I miss Xbox Live Arcade with the requirement that all games have free demos.
Remember demos? Or magazine demos? Or magazines? ๐
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We still have demos, on Steam anyway.
Steam has a lot more demos these days than it used to, and it's great. I do not like buying, trying, and refunding games. But demos? Hell yeah. I'll try those on a whim.
Steam Nextfest became probably the most exciting gaming event thanks to the sheer abundance of demos. It's amazing.
I miss my stack of PlayStation magazine PS2 demo discs
I remember getting CD demos in cereal boxes lol
Demos? I think I still have my full version of Roller Coaster Tycoon I got from a cereal box somewhere.
most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives
Let me play Lost Odyssey on PC you cowards
Just look at the Xbox section. You got this :)
Lost Odyssey is playable on Xenia, but unfortunately it still requires some work arounds. It would be nice to just play the game.
Xenia does pretty well these days and keeps getting better
I miss Kaim and Sarah
No, it came out a couple of years ago
Damn, that's crazy the 360 is old enough to fuck.
The 360 is old enough to die in war but not drink alcohol in the US!
That's funny because they did send 360s to the troops in Iraq (and later Afghanistan).
I often wonder if the US is wrong for keeping drinking age at 21 or if we're the wrong ones with it at 18
I don't feel I was much more mature at 21 than I was at 18 and I was very immature at 21 lol
I just modded mine after not playing it for years. I forgot just how insane the library is for it and how great the graphics hold up in 2025.
Its also so nice to actually own games and not have them taken away from some license BS.
How is the modding on it these days? I have a modded one from a long time ago and I did a modded firmware on the dvd drive in the 360 so it would ignore protections and another mod on a Liteon dvd burner in an old Windows XP computer for writing the games.
It's gotten better thanks to the softmods coming out lately like BadUpdate and BadAvatar.
I remember reading and watching videos about the DVD firmware hax. C4Eva, right?
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most of the nostalgia will be from playing online
It is. We'll never get that feeling back. It was a whole vibe and now its over.
What was so different about it compared to now? I only played SFV online.
Basically everyone had a microphone because they came with the console. People actually spoke in the lobbies, party chat was rare and discord wasnt a thing yet. There was an excitement around it because its all fairly new, and pro gamer / content creator / videogame influencer etc didnt exist as career paths. Most vocal people were still racist x-phobic slur-slinging hate-jockeys, but everybody was there purely to have fun.
Lots of tiny tiny differences that by themselves are inconsequential, but added up to something big.
After a match you could press a button to play again with the same people. You'd make friends by meeting together in game and deciding to party up
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The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends' machines.
I was on PS3 :) I loved Uncharted, Motorstorm, and Little Big Planet, but I was super jealous of my friends who had 360s for a while.
I was a student during the 360s life
So much split screen Halo with my house mates
Hello fellow LGR watcher!
I'm so glad that he showed some games that aren't shooters/sports or pc games. I found there's a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up. I've had a 360 collecting dust that I picked up cheap years ago and never really played it. I'll probably pick up a few more games for it if I find them for cheap.
I found there's a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up.
Oh my God. This combo came with my 360. I never played the pinata game but banjo kazooie nuts and bolts is an actual masterpiece of a game if you're in to vehicle building. It has to be the best game I've ever played in that genre, and it's not even close.
I don't need this kind of negativity.
Definitely have nostalgia for a lot of the early games, mainly the ones coming out before PS3 support basically hit parity.
Underrated aspect that I really miss was the old interface. The Windows 8 stuff they updated it to is so inferior to the blades.
Wonder if there's any homebrew fix to keep the old UI but be able to play all the games?
You can get the old Dashboard's running using the Proto stealth server, after the plugin is loaded in DashLaunch you can just launch the .xex file of the old dash and it should work, and if you want it by default you can set your Xbox to launch it by default with DashLaunch.
I wish I could link you a proper write-up but I haven't found one, just stuff scattered around random YT vids and Discord.
Also, no clue if DashLaunch works with Bad Update, be careful.
I saved up to buy a 360 just so I could play Deadrising. Totally worth it.
Deadrising runs great on PC tho - played it on my Steam Deck
Edit - unless you mean at the time mb
At the time it would have been worth it to pick up a lot of games over an expensive pc. I'm not sure I would go out of my way to buy one today since most of the good games are on pc and can play on a pc without a gpu. If you find one for $20 at a garage sale then I would probably get it if you're into collecting games.
The "Bad Update" (Now bad avatar) exploit is now a viable softmod for all models of the 360, so it's probably worth getting a cheap one on ebay and modding it for homebrew and free games lol
The NES released in North America in 1985, this means that the 360 is now roughly as old as the NES was when the 360 came out.
I remember getting my NES for Xmas...
So for you I guess the proper comparison would be that the Xbox 360 is now as old as the IBM System/360 mainframe was when the NES released in NA.
Hey fuck you and have a nice day.
Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.
The towel trick worked on mine and it still works as of yesterday
Way to make me feel oldโฆ I mean I am but you didnโt need to rub it in.
It's worth picking one up just to play Fable II, imo.
why you gotta go around spreading so much hate around dude...
360 is definitely my favorite retro console, hands down, due to nostalgia. Feels kinda weird calling it retro, but that's neither here nor there for me. I never had xboxlive, so playing online was never a thing for me.
Out of any console out there, it's absolutely the one I've played the most, by a pretty bug margin if I had to guess. Somehow I've played it more than my 2nd favorite retro console: PS2.
I might make some people feel old, but I was in elementary school when my family somehow got a white model with the hard drive attached to the top whatever year that was, that December. I also don't remember how we got our black 360 with the seemingly safer internal removable hard drive, but I absolutely LOVE it all these years later.
I think I would absolutely cry if I lost the hard drive for it because of just how much memories are on it. It would be worse than the feeling I got when I realized I lost the memory card for the family PS2 because I didn't pack it in my backpack before being forced to move.
For me personally the best console of all time.
How dare you lie on the internet
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