X Box 360 Elite

[bon3yard]

Am getting to grips with RE5 at the moment, lordy its tense.

[SeanMacGabhann]

too much action compared to previous Resi titles for my liking B... but technically awesome

[ratty]

Got it, but quite shocked that you need an extra adaptor to go on a wireless network!!

[Mikecg]

Nice one ratty I keep my router near the tv so that I can wire the xbox easily

[woofmarkthedog]

And keep plenty 50 p for the lecy.....

[mockney piers]

yeah, bummer that, trail a wire if you can as it's pricey

[SeanMacGabhann]

Game were selling them cheap about a month ago (less than half price - still too much really)

Even with one you would really want to be wired.. much faster connection - important for online play and streaming videos. (Less so for general downloading/browsing to be fair)

I have one and you can have it if you like - I'm going wired again

[Mikecg]

One of my fav games on the 360 is Bioshock it is a true epic in terms of game play concept and art I highly recommend it, they are even making a film of it.

[mockney piers]

Interesting. I was enjoying the story, but the gameplay got very repetitive and I ran out of steam about 2/3 of the way through.

I hope they make a good stab at it, there isn't a particularly good track record in turning games into films now is there :-/

[bon3yard]

Yeah, new resi not as scary as the nerve shredding number 4 and the initial onslaught of nasty baddies harassing me before I'd even caught my breath(and get to grips with the initially baffling control setup)left me so traumatised I've left it 5 days before trying again. Picked it up again today and sure enough the controls start to make sense and are actually very intuitive. Superb piece of gaming. As for Bioshock, it was one of my alltime gaming highlights...although I did quit right at the death. I have a habit of not completing games though so its scarcely a criticism. I dont hold out much hope for the film however. Mortal Combat starring Kylie anyone?

[mockney piers]

*ahem* St Fighter *oh dear god kill me*.

Mortal Kombat was almost...aaaaalmost...passable popcorn entertainment, which is about as good as any game=>film has gone.

Super Mario Bros with Bob Hoskins anyone...eek,

[ruffers]

DOA: Dead Or Alive gets a viewing in our house from time to time...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398913/

[bon3yard]

BT Bob as the fat plumber? Now, that was bobbins.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Went to a trade premiere of the SF movie, the money men from Capcom were not happy about a cinema full of gaming journo's and cool hunters throwing popcorn at the screen in hysterics...

Forbidden Siren (not sure if it ever came out in English), now that's how to do a movie adaptation of a game! Thought the first RE movie held its own too, have yet to see any of its sequels though.

[Keef]

The Manga SF film was pretty cool, Alice in chains on the soundtrack... Sorted

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Ah, you mean the anime? The one they censored over here? It wasn't bad, never bothered to check out the TV series though, seemed a bit too influenced by the Udon school of things for me. Agreed on the western soundtrack, along with the custom soundtrack for Cyber City Oedo, its the only other replacement of the Japanese OST that was an improvement.

[ratty]

Bah - stop hijacking my thread. ;)

OK, you can get hold of a network cable for the 360 for about 10 quid which would be long enough to reach my box from my router. Now it's just a case of where the hell do I route the thing? I am thinking about a hole in the wall! Which might do the trick!

God know why this thing does not come with wireless!!!

[Floating Onion]

I'd definitely recommend getting an X Box. Great fun. As for the model I believe that they have all been updated to the recent hardware revisions. They seem to have sorted the reliability as it's only the older models that had the issue. Of course I'll probably go home & find mine dead now that I said that. The newer hardware has an HDMI port.

As for which one I'd probably look at the Elite. Now that you can copy games to the hard drive it's quite easy to chew through space. Advantages of that are they load faster & it's quieter as the drive isn't spinning all of the time. I've got a 20 GB drive & think that I need to upgrade it.

[ratty]

Floating Onion Wrote:

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> As for which one I'd probably look at the Elite.

> Now that you can copy games to the hard drive it's

> quite easy to chew through space. Advantages of

> that are they load faster & it's quieter as the

> drive isn't spinning all of the time.

So how do you do this? I got the Elite but there is no option to install agame to HDD on it?

[SeanMacGabhann]

in the dashboard go to My Xbox - with the game disc highlighted you should get an option to press Y to see more details - and then you should see Install

[Floating Onion]

Have you got it on the internet? That'll download the latest software that added the feature. A shipping version may not have all the current updates. Then it's something similar to what Sean said.

[ratty]

Aha! So the key is getting it online!

Thanks ppl!

[Floating Onion]

Plug it into your router & go for it. I think you need an XBox live (online gaming service) account to get the updates. The basic one (silver I think) is free. You have to pay if you want to play other people online.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Bear in mind that its not a SSD in there, and that although running from HD is quieter, you are also putting it under far more access stress than usual, which do you value more, your .sav files or a bit less noise?

Meh, any real hardcore gamer would have bung their 360's innards into one of these long ago...

http://www.likecool.com/Gear/Gaming/Lian%20Li%20XB01%20Xbox%20360%20Case/Lian-Li-XB01-Xbox-360-Case.jpg

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2008/06/05/lian-li-xbox-360-case-is-just-weeks-away/1

[Floating Onion]

And SSDs have limited write cycles. Spinning platters will probably last longer. That said I wouldn't trust either much. Also there are some games out there (Halo 3) that use the hard drive for caching anyways.

If you buy the bigger drive as an upgrade now you get a cable with it that allows you to connect one externally to the USB port. You might be able to back up save games this way.