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Xbox Live Party Chat – The Death of Conversation within the Game Lobby

James Woodcock takes a look at the 'Party Chat' feature of Xbox Live that has been key to causing a silent lobby in many online titles.

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CrimsonEngage4482d ago (Edited 4482d ago )

More like a blessing. No longer do i have to listen to little shit's playing rap (which is crap music anyways) over their mics.

Let it die, not a single f*ck will be given.

MetalProxy4482d ago

Blessing? How is a new person to xbox live suppose to meet anybody new when there isnt anybody to talk to?
Sooooo theres silent lobbys on xbox live? Thats IMPOSSIBLE according to some loyalist.

koehler834482d ago

I can't be the only person who believes it to be abnormal to actually want to converse with complete strangers.

BX814482d ago

Teens love it for some reason. I always say talking on the mic just because you have one is the definition of @sshole!

StanLee4482d ago

I've had my communications setting set to private since day 1. I don't hear anyone in public lobbies. Unless you're on my friends list I can hear you and you can't hear me. I don't use XBox Live to meet friends. I have convinced so many of my real life friends to get an XBox that I have a sufficient friends list.

Captain Qwark 94482d ago (Edited 4482d ago )

nope that makes two of us, i always party chat with my freinds. ive never had much success meeting decent people in gaming lobbies so i dont really care. also most strangers dont want/care to work as a team so there is really no point

party chat, the controller, and the dashboard are what makes me like my 360 more than my ps3, despite the ps3 having more features

sGIBMBR4482d ago

I don't think I could live without party chat anymore, it's such a blessing!

I even use party chat on the 360 when playing on my PlayStation.

Captain Qwark 94482d ago

lol my buddies and i do that once in a while too.

pandaboy4482d ago (Edited 4482d ago )

haha, you inadvertently solved the problem that has plagued PSN for years. For best results use your xbox while gaming online on ps3!

Parapraxis4482d ago (Edited 4482d ago )

or Skype..that's what me & my friends use when gaming on PS3.
(as an added bonus I listen to music from my entire music library on PC when I chat with Skype)

Parapraxis4482d ago

3 disagrees...for what??
man you N4G kids crack me up.

Hufandpuf4482d ago

I like meeting different people in lobbies, that's how I make more friends on XBL. If I used party chat ALL THE TIME, I wouldn't have met the people I play games with regularly.

BuffMordecai4482d ago (Edited 4482d ago )

I always find it funny when someone tries to talk on xbox live and then somebody tells them to shut up. If you didn't want to talk, take off your damn mic. I can understand when somebody is being obnoxious, but when you seen a lobby full of people with mics and no one is talking, you kind of wonder why they have mics at all.

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Rocksmith+ Comes To PS And Steam In June

This looks like a great way to play.
Rocksmith+, the award winning music-learning app that teaches you guitar and piano with thousands of hit songs, is coming to PlayStation and Steam on June 6, and is available to wishlist now on both platforms.

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Insider Claims Perfect Dark Reboot Remains in a 'Very Rough State

Insider reveals Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot struggles in development, far from ready despite ongoing efforts.

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helicoptergirl19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

The hits just keep on coming. Will not be surprised if this gets canned. It already got rebooted and they had to bring on an outside studio to try and help developement. Some of the original creatives have left the project.

But I will say, just wait until the MS showcase. If you don't see it there, then alarm bells should start ringing.

Snookies1218h ago

God, please don't screw this one up Microsoft! I am keeping my expectations super low, but Perfect Dark (the original) holds such a special place in my childhood. I want this to turn out well SO bad.

helicoptergirl10h ago

Are you expecting the game to be shown at the upcoming Xbox Showcase?

neutralgamer199218h ago

Just cancel it because we know you won’t be happy with its sales performance while giving it away on GP day one. GP is the biggest issue for developers and that affects the sales. No one can deny that now. GP equals to good deal for gamers and bad deals for AAA development. Take two CEO said it and he was 100% right. There are certain games that make sense on GP but not every game. 20 million gamers playing a game on GP doesn’t mean much to MS it seems because they still want sales. Just please start releasing all games on other platforms otherwise Phil is next now. You can’t spend 80 billion and be this bad

Inverno16h ago

The studio was founded in 2018. It's still not adding up in my head how it can take 6 years to develop a game, with a whole dev studio working on it.