BioShock
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  • Posted On: Sep 13 2007 12:16am
The cable would have had to reach out of my bedroom, down the stairs and around the stairs to the office where the modem/wireless router is, which is why I was pissed to learn that I can't use my laptop's wireless.
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  • Posted On: Sep 13 2007 12:22am
Ya I hear ya. A while back my roommate and I used a cable that was probably 30' or so, not quite sure how long it was but it stretched from my room, through the living room, and into his room which was a considerable distance away. I don't know how much a cable that long would cost... but my roommate had it just lying around so we went with it.

Shit in your case you wouldn't be using it that long anyway if you weren't going to be using the online capabilities so you could just use the cable and return it and get your money back.
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  • Posted On: Sep 13 2007 12:24am
Haha, ya probably.

But I just got so frustrated and sold it and got my money back. I'll stick with the PS3 and play my cousin's at his house when Halo 3 comes out.
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  • Posted On: Sep 13 2007 9:14pm
What you should have done is taken the xbox back and bought the white box as soon as you noticed the game needs a hard drive. Saves money.

I'm playing Bioshock with great relish. Megs enjoys it a lot too, so we do it together at night when it's dark out. It's not a complex game but the texture of the game is more than wonderful. The storytelling is masterful.
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  • Posted On: Sep 14 2007 4:29am
Hahahaha you bought a 360 without a hard drive.

Seriously Bioshock was great and I'll play through it again for the evil ending soon :)
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  • Posted On: Sep 14 2007 1:17pm
Like I said I only had it for playing games not online crap. The only reason I was trying to get online was to get updates to play older xbox games which I would have had to do with the hard drive 360 anyways. So either way it a fucking rip.
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  • Posted On: Sep 14 2007 4:36pm
More or less. Just wait until you get the 'red rings of death'; wherein your Xbox console has a heart attack, keels over and promptly dies - thus meaning you have to send it into Xbox for repair, as it's an 'internal problem'; which forces you to register your details, while making sure they know 'exactly' when your warranty runs out and when to shaft you if you ring up once it happens again (God help you if you're still not covered by that six month warranty)...

Happened to me 3 times. Twice on one console, once on another. I kicked up the biggest shit that I could, got a replacement and 3 months free Gold Live.

...but, the fact is, I had to go through that shit 3 times.
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  • Posted On: Sep 14 2007 10:16pm
Woah... You're complaining how much the 360 costs, but you own a PS3? At least the 360 has games.
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  • Posted On: Sep 14 2007 10:18pm
Darth Vicirus
More or less. Just wait until you get the 'red rings of death'; wherein your Xbox console has a heart attack, keels over and promptly dies - thus meaning you have to send it into Xbox for repair, as it's an 'internal problem'; which forces you to register your details, while making sure they know 'exactly' when your warranty runs out and when to shaft you if you ring up once it happens again (God help you if you're still not covered by that six month warranty)...

Happened to me 3 times. Twice on one console, once on another. I kicked up the biggest shit that I could, got a replacement and 3 months free Gold Live.

...but, the fact is, I had to go through that shit 3 times.

All xbox 360's have a new shiny three year warranty from Microsoft for the aforementioned problems. New xbox's are rumored to have had some things fixed. Sucks that they exist, but I felt confident in buying one once I heard about the three year warranty.
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  • Posted On: Sep 14 2007 11:07pm
Yep. So far my 360 has frozen once playing Forza, otherwise, all is dandy. I use my computer a lot more.