Xbox 360 is perhaps the most legendary console from Microsoft. Ahead of the Xbox Series X release, my PS4 Slim died. As in any console, the Xbox 360 had its main competitor – the PlayStation 3. But unlike Juan, the third Sonya became popular only thanks to her exclusives, no matter what today’s students say, no matter how they scold exclusives on Xbox, and no matter how did not idolize exclusives from Sony. And there is nothing to tell about my current console, because the memories of it are like a cat crying, and I bought it only three years ago (I’m talking about PS4 Slim). But about the Xbox 360 – I have a lot to tell. My name is Artyom, and this is my third post with nostalgia – from “A” to “Z”.
Game Xbox 360
My story about the 360th Juan will open in 2008 – my last year at school. In the 9th grade, I had a diary in which everything was written about current consoles (at that time, of course). Also, this diary was made in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, and the entire description was in Ukrainian. But then I graduated from high school and in September 2008 I entered the Melitopol vocational school. Then, among my classmates, they also played on the PlayStation 2, and maybe even on the first one. And there were also such stubborn guys who were cut on Sega or Dandy when their time was irretrievably gone. And some had a PSP, including yours truly. Whoever has not read my last story about PSP, I definitely advise you to read: PlayStation Portable – from “A” to “Z” .
But back to history. If we knew at least something about the PS3 in 2008, then about the Xbox consoles, rumors had not yet reached us. The Internet-free space was gone, and at the end of the 2000s, it was no longer possible to surprise anyone with the Internet. Google was, YouTube was, VKontakte was, Instagram was. And this is where life has just begun. But back then I didn’t know anything about the Xbox. Indeed, in Ukraine, these consoles have not yet had time to spread, and even more so, the Mikes themselves categorically do not care about the Ukrainian market. In general, it doesn’t matter. It’s time to switch to the seventh generation consoles. I took my first step into getting to know Xbox in December 2008. Our classmate had a birthday. We were all drunk as we drank vodka and champagne! His parents left for Berdyansk for a couple of days. Suddenly, my friend Sasha called me to go to the store for beer with him.
I didn’t see her live at that time, and therefore I didn’t know what she was like. But thanks to Sasha, I began to know everything about her. Sasha said, they say, “How powerful and strong she is! It’s impossible to kill her! And that the graphics are like in real life!”. I firmly believed his last words, because then I had a very weak computer, on which there was an old ATI Radeon 7500 video card, which was who knows how old, 512 meters of RAM. And now you will laugh if I tell you what processor I had – Celeron! Great and miserable Celeron! Although, I didn’t particularly complain about my
computer then, because I mainly played on the PSP. But about the Xbox 360, I have already begun to dream! In general, when we returned, my girlfriend called me into the corridor, with whom I had just started dating then. So what – we went into the corridor, and she offered to undress and kiss!
Guys, I don’t understand why he even said that! Okay, I’m digressing. Alas, by 2009 I managed to forget about the Xbox 360. After all, my love was more precious to me than anything else. If you’ve read my PSP story, it’s probably no secret to you that in May 2009, my girlfriend and I crashed on a motorcycle. After the accident, I was in the hospital for three months! And right up to the end of the year, I was worried that my beloved girl, whom I loved very much, died in an accident …
At the end of 2010, I began to update my computer, which then turned 7 years old. The fact is that it is morally obsolete, and even sitting on the Internet on Windows XP was tolerable, not to mention new games. And so, on January 17, 2011, I turned 18, that is, I became an adult. I did not expect such a miracle, because dad gave me an Xbox 360!
To be honest, I could not even think that this is it, my two-year dream has come true! I was very grateful to my dad, because I worked for him for almost the entire 2010 year. True, when dad bought an Xbox, he forgot about games. My computer was still the same as a few years before. And so from the PC, I abruptly switched to the Xbox. And so we connected Juan to the TV in the living room (yes, we had the same LT box in the living room), and when I saw:
I will never forget this screensaver! What a beautiful opening screensaver it was! I was indescribably delighted! But the truth is, without games it was not interesting. A week later, I went to a stall that sold discs with games, although by 2011 in Melitopol the stalls with discs began to gradually close. And this is due to widespread piracy. My first game I played on the Xbox 360 was Sonic Unleashed.
Before that, I played Sonic Rivals on PSP. But I liked Unleashed much more, because the graphics of Rivals were two-dimensional and primitive. And Unleashed impressed me with its graphics! After all, I was then a person who did not see better graphics than in Half Life 2 with maximum settings, and played mainly in GTA San Andreas and NFS Most Wanted, where the graphics were not very good. At that time, I just wanted to get GTA 4, which I have been dreaming about since 2009. But then it started – I bought new games, as well as those games that I wanted to play on the computer. And just in May 2011, I finally received GTA 4, and finally! I was able to play my most desired game!
Far Cry 2. What a bright African atmosphere it was. But this game ruffled a lot of nerves, because of its fierce complexity. But yes, I recommend it!
Mafia 2. What could be cooler than playing GTA? If Just Cause reminds you of some kind of bellhop Max Payne, then you will like the second Mafia anyway! Cool story, incredible atmosphere and nice game mechanics! I recommend square!
Modern Warfare 2. Perhaps the best part of Kolda, which came out shortly before the departure of the two founders of the company.
Need for Speed ​​ProStreet. The best open racing game ever. No worse than all the other NFS-ok. Personally, she is my favorite part after Carbon.
Assassin’s Creed. Who would not say. Let the new part come out quite often, but I remember the beginning of this series most of all.
These were exactly the games I wanted to play in much the same way as GTA 4.
But now I will talk about the war between Xbox fans and Sonyboys, the latter of which, as now, were the majority. It was especially wild in our vocational school when some of my classmates got a PlayStation 3. And, strangely, they were exactly on the side of Sony. Like today’s schoolchildren, they were ready to burn for exclusives, which by 2011 had time to fucking come out! And on the side of the Xbox was just me and one of my classmates. I even remember that day, namely on May 18, my classmate’s hip was broken! And they broke his hip ONLY because he called Demon Souls Uncharted 2 overrated games. In principle, I also thought that these games were overestimated, but if I were this kid, I would be silent. As the saying goes: “If you don’t want problems, keep your mouth shut.” In general, those games that I played on the Xbox 360 were not enough. Sasha also had an Xbox 360, although I hadn’t spoken to him by the end of 2010. By that time, he was too old for me. And we haven’t been friends since.
Some time passed, I graduated from vocational school, the summer ended, and September came. On the Internet, I read about such an Xbox 360 problem as “Red Lights of Death”, which appeared if the console got very wildly hot. I had a Slim version, that is, relatively fresh. And as it became known to me, in a more likely case, this problem was only on Fat versions of consoles, that is, on the very first ones. And no matter what anyone says, but the Slim version, in my opinion, is the most reliable revision of the console (not counting the versions with the Jasper motherboard). I also didn’t understand why they take the PlayStation 3 at all when there is an Xbox 360. After all, games on the Xbox 360 cost about 50 hryvnia, and games on the PlayStation 3 – 500! I didn’t understand at all how the same games could be cheap on one console and expensive on another! It’s about the same as to compare the price tags of Xiaomi and Samsung smartphones, where they are identical in terms of filling, but Samsung is expensive! I had a defective hard drive with a capacity of about 250 gigs. But he was so noisy that he didn’t let anyone sleep! I bought a new hard drive for the Xbox 360, with a capacity of 500 gigabytes, which was a lot in 2011. I consolidated this position against the background of the fact that in the fall of 2011 games were released that already occupied an average of 15-20 gigabytes. And at that time I planned to play all the expected novelties of 2011. But by that point, I was so far away from the old games that I just didn’t want to play them. Among the games I gave up on by the end of 2011 was Need for Speed ​​Most Wanted. I didn’t play it at the time. At the end of 2011 and at the beginning of 2012, I only played new games, which included Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Portal 2, Crysis 2, Saints Row 3,
I returned to the old games only in January 2013. And the novelties of 2012 did not impress me as much as the novelties of 2011. Boring Black Ops 2, underdeveloped Most Wanted 2012, overrated Far Cry 3, dull Prototype 2. In general, 2012 was a little disappointing in new releases. And for this reason, I returned to older games, including NFS Most Wanted 2005, which I started playing again, and this time on Xbox, despite the fact that I liked Carbon more. I updated my old computer, and the old components were sold, but only for 200 hryvnias.
In the spring of 2013, an unpleasant event occurs – I am being drafted into the army. And only two years later, in 2015, I again sat down at the Xbox 360! Although some of the novelties of 2013-15 managed to be released on the 360th Juan, but it was completely different, however, except for Far Cry 4, Crysis 3, and of course – GTA 5. I was also impressed by these new products, as and in 2011, but this is a completely different story, about which it makes no sense for me to tell.
And now my Xbox 360 goes to the shelf, and this, perhaps, ends my story. Well, here is my story. In conclusion, I want to say that the Xbox 360 was very deservedly popular at the beginning of the last decade. He almost did not have such stocks as, for example, PS3. Let there not be so many exclusives on it. But did the Xbox 360 need it? And did this reason make it worse than the third PlayStation? Of course not! I have never played as much on any console in my life as I did on the Xbox 360. And I hope that I will have almost the same feeling, but only on the Xbox Series X. Please write below. I will be very grateful to your answers.
Have you dealt with Xbox 360? If you did, how did you get it, and which ones did you play?