Got a 360 this weekend
 

I was all excited when I saw they lowered the prices to $280 until I realized that was just the Core unit and it didn't come with a hard drive. Sneaky bastards. So, I shelled out the $350 for a Premium. Got Def Jam: Icon (pretty sucky gameplay, if you ask me), Madden '07, and Ghost Recon. Haven't played Ghost Recon yet, probably will tonight. But, what are some good, popular games for the 360? Yeah yeah Halo 2 and everything but I haven't got into that and there's no point starting now. I'm just gonna wait for Halo 3.

How does Xbox live work? Give me a brief explanation if someone would, please. You just plug the ethernet cord from the Xbox to, in my case, my laptop, right? Think it will work on a AT&T highspeed laptop card?

By the way, I'm anxious for Halo 3 to come out so I can own you fools.

I'm pretty sure you have to have the ethernet cable running from your internet source, such as a router. You can get a wireless adaptor for your xbox, though, and use the same wireless that your laptop is using.

Well, it's one of these AT&T cards. As far as I know, this isn't it's own wireless network, it just connects to AT&T's network. Would I have to get a router?

Damnit.. I might as well just set up my own wireless network at my apartment. How much do you think that would cost?

Setting up a wireless network costs like 60 bucks if you've got regular broadband internet. I honestly don't know what you should do in your case. Maybe somehow use your computer as a router to your xbox, like you said in your first post, but I don't think that would work.

No clue about that shit. Why don't you have a normal goddamn external broadband modem? That reminds me of 56k.

All I have is a laptop man. :(

Well, you might have to get an external modem, router, and a wireless card then. It'd be a bit more than 60 bucks I'd think.

What sort of games are you after? Sports? FPS? Racing? Platform?

That's the system I wanna get next. Halo 3, GTA IV, and Assassin's Creed are pretty much the only games I wanna get (that and the slightly "old" Dead Rising). Too bad MGS4 won't be on the 360. :(

I've heard that someone actually makes a router that works with Verizon and Sprint connection cards, which would be your best choice, if you absolutely can't get cable or DSL. You can also try to use internet connection sharing, but it doesn't work very well, in my experience. DNS doesn't forward properly and stuff. You'll have to manually setup the XBOX's IP settings. The ICS wizard should give your laptop the address 192.168.0.1 (WTF?), so you'll need to set the XBOX to
IP: 192.168.0.100
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS1: 209.120.229.62 (that's Zelaron)
DNS2: 192.168.0.1 (if Zelaron is down, it's possible your DNS forwarding will be working ATM...)

Yeah I researched quite a bit yesterday online and I'm gonna enter all the information manually. Now, those numbers aren't going to be the exact same, correct? I'll have to look up the diagnostics for the wireless connection to AT&T and enter in those numbers it gives me. Right..?

Sorry, I'm a noob when it comes to this shit.

I got a 360 too any news on any good new games anyone tried out yet ?

Same question to you, T1, what genre of game are you interested in?

Those are the exact numbers to enter on your XBOX after you've used the Internet Connection Sharing wizard on your laptop. You also need to be sure to properly setup the internet sharing. Be sure that the source is the air card and that you are sharing with the ethernet adapter.

When you're done, hit [Windows]+R to bring up the run box, enter "cmd" to bring up the command window, and type "ipconfig /all" to confirm that your IP address on the ethernet adapter is set to 192.168.0.1 (the numbers on the XBOX will be slightly different if it isn't).

Some good games for the 360

Gears of War ( a must have)
Quake 4 ( An awesome fps with a decent story line)
Guitar Hero 2 (Online mode allows for downloading songs)
Tiger Woods ( Good game, online capabilities)
Madden

Then games to have just because

Doom 3 (Scary Shit- play drunk and watch yourself pee your pants)
Halo 1 and 2 (the 3rd is out on Sept 25th)
PGR (who doesnt like car games)

I love the system, but some of the games are not for me. Im looking foward to the game releases at the end of the year (Decemeber)

I appreciate the help, WW. I'll try this out tonight and see what happens.

Gruesome, I'm stuck at the very last boss on Gears of War. BADASS game. It's sort of short though. Me and my roomate played for probably 5 hours Monday and 3 hours yesterday and we're already at the end.

Yea that last boss is tough, just need to keep pounding him with sniper shots. When i first got the game. me and JR played i think for 20 straight hours. I can not wait for the next game to come out

Hey Than, madden 08 came out yesterday I believe, at 12:01 am.

Is that the one with OJ simpson as an assassin?

Neither one of us has a sniper rifle. I've got a rocket launcher but I doubt that'll do anything. The next game better last a little bit longer. I love the graphics man, I can't wait till we get an HDTV.

D3V, yeah I've got it :) Haven't managed to play it yet but I'm working on it.