The wife finally let me get it...

cwrighta70 · 03-31-2008, 07:17 PM

An XBOX 360 w/

Extra Controller
Battery Charger
Gears of War
Halo 3
Dance Dance Revolution 2 (for her!)

Maybe a little thing, but I sure am happy. And my brother-in-law and I have already beaten Gears on Hardcore, and have moved on to Insane

Huskysibe · 03-31-2008, 07:27 PM

Sweet!!! Post up your gamertag and we can hook up on Halo3 or Gears. Mine is.....You guessed it Huskysibe LOL Congrats on the acquisition!

cwrighta70 · 03-31-2008, 07:45 PM

I have yet to purchase XBOX 360 Live, but I plan on it very soon since my brother and all 3 brother-in-laws have it!

I'll send it soon!

IsaacRN · 03-31-2008, 07:51 PM

Call of Duty 4 LIVE!!!!

cwrighta70 · 03-31-2008, 07:57 PM

I've heard great things about that game, as well as Oblivion and Army of 2

papasmurf · 03-31-2008, 11:00 PM

Dude that thing will kill you (actually the wife will). I had one and my wife made me get rid of it after all the nights I was staying up playing games

Quick Orange · 03-31-2008, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by IsaacRN

Call of Duty 4 LIVE!!!!

One of the best games out right now. I have it on PC, but I've played it on PS3- I'm sure it's just as addictive and good on XBOX 360. Oh the hours I've spent online playing that

KenS · 03-31-2008, 11:34 PM

I'm seriously envious of you guy's and gals who can "get into" games. I bought a PS2 and a half dozen games when the PS2 was released. I don't think I put over an hour on the console..
More wasted money fer sure.
Ken.

Bruno · 04-01-2008, 08:31 AM

I conciously stayed away from World of WarCraft.
I used to enjoy adventure type games when I was younger (anyone remember King's Quest, Hero's Quest and Space Quest?)
And what I have seen so far from WoW tells me I would enjoy it immensely.

But with time already being a precious commodity, I decided to stay away from it, because otherwise I am pretty sure I end up playing too much, and getting into trouble with my wife.

Doc · 04-01-2008, 09:34 AM

oh my god how I miss those days of gaming groups gathering at your house to fight monsters save the babes and generally have a blast. As the years have come and gone my friends all went there way and had children jobs and responsibility's the lands of our imagination have all but died out. Gary Gygax has gone to his rest Whats left? well I guess my only reprieve is my PSP and My computer games., but it will never be like it was.

Nickelking · 04-01-2008, 09:38 AM

I remember bringing my gaming rig over to a friends house, we'd have 3 in the living room, 1 in the kitchen, 6 in the garage and one in the bedroom. we'd be yelling curses at eachother across the property while playing the game (and occasionally doing some hacking if someone was getting to far ahead.)

I'm now at the collector point of my console game existance but rarely get around to playing.

Edit: Bruno, YES!!! I loved those games! I have the whole questo for glory series on my com now, but haven't gotten around to installing dosbox so that the attacks are done at a reasonable speed. All of those classic sierra games rocked. (now you got me wanting to play the spacequest series again... is that abandonware yet?)

LX_Emergency · 04-01-2008, 11:26 AM

Want to get an addicting game? Get Guitar Hero 3 you'll be hooked instantly. I don't know ANYONE in my direct surroundings that isn't.

LIMIT · 04-01-2008, 11:41 AM

WHAT!!! Pong or pac-man nolonger fun anymore? Kids and their games thesedays....... geesh

LIMIT

barneycg · 04-01-2008, 11:44 AM

I never got into Wold of Warcraft ... Personally I prefer Eve-Online ... think of Elite and make it an MMORPG

Only downside is the combat isn't twitch so once the enemy is engaged it all comes down to ship fitting and skill levels. Tactics make a big difference when you get several hundred ships in a fleet battle (assuming your not lagged to hell by that point)

Bruno · 04-01-2008, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Nickelking

Edit: Bruno, YES!!! I loved those games! I have the whole questo for glory series on my com now, but haven't gotten around to installing dosbox so that the attacks are done at a reasonable speed. All of those classic sierra games rocked. (now you got me wanting to play the spacequest series again... is that abandonware yet?)

Sierra has re-released those games in a new version, compatible with XP so that you don't need to hack around with scheduler modifications etc.
My brother ordered them from amazon I think.

Personally I want to get Hero's quest.

Nickelking · 04-01-2008, 12:07 PM

well I'm just going to have to go look at that now. I've been seriously considering rebuilding an old 486 just for the sierra games.

Sidenote for those that are interested: I'm a collector of vintage gaming systems, the newest thing I have is the N64, the system I have the most games for is the classic NES. The current game I'm playing is ffII for the nes, I already have most of them (well, up until they went MMORPG) and am going to be playing in order, well, american order... I don't know where I'm gonna put ffIII (jp, released on the DS.)

Side side note: if anybody happens to have Final Fantasy 7 for playstation and wants to sell it let me know, I'll even send the japanese version as a replacement!

cwrighta70 · 04-01-2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Want to get an addicting game? Get Guitar Hero 3 you'll be hooked instantly. I don't know ANYONE in my direct surroundings that isn't.

My bro-in-law has this for his Wii...INCREDIBLE!! I tried to convince my wife to get that instead of DDR, but she wanted to "exercise".

She IS excited about Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Edition coming out later this year.

Bruno · 04-02-2008, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Nickelking

well I'm just going to have to go look at that now. I've been seriously considering rebuilding an old 486 just for the sierra games.

Sidenote for those that are interested: I'm a collector of vintage gaming systems, the newest thing I have is the N64, the system I have the most games for is the classic NES. The current game I'm playing is ffII for the nes, I already have most of them (well, up until they went MMORPG) and am going to be playing in order, well, american order... I don't know where I'm gonna put ffIII (jp, released on the DS.)

Side side note: if anybody happens to have Final Fantasy 7 for playstation and wants to sell it let me know, I'll even send the japanese version as a replacement!

I only have the NES and the GameCube.

Ah.. NES... The days where I would sit in a room from 6AM to 9PM, playing 1 game with 8 bit sound, then go to bed but not to sleep because I could not get the music out of my head...

As far as gameplay and fun went, the NES kicked the pants of every system I've played on since then. Although we had some great games on our 486 as well.

In those days I was a bit addicted to gaming. How much? Well, I could play the first 3 levels of super mario bros blindfolded

CRuzin · 04-02-2008, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruno

I conciously stayed away from World of WarCraft.
I used to enjoy adventure type games when I was younger (anyone remember King's Quest, Hero's Quest and Space Quest?)
And what I have seen so far from WoW tells me I would enjoy it immensely.

But with time already being a precious commodity, I decided to stay away from it, because otherwise I am pretty sure I end up playing too much, and getting into trouble with my wife.

Probably a good choice. I started playing WoW back in Dec 2004 and have been playing it since. Easily the longest any game has held my interest. I don't play it as "hardcore" as I used to though. Now it's more of a casual, every other night kind of thing.

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Originally Posted by barneycg

I never got into Wold of Warcraft ... Personally I prefer Eve-Online ... think of Elite and make it an MMORPG

Only downside is the combat isn't twitch so once the enemy is engaged it all comes down to ship fitting and skill levels. Tactics make a big difference when you get several hundred ships in a fleet battle (assuming your not lagged to hell by that point)

I have tried getting into EVE a few times now. I still have the client on my computer. But I just can't seem to get into it. It's all about the market and combat once you have a good enough ship. I guess there's not enough to hold my interest.

Quick Orange · 04-02-2008, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by cwrighta70

My bro-in-law has this for his Wii...INCREDIBLE!! I tried to convince my wife to get that instead of DDR, but she wanted to "exercise".

She IS excited about Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Edition coming out later this year.

I got GH3 and it is truly addictive. I tried out the DDR, but it wasn't nearly as good as the arcade version.

It's almost sick how much I've played on GH3. I started out on medium doing rather poorly, now I can beat most songs easily on expert. That being said, I'm still on medium with Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce