Topic: I Got To Try The 360... (Read 840 times)

Ozy · « **Reply #135 on:** October 25, 2005, 04:59:00 AM »

QUOTE(kendrid @ Oct 25 2005, 05:25 AM)

You should try the PS3 forums. They *still* think the PS3 is going to look like Pamela Anderson when it launches. I would think that reality should start to set in that it will take a while for games to truely look amazing (not that what we have now doesn't).

Carlo210 · « **Reply #136 on:** October 25, 2005, 12:58:00 PM »

QUOTE(esc1 @ Oct 25 2005, 06:20 AM)

I'm not buying this thing if I can't adjust the brightness. Omg, Omg. I could adjust the settings on the tv, but if I can't do it ingame screw this console...

Heet · « **Reply #137 on:** October 25, 2005, 04:30:00 PM »

amb7247 · « **Reply #138 on:** October 25, 2005, 05:03:00 PM »

I live in middle georgia and I tried out tehe 360. It seemed cool. Bonus content slot for memory card (though I don't thnk it's working yet). I tried out king kong. The screen they displayed for the 360 has issues with dark color. I can barely see wtf I was doing in the game. But playing the king kong demo on my pc was a en enjoyable experience.

Now COD 2 did say it is a demo. But that game seemed really cool though. I'll hold of for the PC. I think Ghost Recon will be a better game. Im gonna give the benefit that the demo is not a cemplete game and they have no implemented AA. I mean come on, nextgen console nad you don't have AA turned on? Call of duty seemed cool to.

I like the controller, feels about like what the current xbox controller feels like. Buttons are placed nice. The xbox is bigger than I thought. It's slightly smaller than the original xbox but also slightly slimmer. I did see a remote in the glass case. Must have hidden the Power supply, as I didn't see it, but it may be small if they are able to hide it well.

Deftech · « **Reply #139 on:** October 25, 2005, 05:11:00 PM »

QUOTE(amb7247 @ Oct 25 2005, 07:14 PM)

I live in middle georgia and I tried out tehe 360. It seemed cool. Bonus content slot for memory card (though I don't thnk it's working yet). I tried out king kong. The screen they displayed for the 360 has issues with dark color. I can barely see wtf I was doing in the game. But playing the king kong demo on my pc was a en enjoyable experience.

Deftech · « **Reply #140 on:** October 25, 2005, 05:12:00 PM »

QUOTE(Heet @ Oct 25 2005, 06:41 PM)

Well finally I got a chance to go to a walmart that had a 360. They had it stuck way out of the way passed the ps2 and gamecube ones. Walked up to it and DAMMIT!! Said composite 1 disconnected and the ring of light was blinking red. I went up to a "sales associate" and asked if he could hook up the cable so I could see it and he said that it died 4 days after they got it. Maybe because its behind glass with no ventilation? I dont get that at all.

amb7247 · « **Reply #141 on:** October 25, 2005, 05:15:00 PM »

Cal of Duty 2 demo was fine with the colors. The game looked fine no issues with brightness. But with king kong, it just looked a bit to dark. Much darker than king kong demo on teh PC. Like for the PC, when you pilck up the spikes to throw at the the T-Rex, you can just make them on on the monitor that was there, on PC they are clear as a bell. I know the environment is meant to be a dark and rainy but that monitor isn't showing teh way the game is supposed to be.

For the xbox controller of course I meant the xbox modified smaller controller, it just fits in my hands nicely.

Deftech · « **Reply #142 on:** October 25, 2005, 05:22:00 PM »

KAGE360 · « **Reply #143 on:** October 25, 2005, 07:04:00 PM »

QUOTE(Deftech @ Oct 25 2005, 07:33 PM)

The Kong I played was bright, taking shadows away and the overall mood of being chased by Trex. Kage went the the next day and tried another walmart and found one that was setup nicely. Im sure hes there now. By the time he gets the 360 he wont be excited, lol. I think he did that with Dreamcast too.

geo22 · « **Reply #144 on:** October 26, 2005, 01:05:00 AM »

I finally got to play a second 360 kiosk in my area aside from the Wal Mart one w/c ive posted my initial impressions from. My local EB finally got theirs, and thankfully its much bearable to play on,,no more cramped necks!!

Well as has already been mentioned the display is a Samsung brand LCD, i'm not sure if its the same type used at Wal Mart. Unfortunately the console was locked down in the glass cage so I wasnt permitted to mess with the console dash/menu settings, but the manager of the store did assure me that everyhing was setup right and it was outputting in 720p.

The contrast of the Lcd seemed to be at a much better level compared to the Wal Mart one, since the first one i believe had too high of a contrast. Regardless, after playing through the same demos, the same issues that I have encountered in my first post were still there (choppy framerates, aliasing, shimmering), although thanks to the better calibration of the Lcd, everything looked pretty crisp but nonetheless as has already been mentioned AA was not implemented on these demos. Its pretty obvious that both Wal Mart and EB are using the same demo discs.

So now, after reading through other forums about these issues, regarding especially on why AA was not used, I guess the best thing for me is to just wait till launch day, buy the damn system and a couple of games (still undecided) and see how it looks at home. If and still aliasing is still prevalent on most of the launch games (w/c i dont doubt),,as someone here has mentioned,,just wait till the second round of games come out, w/c hopefully developers will have figured out how to utilize the GPU effectively. Well heres hoping to that...

Call of Duty 2 will most probably be one of my first purchases, since i just like the action that i saw on the demo. Still, i just cant understand why some of you keep insisting there was no slowdown at all, with emphasis on "AT ALL". There is, it dropped to as low as maybe 20+FPS, my friends saw it too. Maybe its because its from an older build as some of you state,,it could be, and if it isnt in the retail version, along with AA properly implemented, then that'll just be icing on the cake. Not that it hinders the gameplay somewhat if it was still there(slowdown, aliasing), but rather, it'll just give me that "WOW" factor for my purchase, w/c ryt now is a factor i'm still looking for in the console.

KAGE360 · « **Reply #145 on:** October 26, 2005, 06:47:00 AM »

QUOTE(geo22 @ Oct 26 2005, 03:16 AM)

I finally got to play a second 360 kiosk in my area aside from the Wal Mart one w/c ive posted my initial impressions from. My local EB finally got theirs, and thankfully its much bearable to play on,,no more cramped necks!!

amb7247 · « **Reply #146 on:** October 26, 2005, 09:24:00 AM »

I saw zero slowdown in call of duty 2. But I did see no AA. As for King Kong, if there were any slowdowns, I didn't notice, I Was to busy playing the game to notice any slowdowns. And I highly doubt that demo was optimized for gameplay.

amb7247 · « **Reply #147 on:** October 26, 2005, 09:25:00 AM »

post repeated

amb7247 · « **Reply #148 on:** October 26, 2005, 09:25:00 AM »

post repeated

jdsony · « **Reply #149 on:** October 26, 2005, 11:36:00 AM »

QUOTE(jdsony @ Oct 26 2005, 07:18 PM)

If he buy's an LCD to fix darkness issues he will end up with darkness issues

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