Well one could just say that's an aspect that game designers need to be conscious about. And I don't mind people rating the graphics of the game. Provided the they aren't totally subpar I don't know if the they should lower the overall score.

Now I see it's just a matter of opinion on how someone thinks a game should be rated. What you're guys' thoughts?

Ever since Gamespot has been changing the layout of their website I've noticed that they stopped showing how they rate each attribute (gameplay, sound, graphics, tilt, value). And you notice that all the old games still have theirs laid out but anything from the past month or so doesn't. Maybe I'm just wierd like that but I used to like to look at those. Is it just temporary or permanent becaus a sorta miss 'em?

If you guys think about it, I'mtaking the most ultra left sidewhen I say this (really I'm just an apathetic Republican) but when did expression of an opinion become illegal? It's not like you've got a couple guys in white getting ready to linch you on the spot. Get over it and stop being such whimps.

3...2...1... ENTER. And let the flaming commence.

My first played perfectly... for four hours. Then in the middle of PDZ it froze. After that, the time it took for it to freeze after I rebooted gradually kept shrinking untill it'd lock before the X orb could come into view. I had it replaced by MS in less than a week, free of charge! My second one lasted for a year and a half before it would want to keep its disc tray shut. I had to pay for it to be replaced but they gave me a discount since this was the second occurence and they renewed the warranty. Now MS has given all consoles three year warranties. I also got aCoresystem and extra HDD on ebay. Both systems work well albeit one does seem to play slightly louder.

People can complain all they want about low reliability but I think that MS has done well in customer service and so long as they keep it up, I'd follow them to the 20th replacement.I mean, what have I got to loose? If any console makes it past three years it's probably never going to break down. Besides the 360 has the best library, best online, and overall best controller, in my opinion (the Wii remote hurts my hand after several hours). It's also a better price than the PS3 with as much memory and graphics too similar to really even matter. And I think many could agree that Halo 3 can practically be considered its owne seperate reason.

If you consider yourself a searious gamer, I'd suggest that you hang in there and don't give up. If you're not, then you might want to hang back untill later perks that you feel outweigh the 300 dollar risk (assuming you've saved the hard drive).

I'd go look around. check out the other consoles before you dump Xbox. You might find that, while more reliable, the other console might not have as good of games. You might not like their controller as much either. I'm a little bias. I do have a Wii and it's fun; but of the two, the 360 is overall more usefull (DVD, music, media, slideshows) and more entertaining. As for the PS3... I have about testimonials (one from a gamestop employee: says they just set on his shelves collecting dust) and only one of them reallyactually liked the PS3 over the 360; the others said it wasn't that good.

Good luck with your delema. it's too bad you've had such rotten luck with your xboxs.

Arg. Gotcha.