LIVE Activity for week of July 14th

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Thiago123 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:38:17 GMT

@ THORUEN

I agree completely. Halo and COD4's lobby systems are no brainers. It makes the game much more accessible and easy to use. When you have online only games like Quake Wars and UT3 (lets be honest, the 'campaign' is just bot matches and UT3's attempt at a 'story' is even worse) with no party system, its hard to justify constantly going in and out of menus, xbox guide, etc just to keep fighting through the lag.

It takes a real special and unique experience like Gears to have an online success with no party system or some transparency in the matchmaking. CliffyB's point that this should have been integrated into the dashboard/xbox guide is well made, but it wasn't so be like infinity ward and Bungie and do it developers!!

I can't say for sure if some of my favorites (Quake 4) would have been a huge success with the party system, but I can say for certain that it would have done better.

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smis7 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:47:38 GMT

I've always heard that Halo and COD were neck and neck as far as numbers were concerned... but I wonder if this was a steady shift, or players suddenly logged Halo3 once during the week.

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Kevin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:49:15 GMT

FIFA?

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THORUEN — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:55:36 GMT

First the reason UT3 didn't make the top 10 is because of it's crappy lack of a party system. The fact that I can't join a ranked game with my team of friends is one of the dumbest things I've seen in game design. There are a ton of good FPS games out there like: UT3, Frontlines: Fuel of War, etc... But these games have little or no party system.

I've been yelling about this for at least 2 years, saying that MS just needs to tell developers that "here we own this bit of code that Bungie used for Halo this is how you do it." It looks like MS went a step further and just did it themselves. I am so stoked.

I'll bet you will see a resurgence in some of the better FPS games with the new party system this fall or winter, when they release it. I hope it doesn't take until December this time.

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THORUEN — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:47:13 GMT

I'm going to gu

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Hi2u — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:18:24 GMT

Wow, Haloverated 3 back at #1.

I'm surprised UT3 didn't make it onto the Top 10, lot of people playing that, and it's a great game.

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THE AK WARLORD — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:51:16 GMT

Umm i havent played Battlefeild online but i have played the demo. What makes that game so attractive?

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Mr Barrel Roll — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:40:10 GMT

"haha- i knew that bungie made Cold Storage free for a reason. But hey no one in the gaming world will forget the year that COD4 and Halo 3 ruled the world of xbox and the gaming industry by a landslide. But they will both fall on 07/11 to Gears of War 2. Awesome games though and i will miss them both."

You act as though when Gears 2 releases, every single person will stop playing their old games for it?

Hell, I'm not even gonna buy it! Rent it to play the story, then get back to Halo and CoD4, where I don't have to spend half my time watching the "waiting for next round" screen and not having any fun.

I expect that, unless Epic does some really awesome stuff to Gears 2 to make it something unparalleled, it'll follow the GTA4 route and starts off with a huge following and then trail off as people finish the story and go back to their FPS games.

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Dislexsic — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:09:47 GMT

A free map will do wonders to your number, especially when your forced to download it to play certain gametypes.....

Don't get too excited Halo fans......I enjoy both games regularly but we all know Halo 3 will be back to number two probably next update.

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The One X — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:07:07 GMT

One step closer to my dream where there are multiple games battling it out every week for the top spot and you never know who will be on top any given week.

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sam — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:42:04 GMT

Ugh IMHO the too human demo was cack! Dodgy controls and camera as well as boring and uninspired game play a good game do not make!

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naps — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:35:51 GMT

And, of course, the cod fanboys can't stand it.

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Less Art More Matter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:06:43 GMT

I <3 Bungie and Halo

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SLE4ZY SUPERM4N — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:24:33 GMT

Hell yeah Halo 3!!!!

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Storm Shadow NF — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:10:47 GMT

COD4 is way too good. Halo is just a little outdated graphic wise. Just wait until more maps come from COD4!!!

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Wedzi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:35:12 GMT

I think we might see the end of Call of Duty 4's run at number 1 soon. Halo 3 fans will continue to play Halo 3 all the time while Call of Duty fans will soon move off to the next good military shooter. (Possibly Bad Company or something else?)