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What Are Your Favourite Memories of the Xbox Golden Age (360)?

uncreativename

uncreativename

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Had a lot of good times with my 360 :]. It began with me buying Call of Duty 2 for 360 before I even owned one myself, so I could bring it over to a friend's place. We all got together and played it all day and then we had a sleepover where nobody slept because we played it all night too.

To actually get one I had to bully my younger brother who's way less of a gamer than me to pay for half of it lol. I think the first games we got for it were Oblivion, which was a disappointment to me, and GTA IV, which was so amazing that I beat it twice.

My brother and I also co-oped Halo 3 and Reach. Might be the best split-screen co-op games ever made? Or definitely up there anyway. My brother, sister and I played the Rock Band games until the guitar controller broke and the cover of the mic fell off and the drum covers were held on by lots of duct tape and the drum pedal which had snapped in half was reinforced with a bunch of old kitchen knives and even more duct tape.

Also Dragon Age Origins was the first single player game I ever pulled an all nighter with. Didn't even feel like one. Just looked over at the window at some point and oh hey it's 6 am.

Assassin's Creed 2 on 360 was the first game I ever got all the achievements for, proud of that S rank :].

Played the hell out of Red Dead Redemption on there, too. Oh, and I beat Mass Effect 1 three times on there. Such great games.

Lastly, 360 played a major part in making us realize that indie games could be great, with Bastion, Limbo and Braid. Played all of those on 360 first.

I think where me and Xbox parted ways was when I discovered that the Yakuza games existed. I was like well this is the greatest series ever made, time to get a ps2 and then a ps3 instead. Ended up telling my brother he could have the 360 and all the games 👋
 
German Shocks German Shocks I got the Orange Box too, but I've never really been a multiplayer gamer, so I only played Portal I think. Still totally worth it for that alone, since I think I got it for like 30CAD used at EB Games.

Lost Odyssey was really good, too, yeah :]
 
I bought an original white 360 for Forza Motorsport 2, the console started overheating, sent it for a fix at a third party, then sold it. Bought a second 360 for Forza Motorsport 3 and PGR3, sold the console later for some reason. Bought a third Xbox, the Elite for Forza Motorsport 4 and PGR4 and still have it to this day in its original box.

Aah the good old days. Those were the only three times I ever paid for Xbox Live too.
 
Xbox 360 got me back into gaming after essentially being out of the hobby for 4ish years. Mass Effect 1 is my favorite game of all time and I bought it on a whim when I picked up the 360 because it looked interesting. Playing through the entire trilogy on the 360 is probably my favorite single player gaming memory of all time. I played it at a time in my life where I was at a low and needed the trilogy to keep me afloat personally. I also poured almost 500 hours into ME3 multiplayer despite not even wanting it to be in the game when it released.

And I can't forget the countless hours spent playing Black Ops Zombies with friends. We had so many late nights trying to go just one more round on that game. Now we're all old with kids and haven't played in years. Miss those days.
 
The only Xbox I ever owned was 360 so my only golden age was this….

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uncreativename said:
Had a lot of good times with my 360 :]. It began with me buying Call of Duty 2 for 360 before I even owned one myself, so I could bring it over to a friend's place. We all got together and played it all day and then we had a sleepover where nobody slept because we played it all night too.

To actually get one I had to bully my younger brother who's way less of a gamer than me to pay for half of it lol. I think the first games we got for it were Oblivion, which was a disappointment to me, and GTA IV, which was so amazing that I beat it twice.

My brother and I also co-oped Halo 3 and Reach. Might be the best split-screen co-op games ever made? Or definitely up there anyway. My brother, sister and I played the Rock Band games until the guitar controller broke and the cover of the mic fell off and the drum covers were held on by lots of duct tape and the drum pedal which had snapped in half was reinforced with a bunch of old kitchen knives and even more duct tape.

Also Dragon Age Origins was the first single player game I ever pulled an all nighter with. Didn't even feel like one. Just looked over at the window at some point and oh hey it's 6 am.

Assassin's Creed 2 on 360 was the first game I ever got all the achievements for, proud of that S rank :].

Played the hell out of Red Dead Redemption on there, too. Oh, and I beat Mass Effect 1 three times on there. Such great games.

Lastly, 360 played a major part in making us realize that indie games could be great, with Bastion, Limbo and Braid. Played all of those on 360 first.

I think where me and Xbox parted ways was when I discovered that the Yakuza games existed. I was like well this is the greatest series ever made, time to get a ps2 and then a ps3 instead. Ended up telling my brother he could have the 360 and all the games 👋
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I dont have memories of times and things that never happened in reality. Not healthy.
 
Oh yeah, I'd probably never play an fps except for Halo with a controller these days, but pretty sure my first time through CoD4 was also on 360. I even dipped my toe into multiplayer where I got to listen to a bunch of stoners talking about stoner stuff on mic the entire time lol.
 
Gears of war of course. That game makes you want to buy a xbox 360. And the news that Sakaguchi of FF7 is working on exclusive rpg for Xbox360. Sadly xbox did not take advantage of that.
 
Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean 4, Blue Dragon, Tenchu Z, Eternal Sonata, Ace Combat 6 and The Last Remnant being announced as Xbox 360 exclusives made me seriously think that Xbox was really going to become amazing to me.


And it was... For a short time... Then MS stopped with these types of games and focused on the kinect...

disappointed bummer GIF
 
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Aion002 said:
Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean 4, Blue Dragon, Tenchu Z, Eternal Sonata, Ace Combat 6 and The Last Remnant being announced as Xbox 360 exclusives made me seriously think that Xbox was really going to become amazing to me.


And it was... For a short time... Then MS stopped with these types of games and focused on the kinect...

disappointed bummer GIF
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Eternal Sonata was also a timed exclusive 360 jrpg. They were really trying hard for a bit there.

e: oh wait, you edited that in lol. good man
 
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While I think the 6th generation of consoles is the greatest generation I think the 7th gen is my favorite. It was the first generation that I was able to buy my own games and therefore getting to own/play more then before, and my first really experience with online multiplayer (I played some PC FPS online as a kid but it wasn't very common).

PlayStation 3 was my main console that generation and I didn't get a Xbox 360 until Halo 3 came out but I have a ton of amazing memories with the Xbox 360 whether it was countless nights playing Halo to the point I didn't sleep and was playing up until I had to get ready for school, or playing one of the best JRPGs of all time with Lost Odyssey. Xbox 360 was sort of the dude bro console for me as my most played games on Xbox 360 was easily Halo, Gears, and Forza.

Major Insano said:
Talking trash and making friends in games and lobbies.
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This is probably the most memorable part for me but it's not exclusive to the Xbox 360.

I still have a lot of people on my friends list that I added/got added from multiplayer lobbies and I still play games with a couple of them.
 
First thing I think of is Halo 3 multiplayer + Coop + the theater mode stuff. Midnight launch, the collector's edition, all the marketing around the game and cross promotions. It was all so sick and memorable. Definitely think one of the most memorable console FPS packages, period. So many hours of content.

Some other goodies
- Playing Dead Rising for the first time
- Playing Crackdown
- Gears of War 1/2 multiplayer
- Halo Reach multiplayer
 
getting home after school with the console waiting for me. my cousin went to the store in the morning and got his and my pre-ordered consoles, so when I got home it was waiting there with Perfect Dark Zero.

first of all, I didn't know the Xbox logo in the center was a button... the concept of a home button was new back then in a console, the PSP had one, but it was clearly a button, so that logo being the button was crazy to me at the time.

me and my brother played through PD Zero in one sitting in splitscreen coop the next day lol.
 
I remember just in awe watching videos of Dead Rising and Saints Row in like 2006 thinking it looked absolutely unreal, then I got the console that year and it was everything and more, think I got Rockstar Table Tennis and Splinter Cell Double Agent with the console. Then the next year was glorious, think it was a combinations of Elder Scrolls 4, Bioshock and Mass Effect that eventually lead to my RROD. Those were the days.
 
I thought I was getting sick of desaturated military shooters by the end of the 360 era, but I miss that stuff compared to what we have now. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1-2, Rainbow Six Vegas 1-2, Gears of War 1-3, Army of Two + 40th Day co-op campaigns in split-screen on 360 were peak. All of them came out during college + my first few years working, and were easy ways to break the ice especially with dormmates/roommates, especially Gears.

In general most of my strongest memories from that era were local multiplayer games, both split and shared screen on usually the 360 + my college did tons of lan parties (along with stuff at my apartment). So Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, Smash Bros Brawl, Age of Empires 3, Command & Conquer Generals, Starcraft 2, Warcraft 3, Unreal Tournament 2K4 (with mods), Little Big Planet, Rayman Origins, Castle Crashers, Left 4 Dead 1-2, etc. all got played heavily.

Unfortunately adulthood and online everything kinda eroded getting to do that local stuff, but stuff like bringing over the Steam Deck with emulation or indie games still doing split-screen/shared-screen content is helping me bring some of it back in the last few years.
 
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360 faded out after 2008 ish, it was strong for maybe 2 - 3 years.

However, a lot of it's games were FPS and generic TPS.

Thanks to the Gears and CoD 4 craze.

Also, Japan was basically non existent in that era.

The second half of the console can be summed up as Gears/Forza/Halo/CoD/Kinect.

360 however, is miles better than Xbox One and the Series X.
 
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The Halo 3 reveal trailer was what got me to upgrade from the og to a 360.

And honestly one of the few games that lived up to the hype for me that gen. (Along with Reach, gears 2 and 3, Oblivion and Skyrim, mass effect 2, dead space 2, the MW trilogy,)
 
Their best console along with the OG . Great memories for The Majority of it up until the latter years, Kinect, etc.


Despite RROD they had something really promising as a brand but have never moved forward substantially in a positive sense. Always moving away from the basics , trying to fix things that didn't need to be fixed or trying to be something it didn't have to be.
 
My favorite memory was when I first bought it in the summer of 2006.

Dead Rising
Texas Hold Em
Uno

Shit was magical.

My first console bricked while playing Dead Rising, got a replacement from Best Buy, happened again, got another replacement… finally that one worked lol.
 
Kacho said:
My favorite memory was when I first bought it in the summer of 2006.

Dead Rising
Texas Hold Em
Uno

Shit was magical.

My first console bricked while playing Dead Rising, got a replacement from Best Buy, happened again, got another replacement… finally that one worked lol.
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Be honest with us. You showed your penis to strangers in Uno didn't you?
 
Kacho said:
My first console bricked while playing Dead Rising, got a replacement from Best Buy, happened again, got another replacement… finally that one worked lol.
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I went through a few as well, including one that decided to scratch up my Project Gotham Racing 3 disc for daring to play it with the console up vertically.

Still a great machine when the red ring phase stopped.
 
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XBL before they added party chat was the peak of online multiplayer across any platform or time period.

The best times were midnight releases for Halo, Gears, and CoD. Back when there was no "early access" for people who paid extra or dorky streamers (or even streamers at all). Just a bunch of people hopping on at midnight and experiencing the game for the first time together.
 
I moved out on my own at 18, broke as a mofo but saved up enough money to buy the 360 plus The Outfit the next year. Spent the weekend jamming on it with my cousin
 
FMN said:
XBL before they added party chat was the peak of online multiplayer across any platform or time period.

The best times were midnight releases for Halo, Gears, and CoD. Back when there was no "early access" for people who paid extra or dorky streamers (or even streamers at all). Just a bunch of people hopping on at midnight and experiencing the game for the first time together.
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Listening to The chats with randoms were ruthless at times tho, the amount of abuse and trolling they would give each other was insane. Using an Arnold soundboards to tell idiots to "STOP WHINING " was oddly fun admittedly.
 
I met some of my best friends on X360.

Gamewise, it's Gears 1 and 2 and Halo 3 mainly for the MP experience with said friends.
 
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I have a lot of good memories of my 360, but for me my favorite was the midnight release of Halo 3. It was almost surreal how much hype there was for its launch
 
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