The Semi-Official 360 Thread - Page 30

Damn. Nice find. Bastage. Even used, you rarely find for cheaper than north of $70.

It was down to 55 bucks or so and it was on a 50% off rack and I had a complimentary 5 gift card.

Sometimes, miracles happen.

I just bought Call of Duty 3 and I was wondering if it sucks or not. I was looking for a war game and I could only spend 10 bucks so I picked it up. I've played COD 4 but don't have the funds to get it right now. Any thoughts?

COD2 and 4 are vastly superior to COD3. In my opinion, it was the definition of half ass cash in.

Damn, I wasn't sure if I should go with COD 2 or 3 and went with 3 because my brother in law said he liked it. I know 4 is awesome but I was getting this on the cheap so it was a no go.

COD 3 isn't as good as 2 or 4 but its still a decent game; I wouldn't call it a waste of money for $10.

Anyone playing The Maw? It's pretty fun.

is the RE 5 demo out yet?

January 26.

Forgive my utter ignorance, but how do I do that? Merely plugging it in produced no effect. Do I have to format it or change an IP address or some such? I am a goddamn philistine when it comes to tech questions.

Just uploaded picture of my face into Tiger Woods...freaking creepy! but it does make me look a bit Asian..

Feel free to send a friend request over Nick. Please note, I'm rockin the tennant suit.

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Internet Connection Sharing is the menu you'd want to get to for running it through your laptop. Basically you'd need your laptop connected via WiFi with the WiFi connection shared over the ethernet. You then hook the Xbox up to the laptop (not sure if you need a patch cable to do this or not though) and it gets access to the laptop's WiFi internet.

There are about a billion articles on the internet that explain this so just do a search for "Xbox 360 laptop internet connection sharing" in Google.

Cool, I'll try and answer it tonight. I'm not on all the time. If not, definately by tomorrow.

Yeah. Pretty much. Just connect it using an ethernet cable, google it or look on youtube - tons of shit there, and provided you connect to the net with your laptop wirelessly, you should be on XBL in no time. You can do it with any laptop including macbook.

Thanks. Awesome. I wish you all power.

Huh. I just found an unused card worth 1600 points while cleaning out my desk. What should I get with it? I already have Rez HD, Braid, Geometry Wars 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, Fable, CSOTN, and a couple of others. Is there anything really good that I'm missing out on, or should I just save it?

Really? I've never tried to connect my MacBook Pro to the 360 because it's a Mac and I figured it wouldn't work. Although, iPods and iPhones work so I don't know why I thought my laptop wouldn't.

Castle Crashers is pretty nifty if you like brawlers(with a few RPG splashes).

If you have friends who play online, Castle Crashers. Otherwise, just get DLC like stuff for Rock Band.

what about worms? damn I love that game.

Psychonauts, Psychonauts, and I think I'm gonna go ahead and say Psychonauts.

I still have my Xbox copy of that. <3

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I really enjoy A Kingdom for Keflings. I also realize it's not for everyone.

I got to a point in that game where I lost the will to continue. It can get so fucking dull that my eyes would go cross.

Yeah, bro. If you look on youtube there's a buncha videos on how to play with the DNS numbers or some such shit to make it work. I used to resort to using my girlfriend's mac to game it up on XBL at times prior to getting the adapter.


And Jake, if you dig fighting games you should consider Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Dunno how well the 360's Dpad holds up though really. Castle Crashers is pretty addictive too.

Castle Crashers and Worms are both pretty good to pick up. Or Portal if you somehow have escaped its brilliance.

Worms is hell of fun, what is this Castle Crashers?

Side scrolling beat em up with knights who have magic powers. It really is quite fun.

consider me sold, thanks!

No problem, just hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

I still haven't beaten Castle Crashers, I at the last level (I think) where it's boss after boss.... if you guys ever wanna party-up, send me an invite or friend request. The game is funner with others. I wouldn't mind playing thru the game again, either since I need to level up a bit more.

Poker Smash is a good XBLA purchase, too. Damn, I love that game.

Did they ever fix the glitch in Castle Crashers where it can delete all your characters if you play online?

Supposedly. Several months too late. I will never buy another Behemoth product again. Unless it's really good, and even then I'll wait to make sure it isn't horribly broken.

So I finally downloaded the RE5 demo and man the game looks sexy.
Awesome that even the demo supports co-op. I don't necessarily enjoy navigating a menu to heal in real time though. In the Shanty Street level, do enemies ever stop respawning?

EDIT: Nevermind. D'oh.

Oh snap!

I've got the Red Ring of Death/Doom/D'oh!!!

Aw crap... I'm actually not too bothered by it in the end. It's my 2nd machine and looking at it, it was manufactured in August 2006, so perhaps it's a miracle it lasted as long as it has.

I just beat Infinite Undiscovery the other day so that probably helps. If I had been at the end or in the middle and it happened I would have been pissed, but as it stands I'm just mildly frustrated. I figured this was an inevitability, and perhaps I'll get a more recent machine with a better chipset at the end of the day. I was considering upgrading to a bigger hard drive too but I'll wait and see what happens before I do anything like that. 20 gigs just isn't cutting it lately though, especially with being able to install games.

It happened quick too. I didn't have any advance warning or hiccups or anything. I just turned it on to do some post game stuff in Infinite
Undiscovery after I got home from work and got the FLASH FLASH BANG F#%K I'M DEAD.

Oh well...

Now I just need to print my label and find something to stick it in and send it back.

I've almost bought this since I've seen it for only $30 a few times. How long is it? Does it get boring? Thoughts?

I actually enjoyed it a heck of a lot more than I was expecting. The developer, Tri-Ace is usually great. Infinite Undiscovery isn't their best effort to date but it has enough charm that I was definitely drawn in. It is flawed and a little rough around the edges at times but it's also very well put together in other ways and is definitely worthwhile. I felt that the core characters and story were overall pretty well done and I think that this is probably what helped it click for me as well as it did.

Most reviews I saw said that the first few hours are a little slow, and I would have to agree, but it definitely gets better as it goes. Some of the areas you can explore are too big and too empty in some ways, but in the end it didn't bother me. Your party can get pretty big after a while and this is a plus and a minus. It's a plus because there are times where it conveys the sense of a group of people traveling the land (and working together) pretty well, but it is a minus when they're all scattered about the towns and you can only drag one of them a long with you at a time and THEY sort of interact with the townspeople. Sometimes you'll get different responses/mini quests based on who you have with you, but the process can be tedious with a big party and the rewards aren't usually all that great. I didn't pay much mind to ALL of the interactions possible in the towns but I enjoyed the game immensely nonetheless, even though I'm aware that there are better RPGs on the system.

I said it before but this one had some charm that just clicked with me. There's a post game dungeon that you can do and once I get my Xbox back I'm gonna dive right back into it and keep on playing for a bit, and part of me was even considering playing it again, which is very rare for me.

Hopefully this doesn't come off as too much rambling, but in the end I'd say if you've been curious about the game it's probably worth checking out, especially at a lower price. I really enjoyed myself with it, and it's the first RPG I've beaten on a while. (and oh yeah, I clocked about 34 hours when I finished it... I think it was about 13 hours when I got through the first of the 2 discs too.)

eta: And as for if it gets boring? Well, I was more into it at the end than I was in the beginning and I'm eager to get back to it, so I didn't really get bored with it at all.

Sweet. Soon as I'm done with Prince of Persia on my PS3, I'll give this one a try. When I'm not playing Street Fighter IV, of course.

I downloaded the Halo Wars demo and I'm kind of digging it.

I liked it more than expected, too. I'm a huge RTS fan (Rise of Nations and the 'Age Of' series being high water marks for me), so I've always hated console attempts, but this one didn't seem too bad. It has a charming look and feel, and ordering units around isn't nearly as frustrating as it was in the C&C demo from a few months ago.

I don't like the fixed base placement style. Halo Wars' base placement strategy owes a lot to EA's Battle for Middle Earth, which is unfortunate, because BFME II's near-perfect hybrid of fortress addons and free building placement fixed so much of the restraint that really held back the first game. So much of the 'S' in 'RTS', for me, at least, is base placement. Taking that away makes these games feel so much more like massive squad-based shooters.

How do the hard drives work on these machines? I'm seeing some cheap refurbished systems on ebay, but they are sans hard drives. What's the trick with replacing or adding a new one?

If you've tried this, let me know how it went.

There's no trick to the hard drives. They're external and just snap on and pop off with the push of a button.

The drives generally cost $100 (and are required to be official MS brand ones).

Also, if there is one system you never want to buy refurbished off the internet it's going to be the 360. Refurbished systems are known to be as flaky as hell and without the MS RRoD warranty on your side, you'll be quite pissed when it bites it.

Thanks a lot for the advice. I have a PS3 for most of my gaming, but I thought that if I could get into one cheap, then I would do it for Left 4 Dead and maybe some Gears of War. Just for exclusive stuff really. I'd stick with the PS3 for everything else.

Does anybody know if Microsoft has changed up how they handle the console repairs? when my original died, I was still within the Gamestop warranty so I was able to swap it out in-store. This time I had to send it in myself. Didn't they used to send boxes out (the coffins)? Also, I've gotten mixed signals about what I may actually be getting back. Will it be my original console with new guts or a new one altogether? They told me to send just the console, no cables, no hard drive, no this, no that. Just a corpse of a system. Getting a new one with an HDMI connection would be nice, but I'm up for anything as long as it works. (ETA: I know there a whole history of this stuff in the thread here, I just thought I'd ask about it straight up though since my memory is playing tricks on me and I don't have tons of time.)

I'm thinking about it again because they've already tried to deliver it back to me, but UPS is a pain sometimes when nobody's home so I'm probably gonna have to get them to route it to me at work.

I haven't sent in a console for a couple of years (knock on wood) but yeah, they sent me out a box for it. First system i sent out i got a totally different one with a new serial number, second system was the same one.

I think it all depends on the type of problem when it comes to sending a totally new system. The first system system i had had this weird multicolored kaleidoscope effect before its death. Second system was just a red ring with no warning.

I bought my 360 with no warrantee, and my system ended up with the red ring. Originally I paid $130 because of the system failure...then Microsoft publicly admitted they had goofed and gave everyone whose 360 died of Red Ring...a new 3 yr warrantee, plus they also included a check for the $130 I originally spent.