I hate this thing… i really do. Out of all my years of collecting every console from Sega, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft (as well as a few Atari and Mattel consoles) i have never had such a problem with a home console.

The original Xbox wasn't as bad but it eventually died after just 4 years of owning it. simply wouldn't power on one day.

Now today, after only having my Xbox 360 for 1 year it's having problems. I rarely ever used the console. Today it started doing the most irritating thing ever. Whenever i play a game for more than 15 mins it randomly freezes. nothing will respond so i have to shut it off. i try boot it up again and after just a short amount of time it does it again. it did it 5 times in a row! i can't play a game like this!

what the fuck do people see in this piece of shit console? it is without a doubt, the worst console i've ever had and i'm not alone in thinking this. after all it is the console with the highest hardware failure rate. I can't put up with this and it's just not acceptable to sell such garbage. some of my friends who owned 360's experienced red rings of death on their consoles. poor suckers got the console on opening day.

I'm really pissed, i'm finally playing Star Ocean 4 and loving it and i can't play it any further because of this! what i'm going to have to do is pawn off this Shitbox and buy the PS3 version of Star Ocean 4 so i can restart the whole game and play it on my PS3, where it can be played as it was intended.

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Update: okay after more research on the game freezing issue i have learned something interesting. Apparently it's not the fault of the Xbox 360 and it's actually a bug within the game itself! It is caused by simply casting Silence/Void and missing, when you do this the text "miss" will stay above the target's head the whole battle. Depending on whose head it's on will determine if the game freezes. You can get different results depending on the character it's on and what you do with them; example: swapping the character, character dying, or simply winning the battle. (the "Fury" skill can cause this glitch as well)

A simple fix is to completely disable the skills "silence", "void" and "fury". Though these are very important skills so it is to be expected players will rather take the risk. Also since enemies can still cast these it is still possible that you will still experience freezing.

Players have commented saying that this glitch only occurs when playing in 1080p mode and that if you switch to any other mode it will never happen. This would seem to be the most effect way of avoiding the glitch but at the cost of down-grading the graphics. (still you don't want to risk losing a lot of time since saves can be far apart in this game)

So the end result, it's most likely a bug within the game - though it could also be related to how the 360's gpu handles certain graphics while in 1080p mode.