I have one more guy getting photos as well, but for now, lets see what Sam had to say:
I PLAYED IT YESTERDAY AND IT WAS GOOD
I only got like 3 minutes on it, but it was fun. (3 Minutes was pushing my limit.) There was a line of around 30 people when I got there (as school ended) but ALOT more showed up after me.
Graphically, I wasn’t extremely impressed. It was smooth without a doubt, but it wasn’t a giant step like the previous generation (N64, PSX to PS2, XBOX, GC etc) or even before that (SNES to N64 basically). It was just better graphics, like going from a Basic(Yellow Video Cable) DVD player and an S-Video (S-Video Cable, Red and White Cables) DVD player. There’s a difference, but it’s not extreme.
The controllers were nice and ergonomically smooth. They felt natural in your hand. The buttons aren’t changed much, so I don’t think transition will be difficult at all. I wish I had more time, but what I could tell from it, it’s going to
be good.
Anyone else play?
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going to guess the television was not HD..
without the HD TV the signal is downgraded to standard.
and then you lose the better graphics.
i still dont get why you dont play it scott??
“going to guess the television was not HD..
without the HD TV the signal is downgraded to standard.
and then you lose the better graphics. ”
No you don’t. You lose only some res but better graphics != higher res
Congratulations on not being a dick and hogging the machine. I hate guys that do that, and often kick them until they cry like little girls.
Resolution contributes to the overall appearance of the “graphics”. The big transition this generation is mostly going to high resolution. They compensated other graphics to maintain that resolution, so if you downgrade it to a normal TV then you’re losing the appeal. Plus, there is detail in the textures and such that is not apparent until you go to a higher resolution TV.
Yes, I’m saying that most normal TV owners should consider sticking with an XBOX until they get an HDTV.
That is, until there’s a must-have game for them regardless of graphics.
One of the guys over at Evil Avatar said the system at his Wal-Mart was set up incorrectly, resulting in poor graphics.
http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6359
Could this be the case?
Keck:
Yes that was the case, I talked to my friend today and they said that it was a completely different TV Unit, HD and all. Makes me mad, but what ever, the experience was enjoyable.
I should tell you a little more about what I played (or lack thereof).
I didn’t actually play anything, the Demo consisted of 10 movies that I could watch (I watched the Call of Duty).
What I actually did the most was check out their “Dashboard”, which a pretty cool thing. You can check it out, but alot of the stuff was either locked or non-accessable. If you had brought in a memory unit you could download some stuff, but I don’t own one, so I couldn’t.
Overall, the experience was enjoyable.
ya we just put ours together todayand almost instantly had a mob to deal with
but ya its an hdtv the guyinstalling it has to set it up to 1080dpi on the xbox adn set it to widescreen to make it sweet we did and ti was NICE!
there were 3 demos a sequel to kameo or whatever the hell its called the new kingkong game that was bugged graphically but it was fun and call of duty which was the most fun then there was a ton of movies to watch but only 3 playables oh well kicks ass try it if u can there was a nice mob everywhere i saw one
1080dpi? Heh. Do you mean 1080i?
Xbox 360 will invade your house and brutally murder your dog!
I concurr! That Xbox 360 is up to no good!
You are right. Lets boycott the bus stations!
Fire nukes at japan! ITS ALL THERE FAULT!
We will surrender our french country and our smelly cheese if you even point your weapons in our general direction!
All your base are belong to US!
Sorry, I am a bit of a noob.. but what do people mean they can bring mem cards and download stuff from the systems? Do you get mem cards for the regular xbox or cards from shows?
dont have a walmart where i come from
My family doesnt believe in walmart. Its the work of the devil!
*perks up*
What I got from this conversation was firing nukes at the french?
..and something about cheese…
“dont have a walmart where i come from”
Consider you and your local businesses lucky.
just another game console for god’s sakes, as each and every one of them were.
The Walmarts in my area, (Edmonton,Canada) don’t have any demo units yet. As for firing nukes at the frogs, whats the point, a dirty look is usually enough to make them crumble. Damn my french heritage.
Blargh!
From what I heard if you bought an XBOX360 mem. module, you could download stuff.
I found this useless because whatever they have at those downloads will be there when we buy them.
WE SHALL CONQUER FRANCE AND TAKE ALL THERE STINKY CHEESE!
Some guy on GameSpot forums said that he’ll be buying the core system because he had an extra hard drive. *snicker*
What’s said is that nobody corrected him.
Oh, crap. “said” -> “sad”
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liek speling is fuin.
I did not say that ^^^ just for the record.
Blargh again!
yeah same, I live in edmonton, Alberta and i have yet to see 360 because it comes out in US First if i’m not mistaken?
i liek dd tat
People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the industry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.
The coining of the term “Uncle Sam” was a clue alluding to this::Sam Walton’s WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.