Hey everyone!
With Xbox turning 25 years old later this week, I’d love to collect some memories, thoughts, anecdotes and things of that nature around the past, present and future of the brand and how you feel about it.
You can write/share whatever you’d like, but if you’re stuck, here’s a general question to help get you going-
What are your favourite memories of Xbox over the last 25 years?
or
What does the next 25 years look like for Xbox? What do you want to see?
The best entires will be put together into an article I’m putting together. Unless you all let me down and don’t write anything, in which case I’ll be sad.
Try to limit it to around 500 words please!
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Xbox you ol chippie alot of fond memories growing up with 360 as my first console. Bioshock, Dead Space, The Mass Effect series and ofc Oblivion/New Vegas my first open world games thinking gee whizzo I can go anywhere I want. Remember playing Oblivion with Dad, the box was meant to by my Xmas present but he couldn’t wait and took it out and put a towel over it and we played it early under mums nose and then a few days before Chrissie put it back in and none the wiser. I’d say one of the best times of gaming in my life.
I don’t like Microsoft very much, especially as part of the AI push. Xbox has often done things I’ve disliked, and I’ve never really enjoyed the overly-American aspects of much of the ‘culture’.
BUT.
I got an Xbox with PGR2, because of Live. From that moment on, I’ve been hooked. Halo multiplayer - of almost any version, but especially 3 and Infinite - has been some of my favourite ever gaming experiences. But countless others, centered on Live, have formed a patchwork of memories I like. I’ve also made friends via Live, as well as kept in touch with IRL friends through it.
It could have been another platform that did this for me, but it wasn’t - it was Xbox, and that’s why I still play there, and why I have always enjoyed it. Excellent, smooth, varied and extremely well supported online gaming. Everyone else does it now, but they weren’t doing it in 2003 when I loaded up PGR2.
