Microsoft details pricing, partners for 360 Game Room

Rainbow fucking Islands! Not bloody Centipede again! Grr!

Make it clear… ORIGINAL Rainbow fucking Islands.

Yes, mess with it and you will all die. Horribly.

And that means no fucking graphics filters.

Or messing with the music.

I’d rather it was 20msp a go.

It’s so funny how everthing M$ took the piss out of and criticized in 2007 they are now doing. Don’t you remember? Miis were a dumb gimmick. Wii Motion control was a crappy fad which real gamers didnt want. Home was pointless waste of time. Non-gaming features on the PS3 were stupid and noone wanted them (Aron Greenburg: “is the PS3 a games console or not?”).

Now what is XBox getting? Mii’s, motion controls, Home Lite, XBox non-gaming applications etc

At least they admit it when they were wrong.

They also said that HDMI was pointless.

They also called the internet a fad, they say lots of things that are wrong, but they are able to ignore saving face and just admit they are wrong and get on with giving people what they want.

“Home Lite”

You mean a non-shit version, right?

This is nothing like Home.

At least when Microsoft put effort into this sort of thing, they manage to get it right. Everyone thought the idea of Avatars were shit before they came out… now they’re a completely integrated part of the experience, and most people can’t get enough of them.

“most people can’t get enough of them.”

Indeed it would seem that way, though I would hazard that many don’t.

I truly hate the kid focused UI on the 360, absolutely hate it. Crayola based colour schemes, bright lights, ads, and blasted avatars that you cannot turn off.

It screams immaturity. Invite grownup friends over (to say watch a movie over zune) who have no idea about consoles and turn on the 360. To those not familiar with the 360, it’s embarrassing (if you are say in your 20′s at least).

So personally, I wish I could fire that blasted avatar to space. But hey, people love them..but this is yet another kid focused space. Look at the picture above. Hand on heart how can you not say that it looks childish.

As for Home. Yes its poor. I hardly use it.

@Hunam
Where did they admit that they were ‘wrong’?

“Surely anyone over 18, with a cartoon avatar jumping about the screen looks silly.”

The majority of people on my Xbox Live friends lists, people I actually know well, are over 18. And they get a kick out of them. They’re constantly changing the look of them, and some regularly by Avatar items and clothing for them.

Not everything brightly coloured or cute is “childish”. That’s an incredibly simple minded attitude to have. I’m 28, but I’m still a sucker for the classic Disney movies and Pixar’s work.

You (and your friends as well, apparently) just need to lighten up a bit and have some fun. Most adults I know *like* Miis as well.

@13
can’t be arsed to argue on the web. “lighten up”

It’s call discourse.

Don’t argue a point if you don’t want a response.

*gives you a lolli-pop*

@Michael O’Connor
lol hahahahaa
did you even try Home
and avatar now is a hit

and they’re a completely integrated part of the experience, and most people can’t get enough of them
hahahahaa get real

“It screams immaturity. Invite grownup friends over (to say watch a movie over zune) who have no idea about consoles and turn on the 360. To those not familiar with the 360, it’s embarrassing (if you are say in your 20’s at least).”

Most people who worry about things looking childish or silly tend to be teenagers rather than adults. It’s at those sorts of ages that everything has to appear as “mature” as possible… which probably goes some way to explaining the appeal of 18 rates games in that demographic.

That said… you used the term “grown-up”, so I’m guessing you’re actually in your very early teens.

“lol hahahahaa
did you even try Home”

Yes I did. The fact that men constantly swarm around any female avatar they see within a 50 foot radius (many of which are blatantly men) and hit on them like lonely, desperate losers, put me off it pretty damn fast. There’s maybe one or two friends I might log-in there every couple of weeks to talk to.

Not to mention having to deal with paranoid conspiracy theorist harassing me on my profile, or religious zealots running around spreading the word of the god until they’re blue in the fact, or any number of invasive, ignorant and pretentious individuals that I could care to mention.

And the fact that it looks like shit doesn’t help much either. It’s completely lacking in any sort of personality, uniqueness, or charm, unlike Avatars, which have long since grown from the static models on your Dashboard that they start out being, to encompass the whole spectrum of the Xbox Live experience.

Xbox Live is a vastly superior service to the PlayStation Network, because it brings the players together in a social way that PSN – with its social and player driven features hidden away under tons of menus and programs, instead of being integrated straight into the interface – could never hope to be.

“hahahahaa get real”

When every single of them has an avatar, I think I can comment. When half my friends list is playing 1 vs. 100 together on a daily basis, and having a right old laugh with it, I think I can makea valid argument. When most of them are buying items for their avatars to customise them, I think I can comment. When people are constantly playing games where the players avatars are central to the experience, that’s a good barometer of how well they’ve taken off.

And please, save your breath with the predictable “Xbot” retort. Most of my favourite games of the last two years (LittleBigPlanet and Uncharted 2 especially) have been PS3 exclusive, and I’m also feverisly awaiting the release of Heavy Rain. That doesn’t mean I’m going to blindly support something on the format that I find to be frankly shit next to the competition’s potential offerings.

OK that is a long post but I love it
I gonna ask you some Question just to Kill your argument

1- can you move , interact ,play,use emotion ?
2- can you play arcade games for free ?
3- is it free ?
4- can you arrange 30 or more party member to watch E3 or other video content ?
5-can you arrange a gaming event with your 32 friends (party) to play R2 Clan Game ?

and i never said you are An XBOT K

Kudos to Sony for home in all fairness.
Having said that I went there day one and having gone back.
I prefer the 360 dashboard myself to the PS3 one as I feel it is just more alive or something.
Mind you I am on my fourth year with 360 and second month with PS3 so am not saying one or other is better.

On the KZ2 online thing.
Played it a bit and it was OK.
I just felt the maps were a bit predictable and the spawn points not great.
Most times I found you could go to a certain spot and just see the players coming back.
Again a health warning as I did not spend a whole lot of time with it.

There’s a video and walkthrough of Game Room on GameTrailers today.

And one on Kotaku.

And here are the first (mostly meh-worthy) 30 games.

1. Centipede (arcade)
2. Asteroids Deluxe (arcade)
3. Tempest (arcade)
4. Crystal Castles (arcade)
5. Lunar Lander (arcade)
6. Jungler (arcade)
7. Road Fighter (arcade)
8. Scramble (arcade)
9. Finalizer (arcade)
10. Tutankham (arcade)
11. Shao-Lin’s Road (arcade)
12. Super Cobra (arcade)
13. Red Baron (arcade)
14. Gravitar (arcade)
15. Battlantlis
16. Astrosmash (Intellivision)
17. Mountain Madness Super Pro Skiing (Intellivision)
18. Armor Battle (Intellivision)
19. Space Hawk (Intellivision)
20. Sub Hunt (Intellivision)
21. Sea Battle (Intellivision)
22. Space Armada (Intellivision)
23. Astrosmash (Intellivision)
24. Star Raiders (Atari 2600)
25. Outlaw (Atari 2600)
26. Yar’s Revenge (Atari 2600)
27. Millipede (Atari 2600)
28. Football (Atari 2600)
29. RealSports Tennis (Atari 2600)
30. Combat (Atari 2600)

Guess how many of them you can find for free around the internet. Did you guess 30? Because its 30.

How many of them can you find legally free, though?

I’m not really sure how legal the many flash versions of the games you can find are but i doubt you’ll be getting into trouble for playing them.

I really condemn piracy of video-games (and other media).
But these are all extremely old games which should be in the public domain by now.
IMHO all games should enter PD after 10-15 years.

The companies making a fortune by reselling you all this old crap at a vast profit would most likely disagree.

They’re selling you the virtual arcade cabinet, though, not just the ROM. That’s how they’ll convince people to hand over their cash.