Yes, that's right folks. I've moved firmly into the 21st century, and now own an Xbox 360, with Kinect!
The only trouble is.... I only have 2 games so far, and both came with the console (Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports) and...I want some proper console games.
Also, suggestions as to hardware (headset, keyboard etc) based on their value greatly appreciated.
Also, my Xbox live account is MGDawson (mattdawson12@hotmail.com)
ODST has a film noir feel, Reach is best described as a Greek tragedy mixed with FPS, simply an amazing game.
Fable 2 and 3, I actually liked 2 a little better, but the Monty Python cameo and references in 3 were priceless.
GTA IV and the Episodes From Liberty City disk. People can say what they want, but unlike many of the older GTA's this one is deep, involving and the campaign has actual soul and emotion to it, unlike older installments. Though, I quite liked how total a ripoff Vice City was of Scarface
Yes, that's right folks. I've moved firmly into the 21st century, and now own an Xbox 360, with Kinect!
The only trouble is.... I only have 2 games so far, and both came with the console (Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports) and...I want some proper console games.
Also, suggestions as to hardware (headset, keyboard etc) based on their value greatly appreciated.
Also, my Xbox live account is MGDawson (mattdawson12@hotmail.com)
As someone else said, Mass Effect 2 and both of the Fallout games are good. The fallout games have so much content it is insane. I had 90 hours in (game saves are time stamps of play time) either of them before I got close to the end.
Gamertag is "Doctor HOOPS" if you feel you need some friends in your friends list.
Also as to hardware, I'd suggest getting at least 2 wireless controllers. Headset is optional since you have Kinect. Kinect functions as that as well. But if you want the headset...they have a wireless one, or you can get the ones that plug into the controller.
Also I HIGHLY recommend at least one keypad controller addon. Makes typing anything in much easier...if you've texted..you can use one of these.
Reach is best described as a Greek tragedy mixed with FPS, simply an amazing game.
And don't play with Frans, he cheats. Never let him anywhere near a sniper rifle and/or a tank.
Some of the 360 games out there are simply amazing. Reach, as Shin says, is brilliant - and this coming from the guy who hates FPS games on a console (give me a mouse and keyboard anyday). The Fable series is excellent, although the storyline seems to grow shorter with every consecutive game : The original took me weeks to complete, Fable 2 was completed within a couple of days, and I knocked out Fable 3 to completion in eight hours (including the two hardest achievements - for not getting knocked out at all, and by
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I'd wholeheartledly recommend some of the racing games, too, as they really show off the 360 well. Burnout Revenge is an awesome game, and it doesn't matter if you're a good driver or not, as you get rewarded for destroying your opponents cars.
Left 4 Dead 2 is another game which is simply amazing. I've played it a lot on the PC, and I've urged a few 10Fers I play Live games with to get it as well. The Zombie Defence League currently consists of myself, EJ, and Frans (and Zona, although I don't have him on my friends list yet) and although we've yet to play a game, we will, and it'll be awesome. Plus, it allows 4v4 deathmatching.
I'd also recommend Lips, simply so I can bust you up karaoke style.
Although the 360 can be enjoyed solo (Arkham Asylum is, quite possibly, the best Superhero video game ever created, and easily one of the best games, period) it's really geared towards multiplayer action. Add me at some point (My gamertag is, believe it or not, Flasherman) and go through the old "Let's Play With Each Other" thread, and add some others.
And don't play with Frans, he cheats. Never let him anywhere near a sniper rifle and/or a tank.
Some of the 360 games out there are simply amazing. Reach, as Shin says, is brilliant - and this coming from the guy who hates FPS games on a console (give me a mouse and keyboard anyday). The Fable series is excellent, although the storyline seems to grow shorter with every consecutive game : The original took me weeks to complete, Fable 2 was completed within a couple of days, and I knocked out Fable 3 to completion in eight hours (including the two hardest achievements - for not getting knocked out at all, and by
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I'd wholeheartledly recommend some of the racing games, too, as they really show off the 360 well. Burnout Revenge is an awesome game, and it doesn't matter if you're a good driver or not, as you get rewarded for destroying your opponents cars.
Left 4 Dead 2 is another game which is simply amazing. I've played it a lot on the PC, and I've urged a few 10Fers I play Live games with to get it as well. The Zombie Defence League currently consists of myself, EJ, and Frans (and Zona, although I don't have him on my friends list yet) and although we've yet to play a game, we will, and it'll be awesome. Plus, it allows 4v4 deathmatching.
I'd also recommend Lips, simply so I can bust you up karaoke style.
Although the 360 can be enjoyed solo (Arkham Asylum is, quite possibly, the best Superhero video game ever created, and easily one of the best games, period) it's really geared towards multiplayer action. Add me at some point (My gamertag is, believe it or not, Flasherman) and go through the old "Let's Play With Each Other" thread, and add some others.
I got L4D2 on steam, and I am in the ten forward steam group, current handle is Spicy McHaggis [141]
Mass Effect 1 and 2. Don't just get two... it did fix a lot of the annoying things in Mass Effect 1, but playing the story from the beginning does impact the second, and the third when it releases. Much richer experience playing one first, then two. (The DLC for ME2 is awesome as well.)
Halo Reach... I'd get Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, and ODST (Halo and Halo 2 are Xbox so may be hard to find) if you are interested in the whole story. Reach offers great multilayer, so is always a fun diversion.
Brothers in Arms: One of the best WWII Story Shooters. Lacks multiplayer.
Red Dead Redemption: Quite frankly, one of the best games I have ever played. The story has a few cliched moments, but it breaks away from the video game mold quite a bit, and tells a human story. It truly is an amazing game.
The Assassin Creed series: Can be a bit repetitive gameplay wise, but the story is fairly interesting. It is a mystery style sci fi story that spans centuries. Very interesting...
Splinter Cell: Conviction: Smooth gameplay, very fun co-op and interesting story, if somewhat predictable.
GTAIV: It is a less mature version of Red Dead Redemption's story. But then again, it exists in a a series that has never quite taken itself seriously. GTAIV does take itself seriously, but it does so in a way that is lighthearted and fun, but without ruining the emotional payoffs of the story. Can be repetitive at times.
Fun games to have for parties and such: (Non-Kinect titles, as I am not versed in Kinect titles as I am still a little paranoid about installing a camera that never turns off, and has some of the most advanced IR, Motion, and Visual Optics ever given to civilians for entertainment purposes.... Big Brother is watching...)
Rock Band/Guitar Hero: Always fun in parties.
Soul Caliber IV and Dead or Alive... fighting games are good in parties because of the round robin nature...
World at War: Fun shooter with good split screening, TRIBBLE Zombies, and fast paced matches meaning it is easy to rotate through.
Niche Games: (For fans of series:)
Force Unleashed and Force Unleashed II: Ok games, if you're are Star Wars fan, you will porbably enjoy them. Might be a little dissappointed though, but for Star Wars fans... that is par for the course in the last decade. (Thank god TOR is in the new decade, so just maybe we have a changing of the winds.)
Star Trek Legacy: Ok, the game sucks, but you will be hard pressed to find a ST fan that has not butt there head against its crappy VOs, or tried to convince themselves that it is a good game because of the attention to detail, even if earth is backwards, etc...
Sports Games:
I am a baseball fan, so I have only played baseball games:
MLB 2k7 and 2k10 are the most stable of the MLB series, and ones I would recommend... umm avoid the others, especially 2k8 like the plague.
Fallout 3 or Vegas, the same for Dragon Age, I would reconmend as PC, as their PC versions are significantly better. (Fallout 3 and Vegas are better because of the UGC add ons, and Dragon Age was designed for the PC and ported. The control interface and such is much smoother in the PC version. The Console version of DA is actually dumbed down a little.)
GTAIV: It is a less mature version of Red Dead Redemption's story. But then again, it exists in a a series that has never quite taken itself seriously. GTAIV does take itself seriously, but it does so in a way that is lighthearted and fun, but without ruining the emotional payoffs of the story. Can be repetitive at times.
I'll see your GTAIV, and raise you Saints Row 2, which...hang on...there we go!
I'll see your GTAIV, and raise you Saints Row 2, which...hang on...there we go!
GTAIV and Saints Row 2 are not the same game, despite popular opinion. Saints Row 2 is more in line with the GTA series prior to IV... lots of action, humor, and mayhem, IV moved towards a more story based, movie like experience, vs mayhem. Both have their qualities, but I did not recommend Saints Row 2 because I have not played it and can not vouch for it.
Note: From the reviews and comments, Saints Row 2 seems like an excellent game, just was not my cup of tea. I do not want to come across as saying it is a bad game.
Star Trek Legacy: Ok, the game sucks, but you will be hard pressed to find a ST fan that has not butt there head against its crappy VOs, or tried to convince themselves that it is a good game because of the attention to detail, even if earth is backwards, etc...
Am I seriously the only one who LIKED Legacy? I know it was far from perfect, but I very much enjoyed it, then enjoyed modding its brains out and managing to take out a Breen capital ship with the Delta Flyer
There are loads of awesome games. If you are unsure, just download some demo versions and play them. If you need any more friends on your list, add me: man0riaX (with a zero )
A for the hardware question i barely use the headset that came with my console and I can't really recommend the controller-keyboard Microsoft offers. It may be of use if you like to write long texts with youe console, but most of the times I do that on a computer, anyway.
Am I seriously the only one who LIKED Legacy? I know it was far from perfect, but I very much enjoyed it, then enjoyed modding its brains out and managing to take out a Breen capital ship with the Delta Flyer
Yep...I think you were actually the only person who liked Legacy. that probably includes the people who produced it, too.
i am pretty sure he has a PC if he is posting on the STO forums ?
i would not realy suggest any Multi Platform titles, especially not if the PC versions are clearly better (Fallout, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, CoD....)
Not sure why people here keep bashing on Star Trek Legacy....
it has a good Story
Voice Overs from ALL the Captains... phonejob or not, STO's few Voiceover are worse!
the ships are a lot more accurate then the ones from STO with their default 4 types of textures...
better turnrates and you can steer up and down in 90 degree angles instead of 45
almost the same gameplay as STO just without the million hotkey's
the PC version was better though (modding!!!)
i am pretty sure he has a PC if he is posting on the STO forums ?
i would not realy suggest any Multi Platform titles, especially not if the PC versions are clearly better (Fallout, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, CoD....)
Having played Mass Effect on PC and Xbox, I do not agree that the PC version is better. Higher resolution yes, but the interface feels clunky. This makes since when, like KotoR, Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were designed for console, not PC.
Will agree that Fallout and Dragon Age are better on PC.
On the subject of hardware; my personal experience has been that the "official" XBox headset tends to work better than the few 3rd party versions that I have tried.
Also, as for a keyboard/keypad, any USB windows keyboard can be used. If I am going to send a lot of (or long) messages I generally just unplug the keyboard from my PC and use that.
I don't have any of these games. I must be breaking some XBox 360 law or something.
Truth be told, half of the games on his list are not popular among the Xbox crowd, I wont say they are bad because I have not played the racing or Ace Combat games...
Gears is very much a cult game now. It had a massive uproar, but its fan base never really took off. People who have been playing xbox for a long time know of it or have played, but diehard fans of it are few in between. In part because it pushed the "Super Space Marine" that little to far, and its super grit, does not make it last long in favorable opinions. Terrain starts to look to similar, and it really was at the end of the space marine fascination. Same thing happened to Turok, which gameplay was not bad... just story was to far from the source material, and the whole uber space marine and gritty world is nearing its end.
Too Human is one of the worse games the Xbox has. While opinion varies... it is a game that is somewhat schizophrenic, never quite sure which reality it wants to play in. Takes long time established camera controls and throws them out, making it a royal pain in the TRIBBLE to retrain your thumbs to navigate a very bland and repetitious world. Combat is boring, unvaried, but while Assassin Creed gets away with boring and unvaried combat with outstanding suspense, story, character, visuals, attention to detail, and just quality packaging, Too Human does not have much but a whiney cliched emo anti-hero to keep it up.
Ninja Gaiden 2 is one of the hardest games to hit the Xbox. Now difficulty is one thing. NG2 takes difficulty to a new level by not making it about challenge, but about your ability to make it through reload after reload until the gaming gods have mercy on your soul and let you get through a scene. There are 'hard' games out there that provide a challenge that is more rewarding, less frustration. But the fanboy community of this game is rabid, so I typically avoid commenting on it. I will probably get called a lazy newb who likes all games easy mode for these comments in this paragraph.
Alan Wake I found indescribably boring, however the literary references and clever writing... oh wait nevermind. What cleverness it had, they ruin by bludgeoning you with it, and then pointing it at. Does some unique things with gameplay, and is worth renting for that, but I would not go in with high expectations.
Star Wars Force Unleashed: Do not go in with high expectations. Fun romp of lightsaber and lightening killing doom, plus you get to throw a Star Destroyer into a planet. Gameplay is repetitive, cutscene VO is as stiff as the animation in the character models... and story is interesting, but Catherine Taber (Mission Vao from KotoR).. does a decent VO for Leia but is so not Carrie Fisher that it is jarring. (They did a god job with Vader and Palpatine though) Fun romp through the Star Wars universe, and the boss fights in this one are so much better then the sequel.
Yep...I think you were actually the only person who liked Legacy. that probably includes the people who produced it, too.
Worst game controls ever. Phoned in VO work.
The ships looked great thou.
Hey...I liked Legacy...With the volume turned down so I didn't have to hear the bad VO work....Oh and once I realized on the PC it's WAY easier to play with an XBox 360 controller...
I even got into the modding a little bit. My last project was to return the Chain Pulsar to the Akira.... Was only partially successful...got it working...just couldn't balance it.
Also was a tester for one of the Community mods....I even managed to get in on the ground floor of the Legacy Refugee boards....but haven't stuck my head around there much lately...Did get a watch from them tho...
Truth be told, half of the games on his list are not popular among the Xbox crowd
i wrote "my 360 must haves"... meaning those are games that i did like the most.
The crowd is usually is a bunch of casual gamers that don't know the diffrence between good Gameplay and Hyped up Games that live more from Eyecandy and "Story" then beeing good GAMES.
Gears is very much a cult game now. It had a massive uproar, but its fan base never really took off. People who have been playing xbox for a long time know of it or have played, but diehard fans of it are few in between.
You seem to live in some kind of diffrent reality?
Playing this sucker in Coop with your best friend -> best thing EVER!
Only thing that comes close is Army of Two... i wouldn't call that one a must have though.
lies!
you obviously never spend much time with it, like most of the reviewers that gave it low ratings for it's Camera (which works exactly the same as Ninja Gaiden or Force Unleashed, this is a made up problem) and of course the controls... yeah you know, actually that was a pretty cool and inovative way to control stuff, once you got the hang of it.
Oh and dont forget the "annoying death animation"... sorry n00bs, how about learning not to die in the first place? Once you master the controls and know the weaknesses of the enemy's you almost never die.
And another complaint: "You can die as often as you want, there is no penalty" ...yes there is!
Your armor get's damaged if you die, if you die a lot your armor brakes (starts to glow red). So in effect you are more likely to die if you die a lot, you will die a lot more.
The only thing you can realy complain about is missing Documentation of skills and some other stuff...
but non of the reviewers ever got that deep into the game to notice.
I still don't know what "Rot +6" could mean.
Yes the game sold badly and got ripped appart from the Press, will never recieve a part 2 but it is one of the best X360 games in my opinion, it could have been better, but you can say that about everything.
If you like Diablo 2 then there is a good chance you like Too Human, if you can understand the controls and are willing to go in deep enough.
Pro Tip: first time play singleplayer alone to see all the video sequences for the story.
Second time play multiplayer Coop and if you want to play alone put the second slot to invite only.
Then you can play the Levels without getting interrupted by videos every 5 seconds, then you realy start making Level Runs, the real fun starts when your char is lvl 30 - 50. On the first singleplayer run you might get to 20, imagine the first singleplayer run as a Tutorial.
Ninja Gaiden 2 is one of the hardest games to hit the Xbox. Now difficulty is one thing. NG2 takes difficulty to a new level by not making it about challenge.
I found it to be very challenging to beat Bosses with only little health and no way to replenish it before the battle.
Yes that game was torture, 30 reloads on one boss was default for me. but it was all the way more sattisfying finally beating it then just beating defenseless Thrash Mobs all day long.
It's kinda the same mindset if you play STO on easy or on Elite. You want a pretty interactive Screensaver or a challenging GAME?
I found it exiting and the gameplay was finally something diffrent then the usual ego shooter CoD&Halo BS. Also it build up an Atmosphere that i'm unable to describe. It was like playing a Stephen King book.
Should be played at night in the dark.
Star Wars Force Unleashed: Do not go in with high expectations.
I played it 5 times because it's f*cking awesome in every aspect.
The Story fits perfectly between Episodes 3 and 4... the Gameplay is good, i just whished the Lightsaber would be a little more prominent and actually cut off bodyparts like it did in Jedi Knight and not feel like a Flashlight.
I'd say this one is the best you can get after Jedi Knight... and Jedi Knight is sooo oooooold.
Part 2... mmmh did not realy play that one yet, but i hear the story is lame and gameplay just more of the same... so it's pretty much the sequel you would expect from a company that only had enough stuff for one good game and then want to milk the success.
lol... now that one i put intentionally at the end of my list because in the end it's all just the same Ego Shooter you played one million times before, just with a cool SciFi setting and awesome theme + some vehicle action. It's a must have for the 360 just like Mario is a must have for Nintendo... but it is nothing inovative or special from a Gameplay perspective. Good solid game's but nothing mindblowing.
AC1 ...after the first town you have seen everything, then it repeats itself one million times with the same 5 actions. They should have made it an RPG instead of an action Jump&Run game.
I played it till the end and i had no intrest in picking up part 2... strangely i own it allready because it came free with my GTX460.
Also a Multiplatform Title, i try to avoid mentioning those as must haves for a console. (only if the console version is far superrior)
Gears is very much a cult game now. It had a massive uproar, but its fan base never really took off. People who have been playing xbox for a long time know of it or have played, but diehard fans of it are few in between. In part because it pushed the "Super Space Marine" that little to far, and its super grit, does not make it last long in favorable opinions. Terrain starts to look to similar, and it really was at the end of the space marine fascination. Same thing happened to Turok, which gameplay was not bad... just story was to far from the source material, and the whole uber space marine and gritty world is nearing its end.
Hmm, I am going to have to disagree with this. If you play by yourself, then maybe you got bored with it. If you played thru with a friend, it is a total blast. Also, multiplayer co-op with a team against other teams was way fun! GoW3 is even going to have 4 man co-op going thru the story, not just in multiplayer, so that will be awesome too.
Not to mention it brought a revolutionary new cover system to console games both with destroyable cover or using the bodies of your enemies as human shields. It allows you to chainsaw or curb stomp your enemies, and has some of the most impressive video game weapons ever seen. Torque bow and sticky grenades FTW.
As far as the space marine thing being played out - how can you say the space marine thing is tired in GoW but then not think its played out in Halo - the original space marine game (which has I think 5 different titles to GoW's 2)? Seems like you may feel its played out, but the market still seems to want them.
I also disagree with whomever said Fallout 3 and New Vegas are better on PC. I understand that you can only mod the PC ones, but I prefer playing the original more often than I like to play the mods and the PC versions of Fallout 3 and New Vegas were horrible bug ridden POS's at launch. Also, the manufacturer offered DLC add-ons are available on console only if I remember correctly..(may be wrong on that). They eventually fix the PC versions to playable with a patch or two, but New Vegas on PC almost killed me for the first three days. That, and I don't like playing thru steam. Nice thing about consoles are the hardware is standardized. No one-off bugs because you have an ATI instead of an Nvidia card, or things like that. I prefer PC gaming to console gaming for the most part, but sometimes the console versions are the better version.
Oh and a game no one has mentioned yet but that is totally amazing on the 360... Civilization Revolution. Not as heavy on detail as the Civ PC versions, but still fun and the controller layout works well.
yes there were a few horrible bugs initially on New Vegas but they are mostly fixed by now.
going back to a non modded version seems impossible, once you had increased walking speed the original movement feels like a crawl.
Yeah, I played all of Vegas on PC. It was tolerable after the second patch. And I hadn't thought about walking speed - I can see how being able to change things like that would take a lot of the pain outta travel. I was mainly using the rough initial release to illustrate the point that the PC versions aren't always the superior version.
and hating on GoW? Blasphemy! (revs chainsaw bayonet...)
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ODST has a film noir feel, Reach is best described as a Greek tragedy mixed with FPS, simply an amazing game.
Fable 2 and 3, I actually liked 2 a little better, but the Monty Python cameo and references in 3 were priceless.
GTA IV and the Episodes From Liberty City disk. People can say what they want, but unlike many of the older GTA's this one is deep, involving and the campaign has actual soul and emotion to it, unlike older installments. Though, I quite liked how total a ripoff Vice City was of Scarface
There's the FPS ones like Halo...Bad Company is pretty cool....
If you like RPG...Go with Mass Effect 1 and 2...Possibly even Fallout 3 and Vegas.
Dragon Age is cool too.
I used to use gamefly...to try out games...but then I got laid off and don't have a consistent way to pay for them
As someone else said, Mass Effect 2 and both of the Fallout games are good. The fallout games have so much content it is insane. I had 90 hours in (game saves are time stamps of play time) either of them before I got close to the end.
Gamertag is "Doctor HOOPS" if you feel you need some friends in your friends list.
Also I HIGHLY recommend at least one keypad controller addon. Makes typing anything in much easier...if you've texted..you can use one of these.
And don't play with Frans, he cheats. Never let him anywhere near a sniper rifle and/or a tank.
Some of the 360 games out there are simply amazing. Reach, as Shin says, is brilliant - and this coming from the guy who hates FPS games on a console (give me a mouse and keyboard anyday). The Fable series is excellent, although the storyline seems to grow shorter with every consecutive game : The original took me weeks to complete, Fable 2 was completed within a couple of days, and I knocked out Fable 3 to completion in eight hours (including the two hardest achievements - for not getting knocked out at all, and by
I'd wholeheartledly recommend some of the racing games, too, as they really show off the 360 well. Burnout Revenge is an awesome game, and it doesn't matter if you're a good driver or not, as you get rewarded for destroying your opponents cars.
Left 4 Dead 2 is another game which is simply amazing. I've played it a lot on the PC, and I've urged a few 10Fers I play Live games with to get it as well. The Zombie Defence League currently consists of myself, EJ, and Frans (and Zona, although I don't have him on my friends list yet) and although we've yet to play a game, we will, and it'll be awesome. Plus, it allows 4v4 deathmatching.
I'd also recommend Lips, simply so I can bust you up karaoke style.
Although the 360 can be enjoyed solo (Arkham Asylum is, quite possibly, the best Superhero video game ever created, and easily one of the best games, period) it's really geared towards multiplayer action. Add me at some point (My gamertag is, believe it or not, Flasherman) and go through the old "Let's Play With Each Other" thread, and add some others.
I got L4D2 on steam, and I am in the ten forward steam group, current handle is Spicy McHaggis [141]
(don't ask)
The girl in my avatar is from that game.
Mass Effect 1 and 2. Don't just get two... it did fix a lot of the annoying things in Mass Effect 1, but playing the story from the beginning does impact the second, and the third when it releases. Much richer experience playing one first, then two. (The DLC for ME2 is awesome as well.)
Halo Reach... I'd get Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, and ODST (Halo and Halo 2 are Xbox so may be hard to find) if you are interested in the whole story. Reach offers great multilayer, so is always a fun diversion.
Brothers in Arms: One of the best WWII Story Shooters. Lacks multiplayer.
Red Dead Redemption: Quite frankly, one of the best games I have ever played. The story has a few cliched moments, but it breaks away from the video game mold quite a bit, and tells a human story. It truly is an amazing game.
The Assassin Creed series: Can be a bit repetitive gameplay wise, but the story is fairly interesting. It is a mystery style sci fi story that spans centuries. Very interesting...
Splinter Cell: Conviction: Smooth gameplay, very fun co-op and interesting story, if somewhat predictable.
GTAIV: It is a less mature version of Red Dead Redemption's story. But then again, it exists in a a series that has never quite taken itself seriously. GTAIV does take itself seriously, but it does so in a way that is lighthearted and fun, but without ruining the emotional payoffs of the story. Can be repetitive at times.
Fun games to have for parties and such: (Non-Kinect titles, as I am not versed in Kinect titles as I am still a little paranoid about installing a camera that never turns off, and has some of the most advanced IR, Motion, and Visual Optics ever given to civilians for entertainment purposes.... Big Brother is watching...)
Rock Band/Guitar Hero: Always fun in parties.
Soul Caliber IV and Dead or Alive... fighting games are good in parties because of the round robin nature...
World at War: Fun shooter with good split screening, TRIBBLE Zombies, and fast paced matches meaning it is easy to rotate through.
Niche Games: (For fans of series:)
Force Unleashed and Force Unleashed II: Ok games, if you're are Star Wars fan, you will porbably enjoy them. Might be a little dissappointed though, but for Star Wars fans... that is par for the course in the last decade. (Thank god TOR is in the new decade, so just maybe we have a changing of the winds.)
Star Trek Legacy: Ok, the game sucks, but you will be hard pressed to find a ST fan that has not butt there head against its crappy VOs, or tried to convince themselves that it is a good game because of the attention to detail, even if earth is backwards, etc...
Sports Games:
I am a baseball fan, so I have only played baseball games:
MLB 2k7 and 2k10 are the most stable of the MLB series, and ones I would recommend... umm avoid the others, especially 2k8 like the plague.
Fallout 3 or Vegas, the same for Dragon Age, I would reconmend as PC, as their PC versions are significantly better. (Fallout 3 and Vegas are better because of the UGC add ons, and Dragon Age was designed for the PC and ported. The control interface and such is much smoother in the PC version. The Console version of DA is actually dumbed down a little.)
I'll see your GTAIV, and raise you Saints Row 2, which...hang on...there we go!
GTAIV and Saints Row 2 are not the same game, despite popular opinion. Saints Row 2 is more in line with the GTA series prior to IV... lots of action, humor, and mayhem, IV moved towards a more story based, movie like experience, vs mayhem. Both have their qualities, but I did not recommend Saints Row 2 because I have not played it and can not vouch for it.
Note: From the reviews and comments, Saints Row 2 seems like an excellent game, just was not my cup of tea. I do not want to come across as saying it is a bad game.
Am I seriously the only one who LIKED Legacy? I know it was far from perfect, but I very much enjoyed it, then enjoyed modding its brains out and managing to take out a Breen capital ship with the Delta Flyer
There are loads of awesome games. If you are unsure, just download some demo versions and play them. If you need any more friends on your list, add me: man0riaX (with a zero
A for the hardware question i barely use the headset that came with my console and I can't really recommend the controller-keyboard Microsoft offers. It may be of use if you like to write long texts with youe console, but most of the times I do that on a computer, anyway.
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2
Gears of War 1
Gears of War 2
Midnight Club L.A.
Blur
Forza 3
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Ace Combat 6
Too Human
Alan Wake
Ninja Gaiden 2
Halo.... just everything Halo
Yep...I think you were actually the only person who liked Legacy. that probably includes the people who produced it, too.
Worst game controls ever. Phoned in VO work.
The ships looked great thou.
If you want, look me up. My gamertag is Hard Luck Oni.
i would not realy suggest any Multi Platform titles, especially not if the PC versions are clearly better (Fallout, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, CoD....)
Not sure why people here keep bashing on Star Trek Legacy....
it has a good Story
Voice Overs from ALL the Captains... phonejob or not, STO's few Voiceover are worse!
the ships are a lot more accurate then the ones from STO with their default 4 types of textures...
better turnrates and you can steer up and down in 90 degree angles instead of 45
almost the same gameplay as STO just without the million hotkey's
the PC version was better though (modding!!!)
http://picasaweb.google.com/Z3R0B4NG/StarTrekLegacy#
http://legacy.filefront.com/
Red Dead Redemption and the Left 4 Dead series are some of my favorite non-soccer games.
Having played Mass Effect on PC and Xbox, I do not agree that the PC version is better. Higher resolution yes, but the interface feels clunky. This makes since when, like KotoR, Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were designed for console, not PC.
Will agree that Fallout and Dragon Age are better on PC.
On the subject of hardware; my personal experience has been that the "official" XBox headset tends to work better than the few 3rd party versions that I have tried.
Also, as for a keyboard/keypad, any USB windows keyboard can be used. If I am going to send a lot of (or long) messages I generally just unplug the keyboard from my PC and use that.
I don't have any of these games. I must be breaking some XBox 360 law or something.
Truth be told, half of the games on his list are not popular among the Xbox crowd, I wont say they are bad because I have not played the racing or Ace Combat games...
Gears is very much a cult game now. It had a massive uproar, but its fan base never really took off. People who have been playing xbox for a long time know of it or have played, but diehard fans of it are few in between. In part because it pushed the "Super Space Marine" that little to far, and its super grit, does not make it last long in favorable opinions. Terrain starts to look to similar, and it really was at the end of the space marine fascination. Same thing happened to Turok, which gameplay was not bad... just story was to far from the source material, and the whole uber space marine and gritty world is nearing its end.
Too Human is one of the worse games the Xbox has. While opinion varies... it is a game that is somewhat schizophrenic, never quite sure which reality it wants to play in. Takes long time established camera controls and throws them out, making it a royal pain in the TRIBBLE to retrain your thumbs to navigate a very bland and repetitious world. Combat is boring, unvaried, but while Assassin Creed gets away with boring and unvaried combat with outstanding suspense, story, character, visuals, attention to detail, and just quality packaging, Too Human does not have much but a whiney cliched emo anti-hero to keep it up.
Ninja Gaiden 2 is one of the hardest games to hit the Xbox. Now difficulty is one thing. NG2 takes difficulty to a new level by not making it about challenge, but about your ability to make it through reload after reload until the gaming gods have mercy on your soul and let you get through a scene. There are 'hard' games out there that provide a challenge that is more rewarding, less frustration. But the fanboy community of this game is rabid, so I typically avoid commenting on it. I will probably get called a lazy newb who likes all games easy mode for these comments in this paragraph.
Alan Wake I found indescribably boring, however the literary references and clever writing... oh wait nevermind. What cleverness it had, they ruin by bludgeoning you with it, and then pointing it at. Does some unique things with gameplay, and is worth renting for that, but I would not go in with high expectations.
Star Wars Force Unleashed: Do not go in with high expectations. Fun romp of lightsaber and lightening killing doom, plus you get to throw a Star Destroyer into a planet. Gameplay is repetitive, cutscene VO is as stiff as the animation in the character models... and story is interesting, but Catherine Taber (Mission Vao from KotoR).. does a decent VO for Leia but is so not Carrie Fisher that it is jarring. (They did a god job with Vader and Palpatine though) Fun romp through the Star Wars universe, and the boss fights in this one are so much better then the sequel.
Halo I am in agreement with... worthy titles.
Hey...I liked Legacy...With the volume turned down so I didn't have to hear the bad VO work....Oh and once I realized on the PC it's WAY easier to play with an XBox 360 controller...
I even got into the modding a little bit. My last project was to return the Chain Pulsar to the Akira.... Was only partially successful...got it working...just couldn't balance it.
Also was a tester for one of the Community mods....I even managed to get in on the ground floor of the Legacy Refugee boards....but haven't stuck my head around there much lately...Did get a watch from them tho...
Reach
Assassins Creed: Brotherhood
Halo 1-3, for the storyline, not the multiplayer
Call od Duty: Black Ops
Fable 3
and if you enjoy games from Ensemble Studios, like Age of Empires, than Halo Wars is good.
Also, if you don't like blood, and I mean EXTREME amounts of blood, AVOID SPLATTERHOUSE AT ALL COSTS.
How can you forget the Assassins Creed series?!?
I dunno...None of these are my cup of tea.....Tho haven't tried Fable 3 yet....so they may not be the best for everyone... :P
i wrote "my 360 must haves"... meaning those are games that i did like the most.
The crowd is usually is a bunch of casual gamers that don't know the diffrence between good Gameplay and Hyped up Games that live more from Eyecandy and "Story" then beeing good GAMES.
You seem to live in some kind of diffrent reality?
Playing this sucker in Coop with your best friend -> best thing EVER!
Only thing that comes close is Army of Two... i wouldn't call that one a must have though.
lies!
you obviously never spend much time with it, like most of the reviewers that gave it low ratings for it's Camera (which works exactly the same as Ninja Gaiden or Force Unleashed, this is a made up problem) and of course the controls... yeah you know, actually that was a pretty cool and inovative way to control stuff, once you got the hang of it.
Oh and dont forget the "annoying death animation"... sorry n00bs, how about learning not to die in the first place? Once you master the controls and know the weaknesses of the enemy's you almost never die.
And another complaint: "You can die as often as you want, there is no penalty" ...yes there is!
Your armor get's damaged if you die, if you die a lot your armor brakes (starts to glow red). So in effect you are more likely to die if you die a lot, you will die a lot more.
The only thing you can realy complain about is missing Documentation of skills and some other stuff...
but non of the reviewers ever got that deep into the game to notice.
I still don't know what "Rot +6" could mean.
Yes the game sold badly and got ripped appart from the Press, will never recieve a part 2 but it is one of the best X360 games in my opinion, it could have been better, but you can say that about everything.
If you like Diablo 2 then there is a good chance you like Too Human, if you can understand the controls and are willing to go in deep enough.
Pro Tip: first time play singleplayer alone to see all the video sequences for the story.
Second time play multiplayer Coop and if you want to play alone put the second slot to invite only.
Then you can play the Levels without getting interrupted by videos every 5 seconds, then you realy start making Level Runs, the real fun starts when your char is lvl 30 - 50. On the first singleplayer run you might get to 20, imagine the first singleplayer run as a Tutorial.
I found it to be very challenging to beat Bosses with only little health and no way to replenish it before the battle.
Yes that game was torture, 30 reloads on one boss was default for me. but it was all the way more sattisfying finally beating it then just beating defenseless Thrash Mobs all day long.
It's kinda the same mindset if you play STO on easy or on Elite. You want a pretty interactive Screensaver or a challenging GAME?
I found it exiting and the gameplay was finally something diffrent then the usual ego shooter CoD&Halo BS. Also it build up an Atmosphere that i'm unable to describe. It was like playing a Stephen King book.
Should be played at night in the dark.
I played it 5 times because it's f*cking awesome in every aspect.
The Story fits perfectly between Episodes 3 and 4... the Gameplay is good, i just whished the Lightsaber would be a little more prominent and actually cut off bodyparts like it did in Jedi Knight and not feel like a Flashlight.
I'd say this one is the best you can get after Jedi Knight... and Jedi Knight is sooo oooooold.
Part 2... mmmh did not realy play that one yet, but i hear the story is lame and gameplay just more of the same... so it's pretty much the sequel you would expect from a company that only had enough stuff for one good game and then want to milk the success.
lol... now that one i put intentionally at the end of my list because in the end it's all just the same Ego Shooter you played one million times before, just with a cool SciFi setting and awesome theme + some vehicle action. It's a must have for the 360 just like Mario is a must have for Nintendo... but it is nothing inovative or special from a Gameplay perspective. Good solid game's but nothing mindblowing.
because i do not like it?
AC1 ...after the first town you have seen everything, then it repeats itself one million times with the same 5 actions. They should have made it an RPG instead of an action Jump&Run game.
I played it till the end and i had no intrest in picking up part 2... strangely i own it allready because it came free with my GTX460.
Also a Multiplatform Title, i try to avoid mentioning those as must haves for a console. (only if the console version is far superrior)
Hmm, I am going to have to disagree with this. If you play by yourself, then maybe you got bored with it. If you played thru with a friend, it is a total blast. Also, multiplayer co-op with a team against other teams was way fun! GoW3 is even going to have 4 man co-op going thru the story, not just in multiplayer, so that will be awesome too.
Not to mention it brought a revolutionary new cover system to console games both with destroyable cover or using the bodies of your enemies as human shields. It allows you to chainsaw or curb stomp your enemies, and has some of the most impressive video game weapons ever seen. Torque bow and sticky grenades FTW.
As far as the space marine thing being played out - how can you say the space marine thing is tired in GoW but then not think its played out in Halo - the original space marine game (which has I think 5 different titles to GoW's 2)? Seems like you may feel its played out, but the market still seems to want them.
I also disagree with whomever said Fallout 3 and New Vegas are better on PC. I understand that you can only mod the PC ones, but I prefer playing the original more often than I like to play the mods and the PC versions of Fallout 3 and New Vegas were horrible bug ridden POS's at launch. Also, the manufacturer offered DLC add-ons are available on console only if I remember correctly..(may be wrong on that). They eventually fix the PC versions to playable with a patch or two, but New Vegas on PC almost killed me for the first three days. That, and I don't like playing thru steam. Nice thing about consoles are the hardware is standardized. No one-off bugs because you have an ATI instead of an Nvidia card, or things like that. I prefer PC gaming to console gaming for the most part, but sometimes the console versions are the better version.
Oh and a game no one has mentioned yet but that is totally amazing on the 360... Civilization Revolution. Not as heavy on detail as the Civ PC versions, but still fun and the controller layout works well.
the DLC is avaible on PC, yes there were a few horrible bugs initially on New Vegas but they are mostly fixed by now.
here are 2 videos of my modded Fallout 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpPCM2QlcVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRMSStSJuw
going back to a non modded version seems impossible, once you had increased walking speed the original movement feels like a crawl.
Yeah, I played all of Vegas on PC. It was tolerable after the second patch. And I hadn't thought about walking speed - I can see how being able to change things like that would take a lot of the pain outta travel. I was mainly using the rough initial release to illustrate the point that the PC versions aren't always the superior version.
and hating on GoW? Blasphemy! (revs chainsaw bayonet...)