bigdaddyt

so random question for you all...i cannot get xbox and pc to share media connection. firewall's are off on pc, and router. media sharing is enabled, pc see's and allows xbox sharing, xbox sees pc but does not connect. ports reccomended by ms are open, anti virus is avast due to media sharing issues with both norton and avg. have scoured forums and ms website for issues but cant find anything. also, was able to set up media center sharing between the 2 for one night, but when i turned xbox on the next day issues resumed and havent gone away.

yea i tend to ramble without the enter button, i write massive quantities of papers at school where i dont hit enter until the paragraph is over so force of habit i apologize for that. also i am going to do some research and find which cross platform games scored higher on 360 than ps3 and maybe give some of those a shot. i distinctly remember one but will have to look through some older GI's to find it. thanks again all

to answer the question of why i picked up a 360, it was 95 bucks at a local pawn shop for the 360s with everything included. for that price, i felt it was worth finding out whether or not the live system was superior (it is however wtf is up with the points system. MS please give me the option to have everything converted to dollars). also wanted to see if there was any more of the jet engine sounds when playing anything on the old style 360's as well as thought there were more exlusives other than forza, fable, halo and gears that i may enjoy. i did pick up alan wake and am giving it a shot later today, also decided to get reach so i could give halo more of a fair shot seeing as i essentialy played an hour or 2 here and there at a friends house. reach so far (new alexandria escort done, met up with whats left of noble team and am flying a helicopter somewhere) has proved to be a little more than what my opinion formerly was, and the multiplayer while still frustrating and i wind up on a rotation of the same 4 maps when i do play is oddly addicting mainly due to the whole added emphases on head shots unlike cod, and swat mode is piqueing my interest slowly but surely. other than that its a nice break from years of ps3 and pc. graphics wise, the biggest difference between the 2 systems ive noticed is colors feel warmer on the 360, but frequently while playing reach ive had multiple framerate drops and an odd almost ghosting type animation occasionaly while reloading (and yes i installed reach to HD). thank you all for your input it is apreciated.

@DragoonKain1687: if lost oddyssey is the team ico one then that may be what does it..oh yea forgot to state final fantasy although in my opinion for whatever reason FF has dipped in quality since the multiplatform thing occured.

@Canteu: aim center mass, work my way up :)

okay so here goes. first off i want to say i have been an avid ps3 player/owner since launch, and until roughly a week ago any attempt at owning a 360 longer than a week left me rrod (3 rrods, 2 in less than 4hrs,one after a week) so i waited until these slims came out. i am also a pc gamer as well. my problem is this. after purchasing my 360 and deciding to give my 60gb launch a break after years of heavy use culminating in a brutal 3 week stretch where all i did was play skyrim 8+hrs a day (im in college, was on break) and the occasional (5) freeze from the notorious skyrim ps3 freezing issues, i went to my local used game store and took a look around. now all ive been hearing is exclusives exclusives exclusives for 360 but here is my problem. halo, while i respect what it did for the xbox and for online gaming in general, i cannot stand any time ive played them at a friends house. something about draining a clip into a dude then having a firefight turn into a whose going to melee the other first kind of deal doesnt do it for me (as i feel the same about killzone). Gears of war..also not my cup of tea, the character models are massive lumbering and slow, and campaign is ok but horde mode is only fun with friends. I deal with the slow movements of resident evil because ive been a loyal player since the very first one on playstation/pc. Other than that theres project gotham racing and forza, forza is good but i enjoy the gran turismo series better probley like RE its a habit thing. I loved fable, bought the first xbox for fable, beat fable, sold the first xbox. i have beaten fable 2/3, Loved bioshock 1/2, left for dead i rock the pc for those along with fear series. im not into the xbla style games or anything closely resembling the ps3's little big planet style (great game i respect it but that style doesnt work for me). Mass effect 1/2 again pc. and its at that point that im staring into the used games asking myself what im asking you. hopefully by now youve noticed my gameplay style and can recommend something. also if it requires multiple disks, ill get it on ps3...ps3 titles ive beaten that are on xbox are (and ill try an remember all of them), any COD series with all map packs, GTA, saints row 2, skyrim, oblivion, fight night, red dead, rage, bulletstorm, borderlands, nhl, madden, nba, wont touch any mlb game other than the show, fifa, RE5, portal was a pc one, skate series, battlefield, silent hill series, etc... any help would be greatly apreciated as i am attempting to broaden my gamerscope i guess you could say.