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Do I get a 360?

Posted by Rikki, 07 April 2006 · 51 views

My fellow IPS staff are currently conspiring to make me buy an XBox 360 which is unfortunate.

The reason I mentioned to them that I was considering it is because I recently bought Oblivion on the PC, but it's giving me grief. I'm fed up of tweaking the ini file to get good performance, and I'm still suffering from intermittent crashes, probably due to my onboard sound. To put it bluntly, I'm spending more time trying to fix it than I am playing it.

So, the prospect of getting a 360 so I can just play Oblivion without problems is appealing. It's going to be £320 to get it though, and no doubt I'd get CoD so I can play against the others when they play. I don't know if I want to spend that.

What do you think? Should I?

Adam Kinder
Apr 07 2006 12:05 PM

Oblivion is supposed to be awesome, I would go for it. I've been wanting to play that and F.E.A.R, but I sold my computer

Josh
Apr 07 2006 02:32 PM

You know you want one

Rikki
Apr 07 2006 02:39 PM

Shhh, 'o conspiring one. I know your opinion already

Rikki
Apr 08 2006 03:42 PM

So today I spent a couple of hours formatting and installing XP Home (I decided that 2003 probably sucks for games, so I partioned and put on XP too), reinstalling all my drivers, reinstalling Oblivion, retweaking it and so on.

I still get freezes. I hate PC's, I truly do.

Rikki
Apr 09 2006 08:11 AM

Oblivion is FIXED!

Stewart
Apr 09 2006 08:13 AM

QUOTE(Rikki @ Apr 9 2006, 02:11 PM)

Oblivion is FIXED!

But you still want a 360 anyway

Starnox
Apr 10 2006 06:08 PM

I was having the same dilemma a few weeks ago. I decided against it for a few reasons but the main was that I have my last a level exams coming up, if I get one now there is no way I will revise.

Having passed on my PC a few months ago, I haven't played a game since. I sort of miss it as I use to play something at least once a day.

But £300 is a lot of money and then I would have to get the games as well which are £40 each. Didn't seem worth it to me, even though I love gaming.

Rikki
Apr 10 2006 07:12 PM

Yeah, it's the £300 that's the problem. If it was a bit less I'd get one.

Although my crashing problem is fixed, there's still some issues with it occasionally. Plus I'd like to be able to play it in bed rather than having to be at my desk. But on the other hand, you can't mod the 360 version, and some of the mods are quite cool.

Toughy. Hmm.

Brendon Koz
Apr 11 2006 07:38 PM

Think of it another way: The 360 is about the same price as a mid-tier professional application that you would use on your computer, but you'd likely get more hours (enjoyment) out of the XBox than a similar program (aka Microsoft Office Suite).

Rikki
Apr 11 2006 08:40 PM

Yeah, that's not really selling it for me I'm afraid

Matt
Apr 18 2006 11:16 AM

Buy one or two! Seriously though, you won't regret it. Get Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfigher. That game is so good, it makes me want to cry.

Sample conversation over the past few days:
15:11:36 Rikki: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I dunno
15:11:38 Rikki: damnnit.
15:11:47 Matt: Get one. Get one.

Rikki
Apr 18 2006 11:42 AM

I got one 15 minutes ago