The Xbox 360 Thread

Maybe I should have said pulling an activision, referring to the fact they've made it into a yearly series. I feel that that really lowers my enthusiasm for a series.

 

I'm so freakin' addicted to SSX. IGN said it better than I could with the line "This is what happens when you don’t just put the game out every year, but spend your time crafting it, creating the ultimate experience."

Every time I stop playing, I think of ten reasons I should jump straight back in.

 

Bought kingdoms of Amalur and I must admit its very good. Second time I've bought a game I had no idea what to do in, get used to it though (first was skyrim heh).

Edit:
This is one of the best games I've played. I don't know why many say the storyline is bad; because it isn't. I've played it for 5 hours and it is very good. The side quests actually are fun to do, and they are really interesting unlike skyrim's. For example, Webwood was infested by spiders and they had to figure out what to do.

 

I like Mass Effect 2 ! It turns me off the reality for a long time when I can let myself to do this)))

 

SSX is great, but I don't recommend using cloud saves with it unless you have fast upload speeds (and no data cap). My ghost save is already 100+ MB and I don't feel like I have that much ghost data yet. The end result is that after I power off my Xbox, it continues to run for a long time while it uploads the ghost data to the cloud. My DSL service has pretty good download speeds, but pretty slow upload. Even still it seems like it takes longer than it should.

I'm going to copy my save off the cloud and to a flash drive, so I can tote it between our two Xboxes that way. For me, at least, using cloud saves with this game is not a good idea. LOL. Other games don't seem to have such large save files, just SSX. Or at least of the ones I've played since the advent of the dashboard update.

 

Assassin's Creed III trailer was released today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUMPrv8oRw

I'm pretty excited, all the new improvements look awesome.

Edit: ack, i can't get the video to embed, oh well

 

The 100MB ghost file is it's maximum size, it'll stay there regardless of how many ghosts you create. I think with the PS3's Plus service you can choose exactly what gets uploaded, so it'd ignore the ghost data completely. The actual save is only about 500KB. I dunno if the 360 has that option...

 

I dnt know how but somehow I managed to buy all three consoles of current gen. Thought I was done with console gaming (and gaming in general) after ps2.

Got the 360 +kinect for kids today. Not looking for games for myself. Only going to buy bayonetta I think. Ps3 version was supposedly too shitty so never got around buying that.

Any recs for kinect games? Got the kinect adventure and kinect sports pack. Gonna buy fruit ninja as soon as I get some MS points in my account. Also kinectimals is a confirmed purchase too. Anyone else uses kinect here?

 

Dance Central 1/2 are really good. For kids, you might prefer the Just Dance series. There's a Kids version of that, and Just Dance is much more lenient, less about accuracy. I like Kinect Sports 2 as well. It's not as good as KS1, but still has fun stuff and they are adding more minigames. 2 free DLC packs so far.

My kids like Sonic Riders Kinect (I'm forgetting the name). It has a *terrible* interface - I mean really. I find it aggravating, but my kids take it in stride - but once the races start it's fun.

Fruit Ninja Kinect is awesome. Definitely get that.

 

If there is a way to do that on Xbox, I'm not sure how. Besides that, I would want to have a single set of ghost data anyway, so I'm just going to use a flash drive for my SSX save data.

 

The problem with these dance games is that I'm not in US and neither me, nor the kids listen to English songs. So not sure how much they'll enjoy those games. If it had a Bollywood version, I'd be all over it! Still going to give it a try if I find a demo for these games.

Kids didn't love KS1 as much as kinect adventures so not getting KS2 for sure. I did pick up gun stringer (with free fruit ninja) today though. Kids loved FN. Haven't tried Gun stringer yet. Kinectimals was worth it too except that I had to turn it off coz my son and nephew wouldn't stop fighting who gets to play it next (no local multiplayer in that game from what I've seen).

Also picked up kinect Disneyland but it didn't play coz of some region error. Box said it was for pal region (which is the same as my Xbox) so that was a disappointment.

For myself, I got bayonetta and forza 3 bundle (couldnt find baynotta alone and the two game set cost 30 bucks only so didn't matter much). And WET (another old game I wanted to try out). So in the end, I now have more than twice as many games in 2 days of owning an Xbox than I did in 2 years of ps3 (which was a grand total of 3 btw).

 

I want to note that The Gunstringer has a scene in it (which you can see in the demo) in which a character is having sex with a crocodile (or something) and it goes on *forever*. It's not realistic at all, but still. There's no mistaking what is going on. I was pretty disappointed as I felt that was completely inappropriate for what would otherwise be a pretty family friendly game. Figured I should point that out. I haven't played the full game yet, only the demo. I didn't find that scene particularly funny either, just juvenile, so it didn't do anything for me either. The game itself seemed like it was fun from the demo.

 

Trials Evolution. That's, to me, the biggest release this year. All IMHO stuff, of course. Rumor has it it will be out in April. I can't wait! In the mean time SSX is pretty darn fine.

 

^^I second that!

 

Minecraft 360 has an official release date... announcement date??? LOL. 2 days until they announce when it will be released. My kids will be excited about this non-announcement anyway. LOL.

http://playxbla.com/minecraft-launch-date-tease/