The game you were playing when it RROD

[Irridium]

I tried playing Mass Effect once. The console told me to go fuck myself and red ringed

There was also a time when I tried playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and it got the E74 error.

Damn thing... god forbid I try to play games on a thing designed to play games...

 

[Haunted Herring]

My Xbox red-ringed, I turned it off. Then back on again, it worked again! And I'm sure it was a proper RROD whole thing froze, 3part red circle. My Xbox is a unstoppable badass!

 

[John Stalvern]

My Xbox 360 died when I was playing the demo for Sonic Unleashed. Suffice to say, my opinion of that horrible game was further justified.

 

[Gabanuka]

Simpsons hit and run, that was like 2 years ago, I've got a PS now.

 

[sooperman]

Call of Duty 4 multiplayer.

Fuck you, Bog. I knew that map had it in for me.

 

[The Loojster]

I've had two. The first was Turning Point: Fall of Liberty* and the second was Faffing About Creed 2


* I had a couple of free rentals and decided to see if it was as bad as its made out to be. It's not.

 

[Beastialman]

First time Forza Motorsport 2, it was really my fault, I fell asleep while it was on auto drive... then a week later it stopped reading disks (after I got it repaired).

That's the only time.

 

[mikecoulter]

Mine died whilst it was turned off. Any 360 before the Jasper units came along were junk.

 

[Chardan]

After a 6 hours session on Fallout 3, it wouldn't turn back on. I guess its my fault though, I played it too much. (Didn't get a refund either, had to buy an Elite)

 

[SquirrelPants]

My friend popped in Call of Duty 4, the Xbox needed an update, it made it halfway through the update and red-ringed.

 

[SantoUno]

Both times I was playing Halo 3, it wasn't even a month since the game released and it bricked!

 

[Ultress]

I was goofing of in Tales of Vesperia when the game freezes I turn it off and then when I turned it back on I had that lovely RROD staring back at me.

 

[jamie5166]

I was quite happily playing Operation Flashpoint in the mission where you have to blow up the fuel depot, the screen goes red and weird, so i think its some weird form of night vision and carry on. Turn the console off and then turn it on later on in that day = RROD, i raged then laughed and booted my pc up.

 

[ScatterBen]

I've had an Elite since Halo 3 was released. I never had any problems with it up until Christmas 09. I hadn't even played the damn thing since about October when I'd finished with Tales of Vesperia. I'd been too involved with the PS3 (which gets a better wifi connection despite me having paid £60 for the over-fucking-priced 360 adapter) Anyway, I got a couple of games for Christmas, Assassins Creed and Left4Dead2, and obviously proceeded to play them. I started my first mission for Ezio's uncle and I got those god-forsaken vertical lines followed by the flashing red lights. Seriously, two months of just sitting there (discrediting anyone's argument that RROD is caused solely by overuse) and then when I do use it - and in moderate amounts too - the thing fucking breaks. Awesome Christmas present, I know. Anyway, it's also proof that Elite's are NOT immune. Maybe it lasted longer than a regular 360, but it still broke in the end. For the record, it hadn't been abused beforehand either. I rarely even played it.

I get the impression that you can talk about how you've never had any problems with your 360 in the 3 years you've owned it or whatever, but all of the machines are just ticking time-bombs. Metaphorically, of course. I don't think any 360 will go a full lifetime before getting the RROD. You just have to hope that, when it finally happens, it's in the extended 3-year warranty Microsoft gives to all machines since they were bought.