recommend me a game for XBOX 360

Oblivion might be a taste thing. Buy it second-hand.

Braid looks interesting - good to see there''s still such a thing as a 2-d platformer on a highspec console.

any news about a silent hill game for 360?

Braid is beautiful, but I had to go to youtube to solve many puzzles - but oddly this didn't harsh my mellow at all...

Psychonauts works fine as a download from XBOX LIVE i think...

ZUMA slays as a puzzle...

i tried playing Mass Effect but just didn't "get" it. i guess i prefer JRPGs.
Braid is an amazing game, but pretty short and (for me anyway) has zero replay value.
Psychonauts is one of the best 3D platformers ever made, get it!

grozart - there are some more downloadable platforming games (with demos), for instance Bionic Commando Rearmed, MegaMan 9 and N+

There already is a Silent Hill game for the 360, called Homecoming I think. Supposed to be okay. Condemned 1 & 2 is also probably similiar in feel.

A few more non-shooting things games that come to mind are Civilization Revolution, Viva Pinata & Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts (haven't played these myself). People seem to like the downloadable board games too, like Catan.

Finally Geometry Wars 2, Ikaruga and Rez HD are games everybody should play.

is left 4 dead coming out on ps3 or is it exclusively for xbox 4 ever

Seem to remember Silent Hill: Homecoming getting pretty dire reviews. I dug condemed, but the story isn't all that compelling really.

Bioshock really would be a good way to go as far as getting story/environment heavy.

Silent Hill got average reviews...
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/silenthill5?q=homecoming%20silent

i dont know, metacritic scores tend to be fairly top-heavy (like game review scores in general), to me a 72 on metacritic is not a good sign at all.

72 is average on metacritic. like it's the median i think. that or 71 or 70.

Psychonauts is one of the best 3D platformers ever made, get it!

OTM

seconded

aw Dead Rising is the funnest thing ever! Hardcore save system though, brutal.

Tonight I had big plans to watch Cal/Stanford and then make soup and then watch a movie, but ... oops, I played the Tropico 3 demo for like five hours.

i decided not to bother buying a new console because it's a bunch of money that will be better towards something like going home to scotland on vacation or whatever so i've dusted down my old xbox 360 and have started buying games i see in second-hand stores.

so far my haul is a grand total of 2 games which i enjoy but will not keep me going for very long:

tiger woods pga tour '12: road to the masters
mirrors edge

so, my question is: please suggest good single-player games for this hell console (there are some good suggestions in the thread already).

Seconding...gonna rescue mine from the closet for a couple days next week while the family’s away. I only have gta v which will tide me over but could use at least one other.

How to buy though? Can you download direct from the Xbox store? Any other avenues now that half.com is dead? I guess a local GameStop...

I think a massive proportion of my Xbox 360 time was spent on the Skate series and Fallout (3 and New Vegas). A perhaps controversial suggestion would be 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, which was far more fun than it had any right to be. There are loads of 'big name' games from then that I expect would be cheap - Assassin's Creed series, Batman Arkham Asylum, Borderlands/2, Gears of War series. I expect stuff like GTA and Red Dead Redemption are holding their value in Gamestop and the likes, but try eBay. You'll often find "job lots" on eBay with a good cross-section of the big-name games.

Was playing with mine for the first time in years the other week while we were staying at a friend's flat without wi-fi. Found Just Cause 2 to be a godsend, you can just jump in, fuck shit up and get out with no muss or fuss.

Also the pre: Paradise Burnouts are lots of fun too.

I've been very tempted to restart Fallout 3/New Vegas again, but I have a kid now, so there's just no way.

Dark Souls

Ooh good one

Seconding...gonna rescue mine from the closet for a couple days next week while the family’s away. I only have gta v which will tide me over but could use at least one other.

How to buy though? Can you download direct from the Xbox store? Any other avenues now that half.com is dead? I guess a local GameStop...

― calstars, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 4:38 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think, and i might be wrong, that you have to have a paid xbox live subscription to download games. i have just been looking in thrift stores and the like where there are usually 360 games, but the pickings are usually slim.

GTA V has really held its value because of GTA online i guess.

I definitely will look out for Dark Souls, the later Skate games (I only played the first one), Borderlands, Dark Souls, Just Cause 2. These are all great suggestions. I have played and/or completed everything else suggested. thanks!

Dark Souls

Was playing with mine for the first time in years the other week while we were staying at a friend's flat without wi-fi. Found Just Cause 2 to be a godsend, you can just jump in, fuck shit up and get out with no muss or fuss.

For any console you can play Just Cause 2 on, my default recommendation is always going to be Just Cause 2.

the later Skate games (I only played the first one),

2 is good, 3 is bad imo

FWIW, though, I have probably derived more laughter from Skate 3 glitch videos than from any other single cultural object. It's a marvel of brokenness.

Back cover of this copy of Dark Souls on eBay states “PREPAREZ-VOUS A MOURIR” hehehe

skate 2 it is!

Far Cry 3 is awesome (if you haven't already played it)! Civilization Revolution is a total time suck if you're into RTS games.

Almost forgot! Splinter Cell: Blacklist was so great, and kind of overlooked due to it coming out in the dying days of the console (2013); it's my favorite in the series, and much better than Conviction.

I should mention that I didn't even play SC:B until a year or so ago. It holds up.

I slept on the Splinter Cell games way too long because, y'know, Tom Clancy. But even the early ones (which I only played for the first time a year or two ago) are good stuff.

Just ordered Splinter Cell for $6 on eBay

oh yeah I've never played any of the SC games but i love stealth.

remembered my bro had sent me an amazon gift card for $50 canadian a while back so just bought Burnout Paradise and GTA:V second-hand. hope they arrive soon because I'm off work all next week

I'm only keeping my 360 around in case I want to play Dark Souls again. But if they come out with a PS4 remaster, it is gone.

Also bought dark souls. Preparing to die

I just couldn't get into Burnout Paradise. I loved the two previous incarnations to absolute death but never found my Paradise groove. Could you still play Crash "races"? I could never seem to find them.

Re : Dark Souls, from what I've read, it seems very long/hardcore RPG.
Is it ? Since I'm not AT ALL a RPG person, I'm not sure I would appreciate it...

it's definitely hardcore but RPG doesn't really do it justice. Dungeon crawler is the best description I guess

don't think you need a paid live sub to buy the online games though

yeah i tried getting into Paradise recently but it's just boring

doh

i tend to describe the single player dark souls experience as a puzzle game with rpg trappings

i watched Limmy livestream Dark Souls 3 once and it just looked really boring to me and awful. I understand everyone loves it though and that this is the wrong opinion

It's an action rpg with the emphasis on action, I would say. The mechanics make it way more fun and interesting to me than trad rpgs. Main RPG elements have to do with modifying your character and weapon stats as you go. The big improvement over RPGs is not having to listen to anyone talk ever, if you don't want to.

Dark Souls and DS3 have become my favorite games ever though, and I still play DS3 every week ('invading' other players' worlds, which is sort of the meta-game), so I'm biased. Always happy to talk about them though (although not irl, because that would be embarrassing).

Main RPG elements have to do with modifying your character and weapon stats as you go.

this is the kind of thing i enjoy.

I tried DS once before on PC and the controls rendered it unplayable. Will try again on Xbox

did anyone say portal 2 yet

or orange box for that matter

Thanks for the Dark Souls descriptions !
Well, I think it's just not for me...
As for old 360 games I still play (beside sports) I have started the AC:Black Sails lately. Play it very occasionally but it's nice.
I prefer the ones where you can just enjoy the sightseeing in old cities, though !

Deadly Premonition

It's an action rpg with the emphasis on action, I would say. The mechanics make it way more fun and interesting to me than trad rpgs. Main RPG elements have to do with modifying your character and weapon stats as you go. The big improvement over RPGs is not having to listen to anyone talk ever, if you don't want to.

it's also the deepest, most flexible combat game i've ever played

^ Portal 2 is one I never got to. I'm usually into puzzlers besides the two Playdead ones, but I should make an exception for this one.

usually not into puzzlers...

To me Portal seems like it’s suited more for PC. For Xbox I want explosions and speed

Portal 2 has a great co-op multiplayer that wouldn't really work as well on PC imo but the single player would be good on PC.

Portal 2 (and Portal, if you can get your hands on the Orange Box) is one of the greatest games ever created by humans.

don't think you need a paid live sub to buy the online games though

yeah i tried getting into Paradise recently but it's just boring

― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Thursday, December 21, 2017 4:23 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

paradise isn't all that great but it's pretty good for what I'm looking for, i.e. I'm only rarely able to sit down for a proper session of a video game whereas paradise is super arcadey and has the open world element so it's fun just to pick up drive around a bit, do a race or two, then turn the console off.

i accidentally purchased GTAIV instead of V online ;_; replaying 4 and, much like GTA3 vs. Vice City and San Andreas, it just pales in comparison to GTAV

GTAIV is actual total shite. completed it, spent 24 hours playing it apparently. garbage.

yeah I hated that game

It's all about the cheat codes, iirc.

i had played it when it came out and was somewhat disappointed in it, but i think the excitement i had regarding its release as well as what was, at the time, the significant improvement in graphics over earlier iterations gave me some goodwill towards it that made me more forgiving. GTAV is just so much better.

IV is so joyless. Although the later DLC missions were great, esp Gay Tony.

TBRR, I don't think I've ever really enjoyed playing the various GTAs as anything other than mayhem simulators with no set objectives.

i wasn't hugely fond of the lost and the damned DLC purely because it meant riding on those damn harley davidson bikes that handled corners so poorly

Tough crowd

Ha, yeah, I never liked GTA IV either. I hated the way the cars handled, and it turns out driving is quite a big part of the game. Reckon I've only ever made it about 4 or 5 hours into playing it (and I've tried several times). Never tried the DLC though.

that fuckin bridge

i didn't mind the driving in IV, and the game looked very nice. But just no game there really

Ballad of Gay Tony was heaps better

yeah, Gay Tony was very fun (the original and the bikers one not so much).

Hey all, I asked this on another thread but maybe this one gets more action and traction - what was the best XBOX 360 Mario Kart-a-like?

the Sonic one was decent if memory serves

Thanks Thomas!

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is the one you want