Oooohhhh Noeessss not the red ring!!

My xbox, has followed, like many others, the reaper into the fields of forever with the bright and pretty red ring. And yes it was Gears of War that killed my machine, i guess being pushed to the limit isnt something the 360 likes, at least not the early ones.

Now i need to call the damn support, is it open in the evenings?

All the early 360' s were defective, its just a matter of time before they die.

Bummer man, now I' m freakin scared. I don' t wanna send my baby back!

I' ve had 3, and since Gears has been in this one, it' s just started being really slow,
Gears used to load up the textures rather quick, but now it' s like they purposefully
place me in a Red Steel universe, which is none too exciting..

Vx, I will pray for you.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Im hoping for a new from factory, probably wont be that lucky! and the WoW servers are down as well, fuck i might have to play on a last gen consolde, RE4, or SotC

If you haven' t completed SotC I suggest you do.. It' s amazing.

Can you still claim on your warranty?

Also, did your heart jump when you saw the red lights? Mine does, all the time.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

yeah, its still under warranty, MS extended it as well! and its two years, standard here!

Aw fuck no!

What a joke. After an entire year yours, mine and Mass' s die within 10 days of one another. The one i bought when my launch unit (which they replaced with a defective refurbished unit, *sigh* which has gone back again) was only manufactured in October and seems to be holding up just fine. Fortunately i have my receipt and if it fails i can replace it at the store rather than deal with Microsoft' s dumb repair team.

Tiz, that sounds like what was happening to my launch unit. I' d die and then when the game loaded the checkpoint the textures took longer and longer to load. Then it started freezing, and well you know the rest already.

VX i hope you get sorted out quickly...

yeah me too, i could take it to the store, but they' ll probably just ship it to MS themselves, and fuck I hae a copy of R6 i havent put in the machine!

Bah, it worked briefly then died! Fuck im bored!

Yeah mine died after a few months after I bought it Dec 13th last year, and the second one which was new has some quirks as well. The disc tray doesn' t always want to open, and sometimes it won' t turn on but that problem seems to disapear when I restart it. The build quality and the mic sound quality are my only two complaints about the 360. I think I' ll wait a few months and send in my second unit. Hopefully they will give me one on the 65nm proccess as Canadians always get new units.

ORIGINAL: Vx Chemical

Bah, it worked briefly then died! Fuck im bored!

Kikizo beauty pageant 2006?! You did start that last year didn' t you?!

Well you could...you know go outside. HAHAHA man I must be losing it. nevermind.

ORIGINAL: Majikdra6on

Tiz, that sounds like what was happening to my launch unit. I' d die and then when the game loaded the checkpoint the textures took longer and longer to load. Then it started freezing, and well you know the rest already.

Argh!!! Oh well... It' s just a case of waiting until the after emergence day effect.

Which blows, blows and hums, blows and blows.

My 360 will join you guys ones soon..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

yeah its around that time again :P ill start it up soon :P

The disc tray doesn' t always want to open,

Same here, sometimes mine freezes after exiting certain XBLArcade games, (Doom & Small-Arms mainly)

And yes it was Gears of War that killed my machine, i guess being pushed to the limit isnt something the 360 likes, at least not the early ones.

That isn' t true.

first gen title isn' t usin 360 at maxium,even epic dev said they can press more of 360.

You was just unlucky with having a bad system,even though it hold this long(short in reality though...) anyway i feel sorry for you.
Hope u get a new one soon m8.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I think Gears is killing EVERYONE' s 360 at the moment...

Like when Shenmue was released on Dreamcast, that game pushed the console
to it' s limits, my Dreamcast never ever experienced any strain until I put
Shenmue in there, luckily for me I always knew what was wrong with my
Dreamcast and had a continuous Phoenix Down for the damn thing...

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I just found out that my room mates 360 is a launch unit. And it played gears no problem!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

For the time being.

Yeah, i completed the game on Casual, played online then got halfway through Hardcore and boom, well maybe it was more of a zip than a boom but you get the picture. It stopped working. I think they kinda time out...

I played it through on Casual and then Just thought, screw it, I am the Man, And started Insane.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I played it on Hardcore straight away as you unlock both the hardcore and the
casual achievements at the same time.

Then hit insane...

Question:

How do you get that achievement to kill 3 enemies 10 different ways, are there
even 10 different ways to do that?

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

ORIGINAL: Tiz

Question:

How do you get that achievement to kill 3 enemies 10 different ways, are there
even 10 different ways to do that?

Different weapons?

Human assault rifle
Locust assault rifle
Normal pistol
Magnum pistol
Grenade
Boomshot (?!)
Shotgun
Torque bow
Sniper rifle
Hammer of dawn

EDIT: oh no, i see what you mean. Hmmm...

Oh, glad you do.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Clusterluck
Kill 3 enemies at once 10 different times (on any difficulty)

So just with the grenades or Boomshot then?

There' s the bow as well (My favourite weapon)...

That' s the only 3 I can think of.

Someone on my friends list has it, when he comes online, I might ask him how he
got it, as it can only be done in campaign mode.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Oh...



MY......



F**KING....


You' re kidding me...


You' re F**KING kidding me!

It just died! My 360 friggin' died! ROL right from the bootup! WTF!!!
GAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

its contagious!!!!

It' s a friggin' epidemic!!!

This sucks, because I' ve got no time to do anything about it now, I' m too busy cramming for tomorrow' s long day in exams.

Actually, and you have to agree with me on this, this is the silliest f*cking mistake in console history! I cannot accept the numbers of defected 360' s that Microsoft launced, it' s an outrage!!! They should have postponed the launch or whatever they could have done to make sure that they didn' t release such broken machinery!

...btw, I' ve also started to see the signs!

o well atleast, MS has good warrenties. when my ps2 broke, i had 2 weeks left on the warrenty, but when my 360 broke it expired 3 months prier. Sony said by the time my ps2 got there it would be expired, MS let me get an extended warrenty

Actually, and you have to agree with me on this, this is the silliest f*cking mistake in console history!

The ET Game. Hands down.



Well, I' ve calmed down ever so slightly, (the shouting stopped when people started banging on the door asking if I was alright). I shouldn' t be on now, but now I seriously can' t focus on my studies.

I know, but the Ps2 didn' t break in the same numbers. I' ve had my Ps2 since its beginning and I haven' t changed it yet.

Also, Microsoft deserves kudos for its handling with broken machinery... Just shows how badly they wanna win this war.

Even so I cannot help but feel they should have made sure that what they sold wasn' t a machine that couldn' t handel being pushed... I mean, what will happen if I where to put my Gears on the shelf for a year and then decide to play it (for old times sake) and my 360 breaks?! ...Would they still replace it? There' s a lot of money on stake, and I wouldn' t buy a new 360 if they' d decide NOT to replace mine.

yes,you had yours from the start dino,myself and my bro had to change 3 times.
while my xbox has never broken and still works perfect even today.
and my 360 also,ofc i only had it for a year so...

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Maybe the Xboxes were made defective, so you' d have to send them back for fixing, so that MS can spy on your harddrives ?

Cloaked market research, crafty little buggers.

How do you get that achievement to kill 3 enemies 10 different ways, are there
even 10 different ways to do that?

It' s kill 3 enemies at once 10 different times not ways. Which can be done with grenades.

Also Byakko you don' t send your HDD in when you get them repaired. So naturally MS must have hide some sort of recording device in the 360 to get this info.

I was right, they do fucking time out!!! The bastards!

In Europe you have to send in your hard drive... Then the c*ck suckers re-format
the hard-drive...



It' s only a matter of time before my 360 kicks the bucket.. I hope it does it after
Christmas, I have cousins coming over to see GoW, and we' re not bumping and
grinding to Wii Sports all flipping day!

I have had nightmares of this... The three red lights remind me of the " Crimson
Omen" in Gears of War.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

It just died! My 360 friggin' died! ROL right from the bootup! WTF!!!

This is insane. I' ve never seen anything going on like this. I hate it for you guys, but it makes me glad I decided to wait a while before buying one. Good luck with the replacement.