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New Xbox Experience Goes Live
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 12:00
by News Reader
New Xbox Experience Goes Live
Today, Microsoft launched the New Xbox Experience for Xbox Live. The list of new features includes the streaming of TV shows and movies through Netflix, the ability to install games to the HDD, an avatar system, and the Community Games platform. The launch itself was shaky at first, but most issues have been smoothed out. Sony-owned Columbia Pictures immediately pulled their movie selection, though it may return when a licensing deal gets worked out. Halo 3 developer Bungie pointed out that not all games will run faster when installed to a HDD because of the way the games already interact with the drive.
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Posted: November 20th, 2008, 12:57
by FatherJack
Forgot to create something to rival spoodie in terms of hideousness last night. spoodie's avatar, I mean.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 16:34
by shot2bits
well i was interested in this for the installing games to the hard drive, so i rented a game and installed it to the hard drive then went to play it with the disc out and got asked to put the disc back in. fucking useless feature.
/end stoned rant
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 16:51
by spoodie
shot2bits wrote:well i was interested in this for the installing games to the hard drive, so i rented a game and installed it to the hard drive then went to play it with the disc out and got asked to put the disc back in. fucking useless feature.
/end stoned rant
NEW XBOX 360 FEATURE DOESN'T ENABLE PIRACY SHOCKER!
I did try this first of all, with Fable, but it obviously didn't work for me either. Although I still have the disc. The point is that the data is read from the HD rather than the DVD so it's faster and less noisy, but you still need the DVD in the drive to prove ownership of the game.
I suspect Mass Effect would greatly benefit from this; eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the texture pop-up. I've seen it happen in a few other games as well.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 17:14
by Joose
spoodie wrote:
I suspect Mass Effect would greatly benefit from this; eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the texture pop-up. I've seen it happen in a few other games as well.
Im installing Mass Effect now, for this very reason. I'll let you know if it works.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 18:48
by shot2bits
spoodie wrote:
NEW XBOX 360 FEATURE DOESN'T ENABLE PIRACY SHOCKER!
i did suspect this, only bothered trying because i had the game rented out anyhoo
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 19:21
by cashy
I'm guilty of trying that one too. I miss the good old days of buying a blank CD and renting a game for my ps1
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 20:00
by Joose
Joose wrote:
Im installing Mass Effect now, for this very reason. I'll let you know if it works.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't work. In fact, I notice absolutely no difference.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 20:48
by spoodie
Joose wrote:As far as I can tell, it doesn't work. In fact, I notice absolutely no difference.
pffft, oh well. I read that the graphics on certain games would improve but that news is a bit disappointing.
Interesting:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?ar ... 745&page=3
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 21:18
by FatherJack
Yeah the hard drives aren't exactly super fast - they're SATA 2.5" but I forget what make, possibly Tosh. I noticed no real improvements with the PS3 games that have the option, either.
I doubt you could just fit a Scorpio and it work, although I do have the transfer cable and CD that came with the 120G drive, I don't want to risk my data, as it's a one-way only move.
Mass Effect's problem was that it switched the display to the 3D scene before all the textures had loaded, and was present in the PC version as well, just less prolonged with faster disks.
What it would have helped me with was the issue I had that my Mass Effect disk was a bit dodgy - I borrowed a friend's version in order to play the game, but with this new feature I could have given it back to them after diskloading it and just used mine to pass the security check. I'll have to try this out sometime, as well as trying to copy my utterly fucked Bladestorm disk.
Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 23:26
by spoodie
A challenger appears...
The challenge is to make one that looks worse than this.
Posted: November 23rd, 2008, 11:17
by Lateralus
I haven't plugged in t'interweb to update my xbox yet, but when I do, challenge accepted.
Posted: November 23rd, 2008, 21:34
by FatherJack
Hai
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Posted: November 24th, 2008, 22:53
by cheeseandham
spoodie wrote:A challenger appears...
The challenge is to make one that looks worse than this.
Bizarre, I created this after the update.
/jinx
Posted: November 24th, 2008, 23:19
by HereComesPete
Holy crap! Look who it is!
Posted: November 24th, 2008, 23:42
by TezzRexx
I thought Jinxx had broken the 1001 barrier
Posted: November 25th, 2008, 11:40
by spoodie
There needs to be more hideous avatars like these on XBL, the ones I've seen are way too normal.
Posted: November 27th, 2008, 20:49
by cheeseandham
HereComesPete wrote:Holy crap! Look who it is!
Wot? You saying I've not been around or somat?
/me disappears for another 4 months....