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Wow. That was worth it. :lol:

Ok, first relevant post here, I think anyway. :)

Local KMart has nothing, Walmart has COD3 and GOW collectors but I don't want to pay the extra for CE. So should I order GOW and wait or go buy COD3? I love COD2 but I want GOW bad, but will prolly only buy one and rent the other. What do you guys think?

I know my Best Buy has GoW. Hopefully my GameRush has it tomorrow. I want so many 360 games right now, but I've been busy with the new baby and all....so, I may have to settle for just one game right now.

obvious YMMV but my wife just picked up a copy of Prey:LE for 29.99 and GoW:LE for 59.99 at Meijers. Prey was labeled at 59.99 but it rang up at 50% off. this was at the Meijers in Lincoln Park, MI.

Anyone know if there is a cheaper alternative to the official 360 wireless adapter? Is there a regular xbox version that works or a 3rd party usb one? $99 is a little steep.

Check ebay, I was able to get the 360 adapter for $55 and change, shipped. Also, some people have been using this adapter with great success: http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WGA11B...&s=electronics

Are there still rumors of addressing the fan/noise issue with 360's manufactured and released next Spring? Might hold out till then if that's the case. Anyone?

Damnit, anyone know what is up with my 360?

I have over 125 hours in Oblivion, almost done with the game now just finishing the mage quests, the fighters guild quests and I am at the main quest where the great gate is about to open and I have to tell the countess. Now, just in the last two days, when I talk to a character, there is no voice but there is a voice when I walk by people. It's also taken to freezing on loading new levels and so on. I tried clearing the cache with the A button a few times, but the game has froze about 6 times in two days. Am I screwed and will soon get the red ring?

I'm tempted to do that too. But Gears of Wars looks really nice.

I think what I'm going to do is get a 360 from Costco. They have quite simply the best return policy of any store around. You bring the item back with your receipt, and they give you cash back. This'll spare me from having to get an overpriced extended warranty from Microsoft. If my 360 never has any problems...fantastic! But if it does, then I can just return it and get one of the newer (hopefully better cooling) versions.

Have you tried to go back to one of your earlier game saves? I had to do that a couple of times and it seemed to work.

No I didn't try that. I did resolve a couple of the issues. When I have my home theater set to digital 5.1 then I get all sounds and all voices except when directly speaking to a character. If I set my HT to just stereo, I get all the voices. This makes no sense and it can't be the cable since if the fiber optic were broken no sound would be heard. The HT is working since voices are heard when walking past characters and the music and sound effects are fine in 5.1 digital. Some odd glitch.

As for freezing, I noticed after I posted that I had 240 game saves, and even though it shouldn't matter since I had 10.7 GB free space on HDD, Oblivion was taking up 480 MB. So I deleted all but about the last 10 saves, now it's at 30 MB. The load times went way down and no freezing after that, yet.....

I wanted to see if our own Liver with his wonderful contacts in the industry (or anyone else who might have heard anything) has heard any sort of release date for Culdcept Saga. There was a video around E3 and i thought it was due this fall but haven't heard anything else about the game sense. I'm hoping since it is a very Japanese card battling game it might come out for less than 60$.


CoD3 continues to be the most awesome game i own right now other than some online issues which i hope get corrected soon. Gears so far has been really disappointing.

Lost Planet Multiplayer Demo available on November 23rd over Marketplace.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/10/lo...on-turkey-day/

u fukking serious?


is that online multiplayer, or local? I just pre-ordered this game yesterday as well

Thanks, ebay looks promising, and I might check out that linksys as well.

I had this problem a couple months ago. Turns out that I had accidently hit one of the DSP buttons on my amp.

Try looking for a button that says "direct." You want to be in basic Dolby Digital, not any of that other crap, like concert or whatever. Most receivers have a "direct" DD 5.1 setting, which is probably the problem.

Heads up!
 

Frys has these games on sale today:

Gears of War $49.99
Call of Duty 3 $47.99
F.E.A.R. $49.99
Tony Hawks Project 8 $47.99

Looks like I'm picking up COD3 earlier rather than later! :D

Chris

Are you sure that's the 360 version of COD3?

Tony Hawk 8 is $44 at Frys.com

Yep, because they show the XBox version for $37.99. I almost got fooled a couple of days when their add came out. I thought the $37.99 version was the XBox 360 version, but I looked carefully at the picture and it was the XBox / PS2 version. Some friends were there that day and said the line was almost out the door.

It's going to be busy at lunch today, but a $12 savings is worth it.

Chris

Online they have it listed as the 360 version of CoD3, but I"m not so sure that isn't a pricing error. Who knows.

I doubt it's a pricing error, Fry's is excellent about game prices early on (Sales).

CoD3 and F.E.A.R. imports are $44.90 a piece now ($48 shipped from Hong Kong), up about $5 on F.E.A.R. (which was $39.90) disappointing but ah well.

These are most assuredly not pricing errors. Their ads are pretty clear as to what the price is and they have clear pictures of the boxes.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Chris

The Fry's ad in the Atlanta paper confirms those prices for the 360 games.

Confirmed $47.99 for COD3 and F.E.A.R. Just got my COD3.

This was the first time I bought a game within a couple of days of release and now I am able to go online and not be like 1 year behind! :D

Chris

Sweet. I will be in the market for a wireless adapter very soon. Are they easy to set up? As for the Linksy one, is that one easy to set up also? Lastly, I have a wireless adapter that allows my laptop tp have internet access, can I use this one in any way for the 360?

You can't use the one your laptop is using. But, setting it up was a breeze. A 7 year old could do it.

did I miss the Burger King games? have they sold them yet?

November 19 - December 24 according to the press release.

What's funny is that these games seem like they're going to sell very well despite all the people who complain about the amount of in-game advertising you see nowadays. Most people I know that have a 360 plan on picking up at least one, if not all, of the BK games. Hell, I plan to get all 3 of them - a $4 Xbox game? Count me in!

But these are upfront and completely obvious about it. That's the attraction and why it is funny.

Exactly, I think these would fit right in on XBLA. Well, except that BK is trying to get us to go there and buy them with a meal. I only hope I can buy all three at once and not have to go back for 3 weeks in a row to pick them up.

Do the BK games have achievements?

Yes they do.

Not sure if this is true or not, but I was reading on the GameFAQs board for Viva Pinata. Someone who has the game said that there are random hints displayed on the screen during the loading screen. One of the hints is "Use the D-pad for real time tool change and wallop Seedo's weak spot for massive damage!" rotfl

On this week's 1Up podcast, a couple of the guys had really good things to say about Viva Pinata. Sounds like Rare managed to sneak in some witty, slightly risque stuff that will entertain older players and go right over kids' heads.

Viva Pinata looks like loads of fun. I mentioned in another thread how I rented Open Season, that game is lots of fun too. It's really easy, but it's loads of family fun. I have everything done on it except the snowball level, I got all the way to 495 points but you need 500. I have done that level like 30-40 times now. I actually spent more time on this one level, replaying it for the maximum points, than I did to beat the game.

Does anyone have the wireless 360 headset? How is it compared to any of the wired ones?

Someone here posted that it sucked. Alot of feedback and such.