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Old 21-10-2008, 11:12   #381
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Yep. Completed it all last night and it was a very rewarding experience and great game length. If you have a Memory Unit you could send it to me, I'll recover your gamertag and do it for you, then send you it back. Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours (including gamertag recovery).
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Old 21-10-2008, 11:15   #382
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Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours (including gamertag recovery).
Don't count on that I remember Daz trying to download Davey's tag to play GH and it took forever longer than a couple of hours.
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Old 21-10-2008, 11:18   #383
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Mine takes around 1h 40m, so it was probably a blip on the Xbox Live servers.
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Old 21-10-2008, 11:21   #384
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why does it take so long though? Surely it's dependent on your connection speed
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why does it take so long though? Surely it's dependent on your connection speed
I would hazard they limit it so that if 10,000 of the millions of Xbox Live users were recovering their tags at the same time, the other millions wouldn't have their Xbox Live connections destroyed.

When you recover your tag (or any tag) it downloads all their achievement icons etc... to the HDD which is why larger gamer scores seem to take longer .
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Old 21-10-2008, 11:26   #386
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Fair enough, just thought I'd warn you when Davey had problems Never recovered mine before so don't know how long it would take, then again I don't have that many achievements.
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Old 21-10-2008, 11:28   #387
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Fair enough, just thought I'd warn you when Davey had problems Never recovered mine before so don't know how long it would take, then again I don't have that many achievements.
8,000 is a fair whack. I'd hazard it would take over 20 minutes.
I had a nightmare recovering Creatures before, took ~2hours.

It guess it depends on the time and usage of Xbox Live at any one time perhaps, but as I'm up til ridiculous O'Clock most nights it would make sense for me to do anything at that time .
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Old 21-10-2008, 12:44   #388
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Yep. Completed it all last night and it was a very rewarding experience and great game length. If you have a Memory Unit you could send it to me, I'll recover your gamertag and do it for you, then send you it back. Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours (including gamertag recovery).
That's a very kind offer, but I'll wait until I get it on rental I think as I'm in no rush to get the achievements
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had some problems with Hells Highway - No sound.. turned out to be just the Creative SB drivers

Anyway, sorted.. After about two hours gameplay, I have to say, not playing any of the previous chapters, the game is a refreshing change. There is no doubt in my mind that this is more a cinimatic interactive movie than a game. That's not a bad thing but it give you an indication where the games industry is headibng imo.
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Old 21-10-2008, 14:43   #390
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Games are moving into the movie cinematic area.
Cinematic movies are moving into Games.

It's an odd cross-over. In good news, Max Payne was the highest grossing Box Office movie last week and is number 1 at the US Box Office.
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