CooInTheZoo Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 ARRRGHHHH This is exactly what happens when you blow all your money on shit. Some good shit comes on sale. Hope its still that price at the end of the week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I did it, finally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Thought I was getting dragged back in to Viva Pinata again last night, sat there until 2am playing it, and played another half hour this morning I was just kinda.. done with it. It gets a bit samey after 20+ hours. Might see if I can finish off Dead Rising at last, or play through some of Hitman or Splinter Cell. Just had them sitting in a box under my bed for months now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron_3 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Any news on pricing? Got the feeling GHII is going to turn out to be very expensive Pack 1&3 look good What tracks would people like to see added? I want: Through the Fire and the Flames - Dragonforce The Hives are the Law, You are Crime - The Hives Little Girl - Death From Above 1979 Plug In Baby - Muse Girl Not Grey - AFI Clones - Ash Cochise - Audioslave Been Training Dogs - The Cooper Temple Clause Walking Contradiction - Green Day I'll Find You - Hundred Reasons Through the Fire and flames must be added. it's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Don't know if anyone has seen this yet? Instant Messaging Comes to Xbox 360 Your Xbox Live® friends list is about to get a whole lot bigger. Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Windows Live™ Messenger on Xbox 360™, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft® Windows®-based PCs and Windows Mobile®-powered devices. Chat with your friends via Live Messenger. With this update to Xbox 360, friends and families can easily connect and chat directly from their television using Windows Live Messenger, a network of more than 20 billion relationships and more than 260 million active accounts. "Xbox Live has really become the largest social network on television." Jerry Johnson, Microsoft Beginning the week of May 7, 2007, the Xbox 360 Spring Update will provide Xbox 360 owners worldwide with access to Windows Live Messenger features, broadening the communication options on the Xbox Live social network. Connected Experiences Members of the six-million-strong Xbox Live community currently send more than two million text and voice messages a day and can now use Windows Live Messenger to text chat with up to six people on their contact list at one time, while playing games, listening to music, or watching movies. Text chat adds to the variety of options friends and families already have to communicate with on Xbox Live, including voice and video chat. Look for this new accessory this summer Current relationships on Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live will be unified on Xbox 360 and users will see at a glance if their existing friends on Windows Live Messenger have gamertags, instantly expanding the breadth of connected experiences they can share online. "Bringing the largest IM community in the world, Windows Live Messenger, to Xbox 360 makes sense, as Xbox Live has really become the largest social network on television," said Jerry Johnson, product unit manager of Xbox Live at Microsoft. "For our growing community of six million on Xbox Live, using Xbox 360 is a very social, connected experience. They are using Xbox 360 to play games, music, and movies while simultaneously communicating with one another through video, voice, and text chat. With this announcement we are simultaneously expanding the access of Xbox Live users to existing friends and family while introducing Windows Live Messenger users to the benefits of Xbox 360." Know instantly which achievement you accomplished Beginning the week of May 7, users of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360 can text chat using the virtual keyboard accessible on Xbox 360, or by connecting a USB keyboard to the console. This summer Microsoft will launch a QWERTY text-input device, a new accessory that will connect directly into the Xbox 360 controller to support text and instant messaging. Other New Features Beyond Windows Live Messenger, the Spring Update for Xbox 360 includes hundreds of new features and enhancements including: * A richer Achievement notification pop-up will showcase the name of the unlocked Achievement and the gamerscore value without needing to leave the game to check the Achievements list. * Enhanced family settings features for Xbox Live communications enable different defaults for video chat and voice chat. * A new Xbox Live Marketplace blade lets Xbox Live members access the content they seek—whether it is game content or TV shows and movies (available in the United States)—from one place on Xbox Live. * Updates to Xbox Live Arcade allow owners to quickly see which Xbox Live Arcade games their friends are playing and join in the fun. Xbox Live members can also compare progress of leaderboard scores and Achievements directly with all friends on their friends list. Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. * Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. * A new option in Auto Downloads provides faster access to the entire collection of free, trial-version Xbox Live Arcade games. * New progressive download controls provide easy access to optimal viewing options by letting people fast-forward, rewind, pause and resume as their video is downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace. * Extension of the background download functionality will allow owners to set their Xbox 360 console to turn off automatically after downloads are complete. The Spring Update is free beginning the week of May 7 and will be easily accessible to every Xbox 360 owner through Xbox Live or on Xbox.com. You may not even notice all the new features, but they are all designed to enhance your Xbox Live experience. Some of the other features in this upgrade include: * The name of game in tray is now displayed in the dashboard. * When the tray icon is highlighted, a list of achievements, game icon and gamerscore for that game is displayed. * Video trick modes are enabled for content that is being progressively downloaded from Video Marketplace. * Playback progress bar indicates download completion. * Improved skip forward, skip back functionality during video playback. * Switchable aspect ratio now available during video playback (Auto to Letterbox, Zoom, Stretch, Native). * Player and friends lists now quickly show session presence information for quick identification of users that are joinable. * Support for streaming WM-DRM protected content from a PC * Folder view for video content on connected devices * H.264 video support: Up to 15 Mbps, Baseline, Main, and High (up to level 4.1) Profiles with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. * Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 8 Mbps, Simple Profile with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. * Show folder hierarchy for video content played from all devices. * Bookmarks are stored for each video that the user plays remembering the users last location in the file as well as the aspect ratio that the user choose for that file. * Video trick modes (fast forward, rewind, chapter skip) can now be used while downloading Video Marketplace content. * Skip forward and backward functionality has been improved to skip to the next or previous chapter. Each video is divided into 10 “chapters†allowing you to quickly skip around video content. * The information bar that is turned on via the On Screen Display (OSD) now shows you exactly where you are in the playback of the video file. In addition it will also show for Video Marketplace content how much of the file has been downloaded and where the “chapters†exist in the file. * Windows Media protected content (WM-DRM) can now be streamed from the PC to the console. If the WM-DRM license is missing or corrupted then a specific error message is displayed to the user. Bookmarking is also stored for protected content. * When the user is in the dashboard and an Xbox 360 game is in the console then the name of the game is displayed in the tray icon of the dashboard. If the user highlights the tray icon then achievements and gamer score are displayed for that game based on the signed in user. Xbox1 games show the name and image of the game. * Bookmarks are stored for each video that the user plays. The user can delete all bookmarks but this will reset all bookmark information for every video that the user has played. The bookmark database is exposed in the system/memory/system items * When a user selects an item for download from Marketplace then the system will determine if there is sufficient disk space for the item and, if not, will ask the user to delete content on the HDD. The system provides a sorted by size list of videos, game trailers, demos and arcade content to aid the user in the deletion process. The same list of items are also available from within memory so that users can quickly see which items are consuming the most disk space. * The console will block the user who attempts to download content onto a storage device that will never have the capacity to store the item without deducting any points associated with the content item. * The screensaver is disabled when playing photos from any source Via majornelson, xbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I always have my laptop with me and I think MSN on the 360 will be a bit clumsy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooInTheZoo Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 i hope theres an option to turn it off till i get a spare usb kayboard/sexy controller attachment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Am i the only one that likes the MSN feature? All i need now is UK Video Marketplace and a web browser and my laptop becomes pretty redundant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khilafah Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I got VT3 over the weekend and do not find it hard at all. I kept hearing how the players always dive when hitting the ball but I don't get that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I'm sat next to my pc when i'm on the 360 anyway. But i d0o like the marketplace blade, and i especially like that it shows which achievement you've unlocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Am i the only one that likes the MSN feature? All i need now is UK Video Marketplace and a web browser and my laptop becomes pretty redundant After thinking about it I do think it might be alright. I'll probably buy a USB keyboard for like £3 just before it comes out. It'll be good, cus even if I don't like Live Messenger, I can use it for sending the usual messages. Plus MSN on Mac is crap and isn't actually working for me. Wonder if you can use the vision camera with that. I got VT3 over the weekend and do not find it hard at all. I kept hearing how the players always dive when hitting the ball but I don't get that problem. As long as you get your positioning right then you don't dive at all. It gets harder later on but the learning curve is perfect so you improve at the same rate as the difficulty. I'm sat next to my pc when i'm on the 360 anyway. But i d0o like the marketplace blade, and i especially like that it shows which achievement you've unlocked. Same here. One thing that is weird is that, on the 'Open Tray' bit, there was a screenshot just before 360 launched in Gamesmaster where the inserted game was displayed, then I wondered why it wasn't there when I got my 360. Strange that they are suddenly bringing it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintenchris Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ash... you my friend are a dangerous driver... well in Crackdown anyway! Oh and sorry for blowing you up, i didnt mean it hounest :wink: Oh yeah .... you quit just as i was about to grab a hidden orb right on top of the Agency Tower! DOH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I'm sat next to my pc when i'm on the 360 anyway. But i d0o like the marketplace blade, and i especially like that it shows which achievement you've unlocked. I'm the same, I fiddled with my setup and now I got my laptop here while the tv is next to it so I can check maps while I play crackdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I'm the same, I fiddled with my setup and now I got my laptop here while the tv is next to it so I can check maps while I play crackdown. Same, I kinda wished my MacBook had legs so I wouldn't have to carry it everywhere, which I do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ash... you my friend are a dangerous driver... well in Crackdown anyway!Oh and sorry for blowing you up, i didnt mean it hounest :wink: Oh yeah .... you quit just as i was about to grab a hidden orb right on top of the Agency Tower! DOH! Oh it was YOU!, i could not remember who nintenchris was. Yeah.. i did hit a fair few pedestrians, but i'm only at 1star driving, i still ahve a way to go. Took me ages to reach the orb at the top of the wheel, and then i forgot to get the hidden orb in the middle. You need to get a headset! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReZourceman Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Whens Gears update? Tell tell tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintenchris Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 You need to get a headset! I already have the one i got with my 360... its just i couldnt find where i put it... but ive found it now. That will teach me for tidying up my room! Oh and i was considering changing my name on the forums to nintenchris also because people forget who i am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Man i'm addicted to Crackdown. Just cleaned up Los Muertes, but i noticed the door to Colk in the agency is still locked. Do i hve to go in through the bridge to open it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Yeah you have to go over the bridge. At least, I did an it opened up for me afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razz Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ok, stupid question here, but in DOA4, with hayabusa, is it me or does his costume bear striking resemblance to that of Ninja Gaiden Sigma for PS3?? They are meant to be like that right? EDIT: Ok now i realise they are the same character ^_^; my bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKOB Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Oblivion is amazing, i'm just going round doing side quests all day Best way to get strogner in Oblivion since the world levels with you? Is it by buying lots of spells at your level and holding off sleeping for a bit or am i being dumb here? I'm getting bashed by some ape troll things in a painting, i'm too weak and i'm scared the same may happen when i try and close the first gate :S moooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 http://kotaku.com/gaming/id/quake-iii-coming-to-xbox-360-250867.php AAAH!! Quake 3 + Xbox 360 + XBL = AAAAH!!!! Please be an arcade game and please come out tomorrow!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKOB Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 i like these pics of the keyboard thingy i can't be arsed to stick them in photobucket so theres the links. Makes it seem more real in an odd way . . . anywho, how do we connect the headset to the controller now? or do we have to buy a wireless one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razz Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 i like these pics of the keyboard thingy i can't be arsed to stick them in photobucket so theres the links. Makes it seem more real in an odd way . . . anywho, how do we connect the headset to the controller now? or do we have to buy a wireless one? I read somewhere you get a special headset with it. I'll try find the link. EDIT: http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/04/09/xbox-360-controller-keyboard-out-in-the-wild/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Best way to get strogner in Oblivion since the world levels with you? I just level up anyway, the world levels with you to maintain the challenge. Besides, you get new skills at certain levels (i.e. Journeyman of Marksman can zoom in) and these help keep the player with an advantage. My main character for example is level 14 and yet can sneak up on just about anything in the game and dispatch it with 1 shot. Master of Sneak ignores Armour and ranged damage is x3 when sneaking. Should be a Journeyman of Marksman soon so will get Zoom too making killing stuff off even easier http://kotaku.com/gaming/id/quake-iii-coming-to-xbox-360-250867.php AAAH!! Quake 3 + Xbox 360 + XBL = AAAAH!!!! Please be an arcade game and please come out tomorrow!!! oh god please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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