The Old XBOX Megathread

[9 to 5]

Yeah, I tend to do the same myself but more on deals where you get 4 games for 20 quid and only end up playing one for like an hour.

[probablyoliver]

Also question for Drags (or anyone who can answer, really);

What's the likeliness of getting a pre-ordered game a day early at Gamestation? I'm guessing nil, but I don't want to wait til Friday for Fallout. >_>

[EWB's Best Poster.]

Unless you work there? Nil.

Fallout vegas that I bought had a do not sell until sticker on it!

[Summers]

Guy at the GS I work at had Medal of Honor a week early.

[probablyoliver]

Also, everyone needs to buy Super Meat Boy. It is wonderful. <3

[EddieRuckus]

This month has been a good month for gaming, but horrible on my wallet. 160 on games so far(and that's because I got to use 20 dollars worth of promo credit on New Vegas), and another 130 when Rock Band 3 comes out next week, not to mention 40 dollars worth of MS points and getting a new controller. I'm actually waiting on a lot of games(DJ Hero 2, Naruto, Fable 3, Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2) to get later as I want to make my money last.

[Meacon Keaton]

I'll be getting Smackdown vs. Raw on Tuesday, and then Fable 3 when it comes out. Star Wars and Fallout: New Vegas are on my wait a few months list. Between me playing the crap out of college football and NHL '11, I think two new games in the next couple weeks is plenty.

[Ruki]

Holding off on Fable 3 and Rockband 3....next game I get on release day? Call of Duty.

[Not Henry Cavill]

I got Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 on my schedule, then Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood... then my next release day purchase is Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

[Cactus Drags]

Also question for Drags (or anyone who can answer, really);

What's the likeliness of getting a pre-ordered game a day early at Gamestation? I'm guessing nil, but I don't want to wait til Friday for Fallout. >_>

Zero, I think it's actually illegal to break a street date, and we're supposed to report other chains and indies that do it. Of course, it's a staff privilege to be able to buy games whenever they come in. For some bizarre reason, we got Medal of Honor like a week early.

If I remember rightly, Fallout 3 dropped in price like a fortnight after release, I think it was a steal of the week or something. Possible it could happen again.

[probablyoliver]

Nah, I've already pre-ordered the collector's edition, and there's no chance I'm waiting another fortnight for Fallout.

As for games I'm getting, Fable III can wait a couple months, I liked Fable II a lot, but it only held my attention for so long. Brotherhood comes out on my next payday, so I'll picking that up as soon as the money hits my account and SD! is something I'll be waiting at least 3/4 months for, at least until a good set of caws are out. So yeah, the only real sense of urgency at the moment is Fallout and possibly Dead Rising 2.

[Baddar]

Oh, how I've missed Alan Wake.

I started "The Writer" earlier (played about twenty minutes/half an hour of it) and almost shit myself twice already. Wonderful.

[probablyoliver]

There is a very special circle of hell reserved for Super Meat Boy. I wish nothing but famine and pestilence on its creators.

[zero]

Goddamn, the new Xbox dashboard is hideous.

[Ruki]

Agreed

[EddieRuckus]

Typical Ruki complaining about everything Xbox

[King Ellis]

I have no major qualms with how the main dash looks and it seems zippy enough. Just a few menu placements and the removal of the catch all 'new items' on marketplace that I could do without. The guide though is a bit off putting with all the white.

Only just realised that the main dash is a bit different in terms of themes. Like, before you'd have that big curved section at the bottom. Now it's not so my picture of the Earth doesn't look like it's being viewed from the Moon anymore. In fact, most of it is covered up by all the menus. Boo.

[Rocky]

I am also not a fan of it... When I first updated and it restarted, I was "oooh... Prettttttty" but then I got white-washed.

[9 to 5]

It broke my brain.

[Baddar]

I love the new dash, but then, I didn't see enough of the old one to grow fond of it.