Living Live

I’ve now had my Xbox 360 for a total of 2 months, and it’s serving me well; better than Dale’s was at a specific place in final fantasy, as he said he had a low frame rate, while i had no such trouble, i think it’s due to the more up-to-date chipset in mine. (which should mean no RRoD for me)

 

I was pleasantly surprised when i bought it, as i only expected to get the special pack (the Xbox, 250GB HDD, 2 controllers, Final Fantasy 13, the networking stuff, and the documentation paraphernalia) , but when i asked for it the shop assistant said that it also included one of either Halo 3 ODST or Forza motorsport. When i was told of these titles, i wasn’t impressed, as driving and FPS are my 2 worst genres of game, so I immediately thought “pre-own fodder”. I chose Halo as i thought I'd give it a try and see if I can get better at first person games, that and I'd be more likely to play it than Forza due to it’s possible stress-reliving properties (like i found with Left 4 Dead in the “Builders, bikes and booting up” entry). I still have Halo and have got a bit better, not great, but better, as I'm now not always last on the amount of kills.

I did have a problem with live when i first started though. As i created my Gamertag to play Games for windows, and just migrated my Gamertag onto the Xbox, i didn’t get the free month of gold. This meant that i was stuck scrounging 48-hour trial codes off my mates who already had gold and couldn’t use them in order to play Halo online (I had one myself from Halo, so there was another plus side to choosing halo) and to join chat parties. It was only when i saw a 3-month gold for £10.99 offer I got gold properly.

 

I did say in another Blog post that my new TV would allow me to use my PS2 on a bigger screen; unfortunately this was not the case. For some unknown reason, the PS2 disagrees with High Definition TVs, and when you play a game on one using the PS2 the graphics look blocky and makes the games nearly unplayable. So after trying for the best part of a week to get it to work (and even buying a new cable to try that), I've resigned it to being attached to the old CRT TV downstairs. So it might mean that I'll have to get a PS3 eventually in order to play the games on my new TV, but that is in the far future, and can wait a while.

 

There was also a shake up in the AV equipment in our house over Easter as mum was decorating, this meant that the CRT TV was upstairs (allowing me to use the PS2 again) and my TV/monitor had to be constantly shifted in order to allow us to watch TV downstairs when mum wasn’t decorating. This allowed me to see what the CRT TV would make of the 360, i was horrified at what i saw. The picture was so blurry it was hard to read text (and that was after adjusting the screen settings), and final fantasy was unplayable as you couldn’t read the commands; now i know what Dale meant when he said that it looked so much better on my TV.

 

Well I’ll try and see if i can get past the elite four on Pokémon HeartGold, as due to the recent workload I've ignored it while everyone else I know is near or at the end of the game

All systems are go

Finally done my Systems coursework, as both my paperwork and Project are handed in, all that remains is the admin to go with it and some replacement chips put in (there are very few of these chips in the department at present, so me and mike have been constantly exchanging them to get work done, the difference is that my project works when they’re in mine, while his doesn’t). This is more than can be said for some people, most notably Wylie, as he thinks that he can avoid the deadlines by taking off with the work he was too lazy to do, this annoyed me as i made sure all my work was done for the deadline (even if it meant staying up ‘til the early hours)

As it’s the extended weekend now, I'll be doing my computing so that i can get that in on Wednesday.