Giantrobo

I like that both Left 4 Dead and GOW2 have progress bars for some of the achievements. I've been waiting for that for some time now.

fujishig

I guess the Live Marketplace sale isn't in yet?

pinata242

Is for me, but I see they say on the marketplace web that it's for gold members only. Are you silver?

JasonF

Half Life 2 had that too, so it's not new. Still, I wish it were standard and I'm glad more games are picking up on the idea.

darkside

I picked up Rez HD and the add on DLC for Crackdown. Tempted to get a premium theme, but I just don't feel right paying for those things even on sale.

tlwizard

Cross your fingers, but it looks like I just joined the merry band of xboxers. Picked up a 360 Arcade from Amazon early this morning. Got a hell of deal. Just hope they ship!

Giantrobo

Oh ok. I had a feeling it might not be new. But for me those 2 games are the first I've seen of this since I've never played Half Life 2.

I'm just glad it's happening because I've been wanting this for some time now.

Mad Dawg

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but Target is running what looks to be an unadvertised sale on 1600 MSP cards. $15 through tomorrow. I know they had advertised $15 3-month XBL Gold cards, so I had to triple check the sale tag to make sure it was legit. Just restocked my somwhat dwindling supply.

Schloob1

Alrighty fellas, just joined the 360voice group to push you guys over the 1 million mark I had been on the VGTalk group that we have had for awhile now but had not gotten around to getting on this group.

Also, not sure anyone has it, but if you rent from Gamefly, I just noticed I got a $10 bonus for a Black Friday sale that expires on Dec. 1st Might just have to finally splugre and get myself Half-Life 2 for $15

fumanstan

Yeah, I noticed that too when I was at Target. Picked one up.

kms_md

according to joystiq, jasper chips may be shipping in arcade systems. apparently these are in lot 0843x with a manufacture date of 10-23-08 from team FDOU. the only arcardes i saw today were lot 0842x.

chuckd21

I don't know how I didn't know about the DVDTalk 360voice group, but I joined up.

GatorDeb

From 360Voice:

"GatorDeb07 was looking kind of weepy... luckily I was here to 'console' her... heh heh get it?"

I don't know if I should or

Joined the DVDTalk group! Too bad you can't add everyone in a 360Voice group as a friend on XBL.

slop101

How does one do that?

TheBigDave

Just go to the 360Voice DVDTalk page and there's a link to join the group.

http://www.360voice.com/group/460

ElementZ

I joined.

darkside

Very good deal. I grabbed 2, but they rang up at $19.99 and they had to override.

Jamezuva

I joined voice too

so....how do we go about playing each other?

Spiderbite

I picked up the Golf game and spent some time with it last night. It's kind of a poor man's Hot Shots Golf. No where near as good but definitely worth the 6 bucks. I think the DLC added desert course is also on sale (it is 320 points). I got it as well and fuck is it crazy hard. They went against having normal type course and just went nuts with outlandish holes which is pretty cool and very challenging.

I tried the demos of the others ones on sale. already had the Crackdown DLC from way back and have yet to even really use it.

Don't care about Catan. Played the Rez demo once again and still don't give a shit about that game. I just don't get the hype. Not even worth the 6 bucks to me.

Even though Assault Warriors is ultra cheap...I just can't pull the trigger. Don't really want it taking up space on my HD. I might give it another try on the demo before it goes away, but right now....

I am a little on the fence about the neat little hack 'n slash Arkadian Warriors. It looks like it could be a fun little co-op game but no one on my friends list has it. Anyone here have it and what do you think of it?

Oh yeah...and I did suck it up and got the Brain Challenge game. I had played the demo before but just didn't feel like it was worth the 10 bucks. I've been missing my DS lately so I nabbed it.

FusionX

I thought Arkadian Warriors was fun, but it is very basic and short. I got it for free, but I would have paid 800 points, so reduced price is worth it if you like these kind of games.

Giantrobo

Is anyone having trouble hooking up to LIVE today(Sunday)?

tlwizard

Looking for advice as to what to pick up to go with my new xbox arcade. I think I'm just gonna go for the $30 20gb drive with 3 months Gold Live, but there's also the option of picking up the 60gb starter pack for $100. I feel, though, at that point I should have just sprung for the 60gb model, and I went with the Arcade to keep expenses as low as possible.

I plan to mainly use this for Netflix streaming but will play the occasional exclusive (like Fable II). I'll also play any cool exclusive downloadables (I hear Castle Crashers is pretty cool?) Will the 20gb be plenty for this?

I also need to hookup my year of xbox live. Does anyone have recommendations here? Should I get the Messenger Gold Pack with headset, chatpad, Project Gotham Racing for $60? Should I go with the Live Vision bundle which is a little bit more which has the camera, 200 points and 2 arcade games?

Or are there some other options I should consider?

Thanks for any help. Looking forward to diving into some xbox time this coming week as well as some Fable II!

xmiyux

I have been streaming Netflix all day while doing some paperwork and it just disconncted me from Live and won't let me reconnect. Xbox.com has also been hosed all evening.

Giantrobo

I would say that you may not think you need or want the extra space but it's nice to have it when you need it. I never thought I needed it until MS released NXE and now all the clearance 120g drives I walked past a few weeks ago at Target are all gone. I missed out on that one big time. Now my 20g has 3g left since I installed one game to play from the hard drive.

Also, I think the chatpad is far more useful than the camera. You may not use it every day, but when you need to put in codes, reply to messages, and a few other things you'll be glad you have it. Plus I like how it makes the controller feel.

Giantrobo

Oh ok thanks. I just tried xbox.com and like you said, it's acting weird. I guess they're having issues.