Can you turn sticky aim off? I don't like using aim assistance on the console.

I played a healthy heaping of Halflife 2 and Portal last night. It's been so long since I finished it that, halflife 2 felt both fresh and familiar. The first time the lambda supply cache achievement counter appeared, suddenly I got much more serious about exploring all the nooks and crannies.

Portal is neat. I disappointed myself on one puzzle though, because I seemed to clear it thru shear luck, not that there is any problem with that.... other than I felt unworthy. It's such a fresh game mechanic, I'm enjoying every minute of it.

Seems like I have another 360 purchase coming ... and I was hoping to hold off until COD4 after purchasing NBA 2K8 and Halo 3. 5 titles in one box is tough to pass up though, especially because I haven't yet played Half-Life 2, and the first is still one of my favorite games. Team Fortress 2 is incredibly tempting, and seeing it all in HD on a big screen - count me in.

Keep the positive comments coming so I don't feel bad about the purchase.

HL2: Fun, but you can tell it's an Xbox port, bad textures. It looks way better even on my PC. Controls are ok. Still, this is freaking Half Life 2. It's awesome.

EP1: Looks a lot cleaner, but still not as good as the PC version.

EP2: Haven't finished EP1 yet

Portal: Freaking awesome. Easily the most fun I've had with the package yet. It makes me want more Portal.

TF: Very old school FPS vibe. It's no Halo, but it's goofy, fun, and easy to play, so I'm digging it.

Have I mentioned I hate you all?

I've got it on the PC and I'm enjoying the heck out of TF2 (which is odd, as I'd sort of gotten fed up with PC gaming). Now, I'm reading this and every day brings me one step closer to double dipping. I'd like to play HL2 and both episodes (never finished any of it on the PC) on my couch with my feet up.

Must...be...strong...

Team Fortress on the 360 has been a blast. They have some work to do with the lag. It's pretty bad in public games. It seems they'll let anyone host. When we had a goodjer only game it ran smooth with no lag at all.

It's definitely getting 80% of my play time until Hellgate comes out.

Welcome to the suck =)

TF2 works great with a gamepad, in sme ways, better than with the keyboard (sacrelige? Possibly, but true!). It looks great on a big screen as well; add to that the overal value fo the games in the box, it's most definitely the most "gameplay per dollar" you'll see outside of an MMO.

You definitely can't switch out your weapons as quick on the 360 as you can with mouse/keyboard. I've not tried it yet but i bet Rocket Jumping is a royal pain with a controller as well. Still can't deny how much fun this game is.

hey everybody, first post. I've had the 360 since launch but this is the first time i've really gotten on Live (except when the wife plays Uno, etc.). I was wondering if this is the best place to post my gamertag to find some GWJers on Team Fortress 2? Either way, its "wokavan". So far the lags been pretty bad, and i'm having to relearn the maps (played a lot of the original quake mod ... 10 years ago? jesus), but i definitely see the potential for some great multiplayer after we all get our bearings.

hope to see some of you guys on live!

Like I said, it's very subtle, and I had to go out of my way to discover it.

Virtually EVERY console shooter has a certain degree of aim assistance. The best games, like this one, use it so subtly that you'd never notice unless you knew exactly what to look for and tried hard to find it.

How or why would that be different? Shouldn't hitting the d-pad be the same as hitting numbers? Also, you can cycle between the weapons with the left and right bumpers, right? I thought you could, and most characters only have three weapons so that couldn't be faster without some kind of mind link technology.

I really enjoyed what little I played of Team Fortess 2. With souldaddy as host it was fine, but we only had eight players while I was there.

What console shooters have you been playing without sticky aim? The only recent two I've noticed that had that as an option were Bioshock and The Darkness. It was pretty hard in a good way.

Episode 2 was a blast, though not quite as good as Episode 1. I wish they'd just give up on vehicles or start over from scratch.

Rocky and I hit the Halo campaign today and kept noticing how often Adam Baldwin cropped up as a space marine. This right after playing Episode 2 where two out of ever three resistance dudes is Adam frikkin' Baldwin. What the F? It's like he has become generic scifi male over night. I envy.

Is it just me or are the combine soldiers one tenth as intelligent as the the soldiers in Half Life? I remember fighting those guys like I would fight real people. Before I just thought I was killing them too quickly with a mouse for them to have time to behave intelligently, but now on dual analog they have no excuse. They just stand there and die.

That may be the achilles heel for TF2 on the 360; You can run up to 24 players on Jakelegg's server, and it's been pretty smooth for me. Most you can get on 360 is 16, and we were getting some laggy action, i thought, when we were at 10. I'll bet they'll improve the game with patches, so i'm hopeful.

Not when there's only three weapons, silly. You're holding weapon B, and weapons A and C have instant access. Couldn't be faster.

Yup, that's what I got it for, as well. And to have the option of playing TF2 on both. Mmm... Half-Life 2 in HD.