Microsoft Doesn't Deny Xbox 360 Has 54.2 Percent Lifetime...

[Count Chocula]

The best cure for motion sickness is immersion in the game, almost a Zen-like state of involvement with the console. When I play Halo3 or Call of Duty, my focus is on the screen and the controller; my other sensations sorta fade into the background, and I don't pay any attention to them. It's the same technique I use when performing aerobatics in a plane; focus on the controls and visual references, and not the world spinning around you.

Stark and Havok play a lot more console and online games than I do; they may have better tips.

[General Zod]

The best cure for motion sickness is immersion in the game, almost a Zen-like state of involvement with the console. When I play Halo3 or Call of Duty, my focus is on the screen and the controller; my other sensations sorta fade into the background, and I don't pay any attention to them. It's the same technique I use when performing aerobatics in a plane; focus on the controls and visual references, and not the world spinning around you.

Stark and Havok play a lot more console and online games than I do; they may have better tips.

The best cure for motion sickness is to not play the game. I find that some fps games will give me motion sickness regardless of what I do, and I'm a huge fps junkie.

[Losonti Tokash]

Some people just get fucked up by independent cameras. My girlfriend can't even watch me play Halo, and a 3rd person game like Gears can be tolerated for a while before it starts to bug her.

[Ritterin Sophia]

Well despite the fact you don't think any games are any good, I'm going to say Gran Turismo, MGS4, Killzone 2 and Little Big Planet, for starters.

So you're wrong.

Hey I disliked Viva Pinata less than every other game ever made buddy!

Fixed for accuracy.

As for the topic, yeah, I'm still waiting for my newest 360 to red ring. Any idea on how I can tell the difference between the older models and the 'Falcon' model of 360?

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Fixed for accuracy.

As for the topic, yeah, I'm still waiting for my newest 360 to red ring. Any idea on how I can tell the difference between the older models and the 'Falcon' model of 360?

Manufacturing date? Falcon also uses less power, the power brick is 175W, the older models are 203W.

[Stark]

The only 'tip' for motion sickness I got is 'be genetically superior and not suffer from it'. I never get motion sickness. The closest I get is when I'm splitscreening and my gf is swinging her camera around wildly; having an erratically-moving perspective next to mine is annoying as hell, but it's more vertigo than motion-sickness.

[JointStrikeFighter]

The only 'tip' for motion sickness I got is 'be genetically superior and not suffer from it'. I never get motion sickness. The closest I get is when I'm splitscreening and my gf is swinging her camera around wildly; having an erratically-moving perspective next to mine is annoying as hell, but it's more vertigo than motion-sickness.

You're forgetting trying to drive the gears 2 tank in split screen lol.

[Stark]

That's the same shit; another full-perspective display right next to mine that it FLYING AROUND LIKE A STONED WITCH.

[Lord Woodlouse]

Yeah, l remember actually being a little surprised that people could actually feel motion sickness from playing a computer game (largely because there's no actual motion, so it doesn't make intuitive sense to me).

Anywho, l do like the Wii. Partly from the fact that the thing is the first games console l've had, but also some of the motion control stuff. From what l gather it's the "hardcore" games developers who have trouble, barely eeking by with their sales (though l'm sure part of this is that their games, the likes of House of the Dead: Overkill, the Conduit and MadWorld, aren't supermegaawesome as they'd like you to believe).

Funnily enough, some of the most fun l've had on my Wii have been from Little Kings Story and Super Smash Bros, neither do anything special with the controller.

[JointStrikeFighter]

That's the same shit; another full-perspective display right next to mine that it FLYING AROUND LIKE A STONED WITCH.

INCREASE CONFUSION FACTOR TENFOLD BY DRIVING UNDERGROUND.

Only light source is now the searchlight boresighted to the main gun. OH SHIT I DROVE OFF A CLIFF.

[Stark]

They needed way more of that. In Gears 4, Six Cogs of Conflict, they need tacticool guys with flashlight action breaching houses with their smoke nades. CONTACT RATTA TATTA TAT TANGO DOWN.

[JointStrikeFighter]

They needed way more of that. In Gears 4, Six Cogs of Conflict, they need tacticool guys with flashlight action breaching houses with their smoke nades. CONTACT RATTA TATTA TAT TANGO DOWN.

Light was handled nicely again in the tunnel sequence where the grind lift has your back with its headlights; everything is pitch black except a small region near the grindlift.

[Stark]

If only the little dust clouds raised by the ticker's feet were subject to lighting it would have worked; as it is you seek pitch blackness with barely-visible car hulks... and BRIGHT BROWN SWIRLIES.

[JointStrikeFighter]

If only the little dust clouds raised by the ticker's feet were subject to lighting it would have worked; as it is you seek pitch blackness with barely-visible car hulks... and BRIGHT BROWN SWIRLIES.

I think an element of that is deliberate; firstly for game play reasons, but also to give a sense of 'holy shit there is alot of strange motion out there in the PITCH BLACKNESS." It doesn't quite work though because its far too overstated. Faint motion instead becomes OBVIOUS AIM POINT. I kinda hate to say it but I think lambent wretches would have almost worked better in that sequence, if only because they are far less fragile.

[Stark]

I guess that's true; maybe they could have used TEH PHYSX on air-suspended dust particles or something. I guess it's just the downside of no player-lights.

[JointStrikeFighter]

I guess that's true; maybe they could have used TEH PHYSX on air-suspended dust particles or something. I guess it's just the downside of no player-lights.

Would you rather carry a torch, or an extra gun?

[Stark]

Six Cogs of Conflict will have vision-modes, of course. The default vision mode will be 'can't see snipers too good'.

[JointStrikeFighter]

Amusingly they clearly have torches and 6 other lights on their gear.

[Jade Falcon]

Regarding replacement/refurbed X-Box 360's how can you tell what you get back?

My original Xbox red ringed and I sent i back, it still had about 4 months left on the 3 year warranty. I was told that it wasn't repairable but was replaced. Now unlike my old one, the sticker on the back doesn't have a manufacturing date but something else that I can't remember at the moment, perhaps a serial number. Will this be a refurb or completely new Xbox, or is there no way to tell.

[Stark]

I noted my serial every time I sent mine away, I got a replacement the first time and then I think it was just 'repaired'. If you get an older (ie, 203W) one back, it's almost certianly a refurb.

[MKSheppard]

everyone I know went through MANY (ie 3+, I went through 5) older 360s

ITT, we learn Stark is a glutton for punishment. Even IF the newer 360s have fixed the problems, the fact remains that the 360 has a surprisingly non-trivial failure rate -- why spend 3 big ones on something if you're going to have to have it replaced several times?

[General Zod]

everyone I know went through MANY (ie 3+, I went through 5) older 360s

ITT, we learn Stark is a glutton for punishment. Even IF the newer 360s have fixed the problems, the fact remains that the 360 has a surprisingly non-trivial failure rate -- why spend 3 big ones on something if you're going to have to have it replaced several times?

Because it has better games, and superior social networking abilities.

[MKSheppard]

Because it has better games, and superior social networking abilities.

ITT we learn Zod is a glutton for punishment too.

[General Zod]

Because it has better games, and superior social networking abilities.

ITT we learn Zod is a glutton for punishment too.

Except for the fact that my 360 has died precisely 0 times and I've had it nearly a year, sure.

[Stark]

everyone I know went through MANY (ie 3+, I went through 5) older 360s

ITT, we learn Stark is a glutton for punishment. Even IF the newer 360s have fixed the problems, the fact remains that the 360 has a surprisingly non-trivial failure rate -- why spend 3 big ones on something if you're going to have to have it replaced several times?

didn't you buy HoI3? Lol

Anyway, warranty replacement is free and costs MS money. Where's the downside? The first 2 were store warranty over-the-counter jobs. I'm not seeing how reliability problems make the whole format worthless.

Oh wait, you play broken to shit ugly overpriced PC 'games' and dontbunderstand people with different needs. Poor old PC gaming!

Oh wait, you're just ignorantly trolling again. If only the rules applied to chewtoys? Stupid, blinkered AND a hypocrite!