In November, I received my birthday present early from Mom, Dad, Lerrin & Lisa — an XBox. Anyone who knows my computing platform preferences may be shocked to hear that.
\nBut I love it.
\nThe XBox console has amazing graphics. I’ll admit that I was excited about the Playstation 2 when it came out, and was underwhelmed by the quality of the graphics. I’m definitely more-than-whelmed at the quality of the XBox. Click below to read more…<\/p>\n
In November, I received my birthday present early from Mom, Dad, Lerrin & Lisa — an XBox. Anyone who knows my computing platform preferences may be shocked to hear that. But I love it. The XBox console has amazing graphics. I’ll admit that I was excited about the Playstation 2 when it came out, and… Continue reading Xbox rules.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-bytes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe XBox has a built-in hard drive, which means the game data is all saved internally. A definite plus over my Sega DreamCast with its memory cards a la the Playstation (which, if you have a chance to pick up, do so. The quality of the DreamCast is amazing, and the machines can be had extraordinarily cheap).
\nI’m not a hard-core gamer, to be honest. I enjoy goofing around with games, but my days of spending 4+ hours on a game at a sitting are definitely over — I think that comes with parenthood. But I’ve whiled many hours away playing Halo<\/a> so far, and I’m not bored yet. Stuck, yes. Bored, no. I do wish that the multiplayer option in it had bots to fight, since my friend Bear and I have crushed each other under the weight of the flying warthog too many times. I currently own Halo, Max Payne, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 for the XBox. I also got the DVD playback kit for it, so that I could watch the Original Edition, and the Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings<\/a> that I bought. (Yes, pathetic. And if you haven’t seen LOTR yet, don’t even bother talking to me anymore.)
\nThe downsides to the XBox? They are:<\/p>\n
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