Cheap Live games I can play with you nice people.

[quote name='GuilewasNK']Outlaw Volleyball is good but people are almost never on. I think I played pds319 from CAG and that is it.[/QUOTE]

I have Outlaw Tennis, and it's also dead. Rather surprising considering Topspin still has tons of people. Outlaw is probably the better tennis game, also.
 
[quote name='kittie']Yeah, right.

I hear all sorts of disgusting stuff from the kids on Live.[/QUOTE]
No, it's true. Atleast for the men anyway.... I don't know about the kids.
 
[quote name='kittie']I have Outlaw Tennis, and it's also dead. Rather surprising considering Topspin still has tons of people. Outlaw is probably the better tennis game, also.[/QUOTE]

I might pick up Outlaw Tennis up. I like the Outlaw games and the only tennis game I have is Tennis 2K2 on the DC.
 
You could probably preorder games like XMen Legends 2 or Far Cry that will have a huge online community (hopefully full of CAGs, too). Or you can get Battlefield 2 for late October that will probably have 20 something people in each room. Burnout Revenge, though, should be a game that should satisfy you for a while.
 
I'll throw my 2 cents in in the form of the Big Dirty Live Game List:

Amped 2: (I paid $6.48, Target Clearance) Never Opened it, can be found on the cheap anymore.

Bicycle Casino: (I paid $9.99, can be found used sub-$20 most places): The live community is active with games of Texas Hold Em. You can earn money in single player games to bring online, which helps out many situations.

Colin McRae 2005: ($9.99 EB, still eligible for Price Grabber Rebate): Good rally sim, next to no Live! community. Only ghost racing available.

Counterstrike: ($9.99 EB, was recently on clearance at Target, PH game): Just like the PC Game, active community.

DDR Ultramix/Ultramix 2: UM-1 is a PH, but live community is next to non-existant, not a cheap game series to get into, since you really need a pad.

Dead Or Alive Ultimate- Can be snagged for $30, less if you poke around. Community is full of the hardcore DOA fanboys, and don't take well to "noobs".

FIFA 05- It's approaching the end of it's shelf life. Can be had for $20ish used, $30 new still. Community has started to die off some, but games can still be found.

Forza- Recent price drop, active community, best racer on the console period.

Ghost Recon- PH, recently on Target clearance, semi-active community

Guilty Gear X2# Reload- Cheap, good 2D fighter, but Live is a barren wasteland.

GunGriffon Allied Strike- I nabbed for $10 off EB over the summer, combo Mech combat and FPS, never saw anyone on Live

Links 2004- Can be found really cheap, great golf game, slightly active community, can find games at most times

MLB 2K5- Can be had for $15, good baseball game, vibrant live community, probably will dwindle past the world series

MLB Inside Pitch 2003- If your Circuit City still has it, its 99 cents, and barely worth that. Bad game, no Live players

Mortal Kombat Deception- Not quite cheap enough if you didn't get in on the 9.99 EB sale of it. Lots of MK games going on, but Puzzle Kombat is pretty dry

NHL 2K6- New Game, Under $20 (GGC it for $15), new NHL rules implemented, numerous players

NHL Rivals 2004- Barren wasteland of a game that can be had for peanuts

Outlaw Volleyball- This is another game that can be found for scratch, and there is no life to it online at all.

Outrun 2- Can find this around $10 used, and the community has been on a steep decline over the past few months.

Project Gotham 2: PH that can be found cheap used, not as vibrant of a racing community as Forza, but there's still some life.

Rainbow Six 3: This can be found near scratch, used or new. $10 is really the max that should be laid out. Live community exists, but its full of the hardcore to the franchise.

Rallisport Challenge 2: Sub $20 new, can be found fairly cheap used. An arcade rally game that has only one or two races going on Live at once. A dwindling community.

Sega GT Online: I've seen this for $5.99 used before. It's SegaGT with an online component that I haven't seen used since the game was new in Feb 2004. Calling it a barren wasteland on live would be being nice.

Star Wars: Clone Wars/Tetris Worlds- This Holiday '03 disc can be found used really cheap, but the two games on there have little to no action. I've seen someone occasionally play Tetris Worlds, but never came across anyone playing Clone Wars.

Street Racing Syndicate- Was part of the Circuit City $9.99 clearance. Haven't seen too much movement on price, used hovers around $15. There are a handful of live players, but a racing dollar is better spent elsewhere.

XIII- This can be found for scratch, but the Live community I've found to be a crapshoot. Sometimes several people are playing, others just dust and tumbleweed.

Top Spin- Can be found pretty cheap, especially on the Holiday '04 bundle disc. Community tends to be like that of Links, can usually find a game, but sometimes it dosen't happen.

Unreal Championship- PH game, can be found for scratch used. Live games I've found to be few and far between.

Unreal II: The Awakening- Team based multiplayer component, occasional live games. It comes to being lucky finding it for less than $10 though.
 
Tetris Worlds :: Honestly, it's pretty bad. It's passable if you pay $1 or $2 for it, maybe $3 for the Star Wars: Clone Wars/Tetris Worlds combo, but that's about it. I found it's best if you want to chat with two other friends for a while on Live and want a game to play in the background. Best for voice chatting, poor for everything else.

Ultra Bust-a-Move :: I'm surprised this one hasn't come up at all. Granted, it's a crying shame that the online aspect features only one-on-one play, especially since earlier incarnations in the series allowed four people to play at once. Also, the online community just doesn't exist. However, if you want a solid puzzle title and you are ever looking for someone to play, just give a shout out. Since the MSRP for this one is $20 and can usually be found for $18 or less, it's quite worth it for the game itself.

Be careful with Guilty Gear, though. It's an amazing game and is worth the money on its own but the online aspect was thriving at first and is now all but dead. Most of the time you will either be matched with someone who is a golden god or someone who has connection troubles so problematic that the game will lag horribly. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but when you start losing 1/4 of your life bar in a split second, it becomes a problem.
 
[quote name='Autumn Star']If you're a girl. No need to worry about that.

The men treat women like gods on live because there are so few of them haha.[/QUOTE]

When I was playing Team Training on Halo 2 with craven, rabbitt, aznplaya and Shayde, we got matched up with a girl (I forget her gamertag) and some idiot 17 year-old (or something) guy with a guest. Craven, Shayde and the idiot and I were on one team, and the other CAG fellas and the guess were on another team. The entire match, the idiot kid kept pressing the white button asking us if the girl was "reall a girl". "Is she really a girl?" "Hey, is that really a chick?" As if we said yes would magically get him laid, or something.

Funny thing was, when I was near him, because of voice proximity, I could hear him talking to his guest (who was sitting next to him), "... I wonder if she masturbates..." Not as a joke, either -- but in child-like wonder.
 
[quote name='kittie']Geekiness, somewhat... but more so that people like you have been playing forever, and know every trick in the book.[/QUOTE]

Eh, I've not been playing forever... I know most of the tricks, yet I'm to lazy/disinterested to bother learning to properly use them.

It's actually like a great number of games... I can see what the trick is, and what's necessary to be successful, but I just don't care that much about the game that I'd dedicate that kind of time to it.

I think the local "Magic Champion" helped in clarifying that.
This guy has won high level competitions for the Magic card game, and given the proper evironment, struts around like he's godlike and generally acts like the self-important cock that people with high rankings on Xbox Live act like.

In normal life, he's a burger flipper.

I'm sorry, but no game is worth that kind of dedication of time, or the number of oportunities you must give up to dedicate that kind of time.

Because of that, certain groups of these people will laugh and call me a scrub when I start to play a game... and I'll let them. If this is all they have in life, why shatter thier illusions?
 
Yes, but most online players are not like you. There's either the geeks who take the game way too seriously, or people who are new and get crushed.

Rankings should be taken out of every game on Live. It only promotes cheating, and unhealthy practices.

Oh, I also have MLB 2k5. Pretty fun game, I should try it on Live.
 
[quote name='kittie']Yes, but most online players are not like you. [/QUOTE]

I'm assuming that's a compliment? :lol:
 
[quote name='Autumn Star']No, it's true. Atleast for the men anyway.... I don't know about the kids.[/QUOTE]
Yeah right.
Response A. OMG A GIRL I'VE NEVER TALKED TO ONE OF THOSE!
Response B. OMG *Insert lewd comment here*!!!
That's all I ever really hear on live.
 
Maybe so, but when you're relatively new to Live, you have to weed out the many bad apples on there... and find decent people to put on your friend list.
 
[quote name='kittie']Oh, I also have MLB 2k5. Pretty fun game, I should try it on Live.[/QUOTE]
It's a blast on Live as long as you got a decent opponent to talk to. Makes the game fly by so quickly. Haven't played that in a while though. Just turn off that ridiculous arcade mode (I forget what it's called).
 
[quote name='kittie']Maybe so, but when you're relatively new to Live, you have to weed out the many bad apples on there... and find decent people to put on your friend list.[/QUOTE]

Add people from the forums, knucklehead. ;o
 
[quote name='Brak']Add people from the forums, knucklehead. ;o[/QUOTE]

I don't add people. People add me.
 
[quote name='kittie']I don't add people. People add me.[/QUOTE]

Guns don't kill people. I kill people.
 
[quote name='kittie']I see some clever souls here created the names "weenabw" and "frenabw".[/QUOTE]

What is you ramblin' on about?
 
[quote name='JSweeney']You probably got wrapped up into either a low level or high level game...

At lower levels, most people only have access to about a quarter of the the available skills, and at higher levels, people tend to start playing the exact same thing as one another... in the middle ground, you have a wider variety, and you have some people building there arsensels to really mess with other people's heads, One hit KO, or just to casually play.. unless you want to sink much time it, the middle ground is usually the best place to be.[/QUOTE]

yea, i used to make one hit ko arsenals...then i lost all my data..havent put the game disc in since...
 
[quote name='kittie']I see some clever souls here created the names "weenabw" and "frenabw".[/QUOTE]

Imatation is the sincerest form of flattery.
 
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