Or endangered?

Pontiac Gran Prix, 2005

About MGO:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mgops3/petition.html

But i have been on just enough to know that Boxxy sucks.

Damn whore

Here's the deal: My friend is letting me borrow a second Xbox 360 he has. I got annoyed already before i even turned it on. For my PS3, i use HDMI for my video, and an optical cable for sound.

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The 360 only has optical built into the AV Plug ( To save money i guess on MS's part. ) So i plug the AV Plug in for the sound and guess what: The Plug is so freaking huge i can't fit HDMI in! That's just dandy. So i plug HDMI only in Just to see how things look in 1080p, the 360 looks awful! ( Or at least the new Xbox menu does. ) Which leads me to my next impression: The new xbox menu thing.

First the avatars. Stupid.

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I thought it ( The menu ) was going to suck, but it actually surprised me. I like it, not as much as the PS3 XMB ( find it a bit faster and i like its navigation more, ) but still very good. That was a good improvement over the old blades.

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Than a friend sent me a party invite. A party allows up to six people i believe, to go into a chat room to talk. Its good cause we can all play different games and still chat. Than all of a sudden i get a wonderful message telling me i gotta get Xbox Live Gold, just to talk to more than one friend. Oh yay. I was able to score a few 48 hour gold memership cards. The party thing is cool, but they seem to disconnect randomly.

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All that is fine and all but the big thing is games. When it comes to single player games i like PS3 more ( Uncharted and MGS4 for example. ) I wanna try the 360 due to beign able to play with my friends online. So i try Halo 3. Wait what? Yup, lag. Lag, with only 10 people? Why is it that Resistance 2 can have 60 with no lag? Or Medal of Honor hereos 2 for Wii with 32 people over wi fi have no lag? ( There was no lag when i played it at least. ) I also try Saints Row 2 online and Gears 2, all lag. So why do we have to pay for Live again?

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The second day i had my xbox, i turn it on and it starts making weird noises. Sounds like the fan was spinning very slow, but it went back to normal, still scares me a bit. Overall I feel you can do more on the PS3 with the exception to parties and cross game invites.

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As for the 3 games i have at the moment ( Halo 3, Fable II, Saints Row 2..)

Halo 3 i can tell is good, but i'm just not a huge fan of it, i think i have been spoiled by other shooters. Saint's Row II is fun as hell, th emain reason i have been playing the 360, but i could get that for the PS3 or even PC later next month in January. Fable II is really good. I knew i would like it but it is better than expected, not much to say because i haven't played a whole lot of it overall.

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You must all think i hate the 360, but thats not the case... With that said, i'm not really a fan. Xbox Live is what does it. It is THE selling point, and i cant even play 360 games online without lag ( Yet my PC games and PS3 games are fine. ) I feel like i was ripped off, and i didn't pay for any of this yet

EDIT: I feel like i should clarify some more. No, it doesn't lag a ton. Most of the time the lag is minor, nothing big that cripples games. What annoys me is i notice lag more often than on the PS3 or PC. The reason i make such a big deal out of it is becuase Live must be paid for to play games online.

I know that i'm not exactly well known or popular and maybe 3 at most will actually read this. That's fine. I just got these thoughts on my mind and i just gotta say something to calm me down a bit, even if know one reads them.

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Since about 8th grade or so, i would get these thoughts and flashbacks every christmas. It would be about me when i was younger, like elementry school young. random thoughts about me being a kid in general or around christmas. I was able to sit around and play SNES most of the day if I wanted, as long as the grades in school were good. I was able to do nothing, other than have fun. That's all! No college, no jobs, no.. worrying about the future! My only concerns were about trying to beat a certain game or waiting to see if i would get a N64 for Christmas.

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I miss the feeling of being young, the feeling of not needing to be responsible. Yet at the same time, I look back and i hate the thought of me being a kid! Just sitting alone mostly, playing games all day. Not very exciting. Now i still play games of course, but i like technology as whole. I like listening and making music, collecting, making funny videos and reviews, and i'm actually social! i'm actually intelligent ( Or at least i FEEL like I am. ) Life is about moving on, not reliving the past. I just wish that sometimes i could just, be a kid again.

Sorry for the wall of text, I jsut had to get it off my chest.

Let's play a game!

How much longer do you think we have to wait until a New World Order?