Personally, for me it's MGS4, however Fallout 3 and Gears 2 deserve to be up there also.

The problem is though folks, GTA4 is going to win based off of it's strong sales. It's not a great game, and I regret falling into the hype machine and buying it- a mistake I won't make again.

With the way multiplatform gaming is now, everyone is going to 360 because it has the larger installed base of the two, but as the X-Box peaks and levels off, that's when we'll see developers making their LONG term choices.....

Competition is good, lets hope Sony also step up so that both sides remain strong- better games will come of it.

What a crap topic.

Comparing an RPG to a fighting game is like comparing a Steak to a Pot Noodle.....sometimes all you need is a quick thing....but seriously, they're completely different games- to compare them isn't a smart idea.

First of all, shame on you for the bad puns in the topic.....they reek! :p

Wired connections give you a transfer speed of 100MBPS between X-BOX and Router/Modem, which means the connection speed depends solely on your modem speed, net traffic and ISP allowance; Wireless on the other handhas to travel to your machine, and can be interfered with Electronically, the signal strength suffers that way, and it can also be interfered with by the material of the walls in your house. My advice would be to stick to Wired, especially since XBL is already overcrowded, leading to horribly laggy games at peak times anyway.....better to screw out that last few MB/s speed than be left to lag. (Wireless usually has transfer speeds around the 54MBPS mark from what I remember.)

With Fallout 3 on the horizon, I doubt very much I could be bothered with this- I wasn't a massive fan of the extremely linear first game (RPGS should have a degree of freedom besides being able to decorate your house I feel.) and Fallout is going to rock my world, so I don't think so.

Besides I have to play Warhammer sometimes! :p

Not sure I like this, because the two consoles are very different- if people continue this business of having both games or all games across multiple platforms, we'll see a stifled growth in the things either console can do. It's fine with Tekken, it's usually a low intensive, short on design high on function game.....but titles like FFXIII and such, they're the boundary pushers.

Fair play to Namco I guess, thwy'll make more money this was, but meh.

It costs money to mantain the best online gaming service available. $50 for 13 months isn't nothing to cry about, especially for what your getting.shawn7324

Which is less than you get on a PC. It's that simple. It's $50 (or if in the UK £40) for a service that wants to sell you as much stuff as possible. On PC, such content is free. If you mean 'Best console gaming service available, I'd understand, but in every other respect the PC is dominant.

Also, on the issue of player behaviour, on PC you can kick offensive, griefing, cheating and otherwise contentious players, but on XBL you have to sit there and take it. Someone wants to quit in the 90th minute in FIFA? NO PROBLEM, especially since Negative Rep won't do a damned thing against this blatant act of cheating,and that player is then able to move on and play another game. There is a dirty cheating and bullying mentality on-line; at least on PC you're somewhat protected from this.

It's another issue I have with paying to play on XBL (And consoles in general.), there's no player accountability for cheating exploits (FIFA players dropping out, glitching a map to gain an advantage.....etc.), profane language and annoying voice chat, Griefplay and team-attacking and other game-breaking behaviours that if you play PC games, are usually dealt with heavily and swiftly. Usually with a ban for a set period of time, or simply a kick from the server. This lack of administration means that many games end with most of the game leaving, giving negative rep and no-one having fun except the griefer.

I'll stick to PC for the moment until players are made accountable.

When it comes down to it, you'll find the majority of people preaching that XBL is worth paying for are the same testosterone-headed die-hard X-Boxers that think Halo is a masterpiece and Microsoft are the world's saviours of consumer electronics. I've seen and experienced all three 'next gen' (Though no-one will ever convince me of the WII's credentials as a 'next gen' machine.) Internet services, and have found them all to be equally buggy and equally flawed.

With XBL, you get the friends list and a gamerscore. The games all still use that ridiculous Matchmaking service that doesn't take Internet Speed and Nationality into account. I'm from Northern Ireland, and as much fun as it is to play against Americans, I find that connecting to American servers is the gaming equivalent of tying one hand behind my back and trying to fire a rifle while driving blindfolded while attempting to dance the hula and trying to set the world record for limbo.....NOT WORKING! :p

Considering XBL is supposed to be a superior and more liberating service than its competitors, why the option (That is always included in PC games of the sdame names.) to choose a server is never there is beyond me, and will continue to be beyond me until it is fixed.

Also, the amount of times I've played Call of Duty 4 and got 'Host Left Game' or 'Connection Interrupted' while playing is ridiculous and frankly insultingly unstable. Same for Halo 3, where the lag routinely left me with egg on my face while Sniping. There's nothing worse in COD than shooting a lagger about 8 times with the M40A1 with no result other than a bullet ping and a look on your face that says 'Why me.'

This is unfortunately the problem with online console gaming, no company has got it right just yet.....with the PC, you can host games on high connection PCs, you can host dedicated servers and in general do things alot quicker and easier. On XBL you have to pay for a service that may or may not work right, that hosts paid for DLC when PC users get the same packs and such for free, and get to revekl in the fact that you can't have mods on your little white or black box of fun.

Not to say that PSN is a brimming and shining beacon of light in a pool of mud, it suffers from the same problems minus modding, which is a BIG plus as far as I'm concerned. You can try giving me lots of purchasable content and bells and whistles UI, but it's all undone when your competitor is allowing the creative Freelance gaming industry play with their technology while you're stuck sitting behind a desk with your glasses pressed too far against your face and your tie choking you shouting 'NO!' to the general mod community. Am I the only one who sees that PC is by far the best option for on-line gaming, and for that I don't even need to pay anything for updates, patches mods and maps?

Of course, the testosterone is blinding many people in the X-Box community to the truth that their shiny white/black boxes of fun may haveone thing less than perfect on them, one flaw that is quite gaping in the context of the modern gaming world- in short, that simple truth that their console isn't perfect. Yes, £40 (Roughly $80, which is almost double what the US is paying for the SAME SERVICE!) a year doesn't exactly break the bank, but for that £40, I could get a good gaming headset that won't lag and will actually carry my voice properly, or else a nice set of Keyboard and Mouse- either option being a better one than paying for X-Box Live!

I'm a fan of the little white box, don't get me wrong, but I'm not blind to the truth, MS is making a nice wee profit on micro transactions on account of their rigid 'If we're hosting it, we're getting payed for it' mentality for alot of content that really shouldn't be charged for in the first place. Not cool MS, not cool.

Still, at least us non-believers in XBL have Mass Effect and Lost Odyssey to tide us over in the Singleplayer aspect, eh? :p

I don't get that, why would people be so whiney and complain so much about a reasonably short install time?!!

Go make some tea, if you don't like tea, go take a leak, if you don't need to, read a magazine, if you don't want to- find something else to do, gaming surely isn't taking up every single second of your life. You people who complain about install times quite obviously have never installed a PC game.....now THAT is long these days.