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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 29th at 7:36pm 2004

I just got Xbox Live the other day, and I've really been enjoying it. Anybody else from the snarkpit got it, or played on it in the past? If anyone does use it, what games you play on it? Feel free to add me to your friends if you play any of the following games...

Project Gotham Racing 2
Crimson Skies
Amped 2
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Got a few niggles with the whole thing though, mostly that sometimes the server lists that come up for games are extremely empty. I've read that this is because it looks for people in servers at your skill level, which is a good idea i guess, but when it just then lets you choose from a list of 3 nigh on empty servers, it can seem a bit annoying. I reckon there should be an option to show all servers too.

Oh and the Splinter Cell multiplayer bug, in which it won't let you ping the servers properly or it crashes. Means you can't wait for the server list to display the connection speed or player numbers in any server, so its just trial and error. Apparently they are working on a patch already, but for the time being it is really annoying.

EDIT: My gamertag is ReNo84
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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Mar 29th at 8:01pm 2004

I hear it's a rip off. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 29th at 8:06pm 2004

Hmm, i can see where people who think that are coming from, but I guess its a personal choice. A person like me, who really enjoys games such as PGR and Amped, its definately worth getting, as racing games and extreme sports games are always vastly superior on consoles, and in particular the Xbox. If you are a person who only likes FPS games or something then it probably wouldnt be worth getting, as the ones available (XIII, RTCW, etc...) are pretty much all available as superior versions on the PC.

Its also quite amazing how some games incorporate XBL into single player stuff, most notably PGR2. Every single player race will have the worlds best stats for it displayed while you play, and you can use their ghost cars to compete against. PC games have yet to use internet access in this way, and its really nice to have this sort of feature finally incorporated the way it should be.
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Posted by Vash on Mon Mar 29th at 8:57pm 2004

Hey reno, did you get the Demo disc for Xbox Live? If so, do you got Whacked (its on the Demo CD)? Dude, if you do, we need totally play sometime! [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 29th at 9:26pm 2004

They stopped doing Whacked on the demo disk actually, its now MotoGP and Mechassault (which I used to have, but traded in) on it Got any other games for it?
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Posted by Vash on Mon Mar 29th at 9:33pm 2004

Damn. All I got is the MotoGP online demo, why`d you trade it .

The only Online games I have are:

Unreal Championship

I think thats basically it

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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 29th at 9:39pm 2004

Oh I meant I used to own Mechassault, but traded it in a while back. I still have the Xbox live demo disc. Pity MotoGP is a little bit dull
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Posted by Vash on Mon Mar 29th at 11:13pm 2004

Still, we can play it! MotoGP is actually pretty fun if you get into it . Contact me VIA PM, or any of my chat programs if you want to setup a game sometime. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 29th at 11:26pm 2004

I've added you to msn. Anyways, might as well add me to Xbox Live (ReNo84)
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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Mar 30th at 4:21pm 2004

Xbox dropped to $149 today. [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Tue Mar 30th at 5:08pm 2004

? posted by ReNo
Oh and the Splinter Cell multiplayer bug, in which it won't let you ping the servers properly or it crashes. Means you can't wait for the server list to display the connection speed or player numbers in any server, so its just trial and error. Apparently they are working on a patch already, but for the time being it is really annoying.

EDIT: My gamertag is ReNo84

Hold your horses there! A patch for a console game? How would such a thing work?

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Mar 30th at 5:13pm 2004

The xbox has a hard drive bud. [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Tue Mar 30th at 5:14pm 2004

Ah, the mistery is solved. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Mar 30th at 5:17pm 2004



*puts down giant novelty magnifying glass and dusts hands* [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Mar 30th at 9:12pm 2004

Dont play x-box live, but I do play through gamespy tunnel. So you can play Halo and anything with system link. But its extremely lagy.

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