Picking up an Xbox 360 arcade.

Tomorrow. If my parents didnt lie to me haha.

Please dont say "dont buy arcade, buy elite"...money is kinda tight so i cant afford to and i wanted an 360 for a long time...i still play the original sometimes haha.

But the thing is what games do you recomend i should get as my first ones? I was thinking about the orange box, especially it being 20 bucks now...

Also i had 2 questions.

Arcade comes with 256mb memory built in. So i am wondering can i save games with that? and what about demos? videos? etc...

and second one, because it does not have wireless pickup, i can just run my ethernet cable to it right?

thanks for all help.

get halo 3 (really cheap now), mw2, and ac2

thanks for the advice man. i appreciateit, i understand now that I will need a harddrive. And because HDD will cost like 100 bucks, I might buy it seperatly in the near future when check for my music comes in.

what about the internet acess...just standard ethernet cable that runs into your comp would be used?

and what about suggestions for any other games? L4D2? COD2? AC 1-2?

i am sure my mom will buy me a game to go with it haha..

thanks once again

Edit: oh. thanks for suggestions mate. and i already beat halo 3..my mate late me borrow his a while ago. great game though. what about ODST?

I did just what you are going to do. I have a tight budget, and when I got my xbox 360 i got the arcade version thinking that the memorycard was all i needed. But now, a few months later my "save location is full" so Ihave to get a hard drive. My budget is still tight, so I got the 20 gb hard drive off eBay. I ordered it three weeks ago, but i haven't gotten it yet. Its probably lost in the christmas chaos. I hope I'll got it soon though, cuz I want to try out Portal and Half-Life from The Orange Box, but I cant start a new game,because my save location is full. Also, you can't download demos or anything like that to the memory card. Or, I guess you can, but mine doesn't have enaugh avalible memory. In other words, I wish I'd gotten the Elite version.

So, if you get the arcade version, you'll probably regret it, but its your choice.

But to answer your question:If you want game recommendations, check you the game recommendation sticky.