I don't see why there wouldn't be anything but hope for SF4. There are two huge problems I have with this article (and others) that are attempting to claim this game may be "as bad as" the EX games.

First of all, while certainly not as great as some other entries in the SF series, there is nothing particularly "wrong" with the EX games. They control very well, have a nice variety of moves and a pretty balanced character set. Granted, the timing is entirely different then it was in the 2d SF games, but that doesn't make them "bad" games. I see an awful lot of people that love the 3d MK games even though they are a pretty big departure from the legendary original trilogy.

Second, the EX games were NOT created by Capcom, SF4 on the other hand is. The EX series were liscened out to Arika games, which granted does contain some former Capcom employees, but it hardly had the resources available that Cap did.

Besides, while I am personally a truly die-hard fan of the series and probably will be until the day I stop gaming, most people lost interest in fighters quite a while ago. The SF series truly peaked with SFA3 and SF3, and most of the fanbase was already gone by then. Even if this game is as spectacular as SF3 was/is, I don't see it making anywhere near the splash that older titles did. The lack of the arcade environment really hurts a fighting game IMO. I know I got frusterated playing SF2T on XBLA relatively quickly. The amount of people that quit or threw a series of explatives at me when they were starting to lose was staggering and the amount of negative feedback I received after beating someone fair and square was really offputting as well.

Lets face it, while I am personally very excited to get my hands on SF4, the glory days of fighting games died with the arcades. These articles claiming it is some kind of a mistake to make this game in 2.5/3D are just absurd. 2D fighting games don't sell, end of story. If they want o keep making SF titles, they are going to have to move into three dimensions and attact a console following; it worked for MK...

Best ones I can remember:

360:

Burnout Paradise, Mass Effect, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band, Viva Pinata, Forza Motorspots 2, Lego Star Wars 1/2, GRAW2, Rainbow 6 Vegas, Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, Gears Of War, Oblivion, Dead Rising.

Xbox:

Ninja Gaiden, PsychoNauts, Buffy 1/2, Splinter Cell, Mercenaries, Black, Stubbs the Zombie, Total Overdose, GTA series, Halo 1/2, Jedi Academy, StarWars Battlefront 1/2, Beyond Good and Evil, Scrapland, Bloodrayne, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Fatal Frame, Matrix:The Path of Neo, Sid Miere's Pirates!, ManHunt, The Godfather, Hitman:Bloodmoney, Jet Set Radio:Future, LOTR:Return of the King, Marc Ecko's Getting Up, Max Payne 1/2, Otagi:Myth of Demons, SSX3, Prince of Persia:Two Thrones, Star Wars:Knights of the Old Rebulic 1/2, State of Emergency, The Thing, Ghost Recon, True Crime:LA,

Besides, while the Saturn certainly had a handfull of great games, the most memorable ones to me were the arcade ports of the CPS2 and Naoimi hardware based games, and most of those have either been ported in their true arcade versions to multiple emulators or released on other consoles since...

I'd kinda like to play Fighters Megamix again, but apart from that most of the great Saturn games have been redone or updated...

All three of these are excellent games, but as with most of the Xbox games in their download service, you can most likely find a hard copy of these for around the same amount of money (or less) that will play on the system just as well without eating up multiple gigs of HDD space.

That said, Black was an absolute blast when it first came out, but I don't see it really holding up against the 360 FPSs you can buy like H3 or CoD4. Pirates on the other hand I have bought three times it was so good (PC, Xbox, and PSP), and I still play the PSP version.

@Saruman1719 - I happened to find a copy of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie the other day and I snatched it up. What a great movie! I have heard of it in the past, but for some reason I never got around to buying/seeing it. Man, for when it was released it has excellent effects and what an ending! That is definately in the top ten best Zed films ever made as far as I'm concerned.

@kingkilla3 - Heh, it's a sickness man. I actually had a vacation all planned out last year where I was going to go to Pittsburg and see the original sites where Night Of and Dawn of were filmed, followed by a Horror convention a few states over that Tom Savini and George Romero were going to be at, but I got buried at work and we had to cancel it. I'm hoping they do it again this year...

@nintendorocks - He already said he saw both 28 Days & Weeks Later... Besides that, while I love those films, they are not even zombie movies much less "the greatest zombie movies of all time". I think to call something a "zombie movie" you have to have re-animated corpses in play; the 28 films are about living, plague infected human beings...

Romero's movies are the greatest hands down; he defined the genre for gods sake... I could argue whether NotlD or DawnOtD is better, but it begins and ends there as far as I'm concerned.

Honestly I can't think of anymore zombies movies for you to watch since you have basically seen every single one I can think of. I suggest you look up some foreign zombie movies.Swift_Boss_A

A good portion of the ones on his list and the ones we have posted are foreign... I mean, foreign all depends on where you live obviously, but there are at least 4 countries present in the list I gave...

@Saruman1719 - I haven't seen "Zombie4" myself, so I cannot comment on the quality of it, but I just want to point out that it is not actually part of the Fulci series. I'm not suggesting that you don;t already know this, but just for posterity, I believe it goes like this:

Zombi - Dario Argento's recut of Romeros Dawn of the Dead

Zombi 2 (Zombie - US/Zombie Flesh Eaters - UK) -Fulci's Zombie movie which he actually wrote before Dawn was released, but it was retitled after Argentos cut of Dawn was so well received.

Zombie 3 had some initial scenes shot by Fulci but the guy that made Zombie 4 actually made the movie, and neither 3 or 4 are really part of the storyline or have much to do with Fulci at all. And like I said, I haven't seen it yet, but I have not heard good things... I have read that there is also two movies titled 5 & 6 that also have nothing to do with any of the others...

Fulci's Zombie movies were Zombi(2) - City of the Living Dead, and The Beyond.

@bouncer2088 - I have to echo that the remake of Day of is not looking that great man... It has nothing to do with the Dawn of Remake apart from having Ving Rhames in it, and he isn't even playing the same character. I've been counting the days till Diary for months, from what I hear it is great and Romero says it his favorite one since Dawn. (and its being released in HD, woohoo!) I haven't seen Hood of the Living Dead myself, I mean it sounds awful by name alone, but was it fun to watch on any level?

@teh_destroyer - I enjoyed Flight of, but it wasn't nearly as good as some of the other movies being talked about here. It was great for what it was and I can't wait to see the inevitable sequel. I hope the next one has a bigger budget.

Thanks for your help, My tv has ports for HDMI, VGA and DVI. I cant really find DVI cable for the box 360 but i could get either HD VGA or HDMI. If i was to stop using conponent, should i use HD VGA or HDMI?Chris_53

Personally, I would avoid VGA if possible. It may well work out perfectly for some people, but the truth is that VGA as far as the 360 is concerned (just like component cables), is still analog. To get the very best quality you can get you want to keep your signal from being converted in any way whatsoever. An X360 with a HDMI port is outputting a purely digital signal. If you run that signal over HDMI or DVI to a digital input on your tv, you are keeping it as pristine as possible.

Using a VGA cable is forcing the 360 to convert that signal to analog, then the tv to convert it back to digital. This is the reason you cannot watch HD-DVDs @1080p over anything but HDMI cabling. It has to maintain it's purely digital signal to work with digital rights protection.

Beyond that, the analog signal may well be what the problem is to begin with. I have a 27" Samsung CRT HDTV. If I try to run any signals to it (above 480p) on an analog source, I get interference and a tremendous loss of picture quality. Using HDMI cables removes the issues for me. Granted, my problem is a low end TV, and many high end units may well not see a single difference between a component/VGA or HDMI; it all depends on the TV.

As far as the cables go HDMI and DVI are the same exact thing apart from HDMI including an audio signal. (WHich just complicates things if you have a SS reciever). If your TV accepts HDMI and you have a free port, use that, it's less adaptors you need. If your already using the HDMI port for something else, get a HDMI to DVI cable, or a standard HDMI cable and a DVI adaptor and then you can use the DVI port on the TV as well. My TV only Accepts DVI, so I use a HDMI to DVI cable from the xbox to the TV.

By the way, I'm not saying for certain that this will make your picture issues go away, just that it did for me.

Well...it all depends on what generation of games you're talking about and whether you're including only games that maintained quality in the process. There are games from the 80s that most people can't get by the first level of and games from every era that have such bad control or design that they are unbeatable. If we are only talking about good games that are hard:

Last gen, probably Ninja Gaiden, that game was amazingly hard, and still managed to be fantastic.

This gen, skate. is definately pretty challenging, but the Guitar Hero franchise have to be the most difficult overall. Say what you want about Halo/GoW, and CoD4, but on the hardest difficulty modes I am progressing through those games at a good pace. (Halo a few times already), GH2/3 on the other hand I have been stuck on the last tier of expert songs for weeks/months respectively.

I absolutely guarantee I will finish the hardest difficulty modes of H3, Cod4, and GoW before I finish even one of the 2 GH games on x360 completely. And if we're talking about getting all the achievements, I don't think I will EVER get all of GH's.

Depending on how you're trying to play it, Dead Rising can be insanely hard too. I've played through that a half-dozen times but I have never successfully saved everyone.

I have seen quite a few issues like this with Samsung HDTVs over the past few years, especially CRT sets. I believe it has something to do with the way thier tv's handle a component signal. (Probably using poor quality parts)

I had some wierd ghosting/interference on my Samsung HDTV over component, but after I switched over to HDMI it went away completely. Not only that but I get vastly increased picture quality over the HDMI cable as well. I have talked to a couple of other Samsung owners who have said the same thing. If you can, try to use whatever digital signal your TV accepts. (DVI/HDMI)Nine times out of ten you will remove the interference.