I had 6 EXP on Team Slayer (it's a ranked playlist) the day before, then on October 7th I just logged on, won one match, got my another EXP point and the achievement unlocked.
Also, I want to add that I never said current games were worse than the older ones, I was just saying that the developers' preference of priority shifted a lot to the technical side of the process, instead of the imaginative one. Nevertheless, we have a lot of good games these days, and in general I'm quite happy for the industry we have. Nothing's dead or being killed at all.
To the original poster: Ok, here's some for all of your reasons: 1. You are afraid that Microsoft's fee policy will ruin everything for all the other gaming mediums. You are saying this on September 22, 2009. Hello? It's been going like that for some three years already, and still you have PSN with no fees if you want, nothing has changed. Also, Live is a quality service that works great all the time, you can always find people playing the games you want, and there are various offers and discounts for Gold members. It's just a matter of preference. Hell, people always want to get stuff for free, it's in their nature, so this debate could be endless. 2. Everybody is milking old franchises. Absolutely everybody. We have Nintendo with the same characters from the nineties, we have Sony with MGS and what not, we have Blizzard with Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. There is nothing wrong with that. New games keep popping out all the time, but of course everybody will be milking old franchises if it really works anyway. It's business, and it's always been that way, you might just have not noticed. 3. At first I will say, there's nothing poor about Xbox360 graphics engine. Really, all the games look very good on my 42" TV if they were designed good. Second, I will say the most important thing here: if you judge the quality of games by the power of the system's hardware or the amount of polygons and lighting effects in games, it is then people like YOU who ruin the gaming industry. It is for people like YOU the manufacturers spend such an insanely lot of time polishing the presentation of games, which is of course a good thing, but in most cases this should never be the TOP priority. Games are about having fun, back in the days we had tons of fun on 8-bit gaming systems and people were insanely happy about spending hours in Battle City or the first Mortal Kombat games, but you probably haven't seen the times. Now you state that superiority should belong to the system with arguably better graphics, instead of a system that actually does have more games on it (you were wrong on this as well in the end of your message). 4. Bad hardware? I don't know, I see a lot of tech support forums for PS3 as well for the Xbox 360, people break stuff all the time. My consoles never broke, maybe it's just because I don't treat them like sh*t In general, I suggest you to try and actually start having fun from gaming, instead of adoring the polygons. There is this one thing, called your imagination - the old generations of video games praised it, the current generation tries to kill it, and it's exactly because of people like you, sir :) Good luck.
I don't even know why people even think about slim consoles. It's basically just a brick that sits near your TV all the time, it's not any sort of a portable console in the very basics of its design. What's the point? It's not anywhere insanely huge to take half of your room, it's just a normal-sized device that you don't have to move anywhere. If you, for some reason, keep traveling everywhere with your Xbox, then.. I don't know, it's just your rare case. This thing was made to be a home entertainment system.
It is worth it: the price is not too sky high, but the quality of the service is sweet enough. Multiplayer on Xbox 360 is quite superior to multiplayer on Playstation 3.
Ok, I've just found two broken / bent pins in the Xbox 360's HDMI port. That should definitely be the source of my problem, I am quite relieved that I at least know this now :) Should be an easy fix. Thanks for your attempts to help, Hotwire246!
Ok, I've watched it, tried playing with different settings in the analog TV mode (which is the way those three cables work) and I really appreciate your input, but that didn't help at all. I'm still thinking my HDMI port on the console may have died.
What do you mean — to reset my resolution using a portion of my composite cables?
As I said, the composite connection works absolutely fine, but as far as I'm concerned, the resolution settings I set up in composite mode do not simply transfer to the HDMI mode.
Hell, this shouldn't be a problem anyway — HDMI connection always works on auto detect, and X360 simply does not have any "unusual" HDMI display modes that my TV wouldn't accept. Also, I have said that the graphic settings reset did not help as well. Which definitely means I have some sort of a deeper issue with my console's HDMI port than it may seem at first.
Oh, and the graphic settings reset by holding down Y + Right Trigger when the system starts up? Been there as well, did not help. It looks like the Xbox will just not send any sort of proper signal via HDMI to any of my two TV sets.
Is it possible for an HDMI port on the console itself to die?
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