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A quick look at the XBOX 360 start
- Thread starter Syphon Filter
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I get what it's about. But the difficulty was goofy as hell. It ramps up so ridiculously fast.
A lot of the games mentioned here weren't launch games. The Xbox 360 launch lineup was pretty bad as I recall. There were lots of HD versions of games that had already been released on Xbox and PS2, like Tony Hawk, Gun, Call of Duty II. Kameo and Condemned were about the only original games that were any good.
CambriaRising
Member
And Call of Duty 2 (Well, when the MP was fixed a few months later), and DOA4 (though it came out about a month after the console), and PGR3.
You see, I think it's the opposite. I get impatient waiting for it to get frantic so I can get my multipliers and score up high. I hate the boring easy first 60 seconds.
I really still think you don't get it. Stop lying.
Bought my first 360 in 2007, played Mass Effect, Gears of War 1 and 2, PGR3- AAA gaming was very new to me at the time.
Then I got bored, sold it, and after looking around, I got a Japanese model for Cave shooters and VNs to practice the language. Modern Japanese console games (post PS1) are also relatively new to me, so this system's been a strange one indeed. Feels like I've butchered it into something it was never meant to be.
Then I got bored, sold it, and after looking around, I got a Japanese model for Cave shooters and VNs to practice the language. Modern Japanese console games (post PS1) are also relatively new to me, so this system's been a strange one indeed. Feels like I've butchered it into something it was never meant to be.
I liked Perfect Dark Zero, even if it was a poor Perfect Dark sequel and a not so great shooter in general. Wasn't the worst shit ever though.
CoD2 was godly. Played the shit out of that with my brother, some of the most fun I have had in a multiplayer game.
I get the "leaderboards/beating your friends score" part.
CoD2 was godly. Played the shit out of that with my brother, some of the most fun I have had in a multiplayer game.
I get the "leaderboards/beating your friends score" part.
Mr. Lemming
Member
I miss the early 360 Xbox Live community. It was actually a pretty decent for a couple months.
WhiskeyKnight
Member
MrCunningham
Member
Syphon Filter
Member
Wasn't fight night launch window? and pdz was great along with kameo.
Blades were awesome. But ads were still present.
Canis lupus
Member
How can you forget GRAW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFv2ZkkRblM
2005 trailer, got me all hyped up for next gen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFv2ZkkRblM
2005 trailer, got me all hyped up for next gen
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
Perfect Dark Zero's single player campaign was a shit sandwich but I honestly had a real good time with PDZ's multiplayer.
Ace Harding
Member
A kid who was 12 when he received a launch 360 at Christmas, 2005 could be playing a 360 at an army base somewhere today (he'd be 19-20).
Think about that.
Think about that.
took a picture before the dashboard changed.
I still got the making of thing on my xbox, can't find it up on youtube though.
I still have that video on my xbox too. Never deleted it.
SirMossyBloke
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specialguy
Banned
i miss how soothing the blades were
Jake Tower
Banned
Not quite launch, but definitely before Gears of War, was this beautiful game
Also forgot the worst part about the 360 launch units:
Wasn't just the launch units, even a few motherboard revisions down RRoD was common, I had one on a Falcon motherboard revision. I think even whatever the last one on the fat 360 was had them, but far less common, the slim finally fixed it for good.
Phire Phox
Banned
Got my 360 in late 2008 so never got to experience the blades. NXE was my first experience with 360.
CambriaRising
Member
I am so sorry.
notworksafe
Member
You didn't miss much. Blades were good at launch but pretty rough by the time they were tossed out.
Blades looked cool, NXE/Current doesn't.
IMO anyway.
That said, i'd prefer something futuristic looking like Halo Waypoint interface (though with better design).
statham
Member
IGN top 10 XBLA games of 2006
http://www.ign.com/articles/2006/12/07/top-10-best-xbla-games
http://www.ign.com/articles/2006/12/07/top-10-best-xbla-games
RedNumberFive
Banned
Also forgot the worst part about the 360 launch units:
This pretty much sums up my 360 experience in its first few years. Along with lots of scratched discs and weekly calls to India.
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Penguins&PolarBears
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The decision to make the blades UI the new guide menu was brilliant. The old guide that used to pop out of the side was terrible. Now you have the blades UI accessible inside of any game or app that you are playing on the console. On this old dashboard you had to exit out of the game and reload the blades dash. I also remember having to rely on Major Nelson's blog to have any idea about what content was being released on the console. Fine for hardcore gamers who actually read about video games online, but for most consumers they would have to scroll through hundreds of marketplace items to discover what was new. Now I can just boot up the system and be informed about new releases. Even if you knew what marketplace content you wanted on blades UI you had to scroll through tons of content to find it. Now I can search for the content by voice or text.
The only thing I liked better about the early blades dashboard was the way they focused on comparing high scores and achievements in the XBLA section. This blades UI was not practical for a system with a big marketplace of content. The blades and NXE UI's required way too much scrolling to see content. NXE drove me crazy not being able to see the categories and having to rolodex scroll through them then having to scroll all the way to the end of each list to see all of that categories content. NXE would not have worked for a system with tons of apps.
The current dashboard still needs a lot of work, but it is much better for a marketplace with tons of content and a device with tons of apps.
The only thing I liked better about the early blades dashboard was the way they focused on comparing high scores and achievements in the XBLA section. This blades UI was not practical for a system with a big marketplace of content. The blades and NXE UI's required way too much scrolling to see content. NXE drove me crazy not being able to see the categories and having to rolodex scroll through them then having to scroll all the way to the end of each list to see all of that categories content. NXE would not have worked for a system with tons of apps.
The current dashboard still needs a lot of work, but it is much better for a marketplace with tons of content and a device with tons of apps.
RedNumberFive
Banned
I always wanted that orange one that just said "console".
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Also, no ads.
Yea, I think NXE looked cleaner, was more usable in that you could see friends in parties, see what games people were playing at a glance. There is hundreds of times more content, apps, games, videos, promos, etc now. Fitting that into Blades would just be embedding menus within menus with menus. It would be terrible to use.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
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