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Just got an X-BOX. What are the best games for the system?

>> No.8988023

>>8988019
Remove the clock capacitor right now if it's not a 1.6

>> No.8988029

>>8988019
Refer to this:
>>8987973

>> No.8988046

>>8988019
>X-BOX
Actually, it's written as xBox

>> No.8988048

>>8988019
it's easier to name games not to play on Xbox

>> No.8988056

>>8988029
>No kingdom under fire
shit list.

>> No.8988064

>>8988046
It comes from DirectX, as in DirectX Box

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox#:~:text=The%20name%20Xbox%20was%20derived,or%20without%20a%20broadband%20connection.

>> No.8988104

>>8988023
thanks. will check it out

>> No.8988152

>>8988029
From that list, I'd like to second Psychonauts and Burnout 3. Also I'd like to add SSX3 and Jet Set Radio Future (probably the combo pack with Sega GT2002)

>> No.8988197
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8988197

Might be the hardest game on the system.

>> No.8988203

Fable
Mech assault
Burnout 3

>> No.8988239
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>> No.8988257

>>8988019
>What are the best games for the system?
The ones on PS2

>> No.8988258

It's worth plugging it into your network and playing online with xlink kai. halo 2, mechassault, and timesplitters have relatively active playerbases.

>> No.8988485

>>8988203
>Mech assault
the sequel is good too

>> No.8988537

>>8988257
Doesn't the xbox have better perfomance in Vice City and the Silent Hill games.

>> No.8988562

>>8988537
Xbox in general has mostly better performance and better graphical features, but not all games take benefit from those and some games actually have better graphics on PS2 since they got more love on it
Look at San Andreas, PS2 looks graphically much better, even though you can manually mod the game to look the same on Xbox

>> No.8988570

>>8988239
>transworld

Oh how it has a different meaning now. I used to work for them circa 1998 to 2002.

>> No.8988572
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>>8988019
Check your disc drive — if it's a Thompson, return that fucker.

>> No.8988578

>>8988572
Can confirm. Thompson is fucking garbage! Philips is ok but its JUST ok. You want a samsung drive for best performance, especially if your using back up disks

>> No.8988581

>>8988562
not really, you mean that shit lens flare and color grading that ps2 has? xbox has better graphics, don't be blinded by your nostalgia of the game.

>> No.8988597

>>8988572
I had a Samsung, but I never used the drive at the time. I put in a 120gig hard drive which was massive at the time and used to ftp the games over.

>> No.8988609

>>8988019
That thing has no games, and is part of the cancer of modern videogames

>> No.8988613

>>8988581
I have both consoles right here, xbox has better resolution and draw distance, but in terms of eyecandy the ps2 is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iC7uk3Zd-c

and it's a fact that not many games actually use the advanced pixel and vertex shader features of the xbox
even graphically intense multiplats like Black don't, it's literally just brute force higher res or framerate

>> No.8988615

>>8988572
Is any of them more prone to scratch your disc?

>> No.8988616

>>8988537
Isn't that what I said
Xbox exclusives are dogshit

>> No.8988625

>>8988616
Conker and Halo are great, fuck you.

>> No.8988638
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>>8988625
>Halo are great

>> No.8988645

>>8988625
>Conker
Fine
>Halo
Lol
Gaylo is the reason Xbox is laughed upon for not having games, multiplayer shooters are aimed at the lowest common denominator possible and they were the pioneers
360 exclusives were literally nothing but shitty shooters

>> No.8988670

>>8988615
No, but I've had 2 Thompson's and they were shit. My Phillips can play any game off my shelf, perfectly. My Thompsons, on the other hand, will constantly read games as "dirty or damaged". One Thompson just straight up stopped reading games after a while, I gave it away to a friend for him to mess with. I wanna buy another Xbox, but sellers keep assuming I'm autistic when I ask to see the disc tray — and I'd feel like an asshole if I returned it within the hour to a pawn shop.

>> No.8988685

>>8988670
No of this shit fucking matters. Who uses the disc drive anyway? You need it exactly once if you want to softmod your Xbox. Everbody should just put a fuck-huge HDD in there and use a BIOS that let's you continue to use the things should the disc drive shit the bed completely.

>> No.8988698

>>8988685
I like playing from the official disc, it doesn't feel the same otherwise. It's like putting an official cartridge into a Super Nintendo vs an Everdrive — sure they're both technically the same, but it just doesn't feel right. Besides, you can resell a Phillips, Hitachi, or Samsung drive on Ebay for 2x the price of the Xbox, $$$.

>> No.8988725

>>8988685
>Who uses the disc drive anyway?
Millions of people who weren't in the modding scene?

>> No.8988773

>>8988670
There used to be a website that had the serial numbers of each xbox revision so you knew what drive you would get.

>> No.8988819

>>8988257
Yes

Crazy taxi 3
Jet set radio future
Halo
Panzer dragoon
Fable

>> No.8988821

>>8988670
>I wanna buy another Xbox, but sellers keep assuming I'm autistic when I ask to see the disc tray — and I'd feel like an asshole if I returned it within the hour to a pawn shop.
This is within your rights as a customer, asking the condition of a product is good
It doesn't matter what they think
If they don't want to show you stuff about their products take your money to another place

>> No.8988827

Jet Set Radio Future I guess. Although I wouldn't call it a great game due to its medium-sized flaws, but I can't think of anything better at the moment.

>> No.8988837

>>8988821
You should see how annoyed they get if you ask to look at a disc. Cartridges are better anyway though so I try not to buy disc based stuff

>> No.8988847

>>8988029
I'd like to add, Blinx the Timesweeper.

>> No.8988902

>>8988847
Possibly the worst 3D platformer of that gen

>> No.8988932

>>8988645
>Gaylo
Stopped reading. You've never been invited to a party or had sex with a woman.

>> No.8988941

>>8988821
I agree, but Pawnshops in my area have an awful habit of wrapping everything in cheap plastic-wrapping. So seeing the disc-tray before buying can't be done. buying local on Kijiji(Canadian Craigslist) is shit in my area too, so many crackheads and goofs trying to rip you off. We need some form of government mandated, social apartheid in my city, honestly.

>> No.8988946

>>8988932
You grew up alone playing a box with no games while your friends were in parties playing budokai tenkaichi and ultimate ninja on their PS2s, you can't look down on anyone ever

>> No.8988971
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>>8988019
I'd actually say most games that also released on PC around the same time. I'm playing Fable TLC right now and the fact that I can play it with real actual controls has made the game far more enjoyable than when I played it on Steam.
Also as a general rule, literally every console-only multiplat that got an Xbox release, because the Xbox version is always the best version to play.
Max Payne, the Spider-Man games, Dark Alliance, Crash Twinsanity, the list goes on. I grew up playing the PS2 versions of these games and I can comfortably say that this is not the console to be playing this shit.

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8988979

PSI-OPS
THE MIND-GATE
C O N S P I R A C Y

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>>8988572
>take out Xbox I haven't used in a couple years
>plug in the power cord
>open disc tray
>Thompson
Well, fuck.

>> No.8989140

Phantom Crash

>> No.8989146

>>8988023
This, it'll fucking nuke your MB

>> No.8989164

>>8989132
Just softmod it so it plays off the hard drive instead.

>> No.8989205

gunvalkyrie, jsrf, phantom dust, ninja gaiden black, genma onimusha

>> No.8989219

>>8988572
Fuck off tardmeister. Thomson is the only one that will consistently play all variations of DVD-Rs.

>> No.8989485

>>8988725
>who weren't in the modding scene
Well, it's about time to get into it.

>> No.8989486

>>8988046
Leave my xbOx alone

>> No.8989489

>>8988572
Why not just softmod to read from hdd?

>> No.8989514

>>8988941
>So seeing the disc-tray before buying can't be done. buying local on Kijiji(Canadian Craigslist) is shit in my area too, so many crackheads and goofs trying to rip you off
I have never used the facebook marketplace either, most people usually tell you to meet at a metro station that is heavily transited, but without a way to test stuff you are just bound to be fucked and waste time and money

>> No.8989541

>>8988019
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Genma Onimusha
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Jet Set Radio Future
Metal Wolf Chaos
Ninja Gaiden Black
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
OutRun 2
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
Tenchu: Return from Darkness
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x

>> No.8990183

>>8989219
Source: Reseller who's trying to offload Thompson Shit-boxes.

>> No.8990274

>>8989489
Some games can’t be played from the HDD like Arctic Thunder. I think there’s only a few though.

>> No.8990278

>>8990274
All of those games have hdd patches online

>> No.8990475

Is the Forza on Xbox still good? Any reason to play that over the newer releases?

>> No.8990481

The best way to play the Splinter Cell series (Yes even the 7th gen ones and even compared to PC ports)
Any SC game not present on this console is not worth playing anyway

>> No.8990485
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8990485

>>8988572
>still using the disc drive in 2022

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8990517

>>8988572
>best drive not on the pic
lol

>> No.8990527

>>8990475
Yes, but I prefer project gotham racing 2 or sega gt2002

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>>8990475
I play it solely because I'm a car fag and FM1 has several cars that never made it into other Forzas.
I play it on 360.
Compared to FMs 2-4, I think the physics of the cars were not quite finished yet. It feels a bit... raw. Like, tuning is a bit unbalanced - if your Mazda makes it into the S class, you will never be able to break fast enough to be competitive against Ferraris and Saleens, even with top brakes, weight reduction, etc. Handling feels a bit off on several cars.
Some interesting things were not present in later Forzas, if I remember correctly. Like, only in FM1 you can kill your engine by revving it into the redline. Also, I believe only in FM1 if you scratch your car against the barrier, the barriers will actually have some paint from your ride left on'em. Nighttime tracks were also removed... until Horizon came out, I guess? My bet would be that's because devs did not want to spend extra time on night-specific lights textures and models. And it is very cool to take a spin through the night in Tokyo on Pontiac GTO.
Overall though, it's Forza. Everything you like about the series was in there with the very first entry, so might as well give it a try.

>> No.8990739

>>8990527
Absolutely based. My favorite racing game of all time. Shit is addicting as hell.

>> No.8990753

>Xbox
Turn 360 degrees and walk away

>> No.8990757

>>8988029
>>8989541
why not mention as well
Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Version 2)? It is an Xbox exclusive

>> No.8990760

>>8990753
>Turn 360 degrees
>and walk away
Uhh... you've oversteered it.

>> No.8990832

>>8990760
Low iq post

>> No.8990929

>>8988946

lolWUT

>> No.8990969

>>8988019
This console has the most Star Wars games of any console. And I think most if not all are good. That’s the most exciting thing to me.

Apart from that, there’s Morrowind, Halo 2, Castlevania Curse of Darkness,Timesplitters 2 & 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, XIII

>> No.8991239

>>8990969
Yeah, I had an xbox back in day and played KOTOR and Jedi Knight II on it.

>> No.8991283

>>8991239
I pity the poor souls who grew up without computers for shooters.

>> No.8991289

>>8988257
No, Xbox typically had better performance for multiplats

>> No.8991298

>>8988645
>Gaylo is the reason Xbox is laughed upon for not having games, multiplayer shooters are aimed at the lowest common denominator possible and they were the pioneers

laughed at by who? Your cult of elitist trannies? Lmao get over it you tryhard need.

>> No.8991323

>>8990760
I adore that people still fall for this shit over 15 years later

>> No.8991445

>>8988019
literally no games but i love so damn much i don't know why
maybe it's the design
also should i bother to add a usb mod?

>> No.8991782

>>8991289
>>8988616

>> No.8991818

Is there any place I can get laser assemblies for these drives?

>> No.8991947

>>8988023
is that why my OG xbox won't boot up?

>> No.8991950

>>8991947
It's likely.

>> No.8991962

>>8988019
outrun 2006 coast-2-coast
Amped 2
Dungeons and Dragons Heroes
Galleon

>> No.8992158

Is it worth doing S-Video on the Xbox? I heard it’s composite is pretty good so not sure if it’d be a significant step up. Component cables definitely aren’t in my budget.

>> No.8992167

>>8992158
components the way to go really, 480p is a huge boost. s-video is nice I guess. If you're looking for an affordable but good option there's an adapter for wii cables to xbox and you can buy the hdretrovision wii cables.

>> No.8992181

>>8992167
I’d be playing on CRT so 480i is as high as I could go anyway. I didn’t know that about Wii cables though. I have a cheap third party set that seem decent. Are HD Retrovision’s that big an improvement?

>> No.8992189

>>8992181
Yes, the xbox component cables are usually very cheaply made. They're cheap for HDRV cables, $30? Xbox2Wii adapters are like $25 I guess so you're about $55 in for good component video out of the box. And even at 480i it makes a difference.

>> No.8992202

>>8992189
I actually meant I have a third party Wii component cable. Do those have a better reputation? Either way, I’d be comfortable going with HD Retrovision. I have their SNES cables and they’re great. Right now I guess I need to decide if Component would be worth the extra money. My original plan was to get a used Xbox AV pack and run S-Video through that. Would only run me about 20 bucks but now that component is on the table it’s tempting.

>> No.8992228

>>8992202
>third party Wii component cable. Do those have a better reputation?
yeah they're not great. Just make sure you can get an wii2xbox adapter, the wii hdrv cables are usually in stock

>> No.8992236

>>8992228
Thanks anon I play the Wii a decent amount as well so I’d still get use out of it too

>> No.8992343

>>8990481
Amen to that, also that multiplayer is next level fun.

>> No.8992418

>>8992202
I have the third party rocketfish and no-name wii component cables and they both work fine, even with 480p