This happened to me when Halo 3 came out, needless to say I was ****ed off.
I have come into a bit of money so i should be able to afford it, i need some xbox live time also.
The sad thing is I knew it was going to die for the past 2 years, if sounded like the mechanical equivalent of a wheezing old man. Ticking, Screeching, rattling, scratching disks if I didn't play off the hard drive.
I just hate that it chose now to die. I'm going to go buy a new one today. I decided a warrantied console is better than a possibly temporary fix by my friend.
343 Industries will be the end of halo.
We don't know that yet. Wait until Christmas, 343 is doing the halo novels and they have the first book in the Forerunner trilogy coming out. That'll show us if they're good or bad. They also did Halo Legends, which I thought was good; wasn't so hot on the cartoon aspect but the stories were good.
[Edited by SuperSkyline89, 9/12/2010 10:37:56 AM]