8/15/06 - Ninety-Nine Nights - Xbox360

[Morfiend]

Go ahead. IGN called it horrible. Anyone plan on getting this? I was till all the lackluster reviews came out today.

[schild]

Still getting it. Played demo. Was fun. That's what matters to me.

[Rhonstet]

Picked up my reserve copy.

The game demo played like a harder version of Dynasty Warriors.  Since I enjoyed Dynasty Warriors, I figured I'd try it.

I find that most Xbox 360 reviews tend to be all over the map.  I though Dead Rising was a middling game that wanted to rip off both RE4 and GTA with artificial difficulty, while Chromehounds was a remarkable stab at an MMOFPS for consoles.  Most game critics rated Dead Rising as a 4/5 or 5/5, while I've seen most Chromehounds was 3/5.   

[Viin]

Consoles piss me off.

Been playing this game for a couple of weeks, and this is the 3rd time the stupid Xbox can't read the disc at a very inopportune time (ie: at the end of a level that it took 45 mins to play through!). Since there is no saving in the middle of this game, this really fucking blows.

Now I remember why I play mostly PC games.

[Rasix]

Consoles piss me off.

Been playing this game for a couple of weeks, and this is the 3rd time the stupid Xbox can't read the disc at a very inopportune time (ie: at the end of a level that it took 45 mins to play through!). Since there is no saving in the middle of this game, this really fucking blows.

Now I remember why I play mostly PC games.

Computer games never crash?  Common now.

[Viin]

No, but I've also never had "sorry, can't read the CD, please reboot your computer" errors in the last 10 years. With a PC you typically install it on a hard drive to avoid such problems.

What I don't get is how the game is fine and dandy for an hour or more, but suddenly it can't read the disc. Once I restart the game (without even taking the disc out) it works just fine until a couple of games later it does the same thing.

[Strazos]

PC game stability has made huge strides in recent years. Honestly, I can't remember the last time a game just up and crashed on me when it wasn't due to something I was doing that I knew can piss the game off (IE - hitting alt-tab or the windows key in a Source game).

[stray]

Reply #1: [Zealot] Blowing in your cartridges is a WAY OF LIFE. And you will like it or be damned.

Reply #2: [Fanboi Troll] The 360 is broken, and Microsoft's manufacturing process is shit. Look for the color red anytime soon now.

Reply #3: [Sober, well reasoned response] PC's have their own share of hassles as well. In each generation, there's always something: Arcane config.sys files and memory allocation, rootkits, driver conflicts (or bad drivers in general), hardware is never taken advantage of as much as it could be, which in turn, forces you on an upgrade path from hell... Among other things.

[Rasix]

No, but I've also never had "sorry, can't read the CD, please reboot your computer" errors in the last 10 years. With a PC you typically install it on a hard drive to avoid such problems.

True that kind of error seems rather shitty.

I've just had recent issue with Medieval 2: Total War crashing during sieges. Really annoying.  Seems to only happen while clicking in a scrolling area (cursor changed to scroll icon) while inside the city. 

Burning Crusade has crashed once per character.  Just once.  Odd stuff.

[Calantus]

PC game stability has made huge strides in recent years. Honestly, I can't remember the last time a game just up and crashed on me when it wasn't due to something I was doing that I knew can piss the game off (IE - hitting alt-tab or the windows key in a Source game).

I guess you don't play BF2142 then? :P

[Viin]

It's true some PC games are pretty crappy (but then again, you *are* talking about an EA game - and I have no idea why the start button screws up on Steam games on some machines - doesn't seem to crash on mine).

I expect crashes/errors every once in awhile - no biggie. What gets my goat on this one is that you can't save in the middle and it takes 30-45mins to play through a mission. So you can get all the way to the end, and at the point where it brings up the Save This window, it crashes. It only took me 4 tries (30 mins each) to get it to finally save at the end.

I wouldn't been so annoyed if this was a rare occurence, but it happens every time I play. It also happens on R6:Vegas but it has only happened twice in the 20+ hours or so I've played.

[Morfiend]

You know that is a fault with your xbox. If you contact Microsoft they should probably issue you a repair order. I think it has to do with your DVD drive going bad.

[Margalis]

The PS2 had a big problem with the DVD drive. The laser gets a bit out of alignment and just can't read certain games anymore depending on how they are burned/encoded. It was fairly common for people to go through 2 or 3 PS2s. Apparently standing the system on the side made things go wrong more often.

I'm not sure why consoles have so many DVD problems, maybe because they just use the DVD drive a lot more? Now that I think about it I really don't use the DVD drive on my computer at all other than installing something once. And games are probably harder on a DVD drive than movies as movies do more sequential accessing.

Most PC errors are just programming/driver issues but consoles tend to have a much higher rate of actual hardware level problems.