CONSIDERING XBOX PURCHASE

author=Blitzen link=topic=1962.msg32091#msg32091 date=1221539184
XBOX360 Arcade is now killer cheap ($189.99 at local department store). To be honest, lately I haven't had a lot of time to play videogames. However, I am considering the purchase seeing as how I have the money and I would love to be able to play Burnout, CivRev, Katamari, and the new StarWars game when it comes out. So I would be buying it with the prospect of future gaming. I haven't got any original XBOX games so I don't need backwards compatibility and I won't be playing things online, just in my house with my family.

Do you think I should buy it? What cheap titles should I get if I do buy it?

Is the Arcade the one without the hard drive? Because if so, I'd say to just pay the extra $50 or whatever for the next model, because downloads make a huge difference in the experience. For one thing you get demos of most of the biggest 360 games that come out (including a very playable demo of CivRev), and there are a lot of titles that are only available via download, like Rez HD, Ikaruga HD, and stuff like Geometry Wars and Castle Crashers, plus some old original XBox titles that are worth the $20 or so they cost--I've picked up Fable and plan to get Psychonauts pretty soon.

Honestly, I've spent a good 90% of my time on my 360 either playing Rock Band or one of my downloaded titles (including quite a bit of time on the Geometry Wars demo). I've got Eternal Sonata, but it hasn't really grabbed my attention yet. I'm considering getting Tales of Vesperia soon because FD keeps insisting it's the best thing since sliced bread.