Author Topic: Play 360 at walmart....RIGHT NOW (Read 30912 times)

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2005, 10:21:40 AM »

You can hate on everyone but Ayane...

KDR_11k · « **Reply #26 on:** October 21, 2005, 10:49:55 AM »

What's it with Ayane anyway, is that some kind of inside joke?

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #27 on:** October 21, 2005, 10:53:12 AM »

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Oh that's right. It'll show you what HighDef looks like on LowDef. And since it's widescreen, it'll be letterboxed, making things smaller.

The Xbox kiosks have 23" HDTV's.

Wow.

Those puppies better receive quality maintenance.

I wonder if my Wal-Mart will have a kiosk, or just shove the 360 unit with the tiny TV that's built into the top of the glass game shelf, as I've seen the Wal-marts around here do.

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What's it with Ayane anyway, is that some kind of inside joke?

Ayane's a GUY, OMG

hudsonhawk · « **Reply #28 on:** October 21, 2005, 11:40:40 AM »

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I'm a little upset that there's no kiosk in the Chicago-land area. I would totally go and try one out.

Well, if you don't mind a drive to the burbs, supposedly Palatine and Addison have them. (List of confirmed stores, in case it wasn't already posted in the thread)

That's too much of a drive for me, I'll wait a week for Gamestop to get them.

vudu · « **Reply #29 on:** October 21, 2005, 11:54:53 AM »

Too much of a drive for me too.

I'm actually going out to De Kalb this weekend, and there's one setup there, so I might try to stop by and see what all the fuss is about.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #30 on:** October 21, 2005, 09:09:34 PM »

Without Perfect Dark, this is meaningless

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Kairon · « **Reply #31 on:** October 21, 2005, 10:44:31 PM »

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Without Perfect Dark, this is meaningless

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Finally! Someone with the same name as me! I don't feel so alone anymore! I SHALL CALL YOU BROTHER!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

KDR_11k · « **Reply #32 on:** October 21, 2005, 11:03:35 PM »

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Ayane's a GUY, OMG

You mean just like Daisy?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #33 on:** October 22, 2005, 10:24:19 AM »

Well, turns out they did have a 360 display at the local Walmart so I checked it out.

Interestingly when I saw it, nobody was playing (even though the sony and gamecube demo stations were being used)

The screen they put on it is a nice hi-def flat panel, but it occasionly looks a little dark because of the angle you view it at.

The controller is more comfortable, better ergonomics I suppose. The plastic it's made with feels a little cheap, but it is an overall improvement from the Xbox controllers. I wouldn't call it more comfortable than the Gamecube controllers though.

The demo I played was Kameo, It goes through a little cut scene detaling a war between elves and ogres or something, The cutscene appeared to be made in-engine.

The demo started with a tutorial at a castle and you change into different monsters as they walk you through.

The controls felt a little dodgy in places but not bad.

The graphics were a mixed bag in my opinion. Sometimes they looked impressive and sometimes they looked like this gen graphics. The lighting was definetly better, the textures were decent. Suprisingly the characters seemed to have about the same amount of Polys that this gen characters have, so you could still see angular arms and whatnot.

Overall, it seemed decent and well put together, but not next-gen. The demo I played could have been done on a cube, xbox or PS2 without taking away too much except for a few graphical flourishes.

Judging by the demo I played I would say the graphical leap between the 360 and the Xbox is only a little bit more than the leap between the PS2 and the Xbox.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #34 on:** October 22, 2005, 10:38:12 PM »

Kameo started as a GC game (or earlier) IIRC so there are probably lots of current-gen assets in there.

Renny · « **Reply #35 on:** October 23, 2005, 06:01:22 AM »

They seem to have forgotten to update the skybox. But it's a launch title, right? 9.9!

WuTangTurtle · « **Reply #36 on:** October 23, 2005, 08:02:59 PM »

DOA character designs aren't the best, but not many fighting games have character designs that are not generic like. For example a lot of the new street fighter characters feel generic. I'd have to say the worst character design for a fighting game goes to Necrid in Soul Calibur 2, seriously why did Namco have MacFarlane work on a character?

I'll agree though when i played DOA 3 on XBOX, none of the characters felt like a good character design.

wandering · « **Reply #37 on:** October 24, 2005, 12:37:43 AM »

Thanks for the impressions, ShyGuy. I haven't played the 360 yet....but from what I've seen of it, I have to agree that the graphics are kind of meh. I tell myself that I should be impressed, but, well... from what I've seen of games like HL2, and MGS for the PS3, the graphics are so good that you just forget about them. With the Xbox 360, it's like they're just good enough so that all you notice are the graphical flaws.

Anyway, I'm going to Target tomorrow, so hopefully they'll have a kiosk.

....Oh, as for DOA, I've always felt that the series was at least somewhat artistic. I mean, most fighting games tend to be generic fantasy stuff, but with DOA...the characters are ganeric male fantasy, I suppose, but apart from that... the colors and the backgrounds tend to strike me as being pretty, artisitc, and somewhat unique.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #38 on:** October 25, 2005, 07:16:59 AM »

I don't think you need to tell yourself to be impressed...the fact is, the graphical curve is starting to level out. I don't think any of the next-gen systems will match the leaps made in previous generations, although I think some of the games on Xbox 360 are finally starting to look undoubtedly better than current-generation games.

Some of the environments in DOA are very beautiful - the forest levels in DOA 3 are stuck in my head permanently.

vudu · « **Reply #39 on:** October 25, 2005, 09:08:01 AM »

Apparently Wal-Mart has deactivated all of the Xbox 360 kiosks because they were messing up Wal-Mart's inventory system.

wandering · « **Reply #40 on:** October 25, 2005, 09:24:04 AM »

Leave it to Microsoft.....

I'm just glad they don't make portable game systems... if they did, they'd probably down planes.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #41 on:** October 25, 2005, 01:14:17 PM »

AHAHAHAHAAHHA

Ian Sane · « **Reply #42 on:** October 25, 2005, 01:19:18 PM »

"Apparently Wal-Mart has deactivated all of the Xbox 360 kiosks because they were messing up Wal-Mart's inventory system."

In the words of Nelson... HAW HAW!

Of course I remember initially Xbox demo units had a problem where they would crash and some error message would come up and MS reps had to come in to fix it as in rebooting the machine didn't fix it. In the end that obviously didn't make any difference in regards to the Xbox's success. But this is still funny nonetheless.

Stimutacs Addict · « **Reply #43 on:** October 26, 2005, 07:36:19 PM »

this is an effort by Microsoft to take over Walmart... AHHH!

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #44 on:** November 01, 2005, 05:11:25 AM »

The Wal-Mart I went to yesterday had theirs on, I played it, and it was pretty awesome. I played King Kong, which was kind of fun, but this other kid was playing Call of Duty 2, which looks incredible. Sure it's not like you're playing games in a new way, but the graphics do provide for a deeper experience than on current systems.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #45 on:** November 01, 2005, 08:38:42 AM »

I would like to add however, that the PS3 looks better in a video on my PC than the 360 does on the actual display. PS3 is going to be a beast of a machine.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #46 on:** November 01, 2005, 08:41:14 AM »

I played it for a bit yesterday at Best Buy. The controllers are certainly very comfortable, much more so than the Xbox controllers, but all the hype they've been getting it didn't blow me away. I wasn't like, "Hey this is awesome!" I was "Why wasn't the Xbox's like this?" I still like the Cube controllers the best.

I chose Kameo because, well, Rare lol. Let me first say that I hate cutscenes in store demos. I want to PLAY, I'm not there forever! Also, I hit the CIRCLE OF POWAH a lot when trying to hit start, which would freeze the game and bring up a bar at the side of the screen. I can see this being very annoying, you should at least have to hold it down for a little while.

The game itself I didn't have too much time with. The graphics were just as they always were- moderatley better than most current gen games. The gameplay wasn't so bad, I can see this game being pretty fun. But I only played for a couple minutes, so who knows, this IS Rare..

So yeah, whatever. I bought Fire Embrum there, I am immensely pleased!

Chris1 · « **Reply #47 on:** November 01, 2005, 01:51:24 PM »

Well I finally tried it today, and i was left very UN impressed, I played Kong and Kameo, the controller was very nice, but the graphics didn't really make a huge leap to me, I didnt see much of a difference. I'm understanding Nintendo's stance more and more now, something different is needed. Go Revolution!

Shecky · « **Reply #48 on:** November 01, 2005, 02:18:25 PM »

Tried the demo of Kameo. I want to ditto KnowsNothing... _non skippable_ cut scenes for an in-store demo are enraging... and the Kameo demo has plenty of it. Most of the time they're inaudible anyway, and you end up looking like a jerk for 'taking so long' even though you may have play tested the actual game very little. Also the big middle button is not the start button, as much as I'd like it to be.

The game... well it didn't really have the feel of possession that I thought they made it out to be way back when. Rather it was more like transform into different characters with different context sensitive moves for each character. Each with advantages in particular conditions. To tell you the truth it felt like I was playing Majora's Mask to a certain degree. One of your characters was a small plant type and another was a lunking type that moved by rolling itself into a ball... almost entirely but not quite like a deku and goron. Now granted the final game may have many different transformation creatures, but this demo set had an eerie similarity. I had camera troubles, but admittedly I didn't really know what options I had to control it.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #49 on:** November 01, 2005, 02:24:46 PM »

Heh, the demo at BB was extremely loud and I couldn't figure out how to turn it down. The demo kiosk had two separate headphone jacks with their own volumes (wtf), but the TV itself had nothing.

I almost cried.

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