So, what is the best of the best?
Leave out Fallout,Oblivion and Halo plz.
Oh and Castle Crashers which I already downloaded and played the shit out of last night.
This is a great starting point. Those games got high review scores for a reason.
As for my own personal recommendations: Get Crackdown. And Assassin’s Creed. Both got mixed reviews and aren’t that high on that metacritic list, and you’ll find plenty of people here who don’t like them (especially AC), but I think they’re incredible.
EDIT: Looking at that list, apparently Crackdown is the 69th best game on the 360? And Assassin’s Creed is 93rd? That’s soooo off the mark.
SolomonGrundy want pants!
Everyone is a unique snowflake and so gets unique recommendations. What are your genre/gaming interests? Because otherwise you’ll get Dead Rising, Final Fantasy Gay XXXII, and Fallout 3, even though you already said no Fallout.
Crackdown.
On the XBLA front, Geometry Wars 2.
Also, add another vote for Crackdown.
Crackdown
Crackdown. Also Gears of War 2.
I like Pants.
No music games, I sadly already have the whole rock band thing on my Wii.
Shooters, adventure, RPG, Hell, I’ll play almost anything , except I wont do RTS on the xbox.
So just post your fav’s- I’ve paid no attention to xbox releases so I’m a bit lost on the great ones.
I’m okay with AC there. But Crackdown is definitely the consensus “the reviewers got it wrong” game. (And not just on QT3; my casual gamer friends just about all love the game, too.)
Other than that, yeah, you can’t go too far wrong by buying the highly-rated games.
Also, Assassin’s Creed was fun.
Crackdown for sure… and Fable 2… and Dead Rising (now only $19.99 :)).
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Has anyone mentioned Crackdown yet?
My brother and I had a fun Crackdown match the other day. For some reason his character/savegame was totally lost (sidebar: anyone know why that happens?) and so he started out as the wimpy agent with no stars. I’m of course fully built up. We had a roving deathmatch where he could use any weapon to kill me but I could only use the air stomp (hold down B move), melee, and throwing things/driving cars to kill him. It was pretty evenly matched as he ran around the city ducking into corners and firing madly at me as I leapt from rooftop to rooftop stalking him. He’d fire off a bunch of grenades at me and I’d leap over him and catch onto a building and then watch him flee down an alley. When he thought he was safe I’d jump over the edge and come down stomping him. Sometimes he’d avoid it and tag me, sometimes I’d get him. Or, I’d throw a dumpster at him knocking him off balance then go up and stomp his guts out. Sometimes I’d be chasing him, catching up to him slowly and trying to time my melee correctly (it slows you down/stops you from running when you do it.) He’d hear me laughing when I would almost catch him and leap at the last second, my leg sweeping under his airborne feet.
One of the best moments we had was when he surrounded himself with limpit mines with his back to an area I could jump to (under a ledge). I threw everything that wasn’t nailed down at him to try to knock him over so he couldn’t push the denonate button.
They could really play off this superhero deathmatch aspect in Crackdown 2, if it’s ever made … or hell, any other game for that matter.
You mean Crackdown? No, I don’t think so.
And as long as we’re discussing great games for the 360: Crackdown.
It’s ridiculous that we’ve gone sixteen posts without a single mention of Crackdown.
Also: Dead Rising, Far Cry 2, Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto IV, and of course Saints Row 2.
Downloadables: Braid, Geometry Wars 2, Puzzle Quest, Pac Man Championship Edition.
If you’re at all interested in RPGs and/or Bioware you need to play Mass Effect. There are fairly significant issues (graphical issues galore, combat you may or may not enjoy, the Mako) but the storytelling, voice work, and character interactions are fantastic. It’s also only 19 bucks from Amazon.
The best game is nwodkcarC.
Also: Call of Duty 4 for your shooter fix, DIRT og GRID for your racing needs, GTA IV for your open city needs, Saints Row 2 for your open city needs with humor. A second wote for PacMan CE as well, and Ikaruga.
What the hell, no Crackdown in this thread???
Btw, Crackdown.
Also Dead Rising and mustn’t forget Saints Row 2.
SR2 – my vote as well. It is just awesome for funnness (?) Anyway it is.
Fallout 3
Oh heh, get Rock Band 2…Steve Miller pack is sweet.
Oh and if you have Netflix and a fast internet, the watch on demand really works well.
Did anyone mention Crackdown yet?