I've bought a 360 but i'm not impressed....

I bought a 360 about a month ago and while I found the games to be great other things are not impressing me.

Now, I don't have a HDTV, but when I hooked up the 360 to my 20"LCD monitor I don't see a real difference between that and my normal SDTV. I thought the difference between HD and SD would be bigger.

Another problem I have is Live, I'm sorry but it's not worth Au$80 a year. I live in Australia and a lot of the games I try to play I get too much lag. Luckily most of the games I enjoy are generally single player. And the general community on Live is a bunch of Racist kids yelling insults all the time. I tried the free month of Gold subscription but didn't want to continue with it.

For your info, the previous gen I ownedonly a PS2. This gen I got a Wii on launch and a 360 after that.

lol. ok dude.

HD in comparision to SD is huge. Maybe you didn't switch all the stuff over for HD (behind the unit and in the system settings). No matter what next gen HD gaming machine you get, it's not going to be the same in SD.

I have a 46" Samsung LCD HDTV. It blows my mind when I play games.

As for Xbox live, you're mostely right (in my opinion of course). Depending on the game you play, the kids are brats. Forza has a great community fortunatly. Shooters and such don't. Is it worth $50 a year to me? Hell yes! That's little over 4 dollars a month and I love Xbox live.

I bought a 360 about a month ago and while I found the games to be great other things are not impressing me.

Now, I don't have a HDTV, but when I hooked up the 360 to my 20"LCD monitor I don't see a real difference between that and my normal SDTV. I thought the difference between HD and SD would be bigger.

Another problem I have is Live, I'm sorry but it's not worth Au$80 a year. I live in Australia and a lot of the games I try to play I get too much lag. Luckily most of the games I enjoy are generally single player. And the general community on Live is a bunch of Racist kids yelling insults all the time. I tried the free month of Gold subscription but didn't want to continue with it.

For your info, the previous gen I ownedonly a PS2. This gen I got a Wii on launch and a 360 after that.

jay_Z_100

Play with people in Australia, your probably playing with people from around the world.

Also, I think 360 looks better in SD, my friend has an HD and it looks ugly, he has all the settings for the HD and everything.

HD in comparision to SD is huge. Maybe you didn't switch all the stuff over for HD (behind the unit and in the system settings). No matter what next gen HD gaming machine you get, it's not going to be the same in SD.

I have a 46" Samsung LCD HDTV. It blows my mind when I play games.

As for Xbox live, you're mostely right (in my opinion of course). Depending on the game you play, the kids are brats. Forza has a great community fortunatly. Shooters and such don't. Is it worth $50 a year to me? Hell yes! That's little over 4 dollars a month and I love Xbox live.

Chopmo81

I got the official xbox 360 VGA cable and it's just connecting it to the monitor and the back of the 360 and I also tried playing around with the setting and while it made the dashboard sharper, the actual games wasn't a big leap.

When I said that there is not that big a difference between SD and HD, I was not playing down the graphics of the 360 because the graphics on my SDTV are still fantastic especially Gears of war and Kameo.

I didn't say I can't afford it, I just said it's not worth it.

Just cause I can also afford the crappy games doesn't mean I'll buy them, I'll just stick to buying stuff that's worth it to me.

[QUOTE="Chopmo81"]

HD in comparision to SD is huge. Maybe you didn't switch all the stuff over for HD (behind the unit and in the system settings). No matter what next gen HD gaming machine you get, it's not going to be the same in SD.

I have a 46" Samsung LCD HDTV. It blows my mind when I play games.

As for Xbox live, you're mostely right (in my opinion of course). Depending on the game you play, the kids are brats. Forza has a great community fortunatly. Shooters and such don't. Is it worth $50 a year to me? Hell yes! That's little over 4 dollars a month and I love Xbox live.

jay_Z_100

I got the official xbox 360 VGA cable and it's just connecting it to the monitor and the back of the 360 and I also tried playing around with the setting and while it made the dashboard sharper, the actual games wasn't a big leap.

When I said that there is not that big a difference between SD and HD, I was not playing down the graphics of the 360 because the graphics on my SDTV are still fantastic especially Gears of war and Kameo.

And we're telling you there IS a huge difference between standard and HD. Enormous, actually. The thing is, it might not be that noticeable if you're using a dinky 20" monitor as your example for HD. Try a bigger size and it'll be very noticeable. I played on a standard TV for months before switching to the 32" Samsung LCD I have now. The difference was staggering.

[QUOTE="jay_Z_100"][QUOTE="Chopmo81"]

HD in comparision to SD is huge. Maybe you didn't switch all the stuff over for HD (behind the unit and in the system settings). No matter what next gen HD gaming machine you get, it's not going to be the same in SD.

I have a 46" Samsung LCD HDTV. It blows my mind when I play games.

As for Xbox live, you're mostely right (in my opinion of course). Depending on the game you play, the kids are brats. Forza has a great community fortunatly. Shooters and such don't. Is it worth $50 a year to me? Hell yes! That's little over 4 dollars a month and I love Xbox live.

Zeliard9

I got the official xbox 360 VGA cable and it's just connecting it to the monitor and the back of the 360 and I also tried playing around with the setting and while it made the dashboard sharper, the actual games wasn't a big leap.

When I said that there is not that big a difference between SD and HD, I was not playing down the graphics of the 360 because the graphics on my SDTV are still fantastic especially Gears of war and Kameo.

And we're telling you there IS a huge difference between standard and HD. Enormous, actually. The thing is, it might not be that noticeable if you're using a dinky 20" monitor as your example for HD. Try a bigger size and it'll be very noticeable. I played on a standard TV for months before switching to the 32" Samsung LCD I have now. The difference was staggering.

I agree. There's a big difference. Everything is soo clear and crisp in HD. I've had mine plugged into a SD tv and it's pretty ugly. Looks awesome in HD. I don't know how people don't see the diff. It's like trying to look through a foggy glass for SD and removing the glass for HD. I'd agree with the people who say get glasses

Either I must be doing something wrong with the cables or I expected too much from nextgen consoles.

Either I must be doing something wrong with the cables or I expected too much from nextgen consoles.

jay_Z_100

Either I must be doing something wrong with the cables or I expected too much from nextgen consoles.

jay_Z_100

How much could you possibly have expected? The difference in how technically impressive and innovative games are between this gen and last gen is absurd. And it's still very early.

The monitor is a Dell 20"LCDmonitor. And my expectation was in relation to HD not how technically impressive the games are.The games are some of the best there is, and if someone told me that SD was all there was, I'd been happy with my purchase, but when Microsoft goes on about the HD era and you must have HD, I expected to be blown away when I saw it.

Get yourself a nice HDTV & then come back & talk to us about it. The difference between SD & HD is night & day once you've played on a buff HDTV. And no, I'm not bragging or flaming you, I'm just letting you know how it is.

And the fact that Live costs so much in Aus is a bummer for you, but it doesn't at all change the fact that the service is fantastic & is easily the best console online setup to date.

Played XBOX360 on a normal T.V for about 1 month, then shifted to a moniter. The difference is huge.....

I wished gameplayhad changed to with the t.v :p

Another problem I have is Live, I'm sorry but it's not worth Au$80 a year. I live in Australia and a lot of the games I try to play I get too much lag. Luckily most of the games I enjoy are generally single player. And the general community on Live is a bunch of Racist kids yelling insults all the time. I tried the free month of Gold subscription but didn't want to continue with it.For your info, the previous gen I ownedonly a PS2. This gen I got a Wii on launch and a 360 after that.jay_Z_100

Get yourself a nice HDTV & then come back & talk to us about it. The difference between SD & HD is night & day once you've played on a buff HDTV. And no, I'm not bragging or flaming you, I'm just letting you know how it is.

And the fact that Live costs so much in Aus is a bummer for you, but it doesn't at all change the fact that the service is fantastic & is easily the best console online setup to date.

ColoradoKindBud

It is night and day, particularly when you are comparing the Wii he owns to the 360. My guess is that he's a troll.

Did you switch the cable and dashboard settings to HD? I sure noticed a difference on my new 30" widescreen. And do you have a dial-up connection?

Anyway whatever dude.

Part of the problem with the HDis that you are putting it on a small computer monitor which inherently brings in lots of problems.

1) The significance of HD becomes more readily apparent the bigger the screen gets

2) You probably aren't playing at the native resolution of your monitor which brings in some image problems

The difference between SD and HD is simply stunning. I tend to ignore the channels that aren't in HD now because the image graininess of SD really bothers me.

HD in comparision to SD is huge. Maybe you didn't switch all the stuff over for HD (behind the unit and in the system settings). No matter what next gen HD gaming machine you get, it's not going to be the same in SD.

I have a 46" Samsung LCD HDTV. It blows my mind when I play games.

As for Xbox live, you're mostely right (in my opinion of course). Depending on the game you play, the kids are brats. Forza has a great community fortunatly. Shooters and such don't. Is it worth $50 a year to me? Hell yes! That's little over 4 dollars a month and I love Xbox live.

Chopmo81

I have to agree! My 360 looks much better on an HDTV as oppossed to an SDTV but it still looks good on SD which is really cool! It just shows you how good the graphics really are on the 360. Maybe you just need a better HD monitor or something...

First of all I let me say I love the 360 and have many games including GoW, R6V, Kameo, Table Tennis, Topspin 2, Saints Row and some others. When it come to the graphics I'm not complaining about them directly they're a huge step ahead of last gen. It's just that I honestly expected more of a difference between SD and the monitor.

As for the monitor I am mainly a PC gamer and maybe I'm comparing the visuals to other PC games where you can turn the resolution way up.

For the people saying if you can affordthe console you can afford live, just because I can afford it doesn't meanI find it to be worth the asking pricefor the use. Ifsomeone offered you crap in a bag for$1 doesn't mean you would take it. (I'm not comparing Live to crap in a bag).

Yeah gamers in any country other than the almighty USA have been ripped off in that you can't actually see which games to join that are in your neighbourhood. The Forza community seems really good because of the depth of the game seems to frighten off mummy's boys that think swearing when mummy's downstairs on her back earning money to pay for broadband is heaps tuff ya'll....GANGSTA. If you want to see a difference in HD and SD try playing LOTR on a CRT, forget about it. I'm in Australia as well, as soon as Telstra has sorted its beef out with the ACCC the gamer community here will increase as more people will have ADSL2 thats affordable and it'll bring quality players that'll speak proper 'strayn with a sprinkling of 'hey bro' chucked in there too, persevere bro, in the meantime get Oblivion and wait for the revolution.

Yeah gamers in any country other than the almighty USA have been ripped off in that you can't actually see which games to join that are in your neighbourhood. The Forza community seems really good because of the depth of the game seems to frighten off mummy's boys that think swearing when mummy's downstairs on her back earning money to pay for broadband is heaps tuff ya'll....GANGSTA. If you want to see a difference in HD and SD try playing LOTR on a CRT, forget about it. I'm in Australia as well, as soon as Telstra has sorted its beef out with the ACCC the gamer community here will increase as more people will have ADSL2 thats affordable and it'll bring quality players that'll speak proper 'strayn with a sprinkling of 'hey bro' chucked in there too, persevere bro, in the meantime get Oblivion and wait for the revolution.

Cruzadr

Issues... MUCH!!!