Back To Greenvale

With Halo 3 out of the way and still not repaired PS3, it’s time to return to Deadly Premonition, which is essentially “Twin Peaks: The Videogame.”

Finished The Fight

It’s a well designed game, but I got a distinct sense of deja vu from playing it.  Many of the set-piece action sequences seemed to riff of the favorites from Halo and Halo 2, so there was a sense of Halo:  Greatest Hits HD to my experience.  Of course, the real star of the show with Halo has always been the competitive multi-player and I’m not touching that.

Still Finishing

Halo 3 is… well, it’s more Halo.  Pretty elegantly built if you like this sort of thing.

Finishing The Fight. Belatedly.

Finally getting around to sitting down and playing Halo 3, which is something I really should do, since it got dropped on me that I’ll be reviewing Halo:  Reach.

And It’s Away

Amazingly enough, the Sony people were happy to take the dying PS3 and see to it that it gets repaired, rather than replaced.  Nothing to do but wait now.

Pulling Strings

Time to go the rather unorthodox route of contacting people I know at Sony Canada and seeing if they can help with this problem.

Official Channels

I guess I’ll have to ship the PS3 off to Sony’s authorized repair center and hope for the best.  With any luck, they’ll repair–rather than replace–the console, as a replacement still nets me a loss of my Rock Band data.  I’ll have to look into this over the next few days.

Really Dead Again

The visit to the neighborhood console repair place was a bust.  It turns out that “Yellow Light of Death” is, 90% of the time, a problem with thermal paste needing to be reapplied to the board after extended use has burned it away.  But YLOD, as it’s commonly known is actually supposed to represent general, catastrophic hardware failure.  My PS3 has now officially entered into that 10%, with the guy at the shop telling me that my onboard memory is corrupted.

This is going to take some drastic action, I’m not losing my Rock Band data AGAIN.

Dead Again

The PS3 has died once more, this time instead of needing a replacement of its Blu-Ray drive, I think what’s happened is something referred to as the Yellow Light of Death.  Fortunately there’s a repair shop in the area, so I’ll probably just bring it down tomorrow and see if they can do something with this.

And Done

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