Got my 360

[Shibathedog]

yep, got it today, it pwns, nothing has exploded/froze/caught on fire yet

 

dont actually have any 360 games yet though because i was 5 dollars short >_<

 

For some reason i cant download demos/trailers though because i guess the servers are way too overtaxed, i CAN download the live arcade demos though....yayyyyyy smash TV....totally buying that when i get MS points

[Shibathedog]

one other question, is there a way to transfer saves from my xbox to my xbox 360?

[Gryph]

Nope. Backwards compatibilty does not allow old saves. Atleast I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

[Lucandrake]

No it doesn't, I'm sure of it. Btw shiba, do you plan on getting xbox gold or are you staying with silver?

[Shibathedog]

I have gold because i transferred my account from my xbox to my xbox360

 

BTW i figured out what the problem was, since this PC shares wireless into my consoles, Peerguardian on here was blocking it, so now that peerguardian is off everything works fine

[Mooney]

Nope. Backwards compatibilty does not allow old saves. Atleast I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's why the 360 truly sucks and is a waste of time and money: You can't even play the original Halo. Good thing the PS3 will be backwards compatible with the PSX AND the PS2!!

[Gryph]

From what I hear XBOX 360s backwards compatibility is basically Halo compatibility since those are the two games it works best on and even improves upon by upscaling.

[Lucandrake]

The 360's backwards compatibility works only if you have a hardrive/memory unit. Also it has a list of games on there website that work fine with the 360. There are times when a game requires extra loading times. Also like gryph said, the whole backwards compatibilty is mostly designed to work with only halo and halo 2.

 

Shiba, what's your gamertag?

 

Edit: The website has this as a note before viewing the list,

 

Note: A software emulator is required for each original Xbox game you play on your Xbox 360™ console.

 

My friend got mad that he traded in his xbox and when he tried to play bf2 it wouldn't work on his 360. The list got updated recently btw and microsoft is working on getting the entire xbox line-up to work with the 360. I don't doubt that by the time ps3 is released 360 can play all the xbox games.

Edited March 30, 2006 by Drake

[Shibathedog]

my gamertag is Shibathedog

 

There are a lot of games that work fine on 360, and i keep hearing in different places that you cant save with older games, this isnt true, saving works fine, you just cant transfer saves from your old xbox

 

San Andreas also looks really good on Xbox 360, it looks alot like the PC version, much farther sight distance/smoother/etc

 

Some games, Such as Battlefield 2, Burnout Revenge, etc would be awesome on 360, but are deliberatley not backwards compatible so you would buy the 360 version (Tony Hawk's American Wasteland being the only exception ive noticed so far)

 

so far i like my 360, havent had any problems, and i like a good about of the games, the games i am considering/buying are pretty much Amped 3, Condemned, Dead Or Alive 4, FarCry, Full Auto (I know no one likes it but the demo was pretty cool so ill rent it), Gears of War, Fram City Killer looks interesting, and Quake 4

 

Obviously my PC is too crappy to play the PC versions of any of these so thats pretty much why i got a 360, it was a cheaper upgrade for me.

 

I think Doom 3 should really be backwards compatible though, that would be awesome. But it probably wont be because it was so custom tailored to the xbox hardware.

[Prican25]

Burnout Revenge is also out for 360 now oh and you should try out the ghost recon for it, awesome game tho it sucks you can get healed like your teamates can but its definitely a good challenge.

[Shibathedog]

i heard theres a demo coming out on the live marketplace soon, do you know if that will be an online demo at all? That game definitley looks awesome, im just really into try before you buy

 

BTW Drake did you add me yet? Im downloading a bunch of crap right now so i dunno if i can accept or anything right now