Into the HooD; Without a Lucardetuv

I'm not all that familiar with everything, but I can't imagine not installing some games onto the 360. Games seem mad jumpy when they aren't installed to me, and sometimes, they even are a slightly bit when installed. Why would not being able to install on a USB stick be a bad thing? An ext. HDD isn't terribly expensive and would be worth the purchase, imo.

And, no idea about Naruto. Is this "Rise..." or "Broken Bonds" out of curiosity? I would imagine, due to the age of the games, that they might not ask for an update.

(I was hoping someone else would have jumped in by now, tbh.)
 
Buying hard-drives for the 360 is actually expensive. £60-70 for a 250GB (the others aren't sold new now) wouldn't be SO bad... if I ever intended to use THAT many gigabytes. But, thing is, I'm never going to. A smaller, less expensive drive would suit my needs far better

I usually play only one game at a time, and I'd delete it after playing, so a 20GB (13.9?) would do me just fine, I imagine. The problem is, I'm gonna have to get my eBay on to get one second-hand...

Even when playing LO off the USB drive it loads a little faster, and a 360 site suggests it plays 2x faster than playing off the disc when installed on a hard-drive. And I'm assuming the same is true of many other games.

Rise of the Ninja. You have to get online if you don't want to listen to the horrid English voice acting and download the JP voices. I've ordered it and don't want to play it in English... but, until I get myself a hard-drive, I don't really want to risk losing the ability to play games faster via flash drives, either.

Btw, it's annoying how Broken Bonds - the sequel - is OOP/impossible to buy new. Expensive Naruto eBaying isn't fun.

So far, I've ordered...

Lost Od (the only 360 'MUST PLAY!' game on my list)
RA3 (RTS + hot babes)
Star Ocean 4 (/laughter)
Eternal Sonata (/purty graphics)
Blue Dragon (/airship + world map)
Rise of the Ninja (/Narutard)
Mass Effect (/WRPG trial)
Gears of War (/high-rating + cheap)

I notice Batman, Dante's Inferno and Assassin's Creed are all selling for £9.99 new. I don't exactly *NEED* any games when it'll take me months to get through what I've ordered already... but would those three represent 360 newb value for money?
 
But, why can't you just plug an Ext. TB or whatever for £50 into the USB port? I don't think you'll see a difference between playing it via a (good) one of these and a flash drive.

Also, Batman is terrific. Absolutely loved it. I think a lot of games you can pick up around the £5-10 mark though if you just looked in "used" section of a GAME. Not even used, to be honest. When I got ME, I got a pre-owned 1 for a £5 and a brand new version of 2 for a £5 as well.
 
Jayme said:
But, why can't you just plug an Ext. TB or whatever for £50 into the USB port? I don't think you'll see a difference between playing it via a (good) one of these and a flash drive.
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Microsoft won't let you use 3rd party HDDs with the current firmwear, correct?
It's an OTT anti piracy measure.
 
They limit non-official, USB connected storage to 16GB--even if you were to connect a 500GB external, afaik. And the USB connection is the problem: it's meant to be slow. I don't know what the hard-drive connection on top of the 360 is called but whatever it is it's meant to allow for a faster transfer of data.
 
I think MS limit the amount of space you can use to 16GB or something. It's probably more of a "buy an overpriced Microsoft HDD" measure.

Batman is a top game. I'd also tentatively recommend Alpha Protocol, a so-called "espionage RPG". The main draw of the game is how you interact with other characters, leading to some very different outcomes. Gametrailers review.
 
There's a cheap copy of the Afro Samurai game by a seller on Play here.

Also, that's madness, though I guess, as you said, the prices aren't terrible. If you want to be downloading demos and entire games from Live, you can't go wrong with 250GB though.
 
LO have been defeated. And, following its completion, I did what I always do after spending a lot of time/enjoying something: moan.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/928334-l ... y/57811130

I can see it being the best next-gen JRPG in the eyes of many, depending on how good Vesperia actually is and if its popularity isn't down to Tales fanboys. But a flawed beast, it is. And I fear Blue Dragon will only prove to be worse, once the whole Dragon Ball novelty wears thin.

To bridge the gap between two lengthy JRPGs, I started Gears of War--discovering how much I suck at games with action. The clunky movement and lack of aiming when not stuck in place, open for death, prevent it from being much fun. And the lack of diagonal diving made me hate Mr. Berserker.

I'd say I'm as bad as this guy... well, I don't call 3D monsters faggots after killing them, but yeah.

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(I never realized the gun was on his back, either.)

PS: I have a £15, 13.9GB HDD now. It work very nice.
 
I don't expect BD to be bad, at all. It's just, when you hear it mentioned how childish and cliche it is by every video reviewer, it's hard to expect it to be THAT good.

LO had the potential to be favourite game material. But BD?... Nah, I can't see it. I'm hoping I'm wrong, going on how only Eternal Sonata has a chance of truly impressing me - Vesperia aside - but I rarely am, for God has made me in such a way that I can predict the future.

...Oh well. For now, at least I can enjoy the wonders of live-action, intentionally bad acting via RA3:

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I am alive. But with me not having watched any anime or read any manga for something like a month or more, my interest in posting on anime forums dropped to zero. Should I ever find myself willing to watch Japanese cartoons once more, post again I shall. The future only God knows.

Updates:

Finished GoW 1 & 2. GoW1 was beaten twice solo and once with someone on insane, and GoW2 was beaten once solo and once on insane with a partner again. Despite my early issues with the covering system, I got plenty of enjoyment out of the games in the end. They're a complete blast to play through - both looking great, providing lots of exciting shooting, including some amusing one-liners and even having a somewhat messy story that has kept my interest all the way to GoW3.

Blue Dragon was dropped after around seven hours. Painfully childish, its story and characterization are - making Naruto seem almost adult in comparison. Worsening the experience was how EASY the game is... unless you download and play with the hard mod; which I intend to do, at some point in the future in order to be challenged at least a little. But it'll never be a great game in my eyes when it's so damn dull--nothing happening outside of pointless traveling for the first chunky section of the game.

I also beat Naruto: RoaN, Eternal Sonata and Enslaved.

RoaN is by no stretch of the imagination a great game, but it's impossible not to enjoy running through the sandbox world like Sonic the Hedgedog. The platform elements made up for what would have been a disappointing experience, otherwise.

Watch and see for yourself how fast Naruto moves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb934apNB0

Double jumping and walking on water has never been so much fun.

At some point, I'll get the sequel off eBay to complete my Narutardism on the 360. (Ninja Storm 2, as well.)

Eternal Sonata caused me a great amount of pain. I posted a few 'happy thoughts' over on EG in the JRPG group/'What's everyone playing?' thread: http://gamers.eurogamer.net/groups.php?group_id=58

And, finally, Enslaved is one of the best cinematic games I'll play. It looked stunning when the faces got shown close-up; the detail and expressions making it seem more like a movie than a game. Its story did disappoint, by the end, but the characters are all memorable and its platforming gameplay made it impossible for me to put it down throughout. At the minute, I'm replaying it on hard in an attempt to to get 1000+ points.

Pigsy and Jansen made owning a 360 worth it:

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I'm thinking about putting my 360 in a box somewhere unless I get ToV or find a game to get into soon. There just aren't many games with good stories and/or characterization around; the lack of JRPGs making it even more difficult for me. Gonna start Nier after RE5 and Hitman failed to grab me.

...This will have to do until I next return.
 
Aion becoming an achievement whore?

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Also Enslaved really isn't that great, I played the demo and thought it'd be amazing, it's better early on when it's more about survival and fighting mechs, so ******* bored of rescue stories, if I wanted that I'd go watch something by Pixar. I might play Enslaved one day for the full 1000 but I'm obviously gonna have to use a guide for the ****** orbs.
 
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