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The big, fat Halo 3 thread
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Sucks, eh?
My 360 RLOD's first back in August. Got it repaired by a 3rd party because they'd do it in 5 working days compared to a month from MS. Beginning of Sept., it died again. Sent back to the repair company for free repair under their warranty.
Got Halo 3 the weekend after launch. 90mins of play and it died again. I could've cried!
I thought I had nothing really left to lose, so I bought the 'x-clamp fix' from www.x-clamp-fix.com. Disassembled my 360 completely, took the standard clamp off the underside of the motherboard and bolted the heatsink down firmly.
It's been running fine since! *crosses fingers*
Is anyone waiting for the xbox arcade to come out Click here if you don't know what that is
before buying halo3?
I just can't make my self buy the $ 349 360 system just for halo3.
before buying halo3?
I just can't make my self buy the $ 349 360 system just for halo3.
As someone who owns a 360 and H3 I don't think any single game is worth the purchase of any console.
Per the Arcade 360: 256MB memory card. Yuck. No thanks. That should hold about 4 or 5 XBLA games. Why won't MS just bite the bullet and include the HD which probably costs them under $10 to produce. This is absurd.
Two things
-I agree, I don't think Halo 3 is worth the purchase of a 360. In fact other than the first two days after I bought it, I haven't played Halo 3 since. It's not a bad game by any means but I just haven't been in a "finish the fight" mood lately.
Gears on the other hand...Gears was a must-own for me and the price of the 360 was cheaper than the price [will be] of upgrading a 3 year old computer to run the Windows version of Gears. Bioshock...meh...I like the game, I wouldn't say it's worth the price of admission but to each his own. I've finished Gears on every difficulty by myself and I guarantee I will play through it at least one more time on Insane.-Re: "arcade" 360 - I think they should (ideally) put the 20gig HD in the "arcade" one and beef up the HD in the Premium but they won't. The arcade one is for cheapskate gamers...after using a Premium and seeing how nice everything is, I'd rather pay the extra $70 for the wireless controller, hard drive, headset + component cables because buying those separately is waaaaaaay over the $70 higher price.
Two things
-I agree, I don't think Halo 3 is worth the purchase of a 360. In fact other than the first two days after I bought it, I haven't played Halo 3 since. It's not a bad game by any means but I just haven't been in a "finish the fight" mood lately.
To each his own, for sure. I played the heck out of Gears and I won't even go into how much time I spent on Viva Pinata. I guess some people are obsessed enough with H3 to think it alone was worth buying a 360. At this point though there are certainly enough good games to justify the purchase. (I need to get Orange Box.)
Precisely. Most people who buy the Arcade are going to end up buying a bunch of accessories. MS introducing this new SKU isn't much of a service to consumers when they'll (likely) end up spending even more in the end.
Somewhat off topic: A week or so ago I was standing in line behind a lady at Best Buy. She was attempting to buy both a Wii and a SE Halo 3 360 at the same time. This was cause for a bit of a backup in the line as she apparently had no idea what she was trying to buy. I wanted to help her, but the Best Buy rep seemed to have it under control. Poor lady was probably completely twisted around about how Halo 3, 360 and Wii were related. That or she has some lucky ass kids/grandkids.
Sucks, eh?
My 360 RLOD's first back in August. Got it repaired by a 3rd party because they'd do it in 5 working days compared to a month from MS. Beginning of Sept., it died again. Sent back to the repair company for free repair under their warranty.
Got Halo 3 the weekend after launch. 90mins of play and it died again. I could've cried!
I thought I had nothing really left to lose, so I bought the 'x-clamp fix' from www.x-clamp-fix.com. Disassembled my 360 completely, took the standard clamp off the underside of the motherboard and bolted the heatsink down firmly.
It's been running fine since! *crosses fingers*
Dont feel bad.
I screamed when I finally got the 360 from my brother last night, popped in Halo 3, went to go start the campaign, watched the first two cutscenes, then got the Disc is Unreadable message.
360 made in July, Standard edition disc with no scratches.
I betcha the next Xbox is co-developed by Nasa with stuff they use to get close to the sun (extreme heat) or Pluto (extreme cold)...that way the systems never fail.
Rushing this system to get it out the door first really f'd them up... oh well, for the love of the game I suppose.
Rushing this system to get it out the door first really f'd them up...
oh well, for the love of the game I suppose. 
having completed the campaign on Heroic (the first Halo single player I ever played for more than 10 minutes), I started on Legendary and have gotten quite far through it. I'm not very good at videogames, especially FPS games, but this is waaaaay too short and easy...