Author Topic: The Official Xbox 360 Thread (Read 35139 times)

Tuffty · « **Reply #100 on:** October 04, 2010, 09:09:38 PM »

^ Yeh some games show you what you're getting but most of them tend not to. It's annoying cause surely they could at least show a static screen of what you'd get and you'd base your decision off that. Especially for premium themes.

With gamerpics you should just see if they have a preview for it in the usual place. With themes, they actually do a showcase for them on Youtube, so you'd know what to expect. If there's one in particular you'd like I suggest typing something like 'Xbox theme *insert game name*:

coachie · « **Reply #101 on:** October 04, 2010, 09:28:35 PM »

thanks guys, too bad then
the one time I bought gamerpics from Naughty Bear, thought I couldn't go wrong with that, but they have white background which looks just shitty imho, was pretty mad at myself for spending money on that

they could at least show one or two sample pix

THUNDERDUCK · « **Reply #102 on:** November 07, 2010, 03:14:29 PM »

I'm loving ESPN on my 360, since I don't have cable. Yeah, lots of white, and it seems that Live.FM lost it's unicode ability in the update!

RatBastich · « **Reply #103 on:** November 25, 2010, 11:15:10 PM »

A question for anyone else who has a silver/free XBL account: Is the the free Gold weekend working for anyone?

Its supposed to start today, Nov. 25th, at 9am PST.
I remembered about it, switched on my 360, and it doesn't seem to be giving me gold.
I've checked it out, and there's plenty of others it's not working for, either.

Amplifier · « **Reply #104 on:** November 28, 2010, 04:33:12 PM »

I'm gonna buy it just because of them

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #105 on:** December 04, 2010, 09:38:52 AM »

I bought a XBOX+Kinect, not so much because the Matsui's playing (although them having fun with it did help!) but I wanted to try the Kinect.

Its good there is no camera around (and I am not saving the ingame shots!)

Its works good and as expected its a very natural interface. It also proved I am totally out-of-shape

Time to spend some more money on it...

Tuffty · « **Reply #106 on:** January 06, 2011, 06:58:25 PM »

Cool sounding feature for Kinect coming out called Avatar Kinect, kind of like a virtual chatroom using your avatars and of course, with it being Kinect, any body movement you make is reflected on screen.

Guarantee most online sessions do not play out like seen above though. There's gonna be a shit load of masturbation gestures, doggy style positions and other simulated sex acts. It will be sheer filth

Tuffty · « **Reply #107 on:** March 27, 2011, 01:46:09 AM »

There's a cool site I found, TrueAchievements.com Essentially they give scores to what they think achievements should have based on their difficulty and number of people who've earned it. Add in your gamertag and it creates a new gamerscore for you, just for kicks. It's a neat little site where you can compare your score with others. It also contains a ridiculous number of stats about you, your friends, other players and on 360 games in general.

zoolander · « **Reply #108 on:** October 22, 2011, 06:33:41 PM »

Supposedly a leaked Microsoft product time table.

Quote

CES 2012
Win8 + WinStore beta
<ONM> CTP
Tango1 launch

MWC 2012
Tango2 SDK

MIX 2012
Win8 RC
<ONM> beta
Tango2 launch + Apollo announce
Kinect commercial SDK

E3 2012
Xbox SDK, 3G Kinect games announce
Apollo SDK
Win8 RTM

Aug 2012
Win8, <ONM>, WP8, Xbox Store launch

Build 2012
XAML+XDE platform
Win8 PU DP
<OSN> announce

CES 2013
Win8 PU Beta

MWC 2013
Apollo+1 teaser

MIX 2013
HTML platform (IE11)
Win8 PU RC
<OSN> Beta
Apollo+1 SDK

E3 2013
Xbox”loop” announce
Win8 PU RTM

Build 2013
Win9 DP
<OSN> RTM
Xbox”loop” launch

CES 2014
Win9 Beta

MWC 2014
WPN teaser

MIX 2014
Win9 RC
WPN SDK
Kinect SDK update

E3 2014
Kinect HP2 announce
Xbox PU announce

Build 2014
Win9 RTM (IE12)
Win9M RTM
<OSN+1> CTP
Xbox PU preview

Nov 2014
Win9, Win9M, Kinect HP2 launch
Xbox PU RTW

http://msnerd.tumblr.com/post/11725284513/rhythm

Xbox loop? I guess MS Nerd has been right before on stuff like this.

BigDnm01 · « **Reply #109 on:** November 02, 2011, 05:21:53 AM »

I'm new to Xbox 360 and Live memberships.

Unlike PSN, Xbox Live memberships/accounts cost money. With PSN, they also allowed Master accounts with sub-accounts for household/family. Sub-accounts are usually for those under-18 years old, parental control,etc.

Do Xbox live allow that sort of thing? I just don't want to be paying for 2-3 accounts, who are all under the same household. One membership is enough, yet we want to be able to play online with separate accounts.

Tuffty · « **Reply #110 on:** November 02, 2011, 08:12:17 AM »

Closest I can think of is that they have an XBox Live Gold Family pack. It allows 4 accounts on one 360 to have gold access for the price of two single gold subscriptions. Here's more info if you need it:

http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-live/how-to/family-pack/how-to-join-family-pack

Tuffty · « **Reply #111 on:** November 05, 2011, 05:35:26 PM »

Ok I really don't know what to do about this, maybe someone can help me on this. I've always seemed to have an issue with headsets, friends and randomers complain about echo or noises and it seems to come from me (in party chat and even in game, my mic always seems to be switched on even when I switch on mute). It's a Microsoft official wired one, tried out on two official wired controllers that I have owned I bought since I got my 360. The same has happened with another headset, GAME's own, that I bought before. By force of habit, (namely my nephew snapping my old one yesterday

) I bought GAME's own wired headphones again and my friends are still complaining.

So..what the fuck? Am I doing something wrong? Is there some button or setting somewhere that helps me out?

pikapikapika · « **Reply #112 on:** November 05, 2011, 05:52:18 PM »

do you have a kinect plugged in?

you can always spot someone who has kinect when the game's audio is being replayed to you through their kinect microphone lol

Tuffty · « **Reply #113 on:** November 05, 2011, 05:55:47 PM »

No Kinect. I wouldn't have space in my room to play it with anyway

Besides, whisper it quietly the Kinect is pretty rubbish right now

I've had these problems before the Kinect was released.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #114 on:** November 06, 2011, 07:24:28 AM »

Quote from: Tuffty on November 05, 2011, 05:55:47 PM

No Kinect. I wouldn't have space in my room to play it with anyway Besides, whisper it quietly the Kinect is pretty rubbish right now

I've had these problems before the Kinect was released.

Broken wire?

I am now using a wired Triton AX720 (with surround sound decoder), I tried a Steelseries 7XB (wireless) but it kept having interference with the wireless and eating batteries like there is no tomorrow.

The Kinect is fun when the game uses it correctly. And it should be somewhat more logical to do certain combined movements like crouching while aiming. Something I always have a problem with doing with buttons...

john_hung · « **Reply #115 on:** November 08, 2011, 01:52:42 AM »

Quote from: Tuffty on November 05, 2011, 05:35:26 PM

Ok I really don't know what to do about this, maybe someone can help me on this. I've always seemed to have an issue with headsets, friends and randomers complain about echo or noises and it seems to come from me (in party chat and even in game, my mic always seems to be switched on even when I switch on mute). It's a Microsoft official wired one, tried out on two official wired controllers that I have owned I bought since I got my 360. The same has happened with another headset, GAME's own, that I bought before. By force of habit, (namely my nephew snapping my old one yesterday ) I bought GAME's own wired headphones again and my friends are still complaining.

So..what the fuck? Am I doing something wrong? Is there some button or setting somewhere that helps me out?

have you tried adjusting the volume? i've got a turtlebeach one and its got a separate volume for the mic...and i know sometimes other people's voices sound weird, like theres some sort of distortion or electronic processing on it if they've got their mic volume too loud

THUNDERDUCK · « **Reply #116 on:** November 20, 2011, 04:28:27 PM »

Happy Birthday X-Box

john_hung · « **Reply #117 on:** December 07, 2011, 08:04:28 AM »

i haven't really played around with it very much, but at first glance i do like the new update for the xbox dashboard (now called xbox home) i think it looks pretty cool at least

coachie · « **Reply #118 on:** December 08, 2011, 08:07:56 AM »

Installed the new update yesterday, now everytime I turn on the console I think there's something wrong when I see the greyish background instead of green

Also the system seems to takes forever to shut down since the update

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #119 on:** December 08, 2011, 06:17:08 PM »

No problems updating here, and I also installed the companion app on my Nokia 800.

I think I'll try to use Kinect this weekend.

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Amplifier