Xbox Live Apolytoners

Asher · December 25, 2003, 06:51

Surely I'm not the only Xbox Live player on Apolyton? Post your screenname and games you play or are willing to play.

GamerTag: Moosely
Games:

ESPN NHL Hockey 2004
Project Gotham Racing 2
Amped 2
Crimson Skies
Midtown Madness 3
MechAssault

BustaMike · December 25, 2003, 16:44

TJHookor and/or Chief Horseporn

not playing a damn thing right now, but I will be more than willing to give anyone a beat down as soon as Rallisport 2 is out

Zero · December 25, 2003, 17:58

I'll register as soon as they have decent lineup for FPS, RTS and fighting games.

I hope DOA online turns out ok enough to be playable...

Asher · December 25, 2003, 19:49

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Originally posted by Zero
I'll register as soon as they have decent lineup for FPS, RTS and fighting games.

RTS? On a console? Don't hold your breath.

As for FPS: Counter-Strike, Unreal Championship, SOF2, RTCW. Of course, they're all more or less also on the PC, but with Live there's no cheating and there is voices.

Zero · December 25, 2003, 20:04

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Originally posted by Asher

RTS? On a console? Don't hold your breath.

Meh. I know...

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As for FPS: Counter-Strike, Unreal Championship, SOF2, RTCW. Of course, they're all more or less also on the PC, but with Live there's no cheating and there is voices.

Third party voice chat. Roger wilco. And people are gonna cheat in live eventually. Xbox is sooo a pc, ppl will eventually do it.

FPS for xbox is pretty well developed (esp w/ halo) .... but other genre i care about isnt.. is halo playable for xbox live?

Asher · December 25, 2003, 22:47

No, but Halo 2 is going to have extensive Live support in early 2004.

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Third party voice chat. Roger wilco. And people are gonna cheat in live eventually. Xbox is sooo a pc, ppl will eventually do it.

People said that from the start, but here we are over a year later and still cheat free.

The problem is, to cheat you need to mod your box. If you mod your box, you're not on Live.

Skanky Burns · December 25, 2003, 23:06

From a site of 60,000 people, I would have thought there would be more people than this on Xbox Live.

reds4ever · December 26, 2003, 08:30

Killaface:

Ghost Recon
Unreal
Wolfenstein

FrustratedPoet · December 26, 2003, 08:30

Not all of them visit this rather obscure pseudo-spam forum, though.

Alex · December 26, 2003, 12:54

XBOX IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!!!

Sava · December 26, 2003, 14:54

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XBOX IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!!!

YES!

and why would any sane person buy Counter-Strike for X-Box when you can download it for free for PC (where it is vastly superior anyways)?

xbox sux0rz

BustaMike · December 26, 2003, 15:47

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Originally posted by Sava
and why would any sane person buy Counter-Strike for X-Box when you can download it for free for PC (where it is vastly superior anyways)?

You wouldn't. Counter-Strike sucks on the Xbox. You should play other things like Moto GP or Project Gotham 2 or Unreal or Wolfenstein (though Enemy Territory on the PC is much better, it's still fun on the Xbox), or a Sega sport game or something else. Voice chat is awesome and you can't really do that with a PC too easily.

Xbox is the best console, period.

Asher · December 26, 2003, 17:19

Crimson Skies is also amazing on Live (IGN called it the best online game).

I feel sorry for Sava for missing out. Well no, no I don't. All of the "u sux0r" gets old fast in PC multiplayer.

The only time I play PC multiplayer is doing LAN gaming. I can't stand playing with weirdos on it.

Asher · December 26, 2003, 17:20

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Originally posted by Sava
YES!

and why would any sane person buy Counter-Strike for X-Box when you can download it for free for PC (where it is vastly superior anyways)?

xbox sux0rz

You can't download CS for free unless you've got Half-Life, which means you gotta pay anyway.

Have you played CS lately on the PC? It's plague by cheating and accusations of people cheating whenever they have more kills than deaths...

BustaMike · December 26, 2003, 19:43

Actually I hate Crimson Skies (though I seem to be the only one). The game looks really nice, but it's really boring.

Zero · December 27, 2003, 17:38

For the last time.... Voice chat in PC is EASY! PLENTY of third party vchat programs you can run on the background... I use to vchat in CS when I used to play... (thats was before 1.0!)

I hate crimson skies too. I can see how other ppl could like it, but I find it boring too....

Asher · December 27, 2003, 19:20

Voice chat may be easy on the PC, but it's not ubiquitous. That's the killer for it.

With Live everyone's got voicechat, and it's integrated into all of the games. No ****ing around with background programs. Plus it's got a very easy way to mute any player you want easily across ALL games on Live, very important for the idiots...

Zero: You've played crimson skies for Xbox?

flipside · December 27, 2003, 23:59

Unreal tourney is the only one.
The "I'll swallow your soul" line is truly iconic.

Zero · December 29, 2003, 16:19

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Originally posted by Asher
Voice chat may be easy on the PC, but it's not ubiquitous. That's the killer for it.

With Live everyone's got voicechat, and it's integrated into all of the games. No ****ing around with background programs. Plus it's got a very easy way to mute any player you want easily across ALL games on Live, very important for the idiots...

Zero: You've played crimson skies for Xbox?

Yeah you're right. Forcing everyone to have vchat DOE make it so much better than PC.

Yeah. Played it at CompUSA. Its not much playing time to judge the game, but from what I played i concluded i wont like it

. It seems it could be fun though. Maybe im just being biased cause ive been turned off by flight sims lately... (perhaps a new wing commander series could come up to change all this?

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Asher · December 30, 2003, 05:49

Crimson Skies is more of a FPS in multiple dimensions than a flight simulator.

It's incredibly arcadey and camp but damn, is it fun online.

There's more to it than just dogfights, there's also modes like CTF.

Zero · December 30, 2003, 05:56

Obviously i havent tried the multiplayer @ compUSA.
And I have admitted that I jumped to conclusion way too early.
I already mentioned that I can see potential for this game too.

So i'll take your word for it and give this game a retry. Sometime later I'll rent it and explore it a bit more.

Asher · December 30, 2003, 06:00

One thing I didn't expect in it is how some planes have some turrets on them, and you can actually switch to these turrets in multiplayer mode to use them (to shoot at someone on your tail, for instance).

There's also assorted turrets (flak, cannon, machine gun, remote-control-rocket, etc) on most levels on the ground somewhere that you can enter.

In order to get more kills than deaths you'll need to master lots of the special moves, like the Immelman, which are possible simply by clicking in the right thumbstick and pressing down.