Challenge Update

Going to make this quick since I pretty much covered everything in the last post, few more games completed and bit more gamerscore but that's about it. With the new releases dying down hopefully can start working on the back log of games again and completing some of these challenges.

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 3/14 (21%)

• Prince of Persia
• Half-Life Orange Box
• Lost Planet
• Naruto The Risa of a Ninja
• Uncharted
• Resistance fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Dark Void
• Halo 2 (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Batman AA GOTY (PC)
• Tombraider Underworld (PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Mobile Suit Gundam (PS3)
• Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
• Apollo Justice
  
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Alan Wake
• Star Wars Lethal Alliance
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Borderlands
• C&C Red Alert 2
• Fallout 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
• Stranglehold
• Spiderman Web of Shadow
• Too Human
• Rise of the Argonauts
• X-men Wolverine
• Elderscrolls Oblivion
  

4. Complete five of the new games off the list below - 1/5 (20%)

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Enslaved Odyssey to the West
• Starcraft 2

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 24% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 110,354 (29,646 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 10
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)



I've also got another update, If you think back I did say one of my reader as decided to join me in the challenge and so here is an update with how he's doing.

Dragaknight

1. 40 Platinums by the end of the year - 5/40 (13%)
- Dead Space 2
- Killzone 3
- Sly Racoon 2
- Sly Racoon 3
- Assassin's Creed 2
2. 20 Platinums by June - 5/20 (25%)
3. 20 100% Playstation Network Games - 2/20 (10%)
- Sly Mini Games
- Back to the Future: It's about time
4. 10 100% Playstation Network Games by June - 2/10 (20%)

Dragaknight decided to increase his challenge by added PSN games completions to the list, some serious gaming this year. So far he's on track and I'm amazed how fast he's going through this challenge, would not shock me if he's done before the year is over.

Better Late Then Never

Good morning all, I've decided to do the blog posts first since I've got the day off and I'm planning for a huge gaming session with several movies in between. Hope you all had a good week and Friday launch day was a good day for you, buy anything nice? give a shout on the comments would love to hear.

Once again for me I had a huge spending spree and now a proud of owner of a Aqua Blue 3DS, also did pick up Samurai Warriors Chronicles for it as well (was the only game on the line up I liked). Had a mini go on Friday and that was it so need to get some time in today on it, bet you wondering why I've not played on it much. It's called Lego Star Wars the Clone Wars, not been able to stop playing it. Loving every minute of the game and really impressed with how its turned out, will do a review later once I've finished it. I've also got Crysis 2 sitting wrapped on my desk waiting to be played, my friends on twitter are raving on about how good it is so I'm quite looking forward to giving it a bash.

So that was my launch day and the week before was a bit of a waste, I did pick up Homefront last week and traded it in on Monday lol. Completed the story and it was just ok, nothing special which is a shame really but I will go into detail again later in it's review. In fact I just realised I've got a huge list of games I keep saying I'm going to review, think it will be a busy week. Anyway back to the story, so the reason I felt it was waste was because I kept putting off gaming since Lego and Crysis where coming out. Thanks to my job I can pick up games early and I did not want to start something that would be put on the shelf again when these new games come out, of course my luck ran out and was not able to get the games until Thursday night.

But there was a silver lining in the clouds, on Thursday I decided to go through the collection and see if I had any games to finish off with a few levels and one stood out. I remembered I was on the last level of the story for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (actually found out I had two levels) so I dusted it off and after a few hours I had another clocked game for my list, so happy days. And that was it for me this week, boring really but now everything is out it dies down now from the looks so hopefully a few weeks/months of catching up is in order.

Time to end this post, again give a shout with your updates and keep checking back for more updates. Before I go here is the up to date stats for my 2011 progress, next post will have the challenge details so stay tuned.

~Iznic

P.S. Sent back Gray Matter, it's not a bad game but it was looking to be a very long game which I really don't have time for right now. Will rerent it later on or buy it when the price drops.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
12. Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
13. Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
    
14. Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
15. Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (PC)
16. Homefront (Xbox 360)
17. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (Xbox 360)
    

Gamerscore Earned This Year
3,240

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

Games Working On
Lego Star Wars Clone Wars (X360)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
Shogun 2 Total War (PC)

2011 Releases Completed
- 4/17 - 24% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2. Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
3. Bulletstorm (X360)
4. Homefront (X360)
   

Tomorrow!

Time does fly I've got to admit that, I cannot believe tomorrow is the 3DS launch day. I will be picking mine up after work tomorrow and will be popping to the stationary store to get my AR cards blown up to A3 (looks so much better). My work is doing a midnight launch but I would struggle to get home if I stayed to pick mine up at that time, besides its great but I would not be up in the early hours of the morning playing.

Still debating about picking up a game, so far only Samurai Warriors Chronicles as my attention. The other games won't be out for a few more months which is a bit disappointing when I think about it but least there is a few mini games on there, the face raiders and AR will keep me occupied for the time being (hopefully).

Of course it's not just the 3DS launch, tomorrow also sees Lego Star Wars 3 and Crysis 2 launching. Two games I've been looking forward too for a long time, so no doubt the next week will see me engrossed in these two games. But the best thing about tomorrow is that it's the last day of the mad Q1 launches, after tomorrow it dies down quite a bit to one game every few weeks. Seriously the developers need to space things out to give us time to catch up lol my back log of games to play is huge, need a year off work.

Anyway that's it for this short post, hope everything is going good for you all. By the way who's getting the 3DS and what games if any? will you be picking up any new releases on the other consoles since there is a few out tomorrow.

Batman Trailer!!!

October cannot come quick enough! love the open world gameplay and the music for the trailer is spot on. Going to be one hell of a story as well from the looks, espically after hearing about the Riddler setting up puzzles that will kill citizens if you fail to complete them (Saw ripoff). Anyway I can see this being game of the year at this rate


Source: IGN Youtube Channel

Golden Key Challenge Update

Decided to put the post into two from now on, reason being is that one of the readers as decided to join the Golden Key Challenge.

Dragaknight as decided to set his goal of 40 Platinum trophies this year, 20 by half the year (need to find out if that's June or 6 months after joining the challenge).

Now that is a challenge and to be honest I did have a slight doubt he could not do it until I got a message the day after saying he got the platinum in Dead Space 2 then week or so later again for Killzone 3. So I'm very impressed right now and got no doubt that he probably could blitz this and then some if he keeps up that pace.



Now for me, well I've slacked the last few weeks so I need to pick up the ball and get back into the game. Espically now that I've realised I've got 12 games for 2011 (13 if I like the rental game Gray Matter) and only completed 3 lol. Only thing to change is I did one more game off the old game list (Batman AA GOTY PC) and increased my gamerscore slightly, nothing to report really.

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 2/14 (14%)

• Prince of Persia
• Half-Life Orange Box
• Lost Planet
• Naruto The Risa of a Ninja
• Uncharted
• Resistance fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Dark Void
• Halo 2 (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Batman AA GOTY (PC)
• Tombraider Underworld (PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Mobile Suit Gundam (PS3)
• Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
• Apollo Justice
  
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Alan Wake
• Star Wars Lethal Alliance
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Borderlands
• C&C Red Alert 2
• Fallout 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
• Stranglehold
• Spiderman Web of Shadow
• Too Human
• Rise of the Argonauts
• X-men Wolverine
• Elderscrolls Oblivion
  

4. Complete five of the new games off the list below - 1/5 (20%)

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Enslaved Odyssey to the West
• Starcraft 2

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 25% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,914 (30,086 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 10
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)


So that's it for another update, give me a shout with what you been playing would love to hear how things are going for my readers.

Finally an update

Every day this week I've been trying to do this post, either something got in the way or I was being lazy. So here it is finally! basically Sunday just gone I decided to have a lovely day of gaming and see if I could finish something. In the end I tried my rental game Gray Matter (need more time before I give an opinion), played some World of Warcraft and Rift. But most of my the day was dedicated to finishing Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY PC, and after seven to eight hours I finally clocked it.

Least I've got a game clocked for this month, really have slacked compared to January and February where I did six games and eight games. Although there as been a lot of new games that have kept me busy, technically for example I've completed Dawn of War 2 Retribution but I wanted to play through with all six races before saying I've finished it (currently on the third race).

This week I've not really worked on anything since I want Homefront and did not want to start anything when there is a game about to come out that I really want to play. Although I did start Killzone 2 the other week so I really should continue with that but I have not got the motivation to work on it right now. Anyway I'm rambling! going to post below the stats for the year so far then do the Golden Key challenge on another post since we now have a reader doing the challenge! (hooray).

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
12. Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
13. Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
    
14. Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
15. Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (PC)
    

Gamerscore Earned This Year
2,800

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

Games Working On
Gray Matter (X360)
Killzone 2 (PS3)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
Shogun 2 Total War (PC)

2011 Releases Completed
- 3/12 - 25% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2. Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
3. Bulletstorm (X360)

Batman Arkham City Dated!!!

Now this is the type of news I like to come back too on the weekend. Batman Arkham City will be coming to the UK on 21st October and 18th October for America. Seriously the end of this year is going to be amazing, so we got Gears of War in September and now Batman in October then finally well everything else (Uncharted 3, Resistance 3, Mass Effect 3, Elderscrolls 5) in November (hoping some of them be moved about to give more time to play them).

Anyway back to the point, mark your calendars for Batman because it won't be that long away!




Source: good old xbox360achievements.org

I'm still here!

Don't panic I'm still here, I know I've been quiet the last week but work as given me weird shifts which left me with little personal time. So in the way's of gaming I did not get much done so that's why there as been no updates on my challenges and progress this year. I have been playing Dawn of War 2 Retribution and finished the story for the Space Marines and Tyranids, basically the game as six races and you playing the same story for each just with a different ending and slightly different turn of events through the game. Won't be classing I've finished the game until all six races are done, love the game that much!

Anyway so yeah I am around and will be updating again when I can, got this Sunday off so planning to have a huge gaming day to catch up. Thinking trying to get a good chunk finished on Batman AA GOTY for the PC done in the morning, jump over to my rental game (Gray Matter) to start that since I've had it for a week and half. Then on the evening switch over to some MMO action, thinking World of Warcraft and I've got Rift waiting to be unwrapped, Sounds like a good plan to me.

How's everyone Else's week been? any good gaming been happening?