Comments on: Achievement Unlocked: Cary Gots An Xbox 360!

By: theallmightybob

theallmightybob — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:36:05 +0000

@ captain justice: [sarcasam] well you know thoughs consoles are realy heavy, so heavy infact that the moment someone pics one up they get this urge to beat people with it., and mod it to fire bullets at people.[/sarcasam] maybe we should get people to register for baseball bats and steel pipes well we are at it. i have one question. allthouhg you probibly wount aweser it. have you ever played a video game?

By: DM2

DM2 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:38:58 +0000

Cary, to get the cow someone sent you you need to go to the postoffice http://pinataisland.info/viva/Post_Office VP is a great game, good for the family, especialy as you can use two controlers at the same time so you can help younger players without having to take the controler from them.

By: Captain Justice

Captain Justice — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:40:02 +0000

Congratulations on your new purchase. I believe the government should pass a law requiring all video game system buyers to register, with a two week waiting period and background check.

By: Cary

Cary — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:34:16 +0000

My garden is probably a high enough level yet. I only have little animals like worms and bugs and things. It’s hard for me to warm up to Viva Pinata, though, when Animal Crossing does everything so much better. Man I love Animal Crossing. Maybe Viva Pinata will fare better on the DS. –Cary

By: Natilena

Natilena — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:42:44 +0000

The cow pinata? Its a Moozipan, you buy it from the Paper Pets shop. If you’re not seeing it there you might need to be a higher level gardener. Viva Pinata was fantastic and still a well used title in our collection. Each of us all had 2 or 3 gardens each, I expanded out to 4. One garden of course devoted to elephants which squish just about everything! A squished pinata is a depressed pinata.

By: Matt Carlson

Matt Carlson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:24:25 +0000

You beat me out by a few weeks. Sometime in the next month or two I figure I’ll be leaping in and getting a 360 as well. Been waiting on the price drop since I knew I didn’t have all that much time for gaming I could wait awhile…

I’ve even got some old Xbox games saved up in my queue to play… mostly old RPGs (Knights of the old republic, Marrowind) and some “classic” xbox games as well (Crimson Skies, Halo, Psychonauts…)

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:28 +0000

Jeff kind of took over my garden in Viva Pinata. Ergh.

I like the animal raising parts much more than the gardening parts.

Someone sent me a cow pinata online. I can’t figure out how to get it.

I also got JetPac Refueled. It’s an update of Rare’s first game. –Cary

By: GamerDad

GamerDad — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:37:21 +0000

Welcome to the 360.
(I’m a afraid who hasn’t gotten the red ring of death, and I’m on a release model)

I recommend the DVD remote. Kevin is right.

Post about Viva Pinata when you get your thoughts together too!

By: Natilena

Natilena — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:50:56 +0000

Signing in multiple profiles on the same 360 is only usable in few games I’ve found but there are probably more I just haven’t tried. Start the 360 with controller 1 and sign in, turn on controller 2 on on that controller use the Xbox button to bring up the menu, it should give you the “sign in to profile” menu. So far we’ve only used it on Gears of War and Paperboy but it does work.

By: KevinH

KevinH — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:04:28 +0000

Hi, Cary. To answer your Xbox questions:

1) Yes, the Xbox 360 can play DVDs just like the PS2, except the DVD controls are *much* easier to use with the 360’s controller than the PS2’s.

2) I believe more than one person can sign on with an individual gamertag on the same 360. This might depend on the game you’re playing, but I’ve seen it work that way at a friend’s house. I believe you can just set up another profile. You can also have a guest play with you on your gamertag. They’ll show up as a guest and will have a temporary gamertag based on yours.

I’ll be buying a 360 myself sometime mid-September to prepare for Halo 3. To comment on Alan’s waiting for the new chipset, I assume you mean the smaller 65nm chips. You might want to check out Dean Takahashi’s post at the San Jose Mercury News ( http://tinyurl.com/yu3f7u ) — apparently with the new “Falcon” motherboard the only chip that will be of the 65nm kind is the main CPU and *not* the graphics processor (GPU). The GPU is the one supposedly causing the heat problems, and presumably the new heatsink setup will remedy or at least minimize that problem. I was also going to wait, but it looks like the full 65nm chip (CPU & GPU) upgrade won’t happen this calendar year.