auxerre said:
leo-j said:
Honestly wow, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN XBOX LIVE AND PLAYSTATION NETWORK.
GIVE ME ONE
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Things I did on LIVE last night, none of which I could do on PSN.
In story form...
I dropped into the Marketplace to check out the Tomb Raider demo since I've been interested in it since it was announced. I queued it up and browsed through some other new releases. Four other game demos caught my eye, so I queued up all four of them. Also, there was a new video out from Gametrailers, so I queued that up, too.
Then I switched from Marketplace to my Inbox and I noticed I had a new voice message from a friend of mine. He and I have been competing to see who would get the achievement for finding all the Bobbleheads in Fallout 3 first. He checked my profile and noticed I don't have it yet, and he was giving me a hard time since he only has two Bobbleheads to go. I saw that he's playing Gears 2 Multiplayer (and losing 2 rounds to 3), so I feel confident that I can still beat him to the Bobblehead achievement. I opened up a voice chat channel with him and told him to shove off. He laughed and we talked about how his team was getting decimated.
A message popped up telling me the Tomb Raider demo is finished downloading. I could have played it instantly, but I'd already decided on Fallout that night. I switch to the game and start playing, all the while still talking to my friend. In the background, the second download I queued was already going without me having to do a single thing. My brother popped online and quickly opened up a chat channel with me — had had a question about a Christmas thing we're attending. We talked briefly about that and he signed off just as I find the 19th Bobblehead. I promptly switched back to the chat channel with my friend and rubbed it in. He was less than pleased.
By this time, the second and third game demos had both finished downloading, and convenient messages popped up for each letting me know that I can switch to play either of them at any time, but I ignore them in my quest for the 20th Bobblehead.
Perhaps sensing my inevitable victory, my friend tells me that a player dropped out of their team for Horde mode in Gears 2 and asked if I wanted to join. I considered for a moment before deciding that Horde actually sounds like a lot of fun. He sent me an invite and I saved my game in Fallout and switched to Gears. I dropped instantly into his game without having to boot to the menu or go through any hassle.
It became clear very quickly that we needed one more person to do well and I see sixteen people on my friends list are playing Gears — fifteen were already in multiplayer matches, but one was going through the campaign on Hardcore. I sent him an invite since I could see he wasn't playing it on co-op and he accepted, immediately joining our game. We spent an hour and half playing together and made it to wave 30 on Hardcore before we're all killed off by those dog things (if you've played Gears 2, you know what I'm talking about).
Another friend of mine then sent me a voice message asking if I can help her get the Hoarder achievement in Fable 2. I had work the next day, but it would only take a minute, so I agreed. I opened a chat channel and told her to meet me by the clock tower in Bowerstone in-game. I bid my team goodnight and switched out of Gears. I then popped in Fable, loaded up my good character, and ran over to Bowerstone. One of my other friends was playing Fable 2, as well, and I ran into his orb on the bridge to town. We said hello and he asked me if I want to co-op with him, but I couldn't then so I politely declined. The orb of another friend of mine pulled up behind me and yelled something, scaring the hell out of me. All three of us have a laugh at my expense (my laugh was somewhat sheepish). I then said my goodnights and jogged over to the tower, where my friend was waiting patiently. We talked for a minute, then she joined my game with one button press. She then made a dry comment about how clean my Bowerstone is — her character is about as evil as they come and her Bowerstone is a brown delapidated ghetto at this point.
I helped her grab the Hoarder achievement, she thanked me and dropped out of my game back into her Bowerstone. I switched out of Fable to the Dashboard and pulled up my demos to see that they've all downloaded and are ready to play. It's too late at night for that, though, so I shut down the console and called it a day.
~THE END~
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