of screwed up his schedule

[PVB]

If you haven't got it yet try going to settings and running a network test, when it gets to Xbox Live you will get the prompt.

Ahh, you're a star!

It wasn't showing up for me until I tried that.

I'm told it'll also start if you stick a game disc in the drive.

Won't get to install mine until later tonight, as I'm at my sister's for tea.

Will be able to see it on the nephew's 360 though.

[RiK]

So far, so good.

I've only had a very quick squizz round but I'm liking what I see so far.

Currently installing CoD5 to HD, CoD4 next

[chub]

Major Nelson has a top ten list of things to do with this thing: http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/11/ ... ience.aspx

I thought the 'delete Zero Gamerscore games' one was just a rumour. Glad to see it's actually in there! Time for a tidy up.

[Bod]

Must try that one in a minute ... it's all very swish though isn't it?

I really like the hard drive install option, as the loading speed is quicker (slightly) & the zero noise from the dvd drive is bizarre at first!
The only bit where I still prefer the old style was how easy it was to instantly see who is online & what they were playing. I actually end up pressing the xbox button & using the blades for that purpose (& for quick messaging too!).

... must have a look at the community games area too.

[RiK]

Currently playing CoD5 from the HD. It's ace

[PurpleChair]

I like being able to turn my avatar into a gamerpic.



Mmmm... nice and smug.

[Meatpuppet]

Must try that one in a minute ... it's all very swish though isn't it?

I really like the hard drive install option, as the loading speed is quicker (slightly) & the zero noise from the dvd drive is bizarre at first!

The fact that you have to keep the game/source disc in the drive to play the hd rip, slightly defeats the purpose for me, as I still need to get off my arse to put the correct disc in the drive..
Drive noise has never really bothered me - but, I suspect it's in there to reduce wear & tear on the suspect/dodgy xbox hardware.

[WiredWorm]

Well yeah, but it's totally understandable why they've put that in place. If they hadn't then people would just rent games, dump them to HDD and then return them.

[subzero]

so how does the hard drive gaming work? im guessing you'll still need the game disc to initialize it first right???

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