The Xbox 360 introduced many folks to many things - from gaming itself, to online play, to massive hardware failures. Here are some of our favorite memories. Subscribe for more: / gameranxtv
Joining a lobby in 2007 on the 360: Everyone is talking and yelling. Joining a lobby in 2020 on the 360: It's a ghost town like nobody talks anymore, but you can find a lot of people on COD MW2 and COD BO2
It's pretty hard for me to fond a good lobby on mw3 Nd bo2. When playing mw3 the map showed that it's pretty much only people fromthe east coast and California that still play it
Joining a lobby in 2003 though. I don't know why in the video they portray the 360 as the first foray into Xbox Live but it's not, the original Xbox had Xbox Live and it was a cringe Fest.
I know it's been a month, but legit. The way I held the 360 controller was so comfortable too. Now that I use the One, when I go back to play a game that isn't backwards compatible still to this day on the 360, feels kinda weird sometimes..
Was way tougher to break compared to a PS controller. Couldnt just twist it and crack it in the middle lol. Or ppl using modded controllers so the RT button made them shoot faster
Now imagine this I never stopped playing since the release of MW2 on Xbox 360 I sold my ps3 and bought a ps4 which I also play on. But I also watch Netflix on Xbox. Unfortunately I’m banned I’m not sure but it tells me i can’t play with that profile. So I can’t go online on my Xbox Account
Here's a happy story about making friends in h3. My brother made his friend, who is still his best friend to this day there. He's even his roommate now.
My first hate message on 360 went something like this “get back in the kitchen girls don’t have a place in bo2, whore” this came after I was at the top of the leaderboard on a multiplayer lobby. He was just salty🤷🏻♀️
Oh gawd, yes! I remember beating a guy in Final Fight Champion and he was MAD as fuck! I was laughing like hell... also it happened often in COD4 and MW2
I had a friend named Ryansword23 or sum random numbers I can’t remember them. I used to play with him every day. One day he never logged back on. We were in the middle on creating a city in Minecraft. Last Online 6 Years Ago. The only games we would play were, Halo 3 and Minecraft..... The good old days. 😭😭 I miss my childhood, and something kinda crazy to think about is that a lot of the kids that grew up on Xbox 360, will be adults in 2020. I’ll be 23 in 2030 😞 RIP 2010!
You can do that with Spotify on Xbox One, but yeah I miss the music too because you can pick this screen where it shows like alot of colors while it played music it was cool
Remember the cool screens in the music player? Pure nostalgia for me. I still have mine from when I first got it in 2008 and I even have xbox live account still even though if you try to make one now it will say “error”..
hell yes not having to wait literally half the life expectancy of an average human being to play a game. I also miss the community that is why I have mostly switched to PC gaming for realistic military shooters or games like EVE or starmade cause they got people that with a bit of effort you can get talking to each other over discord and whatnot, I still play my Xbox 360 a ton and i don't regret not getting an Xbox one.
W-wait, you're trying to tell me that developers actually put the game on the physical media instead of giving you what's basically a disk shaped download code? Legendary.
If not for Xbox 360 I might still be married to my first wife... Thank you Halo 3 for helping her find boyfriends so I no longer had to carry her dead weight.
@@yoitsjonathan6744 it took them a decade to get married but yes. Her first 2 boyfriends were underaged and she never met them but she ran away 2000 miles with number 3. She tried convincing me to let her take my son but I didn't bend. 10 years later she hasn't seen him since the day she got on that train.
@@DaedalEVE probably not the way you think we mean, in 360 there would be like 10 people speaking with mics and or playing music, at the time it would be annoying but now I kind of miss it.
@@inktheone5933 I can't anymore as a hacker Co shared his scripts to me when I didn't ask for it so now when I search for a lobby it just keeps searching and searching over and over again. Makes me sad.
Black Ops is terrible. All Treyarch CoD gms are. Every one of them in multiplayer you can unload an entire clip in someone's back, they turn around, shoot you in the foot and you die
I loved how you could dowload your music even off a cd and play while playing a game. Ps didnt do that and unless I'm just an idiot and don't know what I'm doing neither can xbox one. It was fun to make your own soundtrack
The 360 library of games was so much better than Xbox One generation. I miss that we didnt have to install 60GB of game, midnight launches actually meant playing the game in like 10 mins after getting home, the online lobbies where people chat I miss too. I met so many great people, but after the XB1 came out and the flop of Halo MCC a lot of us just went our own ways.
I know those feels of midnight release. Got MW3 at the midnight launch after I put a down payment to preorder a few weeks prior. Came home and turned it on, got online with a friend and her friends and we played until like 6AM and I got off and went to sleep while they continued. Now? I have to preinstall it, if it's digital or wait FOREVER for the game to install off the disc, on top of a day 1 update. Fuck that shit.
@@shadowwolf8757 the video game industry will die once they go to 100% digital online games that require 150 gbs of storage per game and top that off with 100gb updates.
wiis are so nostalgic, i still have mine from november of 2006 that still works to this day (although i did have to replace the disc drive earlier this year)
The Xbox 360 was me and my siblings LIFE for almost a decade. Ours lasted super long, until one time I accidentally tried to connect a USB controller in the wrong direction and I... well I made it red-ring and suddenly the Xbox 360 era ended. R.I.P.
NET Alliance TOO TRUE. I never got one, but my friends had them, and I remember my local library had a teen hang out section with flat screens, booths with xbox 360s hooked up, and a wide array of games, and when my friends and I met up there all the way back in middle school (2009-2010) after school every day, and one friend brought theirs i remember thinking it was so cool. Especially since I had the arcade and my sister and I had ours too far for an ethernet. Eventually i got the slim, but for literally 5 years before I got the slim i had the wifi adapter on my christmas list. And every Christmas, my parents never bought it cuz of it being $100 bucks. God those were the days 😂
This should have been title 'Things Xbox 360 live players remember' I had to buy a Wi-Fi extender because my system was older. We got excited to play the Kinetic but had to buy an extension for that too. The games where still awesome but not every one had Wi-Fi abilities
Yes the first time I got an achievement I got terrified and had absolutely no idea what was happening. It was almost like I was being abducted by aliens
That Halo spot and the mic hits hard. I had those moments with some of the early CODs and Halo Reach. I made friendships that lasted years. Now that I'm on PS4, everyone is either in party chat or has no mic. It's very hard to make online gaming friends. Back then my friends list would fill up to the max of 100 on the 360, now I only have 5 friends on PS4. Sad how times had changed.
True, had around over 30 friends on my PS3 due to me talking and hanging out, Now I barely have friend who talk to me on Steam (Less then 40, going to removes most of them) and No PS3 friends at all online, Everyone moved on...
I really connect with the Halo one, I meet my best friend on there & we played for years (we didn’t really stay in contact because we grew older & had jobs, lives etc.) but a while back I noticed he hadn’t been on in like 2 years, so I messaged his sister (she also played with us too) & she told me he passed away from Cancer. It’s suck but that’s life. RIP Andrew.
Gow 2 I played offline against boys since I didn't get internet until gow 3 lol but I loved TF out of 2 I beat the campaign like 60 times and got my friends and cousins to all play it with me 😅
I remember just a few years ago when 11 year old me played BO2 and everyone in the lobby was talking, nowadays the only people with mics i hear are racist kids on gta, or screaming children on fortnite
Well, I've thought about it and look at it this way: Back then you were a kid with a mic. Nowadays kids are the ones with mics. See the similarities ??? Though I do have to agree that the generations have changed and the parents now are way softer than back then which is the main reason why kids are like that these days.
Ah, gift cards. Other platform but i want to rant. Ignore this if ya want. On Xbox One, a pain in the ass. I activated a 25€ gift card. I have an account, the shit needs to be connected to a credit card (why?!), i do not have a credit card and the 25€ are still not usable. No joke, my Xbox don't accept gift cards as a paying method.
My best memory was cruising and drag racing in my beloved Ferrari F430 in the original Forza Horizon with random people online, so many great memories. Nostalgia from my childhood is too damn strong
halo2 and halo3 were that way, it was before facebook was huge and not a lot of social media. thats what made those moments so special, connecting with like minded people. you cant make friends on social media these days
The part that gets me the most is I don't know if they are alive I don't know if they got into a accident or they quit I don't know and not knowing is the worst part what if you were the last person they talked to. I knew a guy named HGC General in H3 I was going through a hard time I lost my brother on my 14th birthday and I played H3 as an escape a distraction I started smoking alot of green and did pills HGC General aka Sean I looked up to him he was an older stoner he helped me more than he knew we played for what 8 years then he disappeared later I got the news he died a couple months back on Facebook so I sent a message to our mutual friend Ray he was destroyed when he got the news, I miss Sean. I guess moral of the story is you don't know when they will disappear or why so enjoy it while it lasts that goes for really anybody online you could be the last person they talk to and never know.
that was my fix for years it always worked, including for my wii. I find it stupid that my Ps4 warns people against using this universal fix without giving the context required for it to be dangerous to the system.
@@brandonnecessary downloading an update is ok but during the install is bad. Update is setting up new files while the old ones still exist. Installing is replacing the old files with the new. However many things don't tell you if it is downloading vs installing or may have both happen at the same time.
I miss the summer of 2008 when halo 3 and cod 4 had the craziest lobbies, the original dashboard was still there before the avatars and stuff, GTA IV just dropped that spring and Gears 2 was on the horizon to be released later that fall.... I was so ungrateful back then. Great communities, trash talk and memories with friends... and uhh.... NO MICRO TRANSACTIONS!!!!!!!
Reupload mafia no those are iron crosses there’s two types of them, as you mentioned nazi Germany’s and the iron cross of Denmark, the one on the 360 was the iron cross of Denmark because Microsoft wouldn’t have been able to ship out the 360 if it was nazi Germany’s. Continue with your day good sir
Number 5 made me cry... I made some of my closest friends there and then they just vanished. Once one of my friends said “see you tomorrow and maybe we can play some reach or cod. And the next day they never came on... or the next day and ever since that day they have never came online.... I loved 360 so much but it’s so sad to see your friends never come online again and I hope to see them online one day
MLB The show 2018 What does that have to do with not using a mic? If they did have a job and a life, i'm pretty sure they could afford to buy their own mic, or they wouldn't be playing games in the first place, you know, because they have a job to go to?
I was a toddler when the xbox 360 came out, however I still grew up with it and played on it even when the xbox one came out when I was about 9. I remember a friend on my road used to always come over and we'd play batman arkham asylum and assassins creed all day. Good times, it's still my favourite console.
I’d gladly give up smart phones and advanced internet to go back to this. Back when life was much more simple. Ah, back when I was an unaware squeaker....those were the days...those were THE days....
@@spore6050 *read the end for the point of this paragraph* I mean yeah, looks and better performance over being nostalgic . I liked xbox 360 and loved ps2 and ps3 but I'm not going to go back to shitty graphics and games that are different from what they are now. For me personally, games worse than how I remember them. Maybe because I live in a ps4 and gaming pc house where everything looks amazing but the entire point of this is to say "Nostalgic games should remain nostalgic"
As a squeaker who missed out on squeaking, I'd rather not. Discord is my best friend, I enjoyed using Skype for Minecraft. I loved attempting to play my $60 copy of Sonic Generations on a 1st gen laptop i3 or an AMD A6 Bulldozer laptop APU.
I've had a 360 for over seven years now, and before that I played on them for a long stretch of my teen-young adult life. It's my personal favorite for a console! Love ot
I played Minecraft so much that the crosshair and tool bar were burnt into the screen. I tried watching the TV normally but all I could focus on was the marks.
I always loved the old dashboard, it's my uncle's old old old Xbox 360 that had that dashboard, and the theme was naked alien lady's and dragon lady's, they were human in in the shape of the body( they were standing in a straight, line hugging each other, facing the camera ), but they were alien lol when i was little that was the coolest thing ever.
That talk about halo 3 gives me depression cause it was the 1st game I ever played. I had so many good friends and I still remember playing with my best friend for hours and trying to hit noscopes. Then my best friend moved to Florida and I haven’t talked to him since. He gave me his old Xbox 360 before he moved and I never used it. It was about the time when the Xbox one came out when he moved. I could never bring myself to use the console. It just made me too sad. The other day I made up my mind to play. I got on and all these good friends o had made that I would talk to every day were gone. The last one was on about 5 years ago, when my friend moved away. Then, I shut down the console and decided to play again the next day. And what is saw in my messages made me cry. My best friend and my about 20 other friends had all messaged me. I don’t know how they all knew I finally used the console. The messages were stuff like “Hey S4LTY n00b. We had some good times. I just wanted to say goodbye. You always had the record amount of kills among us. If you ever find me in a game, I have kept my name, so we could keep the squad together cya S4LTY” I finally found my friends online and all of us got into a lobby and cried while talking about the good old days. Thanks for reading
How Epic Games went from masterpieces like Gears of War to Fortnite ??? Fortnite isn't a Bad game, it 's just weird seeing epic games focusing on f2p games...
You forgot the part where you could never play this at night or when you went supposed because you would get caught because it sounded like a damn freight train with an elephant in it
I love my ps3 but Xbox 360 has a lot of better moments to me -That beautiful startup -Red ring of death -Trying to beat the games in one day because I couldn't afford a hard drive -A step up in graphics -leaving the system on overnight because again...No flash drive -Moving/knocking ur console off like an idiot causing the game/movie inside to be scratched - the avatar icons -creating avatars - the super nice feeling remote(better than the ps3 imo) -super easy to remove the plate -coloring the front plate of the Xbox -Watching movies -Earning as many achievements as u can - Downloading demos because u didn't wanna pay for online -the fun games(Halo 3, Gears of war, Viva Pinatat) and even some of the games that were multiplatform felt definitive on Xbox 360(Sonic unleashed, Bayonetta, The Simpson's game, Grand theft auto IV) -never bein able to use the Xbox live function because u have no internet -Backwards compatiblible with Xbox games I have. Alot of great memories on the Xbox 360 and is one of my favorite consoles of all time
not all xbox games were useable on the 360 :) RIP flat out! I still miss that rag doll death and beat up cars to drive that gave me so much satisfaction ....
I don't know how anyone could hate the gears of war trilogy. I remember being 11 years old and not having Xbox live until the next year, and I played the gears 1 campaign over 30 times on various difficulties, that story was so dark and mysterious that it just constantly held my grasp. Then when I got live and Gears 2 recently released and I played it so much that not only, did I get better at multiplayer games as a whole, but I got good enough to actually compete in gamebattles, back when it was actually relevant. Those were truly the good days of gaming, to me.
The most memorable for me is my first rpg *I was young like close to 6-ish* but it was the first time playing and beating dragon age: origins. After that I spiraled down a long path that lead me to dark souls gameplay. But I will never ever forget the old god-send that was that game it made me cry at points I won't lie... But now I have the oldie on my Xbox one and I couldn't help but rember the little secret special class line you could get. *My favorite was spirit healer arcane warrior*
