Sep
26
Posted under
TOG,
Xbox Live 
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With Halo 3 hitting the 360, getting around on Live has become a task with in itself. My Xbox tab on Windows Messenger, the Xbox.com web page and playing games on the live service has become as difficult as getting all the achievements for GRAW 2. Maybe Microsoft should do a new survey. Would you pay by the minute for no lag? I can see the ad now.
For a fee of $.99 per minute with the 10th min. free.
Posted by The Other Guy 1
Sep
25
Posted under
.5 Shows,
Game Releases,
Halo,
Podcast,
XBL Radio 
Rusty Ranchero hosts
LIVE on LIVE The Gamers Roundtable™
Topics include…
Did you pick up HALO 3 today? 50% of our guests said NAYLO. Find out why…
Will we say no to paying for “faster” XBL Downloads (and we don’t mean our podcast)? We might have missed our chance.
What new IP’s are gonna get lost this Holiday Season? Army of Two, Assassins Creed, Mass Effect?
Plus some interesting off topic Discussion.
Quick Wrap-Up with Rusty Ranchero…
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All Games and Platform Nation plugs.
Extended And-Now-For Outtakes™ with bonus topic (FREE XBOX LIVE GOLD)…
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GROMekstrakt, Tel Prydain, PimpMethod and X3R0 9.
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Sep
24
Posted under
Game Releases,
Halo,
Mr B4,
Websites,
Xbox 360 
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children over the age of 17, this is the moment you all have been waiting for. Halo 3 goes on sale at midnight tonight at many stores all over the world such as Best Buy, Wal-mart, and Gamestop. I know you all have dropped about 60 bones on this game, and will wait in line as long as it takes to get it, because you have been waiting so long to finish the fight. Now the only question I have for you is is it worth the hype to finish the fight?
After watching a review of this game on Gametrailers.com, there are plenty of new features in this game to keep you interested in it for many months, or years to come. Let’s take a look at a few of them and see what our three year wait, awaits.
1. Campaign - I know that this is not a new feature of the game, but what bungie has done to improve on the story is what I want to talk about. Instead of just playing the game by yourself, or with one other friend in co-op play, this game now supports up to four players cooperatively locally, or on Xbox Live. There is also a new system involving skulls you pick up on the map, and as you pick them up, they will add more difficulty to the game by adding status effects to either your enemies, yourself, or the environment around you. And by using this technique, this adds a whole new level of the challenge to the game we have not experienced before.
2. Multiplayer- Now anyone knows that one of the only reasons that Halo 2 even survived was because of its multiplayer experience. This time around, instead of saving the game from disaster, this just adds more and new exciting features to an already fantastic experience. The first of which I would like to talk about is the forge map feature. Now from what I take of it, this is a feature in which you have a variety of maps to choose from, and you can add and place any weapon, item, and vehicle wherever you choose, save the map to your hardrive, and play it online against your friends. Even though I wish you could create your own maps, instead of just adding stuff to old ones, but the idea is original, and the possibilities are endless.
One more new multiplayer feature is the “Save Film” option. Not only can you capture every moment you want to remember from the game, such as splattering someone with a warthog, shooting someone down from the sky in a banshee or a hornet (we will get into that later), or getting a triple kill or killtacular. You can also share these clips with your friends online. The only thing I would have preferred with this new feature is if you could string clips together, and make somewhat of a highlight reel out of them. Either way the multiplayer looks like it will be even more fun than halo 2, and I cannot wait to try it out.
3. New Vehicles and weapons- Now in addition to the types of vehicles(Banshee, Warthog), and weapons (Assault rifle, Needler, Rocket Launcher, Plasma Rifle etc.) that we have seen in previous installments in the Halo series, Bungie has gone the extra mile to bring you some new and exciting weapons to try out. One of which is the Brute hammer, which looks like the alien version of a plasma sword, can take out enemies with only one hit. There is a Brute shotgun, flamethrower, new deployable shields and grenades, and loads of other weapons in which I do not have the space, nor time to write about it. Two new types of vehicles, the Hornet, a new flying vehicle, and the Brute chopper(motorcycle), will also add more excitement to the game.
I could go on and on about the new features of this game, but the truth is that myself, along with the rest of you, cannot simply rely on words alone to play this game. We will have to experience it ourselves to really see if it was worth finishing the fight or not.
Until next time gamers, this is B4 signing off.
Take care,
B4
P.S.- If you are curious, here is a link to a review that Gametrailers.com did on the game. Take a look, and form your own opinion. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25485.html
Sep
19
Posted under
Xbox 360 
The past year has been hard for fans like myself. I really enjoy gaming. I take it very seriously. I would go so far as to say: I am very defensive about my “Console of Choice”. After all I do a podcast that favors the Xbox Live enviorment. Since the beginning of the 360, XBL Radio has proven with Live on Live, that the Box is hard to beat for online play. However I have to be honest when I say it’s becoming hard to defend my console of choice.
The past years, since launch of the 360, has brought us: The Red Rings of Death, A faulty wireless headset, Numerous scratched discs, Overheated Bricks, Overheated Consoles, Warrenty issues that had to be addressed, and now the latest in the 360 issues: Similar to the way that the power cables on the original Xbox had problems with possibly catching on fire, the Xbox 360 Racing Wheel can possibly cause your wheel to “overheat” and “release smoke.” Thanks to a couple instances of this happening, Microsoft is instituting a program where you can get an AC adapter replacement for your wheel free of charge.
You can still use your wheel now on battery power (wirelessly), but they recommend that you quit using it while plugged in—which means there’s no force feedback—until you get the replacement adapter.
I know that some may say I’m being too critical on the 360. I am. Since XBL Radio prides itself on being “for the gamer” I want to let our community know that issues such as these are important to us. The 360 is quickly becomming the FIREstone story of the Platform Wars.
So as you can already tell, this is a situation that stresses me out. So before I buy a new router, I thought I’d extend my plea to this great community of XBL Radio (and now Platform Nation) to see if any gamer out there can help me out. Leave me a comment if you have some idea of what to do, I’d certainly appreciate it.
