For the love of fuck!!

I love...and I mean truly LOVE my Xbox 360...I fall asleep with the controller next to me nearly every night playing Lost Odyssey or CoD4 (probably not the best idea to leave a system running all night that is known to overheat).



But the thing with Lost Odyssey is this...long...LONG cut scenes, long game-play sections with few save points in between, meaning that when you do come to a save point, you fucken save your game on the spot.

I had just entered an area called 'The Crimson Forest', and I need to get through it to get to the next section of the game, I had been playing for nearly 2 hours since my last save when during a battle sequence...I hear the music stop but the characters still moving...then the screen goes black and this little square scrolls in from the right hand side of the screen, which looks like this:

Must learn to save every 20 minutes:


Now...either option doesn't really help the fact that I have played for 2 hours without being ABLE to save, where the blame somewhat falls into the poor save processes of the Lost Odyssey, however. This is not what pissed me off.

What pissed me off was this...I had being playing for 2 hours, leveling up, collecting items, killing fuckwit enemies that look like pokemon. Then this happens and gives me 2 options; either clean the disc with a soft cloth or restart my Xbox...well thank-you captain obvious 360, next time I piss I'll remember to aim for the toilet and not the door in hopes of not making a urine stained mess.

Then it goes on to tell you to visit xbox support for more help...WHAT HELP?!?!?!
Your customer support put into smell would be like sticking my nose into the anus of a dead arab in the desert who hasn't showered in a month. And the two brilliant options you gave me, don't really solve the issue of spending 2 hours of my life playing a game, then spending another 2 hours getting up to the point I was at when your concole decided that it can't read a disc that does not have a single scratch on it. Meaning 4 hours of my life is dead, gone...wasted. One may argue that playing games is a waste of time in itself, but it's not, it's escapism at its finest. And unless anybody in the world can come up with a way of breaking Einstein's theory of relativity...those 4 hours of my life are forever lost...FOR-FUCKING-EVAR!!!

Einstein's Xbox repairs come to you:


What could I do in 4 hours...

* I could fap a great amount
* I could go for a long walk (highly unlikely)
* I could watch Dexter and think of how stupidly cool it is
* I could level up in CoD4 in the early arvo and deal with American fuckwits thinking I'm a pom when I'm really an bloke from Oz...you know, flying monkeys n kangaroo taxi's.
* I could write a blog about how pissed off I am about this and consistantly check the comments to see if anybody gives a shit...yes, I'll do that one.

And so I have written it, and so you have read this, and so goes another hour of my life, and another 5 minutes of yours...Fuck you very much.

Much love and respect (obviously)
Moses

P.S- Being the titan Microsoft is in todays computer market, you would think they could come up with an autosave function for each game played instead of relying on the game developers to do it. Suck a bag of dick's Bill Gates. I love that you have helped the gaming world, but sometimes I just want you to die.

If only: