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Chalk this RRoD to Human Arrogance...
SourGr8pes \| 3:16 PM on 08.01.2008	4 comments

It finally happened. I got the Red Ring of Death. After two and a half years of unfaltering invincibility, my Tower of Babel has finally crumbled.
Over those two and a half years, I've watched the 360s of others rise and fall and never felt the longevity of mine would be of any threat.

Ironically, the RRoD usually strikes before the release of a new game, or the purchase of a new game (Spectral Force 3, in my case), and this time was no exception. Now, it will collect dust, until I receive the coffin to send my fallen soldier back home in.

Destructoid users: I thought my console was the Killdozer to end all Killdozers, but my arrogance got the best of me.

Now all I can do is grieve....

Now on a lighter note, I am proud to announce the first annual

SOURGR8PES BIKINI CARWASH
to buy me a new PS3 to pass the time...

Ladies, do YOU have what it takes to wash cars in skimpy clothing while old men leer at you, while I not make money for my not PS3, so I may play not Disgaea 3?
GOOD! Sign up now to become a part of the most prolific bikini carwash since 2 hours ago on the Playboy channel! You shan't regret it, and neither shan't I!

(DISCLAIMER: PROCEEDS WILL GO TO AN UNDISCLOSED SOURCE)

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4 comments | showing # 1 to 4

michiyoyoshiku

I got 2 RRODs last week

Power outage

360 is still chugging

pedrovay2003

If by "human arrogance" you're talking about the guys over at Microsoft, then yes, I agree.

Sorry that happened to you, but I like your buy-a-PS3 idea. Those don't die and they're basically the same as the 360 at this point.

Necros

I thought I was suddenly about to get an RROD (on my Falcon-chip 360!) last night while playing Viva Pinata, when the frame-rate started chugging real bad for two hours and didn't clear up. I panicked and even called up Microsoft support when it didn't clear up, but it turned out my garden had just become permanently glitched (my other games were fine), so I had to box up my pinatas and ship them to myself for a new garden.

Thank god. It's sad that the 360 is so unreliable that the smallest screw-up in a game prepares me mentally for a 360-less depression.

Oh, and sorry about yours, though.

SourGr8pes

@Pedro
Yeah, I was thinking about getting one anyways for Disgaea and Valkyria Chronicles. Now's a better time than ever, I guess

@Necros
I know dude, it's either the game or the hardware. Lately, I've been getting a lot of faulty games, it's probably something the game makers should look into.

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about me

SPORE name: gloomheart (download my ogre, he's club-a-licious)

Hi, I'm Erik, I'm from Chicago, and I'm SourGr8pes on Dtoid because I'm a fucking embittered old man. I believe in old fashioned things, like big words and sentence structure, (which automatically makes me the enemy of the internets) Freyja worship, and sacrificing children to the lake monster out back.
Scary, yes, but I do believe in new things, like evolving out of the sloped forehead, hunched back, wood and stone tools era of straight up turned based RPG battles that the Japanese insist we stay in, when they're not busy furiously fapping over their WiiFits.

I also have stupid childish dreams of building my dream console that will have MOTION CONTROL (I know, it sounds crazy), all but two games will have unnecessary waggling, and everything else will be minigames and rehashed crap.

Been constantly playing games with my Nintendo since 1986, so you can say I've been around through the first major console wars... Personally, I owe no allegiance to any console, preferring to find it's strengths and weaknesses myself. I try to get as many consoles as I can, so I've got street cred when I talk shit about them. If anyone wants to buy me a PS3 with Disgaea 3, I will happily accept it. Me even sucky sucky long time.

FANBOYISMS:
-Fursona 3, and all of the SMT in general. A game that took something as boring and primitive as turn-based combat and turned into something interesting, because if I do the wrong attack at the wrong time, MY AZZ GETS SMOKED!

-Nippon Ichi games: What can I say? I love the niche RPG's. Slickly marketed Final Fantasys are not my cup of tea. Disgaea-type grinders are.
I don't know what it is, but perhaps it may be the masochistic charm of trying to get to Lvl 9999, then transmigrate and... Start all over again.
Yeah, I know they're not the greatest games in the world, but I love them like I'd love my red-headed stepchild... Y'know, after beating his ass senseless.

-Kunio-kun games: River City Ransom was the first game I played religiously (and probably the third game I ever owned). I tried to play as many of the Kunio-kun series as I could, even the ones in that pesky Japanese language.

-I am indeed a member of the Atlus Faithful. They may not make the best games in the world at times, but at least they listen to their fans... Unlike a certain game company I've blindly followed for years, who will never release Seiken Densetsu 3 to the US, nor make another Chrono game.

THINGS THAT MAKE ME VOMIT BLOOD:
-Blue Dragon, Mistwalker, Square/Enix rehashes and all other lame attempts to capture the retro crowd. Don't EVER get me started about FF9; You'll be listening to me for days. Romancing SaGa 1-3 in English would also be awesome, assholes.

-Shovelware

-Kingdom Hearts, in all it's forms.

-All these fucking disappointing next-gen sequels with little-to-no-content other than achievements. They get perfect 10's elsewhere, but Dtoid's the only place honest enough to look at all the bad things.

PACKIN':
-NES
-SNES
-N64
-Gameboy in ALL it's reincarnations
-GBA
-DS
-PS1
-PS2
-PSP
-360
-Dreamcast, or as I like to call it the "Makes-Me-Creamcast"
-My 9

Dis be mah game face