1K/Plat Trophy List & Story List Challenge

Earlier this month I finally sat down and posted this year's challenge for myself. At the end I did a list of games that I wanted to either finish the story or 1k/plat trophy.

Last week or the week before (cannot remember lol), I finally finished one of the games on that list. When I checked the list out again I was shocked to realise how short it is compared to my collection.

For those that don't know, I'm a gaming addict, big time. Got hundreds of games sitting around my room waiting to be started/opened/finished etc. So this list I did earlier on, didn't even scratch what wanted to do. I've now decided to finally rewrite the list.

So here it is!

Completion Collection List v2.0
Finish the Story List
Ace Attorney Trails and Tribulations
Ace Attorney Apollo Justice
Afro Samurai
Another Code R
Battlestations Midway
Battlestations Pacific
Borderlands
Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3
Damnation
Dragonball Z Burst Limit
End War
Eternal Sonata
Farcry 2
Ghost Recon AW
Ghost Recon AW 2
Hawx
Infamous
Infinite Undiscovery
Killzone 2
LastRemnant
Lost In Blue 2
Lost Odyssey
Lost Planet
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Metal Gear Solid 4
N3
Naruto Rise of a Ninja
Naruto The Broken Bond
Ninja Blade
Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising
Orange Box (Half-Life's)
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Resistance Fall of Man
Resistance Fall of Man 2
Resistance Fall of Man Retribution
Rise of the Argonauts
Spiderman Web of Shadows
Star Ocean - The Last Hope
Star Wars Lethal Alliance
Stormrise
Stranglehold
Timeshift
Trauma Centre Second Opinion
Trauma Center New Blood
Tomb Raider - Anniversary
Too Human
Two Worlds
Warhammer 40,000 Squad Command
X-men Legends 2
Zelda - Twilight Princess

1,000 Gamerscore / Platinum Trophy List
Assassin Creed 2
Battlestorm
Bioshock
Brothers In Arms HH
Command & Conquer 3 TW
Command & Conquer 3 KW
Crackdown
Darksiders
Dawn of War 2
Dynasty Warriors 6
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2
Dragon Age Origins
Elderscrolls 4 - Oblivion
Enchanted Arms
Fable 2
Fallout 3
Lego Indiana Jones 2
Lego Star Wars TCS
Lost Odyssey
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Mass Effect
Overlord
Overlord 2
Prince of Persia
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Supreme Commander
The Simpsons Game
Uncharted
Viva Pinata
Warhammer Battlemarch

Well thats the entire collection, well sort of...there is a few games I've not included. But if I can just dent this list I will be happy, think every gamer suffers this problem of having too many games to play and not enough time.

75,000 Gamerscore

I hit the 75k milestone this weekend, very pleased with myself since I was stuck on 74k for like a month which was annoying me to hell.

Have to admit this last bit upto 100k is going really slow, painful slow to be honest. I think it's because instead of playing every easy game I got for quick achievements, I'm working on a few of my better games. Trying to complete the stories or to get 1k in them (C&C3, Mass Effect etc).

Hopefully my spirit will pick up soon, would had hate to take a break from the challenge so early into it

Game of the Year 2009

Sorry it's took so long to sort this post out, it was mean't to be up yesterday but with my PC dieing it couldn't be helped.

So anyway lets get on with it! Going to start with the runner ups list..

8th Halo Wars
7th Borderlands
6th Dawn of War 2
5th Dragon Age Origins
4th Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2


In 3rd Place is Assassin Creed 2

I really thought this would be my game of the year, but I don't know...something more was needed but I just cannot put my finger on it. It's still amazing and worth every penny, just...it was missing that spark to make it beyond words.

In 2nd Place is Time Hollow for DS

This game held first place for most of the year thanks to the gripping storyline that kept me addicted to the end. Even throughout christmas I wanted to sit down and replay but stopped myself since I got other games need completing lol.

Review Score: 10/10




Finally game of the year for me is....

Batman Arkham Asylum
It sucked me in, I really did not think I would enjoy this game but yet I could not stop for several days until I had finished it. I found it amazing how the combat and stealth blended in so perfectly without it mattering if you where seen or not.
It was amazing! It really does deserve the game of the year award

Well that's it, I know the post was anything amazing (no fance trophy pictures or anything) but who cares. It's not like I'm famous, just my personel opinion :-)

For reference here is some of my past "game of the year"

2006 - Shadow of the Colossus
2007 - Mass Effect
2008 - Gears of War 2

2010 Gaming ChallengeTracker

Just created a goal tracker on TrueAchievements to keep a track of the progress for my xbox gamerscore. Of course it starts from today and not 1st january but oh well :-)

http://www.trueachievements.com/gamergoals.aspx?gamerid=15334

Reset

Resetting the labels on last years posts so I can have a clean slate for this year, all of the posts from last year will now be under the label "2009".

Game Reviews

This year I'm going to try and attempt to review the games I play again, like i did before. This time though I wont be going into big posts about the game, instead just keep it short and sweet with a score at the end.

The score system will work like this...

GAME NAME (CONSOLE)
Score: 0/10
Gameplay: Poor/Average/Good
Graphics: Poor/Average/Good
Story: Poor/Average/Good
Length: (Too Short/Long)/(Short/Long)/Decent
Controls: Poor/Average/Good

As you can see there are five categories, each result will give a point which is totaled for the overall score. So 0 points for a bad result, 1 point for a average mark and 2 points for a good mark which would mass up to a total of 10 for full marks.

The categories are pretty much self explanatory as well, although gameplay for me is ... did i enjoy it, did i find the game easy to get into etc.


So keep an eye out in the future for the scores :-)

see you all later

Good Start to the Year

Well its only few weeks into the new year and I've already completed one of my goals. As of five minutes ago I finished Resistance Retribution on the PSP :-) happy days!

Goal 2: Complete at least one PSP game - SUCCESS!!


At the start I really got addicted to the game, story was decent enough and the gameplay was enjoyable. Found the controls where very easy to use for the PSP, since the lack of a second analog stick they decided to use the triangle/square etc buttons for aiming. Great way to make up for the lack of a stick, the added auto lock on if a enemy was near the cursor was really helpful as well.

Of course there was some bad points, by the end it did seem a little too long for what it was.
Could had done without the last area (around 4ish small levels), reason being its the same couple of type of enemies every few minutes and when you do it for 4-6 hours you will get bored very quickly. Last bad point would be some of the boss battles and them moving around the room quickly, thats fine but the camera was already hard to use with the triangle/square buttons.


Overall though I did enjoy the game, kept wanting to play it and it as made me want to go and complete Resistance 1/2 on the PS3 so i can see the rest of the story. So here is the score



Resistance Fall of Man: Retribution (PSP)
Score: 7 out of 10
Gameplay: Good
Graphics: Good
Story: Average
Length: Long
Controls: Good

Game of the Year 2009

Will be posting the results of my Game of the Year later, reason for this I had to wait for two games for christmas. So once I've had ago at them I can then post my results :-)

New Year's Resolution - 2010 Gaming Challenge

Through out the year I've been saying to myself and everyone that knows about the challenge that I would not do another one this year. Well forget that lol I'm setting myself several more goals again! I like working towards a goal, makes it alot more fun when you accomplish them.

Let's start with the consoles I barely use, think at least something complete on each one.

Goal 1: Complete at least one Wii game
Goal 2: Complete at least one PSP game

I've came up with two goals for my DS since there are a few games on there that I want to try and complete this year.

Goal 3: Complete at least one Pokemon game

When i say complete i mean beat all the gyms and the elite four, only done it once on Pokemon Red and that is going back a good few years lol.

Goal 4: Complete Phoenix Wright ace attorney 3 and Apollo Justic

This year they releasing a new spin off series based on Miles from AA, so i really need to finish the past ones first.


I did well with the PS3 goal last year by getting two plat's, so going to raise the bar slightly this year and hopefully it will mean using my PS3 more.

Goal 5: Get x3 Platinum trophies

Now for the Xbox 2010 challenge I've decided to make it alot harder lol, espically since I've got a back log of games to play which I really want to get through but never try and make the time for. So here is the huge list of goals...

Goal 6: Reach 120,000 gamescore by December 31st 2010

I know its a quite high but this year I did 30k and that wasnt even a full year, so hopefully I can do this one but even I don't I will be having fun trying :-D

Goal 7: Complete at least one japanese RPG
Goal 8: Complete at least three arcade games

Finally the last bit is more of the list of games I would like to get complete in my collection. The list is split into two, one being finish the story and the other is for 1k/plat complete.

Finish the story
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Star Ocean - The Last Hope
Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3
Tomb Raider - Anniversary
Lost Planet
Orange Box
Rainbow Six - Vegas 1
Ghost Recon 1
Timeshift
Afro Samurai
Battlestations Midway
Spiderman Web of Shadow
End War
Dragonball Z Burst Limit
Naruto Rise of a Ninja
Resistance fall of Man
Resistance fall of man 2
Star Wars Lethal Alliance
Trauma Center Second Opinion
Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess

1k/Platinum Complete
Mass Effect 1
Mass Effect 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1
Bioshock
Dynasty Warriors 6
Uncharted
Lost Odyssey
Lego Indiana Jones 2
Overlord
Overlord 2
Prince of Persia
Viva Pinata
Assassin Creed 2
Battlestorm
Fable 2
Enchanted Arms
Uncharted
Fallout 3
Star Wars The Force Unleashed

Quite a list really lol but it will be so worth it to get some of them done. Right now I'm not setting any goals for the list like complete x amount but just try to get some done on my challenge. I will be adding a counter on the site though to show how many on the list as been done though and will keep you post if any of the list is done.

Anyway that's it, this is the 2010 Gaming Challenge!!!

Wish me luck

End of Year Wins and Epic Fails

Well its the 1st of january and time to look at the results for my gaming goals.

First up is the small PS3 goal of one Platinum trophy lol, I know it doesn't seem much but if you know me, then you will know that I barely play the PS3. Maybe once a year if lucky :-p lol anyway I did make time to finish a game and got myself a platinum trophy along with a second one as well.

Goal 1: One plat trophy - SUCCESS!!

Next up was a goal I did not write on here but I did set myself it, and that was to finish at least one Wii game. Well that was an epic fail, since my Wii time this year was probably 1 hour in total lol.

Goal 2: One Wii game completed - EPIC FAIL!!

Ok this goal is going to hurt and that was to finish at least one japanese RPG. I started off well with Lost Odyssey in the year and got to disc two then I just lost my mojo and forgot about it. Since then I did not even start another RPG. Think I was most disappointed with not completing this goal.

Goal 3: Complete at least one Japanese RPG - EPIC FAIL!!



Finally the big goal, the Xbox 360 Achievement challenge. Well we all know I failed that months ago lol, i knew mid october that I would not hit it. With more time at work etc and me being lazy :-p I only hit 74k but still it was a good run to say I did not have the full year, in fact it was amazing since it took me nearly two years to get 44k and I did 30k in a several months.

Was hoping to get to 75k and maybe hitting 80k but since I took on more hours at work, the achievement collecting pretty much went to 0 mid-november. Oh well just have to make sure to do better year!


Goal 4: Hit 100,000 achievement gamescore - EPIC FAIL!!





1 out of 4 goals hit and it was for the playstation, bet Ian (my ps3 fanboy friend) is doing a victory dance right now.


EDIT:
Forgot that I did set a fifth goal which was to complete at least one arcade game. Finished Maw early on in the year with all of its DLC so at least I did complete another goal after all.