I lean more towards a Collector I suppose.

Every game I buy, I research carefully beforehand, I'm not the type of fella to go out and buy games that I know nothing about or that I think I might like.If I buy a game, I'll keep it, even if I don't play it anymore.

balfe1990

Ding ding ding. That's me. I have NEVER sold a game EVER. The only time I have gotten rid of a game on purpose was when I gave my copy of Halo 3 to my cousin since I had 2.

Crackdown 2. Beat the game in maybe 7 or 8 hours total (got sidetracked a LOT) and I had 25 of the 50 achievements, racking up a decent amount of gamerscore, like 300-400 gs, while also REALLY enjoying the game. When I got bored of the story I just took tactical locations or closed breaches or worked on skills. Plenty to do besides the main plot, although it was disappointing that the story was so straightforwardly simple and repetitive.

HDMI for best picture. Hands down.

I have my new 250gb Xbox that I'm going to be connecting to my monitor soon, but I have one problem: the monitor has no speakers. I did some research and found that there is an audio adapter I can use to get audio that's seperate from the HDMI cable. Then I encountered another problem: this adapter didn't ship with the new 250gb 360s. I looked it up and it appears that it will cost $40 to get the adapter from GameStop since it comes with an HDMI cable, which is pricey considering I already have the cable. I have a 360 AV->VGA cable that has external speaker connections and was wondering if this will work. What are your thoughts?

I just went out and bought a 250gb 360 and a new screen, but I've encountered a problem. The screen has an HDMI and a DVI input, but no speakers on it. I worked around this on my PS3 because it allows you to use HDMI for video and component for audio, which I run to some external speakers. Something I noticed while hooking up the new 250gb is that it has a plastic piece covering the HDMI port when the component cable is connected. Does this mean that I'm going to have to play audio-less on my new screen?

I'm sorry, I think you've misunderstood me. I'm over here on vacation =P. I'm in Jordan, over here there's not much action, it's kind of a quiet place, just has a lot of American troops because it's close to Israel, Iran and Iraq.

And that sucks =( Internet here is fairly expensive, costing about the same as my connection in the US. My grandmother buys it by the year and a year of 50 kbps download speed costs the same as my 1.7 mbps download in the US. It's painfully slow, taking me days to download games on to my computer over there, but it's not so horrible that I can't do anything.

Also pisses me off that technology is more expensive here, making computers much more expensive than in America. Anything you could get in America costs about 50% more here, so powerful computers are very hard to come by, making gaming hard so I can't play any of my PC games and I've already beat all my 360 games =(

Oh yea, 1 more thing. Lots of illegal game copies here, so for people like me that don't mod my 360 to play copies, originals cost more. For an original NTSC game you're looking at 70-80 JDs, about 100-110 bucks per game, which is a ripoff. They just need to find a way to compensate for the people that buy an original game and copy it a few hunded times and sell the copies for a buck 50. /rant

I've been gaming for a long time, and just over a week ago I headed overseas on vacation to the middle east. While I'm over here, I'm stuck with slow internet. Before I came here, I bought one of the new 250gb 360s. It's been a while since I've been able to play online since my last 460 RROD'd in November last year, so I'm trying to get connected and start gaming more. I connected the 360 to the internet, popped in Halo 3, and tried to find a game. It took about 10 minutes and I was disconnected from the game within 2. Next I tried Modern Warfare 2. I had even worse luck, not even being able to connect to a game. Now I'm wondering, is there any way for me to be able to try and fix my ping so that I can game, or maybe change it so that instead of being connected with American gamers, I'm connected with ones closer to me? The internet isn't all that bad, but my ping in most games on PC is around 650, which isn't too great (on American servers, mind you). Can I fix this or am I stuck gaming offline until vacation is over?

I have been playing for about a year and a half and loving every minute of it. I've started to get my friends in to it and they're hooked in hours. A lot of the appeal comes from the fact that skills can be trained while you're offline and piloting also requires knowledge, not just in game skills. It's always satisfying taking out someone in a big, expensive ship with a smaller, cheaper one because you know what you're doing and they don't what's happening.

upgrading the ram is a true waste of money. why u ask? well ok ur going from 4gb to 4gb ok? u say the mhz is more, but look at the cas ur going from 5 to 9, that is a truly noobish mistake. also wait 1 more month for new hexa cores and just go staright to those.

Wildedge93

You make a good point about the hexa cores, but the CAS latency increase is to be expected when going from DDR2 to DDR3. The latency is going up but the clock is almost doubling, which I think is a pretty good tradeoff. Also keep in mind that with my current rig, I can't run the RAM in dual channal at 1066mhz, but with the DDR3 on that mobo, I'm pretty sure I can get dual channel DDR3 1600, which would give close to the same latency *in theory*.

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And dont trust that person who just posted, they have Miley Cyrus in their sig + avatar. It makes me sick.

Steameffekt

I said it without corrupting the people of GS. *edited to avoid moderation* teens these days.