Topic: The Xbox 360 Thread

No menus..? Sounds a little strange. How does it compare to Fable 2 so far?

I want to pick up Force Unleashed 2 (i don't care that the reviews have been mediocre, i'm too much of a SW fanboy to care), but there's also New Vegas and Fable 3 out there (though i'm very unenthused by Fable 3, despite liking the first 2, as even the great reviews i've read sound like style-over-substance praise) ... too many games, too little available cash. Damn bills. Don't people know i have gaming to do? =)

I have a feeling that the Gamespot review is pretty spot on for Fable 3.

I have the Halo Reach Edition X360 Elite with Fable 3 (incredible compared to Fable 2 from what Ive seen today, Fable Xbox is still one of my favorite Microsoft titles ever along with Jade Empire) in it in my GameRoom about 5ft away from me right now, though its turned off and Killzone 3 Beta is being played instead lol.

Bioshock is a must for all X360/PS3 owners in my opinion. Its been my favorite game of all time until very recently when I wrapped up Metal Gear Solid 4 (in less than a week lol). Biosock is just flat out amazing, and it does indeed run better on the X360, so grab it there instead if owning both platforms. Also ToysRus runs it for around $10 a lot wich is insane.

Combat Mechanic in which?

Anywho, I would've liked the Last Remnant if I had been able to understand its combat mechanics. It certainly seemed promising, it just did a poor job of teaching you how to handle its unorthadox systems. Infinite Undiscovery, on the other hand, was terrible. I keep forgetting about it, but honestly that's because it's so forgetteble. I was actually surprised to find out that it was a Tri-Aces game, since usually they try to make their games as unique as possible. I comparison, IU is a pretty modest game - a standard dungeon crawler with a generic story, populated by a large cast of forgettable characters, who crawl though unremarkable dungeons, defeating mundane enemies, using a fairly repetitive combat system, and occasionally completing side quests that always just end up being fetch quests/Kill the monster quests. While It does have a few interesting gameplay mechanics that I haven't seen that often in an action-RPG, it still failed to stand out to me in anyway. The worst part is that I love dungeon crawlers, yet this one just wasn't as compelling or addicting as other games like it that I've played.

That reminds me: Where the heck is Jade Empire 2, Bioware?

Really! I would literally buy another X360 just for that game!

I was interested in RoF because I liked the character designs and the fact that you can customize their outfits, but the battle system really turned me off because of the difficulty. I play games to relax, so too much challenge just annoys me. ^^;;

I saw that Magi was picking up Kinect, any of you other guys grabbing it? Im really curious about this one wich Microsoft spending so incredibly much money to advertise it, Im wondering if It as great as they make it out to be. I was really skeptical with Move until I played it and Im thinking Kinect might be the same way. Dance Central looks AMAZING but outside of that Ive been unimpressed software wise. Im curious to see you guys that play X360 daily impressions on Kinect. I think its going to be the next HD Wii casual item, but that is just my opinion.

As for Fable 3..... INCREDIBLE! I love the lack of menus with exception to not being able to see armor/weapon stats. Game looks great and such a huge improvement over Fable 2. Very impressed here and with Reach.

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I just tried the Kinect this weekend at one of those demo stations Microsoft has been setting up, and I have to say I'm more interested in it than I was before. With so much negative press surrounding the thing I thought I'd hate it but it worked better than expected.

I'm still going to need to see more game support before I plunk down the cash.

My main concern is the fact that without some kind of controller there is no real way to move a onscreen character, car,etc around properly. Cars you can drive, but not accelerate/brake. Most everything else is a on-rails type of game that the game moves forward/backward for you and your movements are just up/down/left/right and a horizontal plane. With exceptions to the mini game types of course that work great with all these motion control set-ups. Bring in a Navigational Controller like the Navi for Move or Nunchuk for Wii and I think it will be a fix to a lot of these problems and I think it will end up happening.

Yeah, it's going to tough for some genres to work without some type of control input. A support controller could very well pop up in the future, but I'm hoping some particularly ingenious developers will create something different. Time will tell, I suppose

I hope so too. I dont care about Console Loyalty and all that crap, if something is truely innovative it is. Kinect is just that but Im seeing a lot of severe limitations that need to be worked around to make it absolutely mind blowing. If anyone has the money and ability to do it, its Microsoft. I hope they do come up with something as well.

Finally got to play Reach. It is fairly fun so far, except that I don`t seem to have much use for Armour Lock. Still not entirely sure what it does. I have to say, jet packs are awesome, but I get shot even more as soon as I take to the skies! It`s just too fun though!

Both.

Well, I'm a bit biased as I love the Fable series. At this point, I think I would rather call it Fable 2.5 (and not Fable 3).

I did get the opportunity to co-op on Friday night and I must say, it was pretty freakin awesome. I think Lionshead finally got it right this time. Unfortunately, I didn't get to play any more over the weekend. I'm about to start just inside the Sunset House. It looks pretty freaky.

Sonic Free Riders got a pretty good review by IGN. It actually seems really fun! If we get a Kinect, I may pick this up.

The Co-op is much better this Time, but The game it self, dosen't feel "New"
I think Fable 2 had more Freedom.

Im sure you guys/gals might have already heard but Kinect will indeed use the X360 controller as well as motion/voice recognition all in tandem, this could spawn some really creative and deep gaming opportunities imo.

... Fable 3 is Awesome, there is just nothing else to say about it. Great!

But how do you use Kinect when you`ve got a two handed controller in your hands?