Xbox Team podcast - Episode 23

What happened to Episode 22?

I have to agree with Mike that Forza 2 will dominate your spare time once you come to enjoy it.  The game is addictive and I can't help but tackle just one more race...for two hours.  Aside from that, however, the pickings have been slim lately.  Pac-Man CE is brilliant, but that's about it as far as arcade goes.

Unfortunately, E3 and PAX are beyond my reach this year, but I plan on attending PAX next year when I move out west.  I presume you will be posting stories as they break, T-Dub, since you won't be going to either E3 or PAX.

While I know it's problematic, could you at least chime in from off camera?  These segments are much less enjoyable without your involvement.  Then again, you could be onscreen provided the camera stays above the bust line.

...and I'm still waiting for you to accept my Live friend request.

What happened to Episode 22?

I have to agree with Mike that Forza 2 will dominate your spare time once you come to enjoy it.  The game is addictive and I can't help but tackle just one more race...for two hours.  Aside from that, however, the pickings have been slim lately.  Pac-Man CE is brilliant, but that's about it as far as arcade goes.

Unfortunately, E3 and PAX are beyond my reach this year, but I plan on attending PAX next year when I move out west.  I presume you will be posting stories as they break, T-Dub, since you won't be going to either E3 or PAX.

While I know it's problematic, could you at least chime in from off camera?  These segments are much less enjoyable without your involvement.  Then again, you could be onscreen provided the camera stays above the bust line.

...and I'm still waiting for you to accept my Live friend request.

Yeah I agree< 360 is all about PacMan CE and forza right now, but there are others worth a look -DiRT looks like a welcome addition to the ever increasing driving simultion genre on 360.

There always seems to be this lull in games just before E3 anyway. Hopefully E3 will give us details on more 360 goodness, some of which we have no idea about. Personally I am interested to see what japanese developers intentions are with the system because there are a choice few that are very keen on the machine. The 360 needs a degree of balance that japanese developers can certainly give us. I am getting a little tired of FPS that are not Crysis , and feel we need more titles like Blue Dragon and such.  [LS]

Yeah I agree< 360 is all about PacMan CE and forza right now, but there are others worth a look -DiRT looks like a welcome addition to the ever increasing driving simultion genre on 360.

There always seems to be this lull in games just before E3 anyway. Hopefully E3 will give us details on more 360 goodness, some of which we have no idea about. Personally I am interested to see what japanese developers intentions are with the system because there are a choice few that are very keen on the machine. The 360 needs a degree of balance that japanese developers can certainly give us. I am getting a little tired of FPS that are not Crysis , and feel we need more titles like Blue Dragon and such.  [LS]

I rented Command and Conquer, liked it a lot. Definitely worked on the console and it gave me wicked flashbacks to being 15 and doing an all-nighter at a friends house with the original game. My top 5 games coming would be uh.... Mass Effect, Halo 3 naturally, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, and uh........................ GTA4 or Assassin's Creed I'd say.

I rented Command and Conquer, liked it a lot. Definitely worked on the console and it gave me wicked flashbacks to being 15 and doing an all-nighter at a friends house with the original game. My top 5 games coming would be uh.... Mass Effect, Halo 3 naturally, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, and uh........................ GTA4 or Assassin's Creed I'd say.

Shadowrun has me hooked and I am trying to get through Forza 2 so I can dedicated my racing efforts to DiRT.

The gameplay in Shadowrun gets better and better every time I play it and so far I can't stick with one race (though I have barely played as an elf). I notice a lot of players online are focused on getting certain achievements which can hurt the teamwork effort at times so I just hope to get them without any dedicated effort and so far it has been working. I could not stop cracking up today when I got the 'Shadowrun Fever' secret achievement. My stomach is still hurting from laughing so hard.

I am a big racing game fan and Forza 2 has been extremely fun. I was always trying to win the races and beat my friends times on every track I could but ever since I picked up DiRT, I'm really anxious to finish Forza. Not sure if F2 will have me hooked long enough to finish it all but I am trying (only 43% of career done).

Good show/blogcast this week. Can't wait to catch the next one.

Shadowrun has me hooked and I am trying to get through Forza 2 so I can dedicated my racing efforts to DiRT.

The gameplay in Shadowrun gets better and better every time I play it and so far I can't stick with one race (though I have barely played as an elf). I notice a lot of players online are focused on getting certain achievements which can hurt the teamwork effort at times so I just hope to get them without any dedicated effort and so far it has been working. I could not stop cracking up today when I got the 'Shadowrun Fever' secret achievement. My stomach is still hurting from laughing so hard.

I am a big racing game fan and Forza 2 has been extremely fun. I was always trying to win the races and beat my friends times on every track I could but ever since I picked up DiRT, I'm really anxious to finish Forza. Not sure if F2 will have me hooked long enough to finish it all but I am trying (only 43% of career done).

Good show/blogcast this week. Can't wait to catch the next one.