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So I bought a 360 yesterday...
I got tired of not being able to get a Wii and I figure I'll just buy one in June or July. In the meantime, Best Buy had a deal, so I went for it. What have you folks been playing and what do you recommend that I buy with my bonus gift cards? Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter came with it for free and I bought Viva Pinata for my kids.
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Rainbow Six Vegas, forget the Las, is right up their with Gears, as far as gameplay goes. You'll actually see a lot in common between the two titles, since they both have cover fire. That's ones thing I found irritating in Ghost Recon, was that there was almost zero cover, and none at all in the multiplayer. Luckily, developers figured out that people like this idea and use it quite consistently. Funny that I don't remember a single xbox game, not 360, that had cover in it at all. It's not like this is a next gen operation that's taking place. It's a simple mechanic that can be added to a game, if you start from the bottom up.
These are the top Xbox 360 games in my most acclaimed opinion:
1. Gears of War
2. Rainbow Six: Vegas
3. Elder Scrolls: Obilvion
4. Crackdown
5. Burnout: Revenge
6. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
7. Project Gotham Racing 3
8. Viva Pinata
9. Geometry Wars
10. Saints Row
Crackdown is one of those games that gets more fun the more you play it, because your character gets better and stronger as you go along. Jumping from building, causing massive explosions, and throwing huge objects around is half the fun. I imagine it'll be one of those games that I'll keep playing after I beat it just to mess around and kill time.
I second Geometry Wars, thats a must have.
It's so obsessive, trying to complete your character, getting him to his full potential by killing hundreds and thousands of enemies, just so you can get your explosives skill to four stars. Funny, cause I knew this game was gonna grab me, as soon as I played the demo several million times.
One thing though, this is a big deal Thaed! Listen here...
YOUR POWER SUPPLY MUST NOT BE TOUCHING ANYTHING. That's right. Suspend that thing in mid air with the cord or a string or something, just don't let it touch a surface. It's just that sensitive, cause you might not realize it, but there's a fan inside that thing, and you just be able to hear it if you get close enough. The one inside the xbox is obviously louder and more obnoxious, but still... This thing needs as much air as it can get.
Take this from a guy who's gone through three, THREE Xbox 360's already in the past year. This last one only worked for a month, due to a DVD drive problem. The one before that overheated and had the prominent red circle of death cyndrome that many of us 360 owners know all too well. Not a good sign at all. And another thing, make sure to leave the system itself on it's side and not standing up. Not only is it harder to insert discs in there, but it's not healthy for the console.
Probably should mention this too, but I've bought three $50 insurance policies from gamestop so far to insure I can replace my xbox, if it goes bad for the third time. Might be a good idea, if you don't want to wait a month for Microsoft to fix it. Which I'll tell you is waiting for a box to come in the mail, then putting your broken 360 in the box and shipping it off to them to tinker with. Then they send you a brand new xbox with a different hard drive that doesn't have your profile on it, neither does have your saved games. So you're pretty screwed if you take the cheap path.
If you can suck all of that in, then you're on your way to being a very happy Microsoft Xbox owner.
Turn around on the warranty IS about a month, though. I think it took me three weeks to get mine back. But there's something to be said for a free replacement, and those Gamestop warranties are pretty notoriously shady.
/stabs self in the eye with an icepick.
Microsoft is a company that doesn't use innovations and new ideas.
But most of all, good luck when it heats up and melts into a pile of molten crap.
Nothing against you personality dude.
Cars? What the holy heck of a hockey stick does that mean? Game systems aren't like cars at all, so you can't produce a comparison from that. It's not like you can go out and buy different models of an Xbox 360 or Wii. "Ooo, Daddy, get me the Mitsubishi Xbox." The only division I see so far is color and hard drive size, and those don't influence how well a console runs. When we go out and buy one of these machines, we don't have much of a choice. If I understand what you're saying, it sounds like you think a person should go buy a completely different system if one doesn't work all the time. Seems silly, especially if you've purchased a huge library of games specifically for that console.
But then I guess its still technically a scam...
Gosh, it seems like you don't really own much, do you? ^_~
"If you can't fix it, you don't own it" isn't a literal saying. It's a figure of speech, like a bird in hand is worth two in the bush. All it saying is that you should be able to repair and maintain the things you possess without the need to procure the services of someone else. Let's say you buy a copy machine, but you don't know how to fix it or refill the toner. You buy a service contract for that copy machine, as most companies do. You own the copier in the sense that is is your property. However, without that service contract, your copier will become effectively useless. It's as if you are renting it, rather than owning it.
If you are unable, for whatever reason, to maintain and repair your property, it is as if you are not the 100% owner of that property. If you are able to maintain and repair it, but you choose not to do it yourself, that's another story entirely.