Gears of War. Game of the year 2007 for the xbox 360. A game so good, they made a PC version. Which I went all the way to Xtra(now Giant, I think) to buy. When I first bought it for PC, my video card was too old to support it, so I waited till my dad got me an 8600GT. But even then, there were some problems and the game couldn't run on my PC. Eu Chuan used my disk, and it couldn't work on his PC either.
A year later, I get an xbox 360 and Gears of War is still on my most wanted list. But it's gotten so old, that the shop I buy my 360 from has to run to another shop to get a copy. And that copy is fungusy so I only got to play until level 3 and then it jamms up and they ask me to clean my disk with a soft cloth.
Last Saturday, I went to City Square and bought another copy of Gears of War. It worked! My brother was stuck with my mom and sister watching Twilight on DVD downstairs, so I do the right thing. I sit next to him and say, 'we both know this movie isn't worth 2 hours of your life, look, i've got a 360 with 2 wireless controllers and GEARS OF WAR is working, so can we please go play that now?'
Normally, my brother would just shrug and say later lah. But this time he's on his feet before I finish my sentence! Yay!
So we both head up. I set the 360 on its side, just to see what it's like. Then I notice something odd. Something I never noticed it do before. You know the 360 has a green circle that's divided into 4 quadrants? Everytime you plug in a controller, one quarter lights up, starting with the top left and ending with the bottom right. What I never noticed is that when the 360 is on it's side, the arrangement follows!
Around that time I put in the Gears of War DVD and ask my brother if I was seeing things. Then he tells me it must have a gyroscope inside that tells it if it's sitting on it's side or if it's upright.
Here's the stupid part.
While the DVD was loading, I wanted to see if I was being fooled, so I flipped the 360 on it's side to see if the green lights shift to a new position.
Krak-krak-krak-krak.
Oh shit!
Oh shit!!
then a message pops up on the screen.
"please clean your disk with a soft cloth."
Needless to say, the disk is scratched up and unreadable.
Looks like I'm never going to play Gears of War at this rate.
I had to find out if my 360 was ok, I mean it sounded nasty, all that scratching may have damaged the disk drive.
I went online, and turns out thousands of people have done this on accident.
"It should work ok. If it doesn't, then take it to Microsoft and shove it up their ass"
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