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Originally Posted by gillyruless
I take it that Xbox 360 will be released next week. I have no plan to get a Xbox360 until at least one price drop but I am interested in getting an Xbox. Is anyone here selling their Xbox to fund the purchase of Xbox 360? Thought I'd rather let an AGer rip me off instead of a stranger on eBay.
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You're tempting me. But alas, I'm keeping mine until next spring. Hopefully by then I can afford the 360. I want there to be an overlap so that when I sell my Xbox I'll already have bought a 360. I also
need to hang on to it longer because I'm not playing any PC games atm until I get a new notebook (in several weeks). My current desktop is sucky now and is only good for storing stuff. So at this point I'm gaming almost exclusively on Xbox (still need to finish Splinter Cell: CT and Still Life).
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Once I get my hands on an Xbox, I'm planning to get the following games:
Fable:Lost Chapter ($19.99 now!)
KOTOR 2
Oddworld Stranger's Wrath
Jade Empire
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2
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Highly recommended: Beyond Good & Evil, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Thief: Deadly Shadows.
Perchance you do procure a console you should play
Fable (if you haven't already played it). I think
Lost Chapter is more of an expansion pack (someone correct me if I'm wrong) which is why it's so cheap. I'm actually surprised you're interested in this one; it's an action RPG and there's a huge amount of combat. I definitely will get
Lost Chapters myself, I had a marvelous time with
Fable.
But since you're willing to put up with heavy action like that I strongly recommend
Jade Empire (play it on easy difficulty in your case). There are some optional side quests with stories that may jerk a tear in your eye, and just the narrative and gameworld are deep and satisfying for a single player console RPG. I seriously think Bioware kicks most adventure game stories' asses to next week (you didn't think I'd let up, did you?
), I love how they pay so much attention to the humanism in their stories and allow you a hand in how they turn out ethically.
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Recommend some other games that are not so stress inducing (IE not too hard, Psychonaughts is out of my bounds because I have a feeling that it will make me bash my head against the wall a lot), and story-exploration rich. Just so you know, I hated Max Payne and Max Payne 2 because some parts of the game was too hard even after they (allegedly) automatically adjusted the difficulty setting. So you know where I'm coming from.
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Soccsie already suggested the
Splinter Cell series and
BG&E. Since you're not much for heavy handed action and you're cunning enough, the
Splinter Cell games should do you well. The stories are light and are more political suspense than anything (Tom Clancy's world is nothing if not all about macho governmental attitude without the emotions), but the true beauty is in the gameplay as interdependent on the gorgeous dyanmic gameworld, a perfect collaboration between the two. And Sam Fisher is f#&king sexy!
Also very highly recommended is
Thief: Deadly Shadows. This is also a sneaker like SC, but it's a particularly stylish, noir moody one, with a very good story and rich, intimately experienced gameworld.
BG&E I won't elaborate on 'cause you already know a bunch of us here are louthmouthed advocates of it. Say nothing and just get the damn game for Xbox if you decide not to for PC.
Also, like Soccsie said, you're ultimately far better off waiting for the 360. Major advantages for you - retro compatability with a huge number of Xbox titles (the first list has 200 games, with more coming); with the 360 you'll be able to go online for free with the Silver tier service, allowing you to download free stuff like
game demos (could be great if more adventure games are made).
