Thread 719815852

What was it like to have Xbox 360 during whole 7th generation?

With that first dashboard?
Peak comfy

The best console of that generation, I would even go as far as to say it's one of the best consoles ever made

>>719815852 (OP)
It was great at the beginning, experiencing the formation of console based online gaming was fun, lots of cool exclusives. It was so shit by the end you either switched to playstation or PC.

>>719815926
Especially with that first dashboard anon.

>>719815852 (OP)
It was so good my dad bought me two! (The first one died and took my copy of Viva Pinata Party Animals with it)

I wish I had one during 7th gen, but I was mostly a PC player back then
Too fucking bad.

>>719815852 (OP)
Popularised online multiplayer, voice chat with strangers, indie games, party based hangouts with friends, cool Lan parties and more. Alot of this shit would grow to become complete cancer but it was all fun in the early days.

The 360 was a god tier console for the entire first year. Great games, great communities, new experiences, optimistic gaming future. But once Halo 3/CoD4 and party chat happened, the entire social and gaming landscape changed for the worst.

I bought it for all the arcade ports and it didn't disappoint. It was the last console worth buying.

I've posted before, but I love the first 2 Xbox consoles, and it's really all because my parents switched dial up ISPs. They had AOL but MSN had a good price for a 2 year commitment and it came with a free Xbox. I was all over that system. So many good games, and a large chunk performed better than their PS2 counterparts. Of course I also missed out on alot, since the PS2 had everything and sold about 8x as much as Xbox if I remember right.

When next gen game, and the 360 was cheaper, and I could just move my Xbox Live account over, it was an ez pickup. I still think if you go by "game library" only, and exclude any backward conpatibility, performance and whatnot the Xbox 360 has the greatest game library.

And then the Xbone came and you just got... nothing. And then you continued to just get fucking nothing. You might get a big japanese release 3 years after it's PS4 release but if any console has nogames it's the fucking Xbox One. But I did get an Xbox One... to play Xbox 360 games better.

I'm a gaystation snoypony these days.

>>719816698
>>719816713
Fuark, I wish I had one
>inb4 buy one now
nah, from what anons posted here, you had to be there as the gen was progressing

>>719815926
Kinect dashboard is better

probably the best time to be a teenaged gamer.
arcade 80s oldfags and lan-party 90s oldfags might disagree.

>>719816962
Even if you did buy one with the entire game library you still wouldn't be able to replicate the experience, because so much of the console has been erased or "updated" with time. Even the god tier dashboard is long gone and replaced with generic window tiles.

>>719815852 (OP)
FF13 was a comparatively good game

>>719816963
Only niggers who purchased the console with Halo 3 or Call of Duty believe this. You weren't a day oner, you are a pretender. And you are a faggot.

>>719817323
we had Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, and the secret kino Eternal Sonata

>>719815852 (OP)
It felt like standing at the peak of a mountain, seeing Microsoft in the distance and feeling that it's all about to crumble under your feet.

>sexmenu
home

>>719817429
That’s a scary take on it anon

>>719816963
I hate this dashboard to this day, I prefer the blades or whatever they were called.

>>719817389
Oh no I wasn't I day oner!!! My gaming cred nooo!!!!

>>719815852 (OP)
Like this
https://youtube.com/shorts/N0Imreye8ss?si=JvrtIvcn1cvjG4mc

>>719815852 (OP)
It was unironically the golden age. There was a period in time where it seemed like every month a new IP debuted that would evolve into massive decade spanning projects. Online on 360 was the greatest MP experience ever. The shit talking, the camaraderie, you simply had to be there.

>>719817581
the blades were an ugly fad but they felt great to use for the time. the sound effect was so satisfying.

>>719817185
It was the last time there was a balance between going to a friend's house for in person multiplayer and online hangouts. After that gen it became completely isolated internet hangouts and eventually fucking discord so it was definitely the beginning of the end.

Prior to that era there were unique experiences like arcades but I feel like that's just an inferior version of playing shit at your friend's house.

>>719817581
>>719815926
Themes looked ugly as fuck and barebones on blades, metro or whatever the hell was that called all the way

>>719815852 (OP)
Bro, it was. like. Well it was.

>>719816087
The correct thing was to step torwards idiort. And then Xbone vs PS4 was really that fucking stupid.

>>719817591
Correct, you jumped on the bandwagon just to play shit games like Call of Duty. And you should in fact stick to playing those games and stop shitting up other online communities with your bad taste.

>>719817396
unbelievably based eternal sonata enjoyer

>>719817581
I find Blades ugly and NXE childish, but I only liked the Kinect dash because how it displays the game cover
>>719817792
Sometimes I forget how many losers are on this board, I don't care about any of that shit anon

>>719817771
Was that monkey the most popular profile picture?

my friend rolled a default gamertag and got PeaceableSumo, kek

>>719816963
gonna get hate for this but i actually preferred this to the blade ui. it was like the psp xmb rotated 90* with the categories being laid out vertically and well... i loved xmb. the avatar shit was dumb though, just blatant trend chasing after the wii miis

this console defined a large part of my life because of the social multiplayer it popularised. going to my cousins house after school to play halo 3 and call of duty online was a fucking blast. and then also the amazing games which launched that gen like assassins creed, gears of war, gta 4, mass effect etc. gta 4 had exclusive dlc on xbox and mass effect was exclusive to xbox which at the time i didn't even realise because i didn't follow gaming news that hard, i just had an xbox which happened to have exclusivity. i can't imagine how different my early gaming years would've been without playing xbox exclusives like gears of war, halo 3, gta 4 dlc, mass effect and so on. none of these were available on playstation or wii, at least not at launch.

>>719817916
What were the gamer points displayed in top right corner?

>>719818546
gamerscore is linked to achievements. usually easy cheevos have 5-10 points and completion achievements have 100. with everything else in the middle.

>>719815852 (OP)
that d-pad still gives me nightmares. what the fuck were they thinking? goat controller otherwise

>>719818546
Exactly that, when you unlock achievements you gain Gamerscore™ and most 360 games offer 1000gs each

>>719818298
>avatars
>Six axis controllers
>Kinect
>PlayStation Move
>PlayStation Eye
The Wii was very influential in a bunch of shit that never caught on

>>719818795
This is honestly the worst thing to ever happen to gaming and I hate that Sony jumped on the trend.

>>719816963
For me? It's gotta be the NXE Dashboard

>>719818546
When you unlock an Xbox Achievement, it gives you a certain amount of points called "Gamerscore". So it would usually be like
>Achievement Unlocked (15g) - Press X to Start
or
>(100g) - Complete the Game on Hard

Back then you got cool shit for unlocking certain achievements, like gear for your Avatar or armor in Halo 3

>>719818647
>thought you can exchange Gamerscore for some silly goods
>you can't
That's the exact moment I stopped giving a crap about cheevos

>>719816963
I liked the look and feel, but I hated this dashboard for being full of ads. I thought avatars were stupid Mii rip-offs at first but did eventually like them.

>>719818990
Yeah thats my first thought when I saw it, that you should be able to exchange the points for some discounted game or something

the fact that you'd have to hotswap the hard drive module just to play modern games now is so cursed

>>719818990
>>719819141
Maybe I'm misremembering, but couldn't you buy avatar clothes with your gamerscore once they rolled that out? I seem to remember a shop of some kind that let you spend something that wasn't real money.

>>719818880
I can understand it from a user perspective, but from an industry perspective, it's the perfect incentive to keep people playing more and more. Unlocking achievements was something that hooked me for a while, but then I realized how slow and useless it is
>>719819137
Unlocking clothing and seeing your avatar in a few arcade games was cool

>>719818957
was nxe the one immediately after blades? if so then yeah. i always liked the second dashboard the most

>>719815852 (OP)
Did anybody ever change their face plates?

>>719815852 (OP)
she cute

I have the chance to buy this model relatively cheap with a flashed drive, should I do it?

>>719815926
I had a LoTR BFMEII background with it's concept art.
It was the comfiest.

>>719818990
>>719819141
I don't remember if it did anything. But I definitely had a lot of rewards points

>>719817771
SVOUL
>>719816963
SVOULLESS

>>719819418
Kek that „wooden” one is pretty rad

>>719819418
Nah but I did buy shitty ass stickers to put on my consoles

>>719819557
If you're good at repairs then sure. If not, you should probably get a slim model

https://youtu.be/sUVxfBwZipA
historic moments recorder right here

>>719819557
Yes, IIRC this model is the Jasper revision (that has HDMI, better PSU and GPU) so it's actually the least faulty model. I still have my og Jasper revision and am still playing games on it.

I bought two last month

>>719815852 (OP)
Absolutely fucking awful. We had to get two console replacements due to RRoD

>>719815852 (OP)
It did not have silk nor song

>>719819883
>The anxiety of putting on the sticker straight
You had to be precise or that shit would look terrible and it would constantly be on the back of your mind every time you played

>>719820334
I liked the Gears of War series way more than Halo

>>719820541
But it was silky smooth

>>719820334
no rpgs, or jrpgs

I just bought a refurbished one. Peak comfy

>>719820768
For me, it's Ninety Nine Nights

i remember getting a 20GB pro in either mid 2006 or early 2007 then shoving a 60GB drive in there during 08... lasted me until 2011 or 2012 when microsoft decided to completely suck the soul out of the UI with the xbox one style dashboard

>>719816635
That was PC, you fucking retard.
360 took all of that and turned it into cancer

>>719815852 (OP)
You got to experience JRPGs turning into a cringe genre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHZrBUimuY

>>719815852 (OP)
>What was owning a 360 like
Are you 12 or something??? It's not that long ago, hell you can probably buy one for like 50 bucks online

>>719815926
This + Amped 3, PGR3, DOA 4, and GUN. The launch lineup was actually full of good shit. It was peak until Avatars became a thing.

>>719822002
Anon...
Xbox 360 was released in 2005.
Died in 2013 with the Xbone.
It's entirely conceivable someone on the cusp of not being underage completely missed it being born around 2005-2008, making them only 5 to 8 when the console wasn't 'current gen' and making them anywhere between 17 and 20 now.

>>719815926
blades

Back when Burger King was selling those Xbox games, they were also giving away 48hr Xbox live gold trials. Being broke highschoolers, me and my friends would go to BK every friday night to get something from the $1 menu just for the Live code. We'd head back to one of our houses, make some instant ramen and play Halo all night.

>>719817496
it's 2025 grandpa we launch from the dashboard now

>>719815852 (OP)
I recently bought an Xbox 360 for Ninja Gaiden 2 but picked up some of the other exclusives and I can't believe console gamers chose to experience vidya in this state. Every game runs at like 15fps, there's jaggies fucking everywhere, texture pop in everywhere. Games feel like they're on the brink of crashing at any minute.

>>719823010
that was the standard back then, it was a bit uncommon to even have 60fps
we certainly didn't have the luxury of caring about antialiasing, filtering, etc

>>719822957
I made the mistake of trying to open mine up to clean it so I'm stuck in 2018 or so.

>>719822957
>we launch from a worse place
congratulations?

>>719823010
Nice, it's gaming time

>>719815852 (OP)
It was pretty good but every once in a while you had to get a new one and after that you became averse to buying hardware from Microsoft for a while.

>>719815852 (OP)
Shit, they broke really easily and for no reason.

>>719815852 (OP)
This and the PS2 were THE consoles to have. Wii had fun diversions but it was mostly casual shit and the PS3 was a laughingstock until about 2010.

>>719823323
These are the games I bought. What else would you recommend?

>>719815852 (OP)
They broke every time a slight fucking breeze touched them, but when they did work? They were pretty great.

>TFW got one of the black 360 Elites from GameStop super cheap after my last white model red ringed
>TFW I got a free copy of Forza 4 and Skyrim from it
Felt good.

I miss blades.

>>719823298
>launching from dashboard is somehow worse than having to boot to dashboard, then launch into xexmenu
niggas really be anti-convenience just to be contrarians

She cute

>>719815852 (OP)
Halo 3 was cool for a while. But generally the paid online blackpilled me and made me switch to pc

>>719823654
outside of naruto why did you buy 360 instead of series x? if fps is your concern

>>719823654
Get Ace Combat 6

>>719823654
SSX
Enchanted Arms
Alpha Protocol
Golden Axe Beast Rider

>>719823915
I wanted to experience the Stairs Of Lag in Ninja Gaiden 2 in all it's slow motion glory

>>719823686
Yeah, I'm going to be pretty depressed when I run out of 360's. I am not good at fixing consoles.

>>719823654
Beautiful Katamari
Bad Company
Armored Cores

>>719823654
forza horizon, the original was ironically the peak of the series

>>719823654
don't buy games just buy a external HDD and bad update the thing everytime you turn it on

>>719823654
The Riddick games, whichever one has the other one bundled in with it. It's Assault on Dark Athena, get that one. Also Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Dead Space 1 and 2 because that's the best way to play those games and maybe Forza 3 or 4.

>>719821720
He meant with normies you stupid fuck. No one but you and your faggy virgin friends were playing online before XBOX Live which was popular on the original XBOX but fucking exploded on the 360 to the point where you were in the minority if you weren't playing FPSs or sports games online.

Fun Fact: Every WWE game on the 360 let's you use your ripped CDs as custom entrance music. This works on the PS3 as well plus you can have up to 7 players instead of 4.
I still get drunk with the boys and have 30 man royal rumbles full of our custom abominations and a couple legends.

I remember seeing Bad Comoany gameplay and being jelous of PS3/x360 users

>>719825313
I bought my 360 for 40 bucks, and I got Bad Company for a $0.95

Time to make your dreams come true, anon. Or you could just emulate it for free, I guess.

>>719821720
Halo 2 created current multiplayer scene regardless of what you say pctranny

>>719815852 (OP)
kino you can softmod your 360 now

>>719824957
lmao, what the fuck are you even talking about?
LAN parties weren't some obscure, niche shit.
If you played games, you had LAN parties with friends. Matter of fact, that shit died out during the 360 gen because MS introduced a bunch of shitty business practices that were applauded by retards like (You) which is also what led to the current state of gaming
Even my uncles hosted LAN parties and played Soldier of Fortune and Age of Empires 2. They are turbonormies too.
This whole "gaming wasn't popular" is just some retarded cope from friendless losers

>>719825681
Isn't that the issue nowadays?

>>719815852 (OP)
Shit is mad gay

>>719825962
>Matter of fact, that shit died out during the 360 gen because MS
all 360 microsoft games supported it tho, blame third party devs for abandoning it, or xbox one gen

>>719825681
ha, no it didn't

>>719820768
To be fair, the Xbox 360 didn't have that much of those worth checking out

>>719815852 (OP)
It was dope during the era when Microsoft was bank rolling Japanese devs to make 360 games. It's how we got 360 entries of Ace Combat, Tales, Armored Core, the Mistwalker stuff.

>>719822957
badupdate or rgh?

>>719823909
It’s also about the experience, Xbox live was WORTH the 10.00 a month or whatever it was back around 2004-2008 of maybe 2010. But as Microsoft started changing everything and making new rules and such shitting it up it wasn’t as fun any more. Today it sucks.


The earlier Xbox live interfaces were nice looking and having a self contained messaging and voice message thing you could talk to people on was cool. you could download demos for games and generally on the 360 didn’t need to install games either, so you could buy and play a lot of used game from GameStop without needing to install games either and uninstall stuff like on a PC. It just worked and it felt lightweight and user friendly. in the first decade or so of xbl it was very easy to make friends in different games, and you generally would not get banned or reported for some argument which is why many of us have funny memories of hate mail or game lobbies with yelling and screaming. it was good at the time. Especially if you already had a PC you used for the internet but it wasn’t something powerful enough to play games on or didn’t have enough space to install a ton of games to. plus as we know consoles used to have many more exclusives.


today consoles kind of suck and I haven’t really enjoyed any of them since the 360. I have a Xbox one I used periodically but I only play maybe one or two games on it and the experience sucks. Today people don’t really talk and aren’t social in games either on console so the general vibe and atmosphere you came to expect if you grew up with them online has been gone for a decade.

It was good even though it got red ringed and I had to go a summer vacation without it cause I had to mail it in to get it fixed

>>719824968
On the original Xbox there are a handful of games that let you use custom music also, I had a lot of fun with the first moto gp game using music I liked such as linkin park or static x which was pretty typical of being a young guy in the early 2000s. I also liked the fact that when you crashed or fell of your motorcycle the music would hard cut off.

>>719823654
Dante's Inferno
Alice: Madness Returns

>>719820334
>>719823654
I dont get this, all those games will run on toaster PCs at way higher resolutions/settings and framerates. No reason to play games at 600p 22fps lowest settings on the 360.
Even the games that dont have PC ports like Ninety-Nine Nights or Lost Odyssey I played on Xenia emulator at 4k/60+.

>>719828275
The Darkness, Gears Of War 2/3 and Ninja Gaiden 2 are broken on Xenia. I like my games to actually work

>>719819358
They only exist to lock you into an ecosystem. I put off getting a gaming capable PC or playing games on Nintendo consoles for the longest time because of no achievements and then one day I realized how fucking retarded I was being.

I've spoken to people in real fucking life who don't see "the incentive" to play a game "without trophies". Like it's fucked up. It has fucked up what playing a game even means.

>>719823654
Exclusives. Even those 360/PS3 exclusives that run better on the 360.
You can stil get some games for cheap.

>>719829390
I know Gears 2/3 and NG2 have resolution/framerate boosts on series s - so you could play it on that instead of 600p 22fps on the 360.
Rest of the games I don't know why you'd play on 360 in 2025 - stuff like Spec Ops, CoD, Doom 3, Condemned, Darkness 2, NFS, Prototype etc etc.

I camped out for a launch 360 and was able to get one. Was a great console and everything about it, feature wise, was perfect: Microsoft really did push what they did with the original Xbox in the right direction and remedied the issue of no developers. It was the best platform to game on and absolutely trounced the PS3 except for a few titles.

It was an extension of what made the previous gen great.

>>719815852 (OP)
>pre-Kinect
great games
shit hardware
>post-kinect
shit games
great hardware
>>719823010
Ninja Gaiden 2 is BC on the Series X and runs much better on there

WOOP WOOP
KING OF THE STEREO
THIS IS TOO DAMN HOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKyV2_5JBQ

Racing games will never be as great as this generation. The 360 is soaked with great racing games and pic related is the absolute best, stunning for a 2007 title

>>719817389
it was still on blades when halo 3 came out

>>719817496
I’m confused hacked Xbox 360s had their own menu screens?

>>719818990
You are probably thinking of the very old Microsoft points system but then they got rid of it for just out right buying shit with money

you had to buy the console like 4 times because it kept breaking

>>719834460
Yes, there's even a custom dashboard that you can boot into. Xexmenu is very simple and more like LaunchELF on PS2.

>>719833743
PGR based continuation of Sega arcade classics
Forza reddit

>>719834581
Here’s a throwback image

It was the last generation of hardware for both video games and overall that truly felt unique. It was awesome

>>719835061
you tasted it too, admit it

>mfw despite having dozen of unique and awesome titles, people on here still say it has no games
we are currently living in a dark age

>>719818957
nxe was pure kino and a straight upgrade from blades.

>>719815852 (OP)
>during whole 7th generation?
It only lasted a quarter of the way through before breaking

>>719828275
I get it. Sucks to be you.

>>719817916
>>719816963
The Kinect era dashboard was early minimalist dogshit and the blades AND PS3's XMB were better in every regard.
>That comfy news ticker showing you what was on sale or what new games were added.

It was a really nice experience. It was the first time I could play games online with basically my entire friend group simultaneously. When they added stuff like party chat it became even easier to coordinate. Even though I thought Gears of War pvp sucked it was still a lot of fun playing it with the homies and I've got a lot of fond memories.

>>719837828
>That comfy news ticker showing you what was on sale or what new games were added.
but you hate it on xbox one/series

>>719815852 (OP)
>Orange Box
>Soul Calibur 4
>DOA 4
>Halo 3, but also everything else Halo
>Fable 2 and 3
Eh, it was alright, I guess it had it's ups and downs. Gen 6 was better though. At least guitar hero and rock band were fun

>>719815852 (OP)
360 was the last console I bought on clearance. At end of Gen I got a brand new sealed one for 50 leafs. How the world has changed

>disconnects for no reason
>console turns of mid game
nothin personal kid

>>719815852 (OP)
They tried so hard to get the Japanese to care.

>>719817323
>>719817396
They tried so goddamn hard.
I need more wacked out moon games built around semi-obscure historical figures.

>>719818861
Peoplr truly don't remember Sony and Microsoft's palpaple panic when they screamed at Nintendo to compete on graphics power and they replied with a no and a chucked wiimote.

>>719815852 (OP)
Did anyone tried Chrome Hounds? I got my 360 right after the servers got shut down.

>>719815852 (OP)
It was revolutionary but also quite shit in some aspects.
The good:
>Party chat so you can talk shit with the boys while playing whatever you want
>Community wasn't as fenced off as it is today with discord/skype
>Lots of games even if a lot of them were shit
>Not as much MTX bullshit but it was rearing its head in this era
The bad:
>Games that were released on PC and Xbox360 were always better on PC, but in this era you would straight up be missing most of the content in some titles. Take for instance Dungeon defenders 1 which doesn't have even a 1/4th of the DLC added to the game, TF2 never got updated but many people like it because of that, etc.
>They were prone to hardware failure
>You got to see gaming die in real time as the dashboard changed over the years, and while many people love the blades, I liked the kinect one as well, but then they started shoving ads everywhere.
Overall:
>High highs
>Low lows

>>719839893
ads are america exclusive

>>719816963
you shut your faggot whore mouth

>>719817389
kino blades was around well past GTA4 coming out

>>719823010
are you playing on a ridiculous heavy 720p CRT?

there were no good jrpgs on the 360. it was mostly ugly western garbage

>>719815852 (OP)
what is with all the IMG filenames recently? its really fucking annoying. Id rather see a unix timestamp then this

>>719841651
>Tales of Vesperia

>>719842738
lost odyssey and vesperia dont count. thats only 2 good jrpgs. ff13 doesnt exist.

>>719842876
>lost odyssey and vesperia dont count
*sigh*
Why, anon?

>>719842965
i literally just said why. its TWO jrpgs. thats pretty lame. there should have been more quality jrpgs but there wasnt.

blades was a shit dashboard and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't

>>719815852 (OP)
It was pretty cool but then it would suddenly not read your game discs any more. You could clear some cache somewhere and sometimes it would work but sometimes it did not

>>719843108
what quality jrpgs were on ps3 and wii?

Xbox 360 was probably the last console to give me the next gen feel. I was most impressed with the multiplayer, playing dead or alive with people online blowed my socks off and I liked ninja gaiden 2 a lot.

It was fun my older sister bought me one with that came with halo 3 and fable 2
Kino times

Not as good as having a PC.

>>719843280
why do you ask

>>719843332
It was a sad time when a lot of devs were still ignoring PC. If you wanted to play fighting games you needed a console. Even games from EA like Burnout or Skate were never released on PC for some reason. It was a time when you needed both PC and a console to get the most out of video games, and while I never got my parents to get me a 360 I made sure I played plenty of soul calibur and burnout at my friend's house.

>>719827137
rgh, aurora dashboard

>>719815852 (OP)
>80% RROD failure rate
>dogshit 2009- end of life kinect mattrick era

PS3 outsold it for a reason.

>>719843537
>If you wanted to play a fighting game
Fighting games were mega niche. The only ones you could play online were SF4 and MK9, both kinda ass. If you wanted to play good fighting games you needed to have a local scene.
>Burnout or Skate
I'm assuming you mean Paradise? That has a PC version. I'll give you Skate.

GFWL was dogshit and PC gamers definitely had it worse during the 7th gen than in most others because of bad ports, exclusives and devs casualizing their games but at the end of the day you were still playing (most) of the same games at a higher resolution, better framerate and better online.

>>719815852 (OP)
the same way its like a cucksole now. exactly the same. why do you underaged fuckheads act like 20 years ago was 2000 years ago?

>>719843751
burnout paradise is the shittiest entry in the series

>>719843860
What other Burnouts were on 360?

>>719843789
sweaty, the deck thread is three pages down

>>719816045
True, at least until the PS3 started getting exclusives worth a damn. I'm not even a Snoy apologist, and I disowned Nintendo after becoming disillusioned with the Wii. The 360 was my jam, but Sony just went harder on the exclusives in the late 7th gen.

>Microshit so cheap the disc isn't even properly secured in the tray
>breathe to heavily
>eats game disc

>>719843789
that isn't true at all lol
console exclusives barely exist anymore and games are made with significantly less heart
I couldn't even find an actual list of xbox series x exclusives because there's so few

>>719843985
>console exclusives barely exist anymore
and that's a good thing. exscooosives are a fucking cancer to gaming. they feed into the tribalistic consoomer brand loyalist console war shit that's ruined gaming.
fuck consoles
fuck exscooosives
fuck console poors

>>719844079
>they feed into the tribalistic consoomer brand loyalist console war shit that's ruined gaming
saying this while feeding into the tribalistic consoomer brand war is hilarious, captain cucksole

PCnigger having a melty

>>719815852 (OP)
It was amazing but it kind of fell off after 2011.
Being Idort was always better anyway

>>719815852 (OP)
With Xbox 360 I was basically watching the brand commit seppuku very slowly as it entered the Windows 8 Metro era and Kinect era. But hardware modding it with JTAG/RGH made me feel better.

With PS3 it was frustrating updating to play GT5 with /o/ but the newest firmware was not moddable until many many years later so I kind of fucked myself I think.

I loved the Xbox 360 S, I still have my second one to this day

>>719835061
>thing costs 1200 points
>offers to sell you 1000 points
fuck you too

>>719843314
7th Gen overall was probably the final generation that had any significant jumps
I mean 7th to 8th had some jumps but going from PS2/Gamecube/Xbox to the 360/PS3 was truly something else
I mean Sonic Unleashed still looks amazing to this day, framerate be damned

the day is coming when consoles will be obsolete and no longer produced and sold. that is the day i will coom all over myself nonstop for a week straight

>>719816963
>Mafia 2
FUCKING PEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAK

>>719843897
Revenge, of course.
>>719843751
I played both Dead or Alive and Soul Calibur on 360. SF4, Blazblue, Guilty Gear were quite active.

the dashboard after the og one was the best
I can hear the sound of the xbox button even now

poors defending their cucksoles
lol every time
you ever thought about just not being poor?

>>719844956
you ever thought about eating a salad?

>>719845013
weigh less than (you) snoy

>>719845042
you're in an xbox thread you fucking tard

>>719845087
>thinks Xbots actually exist
LOL
nice try snoy

worth softmodding now if you still have one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycY09EUm8wA

>>719845296
your mother sleeps with niggers

>>719815852 (OP)
I had a lot of fun. Use to bring my 360 to work and play during my night shifts. It was a good time in life. Just an overall good library of games too.

>>719845357
>the snoy gets caught and lashes out
always and every time

It's what cemented the 2000s for me despite later on playing more on the PS3. It just was an all around better console that really leaned into the era unapologetically.

>>719845357
She does?!

>>719817496
absolute kino, a 360 with jtag was the best.
>playing gears of war 3 months before official release
based

>>719827005
They even got a FromSoft exclusive via Chrome Hounds

>>719819418
>Viva Pinata
What in the actual fuck happened to this game? It was an unironic system seller.

>>719845643
fromsoft were xbox 2nd party before Souls shit happened. Could've had action and mech kino instead but we are in the bad timeline

>>719845831
Why would Sony do such a thing?

>>719845823
What do you mean what happened? All three games flopped

>>719827005
Don't forget

Magna Carta 2 (exclusive)
Tales of Vesperia (exclusive)
Monter Hunter (JP exclusive)
Idolmasters (JP exclusive)
1 billion Shmups (around 75% were exclusive to XB360)

Microsoft was simping JP hard as fuck back in 2005

>>719845915
They have the best version of Culdcept as well.

>>719845915
5pb Visual slop kino too

I legitimately think the 360 didn't reach its full potential due to many factors outside of the system itself.

>>719835339
The meme is just a joke.

>>719845915
Project Slypheed. EVERYONE FORGETS PROJECT SLYPHEED EVEN SQUARE ENIX FORGOT!!!

>>719835339
PS3 has no games, 360 is the doodbro console that only has CoD

>>719822530
360 never really died until like a few years ago when they shut down its online.

>>719846152
It was only ever a hit in Japan.

>>719818546
holy zoomie

I need a good Xbox 360 controller after mine finally started drifting. Any recommendations, anons?

>>719846518
ebay, dumbass, they're $20 bucks there

>>719846615
I'm asking for a third party controller

>>719846438
I played the hell out of it. It was the most fun Arcade Ace Combat Space Fighter I played ever. I wish Ace Combat would go Space theme

>>719846676
I only use 2 controllers.
>OG 360 with dongle
>8BitDo Pro 3
that's all I need

God tier if you softmodded the DVD drive. Games leaked before their official release date regularly so if you had a 360 you could play multiplats days or even weeks before everyone else.

>>719815852 (OP)
It was an odd feeling for a while since basically no one was going to go out and buy a PS3 at the launch price, and weren't interested in a 360, because of a perceived lack of games. So I was basically the only one I knew experiencing the 7th gen. Even when they did eventually buy PS3s or Wiis, I swear it wasn't until the Switch that the people I know seemed to remotely care about downloadable titles.

>>719843108
There was also Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant (was exclusive for a few months before the superior PC version came out, still a console exclusive though), Star Ocean The Last Hope (had a year of exclusivity, PS3 ended up being better though), Magna Carta II, Operation Darkness, Enchanted Arms (also on PS3, but it looks better on 360 and had online MP, PS3 has some extra content though), and Resonance of Fate (also on PS3 but it looked better on 360). There's also Record of Agarest War (which had a physical release in the US, unlike PS3).

>>719847603
>and weren't interested in a 360, because of a perceived lack of games.
No one, literally NO ONE said this about XB360. It shitted on PS3 for the first 5 years and in the first year and at release it had a strong line up of options. Then the big 2007 and 2008 which pushed it further ahead of PS3 which was a n MGS4 machine at the time

>>719815852 (OP)
it was kino, especially if you were playing modern warfare 2 multiplayer or halo 3 back then

>>719846285
They didn't shut down the online, just the store. You can't buy nothing anymore except backward compatible games. I played Black Ops multiplayer about a month ago.

>>719818957
It looked worse than the blades, but functionally it was so much better.

>>719815852 (OP)
It felt like the primary console of the generation every dlc came first to it and games ran/looked better

>>719815852 (OP)
Xbox live parties were lit

>>719815852 (OP)
Anyone who experienced the dreaded RROD are just jeets that doesn't know how basic electronics maintenance work, I've seen brazilians who still play on consoles that look like picrel

>>719845334
There's a coldboot exploit coming, too.
https://vxtwitter.com/Grimdoomer/status/1962284959416332704

>>719850034
>duuurr anyone who RROD don't know how to take care of their system!
fucking moron

post xbox live messages

>>719823686
Just don't use it if it's too hot indoors, the most common RROD happens when CPU solder breaks because of too many cycles of heating and cooling. Also repaste that thang with the proper tools

>>719815852 (OP)
I ended up buying (and modding) 3 (three) Xbox 360s over its lifespan because all of them would FUCKING RED RING at some point.
Switchable faceplates were cash as fuck though.

>>719850034
Getting RROD 4 times in a row and having to send it back for a replacement everytime was the reason why I switched over to the PStriple

>>719850132
>my console just magically broke because it was designed that way!!
yeah I'm sure it wasn't because you had it on a carpet on a hot summer day

>>719815852 (OP)
its the last console that i feel could have been "worth" buying over a PC if you arent a tendie and if you had to make a choice and werent knowledgeable about PCs
>got a webcam, cant remember if it came with the xbox or not
>used to video chat over my shitty crt with a buddy who lived 9 hours away
>voice message kinos
>playing phantasy star online demo over and over again
>people were actually social
>leaving party chats to flame some shitter on our team
>xbox mic was miles better than the ps3 one
for some reason any time i ever heard a ps3 mic it was so sensitive that you could hear ants piss from the floor beneath you so every spic playing aieaiaeeai music was like ear rape.
>genuinely many good (and exclusive) games throughout the entire lifespan
the world was a lot different too in regards to how people treated online/irl relationships. and then microsoft went full retard with the naming scheme and to this day i still dont know the order of releases after the one. It felt like a supplement to life rather than a near complete replacement.

>>719850181
>son of a thousend rodents
gets me everytime

>party chat comes out
>silence
I'm happy I dont hear as many Mexicans, but part of me misses all of the diversity online. It led to many hilarious moments, whether it was on my team or hearing the other team lose its shit. Gears, Halo, AND CoD all went down in game chat after it came out and I still remember when it happened. It's part of what drove me to single player games after years of mostly online.
>no more hearing kids call my mom a fat whore cause I betrayed them
Feels bad, man.

>>719850551
jinkies, you're right! my xbox 360 that was placed atop my dresser next to my TV in my air conditioned room RROD'd 5 times because it was my own carelessness! It must've been my imagination how even the people who worked on the system admitted fault how they fucked up.

Fucking moron.

hey guys nice thread can i also join, we have demons souls and drakengard 3!!

>>719817591
Literally me

>>719850691
at least you could easily switch between party chat and game chat, but now with discord it's totally dead

>>719850761
>demons souls
you killed fromsoft

>>719815852 (OP)
Felt like having a time bomb. You knew the RROD was coming sooner or later.

>>719850708
jeez dude RROD five times??? no way bro you need to sue bill gates asap!!! but seriously, you could get a replacement console back in the launch model days if you had RROD, or get the secondary error code and fix it from there. I had mine since 2009 and it never RROD, must be a skill issue.
>>719850761
Battlefield 3 on PS3 was kino ngl

>>719815852 (OP)
did she have to show her ugly mug tho?

>>719817389
Xbox avatars were great, especially when they added accessories and devs got really involved with making custom stuff. I picked the shirt that helped kill off Dom in Gears of War 3

>>719850034
Retard

>>719850959
>excusing incompetency
do you work at microsoft?

>>719851018
Meanie! Anyways I'm gonna play Halo 3, check out my current 360
>>719851067
My dad does, yeah.

>>719851146
Retard

>>719851146
Retard

>>719815852 (OP)
The only thing I enjoyed about it was shmup ports, but I ultimately sold it. The big exclusives were really bad and the online was full of underage squeakers, a problem I did not have on ps3 or pc.

>>719848842
Yeah looking back it was probably just cope or maybe they just weren't looking at the games.

>>719815852 (OP)
Oh let me tell you buy a Xbox play the new hip game black ops 2 use the console for a month mother bord is dead
Buy a second one because it's cheaper then repairing it play Halo for a month fuker is dead
Buy another one because I am fuking stupid same shit again i just bought a second hand PS3 and it's still working fine

>>719851146
Retard

>>719851146
Retard

>>719845296
True it's been 15+ years since xbox shit the bed and died, an entire generation of young americans have grown up not knowing what a xbox even is.

>>719843916
Eh, MGS4 and Last of Us were the only big system sellers. Everything else is pretty niche, as much as I like Little Big Planet. Yakuza didn't really get big in the west until 6/0 and the remasters came to PS4. I don't think the PS3 even got a release of Yakuza 5 in the US. Demon's Souls and God of War III are goated. Great games. Most of the best multiplats from early in that generation had the worst version on PS3, as did all the Bethesda games. There was really not a great reason to get one over a 360 and honestly I mostly used mine as a bluray player and to play PS1 games. Everyone shits on 8th/9th gen for good reason but I honestly think the PS4 was better than the PS3, even if half the best games are HD 7th gen ports.

>>719815852 (OP)
It was fucking awesome. Passed high school with straight Ds because of it.

>>719815852 (OP)
>>719815926
>>719819137
>>719819358
bit late but I've known this cool website for ages now but this is first time posting it
https://xboxgamer.pics/
big archive of old xbox360 profile images from packs you could get in the xbox live store
really interesting to go through for nostalgia etc
i use one as my steam image

>>719847603
>Resonance of Fate
>Infinite Undiscovery
>Star Ocean The Last Hope
>Magna Carta II
>Operation Darkness
>Enchanted Arms
none of those are good jrpgs. star ocean the last hope was especially bad.

>>719852771
compared to jrpgs today... SO4 is a 10/10 lmao

>>719819631
20 years later still patiently waiting for III

>>719819557
the power button should've been a big green number 2 glowing with the heartbeat monitor line going all the way across the front of console, the black ops 3 ps4 is the only good looking playstation.

There were a lot of great Xbox Live Arcade games.

>>719822896
>me and my friends would go to BK every friday night to get something from the $1 menu just for the Live code
peak sovl

>>719844079
>they feed into the tribalistic consoomer brand loyalist console war shit that's ruined gaming.
Disagree. Exclusives gave consoles a valid reason for existence. Without them all that remains is the war of faggots

>>719815926
I can still hear the woosh sounds..

>>719816635
Also pioneered full-game digital downloads and games-as-a-service.

>>719850034
this "le indians" psyop is getting desperate, everyone had a RROD early on
either pay your troll farm better or give up on whatever LLM you're using

>>719850034
Bullshit. The RROD was caused by a hardware defect which desoldered the GPU every time you power cycled the console. Every early model was doomed to RROD if power cycled enough.

https://youtu.be/24KbVf1AD1c?t=944