DJ Wunder

So I called Gamestop, seeing how much I could get trade-in for Fable II towards Fallout 3 (I already have it reserved).  They say $33 with an extra 20% towards Fallout 3.  Oh how silly, I have a voicemail from Gamestop stating I get an extra THIRTY (30!!) PERCENT off for any trade towards Fallout 3.  I call them back, and they’re like “um.. well, when you come in we’ll figure it out”.  Those silly bastards, I’ll be getting my 30% damn you, not 20!

I cannot be fooled.  Those extra couple of bucks are mine! BUAHAHAHAH!

I purchased this game in hopes that it would be something great.  The advertisements and interviews gave it so much promise.  I had great hope for it, but it failed me miserably.

The game is interesting and beautiful, sure, but the gameplay mechanics of it just aren’t right.  I don’t like having to be reminded to take care of my family every fucking minute I’m playing.  I don’t like that I have to actually spend time with them every single day.  My directional pad must be just about broken with the amount of times I have to press “Up” on it so I can read that my wife wants some sex.  Jesus, woman, don’t you get enough!?  I’M ON A QUEST HERE TO SAVE THE WORLD!  Take care of the damn child yourself for a little bit.  Notice those statues around the world?!  THOSE ARE OF ME!  I’m famous, bitch!  She’s lucky I don’t go cheat on her and make a family somewhere else.  I’ve given that thought, and it’d be easy considering I found a condom in the dirt that my dog ‘Zeke’ had pointed out to me.

Seriously, the game is flawed.  People are even inviting themselves into my home and professing their love for me.  Right in front of the Mrs. Awesome-Adventurer-Extraordinaire!  That’s just craziness I tell you.  I can’t walk anywhere without people hounding me saying they love me or teasing me with some sort of gift.  Just leave me alone and let me save the world and avenge my dead sister, thank you very much.

All in all, that game gets 6/10 Wunderpoints.  It’s a beautiful game graphically, and the voice-acting isn’t horrible (I suppose), but even saying it’s a true open world is pretty misleading.  It’s far too easy to tell that you’re actually on a linear path.  Ya.  I want to return it and just wait for Fallout 3.  I’m upset I purchased this.

The xbox360 is dead once again.  I mean, it powers on, but other than that, it doesn’t actually start up.  Get what I mean?  I tried calling Xbox technical support, but that didn’t do much good because they hung up on me since it was close to closing time I assume and when I called back the phone’s were down.  That’s fucked up.

I’m EXTREMELY tempted to get this thing fixed then try to sell it and get a PS3.  At least those don’t have issues like this constantly.  I’m just VERY irrititated right now about the whole thing.  This is the second time this thing has had to go in for repair in the past month!  That even accounts for it being gone for 2+ weeks while it’s getting repaired/replaced.

Fuck.  Great way to start my night.