The best game in the world™ hits at midnight tomorrow night, and I’m sitting here avoiding reviews, playing other (similar) games, and trying to determine just how much I want to know about the game before I play it for myself. I think I’ve settled on looking at screenshots and watching the non-gameplay videos straight from Rockstar.
I am actually nervous about playing this game, which is a weird thing to say. But I have been waiting for it since summer of 2006, when it was announced for the 360. It’s the reason I bought one, and so there’s a tiny bit of apprehension that it won’t live up to the expectations that I have for it.
Metacritic begs to differ, as the game is currently boasting a perfect score on both platforms. It doesn’t really matter, but it’s certainly reassuring.
Desperate times, desperate measures. You know the drill.
16 Apr 08 / # /
It’s been about a year since the ol’ Xbox RRoD‘d on me, and while I’d like to think that issue has been taken care of once and for all, it was still “fixed” before the days of the more reliable (as far as I can tell) HDMI 360s so I’m wondering if it will resurface.
If it were to resurface, I have a sneaking suspicion that it will decide to do so on the morning of April 29th which would easily be the worst possible time. Given this, I have mentioned (only half-jokingly) that I have a requisite amount of dollars set aside for a replacement should the need arise.
However, this would result in two Xbox 360s, and technophilic as I may be, that’s just silly. And redundant. And unnecessary.
So instead, an emergency trip to Best Buy WalMart would be in order to procure a replacement of a different kind. I am terrified of this Plan B. I hope dearly that it doesn’t come to this.