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Anybody like playing games on Xbox live?

I was hoping to find a few folks who want to kill zombies with me.
Or possibly attempt to beat me at CIV.

My 14 y/o son kills the shit out of XBOX live with Halo CDB or CID or CBX or somesuch nonsense. And Guitarhero.

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Bigshankhank wrote:My 14 y/o son kills the shit out of XBOX live with Halo CDB or CID or CBX or somesuch nonsense. And Guitarhero.

You don't play with him?

I'm currently stumbling my way through Modern Warfare 2. I spend way too much time getting my ass kicked in by strangers from faraway places online, and recently playing with Flatline occasionally. I even get grenades thrown on my face by my coworker, and own kid in Chicago. It's a blast.

Is there any threadery with Xbox tags? Mine is Yurasuka 999.

I've been debating getting back into a game console for a long time (my last was the ORIGINAL nintendo box), but haven't because of the potential for intense time suckage. After watching Brother Gumby jacked into his war game (COD, I think?), I've been severely tempted. I have a couple of questions for all you gamer gurus, here:

1) PS3, or XBOX? Why? - just the simple stuff you like about your box. I'm not trying to start a turf war.

and,

2) How much do you "live" game? Is it worth the money to keep a DSL line, so you can game with others? Is playing by yourself just boring, or is it necessary to team up in a game like COD or that Zombie game that Erosvamp was talkin' about? Killing zombies with a shotgun sounds intriguing!

A feeble, enquiring mind with very few dollars want to know. I may be unemployed soon, so I'm looking for an inexpensive way to pass time between job hunting sessions, if necessary. Of course, I could spend it reading, or learning a new career, but...you know.

I'm a recovering GTA junkie. Haven't touched my xbox in awhile.

I'll put in a vote for the xbox, we've got that and a Wii. Mostly it comes down to available software, there's more of it, and more titles I'm interested in, on the xbox.

As for the live stuff, in short, yes you'll want to keep your broadband for it, even if you don't see yourself doing much online gaming. You only have to pay if you want to play multiplayer online, and that's about $70/year, IIRC. For free you get access to down-loadable games, updates, demo's, and add-on's. The games you can download generally run $10-20 and run the gamut from classics like Galaga, to amazingly innovative and creative new titles. Add-on's are sometimes free, sometimes not, depending on the publisher.

If you have netflix you can view movies from your instant queue through the xbox, another feature I love.

gamertag: fuzzybutt

PS3 has blu ray, if you're into that, and now that they dropped the price it's probably cheaper then some stand alone players.

My roommate is playing modern warfare 2 on his x-box as I type this, it seems pretty cool as war games go, but experience shows it's unwise for me to play games where I can't reach over and slap my opponent in real life.

/RM

Priest wrote:
Is there any threadery with Xbox tags? Mine is Yurasuka 999.

I don't think so. Mine is erosvamp.

am i the only one with a ps3? apparently.

my name on there is HomeSkillet5150. i play some SOCOM, warhawk, and some GTA4 online. soon, i shall be playing MAG. i pre-ordered it last month and it'll be released in Jan.

About once every three to five years or so I get sucked in to a game bad. Modern Warfare 2 has me in it's grasp.

All astounding wonderments in technology and programming aside, I find it infinitely amusing that now some 14 year old in Germany can slaughter me 15-20 times in a row and I can actually hear him through the t.v. call me a fag every time.

I don't fare much better among friends either. My only recourse is to occasionally demand a pistols only match where for some reason my old 007 skills come out and I can decimate everyone.

I usually avoid gaming like the plague, but I have come to realize that the "time suck" can be wildly entertaining and not a bad thing sometimes.

As for the Xbox vs. PS3 debate: Go to the store and play with both of them. Most likely you will hate one or the other controllers. Decision made.

Just came upstairs from a "training mission" my son powns the shit outta me on CODMW2. We are rocking the the PS3 Platform... Singleplayer shit right now..... I think my handle is gostaz... have to check..

I SUCK AT MODERN VIDEO GAMES>...

The Shifty Jesus wrote:About once every three to five years or so I get sucked in to a game bad. Modern Warfare 2 has me in it's grasp.
...

My only recourse is to occasionally demand a pistols only match...

Over Thanksgiving Scumbag, Kam and a few others got me sucked into MW2, then I went home and started to rock it on my roommates Xbox360. I did far better when we did pistol and riot shield only matches, mostly because I still used a belt feed weapon and hand grenades... Everyone agreed that I was a shitty enough player it was actually an even match when we played like that.

ok - I pushed my idiot card to a kid at the Wurst Buy register today and he handed a new XBOX 360 to me (you're welcome, Bill Gates). Now I have Forza2, RainbowSix and some freebies that came with the box. I'm gonna look for CODMW2, but was wondering which zombie game you were referring to, erosvamp? Was it "Left 4 Dead"? Also - what is CIV? The zombie game looks intriguing. As soon as I can get an XBOX Live account set up, I will be joining you in the wormhole of time suckage. I've already killed 4 hours on PURE and Forza, alone. I'm sorta afraid to open RainbowSix...I will soon be a slave to this box. I'll post up my ID when it's hatched.

I got out of the consol stuff around the same time doom came out.. so its been a while for me. I still play PC games though. Killing floor, modern warfare 2 (even though i'm not sure sure about the story line), rainbow 6 vegas 2 is entertaining, Live for speed is one of my favorites, uh.. anyone a pc gaymer?

Photo wrote:ok - I pushed my idiot card to a kid at the Wurst Buy register today and he handed a new XBOX 360 to me (you're welcome, Bill Gates). Now I have Forza2, RainbowSix and some freebies that came with the box. I'm gonna look for CODMW2, but was wondering which zombie game you were referring to, erosvamp? Was it "Left 4 Dead"? Also - what is CIV? The zombie game looks intriguing. As soon as I can get an XBOX Live account set up, I will be joining you in the wormhole of time suckage. I've already killed 4 hours on PURE and Forza, alone. I'm sorta afraid to open RainbowSix...I will soon be a slave to this box. I'll post up my ID when it's hatched.

Yes, I was talking about Left for Dead. CIV is Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution. I love that game. Conquering countries in an afternoon is such a great stress release.

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Bigshankhank wrote:My 14 y/o son kills the shit out of XBOX live with Halo CDB or CID or CBX or somesuch nonsense. And Guitarhero.

You don't play with him?

Nah, he knows he can beat me so why bother? We play board games when he wants a challenge. If'n anyone wants to hang with him his name on xBox Live is AMeanPuppy. I think he plays Halo Wars and Halo ODST.