YeOldeTDUMan

saw this on ign this morning as I'm on my 3rd 360 (only purchased 1 tho) and this one is a noisy one I might 'upgrade' to one of these if I have the cash ... looks very nice and a lot more stylish how the whole thing is packaged (internal HDD etc) so £200 .... hmmm ... Game here I come

Thanks all

Applied today :)

signed up for the Beta this morning ... fingers crossed ... shame it didn't have a bit to describe yourself etc ... but I guess they'll find out themselves that I have full gamerscore for TDU ... and I bought all the DLC ! ... they just wont realise how I liked the bug bits ... or hosted silly events

Hey Baldy ... happy birthday mate ... don't consume too much fermented cereal crop

Thanks for all the kind messages ... sorry I haven't been around much ... life/work has kinda been hectic ... got my Beta registration email yesterday and signed up this morning ... so fingers crossed

Well where shall we start ... "Good Evening" There that's a good start ... as long as you're reading this in an evening in whatever time zone you're currently located in. So shall I begin ? Stories tell us of a gamer that went by many names ... some called him Hybrid, some called him Hi brid, and others called him the Olde Man of TDU-C. For in distant times he played many a game, from Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner grew the interest, this changed to the likes of Falcon until the age of consoles truely arrived and he joined the house of SONY ... for the gamer liked his arcade consoles and so was pleased that Tekken and Ridge Racer were his new trials ... and so time passed ... and the console changed generation ... and the games did changeth too ... for the graphics became plentiful and much Gran Turismo was played in all it's generations ... but low it came to pass that the PS2 did die A new chapter began ... a new version of a classic was to be released unto this Earth ... Test Drive Unlimited was to be created ... and so the gamer bought a 360 And low and behold the gamer was pleased ... he played TDU until he had 100% completion ... he won the TDU-C road race ... he had all the cars and bikes (including tuners and exclusives) ... he enjoyed the lands where physics was broken ... and he did host the most amazing of events via TDU-C But as with all things the gamer found an uphappy place ... and a new quest called ... and so he left TDU-C But he has returneth ! Ok now the silly stuff is over ... Hi Everyone ... I'm back ... OK some of you many not know who I am if you've joined TDU-C in the past year so here goes ... Well originally my Gamertag was 'Hybrid IV' ... now I'm 'CSR Seasider' So a little about me for the uninitiated Why 'YeOldeMan' ? Well I'm for a lot of you on here I'm most probably old enough to be your Dad! If you want to work out how old I am I got a ZX Spectrum 48k (with rubber keys) for my 11th Birthday (and passing my 11 Plus) and that was about the time there was a shortage of the machines due to demand! So a little more ... Well I'm from the fair county of Essex in England ... trust me you'll realise this is you ever speak to me online I'm an engineer by trade and have for all my career worked in the car industry to some extent ... hence my original gamertag as I do a lot of crash test simulation. So please be warned I know a lot about cars ... oh and my pet hate is about people going on about how cool the picture of a car a couple of years off production looks in a car mag or website ... when it's obvious that it's just some journo who's played about with photochop to make an article As to other stuff ... I'm a car nut ... I've owned ... Mini (proper one and not a BMW Maxi) ... which I ended up modifying 'a bit' MkI MR-2 Bravo HGT Celica (last gen) and my current car is an Alfa Romeo Spider Oh and another thing ... my car knowledge is joined by my film knowledge ... I'm a major film geek and if I didn't work as an engineer I'd have to do something in cinema So my tdu history ... as I said ... I completed it all ... butmore importantly for TDU-C I used to host cruise events and also silly events ... the one I liked was a 'hunt me' event where you had to find me ... ram me off the road and then I'd buy the car you were driving for silly money ... those things will return with TDU2 (as long as it's still possible) These days I play a lot of Forza 3 ... the reason why my gamertag changed ... and I also love the likes of GTA and Fallout ... so I'm looking forward to Red Dead Redemption and Fallout:New Vegas in the near and distant future So why am I back ... I got bored ... and TDU2 is out in the not too distant future Oh I won't be on here as much as I used to ... most probs only evenings and weekends, I need to cut down on my surfing at work! Well that's about it ... Catch you online sometime YeOldeTDUMan (CSR Seasider ... the gamer formerly known as Hybrid IV)

Well this is it ... Just over 2 years ago now I found myself on TDU-C as I found a lot of the posts and threads on the Official Atari TDU forum becoming a series of rants, childish slagging off and pointless threads. 2 years ago this was a great forum, actually it was a great community, which was based around a core crowd of great gamers who all enjoyed and played TDU on the 360. Yes there were arguements but they were all of the jovial banter type. And so over the years the forum has grown and changed ... as TDU got old we played other games, some good (FM2) and some bad (whoever conviced me to buy MC:LA needs a kick where it hurts) and also the forum grew to include other platforms. And then in recent history I'm sorry to say but I think it's all gone a bit Pete Tong ! A lot of threads will now often include either a 'mine is better than yours' or a personal attack that has crossed the fine line between jovial banter and something that isn't funny. Other forums manage the banter without the abuse so why not here ? I tried to change this in a small step by asking in the Motorsports F1 section for people to discuss and praise and critise drivers/teams but not to stoop to the childish 'yay such-en-such Failed' ... but alas within 5 posts on the first race of the season my request had fallen on deaf ears. So for a number of reasons I'm leaving TDU-C on a permenant basis. To those who've made the forum a great place (you know who you are) ... it's been great and I'll still catch you online To those who've spolit the forum (in my opinion) ... Stop being a TWAT ! To Diablo ... thanks for creating a great forum And so I bid you all a farewell Hybrid P.S. You can post whatever you want as a reply cos I'm not going to read it as I'm not even going to Lurk ... when I said this was my final post I mean it ... no returning in the future ... no lurking ... this is THE END!

+Rep to the Bald one