So, we were unboxing the holiday decorations and refitting the “Everything Tree” (that’s my girlfriend’s thing… we have the tree up year-round and it’s decorated for each holiday or season) from the Autumn Tree into the Christmas Tree. I usually get a stack of cards after the holidays when they’re dirt cheap so I can use them the next time, that way I have them instead of forgetting and scrambling to card shops at the last minute. Anyway, I noticed I’d also accidentally packed up the cards I’d received from family and friends, cash included!
Whoops!
So, $300 for Holiday Gifts to myself, what was I in the mood for that I may or may not have spent my own money on? Why, the 120GB hard drive for my 360 of course! I’ve been on the fence about getting one since they were released. I do enjoy getting demos and renting videos and the stock 20GB drive doesn’t give me enough wiggle room without weekly management of what gets deleted, downloaded or even re-downloaded. So now, problem solved!
The final straw for committing to the 120GB was Mass Effect. Great game, but the Unreal Engine sucks for large environments, especially in consoles where unfortunately RAM is in limited supply. It seems like the game is constantly freezing with a loading icon, I’m constantly watching textures pop in, especially during the story cut-scenes, and the turbojet engine DVD drive loudly whirring away trying to catch up… it finally got to me, so Mass Effect will be the first game that gets fully installed to the new hard drive.
With so many XBL friends sending me invites to play Left 4 Dead with them — am I the only one who actually checks the “compare games” section to see whether or not they own the game before sending an invite? — for the past couple weeks, I picked that up too. I’m not totally convinced the game has longevity but I’ve only seen the two short maps on the demo; maybe it’s a whole different ball game with the full game available and 4-player online co-operative play? I think Oakstout said he was also on the fence about the 360 version or the Steam version so here’s my personal nudge towards the 360!
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I love finding money like that. But don’t give in to the xbox dark side, lol!
Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare I am forced to play an FPS with a game pad instead of a mouse-keyboard. But then I make myself a glass of warm milk and fall back asleep … while the shadow of a game pad can be seen outside my window – stalking my dreams!