Mark Wilson writes: Andy Phifer, like many of us, faced a glowing red ring on his nonfunctional Xbox 360. Facing an RRoD warranty technicality, he sent Microsoft $100 to make necessary repairs. Things didn't go so well. Here's his story: UPDATE
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.
And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.
I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.
BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?
This list compiles some of the top games we desperately want to get a sequel. Please give us more of our favorite games!"
Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
Most games are usually on disc still. Of course you got you publishers that are hit and miss, Activision, ubisoft, ea, Microsoft, where the rest of the game needs downloaded.
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My 3rd Xbox came back, and everything seemed ok until games stopped playing a couple of weeks after MS shipped me my refurbed console. I checked it out and the replacement 360 had been gouging games for the past two weeks. When I called to get this one replaced they wouldn't take it back! They said refurbed units were only covered for RROD and disk scratching was only covered under my console's 1 year warranty from purchase. Thankfully, I had an extended warranty which I helpfully pointed out to the rep on the phone and they took my 3rd unit back.
So far so good with my 4th 360. Mind you, I've only played Gears 2 and Fable 2 in the past year or so, finished them and then haven't really played on it since. I just hope this 4th console lasts long enough to play Alan Wake and Halo Reach! If the 4th one goes, I'm just scrapping it and selling off my accessories.
Edit: A disagree for sharing my story? Well, ok then. My guess is you better warm up that disagree button. I'm sure I'm not the only one with stories like this. If you don't even think 360 owners should be allowed to talk about their experiences unless they're positive, perhaps you would be better off reading www.WarmFuzzyXboxHugs.com rather than a site for gamers.
That sux, poor Andy Phifer :-/
Andy I got some advice for u
do yourself a favor and buy a PS3 and Uncharted 2, and ur set
:)
Misery and lack of confidence.
such is the life of a 360 owner.