• krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Every time I see the name 360 I remember how much of a pussy Microsoft is for calling it’s successor the Xbox One instead of the XXXbox. What a waste

    • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Ah, Xbox One, the third Xbox. I’ve never seen one in the wild and I do not care to.

          • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The Xbox 360 release of PvZ is the most feature complete version. It has the zen garden, the mini games, and a co-op mode where you and a friend each control a cursor to go around planting and digging while sharing resources. You can also butter the zombies to buy a little more time. It’s a great deal of fun and I don’t know that any other version has the co-op. I may have my physical copy floating around somewhere but I bought it digitally for my Xbox One since it’s backwards compatible.

            • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
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              3 months ago

              You’re shitting me. That sounds like a ton of fun.

              I miss Mashed on the original Xbox.

      • CovfefeKills@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I remember that I thought it was going to be 720 too. Then they tried to make ‘xbone’ work and we were like no lol

    • fulg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Thanks to XBMC and Team Xecuter my first Xbox definitely was an XXXbox. 😬

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve still got one. Two actually. A white and the black updated one. The white one already had the red ring of death and was sent in for repair and returned when that all went down.

  • Erna_muse@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    21 years old what the fuck. So at the end of it’s life it’s like 2012. I’m going to be honest emulation is going to dictate the legacy of the 360. At that point I’d already moved to pc but it would be good to know the must play exclusives.

    More than anything consoles deliver a couch co op experience that pc just can’t match. Like I recently played obscure for xbox with a friend and it was a blast. 2 player resident evil in a high school.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I started a new playthrough of Final Fantasy Legend 2 this weekend, a childhood favorite and an original Game Boy game from 1991. I can feel my bones dissolving reading this post.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    i play my ps2, ps1, n64, snes, gba, gb, gc, genesis and arcade games on my pc. soon as i can take time to learn the xbox side of things, those will join the party

    • Erna_muse@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      On xemu I’ve played amped 2 and the 007 games they run pretty well don’t know about the whole library compatibility.

    • sbeak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Xbox has some silly names. You have the Xbox (PS2 era), the Xbox 360, the Xbox One (which was a big flop), the Xbox One X / S (revised versions that were mostly forgotten about), then the Xbox Series X / S (modern era)

      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        My theory is that the Xbox naming strategy is designed to maximize the confusion of older relatives buying consoles as gifts. You’d be able to pawn more old models off on grandmas who thought it was the right one, and a fraction of the recipients of those old consoles would likely keep it and buy a newer one eventually.

        Either that or someone at Sony was blackmailing Microsoft’s chief naming officer. I can’t think of another coherent reason for that mess.

        • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
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          3 months ago

          It was just a moronic perception that in the choice between Xbox2 and PS3, buyers would pick the bigger number.

          But then they shot themselves in the foot because where do you go from 360?

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I feel even more vindicated now.

        A few years ago someone said something about one of the newer Xboxs. Either Xbox One X or Xbox series X. I forget which. And I asked “Is that the newest Xbox?”

        And this guy goes off on me. Claims I’m gaslighting him, and that everyone knows which generation each Xbox is/was.

        And I honestly didn’t. I was genuinely asking.

        So now I feel vindicated in my prior ignorance, because with Playstation, it’s real simple. 4 is 2 more than 2. So even if you didn’t know playstation, you know numbers. So even my nongaming mom could tell you PS4 came after PS3.

        But with Xbox, it was just random jibberish. Even Nintendo console names aren’t easily placed in order by non-gamers, but at least they have personality.

        Like I don’t think my mom would know that the N64 came before the Wii. She would have no way to know the order. But she knows what the Wii is. She gave my niece a wii.

        But Xbox names just sound like the codes stores internally use to refer to products. Sometimes you see it on the barcode.

        So like Hunts BBQ sauce 16oz bottle, might be “HntzBBQ16”. Thats what Xbox names feel like.

        Xbox series XS.

        I wish I had a good joke for that, but I’m really high and thinking about what would happen if Rowdy Roddy Piper had gotten into politics instead of Jesse Ventura.

        Which is completely off topic, but can you imagine???

        • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I bought an Xbox one X recently to play the newer Forza Horizon series and when i was looking for one, the amount of posts i saw that listed an Xbox one X as a Xbox series X, or someone listing an Xbox series X as an Xbox one was astounding. It was at least 40% of the listings on local sites. Most people didn’t care to look at the label on the back to see what they were selling, they just knew it was an xbox. Microsoft really screwed everyone up with their stupid names.

  • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Was talking to a young adult relative the other day, and he was telling me about one of the new Call of Duty games. I haven’t played one in forever, so I mentioned something I thought was neat in World at War or Black Ops 1. And he’s like, “Wow, that’s an old one. I don’t think I was even born yet.”

    💀

    • FippleStone@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Such a great library, although inFamous was a PS3 exclusive. In fact, it’s one of the few titles that was never re-released on another platform, so until recently it was only playable on original hardware

  • afaix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Xbox 360 had Call of Duty 2, we are on CoD 36 or something right now, of course Xbox 360 is retro

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I like to think I gave my nephew some perspective. About 10 years ago, I gave him one of those combo consoles that played NES, SNES, and Genesis games, and bought him several classic games from each. So for a couple years, he grew up playing the originals of Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, etc. And every time I visited, I whooped his little butt at Mortal Kombat too. I think it made him appreciate it all the more when he eventually got a PS4 and beyond. Someone who starts with a Xbox 360 has no understanding of just how far games have come and no context for what made some of these classic IPs great from the get go, and what it was like to sit next to your friend, sibling, or cousin and play couch co-op together.

    P.S. I didnt let him win in Mortal Kombat because he was a complete shit talker. He’d be on a 12 fight lose streak, and manage one KO by the skin of his teeth, and then look me straight in the face, puff up his chest and grunt out “Uh! Yea! Winners never lose!” He simply had to be punished for that arrogance.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      He’d be on a 12 fight lose streak, and manage one KO by the skin of his teeth, and then look me straight in the face, puff up his chest and grunt out “Uh! Yea! Winners never lose!”

      That’s awesome lol good for him.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Honestly this is exactly the sort of attitude you want if you want to play fighting games. Being able to get dumpstered 19 times in a row and not lose your will is a necessary skill.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’m caught between wanting my daughter to play a bunch of my old favorites but I’m also recognizing that some of them I only really like because of nostalgia. Like I bought the sonic collection for GCN and played it recently and didn’t really have fun with it tbh. Like the original one, while a great game for its time, is really about memorizing the levels so you don’t run into spikes or enemies at full speed which just doesn’t seem fun.

      Or Super Metroid is another favorite that does stand up to the test of time, but I’m playing Hollow Knight and Super Metroid just feels awkward compares to the newer one, even though Hollow Knight only has a melee weapon as the main attack.

      GoldenEye is another one. I spent countless hours playing that back in the day, both single player and multiplayer, but even when Perfect Dark came out, I had trouble going back to it, let alone all the other games that advanced console FPS (Halo where they finally figured out a decent control scheme, or CoD with loadouts instead of the scramble to find guns lying on the ground, though I suspect neither of those games invented those mechanics). While I do treasure the GoldenEye time of my life, I don’t think my daughter would gain anything from having to do that herself.

      She’s making her own memories on games like Minecraft, Pokemon (as much as adult gamers complained about the lack of depth, she loves Arcerus or whatever it’s called), or Smash Bros.

      I do still plan on introducing her to some amazing games, but I’m not sure that list should be essentially my own video game path. Figuring out that list is kinda tricky.

      Not saying your approach was wrong btw, just that I’m not sure how to approach it myself.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        My thought process wasn’t really even so much about the games themselves as much as the approachability of someone who has never held a controller before. As much as I prefer a dual joystick, shoulder button, and 4 face button controller now. It is a lot less daunting for a new player to have a simpler input schema. NES had a d-pad, 2 face buttons and the the start button and that was it. For a 5/6 year old who never played a video game before, that seems like a good place to start. The modern controlled is much more complicated and also not sized well for little hands. The few times my wife has tried to play a game with me, just controlling the camera while moving is too much for her. I have a 2 year old daughter who is just starting to figure out what a video game is. I’m wanting to start having her play with me, but I don’t think she will be able to use the controlled correctly anytime soon.

        • captcha_incorrect@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Can you recommend any games? I mine are about the same ages and the oldest one as already learned to play Minecraft on a computer, is learning Switch now. I never played those original classics since my parents didn’t get us a console until PS2.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, that also makes sense. My line of thought was more about how returning to old great games might not seem as great after experiencing all the QoL and gameplay improvements that came since, so starting with those ones means they can enjoy them. My daughter is already handling the dual stick controllers well, so I guess is beyond that stage already (though when she was younger I remember her not even understanding that Mario Kart was something she could control and she thought we were picking characters for a movie, especially since the auto-steer and auto-accelerate still give a fighting chance even if you don’t otherwise touch the controller).

      • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I’ve got a collection of games that are either:

        • Games I liked but wouldn’t want my kids to play
        • Games I liked and my kids will likely like
        • Games I liked and my kids likely won’t like
        • Games I liked and my kids initially don’t, but dammit they’re going to give it a try anyways despite the dated graphics or sometimes cheesy plot-points