I swear this old bastard is the forever console I just can't escape from.

Back last year I thought I was finally done with it, having finally ticked off all the games on it that I wanted to play. Then I started seeing new ones that looked interesting, so I dug it out of retirement this January to play stuff like Stranglehold, Ace Combat 6, FEAR, and Enslaved.

After that I thought I was done for good, but since then I caught myself browsing for it again, and found The Darkness and Condemned 2 for like $8 AUD each, both of which look like something I'd enjoy, so the damn thing is coming out of retirement yet again, two decades after it launched.

While it's nice to play fancy new games on PS5 or Switch 2 with modern graphics and such, there's just something about the 360 era I think I'll always love, that boldness and edginess, where games weren't afraid to have a strong sense of style or take creative risks, because they didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make.

Holy moly what a great console.

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I really enjoyed the 7th gen. There's definitely something special about it. Even if I played those games on PC.

My favorite game from that time is Alan Wake, which was a 360/PC exclusive back then.

Played a lot of 360 and PS2 this year. Waiting for a 360 game in the mail tomorrow. Best console of the 7th gen.I like the 7th gen but too much racism towards Asian developers. Still got a lot of gems. Just sadly the begining of bad DLC practices and too much brown shooters and shaved head/short hair white guy protags.

Great console but the generation/industry itself was meh to me, often visually depressing, and many games ran like shit. Western games took over as Japanese software giants struggled apart from Nintendo and I suppose the rise of Souls and Monster Hunter. The highlights were X360/MS first party being their best ever, Naughty Dog peaking, and in hindsight Sony having more variety than later generations. 3rd party games were weak imo compared to all gens from NES until now. Shoutout to Bioshock though, a special game.

Nevertheless had a good time all in all between X360, PS3, and PSP (where I mostly played amazing ports/remasters/enhanced editions of older games). Perhaps I would have liked that generation more if I also had Nintendo consoles and a contemporary PC. But just in terms of personal experience and trailers, it's the worst generation. Little I didn't play caught my attention (I regret not getting Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Vanquish), and what I did play wasn't on the level of other generations overall.

I was using mine at the beginning of the year. Replayed PGR3, and played through Amped 3, Assassin's Creed, Gears of War and Just Cause for the first time.

Great console.

Well, that beats me turning my Wii U on from time to time to play the best version of Maiden of Black Water.

I have an Xbox 360 hooked up still that I bought 2 years ago. Plenty of games you can't play on Xbox One onward.
Xbox 360 outsold both PS3 and Wii in the USA and North America when all is said and done. I feel like it is the only time Xbox had a shot to get first place in Europe and globally.
While you can play a lot more games overall on its successors, it is still the best Xbox made to date. At least as long as you buy the "Jasper" and onward (so about no models from the first 3 years).

I feel similarly. I recently dragged that thing back out for my daughter because she grew up with that gen and wanted to play Nuts and Bolts (it was a childhood thing for her) and yeah... it's a quality console. The thing I am most surprised with is just how little games have advanced since then. While she was playing, I never felt like I was watching someone play an old game. She even echoed these sentiments just as I was about comment about it.

It's a real shame MS is abandoning consoles. Yes, they are a heartless, soulless company, but those first two consoles were legit.

Criticizing seventh-gen gamers for their anti-Asian preferences and then two sentences later, admitting to anti-white-guy preferences is quite the accomplishment, my friend.  

What a stupid post as usual with you. That gen most protags were literal white guys with short hair or shaved head. It was a trend and a boring one. Taking it as some racist thing when I am white. Check yourself. 2000s were ripe with anti Asia in games media. If you did not see it then call yoursellf Mr Magoo. It was plain as day and if it were a pit of snakes you'd been bitten 10,000 times. Just a small sample. 

Oh and Homophobia from the makers of the racist game Kung Fu Chaos.

I can't find the original meme anymore and I did not make this so it includes some PS4 stuff but still works. I just got done playing Fracture on 360 & Psi Ops a few days ago. Bald generic white guy. There was almost no diversity in leads in the 2000s.