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"Someone please tell me NHL '11 isn't as bad as I thought it was after playing it once last night. It felt like every hockey game ever made (nothing has ever been as good as '93 or '94 nhlpa on sega). I'm assuming Career modes and whatnot are at least somewhat entertaining?"

I've been a little disappointed in it (owned NHL 09 & '10), but the immersion is pretty good once you get into a season. The controls are a little hard to get used to, but I've kept coming back to the series for the reason.

...If only 2K Sports could return to hockey with a title like NBA 2K11, and push EA to turn out a better product in doing so, I'd be

12/2/2010 4:05:52 PM

hmm so should I get FIFA or NHL for Christmas?

I have FIFA 10 already so I was leaning towards NHL....

12/2/2010 4:14:03 PM

Fifa 11 is way better in someways IMO

but i never liked NHL games after like PSX

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12/2/2010 4:36:02 PM

http://rewards.xbox.com/

dunno if you guys signed up for this yet

12/2/2010 7:12:02 PM

^just signed up. I wonder if they will retroactively give reward points, like for Netflix.

12/2/2010 9:36:02 PM

buy one get one half off at amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000641841

only on certain games, list on the link, also for accessories

[Edited on December 9, 2010 at 3:38 PM. Reason : $$$]

12/9/2010 3:33:40 PM

I buy things on xbox live like once a year so I doubt the rewards thing would do much for me.

12/9/2010 4:00:28 PM

You could download Watchmen and get a bonus for that

12/9/2010 4:02:54 PM

i decided i'm going to play bioshock for the first time over christmas and learn what all the fuss was about years ago.

12/14/2010 8:00:30 PM

^I am doing the same thing on PS3. So far it's kinda blah to me.

12/15/2010 12:13:07 AM

I just bought the X-Men Arcade Game...damn its hard. I need friends

12/15/2010 8:53:53 PM

^^^ the game is tits. one of the top 15 games I've played

12/16/2010 12:21:35 AM

^^ is it worth buying

12/17/2010 11:05:19 AM

Eh. I'm a huge X-Men fan so it was worth it to me. Its pretty tough and a major aggravation to use your powers, since using your powers costs you health and you get hurt constantly. I died easily dozens of times throughout the game.

But I was playing it by myself, and I don't know if its substantially easier or funner with a lot of friends.

[Edited on December 17, 2010 at 11:09 AM. Reason : lkj]

12/17/2010 11:09:15 AM

damn I don't have many friends

12/17/2010 11:11:29 AM

New Forza 3 car pack includes the DMC-12

12/17/2010 12:29:29 PM

the word "funner" does not exist

[Edited on December 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM. Reason : grammAR attack]

12/17/2010 2:42:39 PM

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"i decided i'm going to play bioshock for the first time over christmas and learn what all the fuss was about years ago."

i never really got into it either...i dunno why...graphics were nice...just never got into it

12/17/2010 2:50:11 PM

Bioshock is all about the atomsphere....Rapture is creepy as hell.

12/17/2010 3:21:57 PM

The xmen game is fun, but I wouldn't buy it unless you are going to be playing it with different groups of friends often.

I got it and I have played through it a few times with folks. I think it works best as a drinking game where you drink after every continue you have to use.

[Edited on December 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM. Reason : They will probably drop the price after a while...$10 is a bit steep.]

12/18/2010 11:28:36 AM

yea i'm already thoroughly creeped out by rapture and i've not even played much.

glad i picked it up.

12/18/2010 12:17:22 PM

welp finished bioshock and got all 1100 of its achievement points, ha.

i see what all the fuss was about, was good, but i don't think i'm going to be playing the second one.

12/22/2010 9:47:11 AM

the first was better than the second imo

12/22/2010 10:02:14 AM

skip the second...wait on Infinite, different setting

12/22/2010 10:18:05 AM

I'm late as fuck but Batman AA is legit. It definitely lives up to the hype

12/27/2010 11:29:44 AM

^lol it's next on my list of "games I forgot to get" so you aren't the only one that is late as fuck. I plan on getting it with Gamestop's buy 2 get 1 free deal.

12/27/2010 12:47:23 PM

^I got it for my dad for Christmas. Amazon had it on goldbox for $15

12/27/2010 1:29:17 PM

Check out that Hydro Thunder under the daily deals, its on sale for 5 bucks. Cool little speedboat game with jumps and turbo and stuff.

12/27/2010 2:09:42 PM

ha just walked in gamestop.. guess they're running that buy 2 get 1 deal... freaking mad house. line was 20 deep.

and i remembered why i play games on the 360. taking an hour to update/install PS3+GT5

12/27/2010 4:08:09 PM

Pac Man Championship Edition DX is fun as shit

Only arcade game I've bought, and well worth the $10

12/29/2010 10:34:29 PM

Fallout: New Vegas might as well be renamed to Fallout 3: New Vegas because that's what it is. Its a Fallout 3 expansion pack disguised as a standalone game.

Its still fun but nothing more than a rental IMO.

12/30/2010 4:30:49 PM

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"ha just walked in gamestop.. guess they're running that buy 2 get 1 deal... freaking mad house. line was 20 deep."

Haha yeah I know right. I went in to three different gamestops over the past week while I was out. I was specifically looking to get Arkham Asylum, Alan Wake, and Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands but all Gamestops were completely cleared out. All they had were sports games from like 2003 and a shit load of copies of Alone in the Dark.

12/31/2010 12:29:26 PM

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"Fallout: New Vegas might as well be renamed to Fallout 3: New Vegas because that's what it is. Its a Fallout 3 expansion pack disguised as a standalone game."

You feel the same about Vice City and San Andreas?

Never played an expansion that was as vastly superior to the base game as NV was to Fallout 3.

[Edited on December 31, 2010 at 12:45 PM. Reason : 22222 posts]

12/31/2010 12:45:30 PM

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"I was specifically looking to get Arkham Asylum, Alan Wake, and Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands"

Forgotten Sands is a very repetitive and boring game. Rent it, don't buy it.

1/3/2011 5:39:01 PM

^ Seconded

1/4/2011 8:27:13 AM

Ah so it isn't up to par with the three that came out on the GC/PS2/Xbox? How does it compare with the POP game that came out in 2009?

1/4/2011 10:20:12 AM

More like the the ones that came out for the Xbox and PS2 a few years earlier.

1/4/2011 11:11:17 AM

xbox controller for $30? deal or no deal

1/4/2011 4:22:24 PM

Deal, as long as its wireless

This isn't 2003

1/4/2011 4:25:30 PM

yes its wireless

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874103206&nm_mc=AFC-SlickDeals&cm_mmc=AFC-SlickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA

1/4/2011 4:26:48 PM

Just rented Mafia 2. That game is extremely disappointing. There's nothing to do, the map might as well not even be there because all you can do is go from one story mission to the next.

Glad I just paid $2 to get it from Redbox instead of $60 to buy it, especially after I really enjoyed the demo.

1/5/2011 5:10:23 PM

So I never played Army of Two is this game worth getting on goozex?

1/5/2011 5:42:03 PM

meh it was alright, no replay value

1/5/2011 5:49:04 PM

Just beat Limbo today. Insanely great. I don't know how I'm going to get that last achievement where you beat it with five or fewer deaths. Game is great though. I got it when it went on sale for 800 on NYE.

1/5/2011 6:08:15 PM

Fucking A, I hate the quality of this console. Old 360 had 3 of them red ring. My 7 month old slim just "red dotted" on me because of an E68. Somehow from watched a video off of a usb stick last night and turning it on today fried the hard drive. Unplugged it and reset to no avail. Have to mail it off for another HD.

bye bye saved games!

1/7/2011 12:55:21 PM

Yeah, I hate this console. My Super Nintendo's hard drive never crashed.

Excuse me while I go back up my computer.

1/7/2011 1:33:48 PM

It just bothers me how as a society we have come to accept hardware/software failures as a part of life instead of striving to remove these issues. I feel like 50 years ago if a product failed at the rate a computer fails it wouldn't even see the light of day.

soapbox disengaged.

1/7/2011 3:06:25 PM

Fixing an xbox 360 red ring problem is actually not that hard. What red ring did you get?

1/7/2011 3:17:59 PM

It's on a slim, so it's just the red LED. It was an E68 error, and after removing the HD I can boot up the box with no problem. So the HD apparently is already bad.

I've sent it off for another one.

The older boxes I had was always the 3 red rings.

1/7/2011 5:04:31 PM

Damn this shit happened on a new one? I only have experience fixing the old ones.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE MICROSOFT, WHAT IS THE DAMN PROBLEM WITH MAKING A STABLE CONSOLE!?!?

1/7/2011 5:10:00 PM