Invisible Man In my defence, Officer… everyone else was doing it

4230

I’m typing this from the floor, sitting in front of the TV/Xbox. Not for fun; the damn router thing has stopped being magically awesome and I need to fix it so that the Xbox can have Internets again. It’s quite important that it updates my gamerscore, heh heh.

Ok, so it may not be the router. It does seem to work. Possibly it’s just the xbox settings.

And it is. At some point, the IP address of the Xbox changed.

This means it’s set up in a pretty dodgy way, but whatever works is good enough.

And nobody cares.  Why would you? This is being read by a very small number of people, and dozens of spam bots. Only one of whom has an Xbox.
Although this post is essentially about him. James: I win.

I just need to recover my gamertag…
I hate typing words with the Xbox controller. Uncool…
and there we go.

I can haz gamerpoints plz

I just finished playing Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. Despite it being one of the four games I got with the Xbox, I’d never actually played it. I’ll admit right now that I was basically hoping for some easy achievements so that I could beat James to 4000.

But wow.

It’s actually an excellent game. It’s using the same engine (Unreal 3) as Unreal Tournament 3, but the difference in philosophies couldn’t be more stark. UT3 is pure multiplayer FPS, with unlimited respawns, ridiculous weapons and a futuristic setting. Hell’s Highway is yet another WW2 game, with a pretty high degree of realism and squad tactics. It’s also heavily story based. Honestly, I think it was 10% cutscene. I hope I can skip through most of it when I replay it, otherwise it’ll get pretty annoying.

It’s very well done though. It really supports the whole video games as media/art thing. I’ve seen plenty of worse movies.

Update:

I’m rather less impressed with the whole game/xbox thing right about now.
4230 has become 3720, because I had to reclaim my profile from James’ xbox. Which reverted the whole profile to the state it was when I played Rainbow 6 last weekend with him.
Balls.

So this entire post is rendered rather useless. I don’t actually have anything to report as an achievement.
Not that achievements are really achievements.

So this is more stream of consciousness than anything, and not even very interesting.