• Xbox 360 turns 10 years old
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360 controllers are pretty sweet for PC gaming but I'm probably gonna swap mine out for a PS4 controller pretty soon. it's nuts how microsoft decided to follow it up with the xbone
[QUOTE=Swiket;49167816]10 year lifespan baby. [url]http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-360-to-have-10-year-life-span-report/1100-6211650/[/url][/QUOTE] That was actually a really accurate prediction
[QUOTE=Liem;49168898]That was actually a really accurate prediction[/QUOTE] considering the xbone came out a little before it hit ten, not entirely
I have had my original 360 elite for going on 8 years now without any issues.
[QUOTE=pgr2gamer;49168066]I still think the first dashboard was the best one, in terms of colors, easy access, and it looks really arcadish [video=youtube_share;AZYhri2tsM4]http://youtu.be/AZYhri2tsM4[/video][/QUOTE] I kinda miss that theme, Yeah I understand that they wanted to turn the Xbox in general into an entertainment centerpiece of sorts so it needed to change but...I kinda miss how simple this is.
My favorite 360 launch title. [t]http://reviewanygame.com/content/images/products/condemned-criminal-origins-xbox-360.jpg[/t] I've had some good memories with this console. I remember seeing previews for NBA Live 06 and freaking out about how you could actually see the players sweat.
10 years and PGR3 still looks fresh.
[QUOTE=J!NX;49168925]considering the xbone came out a little before it hit ten, not entirely[/QUOTE] How is that relevant, the 360 is still being supported. They're making more and games are still coming out for it. The PS2's lifespan was right up until the PS4 came out.
[QUOTE=simzboy;49168983]My favorite 360 launch title. [t]http://reviewanygame.com/content/images/products/condemned-criminal-origins-xbox-360.jpg[/t] I've had some good memories with this console. I remember seeing previews for NBA Live 06 and freaking out about how you could actually see the players sweat.[/QUOTE] Oh fuck yeah. I played Criminal Origins on PC but I had to play Bloodshot on the 360. Great games both of them, at least until Bloodshot went off the deep end with the vocal chord magics. I always liked Condemned over F.E.A.R. when it came to the horror stuff
[QUOTE=pgr2gamer;49168066]I still think the first dashboard was the best one, in terms of colors, easy access, and it looks really arcadish [video=youtube_share;AZYhri2tsM4]http://youtu.be/AZYhri2tsM4[/video][/QUOTE] Damn, that brings back memories of my early online gaming days of late '08 and '09. Halo 3 custom games were the shot, anyone remember Fat Kid? Or that floating zombie fortress on Stand Off where you had to use the gravity lift to jump inside? I even remember designing a functional door via a shield wall, a fusion coil, a power drain, two gravity lif and a dumpster. Basically I realised you could throw power drains through shield doors, so I wedged two door props together to make a tiny gap, covered the gap with a shield door (to prevent people from throwing grenades through) and at the end placed a fusion coil and a gravity lift. When you threw the power drain inside it blew up the fusion coil, which in turn destroyed the first gravity lift and caused the second to spawn in under the dumpster, thus opening the 'door'.
I cant believe how nostalgic the 360 makes me, it was kinda formative for me really, getting it in 2007 and playing Halo 3, the first M rated game I was allowed to own, felt like a big part of growing up at the time. Definitely miss those days a little bit.
I relate Xbox 360 with christmas a lot. First i got my 360 on christmas and the following years after it i always got the latest Gears of War game or the latest Halo game on christmas.
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I only got a 360 to play GTAIV when it was released, then it bascially spent the rest of it's life as a glorified DVD player. It eventually RRD'd when I tried to watch the Great Gatsby, maybe that was for the best.
I seem to be late to the party. I got the 360 in 2012 just so i can play Forza 4.
Forgot to say, i use my 360 only for the occasional nostalgia trips for 30 minutes and for Netflix + PLEX.
Family got us a 360 in 2008 and it never really caught my attention I have to admit. The console scratched the disks we put in it to the point we swapped it out for another 360 to try to cure it, paying for online felt like a joke and either way being 14 years old I couldn't afford it, it had all these games but none I was interested in playing because they quite frankly did an awful job of making them appeal to me. I honestly felt the Wii was a much better option alone on the fact you don't feel like you were getting fleeced and in retrospect the 360 was when the bottom started to really fall out of games consoles for me. The 360 should of shown me games I would of never of played on a Wii, instead it took two extra years and a PC and Steam to really set the ball rolling. Sorry to badmouth it here but its honestly how I feel.
I remember those days after it launched. I was still in elementary school, and no one I knew had one. I didn't get one until Christmas, 2007, because I was a kid and couldn't afford these things, and for a variety of reasons my brother and I thought that the Wii would be the only system we'd need for the generation. It wasn't long before we realized that we were missing practically half the generation... remember Wii60? I had owned a PS2 before but neither of us wanted a PS3 because of the high cost and the bad publicity. I was in middle school by that point, and the 360 was a gift that my mom got me as an apology for having to give away a dog I loved to death. We took the 360 with us on a trip up to Tennessee. We stayed in a log cabin which looked great online but in reality was in a sort of neighborhood packed with other vacation cabins. Just about everything interesting to do up there was super-touristy and had a long line, there were a lot of reasons my parents ended up disappointed. My brother and I played the shit out of that 360 any time we were at the cabin. The first game we really loved was Crackdown, and soon after, Halo 3. We also had Xbox Live accounts, exposing me to online gaming in a way which I had never really experienced before. Forza was the first game I played online. I remember sitting in a lobby with one other player, wearing my headset but being too shy to say anything. The guy on the other end, some dude who was probably just as old as I am now, broke the ice by beatboxing to the lobby music and making me laugh. I then proceeded to win my first three races, because I had been an avid Gran Turismo player before I moved over. I probably really embarrassed the guy. The next summer, my brother's friend lent him a copy of Oblivion, and while my brother enjoyed it, I absolutely adored it, and played it for a ridiculous number of hours. I've since bought it for PC, but I've never quite experienced that same magic as I did playing it on the 360. Around that same time, my bro got into playing the original Assassin's Creed. I remember how much more optimistic everyone was for that series before it devolved into a yearly release. Later, my brother and I tackled the co-op campaigns of the Gears of War series. I don't think the two of us have ever been more in sync playing anything. When I was in my early high school years, Guitar Hero was the game to own. GH3 introduced me to Weezer, who would later become my favorite band. We got the World Tour box set when it came out and experienced the magic of a full-band performance maybe five times the entire time we owned it. The plastic instruments all ended up at the thrift store, IIRC. On a sour note, my last communication with two of my middle school friends (who attended a different high school than me) was a game of Halo 3 that I rage quit out of. I still feel bad about that, five years later. Around that same time, we got the RROD and got a free replacement thanks to the extended warrantee. Sometime around my late high school years I moved away from the 360 and consoles in general. I started playing games on Steam with my brother and his friends, and eventually saved up and built a real computer. My dad was really into the Halo series and had insisted on keeping the system in the living room so that he could keep playing online with his subscription. The feeling of self-consciousness of gaming in my parents' living room eventually got to me and so I finally bought myself a PS3. The last game I was really addicted to on the 360 was Skate 3. I still wanted to play it even after I beat it 100%, so I re-bought it for PS3 and completed it again, in the privacy of my bedroom. You know, up until now I always thought of the 360 as the system that I walked away from when I embraced PC gaming. Like it wasn't good enough to keep my attention once I grew up. But I started writing this post and one memory just kept leading to other memories, and looking back on it, I think the 360 might be the most important console I grew up with. Time flies, gentlemen. Oh, and before anyone comments on my username: I never had a Saturn when I was little. I collect Sega stuff and got really into the system around the time I registered for Facepunch.
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;49167809]Fuck yes, RDR is a god damn masterpiece. Wheres the sequel R*?[/QUOTE] I'm betting it's in the making. Hopefully on pc too.
Still love this console, despite the fact that mine had some fuckup in that it would destroy discs permanently if you tried to play them vertically...a lesson I learned with Bad Company 2 :(
Has it really been ten years now since its initial launch? Damn. Time sure does fly by awfully fast.
Brings back memories when I just got my new 360 bundled with TES:Oblivion, good times. Too bad about its initial launch though, shit was plagued by hardware malfunctions.
Fucking memories of being so hyped for Christmas '06 to get my Xbox 360, Dead Rising, Gears of War & Saints Row, Xbox 360 had undeniably the most solid launch period of games. Me and my buddies all moved to PS4, it's weird jumping back on to Xbox Live on the 360 to see an empty and dead friends list, so many arcade titles I'll never get back to playing again (like motherfucking Assault Heroes)
I must be a rarity since I never had a RRoD.
I used to stay up with my cousins and play Halo 3 all night, since it was the best game they had for the 360 when they bought it. When I played Halo 3 for the first time, it was like a whole new world of gaming to me. Halo 3 was the real shit back then. Call of Duty was getting it's spotlight, but since Halo 3 brought in so many community features it was impossible to say no to playing it even if you didn't like it because you knew that you would make a ton of friends even if you picked up the 360 a bit later than everyone else. Plus Halo 3 was popular for Machinimas too, like everyone I met when I had longer stays at my cousin's house always dreamed about starring in a good Machinima like Pre-Game Lobby or Arby n' the Chief. Also let's not forget MLG wannabes, they were fucking rampant. Custom games were the best in Halo 3 too, since file share gave everyone these really fun maps to play on like those Jenga maps, Monster Truck maps, obstacle courses, Garbage Man, Assassin's creed and etc.
[QUOTE=proch;49170336]I'm betting it's in the making. Hopefully on pc too.[/QUOTE] Yeah, they gotta work out how to monetize the game, so with that time period it may take a while
My 2005 launch 360 has been reflowed (by me) twice and still provides me with netflix every night I bought it second hand, I wish I'd picked it up earlier, great console
[QUOTE=343N;49169768][IMG]http://image.engage.xbox.com/lib/fe5f15707362017c7c10/m/1/Xbox360_10years.jpg?ocid=Platform_SOCIAL_Twitter&cid=Platform_SOCIAL_Twitter[/IMG][/QUOTE] Minecraft looks really out of place here :v: I know that it's a bestseller, but it doesn't quite scream Xbox 360 as much as the other franchises on there do, especially considering how it came out quite late into the console's lifecycle. Should've been Guitar Hero or GTA.
The Xbox One doesn't feel like that much of an upgrade with this news, ten years is a long time.
[QUOTE=plunger435;49171285]The Xbox One doesn't feel like that much of an upgrade with this news, ten years is a long time.[/QUOTE] The 360 holds my interest more than the xbox one cheap, huge backlog of games, great controller
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