Selling my soul to Microsoft

[slycat]

So today I bought an XBOX from Gamestation.  I went for the £109 package which came complete with Halo and Midtown Madness 3 plus a bonus second Logic 3 gamepad.  It was £10 more than most deals but those deals were for crap free games like Driv3r and other tosh.  The pack allegedly came with 2 months free trial of XBOX Live, however in reading the leaflet, it states that the offer expired in March this year... d'oh!  I also got myself Project Gotham Racing (the first one at straywulf's recommendation over the second one) and Panzer Dragoon Orta in the preowned section in Game for £25 so I thought that would keep me going until Burnout 3 comes out.  The only problem with the new console is that I'm finding it increasingly more difficult to find space for all this stuff.  Next stop, PS2?  Might have a space for it!



Also today, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the HantsFurs bunch in Southampton.  Although, it was almost not to be!  After buying my XBOX and dropping it off with my brother, I called arakinuk who's number I had, but there was no answer.  I called tktiger's phone but there was also no answer.  I called the home number given in TK's answerphone message, again no answer.  I was doing this all on route to TK's house and so after calling all of the aforementioend numbers repeatedly, I rang the doorbell.  Again, there was no answer!  By now, I was quite fed up and so decided to go home.  I had left a message on TK's to say as such and then headed for the train station.  Literally as my train was pulling in, Arakin got through to me and said he hadn't heard his phone cos they were in Sega Park and TK had left his phone at home.  So after speaking to Arakin, I made my way to Sega Park, where predictably TK was playing Dancing Stage (DDR).  Bungle challenged me to a game of air hockey which I beat him at.  We had another go and I won again, much to Bungle's dismay as he was expecting to win :).  I also got my exercise on the Dancing Stage game and totally knackering myself out.

The rest of the afternoon involved getting drinks and stuff before going back to TK's flat and generally farting about. Arakin and I got frozen pizzas from the Co-Op, and err that's all really worth noting.  Was nice to finally meet Arakin, he did remind me of clawz_skunk for some reason... I guess he shares his mannerisms or something :) Anyway, after eating pizzas, Arakin gave me a lift back home in his flashy Mini with neat SatNav system.

Comments

[electricdog.livejournal.com]

What do you think of Panzer Dragoon Orta? I kinda like it, has a good system, but it's a bit too hard for me so I've not really played it much (despite having had it for ages). If I'd known you wanted it, you could have got it off me for a bit cheaper ;>

You know you want a PS2 as well. Give iiiiiin! *makes crap attempt at hypnosis*

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Panzer's got the Rez style of wave the pointer over things to lock on type control system which is fun. It was only £12 so I thought I might as well. I never had a Saturn to play the originals on :)

[sandroo.livejournal.com]

Thought you might like to know that Microsoft are currently doing an offer where you can get a game (project gotham 2 included) free with one years subscription to x-box live. Expires in two days time though..

[sandroo.livejournal.com]

Link here: http://www.xboxemea.com/playtogether/jumpaboard/home.aspx?language=en

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Gah, why did no-one tell me about this sooner?

Now, do I get PGR2 considering I've just bought the first one, or do I get Ninja Gaiden?

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Hmm, to get the free game, I need to have registered with Live before Monday... which is going to be impossible unless I get the starter pack from town at £10 more than Amazon... but then it is a free game worth £30 so that's still £20 up :)