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A decade on, Xbox Live must face its biggest challenge

Game Industry - As we celebrate the immense success of Xbox Live, let's also work on taking online games back from the abusive, bigoted bullies.

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DasTier4169d ago (Edited 4169d ago )

Please, Xbox Live Is a much less abusive place than most make it out to be, it's not been bad since about 2006-7. However, this is due to the "New Xbox Experiance" which has left most place in party chat and hardly any in game chat to insult each other. I do miss all the public trash talk though :(

Captain Qwark 94169d ago (Edited 4169d ago )

haha yeah i always see these articles about all the trash talking and how bad it is and im like......hmmm i have been on here since it firsts started and its never been that bad for me. since party chat came around its because im always in party chat but even before that it was never that bad. maybe 1 out of every 100 matches i would get some annoying idiot but then id mute him and all would be well. perhaps many of these people experiencing such horrible times are instigating them themselves. when im public, most of the trash talking only starts when you say something and people retaliate

i have played mech assault, ghost recon, crimson skies, wolfenstien, halo 2, counterstike, ghost recon 2, halo 3, battlefield bad company, BC2, BF3, COD2, COD4, COD:WAW ( last one, prob getting BO2 though ), armored core, dark souls, various wwe titles, halo reach for about 5 matches, and halo 4 online. that covers msot of my online career and ive had few bad experiences in any of these titles so maybe im just lucky or perhaps all these authors arent as innocent as they act

ShadowKingx4169d ago

2 years ago, i got my first xbox and this was due to my constant annoyance of my friends asking me when i was going to get an Xbox 360, so after about 8 months of dealing peer pressure i gave in a bought and i have to say i was really pleased with the console. Now of course i really don’t like paying for online, as i was a PS3 nerd before getting an Xbox 360 now i enjoy both. Both consoles has its advantages and disadvantages but both need improvement, Xbox needs more free game like PS3 and PS3 needs cross game chat that everyone has been asking for since launch of PS3. Which is why i spend most of my time on Xbox 360, even though i know PS3 i better HD graphics because of the blu-ray. I really think in a decade PS3 and Xbox has come a long way but like i said both still need improvements, but at the moment both consoles and services are playable and fun and thats all you look to have when playing video games.

Janitor4169d ago

Uh, yeah....except PS3 has no free games. You get to rent certain games that they pick for you, for $50 a year. Not trolling, I have plus, but let's not kid ourselves by saying the games are free.

Captain Qwark 94169d ago

^^^this is true but i think he was more just referring to getting a game or two with your subscription every month which is reasonable.

i had plus for a while but i still game mostly on my 360 so i quit it. def a great value though

ShadowKingx4169d ago

yeah but the bottom line is 50 bucks a year for free games sounds really good versus 50 bucks a year just to play online. But like i said my friends play mostly on Xbox 360, which is reason i don’t game much on PS3 anymore. There has only been a handful of game Xbox has even give for free the latest being Happy Wars. Also some of the games they do pick for are really good. i remember when i had the free trial i played streets of rage which is a classic to play and it was free.

BLAKHOODe4169d ago

I thought it's biggest challenge was convincing chubby couch potatoes to get up and move with Kinect.

Donnyskillz4169d ago

or maybe get up and wave 2 move dildo's until they sweat, thats equally impressive

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC6h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC4h ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer5h ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6025h ago(Edited 4h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya3h ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde3h ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Has Appeared On The Xbox Store

Activision and Raven Software's 2006 action role-playing game, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, has found its way to the Xbox Store.

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LG_Fox_Brazil11h ago

Used to love this one, but X-Men Legends 1 and 2 will always be my favorites, especially Rise of Apocalypse. Would pay some good money to play it today with online multiplayer, back then I had no way to get a modem

RavenWolfx2h ago

Yeah, I loved the Legends games so much.

ZeekQuattro10h ago

I remember buying them dirt cheap on the PS4 and then a few days later I read they were delisted. I was wondering why the bundle was price so low and got my answer when that happened.

Knightofelemia8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Sad to say this is one game franchise next to the Xmen that needs a sequel. I use to play the hell out of Xmen Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Was great when my cousin had the OG Xbox play with four other people and then playing online. Great games glad to see it reappear even though I own the discs love the mechanics of this game.

Terry_B8h ago

It got a sequel..but for dumbass #reasons as a switch exclusive.

shinoff21838h ago

It looked so horrible to. They should've kept it similar to the first two.

Asplundh7h ago

Because Nintendo funded it, they did the same for Bayonetta.

Knightofelemia7h ago

I totally forgot about the Switch sequel.

jukins8h ago

Misleading. This page is whats available for people who owned the game prior to delisting.

Abnor_Mal7h ago

The first game was the best imo.

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10 Weirdest Video Games of All Time

Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.

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JonTheGod1d 10h ago

Why are the Katamari games not on the list??