Like another user said if you don't like lengthy conversations then ME might not be for you. That being said, the story and voice acting are superb and really draw you in.

The combat is fundamentally a fps, with the ability to customize your weapons/armor/etc. There's no multiplayer/co-op so if that's important to you, you could probably spend your money better somewhere else (i.e. The Orange Box!).

It's without question one of the greatest games I've ever played... but then again I love rpgs. Probably rent it first, or borrow it from a friend.

Cheers

Rockband!

My wife is not a gamer and she loves it. The controls are easy to pick up and play, she can design her own avatar... and if she's anything like my wife she'll love changing the outfits, buying shoes etc.

It's a bit expensive, but well worth it.

Cheers

I see your point about Too Human. You're right that the development cycle, premature showings, and attrocious public relations/marketing may have doomed this title's commercial success. It's been scaled back to a 2 player co-op too... which doesn't help when they've been promising a 4 player rpg. That was really a disappointing announcement.

As to GoW2, I enjoyed Gears particulalry the co-op... it's always more fun to play with others. That being said, the online community for GoW was, in my experience, awful. In addition to the community being bad and over run with glitchers. It was a broken experience (i.e. the host shotgun advantage, though I haven't played it in months so it may have been patched). I'm a lover of competitive online shooters too (currently I'm hooked on Team Fortress 2, thus the Demoman picture), but the GoW experience is just soured for me. I may pick it up in the distant future for some co-op fun, but that'll be about it.

PSU and FFXI are okay first steps like you said, but I agree completely that they're no where near the open world MMO that PC gamers have been enjoying. I think that the cancelled Marvel MMO has now become Champions Online, which is being developed for both PC and 360 by the same people who did City of Heroes/Villans... so that's promising news, assuming of course it's released.

Hopefully the Spring Update will give us a better hint too as to the direction MS is going. One rumor is that they may allow gamers the "option" of using harddrive space for a game install. Apparently, this will help with pop-ins (which honestly don't bother me too much) and would certainly help MMO developers.

Cheers all

Good thread.

After all the news out of Microsoft Gamer's Day, I'm really feeling better and better about my 360. The Fall is loaded with great titles and exclusives Fable 2, and Too Human haven't been mentioned yet on this thread, but I think they'll be console movers (Fable 2 at least). GoW2... athough honestly I don't know if I'm down for the Gears sequel. Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space aren't exclusives but they're going to be great and all 360 bound.

Additionally, the 360 will be seeing console exclusive rights to Age of Conan coming this Fall. My biggest hope is that MS is able to get some of its promised MMO content out (i.e. Age of Conan, Champions Online, the rumored Warhammer Online, and Huxley) I think these titles will help to make or break our beloved 360's over the next few years. If MS can get these kinds of titles running, and running smoothly, and overcome all the interface hurdles that come with a Console MMO then the 360 will have a bright future. Without this kind of expansion however, I'm afraid that MS will lose this generation's console wars if it's only able to successfully bring shooters (which are of amazing quality), racing and sports titles. MMO's and RPG's need to be better represented on the Green Machine, and I hope MS can make it all happen.

I'm hopefully optomisitc about the 360, another great innovation would be mouse/keyboard support for RTS titles, and the aforementioned MMO's. The system is great, stable, and Xbox Live is tremendous... though sadly not free. I don't know why MS won't make the minor additions it would take to be a more inclusive gaming platform. This is MS afterall, they've gotta get a mouse/keyboard in for this generation.

Cheers all.

I play on a Gateway 22" widescreen monitor and I LOVE it! I use the same monitor for my PC, it's nice to be able to switch back and forth at will. I've got a little stereo to handle the audio. Being married it's also nice, because I don't get kicked off the TV anymore :D

1. Fable 2

2. Fallout 3

3. Left 4 Dead

Best of 2010... Too Human

It's scheduled to release about 6 months after the PC version... which puts it sometime in the Holiday rush of this year I'd guess. Though because it is an MMO it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't released until 2009.

It does look fantastic though, I hope it translates well to the console.