Not particularly retrospective because it's current gen, but I never realised how much I love my 360 until now, because I can't play it. So I thought I'd create a thread where people can gush over something they absolutely love to pieces gaming wise.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the 360 the minute I switched it on, on launch day but I didn't realise how much of a complete console it is to me. It does everything I could ever want from a home console and I would almost call it a home entertainment unit (only not quite because it can't stream divx).
The live aspect is sublime and the I feel the people trying to compete with it (sony et al) could only have a better service if it had everything Xbox Live had and was completely free with completely free content.
They keep rolling out excellent accessory after excellent accessory, I finally got a vision camera the day my 360 died but what I saw of it was great!
Gears of War...simply put I've not been this excited about a game in a long, LONG time.
I just can't help but feel that Microsoft have done almost (xvid/divx again) everything the customers/consumers have asked. For the first time in my gaming life I'm completely happy with a console.
Or I was until it broke...now I'm at most 10 days without it, which is dangerously close to emergence day. At first I was furious, then sad, now I'm thinking I can't wait to get it back on and play it again.
With things like the HD-DVD drive coming soon, I don't see how they can fail to win the "console war" (I hate that term).
I'm not a fanboy and everything will have its faults (why can't I delete games that I never even got past the trial period of?) etc and this isn't a thread for me to say "it's better than the PS3" at all, nor a thread to fan the flame/console wars. It's a thread for people to appreciate whatever console they choose to, my choice is the 360. I've not had this much satisfaction out of a console before.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the 360 the minute I switched it on, on launch day but I didn't realise how much of a complete console it is to me. It does everything I could ever want from a home console and I would almost call it a home entertainment unit (only not quite because it can't stream divx).
The live aspect is sublime and the I feel the people trying to compete with it (sony et al) could only have a better service if it had everything Xbox Live had and was completely free with completely free content.
They keep rolling out excellent accessory after excellent accessory, I finally got a vision camera the day my 360 died but what I saw of it was great!
Gears of War...simply put I've not been this excited about a game in a long, LONG time.
I just can't help but feel that Microsoft have done almost (xvid/divx again) everything the customers/consumers have asked. For the first time in my gaming life I'm completely happy with a console.
Or I was until it broke...now I'm at most 10 days without it, which is dangerously close to emergence day. At first I was furious, then sad, now I'm thinking I can't wait to get it back on and play it again.
With things like the HD-DVD drive coming soon, I don't see how they can fail to win the "console war" (I hate that term).
I'm not a fanboy and everything will have its faults (why can't I delete games that I never even got past the trial period of?) etc and this isn't a thread for me to say "it's better than the PS3" at all, nor a thread to fan the flame/console wars. It's a thread for people to appreciate whatever console they choose to, my choice is the 360. I've not had this much satisfaction out of a console before.
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