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Offline NVIDIA256
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« on: October 19, 2006, 02:09:14 AM »
I was quite surprised myself, I hadn\'t really thought about getting a 360 until at least the next halo, but oddly enough this strong yet sudden urge of buyers impulse took a hold of me, and the next thing I know I was walking out of walmart with a 360 premium and 2 games(they came with system).

So far the 360 has cost me a little more then I expected.

$399 for the system
$39.99 for extra wireless controller
$59.99 Saints Row
$29.99 for Via VT6421L Sata/IDE controller
$64(shipped-Ebay) for a samsung SH-D162C(may have to buy another for secondary back-up)

a total of $584us. Not to shabby, however if M$ drops the price of the system in the next few months(which they might) I may have to pirate a few games to even the score /end sarcasm

Sadly I have spent more time ripping the 360 apart and tweaking the system to my liking, then playing any of the games.

As of right now I am thoroughly enjoying SR, my mates are hooked on it, plus after a few beers we dig the NHL game that came with the system.

Currently now there aren\'t to many games worth purchasing for the 360, but I am told that for the ps3 release we will see a good chunk of stealer games released by M$ What i would really like to see are games that start taking advantage of the 360\'s power.

So I was wondering for all current 360 owners, what games are you playing right now and what games other than halo and GOW are you anticipating for the near future?
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« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 03:20:08 AM »
Right now I\'m wrapping up Saints Row and the game I\'m looking forward to is Smackdown vs Raw 07.
 
I recommend King Kong for you. You might even find it cheap. It\'s short, but a lot of fun. Really well made.
 
I\'m also looking forward to next year\'s Assassin\'s Creed.
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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 07:47:04 AM »
Dead Rising.  Get it, play it, live it.  If you\'re a sports fan, NBA2K7 is just... amazing.  Download the Lost Planet demo and play it.  You\'ll understand just how great the Xbox is after that.  Supposedly, Splinter Cell is decent though I\'m not a big fan and that\'s out this week.  Gears of War goes without saying of course.  If you have yet to, investing in Ghost Recon Avanced Warfighter is worth the 30 or 40 bucks you can probably find it for used.  If you like RPG\'s, Oblivion might be up your alley though I personally can\'t stand it but that\'s just my opinion.

That\'s pretty much all I can think of at this time.

If you want, you can drop about 22 bucks on Lumines and its first downloadable pack (f*ck you MS and Q Entertainment) on XBLA and play it in HD and 5.1.
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 09:54:01 AM »
whered u get a $40 wireless controller? I want one but 50 bucks is damn expensive..id rather get a game for 10 bucks more than a second controller.

Id want dead rising but..i cant see myself spending 60 bucks on it. Right now im just leaning towards Marvel and Gears of War. NBA 2k7 does look great, and im actually not getting bored with the demo (usually i get bored with b-ball games when i play alone), but again..60 bucks,lol. I can only really play splinter cell on PC, so im going to hold off on that.

the games i have are right now are madden 07 and burnout. Both games i play a lot. And u know what to expect from both the franchises so either u like those games or u dont. Can check out some threads below..

Games to look out for:
Rainbow six- I heard the demo is in the newest OXM issue and people say its great. demo should be on live 24th i think.
Lost Planet- Awesome
some other obvious ones..
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2006, 10:58:17 AM »
Alot of recommendations for dead rising, seems I\'ll have to give it a rent. Is that the game I saw on TV with the guy running in the mall knocking the zombie\'s with the umbrella?

Wait a sec wasn\'t there a recent movie by this name, that dealt with a bunch a kids stuck in mall having to fight off all these zombies?
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2006, 11:01:42 AM »
no relation. same zombie idea though. Its fun though. xbox silver is free, just hook an ethernet up to it and download the demos. Theres a bunch of them to download.
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2006, 11:05:14 AM »
I thought silver was only free on weekends, please correct me if I am wrong
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2006, 11:07:02 AM »
ur wrong :D

i forgot, XBL was down for a couple days so that mightve thrown u off
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2006, 11:17:55 AM »
Right I remember reading at xboxscene that live would be down for a day.

SO viper what are the advantages of gold over silver, since i have 3 free motnhs of the gold service( i have to activate it still)
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2006, 11:39:20 AM »
3 free months? nice..

u can play online with other people on gold. IMO, if u have the right games its definitly worth it. If u like shooters, u definitly need it. If u like sports games, you have to find the right people to play with or else it gets gay.

I definitly think its worth the 50ish bucks a year. Adds a lot more replayablilty to ur games.
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« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2006, 11:56:12 AM »
50 is peanuts for a years service.

I know what you mean playing with little stupid immature 12 year olds is annoying. I remember when PC games in the last couple of years integrated voice communication. Most servers had to disable it cause drunk rednecks and toddlers would come on the mic to fart, scream, consistently call people niggers, play music etc....

The only solution was to ditch voice communication and make it privately run via TEAMSPEAK.
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« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2006, 11:57:27 AM »
I see so silver only allows you to download content etc.. but restricts online play
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« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2006, 01:20:42 PM »
Quote from: NVIDIA256
I see so silver only allows you to download content etc.. but restricts online play


Right, the only difference between gold and silver is online play.  Silver is free, Gold is a subscription.

Don\'t expect a pricedrop this year, however don\'t be surprised to see some great bundles.  The pricedrop is likely to occur next May.
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« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2006, 02:16:48 PM »
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Don\'t expect a pricedrop this year, however don\'t be surprised to see some great bundles.  The pricedrop is likely to occur next May.

Good guess.  That\'s what I suspect too.  Aroung springtime next year is where I think Microsoft will drop the XBOX360 price tag as by that time, they had already shrink the size of CPU from 90 nm to 65 nm with the same performance....maybe the 65 nm might performance a bit better and help prevents game crashes.
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« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2006, 08:33:49 PM »
Ever-y-bod-ay! Do the Peter Moore mambo!

Just a side note, I upgraded to an HDTV today. A decision quite simply mandated by the X360.
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