First achievement?God knows I got Fifa 06 world cup summin, condemned, pGR 3 and Dead or Alive 4 with my 360, so something off one of those.

Best indiviual moment online?
Spending the day playing Halo 2 (pre Halo 3 release) with a mate on the same TV. Pretty much filled my friend list in an afternoon and we ended up with a group of 12 randoms playing together all afternoon. As great as party chat is there was the odd moment where you got a decent community spirit going back in the day.

Worst?
Screaming, why all the screaming!?!

How long have you been a member?
On and off since 2006. Probably about 4-5 years total.

I bought my 360 when I was still living with my parents. It was when Bioshock had just come out. I didn't get online with it until I moved out. True Achievements is telling me my first online achievement was Graduate in Halo 3: Earn 5 EXP or finish 10 games to complete the requirements for basic training, on November 13th 2007.

I can remember playing Halo 3 with friends. A warthog being driven by my mate was coming right for me. I threw a grenade and tried to jump it. The grenade kicked the back of the warthog up and it slid across on its nose, the turrent smacking me right in the face for the kill. Couldn't play the rest of the game; was in stitches.

Worst moment: Knocking the upright console over whilst playing Left 4 Dead. Irreparably scratched the disc and the drive has made a funny noise ever since.

Only Red Ringed the once, too. Sent it away for a fix, still got the same machine I bought at my parents.

First:

Amped 3. That's the first dated one anyway, I got the 360 before I got broadband.

Best Moment: Some sort of epic turn around on BC2.

Worst Moment: MW2. High hopes were dashed.

How Long: Since early 06.

Nothing to add as I'm not a 360 gamer, and never played on LIVE. But, you can pick up Wreckateer for free if you're UK based.

Yep, put that in the XBLA thread this morning. Typically, I had already bought it.

First Achievement



PGR3 - Reach Rank 10 - 20G (2nd December 2006)


Best individual moment online

Single handedly winning a game of S&D on CoD where I lost all 5 members of my team and went on to win the round despite being outnumbered 6-1.

This was hard question as I have choice of hundreds but nearly all of them involve my time with Subba and our gang on CoD4 apart from the one time I got absolutely shitfaced on Whisky while playing Forza with Stevo, I proceeded to climb out of a 4th floor window to have a Marlboro Light before coming back in to abuse Americans over Live!


Worst.

As somebody else mentioned any time that idiots came online, trash talking or just generally being a knob.


How long have you been a member?

2nd December 2006

I know this because I got made redundant on the 1st Dec 2006 and I went into Gamestation and spent just under £900 on gaming stuff!

Olimite wrote:

So, it's been 10 years since Microsoft took, at the time, a fairly big gamble by introducing an online service for its console. Given that PC owners got something similar for nothing, it was a massive risk. Still, the gamble paid off and now, ten years later, the thought of not being always-on seems ludicrous. With that in mind, what are your thoughts on the service?

Christ, I remember downloading all the Xbox Live is 5 stuff.

First achievement?



Story Apprentice (10)
Finish the story prologue levels

First online one anyway, I think that my first actual one was offline, either Pinata Name Caller, or The Creampuff in Rockstar Table Tennis.

Best individual moment online?

A few on Halo 3. Getting Mongoose Mowdown, getting my first ranked triple kill. Although I've probably got close yesterday, winning a game 1 v3, 39-30 on Narrows. Ultimately I'd give it to 21st May 2008. Manchester United had just won the European Cup. My housemate and I were very drunk. We joined a bunch of you for Halols. Avalanche kept cropping up, and having decided  I was inept in attack, I discovered I was a beast at defence. I kept referring to our team as various members of the victorious United team, until Funkstain wearily admitted after being called Ronaldo for the 45th time that he was actually a Chelsea fan.

I would otherwise have given it to a night on Final Fantasy XI when unable to get a mage as party leader, I suggested we do a burn party. This was the high point of my time in Vana'diel, we utterly ripped through the levels. By the time we finally called it a night everyone admitted that they should have actually gone hours ago, but didn't want to leave so good was not only the party, but the party members themselves. That was where I got my first proper linkpearl. This feels a little like cheating though, since the rest of them were on PC, and one on PS2.

Worst?

Not had that many bad moments. None really stick in the mind so much. The usual scum of the earth racists probably. gameplay wise, the second accounters.

How long have you been a member?

Since January 15th 2007. Nearly 6 years.

Pretty sure no, the minimum 'True' points they can be worth is never lower than their actual point value.

EDIT: yeah, even The Simpsons' "Press START to Play" is worth the same 5 points the actual achievement is.

Good game The Simpsons, especially if you have a local co-op partner. Not many decent examples of local play out there.

With that in mind, what are your thoughts on the service?


Starting to begrudge paying for it. Although its still the only way to MP

First achievement?

The starting off garden one in Viva Piñata YAS.


Best indiviual moment online?

Last Moxxi on Borderlands with Elm, Gav and Wookie, just this year.



Worst?

FNF where I was sick on the controller.



How long have you been a member

6 yrs

First achievement


Rank 10
UNLOCKED ON 19/03/2006

Best moments

Gears of war multiplayer

Worst moments

The introduction of party chat, I played with loads of great people over live. Haven't met anyone since it was introduced.

Playing since my fist achievement.

Top thread Oli - Representing - 75G.


First achievement? - King Kong - Pyromaniac - Jack used fire to scare off enemies and get out of harm's way 100 UNLOCKED ON 11/12/2005

Best indiviual moment online? - Playing Halo 2 on-line for the first time. My first real experience online - playing with real life and virtual mates - fond memories of Team Skirmish. Oh and Ivory Tower and Accension.

Worst? - Playing Perfect Dark Zero for the first time. My wife telling me that her Saturday revolved round me only being able to chat after 10 min intervals (the length of your average Halo 2 online game).

How long have you been a member? 8 years.

Random stuff - I used to play original Xbox games (PGR, Halo CE) over the Internet using some hookey bridge System Link hack. Ah crazy times.


R

Happy Birthday Live. I first encountered it round a mate's house during a lads night. We had a Halo 2 LAN do but we fooled about a bit on Wolfenstein on his half a meg connection, I will admit to being a little baffled by it all. I didn't go Live till I got my Elite in lateish 2007 but it's been a constant bedfellow ever since.

First achievement?
1st Challenge Complete, awarded in GRAW2 for completing the first tutorial. I remember wanting GRAW and only GRAW with my 360 when I went to Gamestation with the Oldbox underarm. Back went the bundled Blue Dragon and out I trotted with a 360, said Warfighter and the other bundled game, Forza 2.

Best individual moment online?
Many, many instances of team moments in Bad Company 2, but any time you attacked an MCOM, bursting through the smoke, putting down two with your AR, pulling out your sidearm and putting another down, diffusing or charging the objective, you always felt a little heroic.

Worst?
Some terribly ignorant rascists and homophobes has meant a few complaints have been filed. Gamewise, I remember GRID being particularly tiresome for griefers. Biggest disappointment has been Battlefield 3 for its nosedive into mediocrity and opening itself up to the type of players I thought I'd left behind in MW2.

Other highlights though include; arising at 6 on many a morn to put a pre-work stint on OG MW, Forza 2's fantastic Friday nights, and of course many joyful hours of BC2.

afgavinstan wrote:

How are we finding out our first ever achievement? Top thread, Oli.

Sign into to Xbox.com, click on Activity, scroll to the bottom, click into the game with the first achievement unlock listed. The one at the top should be the first.

First Achievement

Don't even remember that. Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

Best Moment Online
There's countless to list. The heady days of FNF on Forza 2 where I made a lot of friends from here, which led to meeting a few of them at the inaugural Regstock. The nights screaming at Frantic on NFSHP. But the one that sticks out the most for me is Left 4 Dead launch day. That time myself, g.man, Gunn and one other I can't remember (sorry) had the most amazing time. Throwing molotovs just as The Director spawned a mass of infected. Watching them run through the flames as we all panicked and screamed and laughed is something I'll never ever forget. That's what Live is all about. Creating one of a kind moments. And that was the best.

Worst Moment Online
Back when I was younger and more naive on Forza 2 having a drunken argument with Unlikely after he called me 'spineless'. Back then I still had a notion that he was actually like the way he is on here. Turns out he's one of the nicest men I've ever met, and I'm extremely glad to call him a mate.

Been a member since 2008, I think.

I can't think of being without Live now. As much as some of us think it's lost its way recently with the dash updates, and media-centric positioning, I use almost all of it, and can't live without it. It's a great service. The fact it has a birthday that's being celebrated is pretty cool. Will we have the cake out for Home? Or Plus?....