what other people said earlier...friend of mine played for couple hours like 4~6 during break (not the new one)
then it just died. he had gamecube,ps2,xbox at the time and he told me ps2 is more reliable but halo...

 

Yeah the word out is that there are some 'crashing' for whatever reason.

The good news is that they are letting these peeps overnight 'em back for a replacement.

Dunno the specifics cause I wasn't paying too much attention. Gave up the gaming along time ago.... to freakin addictive.....LOL

 

so far no problems at all. It is a bit more noisy than usual due to disc spin and the two fans, but nothing thats annoying. Its a powerhouse compared to its predecessors so I can understand that. I believe ps3 will be the winner in the end, but this 360 is a great unit. I love it so far. I wont be riding a bandwagon this time like I have the last two systems. I will seriously be enjoying them both.

 

At first I made the mistake of putting mine inside my entertainment center and Perfect Dark was crashing like crazy. Haven't had any problems since moving it to the open. I've had one of my dev kits at work on for almost a month straight now, so the system should be able to take it.

 

hows elder scroll development going? , im really anticipating it. i was hoping id get to meet you at skyline

 

There's a direct correlation between TES IV and my lack of any sort of life :-). It's actually coming along pretty well now...starting to let up a bit. Might even start having weekends off soon. It's really good that we didn't force it out the door, because it wasn't near done.

For those that picked up a 360, I highly recommend Condemned: Criminal Origins. It's been awhile since I've had so much fun just watching someone else play a game.

 

cool, congrats on the game nearing release, the engine obviously looks fantastic with advanced bump mapping and shader effects that rivals the unreal 3.0 engine. IMO Elder Scroll IV and Gears of War are the easily the 2 best looking xbox360 games Ive seen so far. How is the transition to an unified pixel/vertex shader architecture that shares the same pipelines?

 

The transition to 360 from PC went pretty well for us. Some of that credit goes to NDL for providing us with at least a half working engine. But it helps a lot that it's still directx, still the same hlsl, and all that. Of course, there's a lot of untapped potential in the system that you only get if you stop treating it like a normal PC...but that just gives us room to improve over the next 3 years :-).

 

Hooperx do you work for someone who writes games?

 

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/...reenindex.html
hes working on this game, one of the most anticipated and talked about game for the xbox360. the company is Bethesda Software

 

The game looks solid. Compared to Screens and in-person visuals I have seen from other games, this somehow seems like it could be done on the current xbox though. Not trying to start anything here, just observation. Some of the enemies textures are weird to me.

 

Wait'll you see it in motion, especially with an HD screen. The only game I've seen firsthand that I think looks better is Gears of War, which is just sick good. Another thing to keep in mind is we've got a far larger game than anything else being pushed right now (30 hours just to finish the main quest line), so we had to use some smaller art assets than others. Of course, a lot of it is style preference and such.

 

I understand. Cool deal. Cant wait to see it live. It really does make a big difference seing 360 games on normal screens compared to HD.

*drewl*

 

Yeah, HD even makes Perfect Dark look half decent :-).

 

IMO elder scrolls IV looks better than just about all xbox360 games out there save for gears of war which uses the unreal 3.0 engine. my take on the current crop of xbox360 games is like its the xbox1.5, the visuals are really not a big step above the xbox. Im talking about perfect dark 0, madden, need for speed wanted, etc. In fact Doom 3 on the current Xbox looks better than perfect dark 0 to me.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/...ex.html?page=4
if you look at the screenshots on this page, there is an insane amount of polygons being pushed to generate the individual blades of grass and leafs.
the lighting and bump mapping on the armor is also very advanced compared to xbox games. The draw distance is also extremely far, rendering very large open environments. from a technical stand point this looks much more impressive than the rest of the xbox360 lineup ive seen so far.

i hope the gameplay will be as impressive as the graphics. most of the xbox360 games on the market right now seems to be the same ol games dressed up in better graphics without much innovation in gameplay.