Xbox 360 hands on (A must read for saner)

[Dirty_Filthy]

I don't understand why everyone talks like voice chat is only available on the 360, I'm sure most of us on the PC side will be doing it too.

[DraginHikari]

These never ending circle arugement are getting fairly old by now...

PC verison doesn't have a full voice chat feature of its own... but people tend to find other methods in that case. Such as what some of my friends and I are planning.

[Dynheart]

I know that I have been using Team Speak for awhile now.

Offline or Online games I still chat with my friends, family and what have you. Voice Chat will be on the PC version I can garantee it (not integrated, of course, but through Team Speak).



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[Darsh]

Hey just a though,
any one play chrome hounds? I dont play the game but my brother does, and i noticed yesterday that when he has the mike (pardon the mispell, to lazy to look it up) out of the controller, the voices of the people hes playing with comes out of the TV! O.O. Now that being said, i would personally plan on useing the voice chat, but behold a theory. Since it hasnt been confirmed that the XBOX (althought pretty sure its not ) is NOT connected to ps2/pc, couldnt they use that same system between all the systems for communication? You can hear the people who would like to speak over the speakers.(or mute them if u dont) and for the shy people like Alisha who dont like to use voice chat,(its better to keep the phantasy going) you may use a keyboard.
please your thoughts ?

[seraph7]

the voice chat feature is, for the most part, useless - it's not fun listening to the constant rambling of players that abuse what it can do, & that's painful to the ears at times...by comparison, i prefer the KB - it feels more intuitive & expressive, very much the same as i type these words for the message board community to read.. ^_^

[PJ]

Although I'm gonna be defending the PS2, I'm gonna start by saying

On 2006-09-08 10:33, Valkayree wrote:
Point one: I don't care. Does it really matter if I am grouped up with a bunch of people I have to type to in order to communicate with? No, I'll be chatting with my friends across my headset, even if there are 6 of us. 6 is all you need.

That is excellently said. I really don't plan to play with anyone outside of my friends. So, regardless of which system you're on, XBox 360 or PS2/PC, you jsut to play with your friends anyways, so what is the point about arguing which system will have a better community? Both versions WILL have jerks and asshats, afterall

Now, back to the matter at hand

Yes, the 360 is a more adult based system, but we have to keep in mind that that is based off it's cost. It's a very expensive system, wheris the PS2 system is cheap (Well, I don't really wanna add the PC version as an example, not only is it essentially the most expensive console for a well running one, but eh, by Alisha's comment about the PC FFXI players, they also will probably be the elitist players). But when you think about it, that means the community will be very much smaller.

Now, back to the point of the, "Smaller = less asshats." Well, it's probably true that you're more likely to meet some jerk on the PS2/PC servers, but since the population is bigger, you're also more likely to meet some interesting people. The 360 version I think will probably have the same amount of jerks as the PS2/PC version... wait a second, doesn't that make my previous point invalid?! Well, I mean, in a ratio aspect. There'll be a lower population, which means a lower number of asshats. Anyways, I'm just REPEATING what I've been saying, so I'll just stop (If my message didn't get across then well... )

Eh, the points sounded good in my head, but they totally failed typed up. Well, anyways, I'm looking forward to the PS2/PC servers anyhoo.

[Soudegmksg]

I play XI on 360-PC & PS2.
(alot of platforms I know but it wasn't just me that got them)
The PC is by far the best, you can do voice chat if you have a team-speak server and basically do all the little fun things with PC that 360 can do,
I mean the 360 is just that, a PC in a way, I mean you can multi-task, there'd be no legitment arguement which is better, hardware is what makes the game run the best.
Consoles are limited to an extent, PC's aren't.

PS2 is terrible, an MMO can't be played on it, and if so it'll lag you to high hell, the '2', can't even run 11 without lagging, names can't be seen above
a head at all, the draw distance is terrible, if you have a choice in my personal opinon, just stay away from PS2. The hardware can't support the things that
you find fun, and can't handle more then 12 people on a screen without it lagging and ruining your entire experience.
Your game WILL-NOT be enjoyable if you play on this platform I promise you, if you can avoid it, avoid it! You'll be happier!

360 Is great because it's a console..after playing 11 for 3-4 years as much as I enjoy the things PC offers in MMO's, i'd gladly switch over to 360.

A few people i've talked say that 11 is great but it feels better playing on a console, instead of having to sit on a computer for 8-10 hours a day.
Sometimes laying on a couch, or sitting in a huge room of friends while playing a console game just makes it that much funner for me personally.
XI takes *ALOT* of memory and the graphics on PSU are way better than 11. I have no doubt that 360 can run the game smooth though.

If I could choose? Nix PS2 & PC on their own servers, put 360 and PC on their own servers but it can't be like that.
I don't know which platform i'll play PSU on..for me it all depends of which most people I know from 11 goto, hopefully it's 360 though.
Any MMO i've played on PC makes me feel like it's kinda more of a job other then recreation, dunno why.
My only issue is I don't want to pick the wrong platform and play with less then 4000 people on a server, did great in japan, but we aren't japan.

[Tystys]

Meh, I don't really care about which version, but since alot of my freinds are getting PS2 version, I might as well get it also, XD.

Than again, there's always PC.

I would get the 360 version, but with most of the 360 games that I've actually played, the community is extremely low if you're not playing something like GRAW, or something among that nature...which sucks, because the 360 is an awesome system....yet almost no one has enough money to actually buy one.

[Eclypse]

For me it's all about the PC and 360 versions. I don't like playing PSO with a keyboard, and the game only feels right to me if I am holding a controller. PSOBB was horrible in my opinion and I think that could have been remedied if it were on a console, but nevertheless if the Xbox version doesn't come out on the 25th then I will be on the PC version until the Xbox version is released.

[Garroway]

PS2 is terrible, an MMO can't be played on it, and if so it'll lag you to high hell, the '2', can't even run 11 without lagging, names can't be seen above
a head at all, the draw distance is terrible, if you have a choice in my personal opinon, just stay away from PS2. The hardware can't support the things that
you find fun, and can't handle more then 12 people on a screen without it lagging and ruining your entire experience.
Your game WILL-NOT be enjoyable if you play on this platform I promise you, if you can avoid it, avoid it! You'll be happier!

I always think it's funny when people consider themselves to be the authority when it comes to what I will enjoy, and what I consider important. I really would normaly dismiss something like that as a case of poor wording, but around here you never can tell for sure.

Jusr for the record I found that the xbox 360 version of FFXI was just as unenjoyable as the PS2 version for me.