First time gaming for the "Not so Geeky Girl"
When I was a little girl, I played the odd Mario Brothers, Pacman and other well known games from the early nineties.
It was only when meeting my husband at the ripe age of
almost thirty, that I got re-introduced to gaming, this time on an Xbox 360. I thought he was a bit nerdy for playing
games, but then I got hooked myself. NO!
I am not nerdy, okay maybe just a little!
We started off with Call of Duty. And it was a nightmare to get use to the controller.
I couldn’t even bring myself to walk forward let alone shoot the enemy. Luckily my nerdy husband had the patience to
teach me. We played Xbox Arcade games
to teach me how to use my controller, and that changed everything for me. I wasn’t afraid of the controller anymore,
and I could now kick some serious arse in Call of Duty. Just a pity that when you play Call of Duty
split screen and you don’t finish the whole game, you will start from scratch
the next time! Darn – and for the “not
so geeky gaming girl” this meant: chuck it in the fuck-it bucket!
Next mission: Gears of War 3. I loved it!! It gave me such a kick to kill
aliens, all that built up frustration and anger (from being a bean counter – NO
THAT IS NOT NERDY!) was now aimed at aliens and no longer my husband! BUT then,
my profile got corrupted and there was no more Gears of War 3 L, apparently it was a common problem when you
played split screen co-op, thank you Epic Games for ruining that for me. See below a news article. See I did not seek an excuse to rather go
paint my toenails.
Gears of War 3 bug crashing consoles,
corrupting profiles
If you were planning on a split-screen co-op session of Gears of War 3
any time soon, you might just want to hold off on that a bit.
According to an increasing number of reports over on Epic’s forums, some kind of serious bug
is hanging the game at load, and rendering one or both of the profiles present
unable to play at all after that.
The bug seems to turn up in multiple game modes, including Horde,
campaign, and versus multiplayer.
For the moment, Epic’s official line is that “Getting this resolved is a
priority for Epic. We are collecting information internally, sourcing as much
as possible from the community and exploring potential fixes. We do not have
any recommendations to share with players just yet.”
Or, basically, don’t play split-screen co-op.
Don’t even play Gears of War 3.
Don’t even switch on your Xbox, man.
The worst bit? Gears of War 2 had exactly the same bug
The worst bit? Gears of War 2 had exactly the same bug
- Source: mygaming.co.za
Luckily I forgave Epic games and
we started with Gears of War 1, because Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 was just too
evil, no not the gruelling zombies, but they are very stingy giving away
achievements AND you find yourself backed up in a corner too much for my
liking.
I am now on a journey discovering
the weird and wonderful world of gaming.
And because there is not so many games that will attract a girls
attention in a gaming store, I might just one day write my own game.
Okay hubby, “I got you back like a butt crack” lets continue with our gaming!
- By Yvette de Villiers
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