November has barely begun but Microsoft has seemingly already won the Screw-up of the Month award. Yesterday's big Fall Dashboard Update does a lot of good things to your 360, like 1080p support and WMV streaming. And it does some bad things, like reducing a lot of Xbox 360s to 4kg paperweights.
As our Dutch friends at Fok! Games have discovered, there seems to be a fatal error in the latest update causing recently purchased or replaced Xbox 360s to die on their owners (translated and summarized for your reading pleasure):
When you do the following with your new Xbox 360 you will be getting a fatal and permanent "System Error". That means you should not do this!
Boot the console.
Select the language.
Select "I am a member of Xbox Live"
Mandatory dashboard update will download and install.
The system will reboot and show the 360 logo.
You'll get "System Error E71?.
When you get this error the 360 is dead and cannot be revived anymore: you will need to take it back to your store for replacement or contact Xbox Customer Support.
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."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
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
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
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
Activision and Raven Software's 2006 action role-playing game, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, has found its way to the Xbox Store.
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
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.
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.
Misleading. This page is whats available for people who owned the game prior to delisting.
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.
probably made up by some sour ps3 fan, i had no problem with my update, and i doubt that this es even true, discovered by dutch LOL im not surprised
This only applys for those who recently bought a 360 and want to join Xbox Live. After the regestration process you will get the update and BAM... ur out. For the most of us (who already have a up to date 360) it wont be a problem.
Well I just got my new 360 back fom customer support and have yet to do the update! I guess I will wait for MS response to see if this is true or not! I have a funny feeling that Sony fans are trying hard to put down the 360 whenever given a chance!
The update was in October so Microsoft hasn't screwed anything up in November yet. That statement alone was enough for me to consider the article a PS3 fanboy posting, don't worry the PS3 will still be the champion for November mess ups.
Other than having a modded 360 we dont know what other reasons why MS may Brick your system. There have been a couple of things that gamers have been doing lately while are not that bad are against MS Terms of Use. You know the whole linking a foreign account to get country specific content. Lately I hear that there is a way for two 360 owners to share the same live content. Im not saying that these are "brickable" offenses but we have not accepted the possibility that there are other no no's that you can do that may get you bricked.