Xbox360? Dissapointed

[guitaronfire411]

I can attest to that Talking Elmo bit. Girls loved that thing more than sex!

 

[quest]

Originally posted by JC Jerkson
Dude wtf is wrong with talking elmo? Do you know how many HB's I can pickup walking around with one of those? Girls love that shyt!!




JC Jerkson

JC, you would look really cool with your giant slipper/shoes and a talking elmo.

 

[Vincent]

Originally posted by Sonic
You are right, I dont have any idea. Ill just use the example of
"Xbox360 being one of the top toys this Xmas" (coming from you) to justify the 360s purchase.

Where is my Talking Elmo?
Where is my Britney Spears CD?

High/Top Sales=Damn it must be quality

OMG THERE'S MORE THEN ONE TOP SELLING GIFT PER YEAR?! GTFO

If you weren't so one sighted you'd realize that top selling gift of the "tickle me elmo" was not tickle me elmo, but was in fact the Playstation 2.

I never said the high sale means top quality.
System Specifications (OFFICIAL):

CPU Xenon
- IBM PowerPC-Based
- Three Symmetrical 3.2GHz Cores
- Two hardware threads per core; six total.

- 1MB of L2 cache
- Water-Cooled

GPU Xenos
- A generation beyond the current X850 ATI Graphics Processors
- 500Mhz / 10 MB of DRAM embedded on the GPU
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- Unified Shader Architecture
- 16 Filtered & 16 Unfiltered Texture samples per clock.
- 33.6 billion dot operations per second when combined with Xenon CPU.
- All games will run at a minimum of 1280x720p with 4x FSAA.
- All Games will still support 480i/480p for those displays that can not display 720p/1080i.
- All games will be designed for widescreen play. Gamers with 4:3 sets will see games displayed in widescreen by default, but have the option to switch to fullscreen. Developers have been encouraged to make games playable in fullscreen.

RAM
- 512 MB 700MHz GDDR-3 RAM
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Pro Logic 3, DTS Decoding
- 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

Does

 

[A-Unit]

Re:

I agree with whoever likes the XBOX360...

It's like an undervalued stock...

Nobody knows it's potential.

Good Graphics are ONLY the beginning.

I would surmise Gate's vision to be a fully integrated media experienced, and with the XBOX360 and computers, he's getting ever closer to that goal.

I talked with some of the guys @ gamestop and they were more GA-GA over the Nintendo Revolution because of the hyper sensitive remote control/controller they're designing.

Basically the new nintendo remote can sense depth and location on the tv screen, giving it the possibility to swing a sword, use a baseball bat, shoot it like a guy, or throw a pass in football. It could revolution gaming a step further than the XBOX 360 and PS whatever it is.

I do know XBOX has lots of technology, both online and off. Graphics make it enoyable, esp in shooting games because you can see guys, and the AI is much smarter, therefore more realistic. No loading times means no freezing, no slow game plan, no lags.

As said before, manufacturers are not making it a "mine is better than your's system". Instead, there's difference enough that you actually must BUY all of them, or wait.

I mean right now...

You could nab the 360...and buy a ps2 and Gamecube on depressed prices. Load up on games and keep rolling. Eventually the new Playstation will roll out and the Revolution would drop again, so you could acquire that as well, or wait. And keep going.

I had a used Ps2 and XBOX I bought around the same time, each for diff. reasons, but both @ 100$, which is pretty cheap.


I say BUY XBOX 360, just because it's so SICK. I played Call of Duty 2...and WOW. Go find a kiosk immediately.



A-Unit

 

[Scrumtulescence]

The first gen 360 games only represent a fraction of what the system is capable of graphically. You're going to be seeing some mind-blowing looking games on it in the next two or three years.

Also, I don't expect the majority of launch/1st-gen games to be anything special gameplay-wise. They usually aren't (I wasn't even that impressed with the first Halo). I can't see myself bothering with the 360 for another year or so, unless something really exciting comes out that I can't get for PC.

-edit- And by exciting, I mean a new gameplay experience. 1st-gen games are usually just previous-gen games with updated graphics. It's going to take some gameplay innovation to get me to buy a 360. All in all I was pretty disappointed with the Xbox, even though it's the one that got my most attention this generation. I think the only game I can look back on with really fond memories is Amped. Too bad they're absolutely raping the Amped series with the 360 version. God that looks like shyt, and I'm not just talking about the graphics.

 

[Emperiorjack]

2-d games are still the best. When I was watching future releases for games I saw them going over a new Ghouls and Ghost I was like **** yeah finally a 2-d game for a change then I found out it was for the gameboy:crackup: what a disappointment

 

[Scrumtulescence]

Originally posted by Emperiorjack
2-d games are still the best. When I was watching future releases for games I saw them going over a new Ghouls and Ghost I was like **** yeah finally a 2-d game for a change then I found out it was for the gameboy:crackup: what a disappointment

They're not necessarily the best. Some people act as though 2D inherently lends itself to better gameplay than 3D, and that's simply not true. 3D is harder to pull off, though, and a lot of developers rely on the fact that it's 3D and the 3D graphics to try to make the game stand out. On the other hand there isn't exactly a lot of innovation left in the 2D realm. Another Ghouls 'n Ghosts game? Who cares. Is it going to offer anything I couldn't play fifteen years ago?

 

[Joe The Homophobe]

im just saving my money till game systems are in virtual reality where I can put a pair of goggles and with a plastic gun I can be part of a virtual reality "doom," or get a tennis racket and play mario tennis

I guess thats still a long time to come but I can dream can I?

 

[Anomalous]

No link?

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Originally posted by Vincent
OMG THERE'S MORE THEN ONE TOP SELLING GIFT PER YEAR?! GTFO

If you weren't so one sighted you'd realize that top selling gift of the "tickle me elmo" was not tickle me elmo, but was in fact the Playstation 2.

I never said the high sale means top quality.
System Specifications (OFFICIAL):

CPU Xenon
- IBM PowerPC-Based
- Three Symmetrical 3.2GHz Cores
- Two hardware threads per core; six total.

- 1MB of L2 cache
- Water-Cooled

GPU Xenos
- A generation beyond the current X850 ATI Graphics Processors
- 500Mhz / 10 MB of DRAM embedded on the GPU
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- Unified Shader Architecture
- 16 Filtered & 16 Unfiltered Texture samples per clock.
- 33.6 billion dot operations per second when combined with Xenon CPU.
- All games will run at a minimum of 1280x720p with 4x FSAA.
- All Games will still support 480i/480p for those displays that can not display 720p/1080i.
- All games will be designed for widescreen play. Gamers with 4:3 sets will see games displayed in widescreen by default, but have the option to switch to fullscreen. Developers have been encouraged to make games playable in fullscreen.

RAM
- 512 MB 700MHz GDDR-3 RAM
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Pro Logic 3, DTS Decoding
- 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

Does

Yeah, but can you play Mario Kart on it?

IT WAS A JOKE!!!!!

 

[Vincent]

Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
Yeah, but can you play Mario Kart on it?

IT WAS A JOKE!!!!!

I can play mario kart on my current xbox

 

[Don Pablo]

What chip do you have?

BTW, Xbox 360 will rock. Playing Halo 2 in high def is going to be sweet. PDZ will be orgasmic. I am such a nerd.

 

[TheRelic]

Amen to 2D having the best gameplay... then again, the general emphasis on game development today has shifted to "excitement" and "trend" more than anything else.

3D visuals obviously don't lend themselves to bad gameplay necessarily (though the finnicky early 3d engines in the first few generations of consoles didn't help thiings), i'll still be sticking to my SNES, etc

As for the 360s' graphics, it's more down to the developer as to what you can achieve with the specs, some pretty amazing stuff has been pulled off in past machines. That said, the graphics capabilites ARE a huge selling point to the masses for each new system, and they ARE a key emphasis of the development of new consoles...

The "All games are playable" quotes from XBOX listed by a previous poster are faulty, imo... a consoles capabilites are limited by what the developer chooses to throw at it.

/goes off and has a crack at mario world

 

[thederekeffect1]

Though I'm not a huge fan of video games (I play my XBox once every... 4 or 5 months? lol)... One of my co-workers is a HUGE fan of video games and he was talking to me about how he went to the mall to test out the new XBox 360. From my understanding, the gameplay is MUCH faster than a normal XBox and the graphics are so detailed that you can see each of King Kong's hairs move in the wind. His exact words: "It's crazy".

Also, you have to understand. Not many game developers have been able to program games to the XBox 360's complete potential.

 

[Don Pablo]

Yeah, there's nothing much like it. Give them 3-4 years and you'll see. Take a look a Azurik.... Then take a look at Splinter Cell 3. Exactly.

 

[Lost In Translation]

i am watching the xbox 360

for some reason Australia doesn't get it till June next yeah

i think the 360 will capture some market share and those who want the latest gadjets

i own an xbox myself

but i saw one movie of PS3 that made me see the light

if you only see one e3 demo of the next generation consoles

if you are looking for that "wow factor" from the next 3 consoles

you will only find it in here on PS3

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/killzone2/media.html

the game is called KILLZONE 2 and the demo shows the best graphics and gameplay i have ever seen

it has better graphics than Battlefield 2 on PC !!!

it is enough to make any xbox owner cancel their order for a 360

i think Microsoft is in serious trouble from the PS3


Lost In Translation

 

[Vincent]

Originally posted by Don Pablo
What chip do you have?

x2.6

Best 30 bucks I've ever spent. I love this thing.

Cept it got me banned from xbox live a couple times.

And to all you people who jerk it over 2-d. Just get a modded xbox, some emulators and some old roms and play all the old 2d games you want.

There's even ways to adapt old console controllers to work in the xbox.

 

[TheRelic]

I'm waiting for Nintendos' answer to the lot... always some killer discs....

 

[MetalFortress]

Nintendo's answer will include the ROM-downloading equivalent of iTunes - every game for every Nintendo console ever made downloadable from Nintendo (except the GameCube, but it can play GameCube discs in it), and if Sega gets in on it, possibly every game from every system THEY've ever made too (except Dreamcast) in download form. Plus, Nintendo systems dominate in multiplayer games, and I'm a social gamer, not a solo gamer. This all in addition to the Revolution's own games.

I posted a huge post about it here: http://goldphantom.blogspot.com

 

[TheRelic]

Good article MF.

Great to see another fan of the N... few and far between!

Revolution seems to be the pick of the bunch.

I remember getting up in the wee hours to conquer zelda as a kid... good times