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[KAGE360]

glad to see you finally got to play the system.  i agree that any minor problems with the graphics should be fixed for the launch.  after seeing 3 kiosks the system impressed at all 3 walmarts.  even at the 2 that were set up really bad the games drew crowds and great comments from the people watching.  

deftech and i went to the only good looking kiosk over the weekend and the time we were there the games being played drew a huge crowd of people and employees all shouting about the games being displayed on the screen.  even the multi-gen port King Kong raised eye-brows and ohhh and ahhhhs as king kong and the T-rex look really good.  

the beautiful part of all this is that we know that the final games will look even better and no matter how good these launch games look its nothing compared to what the system is actually capable of doing.

[Shinamano]

My second attempt at a Kiosk (first was broken none of the demos loaded) was last night as i was running through a Wal Mart to get candy to hand out for Halloween...anyhow I got there as a kid was loading up CoD2...it looked awesome (other then the super high brightness) but I was in a hurry and the thing that pissed me off was the kid would not die...despite every Nazi in the game picking him apart, him throwing grenades into the wall in front of him (what is the deal no life meter?)...

On a good note there were a couple of others watching and comments like 'those graphics are too real' and 'I can't wait to get one of these' could be heard...so despite the lack of killer titles it looks like MS made the right move to influence the mind of the casual gamer...

I was pissed I did not get to play again, but I was glad to know it was well met with the non-hardcore...I would like to see an advertising campaign aimed at the non-hardcore start up soon...

[Ozy]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Oct 31 2005, 06:48 PM)

I got a chance to play a few of the demo units over the weekend...

[KAGE360]

QUOTE(Ozy @ Nov 1 2005, 02:24 PM)

Now if you posted that on the second page when the topic was still young a lot of us (mainly me) wouldn't have got so wound up about AA.

[Ozy]

QUOTE(KAGE360 @ Nov 1 2005, 07:37 PM)

not to beat a dead horse but plenty of other people have posted enough impressions and facts that should have calmed any worries you have had about AA.  he said that there was obviously no AA being used in these early builds, that is something that has been said from the beginning.  but hopefully now your ulcers will have passed and your mind is made up about the 360 

[Ozy]

Edit - Feckin' servers!

[KAGE360]

QUOTE(Ozy @ Nov 1 2005, 02:41 PM)

I've had my mind made up for months now. I was just expecting to be disapointed because of the rush.

[Ozy]

QUOTE(KAGE360 @ Nov 1 2005, 07:43 PM)

well thats good because unlike those with too high (read: unrealistic) of expectations for launch games you should be impressed from such low expectations

[twistedsymphony]

Another Best Buy store (finally one, near-ish me) got their kiosk in today.

Unfortunately their disc got cracked in shipping so all you could do was screw around with the Dashboard/Guide... Which by the way is really friggin cool and easy to navigate. Smooth as hell too, I didn't spend to much time with it last time I used the kiosk but I played around with it for a good 20minute today.

One interesting thing I found was the Hard Drive showed only 13GB of free space... not to mention it had ZERO music, video, or Live Arcade files on it. so I wonder exactly what was taking up the remaining 5-7GB of space.

[Deftech]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Nov 1 2005, 10:31 PM)

One interesting thing I found was the Hard Drive showed only 13GB of free space... not to mention it had ZERO music, video, or Live Arcade files on it. so I wonder exactly what was taking up the remaining 5-7GB of space.

[Deftech]

QUOTE(dysfunc7i0n @ Nov 1 2005, 11:18 PM)

my only guess would be packed in arcade games....but they shouldnt take up that much space...

[Deftech]

QUOTE(dysfunc7i0n @ Nov 1 2005, 11:34 PM)

all these people with talk of halo 2.5 makes me wanna bust a cap...since im gangster and all...

[hugoboss1]

I think the space being used at the kiosk has to be all the demos...I got to play it yesterday and after 1 minute some 10 year old was about to cry because he had to go so i gave it to him then there was like 5 other kids and i had to give it up because how does it look for a 26 yrld fighting with kids to play the dam thing i go back when i get my oil change....COD2 looked better than any vid ive seen and the sound makes the expirience very realistic.

It was what i expected awsome.