XBox 360 - buyer's remorse

Jason P

Consider getting the following games and you will not be disappointed:

NHL 2009
Oblivion
Civ Revolution
Gears of War
Halo 3
Bioshock

Plus there are a ton of awesome games to download (Pac Man Championship Edition)

Rygar

Jason P wrote:

Consider getting the following games and you will not be disappointed:

NHL 2009
Oblivion
Civ Revolution
Gears of War
Halo 3
Bioshock

Plus there are a ton of awesome games to download (Pac Man Championship Edition)

I'll add to the list, based on enjoyment (but not in any particular order), COD4, GRAW, GRAW 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2, Forza 2 and Mass Effect as can't-go-wrongs.

I will say that NHL 09 has gotten as boring as fuck in no time, like Grand Theft Auto. I despise the typical bs AI in this game.

mole1985

Fallout 3 is out soon as is Gears Of War 2.

Rygar

mole1985 wrote:

Fallout 3 is out soon as is Gears Of War 2.

Fallout 3 looks excellent!

reversedarwinism

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

I really don't have any way to respond to someone claiming that they don't see any improvement from Madden 05 on the PS2 to Madden 09 on the 360.

The 360 is amazing and has a wealth of games worthy of purchasing the system for depending on what type of games you like.

Well, I've played 5 games now. All against my brother-in-law. I really enjoyed it last night, I'm getting the hang of it. I just had to get used to the controlls and learn more about the game. I figured out how to do defensive player audibles, but I still don't like using only one button for the play calling and everything else before the snap. And the one gripe I've had for all Madden editions: there is no intelligence for being near the sideline, the receivers just run full speed out of bounds. Anyway, I like it now and buyer's remorse is over.

Madden is really the only game I play. Guitar Hero is kinda fun. Its the kind of low-tech game I can handle, but it can get boring real fast. I also got this "blazing angel 2" flying game; And its a total piece of shit.

aspoonfulweighsaton

reversedarwinism wrote:

Well, I've played 5 games now. All against my brother-in-law. I really enjoyed it last night, I'm getting the hang of it. I just had to get used to the controlls and learn more about the game. I figured out how to do defensive player audibles, but I still don't like using only one button for the play calling and everything else before the snap. And the one gripe I've had for all Madden editions: there is no intelligence for being near the sideline, the receivers just run full speed out of bounds. Anyway, I like it now and buyer's remorse is over.

Madden is really the only game I play. Guitar Hero is kinda fun. Its the kind of low-tech game I can handle, but it can get boring real fast. I also got this "blazing angel 2" flying game; And its a total piece of shit.

Well that's good to hear... are there any other sports games you've enjoyed in the past?

reversedarwinism

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

Well that's good to hear... are there any other sports games you've enjoyed in the past?

NCAA, but I've always been better at Madden. I played alot more games on Nintindo, back in the day. I've had 3 PS2s and wind up selling them, then later wanting to play Madden again. Racing games and flying combat games are cool, even though I suck at them. I'm really good at Madden, but I generally suck at video games.

Pearls&Stones

I traded my Xbox 360 for the Wii and have nothing close to buyer's remorse.

dirt

I bought a 360 last week w/ a year subscription to Live. I feel like an idiot for posting this question, but I need some help:

Every time I turn the machine on, I have to retreive my gamertag. WTF? I have autosave enabled. Every time I go through the retreival process by entering my email/password, I ask for it to be saved yet I have go though this each time. Annoying. Any suggestion to correct this issue I'm having would be appreciated.

The gaming is pretty good, but I feel that the Xbox pricing is excessive compared to PS3. You have to spend $299 (not the $199 they advertise) to get the system w/ a hard drive for Live. No built-in wireless??? There's another $100. No rechargable battery controller? $30. ...And then there's the Blu-ray factor.

Rygar

dirt wrote:

I bought a 360 last week w/ a year subscription to Live. I feel like an idiot for posting this question, but I need some help:

Every time I turn the machine on, I have to retreive my gamertag. WTF? I have autosave enabled. Every time I go through the retreival process by entering my email/password, I ask for it to be saved yet I have go though this each time. Annoying. Any suggestion to correct this issue I'm having would be appreciated.

The gaming is pretty good, but I feel that the Xbox pricing is excessive compared to PS3. You have to spend $299 (not the $199 they advertise) to get the system w/ a hard drive for Live. No built-in wireless??? There's another $100. No rechargable battery controller? $30. ...And then there's the Blu-ray factor.

You shouldn't have to retrieve the profile every time, and the only time I've ever had to do that is after putting the profile on another console.
You're mostly right, except wireless internet is a convenience, not a necessity, and not as good as wired internet anyway.

Give me a few on the profile problems.

chromiam

dirt wrote:

The gaming is pretty good, but I feel that the Xbox pricing is excessive compared to PS3. You have to spend $299 (not the $199 they advertise) to get the system w/ a hard drive for Live. No built-in wireless??? There's another $100. No rechargable battery controller? $30. ...And then there's the Blu-ray factor.

Wal Mart (yeah I know :rolleyes: ) has a PS3 bundle for $488 or something.. a 80GB PS 3 and 2 select PS3 games as well as 4 select Blu-ray movies... PS3 titles aren't that bad but most of the Blu-ray titles are horrible...

jervin007

I have both systems, but tend to use the PS3 more just because of the blue-ray player. Not to take anything away from the x-box. I hear the live capabilities are great, I have just never really got into the whole online gaming thing.

polaris

xbox live is ultimately what makes the system ... it takes a game and exponentially increases it's life ... halo is a great example of that ...

mca47

chromiam wrote:

Wal Mart (yeah I know :rolleyes: ) has a PS3 bundle for $488 or something.. a 80GB PS 3 and 2 select PS3 games as well as 4 select Blu-ray movies... PS3 titles aren't that bad but most of the Blu-ray titles are horrible...

The Blu-ray choices I got to choose from when I got my PS3 were pretty crappy (I mean, really crappy! LOL!). That said, you can pretty much get any new movie (and many old) on BD now. My local Best Buy has an entire aisle to Blu now, as does my local Blockbuster.

Blu on a nice TV is truly incredible. I've had my 50" 1080p HDTV for a couple years now and I'm still amazed at times when i pop in a BD on my PS3.

rival.

return madden & pick up FIFA.

you won't be sorry.

chromiam

mca47 wrote:

The Blu-ray choices I got to choose from when I got my PS3 were pretty crappy (I mean, really crappy! LOL!). That said, you can pretty much get any new movie (and many old) on BD now. My local Best Buy has an entire aisle to Blu now, as does my local Blockbuster.

Blu on a nice TV is truly incredible. I've had my 50" 1080p HDTV for a couple years now and I'm still amazed at times when i pop in a BD on my PS3.

I agree that you can get basically any movie on BR now... I was commenting on the selection of "free" BR movies included with the WalMart bundle...

Rygar

polaris wrote:

xbox live is ultimately what makes the system ... it takes a game and exponentially increases it's life ... halo is a great example of that ...

Gears 2' co-op campaign and Horde mode is eating up many many hours thanks to live!

demetrios

What's your gamer tag? Mines demetrios1 for the Xbox 360. I've only been playing Guitar Hero World Tour like crazy style! Soon it's gonna be Gears Of War baby!

There's an option to enable the gamer tag profile to start up automatic. Can I ask you, do you have any other gamer tags saved on your system? I had friends come on over, with over 5 plus gamer tags, and it won't start up with mine by default, but the last one who entered their gamer tag, prior.

Forget now my PS3 gamer tage. Something redmosqutio. Will check tonight! I mostly use it for watching blu-ray discs, and custom downloads from various sites where you can download sweet hd clips! With the latest update, still, it doesn't fix the option if you to watch a movie, and want to download in the background, it won't work. Like how the Xbox 360 does. Hopefully they get that fixed.

dirt

There are some striking enhancements w/ Blu-ray titles -- I notice it with the audio as much as I do with the video. The firmware updates for PS3 and the up-conversions to standard DVDs look really great too.

As for the Xbox, I haven't really gotten in to Live too much yet but we'll see how it goes...

Rygar

demetrios wrote:

What's your gamer tag? Mines demetrios1 for the Xbox 360. I've only been playing Guitar Hero World Tour like crazy style! Soon it's gonna be Gears Of War baby!

There's an option to enable the gamer tag profile to start up automatic. Can I ask you, do you have any other gamer tags saved on your system? I had friends come on over, with over 5 plus gamer tags, and it won't start up with mine by default, but the last one who entered their gamer tag, prior.

Forget now my PS3 gamer tage. Something redmosqutio. Will check tonight! I mostly use it for watching blu-ray discs, and custom downloads from various sites where you can download sweet hd clips! With the latest update, still, it doesn't fix the option if you to watch a movie, and want to download in the background, it won't work. Like how the Xbox 360 does. Hopefully they get that fixed.

You can go into account details for each profile to change the way it signs in (on the main blade select the gamertag and then go into account management, and then startup (I'm pretty sure startup is not on that first menu, but after act. mgmt).

I don't think that is what dirt meant - I assumed he meant that he has to download his profile from live to his machine every time, which takes around 10 minutes to accomplish.