By: Neftali Pabon
The escalation of vitriol and growing lack of civility in gaming communities is sickening, need I say more? It doesn’t take a degree from Columbia University to know that in any randomly herded group of people there will always be a Negative – Nelson or two. Be they malicious, morose/pessimistic, surly, condescending, what-have-you, they are to be found, and dealing with them is simply a part of living. In gaming communities, we often refer to these personalities as “trolls” or “trollers.” They either spew their hate during online co-op matches and waiting areas, or they expound their murky manifestos through the use of internet forums. Sometimes they amuse, often times they annoy, and no amount of logic based counterpointing will deter them from their ways
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
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.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
It's pretty stupid. Just the word being thrown around like it's going out of style. "troll/trolling".
Back in 2004 you didn't even hear the word troll, there were no troll faces or stupid ass memes.
The sudden rise of this "fad" is annoying. No one is a troll. There is no such thing. The real word you are looking for is douche bag.