just thought i better let you all know that due to a crackdown on internet usage at my worki will not be on as much as i used to:(
I am in the process (yes still) of hooking up broadband to my house so that i can not only play on Live but also so i can put some more effort into gamespot.
So just to let you all know i'll try get on here at least once a day, but its going to be hard so i aint making any promises.
Hopefully will have my broadband set up by the end of July... if not then really soon... i hope:P
Ok so i finally got word from Xbox on monday that they had received my box, then the next morning another email saying that its on its way back. I should expect it in 3-5days:D SWEET! Then i'm going to get on to Bigpond and get me a broadband connection, so i'm hoping by the end of this month (if all goes well) i should have my xbox back, and be kicking some ass on xbox live!
Also i got a new DS Lite as i was getting bored with no xbox, so that is keeping me nice and busy whilst i'm waiting. God i forgot how much fun the old school Final Fantasy's are!! Number three is rocking my DS world:P
Ok so today i finally i sent off my Xbox to get fixed. Really happy that i'm not getting charged for it, but on the other hand i'm worried they are going to take there sweet time sending it back. Its funny soon as i handed over my xbox i had this sudden urge to play... and i still do!! Its going to drive me mad all weekend, i know it!!
Also... how the hell are you meant to beat the last boss on Gears when it is on Insane. I went over to my mates over the weekend and helped him get to the last boss, but we spent about 5-6 hours on that bastard and could not kill him! Didn't really matter to me as i wasn't on my profile, but still when i find something i can't beat... i only want to beat it more. So now i have this huge craving for gears... but nothing to release it on! And i still can't think how to beat him! Anyways i'm going back over to my mates tonight to attempt it again... on his profile:( But yeah either way i'll be a happy man if i can kill him:D
Well i called xbox just then and gave them the serial number and all that for my box, and went through the troubleshooting to try and figure out if it is fixable... turns out its not. I'm going to have to send it in to get repaired. Good news is, that is still under warranty!!!!!! Found out that i actually had about one week left on the warranty so i'm not going to get charged for anything, xbox pays for it all:D
So pretty dam happy bout that... on the other hand i am spewing to have to give up my box for so long. Hopefully and i think i have, timed it so that there are no decent games getting released whilst my box is getting fixed:) So i'm hoping that by the time i get it back will be when Mass effect and Forza are coming out. So i'll be able to go nuts with my new machine:D
So yeah real happy that i'm not going to have to send myself broke to get it fixed, which in turn means i'll be able to put that money towards getting broadband:D HOORAY!!! and i'm getting a new laptop as well:D Things are on the up!
Bad things always seem to happen in twos... isn't that how the saying goes??
Well right now i would totally agree with that!!!
Ok so i get home from a crappy day at work yesterday and needed to release some stress through my xbox, and what better game to do that then gears? So i set it all up and get started, and about 5minutes into it my xbox freezes. I thought it was all good, just ANOTHER glitch, so i switched her off and back on. Was a little slow in loading up, and then it froze AGAIN on the opening Xbox screen. So i took a deep breathe, and tried again. Third time, it made a very disturbing sound like a loud grunt or something when the disc loaded, but it turned on. So i thought maybe its just a little glitche that has fixed itself, so i went back to some mass blood shed in gears... only to have it freeze AGAIN!! Ok so by now my temper is wearing really thin, and if i didn't see my xbox as my little child then it would have probably gone out the window. So took another deep breathe and turned it off. I thought maybe if i wait a while and give it some time to sort its sh*t out it might be ok... i was wrong. 10 minutes later i went to turn it on only to have 3 red lights staring me back in the face... every 360 owners worst nightmare:evil:.
I couldn't beleive it, the same thing just happened to a friend of mine but his console used to get thrashed so i thought i would be ok... i was so so wrong. So now i have to send the dam thing in to get fixed, and dish out $200 because it is a couple of months out of warranty:cry:!
The thing that hurts the most is... i was going to get my broadband connected tonight so i would be able to join live before... but now i have to wait till i get my xbox back and probably have to save some more money cos its costing me so much.
The only positive i can take out of this is that i will now get an upgrade from xbox and my machine will run a lot smoother... but i still don't think its worth $200.
Guess this means i'll just be staying around my mates a lot more now:P
Ok so i'm finally settled in after moving, and i went to set up my Xbox Live for the first time last night. Something i have been so desperately deprived of for so long. Anyways, i got the connection set up, and found out that i can connect through my mum's boyfriends laptop which i thought i couldn't cos he had a wireless connection from his laptop. But i found the ethernet port at the back and got really excited! So i rigged it all up and turned on my Xbox looking forward to a whole new world of live... thats when the problems start. First the laptop dies, and i need to take it to another room to charge. So when it finally charges i go back to try again.... then the IP address fails, so i spend hours trying to figure out how to change his laptop so i can connect through it. I went to the xbox site and everything... not that it helped at all! So yeah after bout 2hrs of playing around i finally figured it out, and went to try my xbox again. The IP this time came up as "Connected" or something, and my hopes went straight up.... only to come crashing down when the DSN failed.... and that is where i gave up because i have no idea what i need to do to change that:(
My god they make it sound so easy, but its so far from the truth. Anyways i'm just going to try and get a seperate broadband connection of my own, cos i think my mum's bf's may be through his work, and its them who are preventing me from a whole new world of gaming.
So yeah now its back to the waiting game:( but i'm hoping to have it up within a fortnight:D Fingers crossed!
I currently have a 360, and have a PS3 with a deposite on it. But i'm now starting to have second thoughts as to how good the PS3 will actually be. I mean is it going to be worth my money, cos it aint cheap! To me it just looks like a slightly improved PS2, where as when the 360 came out, it was totally different (in a good way) from the original Xbox. Aside from the games, what is so good about the PS3? I understand the graphics are better, and its got motion sensing controller and bluray... but really that isn't that much of an improvment, and it seems like they've just "borrowed" ideas from other consoles.
Ok don't get me wrong, i'm not against PS3, i'm just trying to convince myself why it will be worth it to get one:P
Finally after months of waiting for the Australian release date i have gone out and paid off my Xbox. I mean i have had it for a couple of weeks now, but due to some hardcore gaming i have not yet had a chance to come on and brag bout it:P
Anyways due to the lack of games released by playstation on the PSP i traded it in to receive quite a nice discount off my Xbox 360... and i tell you... it was the best move i ever made. My PSP was simply a waste of money and am regretting buying it now an now saving for a Xbox or playstation 3. i would not advise anyone to buy a PSP (anyone in Australia that is) due to the fact that there is no good games. An since having it 4-5 months, there has been like 3 games released. I mean seriously they hype it up to be better then space travel, then when they release it they can't even back it up with new and ORIGINAL games. A lot happier now though with my Xbox i must say:)
Yeah finally at a resectable level:) its taken me a while, but i got there in the end!
Sorry guys that i have not been posting as much as i used to, unfortunately with my new work i am finding it increasingly hard to find spare time to come and put up some posts. But hopefully soon enough i will be back in action and posting away:)
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