It's strange growing up I always hated consoles... I hated that you had to sit close to the TV with a lil console wired to a box with only a few buttons to press. See now I was one of those hardcore-wouldnt-touch-a-console PC gamer. Funny enough thinking about it now I had a damn wired keyboard... meaning I had an oversized "console" wired to a big, noisy box. My argument = INVALID.
Anycase I'm off my point here... I had the XBOX for just about a year now. Never signed up for xbox live. Never played online. Just played my 5 games that I received with the console when I bought it. That is until I had this crazy idea to take some leave. See I'm also very much of a workaholic. It was my dream to get into IT and once I got a position in the field I became obsessed with working. My job is a game, I love to play it and I love to OWN it - Like most players do :)
Once again.. rambling. So I took leave for about 3 weeks. Time builds up when you never, EVER take leave. I thought it would be cool... You know... Walk around in the malls, play games, chill at the pool, pretend to be undercover and stalk people - There is only so much you can do without LOSING it !!! What is this sleeping in and not rushing off to work. What is this dead silence and no phone ringing every hour with "please, I need your help" conversations... Oh see the first week is aaaall awesome and you feel like OMG I don't know WHY I work when its soooo much fun to do nothing ... then time starts to move a lil slower... and slower... and slower... and it just seems to stop ! Just like that, with nothing to do
So I decided to take advantage of the 3G dongle that I got from work for "work purposes". I connected my PC and shared the connection, connected the console to the LAN and voila.. "Your xbox has an update that it needs to run... please don't turn off your console". I thought... ok cool, cant be THAT bad. I'll grab a cup of coffee whilst the update completes.
....1 hour later - OK so this is not sooo bad. Its my fault really. I've had the thing for a year and never did any updates on it. Im sure it will finish soon. Toast, coffee and smoke break.
....+ 1 hour later - Oh you little ** whats going on?? I was in the mood to play a game online and now I have the lovely pleasure of staring at nothing... Thanks Microsoft and your billion updates !!
....+ 1 hour later - beeb beeb .. damn console restarts... Ahh starting up .. updates finished.
and BAM oooooohhhh so PRETTY !!!! Well done with the new look and feel MS. Windows 8 here we come! Spreading like a wild disease, conquering all. Takes a few minutes to get used to the "new" feel as expected. Finally lets get that game crackin !!! Iv been wanting to play it for hours!
Pop my GOW3 into the console... Loading.... Loading... Loading... TaDAAA it needs another update. Omyyygosh MS you are getting to me! Lets just update. Take another smoke break.
After another console reboot eventually I can play my game. Multiplayer... Ohhh this is gonna be soo much fun.. I'm sure my ass will be OWNED! ha ha ha
"You need to be signed in with your live account to be able to play online"... huh.. what ? whyyyy must this be such a damn mission! Anycase... After profile has been created etc I finally get to play online...
AWESOME ! Im kicking assss... ha ha yep well I'm sure thats what all the other players were thinking everytime they shot the snot out of my lil fella.
All in All
The XBOX dashboard design released in Dec 2011 (update 2.0.146990) really impressed me. Im still loving it. Even though its probably old to the rest of you guys
Online gaming? Totally awesome, so addicted right now. Soo getting my arse kicked - but watch this space
Blogging? Something else I thought I would try out to help time go by ... I seriously need to rethink the whole lets-take-leave-for-a-lifetime thing
Have a good one !
Cheers
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