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Mailbag! Q. Steel Battalion's high price will be warranted if the controller is sturdily built. I for one would rather drop $200 on quality, rather than $100 on crap. A. I have no qualms dropping $200 on quality, but I do have major issues if the sturdily built controller does nothing but collect dust after I’m done playing the game. Capcom claims to be working on an online expansion, but you have to ask yourself if a controller and a 20 mission game is worth $200 bucks. You can get another system and maybe a game for that amount. I have to question Capcom’s logic in putting a $200 game out because they know people will not rush out to buy it just based on the money. The game itself looks great and even has a cynical critic like myself considering the purchase, but the main thing in the way is the high price tag.____________________________________ Q. I saw you mention on the forums that you had to send your Xbox off for repairs because of a dirty disk error. I’m getting those too. What did you have to go through? A. I started getting Dirty Disk errors and notice some DVD playback issues last May. Some of my games would work perfectly fine, but many others would only work for limited amounts of time before freezing. While some were just glitchy, others were not. The one issue that set it off was when I first got Madden 2003. I couldn’t get past an entire game. I checked with EA and they told me to exchange the game for a new copy. I did and the problem still occurred. EA told me it was now Microsoft’s problem. I had to call Microsoft tech support about this. They asked what I had on my Xbox hard disk. I told them "Madden, Halo, DoA3 save files, DoA3 extra costumes, Hunter: the Reckoning, and Morrowind." The tech representative told me that I had a corrupted file and the only step was to delete everything on my hard disk. I did this and it did not work. The tech guy then ran my serial numbers and told me that there was a possibility I had a defective laser in my unit since it was manufactured during a certain time-frame before launch. I could either buy a new Xbox or pay $100 for out-of-warranty repair service. I opted for the repair. They told me I had to mail it off and wait 2-4 weeks for it to get back. However, I got the system back immediately (got there on a Tuesday morning, had it back at my house Wednesday afternoon). I haven’t had a problem with it since. Moral of the story: Pay the $50 bucks and get the extended warranty plan.Before doing all this, I would suggest to buy a DVD lens cleaner and use that. You should clean the lens periodically. It helped one of my friends. ____________________________________ Q. YOU GAVE MADDEN 2003 A 7.8! YOU SUCK!!! A. I gave Madden 2003 a 7.8 because it did little to improve from last year. The presentation was garbage, the Madden-bus challenges are stupid, and the game should not be called Madden because Madden doesn’t say anything aside from stupid generic comments. But what would I know...you said I suck.____________________________________ Q. HAHAAHA FOOL! METROID PRIMAE IS A BETTAR GAME THEN HALO! X-BOX SUCKS AND NINTENDYO RULES!! A. Um, does this even deserve a comment? Didn’t think so.
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