The famous 3 red rings of death just happened to me the other day close to 1 month shy of a year of owning the 360. I purchased the 2 years extended warranty and was on the phone for 15 minutes in all between the computer voice system, waiting, and real life agent. The agent's name was Violet and she had a foreign accent, but it didn't sound Indian to me, more like Sweedish or something, but i'm no expert on accents. She was obviously reading a script and sounded what I would imagine a robot would sound like if it had a foreign accent. Don't get me wrong, she helped me and I had no problems, but at times I lost my train of thought listening to her robotic forgein voice read the steps. So they are sending me that pre-paid box to send my unit in. I'll let you know how everything goes. Good thing GTA4 hasn't come out yet and I'm still addicted to WOW.

im pretty sure the lady that helped me was polish

anyone know if GH2 songs will be on the marketplace tomorrow?

Hey, I told you a couple weeks ago that your 360 was flipping you off... now it just killed it self.... damn you... you 360 abuser/neglecter!!!

According to IGN's review, tracks might start to appear next week.

"I lost my train of thought listening to her HOT robotic forgein voice read the steps."

I'm sure that's what you meant.

Far be it from me to point out that it is asinine that you are paying $90 for a game and premium content will be available so soon after the release. Content that should be included for that $10 premium.

It is pretty much an admission of ass-raping. The developers aren't even trying to fool people anymore. Too many people have bent over too easy already so I guess I see their stance. withhold content that should be included and charge for it. People will pay it. The least they could do is hold it for a month, lie, and say they've been working on it since release.

Oh well, GH2 isn't on my purchase list so it doesn't matter much to me. Just another developer following in the footsteps of EA's wonderful micro-transaction bullshit.

Maybe, but you aren't taking into account the $$$ the developer needs to pay to get the rights to the song. That's got to be a decent chunk of change.

I played Gears at my brothers house and shit!!! What an incredible game! That is all

In that case, forget the new system...I'll just get a new hard drive. That's a really senseless move - I'm not spending money on a memory card solely to move game saves over. Plus, there's plenty of "Limited Time Only" things I'd gotten for free that I'm just not interested in paying for.

That can't be the case. They sent me a brand new console when my 360 hit the bricks, and I haven't had a single issue with anything.

So for the new extended warranty on repairs...is that retroactive? My 360 bricked in October, and I was sent a new one since they couldn't repair the old one...does that mean it's now under warranty until this October?

Sorry, gonna have to disagree with you on this one. The game is only $10 more on the 360 than it is on the PS2, and comes with 10 new songs, achievements, leaderboards, a much better track arrangement, and better picture and sound. On the PS2 if you want the GH1 games you have to buy GH1, which is at least still $30. Or you can buy the 360 version for $10 more, get more content out of the box, and if you choose to download some of the GH1 songs (with improved mechanics, I might add), then you can for a small fee. Seems perfectly fair to me.

Edit: This is different than what EA does, which is to take out features that are readily available on the previous gen console iterations, then charge you $5-$10 per item. All Red Octane is doing is allowing you to get some older tracks that weren't available on GHII anyway.

Welcome to 2006!

It will get so much love when GTA4 comes out, it won't be able to walk right.



More likely, I was probably hypnotized to by the government to assassinate someone.

I started playing Psychonauts last night. About an hour in. Good stuff. It has a Tim Burton vibe complete with a Danny Elfman like score. Seems like I haven't done much but training in that first hour.

Anyone know about how long this game is?

^ Don't remember how long it is, maybe 10 - 15 hours, It's been a while. Has some insane level designs though. Mainly the "Milkman Conspiracy" one and "Meat Circus." Plus Raz is voiced by the guy who voiced Invader Zim so it was an instant classic for me.

How are the load times on the xbox version? I started the game on the PS2, made it about 3 hours in, and had to quit because I would've snapped my controller in half if I had to continue spending a third of my time staring at the birds flitting about on the load screen. I loved what I saw of the game, but it was just unbearable to sit through 15-30 seconds loads every time I moved from one area to another.

I don't remember the load times being that bad at all when playing on the Xbox. I simply loved that game. All the levels were amazing. I played for longer than 10-15 hours though because I wanted to collect everything. I never did. Still I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I can definitely see myself going back and playing it again all the way through.

My understanding is that everything you download is tied to your Gamer Tag and your XBox. So lets say your Gamer Tag is Bill Gates. if you download and pay for Worms, anyone who plays on your XBox (no matter what Gamer Tag they use) will be able to play Worms. And if you go to your friend's house and sign in as Bill Gates, you can download Worms to that XBox and play it. But your friend won't be able to play it unless he pays to unlock the full version.

If you are the only one who uses your XBox, this is no big deal. The problem comes if you share your XBox with a wife or kids or whoever. If your XBox dies, you can redownload all the stuff when you get the new one, and everything will play fine. But then, when Melinda Gates signs in to play later, she won't be able to access any of the for-pay downloaded content, since she's using neither the Gamer Tag that paid for it nor the XBox it's tied to.

So the simple solution is to download everything under one name?

that wouldn't solve it, according to him


if you still had a problem with that xbox, got another one, created the same tag, and redownloaded everything, you would still have to use that single name to play anything downloaded

Not bad at all. Maybe 10 seconds, if that. Of course I didn't count, but they were barely noticeable.

I am playing it on a 360, not sure if that affects anything or not.

Ah I See

Microsoft designed the 360 from the very beginning to simply be a point-of-sales device for the home. Limited of course, to Microsoft-controlled sales. Because nobody would dish out $300-$400 for a sales terminal with a card-swiper, MS included NextGen gaming as the hook.

Microsoft prevents us 360 owners from creating our own gamer pics, (because they sell them). We can't make our own themes (because they sell them). We can't put our own videos on the harddrive (because they sell videos).

The only reason why we can rip CDs to the harddrive is because MS doesn't sell music.

I'm happy with my 360 but it is frustrating to know how much potential the 360 has that is deliberately limited and throttled back because MS wants to preserve their media sales.