The 47 games of doom!

I constantly speak about the games on my to do list and it occurred to me that I have more than a few that will never be completed for one reason or another. So here is the overall list OF DOOM that I'm forever working on.

My goal is to complete the vast majority of these games but there are some titles that I can say already that I will never get around to doing. I've bolded the ones in question and will explain my reasoning thereafter.

Assassins Creed: BH – 270/1000
Battlefield 2: MC - 500/1000
Beatles Rock Band – 130/1000
Bioshock - 1000/1100
Bioshock 2 - 1150/1400
Bladestorm - 150/1000
Boogie Bunnies - 115/200
Borderlands 2 - 270/1125
Brothers in Arms - 1000/1000 (Missing seven 0 point achievements)
Call of Duty: B. Ops - 1200/1700
Call of Duty: WaW - 1000/1500
Catherine - 35/1000
Chromehounds - 700/1000
Condemned 2 - 50/1000
Dantes Inferno - 1260/1290
Disney Sing It HSM3 - 330/1000
Eets: Chowdown - 40/200
Fairytale Fights - 380/1000
Fallout New Vegas - 155/1655
Family Game Night - 1200/1850
FIFA 2012 - 1150/1250
Gears of War 3 - 1765/2000
Geometry Wars - 40/200
Ghost Recon FS - 1000/1205
GRAW - 752/1000
Guitar Hero Two - 320/1000
Halo ODST – 930/1000
Hellboy: TSOE - 840/1000
Ilomilo - 100/250
Kinect Adventures - 85/1000
Lego Harry Potter 2 - 200/1000
Lego Star Wars TCS - 260/1000
Madden 07 - 990/1000
Perfect Dark Zero - 150/1000
Risen - 70/1000
Spiderman 3 - 910/1000
Splinter Cell: DA - 670/1000
Star Wars: Republic Heroes - 365/1000
Supreme Commander - 110/1000
Texas Hold ‘Em - 105/200
The Sims 3 – 150/1000
Tomb Raider: Legend - 1065/1250
Vampire Rain - 650/1000
Where's Wally - 40/200
WSC 2007 - 550/1000
You’re in the Movies - 140/1000

Total outstanding - 22,483GS, 47 games, 910 achievements.

A fun list right? There are plenty of time consuming and challenging tasks on my to do list, even amongst the games I am resolved to completing. Titles like WSC 07, Risen, Fallout and Supreme Commander will probably take a few hundred hours between them. Throw in some tough online tasks in Splinter Cell and Perfect Dark, plus the arduous difficulty of things like Catherine and Battlefield 2 and I have a fight on my hands. Still there is nothing on any of those lists that I feel I cannot strive to complete without the right mix of time, patience and skill. Though I am fairly confident that some of these games will sit, incomplete, until the end of time - but I haven't written them off just yet..

As for the rest.........

There are twelve games I'll never be able to complete, and will never even make the attempt to.

A few are beyond my control. The Chromehound servers were shut a while ago, so no more points will ever be possible on that game. Likewise you need a US Xbox 360 to play Scrabble on Family Game Night (plus the servers are closed too, making one Scrabble achievement off limits regardless) as well as to get the last achievement on Madden 07. That one does irk me a little, as the achievement is for importing a draft class from the college football EA title - a game that only came out in the US. Madness. Finally, the last few Hellboy achievements were supposed to be tied to some free DLC. Unfortunately the game tanked and the DLC never saw the light of day - so no one will ever complete that game.

Four are skill based. The Beatles and Guitar Hero games require superb skills on expert difficulty and I'm just not up to the task. Sure I could possibly play the game for countless hours to get that good, but even then I would need a local co-op partner of equal skill to polish them off - I don't know anyone who would be interested so why put myself through it? I tend to play those games for fun anyway rather than points. Spiderman 3 only has achievements left for getting Gold (and Silver/Bronze) on all of the Trick Races, a feat that very few have actually pulled off. The controls and races are supremely broken and the times required have basically been set by developers. With 48 races all required flawless runs with zero mistakes - you can count me out. Finally, Geometry Wars, which is just brutally hard until you get that one perfect run. I do dabble with the game every now and then but cannot see myself ever getting it done. Ah well.

After that we have a bunch of time sinks that I'm really not prepared to grind through. COD: WAW requires me to get maximum prestige for the last two achievements - no chance of that as I hate the MP and it is a minefield of hackers now anyway. GRAW requires hundreds of hours and countless Xbox accounts in order to rank and de-rank your accounts and get up the leaderboards. Plus, the top spots are often occupied by people who constantly boost to stop others getting the achievements anyway. Not worth it. Dantes Inferno is partially time and skill based, as you have to complete 25 supremely tough arena challenges (15 solo, 10 co-op) and they take up way more time and effort than I am prepared to put in. Finally we have Gears 3. I never expected to do either 1 or 2, but I eventually caved and got them chalked off. With this one though I have no intention of buckling. I aim to get to 1900 points and then leave Seriously 3.0 alone as it is a total chore and the only people who do have it are those boosters that have been prepared to grind it to death over a number of months. No thanks.

So of the 47 games I can complete (hopefully) at least 35 of them, and of that list there are probably about 16-20 that are fairly straightforward with a minimum amount of effort required. So here is to having the time and inclination to get them done.