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"XBOX - LONGEST THREAD"

Yes, it`s been done before.
No, it won`t be as lond as the FOG version.


Why am I trying it out anyway?

The XBOX forum is a very interesting place to be, but it can also be a little quiet. I though perhaps if we had a topic with several hundred replies lurking at the top, things would look more popular.

Feel free to use the topic to talk about anything. Either the latest XBOX game, latest ideas for including some female star in a game etc... or even just the usual chat that happens all over.

As I expect this to fail, I`ve decided to spend a little while pushing up the replies. No spamming, just lots of nonsense :-)

Any help would be great, it`d be boring to have a whole topic with replies from only me.

luigi's mansion on the gc I played in eb and it made me feel like I was playing the n64 again I am still getting one however just to see

You don't know anything about Resi Evil fosbe ? I thought everyone knew the story in that game. :-) Well basically, the first game is based around a mansion. A special police force is sent to a location after the group sent in before them disappear. They are attacked and run for a house in the middle of the woods to get away. They soon find out whats happened to the first team along with why zombies and monsters are walking around. I dunno wether to spoil the whole plot for you in case you fancy playing it sometime. ;-) Ask for the rest and i'll tell though. ;-))

No problem mate. ;-) Yeah Luigi's Mansion was an exception in the pressure area, but that games down points are in a different area. The one well known one is that its pretty short and doesn't take long to beat. At first you don't mind so much cause it seems to have replay value as you can try and improve your money total at the end of the game.

But then you try hidden mansion and things get very frustrating. Of course it gives out more money so to get a high score from here you have to keep playing hidden mansion rather than the first normal mode. Thing is you'll go into certain rooms with little space to move and the game throws a stupid amount of ghosts at you - you go to trap one or two at once and another appears behind you and attacks from behind - this basically repeats till your knackered and have to try again. It seems impossible at times and you really end up getting through on luck rather than judgement. The easy solution of course is to go back to normal mode, but when theres no hope of toping your old score, theres very little motivation in bothering.

As you said, maybe in a couple of years things might look a bit better in price and choice of games. But for now theres not a lot going for it unless your a die hard Ninty.

And I'll add that I saw footage of Steel Battallion from E3 and its looking damn superb ! ;-)

What is resident evil about?

After thinking about what you said, savatt, I decided to go on a few more GC pods in my local Currys. I really saw what you meant about the games. I had been on some for about 10 minutes, before I started feeling rushed. This sometimes even made me just walk away from the console :( Which is a shame. The only one that I tried that didn't seem to be affected by this was Luigis mansion. And I would really hate to feel fustrated by games that are meant to be fun, like you said.

What you said makes so much sense to me. So, after a lot of thought, I have decided to go without a GC. I'll just buy some more Xbox games, and maybe a few DVDs or something. If the GC comes down in price in a couple of years, I might rethink my decision.

Thanks again, savatt! You really have been helpful.

No problem Tom. Thing is, I was really drawn into buying one because of Rogue Leader, otherwise I probably wouldn't have bothered. But after playing it for a little while, it was nice to see certain things like the Battle of Hoth and stuff, but the novelty soon wore off. If GC games had more enjoyment about them, they could be so much better than they are. Everything seems to be pressure, pressure, pressure all the time. You can't sit back and enjoy a game, savouring the levels. The fact your pretty much rushed through everything just becomes very frustrating.

After being told to defend ship after ship from being torn apart by Imperial forces when all you wanna do is engage a Star Destroyer or enjoy some great dog fights, I really found myself getting annoyed and thinking "whats wrong with those other 30 work shy to**ers defending something for a change !?"

In the short term, you have like this honeymoon period where everything seems great. Give it a few days and the chances are you'll start wondering why the hell you bothered. If it had a bit more potential and promise to it, I'd have more time for it, but overall it looks like another typical Nintendo console - new graphics and sound with the usual characters appearing. Of course theres a couple of other games such as Resident Evil on the way and then theres the "ok if we must" effort of online play where there looks to be around 2 titles coming out with the support.

Otherwise Nintendo seem to be very much lacking in any real ambition and are just happy to shove old characters and games in new boxes.

Cheers how bad does wreakless look on ps2 its laughable

Second hand xbox?? How much do i expect to pay for one?

I'll have to think long and hard about a GC. I have bumped into what you have written, and that's what worries me. It all makes sense. But I would also like one so I could buy the LCD screen for car journeys :S I really don't know! I don't know anyone (other than on here) that has one either. So it is all up to me :(

Cheers for the advice, anyway, Savatt.

I'll check out your post, silent

Me bored help me me BORED HELP ME!!!!!