The Xbox 360 just had it’s 20th anniversary. I’m not sure how I feel about it as a console today as most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives. I guess most of the nostalgia will be from playing online, which I never got the chance to do.
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I miss Xbox Live Arcade with the requirement that all games have free demos.
Remember demos? Or magazine demos? Or magazines? 😉
I remember getting CD demos in cereal boxes lol
Demos? I think I still have my full version of Roller Coaster Tycoon I got from a cereal box somewhere.
I miss my stack of PlayStation magazine PS2 demo discs
We still have demos, on Steam anyway.
Steam has a lot more demos these days than it used to, and it’s great. I do not like buying, trying, and refunding games. But demos? Hell yeah. I’ll try those on a whim.
Steam Nextfest became probably the most exciting gaming event thanks to the sheer abundance of demos. It’s amazing.
most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives
Let me play Lost Odyssey on PC you cowards
Xenia does pretty well these days and keeps getting better
I miss Kaim and Sarah
Just look at the Xbox section. You got this :)
Lost Odyssey is playable on Xenia, but unfortunately it still requires some work arounds. It would be nice to just play the game.
most of the nostalgia will be from playing online
It is. We’ll never get that feeling back. It was a whole vibe and now its over.
We’ll never get that feeling back.
What are you talking about? Console gamers still need to pay to play online!
Source I am a console gamer :(
What was so different about it compared to now? I only played SFV online.
Basically everyone had a microphone because they came with the console. People actually spoke in the lobbies, party chat was rare and discord wasnt a thing yet. There was an excitement around it because its all fairly new, and pro gamer / content creator / videogame influencer etc didnt exist as career paths. Most vocal people were still racist x-phobic slur-slinging hate-jockeys, but everybody was there purely to have fun.
Lots of tiny tiny differences that by themselves are inconsequential, but added up to something big.
After a match you could press a button to play again with the same people. You’d make friends by meeting together in game and deciding to party up
I don’t need this kind of negativity.
Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.
The towel trick worked on mine and it still works as of yesterday
Hello fellow LGR watcher!
I’m so glad that he showed some games that aren’t shooters/sports or pc games. I found there’s a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up. I’ve had a 360 collecting dust that I picked up cheap years ago and never really played it. I’ll probably pick up a few more games for it if I find them for cheap.
I found there’s a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up.
Oh my God. This combo came with my 360. I never played the pinata game but banjo kazooie nuts and bolts is an actual masterpiece of a game if you’re in to vehicle building. It has to be the best game I’ve ever played in that genre, and it’s not even close.
Way to make me feel old… I mean I am but you didn’t need to rub it in.
why you gotta go around spreading so much hate around dude…
I was a student during the 360s life
So much split screen Halo with my house mates
Definitely have nostalgia for a lot of the early games, mainly the ones coming out before PS3 support basically hit parity.
Underrated aspect that I really miss was the old interface. The Windows 8 stuff they updated it to is so inferior to the blades.
Wonder if there’s any homebrew fix to keep the old UI but be able to play all the games?
You can get the old Dashboard’s running using the Proto stealth server, after the plugin is loaded in DashLaunch you can just launch the .xex file of the old dash and it should work, and if you want it by default you can set your Xbox to launch it by default with DashLaunch.
I wish I could link you a proper write-up but I haven’t found one, just stuff scattered around random YT vids and Discord.
Also, no clue if DashLaunch works with Bad Update, be careful.
Yea not many of us has an alcoholic relative or grandparent who didn’t mind us around much.
It’s worth picking one up just to play Fable II, imo.
360 is definitely my favorite retro console, hands down, due to nostalgia. Feels kinda weird calling it retro, but that’s neither here nor there for me. I never had xboxlive, so playing online was never a thing for me.
Out of any console out there, it’s absolutely the one I’ve played the most, by a pretty bug margin if I had to guess. Somehow I’ve played it more than my 2nd favorite retro console: PS2.
I might make some people feel old, but I was in elementary school when my family somehow got a white model with the hard drive attached to the top whatever year that was, that December. I also don’t remember how we got our black 360 with the seemingly safer internal removable hard drive, but I absolutely LOVE it all these years later.
I think I would absolutely cry if I lost the hard drive for it because of just how much memories are on it. It would be worse than the feeling I got when I realized I lost the memory card for the family PS2 because I didn’t pack it in my backpack before being forced to move.
I just modded mine after not playing it for years. I forgot just how insane the library is for it and how great the graphics hold up in 2025.
Its also so nice to actually own games and not have them taken away from some license BS.
How is the modding on it these days? I have a modded one from a long time ago and I did a modded firmware on the dvd drive in the 360 so it would ignore protections and another mod on a Liteon dvd burner in an old Windows XP computer for writing the games.
It’s really easy. I had no microsoldering skills before, but Ive soldered many other parts so I have experience. I’ve modded 6 Xboxes for friends and family and now I can do one in about 30 minutes including flashing the NAND.
Many people are going the bad update route where you must softmod the Xbox Everytime you turn it on. Sometimes it takes 20 seconds, sometimes you have to try 10 or 15 times to get the mod to work. The people behind bad update are working on it constantly, so who knows, they may find a way to make it boot instantly 100% of the time.
But for now hard modding and soldering are the best permanent ways to mod the Phat and Slim models of the Xbox 360.
It’s gotten better thanks to the softmods coming out lately like BadUpdate and BadAvatar.
I remember reading and watching videos about the DVD firmware hax. C4Eva, right?
I loved my many Xbox360s! Either the build quality was poor or I was just very unlucky.
I went through at least five machines I think. It started on day one where I got home and started playing Just Cause 2 but the machine kept locking up after 20 minutes of playing.
Two machines suffered from the red ring of death and another had the DVD drive go bad.
However, I have great memories of playing Battlefield Bad Company 2, especially when I got my 5.1 surround sound system.
Was that the game that also had the Vietnam DLC? Love that too.
