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Just in case you don't understand their opening joke, Microsoft announced at E3 this year that you will be able to access your Xbox 360 from a variety of mobile devices such as phones and tablets.

Very cool! Reminds me of From Dust (Xbox 360)

>> ^hpqp:

Yay, maybe I'll be able to play this game in three years time, when I can afford a computer to run it. sighs


Mashiki is right. PC gaming today is nothing like what it was in the 90s-00s. The graphics requirements for PC games today are limited by the maximum of what the consoles (Playstation 3, Xbox 360) can do. Those consoles are several generations behind what even a modest PC can do. In short, you probably already can run Skyrim.

And you should.

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>> ^griefer_queafer:

Wow, this just angers me all over again about the whole MS stealing Halo from the REST of the world (not just Apple) who didn't want to play it on a big green bugar machine.


Halo was released on Xbox, Windows, Mac OSX, and Xbox 360. If you didn't play it on the platform of your choice, that's your fault.

I think at one point in the summer our family was around 210 GBs for ONE month. Comcast is sitting at 240 or 250 right now in our area. Primarily three sources caused it: 3 PCs, one XBox 360, various storage or otherwise Internet/Network connected gadgets. These are the specific sources that use so much bandwidth: Netflix (HD & SD), Internet Surfing & Usage + XBox 360 & PC Games (download and play), Digital Purchases (HD, SD, backups, Games, and music), and then miscellaneous streams and downloads (but, these would be less that one gigabyte)

It's the digital media that causes the most usage; especially HD rentals or purchases (each weighing in at 4-9 GB each).

I get that more with USPS than I do UPS. At least I can go to the post office and get my package though, good luck with UPS. Speaking of, had that happen when Microsoft sent back my Xbox 360 on a RROD warranty repair. I ended up driving an hour on a Saturday to get my package after they messed up delivery because of Microsoft messing up the return address. After finding the correct packaging facility, I was told that it was on a truck for delivery... on a Saturday. So after telling me to come get the package, they send it out for delivery...Well, I get home, and guess what, A FUCKING STICKER ON MY DOOR. Yep I was excited.

>> ^Xaielao:

Lol quite funny. To bad the game sucks just as bad as the original did.


The game is definitely worth a playthrough if you like Star Wars in any fashion. It's basically, Star Wars *with the force powers over the top), a well written story and plot that fits into the mythos (except for the powers, but that's part of the fun).

It's more of an action-RPG for those wondering if they should play it. You level up (decide what powers/ attack combos/ and passive skills to put up), get to find hidden accessories for your lightsaber (let you deal more damage with force powers, more damage with your lightsaber, conserve "force stamina", etc...), and it has two endings going for it.

The story is better than the prequels... Even though it's straightforward and simplistic at times, it will make you play enough to get to the next story outro/intro. It sold a LOT of copies and was highly reviewed. But, I would listen to the gamers on this one as it's a platinum seller just on the XBox-360.

P.S.- I'm talking purely about the first "Unleashed". But, considering what I saw in the demo for the second, I'd guess that I'll be expecting the same quality/stuff plus the story is continued... The combat seemed far more "cleaner" in the "TFU:2" demo as well.

-- People have different tastes and expectations. Just turn the difficulty all the way up (it'll force you to learn good tactics and combo usage). I'd take "The Force Unleashed" anytime compared to: Halo:Anything, Gears of War: 2, Final Fantasy VIII-XIV, any EA Sports game, MoH 2-x^n, etc...

-- I'm not trying to be dismissive @Xaielao, but I thought I should do the very least of posting my completely different viewpoint. I also, got the game for ten dollars. So that helps.

I was happier there....
>> ^Tingles:

why Gwiz? why?!

The Unreal Engine is perhaps the easiest engine to create levels in, at least for me. I never got the hang of making levels in Source or any of the id Tech engines. Of course I am just talking the base level design. After that I don't know which would be easiest to add the effects and like to as I never got that far with the other two major ones. I like the looks of this, but agree that it is hard to judge it until we see it in action with AI and character animation. I love Rage and what id is doing with id Tech 5, but the character's look like they are deep in the uncanny valley at the moment.

I also agree that consoles really need a good midterm refresh. Not a full new system, more like a 360.5 and a PS3.5. For the 360 upgrade it to XBox 360 Blue.
This hypothetical 360 features not just a Blu-Ray drive, but one ups it by going for Blu-Ray XL compatible. Controllers/remote etc. upgrade to bluetooth, though the old controllers would still have to work for now, the idea is more to setup for the next generation. Tie in with Win 7 mobile devices so you can pick plays on sport games from them, have a remote control in them, and some other games may tie to them as an option as well in whatever form developers feel like they can do. If possible without breaking compatibility with old 360 games (360 Blue exclusive games would be available so they wouldn't work on the old 360 as they come on Blu-Ray) a mild refresh to the graphics, more memory mostly, but if possible a Direct X 11 compatible chip, of course at that point you are nearly at a full refresh and not just a mid-generation refresh. I would say make Live free so you can do Netflix and online play for free, and user replaceable hard drives, but I doubt Microsoft sees that as part of their plans.
The PS3 would be much the same, upgrade to XL and if possible more memory and a slight graphics increase...
With both you can't really do too much for a mid-term refresh without moving to what is essentially a new machine.
Computers are always ahead of consoles on what they can do, but this new 7-10 year cycle is starting to show its age more than usual. I sure hope they don't go 10 years, 2 more years would be more than enough...though if they were 2 years out I would think there would be more rumors of what they are doing by now, so we probably do have more than that.

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I get your point, and it's not my intention to take away from it with this tiny knit-pick...

But "great community"? I do hope you're kidding.

Take the most annoying youtube/break.com trolls and throw them all on a server together. Then listen to them spam the chat channels with insults towards lesser-geared players. Great community... riiiiiiight... I've played online games with fantastic, helpful, genuinely kind communities, so it's not like they don't exist. WoW is just the furthest from it that I've ever experienced.


But to make my comment relevant to the main point of this video... I quit months ago. I had 5 decently geared level 80s and enjoyed my time with the game for the most part. But I'm never going back. Had I known the deletion of my characters would've made me a one-hit wonder internet celebrity, I'd have recorded me unsubscribing, but it honestly wasn't that big of a deal to me. This guy was obviously in love with this game, which does happen to some people. And if that's the case, this video is as depressing as someone recording themselves breaking up with their girlfriend. Except their girlfriend is a robot and he's the one crying. Or something. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this...

I'll never play another MMO again!

...Until Star Wars: The New Republic comes out. I'll have to warn my loved ones beforehand. /endrant
>> ^shagen454:

Wow, great. Yeah, so you quit so you could back to watching Dexter for 5 hours a day, or buying tons of Xbox 360 games and playing them 5 hours everyday. Shit, you may have even gone back to doing straight up junk 12 hours a day... or drinking 24 packs of pabst in five hours everyday. Maybe you went back to "trying" to make beats and being the next DJ Premiere smoking hellsa doobs in the process. Maybe you went back to kissing your girl and wasting time watching "Sex in the City" with her annoying assed friends. Maybe you stopped because you got a new job which requires you to waste 2 god damn hours each way on the LA freeway. We all waste chunks of time; face it.
WoW is a great game - great graphics/art, great sound, great mechanics, great community - take it with a grain of salt- hell man, I play in an experimental noise band, take drugs with my friends on the weekends, fuck random girls every once in a while, play WoW maybe a hour or two a day. But we all have hobbies and a lot of our hobbies are a complete waste of time. So, yeah, quit WoW and have fun with your other fun yet pointless hobbies. You only live once so you better have as much fun as you possibly can and well - there is just no way for me to say that WoW is not pointless, time-wasting... and a huge amount of fun.

Wow, great. Yeah, so you quit so you could back to watching Dexter for 5 hours a day, or buying tons of Xbox 360 games and playing them 5 hours everyday. Shit, you may have even gone back to doing straight up junk 12 hours a day... or drinking 24 packs of pabst in five hours everyday. Maybe you went back to "trying" to make beats and being the next DJ Premiere smoking hellsa doobs in the process. Maybe you went back to kissing your girl and wasting time watching "Sex in the City" with her annoying assed friends. Maybe you stopped because you got a new job which requires you to waste 2 god damn hours each way on the LA freeway. We all waste chunks of time; face it.

WoW is a great game - great graphics/art, great sound, great mechanics, great community - take it with a grain of salt- hell man, I play in an experimental noise band, take drugs with my friends on the weekends, fuck random girls every once in a while, play WoW maybe a hour or two a day. But we all have hobbies and a lot of our hobbies are a complete waste of time. So, yeah, quit WoW and have fun with your other fun yet pointless hobbies. You only live once so you better have as much fun as you possibly can and well - there is just no way for me to say that WoW is not pointless, time-wasting... and a huge amount of fun.

>> ^ponceleon:

You know why they call it an Xbox 360? Because when you see it, you do a 360 and walk away in the opposite direction!!!!;p;


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