After seeing Justin Calvert post in a Dead Rising thread i saw that he had a profile on here just like myself (well duuh !!) and after a while i even found other members of the Gamespot crew on here (Jeff, Carrie and Ryan) and i liked what i saw on their 'blogs' so that kinda pushed me into wanting one myself, so now it is - my first entry in my own blog. I'll start with a couple of stories.
Xbox Live Killed My SaveGames (well, it was me, gotta blame something other than me)
Ok so earlier this month (well, now it'll be last month) my Xbox Live Gold expired (i was too cheap to get a 12month one so opted for a 3month one) so i ended up making a seperate Gamertag for Gold and had my primary tag (aseddon130) on silver till i could afford it, playing certain games online i started to earn a few achievement points on this other account (FarCry and Table Tennis) which was kinda ticking me off because it was on a stupid account which was going to get ditched after a month, so that pushed me to get a few months Gold on my normal tag. My mate owed me some money so i asked him to 'recover my Gamertag' on his 360 and stick his credit card details in and pay for a months Gold, he did it successfully, when i went back to trying to play on my account it logged out and died on me. So i now had to re-recover my own gamertag on my system which my 360 refused to do, it would crash every single time when downloading it. Me being the impatient type began to get frustrated, so at first i thought that maybe my profile on my 360 was corrupt and i couldn't overwrite it (or something) so i ended up deleting my profile on my 360 (which i didn't realise erased my savegames) and then it still wouldn't recover. 5 hours later it still wouldn't recover, during which time i asked my mate to try recovering it on his 360 (thinking there was something wrong with my system) and same happened to him. When i got my friend in USA to try it it worked fine, so there was an error with Xbox Live in the UK. i left it till around 11pm (around the time Xbox Live Marketplace gets less busy and faster for downloading demos) and it recovered fine ... so really i erased my savegames for nothing :( i was nearly in tears lol, most games i am done with but now i gotta start King Kong, NFS Most Wanted, BF2 and GRAW all over again (amongst others) which im not happy about
Today
Ok so onto today, what did i do today? hmm ... i finally got around to trying 'The Outfit' on Xbox 360 on Co-op on Xbox Live, which was real fun. My mate whom i know on a forum i moderate knows the game inside out so he would tell me that 'oh next, we gotta defend here and then a crapload of tanks come over the hill and we gotta shoot them then advance forward' and so on, on my own i had done to mission 8 and then with him i did from mission 8 to the end of the game, getting all of the medals on the way (1 medal = 20/25 achievement points each :D ) ... i need to go back to some of the earlier missions to get those medals, i'll probably do that soon enough.
ok sorry for such a lengthy first post, gotta start somewhere. laters!