Gamertag Radio writes: "When a person enters the world of online gaming today they expect bigotry, cursing, cheating, and generally poor sportsmanship. It is a sad state that online gaming has entered, especially for those of us that were a part of the “glory days”. My online experiences all started on PC with services such as T.E.N. (Total Entertainment Network) and MPlayer. I remember playing Quake because it was fun and competitive. The only things I had to worry about were my frames per second and ping; didn’t have to stress myself out with hackers or switch boxes. It was a tremendously good experience. [Editor's Note: Those days, how I miss you.]"
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
A recent trophy list published on the PlayStation Network contains hints that Sony is testing PlayStation PC trophies.
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
I had a PS2 and it's online experience was fine but it didn't have the same level of polish voice chat never worked for me but I was trying to play from Australia where not many people played PS2 online to the point where many devs simply dropped the online mode from the pal version.
That's not all PS2 games mind you there were plenty that worked perfectly but it was more on the dev and not the platform
During that era I also played a fairly large amount on online PC games and they were undoubtedly better than both systems. PS2 from functionality and Xbox because it was free
Playing my friends original Xbox it was a really polished experience it felt robust yet simple things just worked there was zero config.
Yeah but the time ps3 came the experience was the same on both based on what I played...not too much online though to be honest. But I do think that the xbox did help bring online into the console space a lot. As well as PC games to consoles.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
I'd say its around the time that the gamers who cared more about specs and brand names than the games themselves took the majority.
when little kids thought swearing was cool. and parents didn't know that they shouldn't be letting their kids play rated m games, to a point
Game since the atari days and it use to be so simple. You either love a game or not. When you buy a game you get a full game.
It was all about fun. Nowdays i am not sure.
It's all fun and games until you come across someone that's Android 17 arrogant, salty losers, people that act like they NEVER had a bad game, hosts that kick you out for winning, or as soon as you join the lobby, and the list goes on.
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Many lost their way when they started using tech jargon when in reality they have no idea what it actually means or how its applied to gaming.