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Well tonight has been one of the biggest laughs I've had in ages and its all due to a headset !
I've been playing X-Box Live for like a week now, but until tonight, I had to go through it without being able to experience everything 100%
I put on my headset and decided to start off with a little Moto GP. I had a couple of races while listening to people slate eachother, occasionally adding a little comment or 2 myself. It was fun, but this wasn't even a touch of what was to follow.
I decided to change over to Mech Assault after receiving an invite from a certain Mossmanfly. ;-)
Unfortunatly I was too late to join in so I decided to look at other games going on. I entered the room, threw caution and shyness to the wind and just acted as I always do around my friends.
Almost straight away a Canadian guy started talking to me and so did everyone else in the room.
We started the match and everyone was just having a great time playing the game while sharing banter and generally having a bloody funny convo as we played.
Suddenly knowone was really feeling like they HAD to win at all costs - we were all just having a great laugh, no geeky need for online domination at all.
Eventually I finally managed to get into a match with Adrian and with the help of the buddy list, my newly made Canadian friend was also tagging along. We had some awesome games going on - remember the elementals vs ragnarok game Adrian ? ;-))
It was just a superb experience and I was loving every minute of it ! After the last team game I did, I just sat back chatting with the Canadian guy for like 40 minutes or so with the end game screen in the background. Basically told him about my gf and stuff in general and then we ended up chatting about games and stuff. A long distance call for free. :-)
This all came from just being me and not holding back all worried if people will like me or not. With moments like this, I really can't imagine playing online without the headset now. Even the players that entered the games I was in with the sole purpose of just being the best ended up just kicking back and having a laugh. :-)
I was just having a laugh with my Canadian mate and Adrian and then from there, you had other people finding our comments funny and bringing themselves into the conversation and it was excellent. :-)
Like when the group of us finally took down this guy controlling a Ragnarok mech, I just started cheering and so did everyone else and it was funny to watch us all swarm this bloke trying to take him down. ;-))
The headset is the heartbeat of X-Box Live - its the part of it that shows you that not every online gamer is some spotty fat retard thats never seen a girls boobs without the aid of a Barbie doll.
I had a right bloody good laugh tonight and it was hard to pull myself away to goto bed for work tomorrow. I'll certainly be back on tomorrow and I'll be acting just as open then as I did tonight.
All it takes is for 1 or 2 people to think "sod it" and just have a laugh and its practically guaranteed that the rest will follow. :-)
Hope to see you all online soon. :-)
I've been playing X-Box Live for like a week now, but until tonight, I had to go through it without being able to experience everything 100%
I put on my headset and decided to start off with a little Moto GP. I had a couple of races while listening to people slate eachother, occasionally adding a little comment or 2 myself. It was fun, but this wasn't even a touch of what was to follow.
I decided to change over to Mech Assault after receiving an invite from a certain Mossmanfly. ;-)
Unfortunatly I was too late to join in so I decided to look at other games going on. I entered the room, threw caution and shyness to the wind and just acted as I always do around my friends.
Almost straight away a Canadian guy started talking to me and so did everyone else in the room.
We started the match and everyone was just having a great time playing the game while sharing banter and generally having a bloody funny convo as we played.
Suddenly knowone was really feeling like they HAD to win at all costs - we were all just having a great laugh, no geeky need for online domination at all.
Eventually I finally managed to get into a match with Adrian and with the help of the buddy list, my newly made Canadian friend was also tagging along. We had some awesome games going on - remember the elementals vs ragnarok game Adrian ? ;-))
It was just a superb experience and I was loving every minute of it ! After the last team game I did, I just sat back chatting with the Canadian guy for like 40 minutes or so with the end game screen in the background. Basically told him about my gf and stuff in general and then we ended up chatting about games and stuff. A long distance call for free. :-)
This all came from just being me and not holding back all worried if people will like me or not. With moments like this, I really can't imagine playing online without the headset now. Even the players that entered the games I was in with the sole purpose of just being the best ended up just kicking back and having a laugh. :-)
I was just having a laugh with my Canadian mate and Adrian and then from there, you had other people finding our comments funny and bringing themselves into the conversation and it was excellent. :-)
Like when the group of us finally took down this guy controlling a Ragnarok mech, I just started cheering and so did everyone else and it was funny to watch us all swarm this bloke trying to take him down. ;-))
The headset is the heartbeat of X-Box Live - its the part of it that shows you that not every online gamer is some spotty fat retard thats never seen a girls boobs without the aid of a Barbie doll.
I had a right bloody good laugh tonight and it was hard to pull myself away to goto bed for work tomorrow. I'll certainly be back on tomorrow and I'll be acting just as open then as I did tonight.
All it takes is for 1 or 2 people to think "sod it" and just have a laugh and its practically guaranteed that the rest will follow. :-)
Hope to see you all online soon. :-)
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Savatt78 wrote:
> Eventually I finally managed to get into a match with Adrian and with
> the help of the buddy list, my newly made Canadian friend was also
> tagging along.
Awwwwww, isn't that cute!
Awwwwwwww!
Are they ever gonna think about putting Halo online?
Multiplayer is crap at the moment unless you get a lot of people...
> Eventually I finally managed to get into a match with Adrian and with
> the help of the buddy list, my newly made Canadian friend was also
> tagging along.
Awwwwww, isn't that cute!
Awwwwwwww!
Are they ever gonna think about putting Halo online?
Multiplayer is crap at the moment unless you get a lot of people...
Savatt78 wrote:
> I think we should get on Mech Assault tonight. ;-) Get 4 of us
> together as a team. ;-)
> My girlfriend will be online to chat to me but she'll probably sign
> off by around 9:30pm - probably a little earlier.
>
> As for Unreal, I might give that a go tonight, see how things go. :-)
>
> Be good if we can get together on Mech Assault as a 4 player team
> tonight. :-)
So what time will you be on then? MechAssault would be good, a nice team game. Will probably be on between 8-9pm. Going to do some Uni work first.
> I think we should get on Mech Assault tonight. ;-) Get 4 of us
> together as a team. ;-)
> My girlfriend will be online to chat to me but she'll probably sign
> off by around 9:30pm - probably a little earlier.
>
> As for Unreal, I might give that a go tonight, see how things go. :-)
>
> Be good if we can get together on Mech Assault as a 4 player team
> tonight. :-)
So what time will you be on then? MechAssault would be good, a nice team game. Will probably be on between 8-9pm. Going to do some Uni work first.
Argh, Im raging I can't be joining you all. Sounds like you had a great time and I wanna get in on it.
You won't get that kind of experience anywhere else, and you can slate the whole Broadband only idea all you want but you have to admit in terms of Online console gaming MS is leading the way by a long shot.
You won't get that kind of experience anywhere else, and you can slate the whole Broadband only idea all you want but you have to admit in terms of Online console gaming MS is leading the way by a long shot.
Ill come on 2 if you like :p
See if you can kill GlideManiac lol
See if you can kill GlideManiac lol
I know what the MotoGP problem was :). Well I had a 6 block save, but they have updated the interface or something so you need to have a 125 block save. So when it went to install it I couldnt connect. Well I thought "hey lets turn the firewall off" and guess what it downloaded the update :). Funny thing is that connecting to XBox Live is fine through the firewall, but downloading an update isnt. Very weird. I may phone up Microsoft to ask which ports are used for XBox Live, so I can configure my firewall to accept downloads. Or do any of you know what ports XBox Live uses ?
I'm on mech assault at moment, anyone ?
~~Belldandy~~
~~Belldandy~~
adrian wrote:
> I know what the MotoGP problem was :). Well I had a 6 block save, but
> they have updated the interface or something so you need to have a 125
> block save. So when it went to install it I couldnt connect. Well I
> thought "hey lets turn the firewall off" and guess what it
> downloaded the update :). Funny thing is that connecting to XBox Live
> is fine through the firewall, but downloading an update isnt. Very
> weird. I may phone up Microsoft to ask which ports are used for XBox
> Live, so I can configure my firewall to accept downloads. Or do any of
> you know what ports XBox Live uses ?
Dont bother matey you will only get blank pauses they asking you to repeat it :P
> I know what the MotoGP problem was :). Well I had a 6 block save, but
> they have updated the interface or something so you need to have a 125
> block save. So when it went to install it I couldnt connect. Well I
> thought "hey lets turn the firewall off" and guess what it
> downloaded the update :). Funny thing is that connecting to XBox Live
> is fine through the firewall, but downloading an update isnt. Very
> weird. I may phone up Microsoft to ask which ports are used for XBox
> Live, so I can configure my firewall to accept downloads. Or do any of
> you know what ports XBox Live uses ?
Dont bother matey you will only get blank pauses they asking you to repeat it :P
Just about to sign on now. ;-)
You guys with Live are really lucky, where I live I tried to register for broadband and got a message saying they have no plans to provide broadband in my area. After registering my interest it let me see how many other people in my are had registered an interest - the answer '5'. So no broad band for me for a very very long time.
Good games last night, apart from when Silent left me on my own against Savatt and GlideM :). Anyone up for some games tonight? Maybe around 8 pm Unreal CTF. I could host a game and then everyone join me, as last night was a bit hard to get going, as we didnt know who was hosting to start with. Once you get a game going then you can decide on the next match in game. Post here with any game ideas and times, plus who will host the very first match so we know who to join and which invites to accept.
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