Came across this here at Kotaku. I really think when portables get enough juice under the hood they will completely replace our home consoles. Its going to be amazing sitting around playing Xbox live at some coffee bar with your friends and instead of even having your headsets you can just tell at the guy across the table. I wonder when MS is going to admit they've built a portable Xbox
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NXE : HDD loads will save Speed Run Games
I think its pretty safe to say that the most exciting thing about NXE is not the slick new interface or the Wii like avatars but the load from HD feature.
I can see tonnes of people loading up games that will reside in there 360 for a long time such as Gears2 and CoD4 (yes 4 not W@W) to shave seconds off their load time to jump into games.
The thing is I recon most of these games are already optimized in terms of load times, and asides from the Orange box which has a 1/3 saving in all load times no games will really benefit that much from the loading off the hard disk as you're going to have to wait for other online players to show up anyways.
2 titles I can't wait to load up and test are Mirror's Edge and The Club. Why you ask? Both these games are fantastic concepts that feel like mods to a fully flesh out game. The answer, Speed Runs. I wrote about how excited I was for The Club and its potential speed runs, but what killed that game for me was the long wait between rounds to reload, as for ME I'll have to give the Speed Runs a go once I beat the campaign, unfortunately unlike games like Lumines I doubt there will be people posting a whole lot of items on the leader boards.
Fable 2 - Insane Game Season
Last night I finally beat the main quest in Fable II, and I have to say Fable is one of the best RPG's I've played in a long time. Maybe its because I'm older now and don't have time for 30+ hour games. Maybe I enjoyed the fact that the game is relatively easy and sorta a cake walk. Maybe I like how streamlined the game mechanics are.
BUT I do know that this is the first RPG i've played where the decisions you make actually effect the gameworld in a meaningful way, not just something silly like some NPC who is no longer willing to give you a quest, the game world actualy changes.
Emotions seem to be the knew holy grail of video games and I will say this about Fable2 it really sucks you in and the choices you make do have some gravity. Also Fable2 fully passes the wife test as my wife is hogging my Xbox to play dammit!
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