Like an hour in a sitting or an hour accrued time and the demo won't run anymore? I'm assuming it is the former rather than the latter.

Corvin, I also feel your pain of UPS stupidity in this case. Reminded me of when I ordered our Gateway computer(required a signature from us and neighbors were all new to us). The first day they tried to deliver it my wife and I are already at work and what's worse my wife does not look at the slip that states please reschedule/call by said time or we will try and deliver again next day. So I call after said time when I get home and they said we will try again at the time it states on the slip(when we of course are not home). I tell this to customer servioce I will not be home at this time but they can deliver at specific other times or can I just go to ship center and pick up myself. Told we must first try and deliver 3 times before allowing customer pick-up despite the fact I told them I would not be home. So next day they try and deliver and this time prepared since I see failed delivery on website and call at proper time. I tell them exactly when I can be home for try #3 but they cannot guarantee so I tell them can I please just have it set aside and pick up myself and they agreed finally. Well I think all is well when I go to the shipping area and lo and behold only 3 of the 4 boxes were there. The other just headed off in the truck. It turned out it was the printer which was not in a Gateway box like the other 3. They were like the driver will try and deliver it but if you are not there will have it held and I could come next day and get it. I was like HELL NO, I had them contact the driver and I was only 15 minute from the shippping center and they had the driver bring it when I was there right after picking it up the rest from them not 30 minutes earlier.
FRUSTRATING and funny at the same time at how ass-backwards they were wasting fuel/time when it could of all been resolved after the 1st time I called of either me just picking up everything or them dropping off at the time I specifically stated. It was a 2 hour window first thing in the morning and should not have been an issue since they ended up having to come by my house at the time to drop off the printer. Thanks for rehashing that memory :)

It's odd that nobody was really hyping Crackdown in the previous 360 threads. I figured one of our insiders (one of the mods or reviewers, for instance) would have been telling us more about how good it would turn out. Weird... :shrug:

Also, does anyone know any good sites to get video game news and reviews? Sure, there's 1up and Gamespot, but I wish there was a video game site that was more like these forums...

I had heard nothing about Crackdown until the Halo 3 Beta bit was announced, how did that happen?

you pass your time under a rock?

Crackdown got lost in the Gears of War / Lost Planet hype.

Not to mention the 1up/EGM guys are hyping it pretty well in the podcasts. I'm not one to give a lot of weight to reviews, but they did sell me on Viva Pinata so they are 1 for 1 with me.

I got in on the Halo beta while a friend did not so I think we are going to split it and get Crackdown and he can have that code.

The first one, a real hour. But it's extremely easy to level due to the accelerated leveling rate in the demo.

So you may reach level 2 in a particular skill in the first 10 minutes and the 30 minutes timer kicks in. That would only allow for 40 minutes of total playtime.

The 1up podcast is my new marker for video game reviews. After Viva Pinata and R6 i will now follow their recommendations wholeheartedly.

That's retarded. So essentially it takes longer to download than you have time to play it. Sounds like BS to me.

i suppose that would depend on your connection speed...


but essentially, if you've never leveled up, you should be able to play in-definitely

Nope, it ends after an hour even if you don't level up. An hour is a lot of time for a free demo IMO. It's plenty of time to figure out if you enjoy the game. Plus you can just fire it back up again after your hour is up and play for another hour.

that statement was dependant upon Flays, tbf. I haven't downloaded it yet.


I experienced that with the Tony Hawk Project 8 demo, and it really didn't stop me from playing the demo 10 times over

Personally I had been looking forward to Crackdown since launch but basically had given up on it as it kept getting pushed back. If I recall correctly from EGM at launch time, they had it originally due spring of last year. Judging by what everyone is saying I look forward to finishing downloading it tonight.

I'm depressed...

I just looked at my Gamertag Rep and 16% of players don't wan't to play with me. :( Fuckers....

Anyone try that Mad Catz arcade stick? I saw it in Best Buy today. Kinda cool. It has a stick for one of the thumsticks and a rotating dial on the other thumbstick. It might be cool to use with the arcade games. It comes with codes for three games (Astro Bubble Pop, Time Pilot and Frogger). Still it seems pretty pricey for $49.99 and I couldn't see anywhere on the box if it was wireless, so I assume it isn't.

Here's a picture
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.en...rcadestick.jpg

I've absolutely no interest in multiplayer. If the sigle player portion of the game proper lives up to the fun I had with the demo, this is the game that may finally push me over the edge and make me buy a 360.

Do you have a pottymouth online? :p

I think i have only gotten one ding on my rep - some guy i was just owning on SFII called me for unsporting. He was the tool spamming Honda's hand slap and i countered it with Blanka and somehow i'm unsporting. :lol:

I have a single ding too. I was playing Tiger Woods online with these dudes who thought they were the shit and they were totally making fun of me the whole time. So they're like "Don't shank it" so I purposely duffed it for about 8 shots in a row to piss them off. It was worth the 5% piss off rate.

I have a single ding as well. A guy was trying to cheat in uno, just sitting still until everyone quit. I stayed on for 20 minutes and outlasted him until he quit and he had the balls to leave me a neg. Douchebag.

Single ding here - and no clue why. I don't even use voice chat, so it couldn't be for that? No clue and don't really care.

Crackdown sucks! It got old after about 10 minutes. Horrible controls.

No, 95% of the time I mute my mic and I don't go nuts when it's not muted.

Maybe I didn't explain this right, my "Rep" is clean with full stars with nothing on the right side to show complaints. But apparently 16% have tagged me so they can avoid me. I have a feeling it was one of those things where one guy got pissed because I killed him or because I wasn't as good as him and he got some of his buddies to ding me. Recently a guy went "Nucking Futs" on me because I was in last place and I took him out on Lost Planet...but who knows. I don't think there's a way to find what the who and the why so I just get to have this "ding" on my Gamertag.

It sucks and I shouldn't care because at least now I don't have to deal with jerks who dinged me. :up:

I believe that is what affects the rep. You can normally check to even see what their complaint was by looking at your rep (eg. unsporting conduct, trash talking, etc.).

But like I said, there's nothing on the right side. They're all zero percent.