Well after months of yearning and research last night i finally got a newconsole. xbox 360. from GAME for $499 with GTA IV. I was kinda worried cause i was checking the sticker for the signs of the falcon motherboard and the sticker says 203w but the guy in the store assured me it has everything to do with the transistor and that is 175w so all is well. To Sal_92, these consoles are heavy aye? i'm not sure how much the ps3 weighs but the xbox is certainly heavy. i really should have wieghed it but i cant be bothered.
anyway i got home and opened it all up, found out i got a wired headset instead of media remoe (weird), i'll probably call microsoft about it on sunday when i'm not busy. i played a couple minutes of grand theft auto and i guess 3 or 4 main things struck me in that amount of time.
1. the graphics are really ugly compared to other games. but that is GTA's style i suppose.
2. the car controls are really strange, you have to move the camera aswell which is different for me, and everything about driving is obviously made so you have no choice but to break the law. which i dont really like as i prefer the movie-like incognito approach myself.
3. i thought it wouldnt be my kind of game originally, but then it looked so good and realistic that it probably wouldnt bother me and be kinda cool, but one thing that bothers me is that the language is really bad and there is barley a sentance spoken not including B****" "F***" and some derogatry term for the working girls.i'm normally fine with that stuff but i can't imagine at least 30 straight hours of it. it's pretty hard core, makes me wonder if thats what we sound like to other people when we swear and everything.
4. i hope this is going to pick up sometime soon.
anyway. i dont have xbox live at the moment but when i do i'll be trading gamertags and stuff. and in the mean time i'm just trying to figure everything out. i'll also need some more money to buy a phone, then raise money for more games, after that everything should be sorted. and hopefully we'll be getting a 1080p sharp aqauos and awesome home theatre on a relativly small budget in that time aswell, cause at the moment i'm playing on a SD 3:4 CRT screen, which is definatley not cool.
oh well if i think of anything else there'll be another blog to come, probably a way more exciting one.
bye for now 
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But seriously, it is. Give it time and you should fall in love with it. The swearing doesn't bother me, but I suppose if you've got kids/oldies around then it can be a bit hard to play it with the sound on. And yes, the graphics are meant to look ugly, but on HD they look superb, easily one of the best looking games I've seen, if not THE best. It's not that they are just tchnically great, but they fit in with the overall atmosphere of GTA IV perfectly.Oh, and I feel for you on the CRT TV, I was playing my 360 for about 6 months before I upgraded to HD, and it's not really fun playing Assassins Creed when you can hardly read anything, same with GTA IV.
Oh and (again) I'm sorry if I offend you, but you must suck at driving if you feel that you have no choice to break the law. This is easily the best car physics in any GTA game, a bit hard to get used to but once you do then they rock.
oh no, you are too right, the driving is the hardest part at the moment
i really need some more practice. but it is beginning to pick up alot. i'm doing a few jobs for that jamacan guy and vlad now, hopefully i'll soon get in with some bigger guys and get more cash and everything.
SaL_92
360 weight : 6.4 kg!!
The 360 is fatter than the ps3, you heard it here first!
Congrats on the new 360. Gta will pick up soon, the missions are amazing, heaps of plot twists too.