Summation

[chuckro]

40" (or larger) HD TV: $1,000
XBox 360: $300
Final Fantasy 13: $60
Ikea TV stand suitable new TV: $200
Trip to Ikea: 1 day plus borrowing/renting appropriate car (or +$100 for shipping)
Dealing with Comcast: ~several days of my life

Playing FF13: Priceless Apparently not worth it, after all...

Comments

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

You can still play on your old TV anyway, or if you want a new TV you don't have to go 40", 40" is pretty dang big.

[hyouneko.livejournal.com]

+1 40" is a pretty good sized TV. How big tv do you have now?

You realize you don't HAVE to have an internet connection to play FF13.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I currently have a 21" TV, I believe. It was the one that used to live in my dorm room.

I'm getting the impression that you HAVE to have an internet connection to assure your 360/PS3 will work properly at all.

[hyouneko.livejournal.com]

/facepalm

As I've said before you DON'T have to patch the games in order to play them. They are NOT broken and in dire need of a patch for them to play through out of the box. Patches != Fatal Flaw game is unplayable. As I've also said multiple times, you CAN NOT get through XBox cert with this kind of problem. The xbox patch limit is less than 5 megs. The average size picture file coming from a DSLR camera is bigger than that.

You don't even need it to upgrade your firmware. Games that require a certain version of the XBox firmware automatically install said firmware from the game disk.

Please come to grips with the fact that these are still console games and not PC games from the bygone era when they'd just release crap and patch it later. I can't tell you how much exactly, but every time a game goes through the cert process for XBox, it costs the video game company the price of a small luxury sedan. You fail cert the first time, your company just bought 2 small luxury sedans. No cert = no release key; no release key = won't play on device.