I miss Xbox Live Arcade with the requirement that all games have free demos.
Remember demos? Or magazine demos? Or magazines? ๐
We still have demos, on Steam anyway.
Steam has a lot more demos these days than it used to, and it's great. I do not like buying, trying, and refunding games. But demos? Hell yeah. I'll try those on a whim.
No, it came out a couple of years ago
most of the nostalgia will be from playing online
It is. We'll never get that feeling back. It was a whole vibe and now its over.
What was so different about it compared to now? I only played SFV online.
Basically everyone had a microphone because they came with the console. People actually spoke in the lobbies, party chat was rare and discord wasnt a thing yet. There was an excitement around it because its all fairly new, and pro gamer / content creator / videogame influencer etc didnt exist as career paths. Most vocal people were still racist x-phobic slur-slinging hate-jockeys, but everybody was there purely to have fun.
Lots of tiny tiny differences that by themselves are inconsequential, but added up to something big.
After a match you could press a button to play again with the same people. You'd make friends by meeting together in game and deciding to party up
I don't need this kind of negativity.
most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives
Let me play Lost Odyssey on PC you cowards
Just look at the Xbox section. You got this :)
Lost Odyssey is playable on Xenia, but unfortunately it still requires some work arounds. It would be nice to just play the game.
Damn, that's crazy the 360 is old enough to fuck.
The 360 is old enough to die in war but not drink alcohol in the US!
That's funny because they did send 360s to the troops in Iraq (and later Afghanistan).
I often wonder if the US is wrong for keeping drinking age at 21 or if we're the wrong ones with it at 18
I don't feel I was much more mature at 21 than I was at 18 and I was very immature at 21 lol
I was a student during the 360s life
So much split screen Halo with my house mates
The NES released in North America in 1985, this means that the 360 is now roughly as old as the NES was when the 360 came out.
I remember getting my NES for Xmas...
So for you I guess the proper comparison would be that the Xbox 360 is now as old as the IBM System/360 mainframe was when the NES released in NA.
most of the games are available on pc
Well not Kinect games.....
So uuhhhhh check out this Dance Central 3 decompilation project that's currently going on and with due time and a bit of luck the only Kinect game worth playing might be liberated from its prison
Yea not many of us has an alcoholic relative or grandparent who didn't mind us around much.
It's worth picking one up just to play Fable II, imo.
I just modded mine after not playing it for years. I forgot just how insane the library is for it and how great the graphics hold up in 2025.
Its also so nice to actually own games and not have them taken away from some license BS.
How is the modding on it these days? I have a modded one from a long time ago and I did a modded firmware on the dvd drive in the 360 so it would ignore protections and another mod on a Liteon dvd burner in an old Windows XP computer for writing the games.
It's gotten better thanks to the softmods coming out lately like BadUpdate and BadAvatar.
I remember reading and watching videos about the DVD firmware hax. C4Eva, right?
Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.
The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends' machines.
I saved up to buy a 360 just so I could play Deadrising. Totally worth it.
why you gotta go around spreading so much hate around dude...
Hello fellow LGR watcher!
I'm so glad that he showed some games that aren't shooters/sports or pc games. I found there's a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up. I've had a 360 collecting dust that I picked up cheap years ago and never really played it. I'll probably pick up a few more games for it if I find them for cheap.
I found there's a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up.
Oh my God. This combo came with my 360. I never played the pinata game but banjo kazooie nuts and bolts is an actual masterpiece of a game if you're in to vehicle building. It has to be the best game I've ever played in that genre, and it's not even close.
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