Well, after finally finishing my Leisure Suit Larry speed run and then polishing off my Bionic Commando collectables/challenges run through my xbox decided to give up the ghost. As warned by both Apple and Fro, the playing of Larry would make me stop enjoying games or, to be more accurate, make me stop playing games at all (thanks for that Apple, ya bastard).
So after my completion of Larry my beloved Elite had a few hours of retrospective thought while I romped through to the end of Bionic Commando. Then, after realising just how awful Larry was and possibly feeling violated by being forced to play it, it said a big "screw you" and flashed up the delightful E74 message.
This was especially annoying as I was already a third of the way through my Bionic Commando runthrough on the highest difficulty. The first sign was a big black line in the middle of my screen. I assumed the game had glitched or the disc was damaged, but the problem went away when I paused the game or went back to the dashboard. How curious.
So after turning the console off, I had a clever idea to install the game to see if that would remove the problem. No joy. In fact even less than no joy as I only got the dread message instead. Gutted. This does rather put a spanner in the works of my upcoming reviews, which would have included Overloard 2 and Transformers. A fact I am less than happy about.
So I now have to wait 3-5 days for someone to collect my machine and then 2-3 weeks for it to be fixed and sent back to me. My compensation for this? A months Xbox Live. Wow..........
Hardly seems fair when I'll be losing basically a month to get it fixed anyway so they are basically just giving me back online time that I had already paid for. How generous. I suppose I am luckier than most as this is only the second time my console has gone tits up which, considering the amount of time I spend on it, seems like a fairly decent return. Though I have to measure that against the fact that NO other console I have ever owned has needed fixing even once.
1 comment:
You made me laugh with how you blame it all on Leisure Suit Larry, the game must be cursed! haha.
My 360 got taken away for 2 weeks and I was quite happy to receive a months word of Gold for free. I had other things to do like college work though so it ended up being a win win situation for me.
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