Canis Firebrand

Interesting feature, but they should have the default be set to either No one or Friends only. The current setting, if you don't change it, is everyone.

Liver&Onions

Meh - with facebook you can see who the friend is because it uses real names I really won't know who the hell Xx_assface_xX1189 is - so even if it was a friend from high school who I wanted to get in touch with, I'd have no clue.

fumanstan

Nice touch including the 1189.

tonymontana313

What is up with the Elite and why is it showing unavailable at every major retailer?

lotsofdvds

A lot were sold during black Friday. I was going to pick one up tonight and I've run into the same thing you've noticed.

tbird2340

tonymontana313

I was trying to pick one up for my brother and nothing anywhere. To add to it, the hoarders are charging 700 dollars for it on amazon.

Jeremy517

Wow. Amazon has Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $59.99 today. If anyone still wants it, now is the time to get it.

lotsofdvds

Picked it up. Can't beat that price, and I can put the helmet on my cat.

lotsofdvds

I went out last night looking for it and everyone said they were sold out, and were sold out up to a week before Black Friday.

Trevor

I already have one (still haven't played it), but almost can't resist buying a second (for my eventual 2nd 360 for network gaming).

RichC2

I know it isn't the most popular of choices out there, but I just figured I'd throw in my two cents on Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action.

Paid $60 for it on Thanksgiving to keep the family entertained just in case Rock Band didn't go over too swiftly. Was hesitant at first, but when you get right down to it -- the standalone version of Scene It costs nearly $40 as is, so an extra $20 for 1800 "tracked" questions and 4 remotes didn't seem like a horrible deal.

Well, during our Rock Band breaks (it went over really, really well) we wound up busting out Scene It for a few rounds. The game is an absolute blast. The movie clips, questions, and overall setup of the game is great. I had a grin on my face when they had the "Child's Play" pic of Pan's Labyrinth as it was nice seeing that movie thrown into the mix and was surprised at just how current the question set was (there are questions concerning Meet the Robinsons and Fred Claus -- though title only for Fred). It's one of those games that seems short but does eat up a good chunk of time, and we wound up playing repeated rounds, the game has a nice competitive streak to it, especially with the borderline idiotic final questions (w/ multipliers). There is a great deal of variety to both the movies and questions/question types and all are generally a good deal of fun.

The clips introduced me to a few movies I haven't seen and some I haven't seen in a long time, and are not relegated to family friendly clips. (And made me really want to watch Trading Places and Bourne Supremacy again.)

If there's a downside, the announcer is kind of annoying but only has a few lines to say per game. The other complaint being the controllers use their own USB adapater and as such are IR-based, meaning you have to be pointing at it, but it's a mild complaint and once everyone knows where to aim it isn't an issue.

I hope they release question packs for this in the future as DLC as I don't see them taking up too much space (unless they add new movie clips). And I hope it does well enough to get a few more trivia games out there, I'm still crossing my fingers for a You Don't Know Jack revival.

Oh and the question tracker works fairly well, I've had a handful of repeats (maybe 10) in the course of 12 games.

Canis Firebrand

Those are similar to my thoughts on Scene It.

I really enjoyed the game and hope that they do come out with DLC in the future to extend the life of the game. It is a great party game that will get gamers and non-gamers alike into it and have fun.

kakihara1

That would truly be awesome. You don't know jack was a great game series

Canis Firebrand

I would love that coming to the 360 either as a full title or XBLA version.
I loved all of the Jack games and even had a blast with the online one. Sadly the servers are not up any more and some of the games won't run on XP. They released a 6th game and updated a couple of others to run on xp. Sadly, you have to buy them all again.

The humor and questions were really top notch in the the YDKJ series.

RichC2

Agreed. Screwing your neighbor never felt so good.


Actually, I take that back.

Mok

Nvember 2007 Back Compat titles added:
2006 Fifa World Cup Germany
25 to Life
AMF Bowling 2004
Apex
Arena Football
Armed and Dangerous
Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance
Batman Rise of Sin Tzu
Bionicle
Blade II
Blinx: The Timesweeper
Blitz The League
Blood Omen 2
Blowout
Breakdown
Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Cabelas Dangerous Hunts 2
Championship Manager 2006
Colin Mcrae Rally 2005
Crime Life: Gang Wars
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Dungeons& Dragons Heroes
ESPN College Hoops 2k5
ESPN NFL 2k5
Fantastic 4
FIFA 06 Soccer
Fight Night: Round 3
Final Fight: Streetwise
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Freedom Fighters
Freestyle Street Soccer
Future Tactics: The Uprising
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee
Godzilla Save the Earth
Goldeneye Rogue Agent
Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd
High Heat MLB 2004
Hunter: The Reckoning
Indiana Jones And The Emperors Tomb
MLB Slugfest Loaded
MVP Baseball 2003
MVP Baseball 2004
MVP Baseball 2005
Nascar Thunder 2002
Nascar Thunder 2003
NBA 2k3
NBA Ballers
NBA Inside Drive 2002
NBA Street V3
NCAA College Basketball 2k3
NCAA March Madness 2005
NCAA March Madness 2006
NFL 2k2
NFL 2k3
NHL 2005
NHL 2K3
NHL Hitz Pro
Nightcaster: Defeat The Darkness
NTRA Breeders Cup: World Thoroughbred Championships
Playboy The Mansion
RLH Hunt or be Hunted
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown
Rocky
Rugby 2006
Shattered Union
Shrek Super Party
Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
Starsky & Hutch
Syberia II
Techmo Classic Arcade
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Test Drive
The Bard's Tale
The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Guy Game
The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
Thousand Land
Thrillville
Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers
Turok: Evolution
Van Helsing
WarPath
Worms 3D
Zathura

PixyJunket

Damnation, no Sudeki! BUT.. it's great that these updates are still coming.

lotsofdvds

Holy Shit! Nfl 2k5!

After this update, all I'm really hoping for now is Midtown Madness 3.

kakihara1

Sweet!! I just played NFL 2K5 with my brother this past Friday and he was all bitching and moaning that we had to move to the spare TV to play it

fumanstan

How funny is it that all of a sudden Microsoft's backwards compatibility and occasional updates is more appealing then having to worry about a Playstation 3 model that has it in either hardware, software, or not at all

pinata242

Jesus Christ. Still no PoP 2 or 3?

Jeremy517

None of my missing titles. Oh well.

Michael Corvin

Or Riddick or Top Spin. Can't have you playing old versions when there is money to be made on shiny new ones.

With the download service around the bend, it's beneficial to them that they keep these updates coming so that they can be offered through the new service.

Yancey

Rich, thanks for the thoughts on Scene It. I was going to start a thread on it the other day. I've been close to getting it for my gf and I (she's a Luminees player but not much else), but was worried all of the questions would be too mainstream/contemporary. This based on the back cover, which features Night at the Museum and some animated films. Are there many questions on film history, or anything more nerdy along those lines?