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Open Mic: When Designing The New Xbox 1st Addition - Reliability

With Gamecom coming to a close, Both Sony and Nintendo are upping the anti with revisions to their machines. With rumours of a new version of the 360 abound, Gameztraffic writer Guesty81 looks at just why reliability should be the focus above anything else. Looking at recent surveys about system reliability he explores just why the Xbox faithful continue to stay loyal to the machine.

IcyJoker1875389d ago

They better get it right next time.

OGharryjoysticks5389d ago

Give me a break. This article is pretty spot on. When the next Box comes out you're going to be geeked and you will try to buy it on day one. And within the first month of owning it you'll shell out for all the add-ons and buy the membership and one or two games to boot. So 3 months down the line if it breaks you'll be unhappy, but you're not going to do anything. If anything you'll tell yourself how cool it was while you had it because you have nothing else to do while you wait. And when you get it back you'll be happy and forgive and forget everything as you hook up all your add-ons and reactivate your membership. Odds are you even bought a new game while the system was at the service center just so the moment you get it back you can play something new. But you'll never admit that the initial purchase/investment and continued support was bad because you have self-esteem and want to keep it. Nobody wants to know that they constantly make poor decisions so no matter how BS it is you'll find a way to defend it before cutting your losses. You're not made out of money and technically it's cheaper to stick with it than start all over even though the peace of mind you would gain is worth more than money to some people.

GameOn5388d ago

Does that go for all console owners or just xbox owners?

Peter North5389d ago

Impossible, RROD is a part of the Xbox experience.

tha_meat_beater5389d ago

removing RROD from the 360 is harder than removing the stank from a hunk of sh1t

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All Call of Duty Black Ops Games Ranked

The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."

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Rynxie1d 7h ago (Edited 1d 6h ago )

Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.

And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.

I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.

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25 Games We Want To See Get A Sequel

BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?

This list compiles some of the top games we desperately want to get a sequel. Please give us more of our favorite games!"

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DefenderOfDoom22d ago

Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..

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Moving In My 30s Made Me Nostalgic For Physical Games

GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."

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Sciurus_vulgaris7d ago

I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.

Popsicle6d ago

I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.

shinoff21836d ago

Most games are usually on disc still. Of course you got you publishers that are hit and miss, Activision, ubisoft, ea, Microsoft, where the rest of the game needs downloaded.