Bahamut

stfu you two, I want to hear about XBox 360 games, not petty bickering. Also, Katsurugi suggested Table Tennis (the Rockstar game) - is that game any good? Upon more searching, it seems Amped 3 might be a good purchase too. Fight Night Round 3 sure looks gorgeous too of course.

I guess it's just me, but the whole notion of Link skateboarding rubs me the wrong way.

Actually, some Toys R Us stores sold them today as soon as they got them - that seems to be the store policy, so you'd just have to wait all day for them, assuming they didn't get them today.

I still don't understand why you hate it so much - it's extremely original, if moderately underused. It's not original by a longshot (pun not intended) - it's a fucking skateboard for crying out loud.

ur a fag no u! faggy fanboy no ur fagy fanboy Jesus... now I have to change this thread's title to "SilverStar and Phthisis bitch at each other", and get it moved to UnMod. I don't recall any of the other system threads going so downhill so quickly... Evilhead vs. Nintendo fanboys?

Yeah, it's getting Bioshock - saw a display for it in EB.

Particularly for the TFT expansion. It gets tedious though since the games are so long and people are dicks on battle.net. This sounds like a fun idea though. Too bad I bought a Mac though .

I would normally buy Oblivion for PC, but I decided to get myself a Macbook to avoid PC gaming to concentrate more on my studies, so I may just buy it for the XBox 360 sometime. So far, I'm considering getting Top Spin 2, Gears of War, Oblivion, and some of those XBL arcade games, although not all at once. Maybe Dead Rising too at some point. I'm having a hard time swallowing this $60 game pricepoint, it's reminding me a lot of N64 game prices although I guess inflation does make it a sensible price. I also need to get me an extra controller . This is going to be quite pricey, but at least the premium comes with component cables for use with my HDTV at home.

I agree. I think also the fact that it's so damn tough to get a PS3 and Wii in stores for the holidays have probably helped to push up 360 sales (parents wanting to buy one of the new game systems for their kids for Christmas, and finding that the 360 is the only one immediately available). I saw a couple cases of that happening when I've visited EB/Gamestops these past couple weeks. I also don't think the agressive marketing is unrelated to this. Anyway, I wonder if they'll end up turning a profit this quarter since software sales should be way up too. Well, we've seen some relative firsts this holiday season in approaches to sales of a relatively new console - $100 XBox 360 Cores (amazon.com), $200 XBox 360 premiums (Microcenter), $100 gift card on purchase of an XBox 360 (Toys 'R Us). I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft was behind those drives in some way, shape, or form.

Oh, now that I'm getting sucked in to buying an XBox 360, current owners list off on the good stuff for me to buy (of course there's Gears of War and Geometry Wars). I also was wondering, was Microsoft's lack of an official price drop and use of retailers being aggressive in selling the XBox 360 (including giving incentives) responsible for this sales drive for the holidays? I find it amazing that demand spiked up for the system this holiday that much. Microsoft shows up again why it's such a smart company.

Well, I meant rape in terms of the stuff that's already in the game, especially if all the transaction do is unlock it for you (like a cheat code). The concept of the XBL transactions is just fine with me - heck, I'm getting an XBox 360 by Saturday, I better be fine with it!

If you buy a 360 at Toys R Us this holiday season, you get a $100 TRU gift card. Does this require a coupon? Edit: Nevermind, I found the deal at CAG. Holy shit, I'm going to pick that up tomorrow or Saturday then. Edit #2: And thanks

I hope that price drop is in early January...I have this 25% off total TRU purchase I want to use, and the coupon is stackable.

Uhm... what? So on ebay this would go for about 6k? If they were in as of a high demand as the PS3 was upon it's release, then it would be a lot higher. Weren't there a few PS3s that reached as high as 10,000? If so, then if the price of $2,500 were inflated in the same way, it'd be around $42,000 ;P And right now some PS3s are going for loss.

3598 total for the suit, unless you do the sidequest then it's 1798. Well, I was thinking 1000 for that bridge, and 2000 more for opening a shop in Hyrule Castletown, and then 1000 more for that heart piece (by donating to that guy by the east entrance of Castletown).

I did it differently - I went to the long room with all those platforms going up on the right and down on the left, near the painting to the Nation of Fools map, and then I went to the very top room and got cursed there. Yeah, I'm sure there is a much, much easier way to get cursed as you stated because this ring is pretty rare. I just totally forgot what monster/whatever curses you, and I just happened to stumble upon this ring being dropped. I have the same ring, but I got it long, long after I completed that quest Bahamut's way. It helps a lot with the beginning Nest of Evil bosses. Nest of Evil is easy until you get to fighting two The Creatures at once...that is eeeeeevil.

Actually usually once a week for VGCats but meh.

Um, that's more appropriate for the XBox 360 thread.

I did it differently - I went to the long room with all those platforms going up on the right and down on the left, near the painting to the Nation of Fools map, and then I went to the very top room and got cursed there.

Yeah, that aspect of the microtransactions are rape, not unlike what Nintendo is charging on the Virtual Console, although suckers like me will purchase on the VC anyway. I need to snag me one when there's a price drop sometime .

That sounds more geared towards the hardcore audio/video enthusiasts.

Yeah, these sales figures are really worthless to me.

Also you could use your rupees to do those damn sidequests...what is it, 4000 rupees total needed?

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIND HERE!

My Wii has survived 4 plane trips already <3.