The quest for 90%

Thought I would update my retail/arcade to do list and how that impacts upon my quest for that elusive completion ratio. To be honest it is tough to keep track of my overall score as different sites use different measures - so some throw DLC in there (whether I have it or not) and some don't. So I'm just going for 90% on EVERY site to satisfy myself.

Anyway here is how things stand:

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
Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince - 870/1000
HAWX - 555/1000
Hellboy: SoE - 310/1000
Left 4 Dead - 550/1000
Lost Planet - 350/1000
NBA Ballers - 335/1000
NBA Live 07 - 900/1000
NHL 09 - 250/1000
Overlord 2 - 875/1000
Perfect Dark Zero - 150/1000
Project Sylpheed - 60/1000
Rainbow Six Vegas - 820/1000
Scene It: BOS - 615/1250
Spiderman 3 - 10/1000
Splinter Cell: DA - 670/1000
Table Tennis - 630/1000
Vampire Rain - 650/1000
Virtua Tennis 09 - 445/1000
Viva Pinata 2 - 20/1000
WSC 2007 - 550/1000
You’re in the Movies - 140/1000

TOTAL - 14167/32925

Arcade

Boogie Bunnies - 85/200
Eets: Chowdown - 20/200
Gauntlet - 45/200
Geometry Wars* - 40/200
Texas Hold ‘Em - 105/200
Wallace and Gromit - 100/200

TOTAL - 395/1200

So I have 14562 out of an available 34125 in games I have already started playing. A couple of these titles should be knocked off the list fairly soon but that will only reduce my overall totall down by just over 200 points so no great improvement. Still, for the sake of planning purposes, I'll assume HP and Overlord will be done this week which gives me 14307 / 32125 and leaves me with a whopping 17818 in points to be gained.

The actual total is probably more thanks to greedy cash in developers adding DLC to every single game nowadays, but I've had enough of that particular trend. Back in the day I would buy any and all DLC to preserve my 100% completion on every game but it has pretty much got beyond a joke now. So I'll buy DLC for games I enjoy IF it is reasonably priced.

I've knocked a couple of games off the old list but I've added a real dog in Virtua Tennis 09, so that will be another game I need to focus on in order to get it done.

After a quick recalculation I have determined that I will need to score 4,111 out of my outstanding 20k worth of points (for games already on my tag and including DLC) in order to break the 90% complete mark. That's an improvement of nearly 2k over the last time I worked it out, as I finished off Larry, Bionic Commando and snagged some more points on Scene It. Next up will be another 665 from NBA Ballers, 940 (hopefully) from Project Sylpheed, 450 (for one run through) on Lost Planet, 100 from Wallace and Gromit, 530 from Hellboy, 600 (or so) from Spiderman 3, 200 more from Virtua Tennis 09, 500 from GOW 2 - then the remaining 100 or so points from a mix of NHL 09, You're in the Movies, C&C Kanes Wrath, Bladestorm, PDZ or whatever.

Not much of a change over last time I suppose but one that is gradually getting me in the right direction. When you consider that each completion % on my tag is worth 1777.77 points then you can see how much of a pain it becomes to edge up even a few points. I really want to get up to about 93-94% so that I don't dip under 90% every time I start a new game. That would be awesome but time consuming so we shall see.