RobB: yet another reason to get a 360

[Jack Straw]

the work is already done for you!

Arcade-In-A-Box (www.arcadeinabox.com), announces the immediate availability of single and dual-player authentic arcade controllers for the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 control panels feature authentic arcade controls that are identical to those used on your favorite arcade machines including Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Galaga. In addition to being compatible with the Xbox 360, the arcade controllers can also be used with a Windows PC.
Arcade-In-A-Box Xbox 360

Full Press Release: teamxbox.com
Official Site: http://www.arcadeinabox.com

[ICJ]

Cool.

Those guys were at the 2007 CGE, if I recall correctly. Did I ever mention that Frobozz jumped on the joystick I built (similar to the Arcade in a Box) and destroyed the living shit out of it? When he was done with it, it was as if he had thrown it in the supercollider.

Getting me into an Xbox 360 is gonna be tough though. Here's the pros and cons.

PROS
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Pac Man Championship Edition
Space Giraffe
Dead Rising

CONS
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o There was a Stargate listed in craigslist this week for five hundred bucks. I'd never be able to choose a console over an arcade game.

o Red Ring of Death

o There's only three games I'm interested in

o I'm pretty booked with shit, it already takes me three weeks to put something in the mail, for instance

[Worm]

Dead Rising has lots of Disc Read Errors. However, god, you're missing lots of good games for it.

1. skate.
2. Stranglehold (short, but good)
3. Geometry Wars
4. Overlord, it drags, but it's enough fun for the money
5. Rockstar Table Tennis, they can actually not use the GTA3 engine and make a good game, it's true!
6. I don't own anything else
7. All that great shit coming out VF5, Assassin's Creed, god no one likes a dick.

[Jack Straw]

hygraed does.

[hygraed]

har har

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Dead Rising has lots of Disc Read Errors.

So, the entire console will die at any moment, AND the one game I want to play that is actually sold on a DVD is filled with read errors. Who's doing the quality assurance for this fucking shamjob, nightfed Mogwais?

However, god, you're missing lots of good games for it.

1. skate.
2. Stranglehold (short, but good)

I have not heard of these two. Please elaborate!

3. Geometry Wars

I bought this one through Steam for the PC! And I should not have done that, because the devs were hilariously strong-arming people making similar games.

4. Overlord, it drags, but it's enough fun for the money

Is this another Dungeon Keeper? YOUR CREATURES ARE UNDER ATAAAAAAAAAKKKK! Remember that? Do you? Do you huh? Huh? Do you? Yeahhhhhh!!!

5. Rockstar Table Tennis, they can actually not use the GTA3 engine and make a good game, it's true!

This one I am interested in.

6. I don't own anything else

Man, even you... YOU started getting sick of the whole 360 experience before you could even finish your post!

7. All that great shit coming out VF5, Assassin's Creed, god no one likes a dick.

Virtua Fighter 5? Is that what that stands for? I guess we now all know of a game in development longer than Shenmue II. I'm not trying to be a dick, really I'm not. But none of these next gen consoles present a very convincing case at this point in time to someone with a good PC.

[hygraed]

I have not heard of these two. Please elaborate!

skate.: You know how the Tony Hawk series has gotten progressively shittier over the past several years? Well, skate. attempts to reverse that process somewhat by adding ragdolls, an absolutely fantastic physics model, and a control scheme by which the player sort of simulates the movement of the board by moving the thumbsticks around. It's difficult to explain, but it's the best skating game I have played in years.

Stranglehold: A John Woo third-person shooter billed as the sequel to Hardboiled. Very pretty explosions and gunplay, but I am told that the gameplay begins to feel clunky very soon.

[Worm]

Well, skate. attempts to reverse that process somewhat by adding ragdolls

Ragdolls that stiffen up your player and make him look like missing a trick sends him into rigor mortis. Still, RAGDOLLS!

Stranglehold: A John Woo third-person shooter billed as the sequel to Hardboiled. Very pretty explosions and gunplay, but I am told that the gameplay begins to feel clunky very soon.

Really, it's on the PC, and I feel it would be much better with a mouse. However it controls pretty slick on the 360, and for every moronic review that uses "clunky" or "slippery" there's the simple fucking fact that it's a John Woo movie you can play and it's shitloads of fun.

4. Overlord, it drags, but it's enough fun for the money

Is this another Dungeon Keeper? YOUR CREATURES ARE UNDER ATAAAAAAAAAKKKK! Remember that? Do you? Do you huh? Huh? Do you? Yeahhhhhh!!!

Not quite. It's more like a third person combat game (fable etc) where you get an army of minions. It's really fun in lots of parts.

But none of these next gen consoles present a very convincing case at this point in time to someone with a good PC.

I forgot Gears of War! You could get that for the 360 for 10 dollars, or wait for the shitty PC port and plunk down fifty. That's like a savings of forty dollars.

Honestly, I bought one to keep current, sure it's not the grandest super console in the world, but what is right out of the gate? I personally just like to know what the fuck I'm talking about with these things.

[Worm]

Was this 149 from the inception of this thread? Cuz I remember thinking about picking it up, but I'm pretty sure that's because I thought it was cheaper.

[Guest]

Does someone lose street cred if they say that the last game they played was Fallout, back when it was released?

[Guest]

Or for that matter, Final Fantasy 3 on an emulator before emulators were anything but glorified hex editors?

[Worm]

I think you lose cred if you're bitter as fuck.

[Worm]

Also when you're so out of touch that you have no fucking clue what video games are. That loses cred.

[Lex]

Mass Effect.