Life connected to video games had been going pretty badly recently.

i was going to starve myself for lost oddysey.

but the reviews were meh. Normally that wouldn't bother me. I used to buy all these mixed review rpgs. I love the baten kaitos series and they got 8's some places and 3's other places. The issue here is price

Rpg's and games with good stories are not always the best investment. You play it you beat it... you lend it to friends... you play it again in 10 years. clock in about 70 hours max usually.

A shooter or a rhythym game can clock you thousands of hours. Better investments

back with the gamecube price didn't matter, games were 40 and old games were 5 bucks.

But now games are 60 bucks, and they stay 60 bucks for a while.

but according to the post title something good happened.

And something did.

I've owned a 360 for two months. For 4 weeks out of those 2 months i've had no 360.

I got red ringed twice.

After the first one manufactured in 07, they sent me a new one manufactured in 06.

That one broke much quicker. From the start disc tray errors etc.

I just got my third one. And instead of being from like 1998 like i expected.

It was manufactured last week.

Microsoft is finally tired of giving me crappy hardware.

And that's a great feeling.

It's like they care.

Or their tired of paying for my shipping.

But either way I can relax about my hardware now and truly enjoy the games.

you know... if the games were affordable.