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So far, the best bundle was Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
The best part of these bundles is that they send prices at GameStop falling like a rock. GameStop has most of the previous pack-in bundles (with both games in one case) for $10 or less, and I'd expect this one to be cheap once they get flooded with copies of it.
09/22/09
I also agree with you that Forza 2 Marvel Ultimate was the best bundle. I picked it up last year for less than $10.
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1. You have a choice of Pure or Lego Batman in terms of holiday bundles. What crappy games (although Pure is marginally debatable in my opinion and in most others, although a minority might disagree).
2. Save $50 on the console, and lose that deal plus $20 additional dollars for the lower-end Wifi adapter, a feature that comes built into the Wii and PS3 out-of-the-box, assuming you want your console to have what most other consoles come standard with. Nice.
3. Assuming you need HDMI cables and want the "official" Microsoft HDMI cables (or maybe you're just the AVERAGE consumer who doesn't know better to get them online for cheap), prepare to put down an extra $50 dollars (if the cables happen to be on sale). Dent my wallet some more!
4. Don't let the fun stop yet, put down an additional $50 for one year of Xbox Live, and make that a recurring cost for every additional year you plan on playing online games, which is something a LOT (but not all) gamers do nowadays. Classy. Oh, by the way, the Wii and PS3 let you do these for free.
5. You might want to make your home wireless network less secure by using WEP encryption instead of WPA or WPA2 which you probably use now, because the Wireless G adapter only supports WEP, which can be cracked with Aircrack-ng under Windows or Linux in about 5 minutes. Who wants to be secure? Not me, that's for sure! Oh, you want to use Wireless N instead because their Wireless N adapter handles WPA and WPA2? No problem! Just plunk down $100 instead of $80! Problem solved!
6. Make sure to buy the extended warranty, because that RROD is ready to give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside, chances are, more than once.
Wow, I can own an Xbox 360 with all the features of a PS3 for only a couple of hundred dollars (tax drives overall cost higher) more! I'm so happy! And only for a limited time!
Oh, and make sure to buy a PS3 and/or a Wii while you're at it, because your 360 will be spending most of its time in a Microsoft service center. You'll need something to keep yourself entertained until it gets back, works for about a month, then prepares for yet another grand journey back there again!
09/22/09
09/22/09
But congrats on reaching Terminal Cynicism Velocity on a comment post.
09/22/09
i put down 120 for a used xbox, then the xbox live as you stated, and one could get a game for 20. don't need wireless. hasn't broken. been playing and loving it for $200
you'd think if it was that big of a deal, it wouldn't be selling so well.. no matter how dumb you may think it is, pointing these things out to use (which i assure you have been done countless times already) is useless
09/22/09
(So sorry to perpetuate that meme. But it was right there.)
09/22/09
I'm sure you're too busy trolling, though, to bother with things like reading comprehension.
I feel ashamed that ShaggE and I promoted this crappy comment, but the damage is done for now.
09/22/09
Yo fanboy, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but PS3 was one of the most expensive consoles of all time! OF ALL TIME!
09/22/09
I'm kind of disappointed with the bundles though. I was planning to buy a 360.
Still am, really. But I'm probably not getting that bundle.
09/23/09
09/23/09
As in, if you didn't get them when they were first being handed out, you're never getting them ever again?
Thats mean. :(
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09/23/09
*looks through Hamster Poop's comment history*
Oh, wait. This is coming from a person who constantly calls people sheep. Ain't hypocrisy fun, kids?
Unless, of course, you honestly don't see the irony in using the "sheep" insult, which just makes you dense... but not hypocritical. Thumbs up!
09/22/09
LEGO Batman... eh.
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Hee... I see what I did there.
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you were the best SKU
09/23/09
but the PRO was the best bundle of all time!
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04/22/09
This screen looks cool though, hopefully it turns out to be worthwhile.
04/22/09
04/22/09
I've been playing GT5P, Wipeout HD, Wipeout Pulse, Tourist Trophy, and occasionally Burnout Paradise, Ridge Racer 7, and races in GTA4. I tried Project Torque, but... what bizarro physics. I was drifting around like a madman in a 100hp FF...
I'm looking forward to Split Second, but never tried Pure...
04/22/09
Wipeout HD suffers from the fact that none of the tracks are new, the AI cheats, barrel rolls performed with a left-right-left or vice versa on the analog stick is...well...damn stupid (great way to kill your racing line in a tight race) and the game just isn't fun at the higher levels.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is still one of the best and it's not even finished. It sucks because...well...it's not even finished.
F-zero GX is STILL better than Wipeout (HD included) because it offers better track design, more tracks, 30 cars on-screen and customization. It should go down as one of the best futuristic racers made. (To be fair, Extreme G2 has better track design than Wipeout.)
MotorStorm/Motorstorm2 two of the best rally games you can buy...
Racing dying? Don't think so. Too many crap racing games in the genre? Of course, but how would that be different than any other genre at any given time?
04/22/09
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My ideal driving game would be the openness of TDU, the insanely wide range cars of the Gran Turismo, and the replay engine from GRID, and an optional batsh*t mode based on Motorstorm. Is that too much to ask?
...I guess it is. Now days, non-committed developers pump out mediocre driving games every year for marginal profits. Bah.
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I'd also like to see the street racer genre we have today move back towards the genre's roots. The early Need For Speed games were great for the time and some of the older marque specific titles like Porsche Challenge, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge we great fun. I think Test Drive Unlimited tried to do a modern sucessor to these titles, but unfortunately ended up failing in various other ways.
04/22/09