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Forums - Microsoft - New Game Reccomendations Thread: What to add?

sinha on 08 August 2008

Well, I definitely approve of adding:
BioShock, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Project Gotham Racing 4, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Lego Star Wars: TCS, Ace Combat 6

I don't agree with adding:
Condemned 2 (not as good as 1), Two Worlds (quite lousy still), Beautiful Katamari (nothing new)


But more importantly, where are:

Shooters:
The Orange Box
Unreal Tournament 3
Lost Planet (or LP Colonies)
GRAW 2

Music:
Rock Band

Action/Adventure/Strategy:
Grand Theft Auto 4
Ninja Gaiden 2
Civilization Revolution

Fighting:
Soul Calibur IV
Virtua Fighter 5

Racing:
Burnout: Paradise
GRID

Sports:
skate
NHL 08
FIFA Soccer 08
Madden 09


From the current list, I would remove:
-GRAW (replaced by GRAW 2)*
-Perfect Dark Zero
-Far Cry Instincts
-Test Drive Unlimited
-Enchanted Arms
-Chromehounds
-The Outfit
-Culdcept Saga
-PGR 3 (replaced by PGR4)*

Those 9 games just don't seem to be of high enough quality anymore, as games have continued to improve. I'd say there are plenty of 360 games better than those that I didn't even mention above, the one exception being Culdcept Saga as it's fairly unique in the 360 library, which might be a reason to keep it around.

I'm trying to remain unbiased, I personally don't like skating, ice hockey, JRPGs, Lego, Tomb Raider, etc.

 

* but R6:V >> R6:V2

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

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sinha on 08 August 2008

Also, I know it would be more work, but it would be nice to get screenshots for each game like in the 360 Exclusives of 2008 thread, especially as the recommended games list is for people who are not already familiar with the games.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

KZ2 on 08 August 2008

You have provided a list of good and bad games on the X360. It all depends on what type of games you like.



reask on 08 August 2008

What about Brothers in arms hells highway?



 

 

 

 

Gnizmo on 08 August 2008

Culdcept Saga as an action game? Really? Man you have to get around to fixing that, seriously.

Poking around online Bioshock seems to be going for under $40 everywhere I can find it. Soul Calibur 4 is a great fighting game, although it is multiplatform and full price. I was severely disapointed in Beautiful Katamari so I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone, and I loved the first two.



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badgenome on 08 August 2008

^ Same here re: Beautiful Katamari. That was a sad day.



Munkeh111 on 08 August 2008

I got one recently, and i managed to pick up Mass Effect for £20, Ace Combat 6 for £25, Lost Odyssey for about £25, Gears for £20 and the Assassin's Creed special edition for £20, but I dont know whether those are discounted as well