It's Thursday and I'm bored - that is all you need to know.
Anyway, here is a quick update on my quest to hit 90% completion. This time around I've axed all the games that are either unattainable (due to server closures) or that I have the original 1k in and will never go back to for DLC (FIFA 09, PSU and Tomb Raider Legends).
I've managed to knock a good few arcade games from the list and a couple of retail titles too, so there is some prgress being made. Still need about 4k more points though to get where I want to be - so time will tell.
RETAIL
Batman: AA - 345/1000
Battlefield 2: MC - 315/1000
Beautiful Katamari - 1050/1250
Bladestorm - 150/1000
Brothers in Arms - 75/1000
Call of Duty: WaW - 1000/1500
C&C Kane’s Wrath - 130/1000
Damnation - 390/1000
Fairytale Fights - 165/1000
Gears of War 2 - 210/1750
Gears of War - 950/1250
GRAW - 737/1000
GRAW 2 - 1000/1250
Guitar Hero 2 - 320/1000
Halo 3 - 805/1750
HAWX - 555/1000
Hellboy: SoE - 310/1000
Left 4 Dead - 1170/1250
Lego Star Wars TCS - 240/1000
Lips - 1210/1500
Lost Planet - 350/1000
NHL 09 - 515/1000
Operation Flashpoint - 610/1000
Perfect Dark Zero - 150/1000
Project Sylpheed - 60/1000
Resident Evil 5 - 1000/1300
Risen - 70/1000
Scene It: BOS - 615/1250
Spiderman 3 - 10/1000
Splinter Cell: DA - 670/1000
Supreme Commander - 110/1000
Table Tennis - 630/1000
Vampire Rain - 650/1000
Virtua Tennis 09 - 545/1000
Viva Pinata 2 - 20/1000
WSC 2007 - 550/1000
You’re in the Movies - 140/1000
TOTAL - 17822/41050
ARCADE
Boogie Bunnies - 115/200
Castle Crashers - 125/200
Eets: Chowdown - 20/200
Geometry Wars - 40/200
Puzzle Quest - 200/250
Texas Hold ‘Em - 105/200
Wallace and Gromit - 100/200
Where's Wally - 30/200
TOTAL - 735/1650
So I have 24,143 in attainable outstanding points (though my profile will obviously show a different figure). From that balance I will need 4306 points to hit 90% on the nose. I'd rather get closer to six thousand really, so I will have a bit of leeway when it comes to adding new games onto my profile.
At least I managed to finish off Bioshock 2 last night, so that is one less thing to worry about - in fact I've been amazingly good with new games this year and have gone through Darksiders, Bayonetta, Dante's Inferno and Bioshock 2 up until now. Review wise only Vancouver and AvP never made it onto my tag, as I just couldn't be othered grinding through the multiplayer for either of them, so they were played on my back up account (on my shiny new Elite). I'd rather not put a game on my card unless I know I'm prepared to go for the full 1k or it's a game that I really want to play.
Now that I've got a few things done my next task is to go back to Batman and also finish off Brothers in Arms. I actually spent about an hour or so on Batman last night and realised that I had totally forgotten how the combat system works so it will take me some time to get back into the groove I think. Next week will be dedicated to geting the online portion of NHL 09 done with though - as I have a week off and two consoles to get that stuff done with. I'd rather do it now before the servers inevitably get shut down by EA at some point. If I get that stuff done fairly quickly then I will go back to Gears and start on Annex mode. Yay!
Fun times indeed, but once I get over 90% I will spend less time worrying about older stuff and just try to clear out some games I have sat around unplayed. The time to trim down my collection is here!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Faster than you can say antidisestablishmentarianism..........
A cookie for however gets that quote, ha ha!
Anyway, I mopped up the Modern Warfare 2 and - brace yourselves - I didn't think it was that good. This happens a lot when I play a game that people rave about for months on end and I'm left decidedly underwhelmed.
I don't want to post any spoilers, even though I'm sure everyone else has finished the game months ago, but for me there are some pretty gaping plotholes and the 'twist' as it were makes little to no sense and is barely explained thereafter. Now I enjoyed it as a nice tactical shooter, and finally being rid of infinite respawns is a breath of fresh air, but it was nothing I hadn't seen before. For me the first Modern Warfare still reigns supreme, as the missions were fresh, the plot interesting and coherent and the multiplayer a dream. I just worry that we will see more of the same now that EA have apparently jumped on the bandwagon with Medal of Honour.
I actually saw an article where the developers of the new MoH game flat out denied that they had moved to a modern setting because of the success of COD..............yeah, right. Anyone who can't see that EA's sudden shift in setting is linked with one of the most successful game launches EVER must be high. Why even deny it? It kind of annoyed me to be honest, like they were saying it was a fresh, original idea they had thought up ages ago. It reminded me of 'old' EA who would just buy out, imitate and bully their way to success back in the day, I thought times had changed and 'new' EA were full of fresh IP's and good times. We shall see.
In other news my completion of Bioshock 2 draws closer as well. I'm sitting pretty at rank 38 online, and will need another 12k worth of ADAM to be done. Though with the impending DLC raising the cap to level 50, you can bet that there will be a linked achievement so it makes sense for me to boost as high as I can right now so I have a head start on that nuisance.
Overall I have probably spent about four or five hours playing the game legit, and then a further ten boosting. I do enjoy playing the game as it was meant to be, but I also don't like the fact you can often get mismatched teams and that NO ONE EVER SPEAKS! When you are trying to co-ordinate on a team game then some communication would be nice. Though I did have one epic game, when I joined in the last round of Capture the Sister and became the Big Daddy. I got a fifteen kill streak, completed three trails and ended the match with nearly 900 ADAM from three minutes work. Good times.
Boosting is obviously eaiser and faster, but you can only watch the hacking animation so many times before it becomes laughable. Still I'd like to finish the game this week and then I can focus all of my efforts into NHL 09 next week when I'm off work. It's the only one I haven't got the full 1k in so it would be nice to have the complete set. If I get that done faster than expected then I will move onto Gears of War to play all of the Annex DLC, which will leave me with Seriously to get back to as we took the week off for Bioshock 2.
I've also been delving into a bit of Aliens vs Predator in my down time, though I couldn't face another MP grinding game so slung it on my girlfriends tag, and it's a lot more fun than I first thought. I don't know if it has the chops to challenge some of the triple A titles, as the single player is pretty damn short and far too linear. It also doesn't have that fear factor that I felt when I first played the PC original back in the day - which would have been the big draw for me. Still the online package is solid enough and that will probably be of more interest to the majority of people.
Anyway, I mopped up the Modern Warfare 2 and - brace yourselves - I didn't think it was that good. This happens a lot when I play a game that people rave about for months on end and I'm left decidedly underwhelmed.
I don't want to post any spoilers, even though I'm sure everyone else has finished the game months ago, but for me there are some pretty gaping plotholes and the 'twist' as it were makes little to no sense and is barely explained thereafter. Now I enjoyed it as a nice tactical shooter, and finally being rid of infinite respawns is a breath of fresh air, but it was nothing I hadn't seen before. For me the first Modern Warfare still reigns supreme, as the missions were fresh, the plot interesting and coherent and the multiplayer a dream. I just worry that we will see more of the same now that EA have apparently jumped on the bandwagon with Medal of Honour.
I actually saw an article where the developers of the new MoH game flat out denied that they had moved to a modern setting because of the success of COD..............yeah, right. Anyone who can't see that EA's sudden shift in setting is linked with one of the most successful game launches EVER must be high. Why even deny it? It kind of annoyed me to be honest, like they were saying it was a fresh, original idea they had thought up ages ago. It reminded me of 'old' EA who would just buy out, imitate and bully their way to success back in the day, I thought times had changed and 'new' EA were full of fresh IP's and good times. We shall see.
In other news my completion of Bioshock 2 draws closer as well. I'm sitting pretty at rank 38 online, and will need another 12k worth of ADAM to be done. Though with the impending DLC raising the cap to level 50, you can bet that there will be a linked achievement so it makes sense for me to boost as high as I can right now so I have a head start on that nuisance.
Overall I have probably spent about four or five hours playing the game legit, and then a further ten boosting. I do enjoy playing the game as it was meant to be, but I also don't like the fact you can often get mismatched teams and that NO ONE EVER SPEAKS! When you are trying to co-ordinate on a team game then some communication would be nice. Though I did have one epic game, when I joined in the last round of Capture the Sister and became the Big Daddy. I got a fifteen kill streak, completed three trails and ended the match with nearly 900 ADAM from three minutes work. Good times.
Boosting is obviously eaiser and faster, but you can only watch the hacking animation so many times before it becomes laughable. Still I'd like to finish the game this week and then I can focus all of my efforts into NHL 09 next week when I'm off work. It's the only one I haven't got the full 1k in so it would be nice to have the complete set. If I get that done faster than expected then I will move onto Gears of War to play all of the Annex DLC, which will leave me with Seriously to get back to as we took the week off for Bioshock 2.
I've also been delving into a bit of Aliens vs Predator in my down time, though I couldn't face another MP grinding game so slung it on my girlfriends tag, and it's a lot more fun than I first thought. I don't know if it has the chops to challenge some of the triple A titles, as the single player is pretty damn short and far too linear. It also doesn't have that fear factor that I felt when I first played the PC original back in the day - which would have been the big draw for me. Still the online package is solid enough and that will probably be of more interest to the majority of people.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Idiots, boosting and everything in between
I tend to read the blogs of other gamers, as they often hit on amusing little things that happen to us all. Obviously Stallion has a blog about his quest to hit 1 million gamerscore, and it has had a lot more traffic since his gamer spotlight feature recently.
Anyone who has read the blog will have seen the amount of hate he gets which has only seemed to intensify recently. No doubt most of them are just jealous, or possibly hackers that have been reset at some point and hold a grudge. My real issue is just how many uneducated people seem to exist on Xbox Live that know nothing about achievements.
I remember being on the Xbox forums last year and arguing with a guy about gamerscore and cheating. He claimed (amongst other things) that getting 1k on Avatar in five minutes was a major glitch (no really......) and that simming sports games to get achievements was also a serious glitch. Obviously he was clueless and I enjoyed putting him straight, which led to the usual response when someone has no argument - a personal attack on me and an attempted mockery of the games I played.
Anyway, it staggers my mind that people can launch so many attacks on the top guy for gamerscore without knowing even the basic facts. That you can play all formats of games if you own a console from that region, that you can play multiple copies of the same game IF they have unique achievement lists for each and that there is not even a shred of evidence on Stallion's card that he hasn't fully played every game.
Seriously, with all the haters out there if they actually had any legit proof it would have surfaced by now - so why do they continue to rant on? Perhaps they should sit down, learn some facts and then play the games they want to. Instead of finding time in their hectic, hateful lives to try and insult other people. I would also recommend English lessons for the majority too - please stop your torturous use of grammar I BEG YOU!
In other news my pursuit of Seriously in Gears has ground to a halt. Mainly because I've been playing Bioshock 2 online with Rich, Smit, Fro and Rand (plus whoever else we can find, ha ha). The multiplayer on that game is a lot quicker to plough through so I'd rather get it done and dusted now when I know people are available. As of now I'm up to rank 30 (out of 40) but still need something like 40,000 more points, half of which are for the last two levels alone. Still it should only take about five or six hours to get that bad boy done with, which will see the game completed as the Rank 40 achievement is the only one I'm missing. For those of you on the fence you should really pick the game up - I had a lot of fun with it and, while the story wasn't as solid as the first one, it was well worth it.
The boosting did throw up some interesting topics of conversation. Mainly that Rand uses the word 'nub' a lot to describe pretty much everyone, the fact that Fro is in a feud and also that both of them wanted to nominate each other for the gamer spotlight feature, and then decided it should be me instead. Smit tried and failed to tell his woodpecker joke. Rich bemoaned getting screwed over in boosting sessions (which is a cardinal sin). Fro and Rand have apparently had a naked jello fight - but you didn't hear that from me. Also, Rand is able to eat a steak and baked potato in less than ten minutes. Good times.
I think boosting is always made easier when you can have a bit of fun to take you mind off what is, usually, a very repetitive task. The MP in Bioshock is fun but frankly not good enough to really hold my attention for too long - so playing with people I know made things a lot easier and meant the time passed fairly quickly.
I've also started playing Alien verus Predator on my gg's account - mainly as I don't want another MP heavy game cluttering up my tag - should have the review up this week at some point. The single player is decent but not mind blowing, though I have heard much better things about the online stuff so we shall see.
I've also started the single player on Modern Warfare 2 now that Spec Ops is out of the way. So far I have flown through the game and snagged all of the intel along the way. It's fun but not the mind blowing experience that so many reviews claim it to be - too much of the story seems to draw on similar levels from the original Modern Warfare. Hopefully I will get it done this week as well and that will be yet another game done and dusted. Boom sauce.
I've also hit another minor milestone, as my completion ratio is now at 88%. Just another 2% (which is about 5k in points) until I am where I want to be in terms of completions. Then I can focus on getting up to 200k. Yay!
Anyone who has read the blog will have seen the amount of hate he gets which has only seemed to intensify recently. No doubt most of them are just jealous, or possibly hackers that have been reset at some point and hold a grudge. My real issue is just how many uneducated people seem to exist on Xbox Live that know nothing about achievements.
I remember being on the Xbox forums last year and arguing with a guy about gamerscore and cheating. He claimed (amongst other things) that getting 1k on Avatar in five minutes was a major glitch (no really......) and that simming sports games to get achievements was also a serious glitch. Obviously he was clueless and I enjoyed putting him straight, which led to the usual response when someone has no argument - a personal attack on me and an attempted mockery of the games I played.
Anyway, it staggers my mind that people can launch so many attacks on the top guy for gamerscore without knowing even the basic facts. That you can play all formats of games if you own a console from that region, that you can play multiple copies of the same game IF they have unique achievement lists for each and that there is not even a shred of evidence on Stallion's card that he hasn't fully played every game.
Seriously, with all the haters out there if they actually had any legit proof it would have surfaced by now - so why do they continue to rant on? Perhaps they should sit down, learn some facts and then play the games they want to. Instead of finding time in their hectic, hateful lives to try and insult other people. I would also recommend English lessons for the majority too - please stop your torturous use of grammar I BEG YOU!
In other news my pursuit of Seriously in Gears has ground to a halt. Mainly because I've been playing Bioshock 2 online with Rich, Smit, Fro and Rand (plus whoever else we can find, ha ha). The multiplayer on that game is a lot quicker to plough through so I'd rather get it done and dusted now when I know people are available. As of now I'm up to rank 30 (out of 40) but still need something like 40,000 more points, half of which are for the last two levels alone. Still it should only take about five or six hours to get that bad boy done with, which will see the game completed as the Rank 40 achievement is the only one I'm missing. For those of you on the fence you should really pick the game up - I had a lot of fun with it and, while the story wasn't as solid as the first one, it was well worth it.
The boosting did throw up some interesting topics of conversation. Mainly that Rand uses the word 'nub' a lot to describe pretty much everyone, the fact that Fro is in a feud and also that both of them wanted to nominate each other for the gamer spotlight feature, and then decided it should be me instead. Smit tried and failed to tell his woodpecker joke. Rich bemoaned getting screwed over in boosting sessions (which is a cardinal sin). Fro and Rand have apparently had a naked jello fight - but you didn't hear that from me. Also, Rand is able to eat a steak and baked potato in less than ten minutes. Good times.
I think boosting is always made easier when you can have a bit of fun to take you mind off what is, usually, a very repetitive task. The MP in Bioshock is fun but frankly not good enough to really hold my attention for too long - so playing with people I know made things a lot easier and meant the time passed fairly quickly.
I've also started playing Alien verus Predator on my gg's account - mainly as I don't want another MP heavy game cluttering up my tag - should have the review up this week at some point. The single player is decent but not mind blowing, though I have heard much better things about the online stuff so we shall see.
I've also started the single player on Modern Warfare 2 now that Spec Ops is out of the way. So far I have flown through the game and snagged all of the intel along the way. It's fun but not the mind blowing experience that so many reviews claim it to be - too much of the story seems to draw on similar levels from the original Modern Warfare. Hopefully I will get it done this week as well and that will be yet another game done and dusted. Boom sauce.
I've also hit another minor milestone, as my completion ratio is now at 88%. Just another 2% (which is about 5k in points) until I am where I want to be in terms of completions. Then I can focus on getting up to 200k. Yay!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Don't f**k with a witch!
Well Bayonetta is finally finished and I have to say that I totally loved it from start to finish - normally games that require multiple runs through the same old levels really get on my nerves but this was the exception to the rule (along with WET, oddly, which I had to play through five times and never got bored of).
The game is just so much fun and the combo system is top drawer, the over the top dialogue just made me chuckle on numerous occasions as well. Some of the things Bayonetta comes out with are comedy gold. Once you complete the game you unlock a secret music video of sorts, which is Bayonetta bopping along suggestively and was hilarious. Even my girlfriend enjoyed watching it - it was that ridiculous. As a completion it was fairly easy, though you are looking at about 30 hours probably to get it all done. You can probably whittle that down a bit, as I spent some of my time just replaying levels for fun rather than for any real purpose.
I've also finally finished with Spec Ops on Modern Warfare 2 - my friend and I ran through two missions first time (the one with you lazing targets for a tank and the one where you clear the estate of snipers and juggernauts). We then got right to the end of Wetwork and promptly messed up the second breach. Nuts. Second time through was a different story and it was mission complete. Boo yah! Just need to do the single player and that will be yet another completion to add to my list. Good times.
Next up is Bioshock 2 which I approached with a sense of trepidation, having loved the original, but it blew me away with a rock solid single player and an online arena that was actually fairly fun. I know that some people have had issues with the game lagging and freezing but luckily I saw none of that. I'm hoping to boost up to Rank 40 this week (having got to Rank 10 legit along with all the other online achievements) and get that aspect over and done with. Mainly because I cannot see the online community lasting too long. Oh, and for anyone trying to grab a sister successfully online - good luck. I discovered to my cost that if you join a game in progress and catch the sister it doesn't count - so I actually grabbed her three times before my achievement popped. Phew!
I'm hoping to get some more time on Lego Star Wars with my better half too, in a bid to get that game done and dusted. As we haven't really played it much in the last week or so.
In Gears watch things have slowed down a bit and we only got a couple of sessions in last week, mainly due to Valentines Day wrecking havoc over the weekend as people had plans on different days. I'm over 4k in kills so hopefully I can push onto the halfway mark this week, but we shall see.
Luckily I have a week off at the start of March and there are a ton of games I really want to get done - things like L4D, NHL 09, Gears (annex), Operation Flashpoint, Damnation etc. So I'm going to see who is available and make a plan of attack - if I can shift some more games it would be truly awesome.
The game is just so much fun and the combo system is top drawer, the over the top dialogue just made me chuckle on numerous occasions as well. Some of the things Bayonetta comes out with are comedy gold. Once you complete the game you unlock a secret music video of sorts, which is Bayonetta bopping along suggestively and was hilarious. Even my girlfriend enjoyed watching it - it was that ridiculous. As a completion it was fairly easy, though you are looking at about 30 hours probably to get it all done. You can probably whittle that down a bit, as I spent some of my time just replaying levels for fun rather than for any real purpose.
I've also finally finished with Spec Ops on Modern Warfare 2 - my friend and I ran through two missions first time (the one with you lazing targets for a tank and the one where you clear the estate of snipers and juggernauts). We then got right to the end of Wetwork and promptly messed up the second breach. Nuts. Second time through was a different story and it was mission complete. Boo yah! Just need to do the single player and that will be yet another completion to add to my list. Good times.
Next up is Bioshock 2 which I approached with a sense of trepidation, having loved the original, but it blew me away with a rock solid single player and an online arena that was actually fairly fun. I know that some people have had issues with the game lagging and freezing but luckily I saw none of that. I'm hoping to boost up to Rank 40 this week (having got to Rank 10 legit along with all the other online achievements) and get that aspect over and done with. Mainly because I cannot see the online community lasting too long. Oh, and for anyone trying to grab a sister successfully online - good luck. I discovered to my cost that if you join a game in progress and catch the sister it doesn't count - so I actually grabbed her three times before my achievement popped. Phew!
I'm hoping to get some more time on Lego Star Wars with my better half too, in a bid to get that game done and dusted. As we haven't really played it much in the last week or so.
In Gears watch things have slowed down a bit and we only got a couple of sessions in last week, mainly due to Valentines Day wrecking havoc over the weekend as people had plans on different days. I'm over 4k in kills so hopefully I can push onto the halfway mark this week, but we shall see.
Luckily I have a week off at the start of March and there are a ton of games I really want to get done - things like L4D, NHL 09, Gears (annex), Operation Flashpoint, Damnation etc. So I'm going to see who is available and make a plan of attack - if I can shift some more games it would be truly awesome.
Monday, February 08, 2010
A good week
Well after finishing up Family Game Night and NBA Live 07 last Sunday, I also managed to polish off Altered Beast, Golden Axe and Gauntlet this week. It was like a festival of arcade games which is most unlike me as I really can't stand most of them.
Gauntlet was especially pleasing as it has been on my card for nearly three years and I had kind of given up hope - however, with a little help from my friends I got all of the online stuff done and then sat down to plough through 100 levels of single player on Sunday morning. I was writing my review for Dante's Inferno at the same time so it was relatively painless.
The other two games really have not aged well at all. Both Beast and Axe are incredibly short and dull affairs and it always makes me wonder how I could have loved them so much back in the day - I guess it was just because I didn't know any better or have any other choice really. Still they were quick and easy completions so it's all good.
Dante's Inferno was an odd one. At first I toyed with the idea of putting it on my tag at all, as my giant list of list week had shown what a mammoth task I had to get to 90% and another uncomplete game would only make things worse. In the end I caved and slung it on there and I'm glad I did. The game is amazingly short and easy, and I romped to the full 1k in under ten hours. Having started it on Friday night it was done and dusted by Saturday. The review is already up (and linked over on the right) but I'll briefly summarise that it was a very good game but one that is far too short and straightforward to justify an outright purchase. Rent it and you won't be disappointed.
I also made a bit more progress on the Modern Warfare 2 Spec Ops missions, having not played on it for a few weeks, and my friend and I managed to get another three missions out of the way. Leaving us with only three more to go. One of which is Wetworks - a level we got to the end of twice only for my friend to die each time. Yay! Ha ha, still at least the end is in sight. Then I just have the single player to get through - which shouldn't be an issue.
The same could be said of Bayonetta as I finally finished up all of the collectables and just need to do one more of the challenge portals, then I just have the hard difficulties to get through. Not much of a chore though as I loved the game.
In other news I am making steady progress in Lego Star Wars with my other half. We have fully completed all of the levels for the first two movies (barring the driving ones) and most of the third movie too. We have enough characters now to just hop into a level free play style after we have done it, allowing us to snag all of the minikits and so forth. Still a pretty long winded 1k though AND I'll need a hand to do a level online. What joy.
This week will be all about Bioshock 2 - and I still don't know whether I can be bothered tackling all of the online crap. Frankly adding multiplayer to that game is one of the worst decisions they could have ever made. Still we shall see how it pans out.
In Gears watch I am at about 3.8k worth of kills - so be the end of this week I hope to be approaching 5k. Fingers crossed.
Gauntlet was especially pleasing as it has been on my card for nearly three years and I had kind of given up hope - however, with a little help from my friends I got all of the online stuff done and then sat down to plough through 100 levels of single player on Sunday morning. I was writing my review for Dante's Inferno at the same time so it was relatively painless.
The other two games really have not aged well at all. Both Beast and Axe are incredibly short and dull affairs and it always makes me wonder how I could have loved them so much back in the day - I guess it was just because I didn't know any better or have any other choice really. Still they were quick and easy completions so it's all good.
Dante's Inferno was an odd one. At first I toyed with the idea of putting it on my tag at all, as my giant list of list week had shown what a mammoth task I had to get to 90% and another uncomplete game would only make things worse. In the end I caved and slung it on there and I'm glad I did. The game is amazingly short and easy, and I romped to the full 1k in under ten hours. Having started it on Friday night it was done and dusted by Saturday. The review is already up (and linked over on the right) but I'll briefly summarise that it was a very good game but one that is far too short and straightforward to justify an outright purchase. Rent it and you won't be disappointed.
I also made a bit more progress on the Modern Warfare 2 Spec Ops missions, having not played on it for a few weeks, and my friend and I managed to get another three missions out of the way. Leaving us with only three more to go. One of which is Wetworks - a level we got to the end of twice only for my friend to die each time. Yay! Ha ha, still at least the end is in sight. Then I just have the single player to get through - which shouldn't be an issue.
The same could be said of Bayonetta as I finally finished up all of the collectables and just need to do one more of the challenge portals, then I just have the hard difficulties to get through. Not much of a chore though as I loved the game.
In other news I am making steady progress in Lego Star Wars with my other half. We have fully completed all of the levels for the first two movies (barring the driving ones) and most of the third movie too. We have enough characters now to just hop into a level free play style after we have done it, allowing us to snag all of the minikits and so forth. Still a pretty long winded 1k though AND I'll need a hand to do a level online. What joy.
This week will be all about Bioshock 2 - and I still don't know whether I can be bothered tackling all of the online crap. Frankly adding multiplayer to that game is one of the worst decisions they could have ever made. Still we shall see how it pans out.
In Gears watch I am at about 3.8k worth of kills - so be the end of this week I hope to be approaching 5k. Fingers crossed.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
The quest for 90% (again)
It's been a while since I bored you (and scared myself) with some figures so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Here is a list of ALL the games I am missing points on, including DLC, in the hopes it will spur me into action. The odds are slim but there you go.
I actually copied this list from an earlier post made months ago and the really worrying thing is just how many games are still on here, ha ha! Not a lot of progress has been made clearly, although I have shifted a few titles - though seemingly added far more to replace them.
I'd also point out that I own a ton of games that have never even been in my machine, so they will no doubt be added to this list at some point. The horror.
Here is the damage:
RETAIL
Batman: AA - 300/1000
Battlefield 2: MC - 315/1000
Bayonetta - 565/1000
Beautiful Katamari - 1050/1250
Bladestorm - 150/1000
Brothers in Arms - 75/1000
Call of Duty: WaW - 1000/1500
Call of Duty: MW2 - 315/1000
C&C Kane’s Wrath - 130/1000
Chromehounds - 700/1000*
Damnation - 390/1000
Fairytale Fights - 165/1000
Fifa 09 - 1000/1250
Gears of War 2 - 210/1750
Gears of War - 950/1250
GRAW - 737/1000
GRAW 2 - 1000/1250
Guitar Hero 2 - 320/1000
Halo 3 - 805/1750
HAWX - 555/1000
Hellboy: SoE - 310/1000
Left 4 Dead - 1170/1250
Lego Star Wars TCS - 210/1000
Lips - 1210/1500
Lost Planet - 350/1000
Madden 07 - 990/1000*
NHL 09 - 515/1000
Operation Flashpoint - 610/1000
Perfect Dark Zero - 150/1000
Phantasy Star Universe - 1000/1250
Project Sylpheed - 60/1000
Resident Evil 5 - 1000/1200
Risen - 70/1000
Scene It: BOS - 615/1250
Spiderman 3 - 10/1000
Splinter Cell: DA - 670/1000
Supreme Commander - 110/1000
Table Tennis - 630/1000
Tomb Raider Legend - 1000/1250
Vampire Rain - 650/1000
Virtua Tennis 09 - 545/1000
Viva Pinata 2 - 20/1000
WSC 2007 - 550/1000
You’re in the Movies - 140/1000
TOTAL - 21667/48700
Arcade
Altered Beast - 45/200
Boogie Bunnies - 115/200
Castle Crashers - 125/200
Eets: Chowdown - 20/200
Family Game Night - 1200/1400*
Gauntlet - 140/200
Geometry Wars - 40/200
Golden Axe - 10/200
Puzzle Quest - 200/250
Texas Hold ‘Em - 105/200
Wallace and Gromit - 100/200
Where's Wally - 30/200
TOTAL - 2130/3650
Yikes!!!!
Well isn't that depressing - especially considering the fact that I was only missing about 12k in points about a year ago. Still my completion % has remained about the same and this time I have added on all of the games that I'm missing DLC on - whether I plan on doing them or not. Things like Fifa 09, PSU and Tomb Raider are unlikely to ever be touched again.
The three games marked with a * are going to be stuck that way forever, as the Chromehounds servers got shut down and I need a US xbox to get the other achievements. So I will NEVER have 100% completion no matter what.
The arcade games are my first, and easiest, priority. As most of them can be finished off in double quick time without much need for effort. Only Geometry Wars and Texas Hold'em are problems but not ones I really care about, ha ha!
With a possible 28553 points to go at, without ever playing a new game, then I have my work cut out for me. Though interestingly xbox.com only says I have an available 27028 - so it is obviously not counting certain DLC for some reason - odd!
Considering I need 2135 points to move up even 1% then things become troublesome, as I will need to snag nearly 6500 points to hit the 90% mark. Egads. That pesky 500 can easily be done by finishing off a few arcade games, which would leave me with a cool 6k out of everything else I own, which will mean finishing off a substantial amount of my backlog and then scrabbling around for the rest of the points I'm missing. Not to mention the fact I'll no doubt add new games to make my life that much harder.
I actually copied this list from an earlier post made months ago and the really worrying thing is just how many games are still on here, ha ha! Not a lot of progress has been made clearly, although I have shifted a few titles - though seemingly added far more to replace them.
I'd also point out that I own a ton of games that have never even been in my machine, so they will no doubt be added to this list at some point. The horror.
Here is the damage:
RETAIL
Batman: AA - 300/1000
Battlefield 2: MC - 315/1000
Bayonetta - 565/1000
Beautiful Katamari - 1050/1250
Bladestorm - 150/1000
Brothers in Arms - 75/1000
Call of Duty: WaW - 1000/1500
Call of Duty: MW2 - 315/1000
C&C Kane’s Wrath - 130/1000
Chromehounds - 700/1000*
Damnation - 390/1000
Fairytale Fights - 165/1000
Fifa 09 - 1000/1250
Gears of War 2 - 210/1750
Gears of War - 950/1250
GRAW - 737/1000
GRAW 2 - 1000/1250
Guitar Hero 2 - 320/1000
Halo 3 - 805/1750
HAWX - 555/1000
Hellboy: SoE - 310/1000
Left 4 Dead - 1170/1250
Lego Star Wars TCS - 210/1000
Lips - 1210/1500
Lost Planet - 350/1000
Madden 07 - 990/1000*
NHL 09 - 515/1000
Operation Flashpoint - 610/1000
Perfect Dark Zero - 150/1000
Phantasy Star Universe - 1000/1250
Project Sylpheed - 60/1000
Resident Evil 5 - 1000/1200
Risen - 70/1000
Scene It: BOS - 615/1250
Spiderman 3 - 10/1000
Splinter Cell: DA - 670/1000
Supreme Commander - 110/1000
Table Tennis - 630/1000
Tomb Raider Legend - 1000/1250
Vampire Rain - 650/1000
Virtua Tennis 09 - 545/1000
Viva Pinata 2 - 20/1000
WSC 2007 - 550/1000
You’re in the Movies - 140/1000
TOTAL - 21667/48700
Arcade
Altered Beast - 45/200
Boogie Bunnies - 115/200
Castle Crashers - 125/200
Eets: Chowdown - 20/200
Family Game Night - 1200/1400*
Gauntlet - 140/200
Geometry Wars - 40/200
Golden Axe - 10/200
Puzzle Quest - 200/250
Texas Hold ‘Em - 105/200
Wallace and Gromit - 100/200
Where's Wally - 30/200
TOTAL - 2130/3650
Yikes!!!!
Well isn't that depressing - especially considering the fact that I was only missing about 12k in points about a year ago. Still my completion % has remained about the same and this time I have added on all of the games that I'm missing DLC on - whether I plan on doing them or not. Things like Fifa 09, PSU and Tomb Raider are unlikely to ever be touched again.
The three games marked with a * are going to be stuck that way forever, as the Chromehounds servers got shut down and I need a US xbox to get the other achievements. So I will NEVER have 100% completion no matter what.
The arcade games are my first, and easiest, priority. As most of them can be finished off in double quick time without much need for effort. Only Geometry Wars and Texas Hold'em are problems but not ones I really care about, ha ha!
With a possible 28553 points to go at, without ever playing a new game, then I have my work cut out for me. Though interestingly xbox.com only says I have an available 27028 - so it is obviously not counting certain DLC for some reason - odd!
Considering I need 2135 points to move up even 1% then things become troublesome, as I will need to snag nearly 6500 points to hit the 90% mark. Egads. That pesky 500 can easily be done by finishing off a few arcade games, which would leave me with a cool 6k out of everything else I own, which will mean finishing off a substantial amount of my backlog and then scrabbling around for the rest of the points I'm missing. Not to mention the fact I'll no doubt add new games to make my life that much harder.
Boosting parties
You know how it is - you arrange for eight people to get together one night, with the goal of getting some tricky multiplayer achievements done and someone fails to turn up. It's an annoying issue and one that plagues us all, though I'd be hard pressed to hold a grudge as I know that things can crop up at the last minute that take priority over merely playing games.
With that thought in mind though you can imagine the level of scepticism that some people had when another attempt at the 1,000 people online achievement was announced. If it is hard to get eight people in one place then imagine the issues with a thousand! Still I have to say that I was awesomely optimistic (for once) as x360a had arranged the last successful attempt and they also did a good job of tapping up all the Live big hitters so that it was blogged, reported and tweeted all over the place.
The event itself was smooth sailing (barring the awful menu system which meant people struggled to get into official lobbies) and the achievement popped an hour before the due start time, and for another good couple of hours after that too. Happy days.
My only gripe is the sheer number of people that got their achievement and then promptly disappeared. Seriously - the level of selfishness involved in that action pisses me off. Sure there were over 1500 people on at one point, but if a lot of them had shared that arrogant attitude then plenty of people would have missed out. Grrrrr!
Anywho - it is yet another game to throw on my completion list after nearly three years of waiting. So now my sights are set on adding some easy arcade completions to that tally.
I've had a bunch of cheap arcade games kicking around my profile for some time, things like Gauntlet, Comix Zone, Altered Beast, Cloning Clyde, Golden Axe etc. All of them are cheap and easy enough to blitz through in a couple of hours.
Gauntlet is the only one that I'd actually started, and some time ago at that, but still needed all of the online achievements and to get to level 100 solo. This week we got a party of four together and ran through to level 20 (or sat through - if you know the cheat to make things easy, ha ha) which snagged me all bar the level 100 achievement. That bad boy needs a few hours of time so I may well wait until the weekend to give it my full attention.
My good friend Rich also gave me a hand to get the online achievements on Golden Axe and Altered Beast. So I just need to clean them up which should be no real trauma thanks to the save system and ability to alter lives/energy. After that I'll probably go for Comix Zone and then maybe Cloning Clyde. As people may well be aware, I am no real fan of most Arcade games, but as I had a ton of points it made sense for me to buy a load of cheap ass titles for a bunch of easy 200 points. Oh - and I finally finished up 30 Battleship wins and 50 Yahtzee wins to finish Family Game Night (barring the stupid 'US only' Scrabble) as well.
In Gears watch I have hit 3,300 which puts me at about a third of the way there. I suppose compared to the hundred and odd kills I had a month ago it is a lot but the mountain still seems as tall as ever. I'm also pretty sure that at least 200 of those kills will not count, as they were acquired in games that ended with less than six players or I lost connection to. Ugh. By the end of the week I am hoping to be at about 3.8k or so.......
My Vancouver review should be up this week too if you want to check that out - the game is mindless fun for a while but, like all such titles, gets dull once you've played all ofthe events a couple of times. I'm looking forward to my next two projects though - which consist of Dante's Inferno and Bioshock 2. I can't even think of a year with such a strong line up this early on. Though it will eat into the time I want to spend finishing off COD and Bayonetta as well - so many games, so little time.
My completion, for anyone that cares, is still around the 87% mark and I really need to polish off some games to push it up. I'd like to get to a situation where I was finishing off one old game for every new one I add, but it is never as simple as that. My plan is to get to 90% by the time I break 200k though I've no idea if I can make that possible.
With that thought in mind though you can imagine the level of scepticism that some people had when another attempt at the 1,000 people online achievement was announced. If it is hard to get eight people in one place then imagine the issues with a thousand! Still I have to say that I was awesomely optimistic (for once) as x360a had arranged the last successful attempt and they also did a good job of tapping up all the Live big hitters so that it was blogged, reported and tweeted all over the place.
The event itself was smooth sailing (barring the awful menu system which meant people struggled to get into official lobbies) and the achievement popped an hour before the due start time, and for another good couple of hours after that too. Happy days.
My only gripe is the sheer number of people that got their achievement and then promptly disappeared. Seriously - the level of selfishness involved in that action pisses me off. Sure there were over 1500 people on at one point, but if a lot of them had shared that arrogant attitude then plenty of people would have missed out. Grrrrr!
Anywho - it is yet another game to throw on my completion list after nearly three years of waiting. So now my sights are set on adding some easy arcade completions to that tally.
I've had a bunch of cheap arcade games kicking around my profile for some time, things like Gauntlet, Comix Zone, Altered Beast, Cloning Clyde, Golden Axe etc. All of them are cheap and easy enough to blitz through in a couple of hours.
Gauntlet is the only one that I'd actually started, and some time ago at that, but still needed all of the online achievements and to get to level 100 solo. This week we got a party of four together and ran through to level 20 (or sat through - if you know the cheat to make things easy, ha ha) which snagged me all bar the level 100 achievement. That bad boy needs a few hours of time so I may well wait until the weekend to give it my full attention.
My good friend Rich also gave me a hand to get the online achievements on Golden Axe and Altered Beast. So I just need to clean them up which should be no real trauma thanks to the save system and ability to alter lives/energy. After that I'll probably go for Comix Zone and then maybe Cloning Clyde. As people may well be aware, I am no real fan of most Arcade games, but as I had a ton of points it made sense for me to buy a load of cheap ass titles for a bunch of easy 200 points. Oh - and I finally finished up 30 Battleship wins and 50 Yahtzee wins to finish Family Game Night (barring the stupid 'US only' Scrabble) as well.
In Gears watch I have hit 3,300 which puts me at about a third of the way there. I suppose compared to the hundred and odd kills I had a month ago it is a lot but the mountain still seems as tall as ever. I'm also pretty sure that at least 200 of those kills will not count, as they were acquired in games that ended with less than six players or I lost connection to. Ugh. By the end of the week I am hoping to be at about 3.8k or so.......
My Vancouver review should be up this week too if you want to check that out - the game is mindless fun for a while but, like all such titles, gets dull once you've played all ofthe events a couple of times. I'm looking forward to my next two projects though - which consist of Dante's Inferno and Bioshock 2. I can't even think of a year with such a strong line up this early on. Though it will eat into the time I want to spend finishing off COD and Bayonetta as well - so many games, so little time.
My completion, for anyone that cares, is still around the 87% mark and I really need to polish off some games to push it up. I'd like to get to a situation where I was finishing off one old game for every new one I add, but it is never as simple as that. My plan is to get to 90% by the time I break 200k though I've no idea if I can make that possible.
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