• 14Nov 07

  The 360 is not a shooter console

  this is a post i made in a thread, and i want to repost it here

  i am getting tired of this... the 360 has tons of non shooters more than ps3

  JRPGS out right now

  Enchanted Arms

  Blue Dragon(since you think Enchanted arms was underrated i guess you would find this one too, exclusive)

  Eternal Sonata(timed exclusive)

  Upcomming jrpgs

  Last Remant

  Infinite Undiscovery(exclusive)

  Lost Odyssey(exclusive)

  WRPGS out right now

  Oblivion

  Overlord(Console Exclusive)

  Mass Effect(perhaps one of the best of all time, in one week. Exclusive)

  upcoming WRPGS

  fallout 3

  Fable 2(Exclusive)

  Project Offset(console Exclusive)

  action/adventure

  Kameo(Exclusive)

  Naruto Rise of Ninja(Exclusive)

  Casual/unique games

  viva piñata(console Exclusive)

  viva pinata party animals(exclusive)

  scene it(exclusive)

  most of xbox live arcade is full of fun-non shooting games link to a list of xbox live arcade games:

  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/livearcadexbox360/default.htm?WT.svl=nav

  Next Year/Casual/unique

  Too Human(no, its not a shooter you can use swords)

  Banjo 3

  Halo Wars

  Alan Wake

  as both a shooter fan and a non-shooter fan(read: i have Gears of War, Halo, and Blue Dragon, overlord, and soon Mass Effect in my library) it bugs the heck out of me when people make ignorant posts suggesting that because you are non-shooter fan you cant possibly enjoy a 360. This is a fact: the 360 has right now more non shooting titls than the PS3 does, and probably has more announced.(please note I am not singling you out, you seem like a nice guy).

  Multimedia Features:

  since this seems like an important issue for you i will separate this out.

  First off you can multi-media extend your 360 through Windows Vista(which you claim to have on your mac through boot camp i am assuming)

  link for a video for the features, how to and video explaining it http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/windowsmediacenter.htm?WT.svl=nav

  You are able to stream music video etc.. from your PC to your TV(and with divX support coming this should get even more useful)

  On the 360 you can also save your music to your xbox(or stream it from your zune using wi-fi)

  One of the best features that I have actually tried is the ability to rent tv-shows and movies in HD or SD for a man such as yourself you must be into digital distribution.

  IPTV is also coming at some point link to demo of it:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0GijX9SSjU

  Hd-dvd VS. Blu-ray

  three important things to note

  · The war has not been decided, you already bought a ps3 so what happens if blu-ray does not win the war? Wouldn't that essentially mean you will have a blu-ray player not able to play any future releases in HD?

  · With digital distribution of HD movies over xbox-live to me it seems pointless to even have one at this point, granted the selection is limited on xbox-live but the selection is already limited on any HD-format anyway.

  · By purchasing a blu-ray player you are limiting yourself from not have some big name releases like, Shrek, Transformers.. but gain Pirates of the Caribbean it seems like a loose...loose to me.

  Reliability

  · You mention the noise, my friend who just bought a halo-3 edition says the noise is much improved with the newer 360s

  · To me this issue has always been way overblown I had my 360 for 11 months, it RROD and all I had to do was call up Microsoft, talk for five min, three days later they sent me a box and I shipped it back. I haven't gotten it back yet I am expecting it next week sometime but the fact is that I dint have to pay a dime for any of this.

  · Microsoft has admitted their mistake, and has extended their warranty to cover this problem, I don't see an issue, since you seem like a busy person I don't think you will miss your 360 for 2-3 weeks if It breaks down(that's a big IF since the newer seem more reliable than when I bough mine).

  In closing I dint write this long post just for your particular argument I wrote this so attitudes and opinions and misconceptions(like it being a shooter console) are all false.

  I am sorry if I have offended you or anyone in anyway.

  • Posted Nov 14, 2007 4:29 pm PT
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