Metroid Frustration

Here's the story:
I'm working on completing Insane Difficulty in "Gears of War 2" when "The Ballad of Gay Tony" comes out. I gotta run through that. Then I realize I don't have 100% in "The Lost and Damned." So I finish that first then get 100% in Ballad. I still need 100% in the missions but decide to come back to that later.

Instead of going back to Gears 2 I decide to put in Burnout Paradise. I've been wanting to play it since it came out and I've had it for a month. It's better than I thought it would be. The demo doesn't do it justice. I play it all day long. Next day I fire up the game again but the disc isn't reading. I take it out and it looks fine, not at all like the first Gears 2 I had to send back. Try a few more times, it still doesn't work. I decide to clean it, still nothing. I pop in Gears 2 and it works fine. So I'm like "What the hell? I have to send another game back?"

I start playing Gears for a few hours then I shut it down to do something else. I come back and now Gears isn't reading. Now I'm freaking out. I try Halo 3 ... nothing. Orange Box? No go. So I realize it's not the games. My disc drive is dead. My 360 is past warranty and I can't pay to fix it at the moment. I have these games installed to the hard drive by the way. I just need to read the disc for a second and I can play. But no. And of course it didn't Red Ring so I wouldn't have to pay for it.

So here I am driveless and can't play disc games. Peggle goes on sale. I buy that and have been playing it since. A friend asks me what I'm going to do about Gamefly and I say "I don't know. I can't find any info about freezing the account." His question gets me looking again and I find out you can't freeze Gamefly accounts, only terminate them. So I'm stuck paying $20 a month for games I can't even play.

Which brings me to Metroid Fusion. See, I was getting there. If I'm paying for games I'm playing games. Emulators FTW. Played through Fusion. I found it harder than Super Metroid. There were a few times where I had no idea where to go. I had to watch a speedrun to get through parts. I thought the bosses were easier once you knew how to beat them: Spam Beam or Spam Missles. A good sequel over all. Next up Zero Mission, which should be interesting since I never played original Metroid.

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360, Gamefly, games, Gears of War 2, GTA IV, The Lost and Damned, xbox, The Ballad of Gay Tony, Burnout Paradise, Halo, The Orange Box, Peggle, Metroid Fusion, Super Metroid, Emulators, Red Ring of Death, Bill G can S my D

Street Fighter II 2

After the Gamefly thing I just decided to get rid of Street Fighter IV as well. Also cause I suck at it.

The trial challenges are insanely hard. I only beat the hard trials with Ryu and Ken is my main.

I unlocked all the characters and that's good enough for me.

Only got 490/1000g.

Gears of War Boo

I finished Gears of War and I decided not to play Gears 2 right away because the first gave me headaches. Which often happens to me in Third Person games. So I put ODST at the top of my Gamefly Q because a friend has it and he's dying for me to play it with him. But I didn't think I was going to get it because it's new and popular. So I put a bunch of games in after that but before Gears 2. They send it to me anyway. I'm like "Fine, whatever. I'll play it anyway." The game doesn't even work. The disc is unreadable. So after sending back Gears waiting for it to get to them, then them sending me Gears 2 and waiting for it to get to me I now have to send Gears 2 back to them and wait then they send me another Gears 2 and wait for it to get back to me. This is what I pay $20 a month for.

Gears of Peace

Finished Gears of War with only 570g.

Multiplayer is virtually non existent with the game being over three years old and having a sequel.

I got all of the solo achievements.

John (Forge) of Arcadia

Done with Halo Wars. Only got to 790g.

After spending an hour and a half in one online skirmish I could tell online just wasn't for me. At about an hour in my ADD kicked in and I was trying to lose.

I got all of the solo achievements minus beating legendary. Still was a fun game.