Break Game

So, I have a great tolerance for doing things… right. Some people would just call it stubborn but I follow a distinct logical path. Bioshock has been my “after New Year’s” game and, regardless of the fact that I have Half Life 2: Episode 1 & 2 AND CoD4 sitting, staring at me, I vowed to complete my copy of it before I even unwrapped the lovely cellophane surrounding the life-sucker that is Call of Duty 4. All my friends have raved about the multiplayer, the Perks and. well, Friday Night Fights is up again tonight and I was intending to have Bioshock done and dusted yesterday evening.

Fate has cruelly intervened.



At a critical juncture, at what I judge to be the denouement, the finale, the beginning of the end, a disk read error occurred. I’ve cleaned it, reloaded it and tilted my console several times now and nope, no luck. It’s dead. It’s a second hand copy and it doesn’t appear to be badly scratched or anything, so I can only assume that one of the small scratches touches something critical or my Xbox is once again acting up.

This hurt my happiness. A lot. I love completing games. I’ve very rarely not completed a game and normally with good reason. Some day I’ll tell you all about my trials with FF7 (one playthrough took me over 3 YEARS!!!) but I always get there in the end. Now I’m going to have to work more than I had intended just to get this game finished. I think we have a copy at work in the library so I can borrow that but the disk itself? It’s going back to the shop. It works perfectly for most of the game and it’ll be fine after a good clean, so I’ll see what I can get them to do OR I’ll just trade it in. I’m not going to worry about it any more.



Regardless, this means that I’ve been playing CoD instead! YUM! What a game! Sure, it’s not the best single player experience overall (so far) but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed a few of the missions. I’m looking forward to hopping onto the multiplayer game tonight. Which brings me to the point at the end of all this.

I’m about to start adding people to my friends list on Live. If you particularly don’t want me as your friend, just tell me to fuck off or cancel the request but I intend to try going through the entire list of Tags on the forum and adding everyone I can!

Prepare yourselves!!