Xbox 360 Impressions

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Well, I got hit in the head by an Xbox once.


That left a pretty nice impression.

Hi-oh!

[gekko]

I agree, and disagree with a lot of what he said. The Xbox is heavy, I don't know what he considers light-weight. Barely lighter than Xbox is more like it, and then the power brick weighs just as much.

He missed a lot though, like game defaults allowing you to choose default difficulty levels and controller setups automatically when you insert a game for the first time. Best idea in years.

But he's wrong on PDZ. Although it's pretty, the game will put you to sleep. It's horrible, and I still don't think it's possible to die.

As for PGR3... amazing! Gotta get back to playing.

My impressions are all posted elsewhere, I don't feel like re-typing them.

[DeathsHand]

4. Condemned, 7.5/10 - Extremely boring and slow paced. Not scary as others have said. Very predictable. Not a very good game, stay away or rent it.

That's my favorite part... He does nothing but bash it, even going so far as to say "Stay away", yet he gives it a 7.5... :>

I'll bet he's one of those people who get mad when a game he likes receives "Only an 8.9" from IGN...

[DarkMaster]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

That's my favorite part... He does nothing but bash it, even going so far as to say "Stay away", yet he gives it a 7.5... :>

I'll bet he's one of those people who get mad when a game he likes receives "Only an 8.9" from IGN...

I was just about to say that exact same thing.

"your a-typical racer. Nothing new here. 8.25/10"





"9.6 for the new Zelda game?!? The world is coming to its end!"

[Jonbo298]

9.6 means DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM for Zelda!





But the impressions were pretty decent. Sounds like what I may say (sans some of the scoring in terms of what I dislike versus the score). Sometime ill get an Xbox 360...probably before the REv or shortly thereafter. Maybe preorder the PS3 just to spite people when its sold out and I'm in line at Gamestop

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

Hi-oh!

The sad thing is I'm not lying.

[thatmariolover]

The issue I have with the guy is his review of Perfect Dark and the fact that almost everybody else is saying the same thing except the ones brave enough to admit that there are problems with a game they just dropped 65 bucks on.


The graphics are pretty enough in a lot of areas but lacking in others. The multiplayer portion of the game is also plagued with framerate issues when there's a lot going on. Rare did a decent job covering it up with a motion-blur effect but the stutter is visible to anybody not trying to fool themselves. Dunno if they're splitting up processing tasks between the 3 processors but the stutter seems independent to one player if you're doing split-screen.

The controls are decent, but why-oh-why couldn't they learn from Halo and make it so your camera slows ever-so-slightly when it highlights an enemy? Shooting someone to death is slow when I can just roll past them, flip around and sword them to death without the tedium of trying to aim at someone with an ineffective targeting system that's unable to compensate for the lack of a mouse. Couple this with the absence of anything resembling an effective sniper weapon and you're in a world of hurt if you like to kill from a distance (there are several scoped weapons in the game, they all just suck).

And the Physics might be good but the multiplayer animations are just terrible. Everybody looks exactly the same, runs exactly the same, and upon death gains insta-rigor-mortis - freezing in their current position and bouncing like a knocked over mannequin - rendering the oh-so-pretty physics worthless.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game but saying there aren't problems is just absurd.

[Neo]

Okay so who here actually owns a 360 now?

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Neo

Okay so who here actually owns a 360 now?

I had the $400 bundle and sold it to a friend that offered me what I paid for it a few nights ago. I can think of other things I wanna spend $400 on after owning it for a few days.

I'm sure I'll get another one later but probably not until a price drop.

[GameMaster]

I don't have one but I could kick myself for not staying that night at Target to buy one so I could sell it for triple the price on eBay. Damn, I missed out.

[Crash]

got one, sold two

each one sold for over $1100 *evil laugh*

[gekko]

Originally Posted by Neo

Okay so who here actually owns a 360 now?

AFAIK, me and Crash.