Dueling Analogs » Xbox Live

Little Kids Shouldn’t Play Online Shooters

Steve Napierski — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:32:26 +0000

Curse you foul mouthed toddlers! You’re ruining it for the rest of us.

Take Us to Your Leaderboard

Steve Napierski — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:45:53 +0000

Maybe aliens have already made contact with Earth, but they attempted to do so via Xbox Live. That would also explain why they haven’t made any further attempts.

source: the rut.
via: Gamefreaks

Know Thine Enemy

Steve Napierski — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:18:00 +0000

Oh, how I wish this wasn’t true. Playing something like Madden or Call of Duty you expect this kind of gamer to be in the mix. But games like UNO, as well? I’ll be honest with you. Some of the biggest jerks I have ever had the chance to encounter on Xbox Live have been while playing UNO. Main reason I quit plugging in my headphones while playing my Xbox 360 a very long time ago.

I’m all for humorous versions of naming the difficulty levels (ie. “Can I play, Daddy?”, “Damn I’m Good”, “I’m a Freight Train O’ Death”, “The Boss Extreme”), but I think there should be an establish set for difficulty levels. I know we have “easy”, “medium” and “hard”, but what about above and below these levels: “very easy” or “very hard”? That seems very lame. I used “practice” and “extreme” in the comic myself… I guess “ultimate” or “supreme” could have worked for “extreme” as well, but still it would help if there was a standard nomenclature. Just saying…

Xbox Live Player Alignment Chart

Steve Napierski — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:00:40 +0000

I wanted to wait until this was a little further down Halolz main page before I reposted Dorkly’s accurately brilliant Xbox Live Player Alignment Chart here on Dueling Analogs.

I’m True Neutral when it comes to playing Xbox Live. Especially since he’s the only one not wearing a headset, as well. Let’s be honest, not hearing people on Xbox Live is the only way to really enjoy playing on Xbox Live.

source: Dorkly

Xbox Live is dead. Long live Xbox Live!

Steve Napierski — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:41:00 +0000

Today at 00:00 hours, Microsoft ceased to support the original Xbox Live [source]. Personally for me, this doesn’t mean a damn thing. I never owned the original Xbox and the newer Xbox 360 version of Live is still going strong. But for a lot of you there were still multiplayer games that you enjoyed to playing across Live and for those few we’ll have a moment of silence…

MOMENT OVER!

Just wanted to remind you that if you are considering pledging towards the Dueling Analogs book that you are not required to have the money at this moment. You won’t be charged for the pledge until the drive is officially over and fully funded as well. And that date is July 4th. So if it’s something you’ve been considering then take a moment to educate yourself on how it works. Which will then hopefully be followed by a pledge.

Update: To the best of my knowledge I have only ever done this once before, but I’m changing the title of this comic. I was checking my iPhone this morning and thinking about the comic. Then, the phrase “Xbox Live is dead. Long live Xbox Live!” popped into my head. Seconds later my emails had downloaded and I saw that Bill commented the same thing under the post. I felt it was a sign. So I decided to change the name of the comic from “Xbox Lived” to “Xbox Live is dead. Long live Xbox Live!”

As far as I can remember the only other time that has happened was when “The Konami Code” changed to “So Dark the Contra of Man” courtesy of Ross Miller from Joystiq Engadget.

See you Monday…

Update 9:20 EST: As of right now, the original Xbox Live is still live [source]. Hopefully it goes down soon so that I don’t have to justify this comic for years to come.