Tue 25 Dec 2007
Happy Holidays
Posted by Chip under Gaming, Geek Stuff, Life
Happy holidays to everyone and all that. Delia and I just got back from her aunt’s house after eating far too much tasty food. I’m now the proud owner of a number of shirts courtesy of Delia’s family, a few more t-shirts, a neat mug, and PixelBlocks from Delia (in addition to the EV mode kit and floor mats for the Prius she already gave me on the solstice,) and a Garmin nüvi 250W from my dad.
Over the weekend Delia and I got the new TV hooked up, and it’s looking good. I also decided to go ahead and get the Xbox 360, and I’m rather glad I did, as the TiVo HD turned out to be dead on arrival. For some reason it was stuck in a reboot cycle and couldn’t get past it’s initial welcome screen. TiVo support was pretty cool about it and are doing an advanced ship RMA on it, so hopefully I’ll have that soon. The Xbox has been filling the time we would have normally spent watching TV, so it works out, I suppose. For games, we picked up Assassin’s Creed for me, DDR and Katamari for Delia.
Unfortunately my bad luck with new devices has extended to the Garmin my dad sent me. It powers up then complains that it has no maps and is therefore useless. Garmin’s online support is equally useless it seems, as they try to load pages from RFC1918 private address space, or try to redirect you to hosts that don’t exist in the DNS. Their phone support is, of course, closed for the holiday. Hopefully tomorrow will be more fruitful.
All in all though, I’m happy. I still think Delia spent too much on me, and I feel bad that I didn’t get her more, which seems to happen every year.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Woot! Congrats on the new 360. Now we’re gonna have to get together for some multiplayer pwnage.
Merry Christmas to you and Delia!
December 27th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
What’s good for online multiplayer? CoD4?
I’m thinking about subscribing to GameFly, I tend to play through a game and then shelve it, so I figured it would be a good deal. Cost works out to be equiv to buying a game every 3 or 4 months.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Online multiplayer, hands down the best multiplayer of the year was CoD4. It’s pretty hard core though. I’ve been having a lot of fun with Team Fortress from the Orange Box as well (although on the PC, not the Xbox). Getting it for the xbox would rob you of the chance to play any of the cool user made maps or mini-mods, which is a same.
Anyway, yeah, CoD is a great way to go for some online goodness. There’s also the old standbys like Halo, Gears of War, Rainbow 6, stuff like that. Those and pretty much any sports/racing game as well.
GameFly is cool, but allegedly there’s an even better one that my boss found. I’ll try and find out the name from him. Then again, my boss alleges that anything HE finds is better than anything anyone else could possibly ever know about. So, yeah, I’d probably go with GF.