My to do list.

I keep on whittling on about the annoying games I still have sat around on my card so I thought I would actually take a proper look and see what I had outstanding in terms of points. The list is a lot longer and more troublesome than I had first realised (let's just say that 100% completion will NEVER happen). See allow me to show you the damage and then explain how I'll tackle it.

The list shows the games I'm missing points on (I've not included games I have 1k in that also have DLC):

RETAIL

Battlefield 2: MC - 315/1000
Beautiful Katamari - 340/1250
Bladestorm - 150/1000
C&C Kane’s Wrath - 120/1000
Chromehounds* - 700/1000
Gears of War 2 - 210/1425
Gears of War - 720/1250
GRAW* - 737/1000
Guitar Hero 2* - 320/1000
Halo 3 - 800/1750
HAWX - 555/1000
Hellboy: SoE - 310/1000
Hot Wheels - 120/1000
Left 4 Dead - 550/1000
Lost Planet - 350/1000
NBA Ballers - 335/1000
NBA Live 07* - 900/1000
NHL 09 - 250/1000
Perfect Dark Zero - 150/1000
Project Sylpheed - 60/1000
Rainbow Six Vegas - 820/1000
Scene It: BOS - 515/1250
Spiderman 3 - 10/1000
Splinter Cell: DA - 670/1000
Table Tennis - 630/1000
Vampire Rain - 650/1000
Viva Pinata 2 - 20/1000
Wheelman - 405/1000
WSC 2007 - 550/1000
You’re in the Movies - 140/1000
TOTAL - 12402/31925

Arcade

Boogie Bunnies - 85/200
Eets: Chowdown - 20/200
Gauntlet - 45/200
Geometry Wars* - 40/200
Texas Hold ‘Em - 105/200
TOTAL - 295/1000

So that leaves me with a whopping 20,228 points outstanding - though with a few caveats. All of the games I have marked with a * are ones that I NEVER expect to get maximum points on, mainly due to the outrageous hours required or a level of skill that I know I don't possess.

Chromehounds and GRAW fall into the former category, as they would take thousands of hours each to 1k and it would be a total waste of time to even try. Maybe if I become a millionaire with 8 available 360's and unlimited time on my hands I would change my mind.

Guitar Hero 2 and Geometry Wars fall into the latter - as I will never get good enough at either game to max out the score. Not to mention the fact I would need to find an equally skilled partner to finish off GH2 in local play - not gonna happen.

The final game is NBA Live 07 - a painful blip. I was actually going to max this out when x360a did a big event to get 1,000 people online. Unfortunately my internet connection went down two hours before the event started and, when it came back on half an hour too late, there were only 800 people still online. Thanks Virgin broadband.....

Other notable issues mainly come from games that I have been banned from playing on my own (as my GF wants to play them with me) and includes: Beautiful Katamari, Viva Pinata 2, You're in the Movies and Eets Chowdown. Though I do plan on maxing out these games at some point when given the green light to do so. I also plan on picking up SOME points from GRAW and the like too.

Everything else though is a clear 'can do' 1k if I put my mind to it. Even getting Elite on R6V or Seriously on GOW is not beyond me if I can find the time to fit them in. My ideal goal would be to finish off all of the easier titles on there and then go after one old title at a time alongside a more current game. I think most of the DLC will be safely ignored too, especially on cash in games like Halo 3 where it has just got ridiculous - I'll aim for the original 1k and nothing more.

The more eagle eyed may notice that I have done online achievements and nothing (or very little) else on a number of games; Lost Planet, C&C, Hellboy, Katamari, Battlefield, NBA Ballers and Vampire Rain. This is because they were games I expected to have zero online community in a short space of time, so I boosted them all early doors which allowed me the luxury of doing single player stuff at my leisure.

The list is pretty imposing and there are some killer games on there in terms of time and skill - but I'm confident I can get up to 90%+ completion at some point. At which point the rest of these titles may well get left in the dust so I can focus on newer games.