J.T.
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Yeah, I'm making a lot of boards here.
So I was playing Half-Life 2 and my brother and his friend come in saying "HEY WE GOTTA TEST OUT THESE AWESOME HEADPHONES". They called them Turtle Beach or something, said it let you hear things very clearly (like footsteps in Modern Warfare 2 across the map). So they start hooking it up while I'm playing, realize they'd need to pull the TV out to hook it up, give up, and unplug it all. This whole time they're doing it, I'd become aware that the audio was a bit... off. Subtitles would pop up but characters wouldn't speak, and the sound of my shots would play about a second after I'd already shot. Nothing that sounded like a big deal.
I kept playing for a bit, then stopped. When I turned it on again, the Valve and Source logos wouldn't pop up at the beginning - there was just black. When I got to the main menu, no music would play. When I moved the cursor over Portal or Half-Life 2 Episode 2, the game would freeze completely. When I put two and two together and thought it must have been something with the headset, my brother told me it couldn't do anything to the Xbox. When he put in Modern Warfare 2 to try it, it worked fine.
Looking at the disc itself, it has a long circular scratch along the edge of the disc, almost along the entire circumference, which, aside from being pretty impressive, is something I'm certain I would've noticed when putting it in - and if I hadn't, it probably would have started hurting things earlier. My brother also has a habit of throwing game discs anywhere he finds convenient, but of course, he only applies this to the games I've bought. He insists this isn't a big deal because it's a "crappy $20 game". Funny, half his games are crappy $60 games. >.>
So what do you guys think? Is there anything I can do to fix it, or will I have to shell out for a new copy?
So I was playing Half-Life 2 and my brother and his friend come in saying "HEY WE GOTTA TEST OUT THESE AWESOME HEADPHONES". They called them Turtle Beach or something, said it let you hear things very clearly (like footsteps in Modern Warfare 2 across the map). So they start hooking it up while I'm playing, realize they'd need to pull the TV out to hook it up, give up, and unplug it all. This whole time they're doing it, I'd become aware that the audio was a bit... off. Subtitles would pop up but characters wouldn't speak, and the sound of my shots would play about a second after I'd already shot. Nothing that sounded like a big deal.
I kept playing for a bit, then stopped. When I turned it on again, the Valve and Source logos wouldn't pop up at the beginning - there was just black. When I got to the main menu, no music would play. When I moved the cursor over Portal or Half-Life 2 Episode 2, the game would freeze completely. When I put two and two together and thought it must have been something with the headset, my brother told me it couldn't do anything to the Xbox. When he put in Modern Warfare 2 to try it, it worked fine.
Looking at the disc itself, it has a long circular scratch along the edge of the disc, almost along the entire circumference, which, aside from being pretty impressive, is something I'm certain I would've noticed when putting it in - and if I hadn't, it probably would have started hurting things earlier. My brother also has a habit of throwing game discs anywhere he finds convenient, but of course, he only applies this to the games I've bought. He insists this isn't a big deal because it's a "crappy $20 game". Funny, half his games are crappy $60 games. >.>
So what do you guys think? Is there anything I can do to fix it, or will I have to shell out for a new copy?
