Your First Memories of 360/PS3/Wii Usage?

Yungstar 2006

Yungstar 2006

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ah............. seems like only 2 years ago when i first opened my 360 box....

bought it with a few games (Oblivion, Ridge Racer, Quake 4, PGR 3) and wireless adapter.

it came on a friday afternoon around 3 o'clock.
on opening the package i connected it all and went online, checked out the store and downloaded Bejeweled.
played the demo and bought the full game straight away. me and the wife then played this until she had to go to work at 5pm leaving me alone with this thing.

after another hour or so i loaded up Hexic (free on the HD) and found it also to be a great puzzle game.
next up was the rather disappointing Oblivion, after hearing all that i had about the game i expected more, but alas.... it was not to be and i was back to Bejeweled.

for the next week or so i tried the other games that came with the system and was mighty pleased overall, but the one thing i remember from my first few weeks experience was my lack of care about these achievement thingies that popped up now and then until i compared them with a friend and noticed he had 50 from Oblivion and so i played Oblivion 1 last time (swapped for PDZ shortly after) to see if i could beat him. no luck, i got to 50 but could not stand the game any longer. but that achievement thing had getting hold.

to this day the most fun i've had on LIVE was with Burnout Revenge (traded it when i heard Paradise was on it's way, wish't i had not as Revenge is the better game) and Battle Field 2.



my PS3 memories consist of..........
it came, took it out the box, christ this looks great.
crikies, this pad is unbelievably light.
front end, ug-leeeeee.
PSN, there kidding right?
Motorstorm, no thanks.
F1, this is more like it.
Resistance, great game. more please.


Wii
set it up, loaded Zelda, played Zelda, removed Zelda.
loaded Sports. thought to myself, the kids are going to love this. and they did....... for a couple of weeks.
 
Wii.

Have to say it was very well packaged! love the smell of new gear! Open it up put it all together etc , all sleek and fresh looking. I only had sports then but played and played it , then borrowed Zelda from a friend and played that for about 2 days then kinda drifted from the wii... i bought Zelda myself .... which is still in its wrapper till this day ... Mario Kart is the main game i play on and off these days, Think the Wii is okay in small time gaps ...other than that a very good console :)
 
Got my 360 on launch day. Knew it had arrived as I had been home for lunch, but was savouring the "opening" for later that day. Picked up my friend on the way home from work and headed straight into town to get another controller, and picked up things like the play and charge kit at the same time. Got home and pluged the machine into my top of the line 20" ProLine CRT TV :D. Best night of gaming to that date :).
 
Got a 360 about a year after it came out, first game i played was crackdown which i loved, then i played condenmed which i loved, then medal of honour airborne, the list goes on, i realise now that my choice of game was really very bad
 
Launch day 360:

It appeared out of no-where from one of the 10 competitors that I had placed pre-orders on :o The moment it arrived, I rushed upstairs to quickly cancel all my other orders lol

Hooked the thing up to the 28" Sony Wega used by the parents in our living room and was treated to 3 red quadrants much to my horror after hearing the horror stories from USA about RRoD's. Luckily it was just the video cable not pushed in firmly.

I fired up the first of my 3x launch day games - Condemned. It looked good but nothing special and I realised that this game would be one I'd really need time to sit down and play. PGR3 was up next and :eek: @ visuals. I was blown away and realised that moving away from the PC platform was the right move.

Kameo was next as I was blinded by a flurry of gorgeous colours and artwork. I then took the console upstairs to my 'proper' setup - a 14" Matsui :o - mainly because VGA leads were like gold dust back then and it was close to impossible to get one for my 20" TFT. Ebay had them for like £80 a pop but they'd go so fast. Infact any MS branded accessory was extremely rare to find during the launch phase.

A few days later, the first of many OCUK PGR3 nights began. Lots of shouting/screaming/girly/badger comments were made as about 8 cars would try to squeeze through chicanes made for obviously a single vehicle. Those were some of the funniest moments around - especially as the infamous PGR3 'lockup' bug appeared causing a lot of us to drop out of the lobby.

I fell asleep at 2am during the middle of one Ocuk weekend race because the track was Nurbuggering and the host had set a silly amount of laps up on it. I hardly play on the 360 now because the quality games just aren't there (summer draught I guess) and work life has taken over but I'll always have the memories. Good thread!
 
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Got my 360 in the Christmas of 2006 and my first memory has to be being wowed at Call of Duty 3's graphics. I was then intrigued by the thing that said Achievement unlocked. Little did I realise how much of a big part that phrase would play into my my games playing 2 years later :p
 
360 Elite

Turned it on, crap its noisey, put in halo 3, what a junk game, turned it off and didn't touch it for months. Decided to give it another go, HDMI port died, sent to Germany for a week, new one back, still noisey.

Finally starting to get some use out of it now though, Forza 2 and GTA IV are keeping me entertained.
 
First time I played 360 was over a mate’s house shortly after release, at this time I was still a hardcore PC gamer, but it did look nice enough – GRAW iirc, and a spot of Fight Night 3; getting beat though :(

Same mate kindly lent me his console and games for two weeks while he was away and I spent it playing GRAW, eventually getting back into the swing of using a console pad (last I owned was a Dreamcast), then it was time to hand it back and I promised myself I’d get one.

Brought mine with a bunch of games back in March 07 I think, it was duly hammered for the following months, more games were purchased, loads was spent on content downloads, but it started misreading discs when Forza came out.

The 360 hasn’t been played online since April I think, as I didn’t want to renew live, and the fact the hardware is playing up, doesn’t fill me with confidence. But the main reason for the 360 taking up cupboard space is that I picked up a 60 gig PS3 cheap from another mate, so that is now my main game console and I’m loving it.

Scort.
 
The Xbox 360 was my first console ever so it was a totally new experience playing games on the TV. I was so impressed by King Kong and the V-Rex sequences which made the controller rumble with each giant footstep. LOL.
 
The first memories of my Xbox 360 were allowing my Girlfriend first go, She played Viva Pinata, and didn't let go for quite a while. I have to be honest, I was getting cranky, because I had the Oblivion GOTY sat unopened and I WANTED TO PLAY.
 
360 round about when COD4 had came out, got taht with Halo3.

Put COD4 in the tray and it hasnt been out of it often lol
 
Summary when i first
When I first played my 360 - HOLY **** them some damm good graphics !!!!
When I first played my Wii - HOLY **** this is stupidly fun !!!!

Now
When I play my 360 - meh
When I play my Wii - I rarely play it now

Result - PC RAINS SUPREME !
 
I got my PS3 shortly after i had completed Crysis, i fired it up, chucked in Uncharted and prepared to be underwhelmed (i knew there was no way the PS3 could achieve crysis level stuff). I was right, it looked nice but nothing special.

Then i went around a corner and saw the submarine :eek: my utter awe at how great that looked is testament to the fact that artistic creativity and direction is far more important than high tech graphics.
 
360 for me, got it from were i work and i got it 3 days early so all my mates came round we played pgr3 for hours it looked so good i was well pleased as well as i had the vga lead that was like super rare at the time :)
 
Streeteh said:
I got my PS3 shortly after i had completed Crysis, i fired it up, chucked in Uncharted and prepared to be underwhelmed (i knew there was no way the PS3 could achieve crysis level stuff). I was right, it looked nice but nothing special.

Then i went around a corner and saw the submarine :eek: my utter awe at how great that looked is testament to the fact that artistic creativity and direction is far more important than high tech graphics.
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That whole sequence was great, walking up that embankment walled in at boths sides with the sun shining at you, the increasing sound of the waterfall then BAM you get to the top.
There were quite a few other spectacular views in the game, I stopped quite a few times to take in the scenery, they weren't as much of a sock in the mouth though.
 
the best machine i have owned for the wow factor was the first xbox with a copy of halo 1 ive not played a game so much as i did with that :)
 
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