I finally played an Xbox 360

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:34 am

As said above. You can't expect the best games to come out first. The developers have to get used to the dev kits and how the Xbox performs in diffrent areas. My friend has one, and almost every game out there for the 360 and he loves the thing to death. He dosn't have a HDTV but the thing still looks good on his 32 inch TV.

You can't really get a feel for a 360 if you play it standing up in the middle of a store. For example, the 360 can play DVDs, mp3s off a USB thumbdrive and replace just the music in the game your playing with your music on the USB drive. Also you can, with the touch of a button, pause your game and oepn up the Xbox 360 menu whyle your playing it so you don't have to stop your game to change a setting.

As I said, just wait 4 or 5 months for some new, better games to come out. Take the PS2 for example. Most of the games looked like crap when it wa relesed, but after 5 or 6 months the PS2 had a good amout of games that looked amazing.

jgibson · Post by **jgibson** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:47 am

I love me Xbox 360, and I think the games and graohics are great. You guys have got to realize that the system is a mere 3 months old, of course the devs aren't using it's full potential. Have they with any previous launches? Compare Halo to Halo 2 and you will see the difference in graphical quality between a launch game and a game near the end of a console's life cycle. These games are only going to get better.

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:58 am

Scratch the post out! I never said it!

Post by **benheck** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:19 am

Yeah I've heard PDZ is not the "must have must see" game for the 360. Even Call of Duty, I don't think it looks better than a new PC game with a really good graphics card. Granted, those cards cost MORE than a 360, but still, the PC is hardly dead.

Still, all around, I bet the graphical differences between current and next gen systems will be the smallest ever. I don't know about you guys, but I was pretty darn impressed the first time I played an N64 (Wave Race and Mario), a Dreamcast (Soul Caliber) a PS2 (Timesplitters, which DID look good) Xbox (Halo) and even the Gamecube (good graphics, invisible load times)

Hopefully what the new games do is what stuff like Battlefield 2 does. Use the high end systems to create very large, highly interactive worlds with lots of destructable objects.

Xiro · Post by **Xiro** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:26 am

but you also have to remember the difference between halo and halo 2 (beginning and close to the end of Xbox). The 3 core processor is definitely not being used to its fullest yet because console developers are not used the the technology. I too was not impressed with 360 right of the bat, and my friend who owns one plays more Geometry wars than real games, but it will improve in time.

Also, if you look at the BF2 graphics on X360 and PC, it is easy to tell that an upper end PC has much better graphics, but as you said, if you want to run 2 GeForce 6800GT's your looking at close to 600 dollars.

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:48 am

Ben, if you think theres not gonna be a big diffrence between this gen and next gen that take a look at this.
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/764/764837/vids_1.html
This is all rendered in REAL TIME and on a PS3 dev kit.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:23 pm

Well, with ps3 video's, it goes like this.

Real Time - 1 second = 1 second
Dev Kits - Sony Media Player on PS3 Dev Kit playing a video.

Yeah. I don't trust a word coming out of Sony's mouth anymore. Same with pics, images, and code.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:56 pm

I remember reading a Article about Sony fireing, a member of the PS3 development team for comparing the 360 to the PS3. He gave a higher favor to the 360 and he said he constantly heard the F-bomb when people were talking about the hardware, usually the f-bomb was used for some thing bad

edit: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=14477

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:07 pm

Ya I read that. You gotta keep everything top secret in that buisness, it's a multi-million doller industry where keeping one feature secret till release could mean the diffrence between an award winning system and a flop.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:25 pm

I dont like it too much. N64 is still the best!!!

Post by **Gamelver** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:23 pm

nah, SNES all the way

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gamefreak11 · Post by **gamefreak11** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:12 pm

That guy who claims this was only a guy who set camera paths for games. He doesn't know any technical stuff, and I'm pretty sure he has no idea what was going on. MGS was proven to be real time in one video where the guy could move around the whole place, change settings, and more.
Wheather he was lieing or not, what company would keep a guy who states the company has nothing to show, and the games look like that of the earlier consoles?

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:25 pm

Still even if he was just a techie he still could have gone to some meetings about it. The fact is that he broke the none disclosure agrement that he signed, Sony wasn't pissed off that he leaked the info, they were pissed that he broke the rule.

EpsilonMirror · Post by **EpsilonMirror** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:58 pm

Radon199 wrote:Ben, if you think theres not gonna be a big diffrence between this gen and next gen that take a look at this.
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/764/764837/vids_1.html
This is all rendered in REAL TIME and on a PS3 dev kit.

Um dude thats on a PC. Just check out the official website.

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:06 pm

It's on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 actualy.