Last Week

Morning folks,
Thought it would be a good time to up date with what happened last week and what my plans are for this week.

I did pick up my lovely new Vita along with Uncharted Golden Abyss but I only put a hour or two into it, reason why? Dante's Inferno. I was over the half way point for my first play through at the start of the week and since it was a Lovefilm rental as well, I really wanted to clock it before getting distracted. So come Friday I had my platinum trophy (no. 14) and was very happy with the out come, even put together a review for the game as well (check out the review page, link at the top of the blog).

Think I was more chuffed with writing the review then clocking the game, mostly because it was my first review for the year and looking back it's nearly been a year since my last review. Of course I'm hoping to rectify that problem from now by writing the reviews as I play. Anyway back to last week, as I said Dante's Inferno pretty much took over my week. I did do a Gears of War 3 session on Sunday night with some friends which was awesome, clocked a few achievements and completed Beast mode on Insane and 33 waves of Horde on insane. Not bad for a few hours work and hopefully can continue this week.

Also I clocked my first Windows Phone game, Minesweeper for the full 50 gamer score. I wasn't even trying to be honest, been addicted to this and Sudoku for the past two weeks. Every time I'm travelling back from work you can find me on the Bus playing. So think it was Wednesday night I was shocked to see the achievement pop up and to realise it was 100% done, also there is only one achievement of Sudoku left as well so I would not be shocked to see that clocked this week.

So there is roughly ten days left before the Reapers arrive in the way of Mass Effect 3 so my plans are to sit back down with Batman Arkham City PC since I was about half way through it and to finally give some time on my Vita. With that in mind I'm going to round off this post with the updated stats for my 200k Gamerscore Challenge, since it was mostly PlayStation 3 week it was another failure week.

Week 6 - this week
Starting Total: 130,839
To Earn: 1,582
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,582

Week 5

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 390

Difference: -1,122

 

Total So Far -
To Earn: 6,833 

Achieved: 4,560
Difference: -2,273 

 

Hopefully Batman will boost my score a little up but I have my doubts about hitting this week target since it's so high, guess have to wait and see what happens.

~Iznic

Pokemon Announcement

Afternoon all,
Well what did you think of the weekends announcement then? I was shocked to be honest. For those who have not been following, it was announced earlier on that last weekend would see a new Pokemon game. I really did think it would be the sixth generation and on the 3DS since the handheld could do with some good games this year. Instead it was announced to be the missing third game in the Black and White series, all past Pokemon games have a third game that comes out several months to a year after. Usually it combines the two together with most of the Pokemon then add something extra to get people to buy it, either a new feature/story etc.

What makes this game shocking for me? well it's being split into two games and called Pokemon White 2 and Pokemon Black 2. I cannot get my head around how this will work since if it's still the fifth generation then that means pretty much no real new Pokemon and still using the Unova region. I always question myself when I buy the third game since its just the last two together but I always tell me self "this new feature looks awesome". This time around it's going to need to be something huge to justify splitting into two games, because right now alarm bells are ringing in my head screaming "someone is pulling a fast one".

Then again have to wait and see for more news since there is none right now, for all we know it could be the best games so far and put Pokemon on the top. So far all they showed was a picture of Kyurem in its new forms, Black Kyurem and White Kyurem. Oh and that the new games will be on the NDS since its the third game in the series, was really hoping for a true Pokemon game on the 3DS. Guess will have to wait another year then for that to happen.

Keep an eye on serebii.net / V.G.I for announcements and up to date information on the new Pokemon games. 
~Iznic

P.S. June release for Japan and Autumn for Europe and America

Review: Dante's Inferno

Story
You follow Dante (Templar Knight) as he journeys through the nine circles of Hell to save his beloved Beatrice from the hands of Lucifer. Along the way Dante must face his own sins from the past and how he caused his beloved to end up in hell.

Although it's not a seat gripping story it does keep you interested through out the game and I found myself wondering how it was all going to end. The flash backs into his past was a nice touch especially when they are related to what circle you are currently in.

Controls
I hate games that need a 1,000 page guide on controls and Dante's Inferno is quite the opposite, it's simple and that is what makes it brilliant.

Played God of War? or Darksiders then you will feel quite at home with this game. Light attack, heavy attack and range attack are your basic controls and you can put points into a skill tree to open combos which are not over the top where you will need to grow a third hand to help you. Simply press the light attack three times or tap twice with a heavy attack and you will see Dante doing some very awesome combos. Execution moves and parts of boss fights involve a quick time event with a series of buttons to press but unlike most games you given a few extra seconds to react.

Nothing complicated what so ever

Length
This is the only disappointing thing I could find with this game and that's it too short, yes you can easily find yourself playing over ten hours on your first go but I just found some of the circles where just a quick visit to say hi. They had so much to work with and could had split the game into a full on series and really did something with it. In the last few sins I just felt like they rushed it as if they realised the deadline was coming up.

Graphics
Brilliant, I love the feel of each circle with the designs gone into it. One minute you passing by rivers of liquid molten gold (Greed) or climbing up walls that contain trapped spirits crying out. The place reeks of no hope and despair, its bang on for what a hell should be.

Gameplay
I'm a big fan of the God of War series and Dante's Inferno is pretty much the same, an over the top hack and slash game with plenty of puzzles included. Execution moves are awesome either you ripping demons in part or absolving with the cross from Beatrice. Along the way there are plenty of things to collect, relics that improve your stats, Beatrice stones, coins and shades. Shades are famous spirits through out hell that you can either punish or absolve and give you a major boost on your stats. 

Everything was enjoyable and there wasn't a point where I just wanted to end the game, I spent a good few nights saying "just one more level" only to find it was 2am.

There is nothing I can say wrong with the game other then it could had been longer and the circles given more time in. Saying that it did not stop me from playing it on the Xbox and PlayStation, two play through on both to get the full achievements and trophies. It's a brilliant game that I love going back to.

Last thoughts
Overall a great game and one that I believe all gamers should try out, I would gladly pick up the sequel if they ever sit down and make it.

Dante's Inferno (PlayStation 3)
Score: 9 out of 10
Gameplay: Good
Graphics: Good
Story: Good
Length: Short
Controls: Good

Updates and Cleaning up

Afternoon folks,
Been a few days since my last post but what can I say, the Vita was out and I was busy with Dante's Inferno as well. This morning I've been working on a few things for the blog, cleaning up some of the labels, adding share buttons and deciding on what I want to do with the blog in the future.

Over the next few weeks I want to tidy up the pages that are linked at the top (Challenges, stats etc) and probably create a few new labels to spread out my posts so they are more easier to navigate for specific information (maybe have console labels).

Big thing that I want to change is to do more reviews of the games I play, especially after I checked out my review page and realised that all the games listed there where from the start of last year. Of course like I always say the reviews are not meant to be professional, just my feelings and thoughts about the game. Although this time I'm thinking about writing the review as I play and maybe make the review a little big longer, that way the experience is still fresh in my mind instead of writing it several weeks after I've finished the game.

The last thoughts about the future of the blog is to redesign it, layout and theme/colours but I've not decided on anything yet except less dark colours. So that's it really for my thoughts on what to do with the blog, will keep you all updated with how it goes. If you have any thoughts or ideas about the blog just leave a comment, I'm always up for hearing new ideas.

Have a good one for now,
~Iznic

Day Before

Afternoon folks,
Well tomorrow is the big day and the Vita is finally launching, good news is I've got the day off so I can play it all day but the bad news is no Uncharted Golden Abyss until the weekend (thank you Amazon). The only thing that's stopping me from being angry is the fact I'm only having to pay £28 for it since I put the pre-order down back before the prices where decided and it was a price promise.

I am thinking though about picking up Dynasty Warriors Next and really tempted to also get Dungeon Hunter Alliance, although with the later I'm still unsure about. Have to see what happens tomorrow with the out come of the bill, I did trade a ton of games which pretty much covers the entire price of the console so it should not be a big blow to the bank account lol.

Anyway that's tomorrow so for now let's talk about now and last week, in fact let's start with the challenge. I did say the increase of gamer score would drop. Ended the week on 130,654 so I've only gained 205 points, dang that's a lot worse then I thought it would be. I really thought I would be on 400-500 at least, although I think its because I was putting quite a bit of time into the valentines event for Warcraft.

Also I've started playing Dante's Inferno which I did mention in one of my past posts just before the weekend. This week I should be clocking some more achievements from Batman on the PC and I'm trying to clean up on Minesweeper and Sudoku on the Windows Phone (these two are very addictive games). Of course with the Vita out tomorrow and Uncharted on the weekend I can see that taking over for sure (plus Mass Effect 3 in three weeks time).

Week 6 - This Week
Starting Total: 130,654
To Earn: 1,547
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,547

Week 5 - 

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 205

Difference: -1,307

 

Total So Far -

To Earn: 6,833

Achieved: 4,375

Difference: -2,458

Wow so I'm 2,458 behind for the year and that's not including this weeks target as well, lol really cannot see myself hitting that 200k marker. I'm toying with the idea of actually starting Enchanted Arms this week but I think I will still wait and see, I rather get Dante and Batman out of the way first.

Going to stop here and go play some games, I do have work in a few hours so I want to get some game time in. Probably be on later and make another post about the Vita so until then have a good one
~Iznic

Diablo 3 CE

Forgot to mention that earlier on the week the pre-order went up for Diablo 3 Collectors edition, so far both GAME and Play.com are taking orders and when I say it's limited, it really is! Think Starcraft 2 but worse then that, in fact we been told it's not coming into store just web only unless they can get more stock.

Check out the Blizzard web site for the full list of contents with full details but here is a short run down of what you get.

USB Pen Drive (shaped like a Soulstone with a Diablo Skull holder)
USB contains both Diablo 2 and the expansion Lords of Destruction
Ingame WOW Pet Fetish Shaman
Ingame Angel Wings for Diablo 3
Ingame Banner for Diablo 3
Ingame Dyes for your armour in Diablo 3
Diablo 3 themed Starcraft 2 Portraits for Battle.net
Soundtrack
Artwork Book
The Game of course
Behind the scenes DVD

Blizzard always do a great collectors edition, in fact I've got four so far and just missing the original one (which goes for about £250+).

By the way if you got the World of Warcraft annual pass which is giving you Diablo 3 for free don't worry, if you get the collectors edition you still get all the in game stuff and they will give you several months of WOW time for free since technically if you will have two copies of the game.

 As you all can guess my order is already down and in fact I might put a second one down just in case of any trouble.
~Iznic

Weekend Finally

Morning folks,
Been one hell of a week with lots of gaming and news, you been keeping up? love the Assassin Creed stuff that really made my week. If you not heard the news then basically Ubisoft gave the release day of 30th October for Assassin's Creed 3, at first I was worried that this was rushed then they also said they been working on it for three years. Cannot wait to see what the new assassin and time line, if you remember last year there was American Revolution, Egypt Pharaohs and Japan Shogun period all on the books. All of these would be awesome and you know what just make all three, there you go that's Assassin's Creed 3, 4 and 5 sorted!

That was not the only news though, just a day before the achievement list appeared for new DLC for AC Revelations and its single player!. Some very interesting achievements as well, first one is take the introduction leap of faith. Could this mean using a new assassin? from the looks the DLC is more a Desmond level, the second really interesting achievement is crossing the river Styx. Is that not Greek Mythology??? so many questions and I guess we will have to wait and see what happens. Although it should not be too long for the DLC since the achievement list is now out and if you want to see the list check out xbox360achievements.org.

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Not really done much gaming this week since I did not want to get into anything too big because of two factors. First one being the launch of the Vita and Uncharted Golden Abyss next week which I'm looking forward to getting into. Then in three weeks time is Mass Effect 3 which is one of my top ten games of all time and I had a small go at the demo at the start of the week and it's pretty much hyped me. Might as well say that March will be Mass Effect month and nothing else will be touched until I finish it.

I have been putting a lot time into the World of Warcraft Valentines event to get the daily quests done for tokens, in fact I finished this morning and picked up the Swift Lovebird mount. Also was luckily enough to get the Toxic Wasteling pet off the boss event as well which made my week. There is one day left of the event so I will attempt the boss one more time in the hope that I might win the Love Rocket mount but I have my doubts since the drop is super super super super rare.

The only other thing that took up my time was my new Windows Phone, finally upgraded and been playing on the Xbox Live with the free games (Sudoku, Minesweeper etc). Soon as pay day comes around I will be picking up quite a few games on it so no doubt see achievements popping up left and right for it.

My plans for the next few weeks is to work on Dante's Inferno since I do enjoy the game and it's my current rental, it will take two play through to complete but the game is quite short so I should have at least one and half done by the Vita launch. Other then that I would like to work on a JRPG and Batman Arkham City (PC) but not sure with all these new games coming out, really don't want to start anything then shelve it because something better came out.


Guess will have to see what happens, anyway that's it for now and I will talk to you all later.
Have a good weekend folks
~Iznic

Batman Arkham City Valentines Event

Morning folks,
Happy Valentines and don't forget to visit Calendar Man today in Batman Arkham City to add towards your achievement/trophy.

Not done it before? basically the achievement/trophy "Story Teller" requires you to have twelve dates with the villain Calendar Man. All you got to do is talk to him each month on a special day to hear a small story about one of his killings, yes this will take a year unless you change your date/clock times on your console but I find it more fun doing it legit.

To visit Calendar Man you need to have at least saved Catwoman from Two Face, after that all you need to do is go back to the court house but before going in just fly around to the very back of the building to find a second entrance. Pop inside then go down the stairs to the cell area and find him locked up in the last cell and that's it. Make sure to talk to him on the days required and listen to his story, when hes done he will sit back down and when you talk to him again he will give you the next day to come back on. Make sure to pass a saved point when done (if you leave the court house through the door again it auto saves after you get outside which is very handy).

Also to note on the wall is a industry wall calendar with all the dates out lined for you, also every time you go to talk to him again you will notice the months you completed will be scribbled out.

That's it anyway folks, next event is Saturday 17th March - St Patricks' Day
~Iznic

I Hate Mondays

Morning Folks,
Another Monday ... meh! ... not a fan, always find myself getting nothing done at the start of the new week, not sure why but it's just that way. Guess I should stop ranting and get on with the post, well good news I finally cleaned up Dante's Inferno last week and now have the original 1,000 gamer score for it. I'm not picking the DLC up at this point in time due to the fact Dark Forest is a rip off (400 Microsoft Points for less then 10 minutes of game play) and I'm also hearing the second co-op DLC is bugged so no last achievement. Since I cannot get a verified answer if it is bugged or not I don't want to chance it, hate wasting money. Maybe I will go back to it at a later date when they fix everything and make it cheaper as well.

That was it really for the week, I have been doing the Valentine daily quests on WOW still and this week I did have a big marathon on Old Republic which got me to level 14 so I've now got my space ship. Cannot wait for my next session now, just need to free up an hour or two so I can.

Oh yeah last night had a blast on Gears of War 3 with some old work colleagues which was awesome, did some Horde, Beast and Insane campaign. Also picked up the Lambency achievement in a Versus Team Death match so that was a nice 50g achievement boost. Starting to get back into Gears again so could do with freeing up a night for it or maybe an hour or two every few days, would love to get the Seriously 3.0 achievement.

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Mentioning achievements you have no doubt read my last post about the results for the challenge, it was a shame that I did not even dent the weekly target but I knew it was coming. I really want to clean up my collection this year, I'm sick of having tons of games that never get played but in order to do that I need to put the time into the big games which means less achievement whoring. I did promise myself I would not allow the challenge to take over and so far I've kept it, I do have doubts about hitting 200,000 but I really want to get as close as possible. So with the failure from last week that means this week as increased a bit, here is the target for week five.

Week 5 - this week

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 0

Difference: -1,512

Not sure what I will be playing this week since I've got quite a few games I want to work on, new and old along with the fact I really want to start a JRPG finally. Too much to work with, might just pull a name out of a hat again and let you know later on in the week with what I'm doing.

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Before I end this post I really wanted to talk about this morning announcements, you seen the new Pokemon? its a deer type Pokemon called Keldeo. Check out Serebii.net for all the shots of it and what's been announced which is not much right now. They did say that in the next few months they where announcing a new game, so maybe a true Pokemon Game for the 3DS? that would be awesome. By the way the Mewtwo event I talked about the other day went live early so you can now download it!

Anyway that's it for me today folks, have a good one and thanks for reading my random ramblings about the world of gaming and my life.

Results: Week 1-4

Since I'm posting the results for each week together it will eventually make the post too big, so every four week's I will "archive" the results on a separate post that will be linked on the challenge page at the top.

So with that in the mind here is the results for last week and the total so far, of course last week was a big fail but it was expected since I was working on cleaning up an old game. As I said before this will become a trend since I really do want to get through my back log of games that has built up over the years. In truth as well I don't really see myself hitting the 200,000 mark since it needs so many achievements but in the end its all for fun!

Going to wrap this post up now since this will be archived, stay tuned for the normal general post in a minute and that will contain this weeks target.
~Iznic

Total So Far -
To Earn: 5,321
Achieved: 4,170
Difference: -1,151

Week 4 -
Starting Total: 130,274
To Earn: 1,484
Achieved: 175
Difference: -1,309

Week 3 -
Starting Total:  128,499
To Earn: 1,491
Achieved: 1,775
Difference: +284

Week 2 -
Starting Total: 126,759
To Earn: 1,498
Achieved: 1,740
Difference:+242

Week 1 -
Starting Total: 126,279
To Earn: 848
Achieved: 480
Difference: -368

Pokemon Event Download

Morning folks,
Keep meaning to post this up but there are two Pokemon Events running right now, well technically just one the other will be starting soon.

First up is a level 70 Mewtwo for Pokemon Black and White, this event will start on the 12th February so this Sunday and it's a simple Wi-fi event. Just connect to your Internet and download it through the Mystery Gift system on the menu.

Mewtwo will be holding the Kings Rock and as the following moves Psystrike, Electro Ball, Shadow Ball and Aura Sphere. The event will also end on February 26th and is available to Europe and America.

The next even which is currently running is for Arceus on the Global Link website and will end on the 1st May. It's level 100 and no special abilities that make it exclusive but still its level 100 and a very cool Pokemon. Just log in into the site (link here) and connect through the dream world, password is ARCEUSVOTE.

That's it folks so don't miss out and if you want more information pop over to serebii.net which is awesome for all things Pokemon.
~Iznic

Morning Chat

Morning everyone,
This is the third attempt at writing this post and in fact the last post about last week result took several attempts as well. Think I'm a bit too tired and could do with a solid day off just to chill out and do nothing, maybe next week if I'm lucky.

Currently just working on the Kingdoms of Amalur demo on the PlayStation 3 to get the unlocks in case I want the games on their, although it did just freeze and crash so not going well so far. Over the next few days I'm just going to focus on my rental game which is Dante's Inferno, plan is to get this play through completed so I can finish off the last of the achievements then I might do the Dark Forest DLC then send it back. The other DLC I've heard is hard and broken at the same time so I really don't want to waste my money on it if that is true.

Other then my rental I'm just playing World of Warcraft and Old Republic, currently the valentines event is live on WOW so I'm doing the daily quests. This year they have added a new mount which can be bought using the tokens you use, plus there is a daily dungeon which gives you a chance for a second mount plus some cool gear and a new pet. Of course the drop percent is very low so I havent got my hopes up on the later stuff but one can wish.

I did have a several hours on Old Republic on Sunday like I said in my last post and I was really getting into it, hoping to put some more time in later or tomorrow. I love how the conversation dialogue works, I really do feel apart of the story more. Also I'm hoping to earn a few levels this week so I can unlock my ship which I will post a screen shot soon as I get it. Oh that reminds me my mate told their is a bug in game to do with the stretched character graphics and its to with the nvidia graphic cards, so drivers soon hopefully.

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 Apart from that not much else to say other then Square Enix are doing a huge sale on Xbox live for the week and I pretty much want to buy everything. It's amazing that most of the stuff I was thinking about buying yesterday morning is now in the sale. Deus EX Missing Link DLC, Tomb Raider DLC and episodes etc check out the full list at xbox360achievements.org. Also next week they knocking down the Batman Arkham City dlc as well so I might pick up the Nightwing bundle finally.

Plenty to keep me busy for the time being, although I was already busy with getting through the huge pile of games that I already own. Anyway I'm going to shoot for a bit so I will catch you all later, have a good one
~Iznic

2012 Games List

Just like last year here is the full list of games I've bought so far and it will be updated through out the year has I add more too it. Hopefully this time I can finish most of them...

1. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Xbox 360)
2. Uncharted Golden Abyss (PlayStation Vita)
3. Mass Effect 3 (Xbox 360)
4. Plants vs Zombies (PlayStation Vita)
5. Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 (PlayStation Vita)
6. Shogun 2 Total War Fall of the Samurai (PC)
7. Witcher 2 (Xbox 360)
8. Pandora's Tower (Wii)
9. The Last Story (Wii)
10. Plants vs Zombie's (Vita)
11. Welcome Park (Vita)
12. Sniper V2 (Xbox 360)
13. Pure Chess (Vita)
14. Dynasty Warriors Next (Vita)
15. Kid Icarus (3DS)
16. Minecraft (Xbox 360)
17. Ghost Recon Future Soldier (Xbox 360)
18. Rune Factory Oceans (PlayStation 3)
19. Dragons Dogma (Xbox 360)
20. Diablo 3 (PC)
21. Lego Batman 2 (Xbox 360)
22. Resistance Burning Skies (Vita)
23. Gravity Rush (Vita)
24. Pokemon Conquest (DS)
25. Lego Batman 2 (Vita)
26. Spec Ops the Line (Xbox 360)
27. Borderlands 2 (Xbox 360)
28. Angry Birds Trilogy (Xbox 360)
29. Lego Batman 2 (PlayStation 3)
30. Dishonored (Xbox 360)
31. Pokemon Black 2 (Nintendo DS)
32. Pokemon White 2 (Nintendo DS)
33. XCOM (Xbox 360)
34. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (Nintendo 3DS)
35. Testament of Sherlock Holmes (Xbox 360)
36. Mass Effect (PlayStation 3)
37. Mass Effect 3 (PlayStation 3)
38. PlayStation All Stars (PlayStation 3)
39. PlayStation All Stars (PlayStation Vita)
40. Ratchet and Clank Qforce (PlayStation 3)
41. Assassin's Creed 3 (Xbox 360)
42. Assassin's Creed Liberation (PlayStation Vita)
43. Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (Xbox 360)
44. Zone of the Enders HD Collection (Xbox 360)
45. Hitman Absolution (Xbox 360)
46. Uncharted Fight for Fortune (PlayStation Vita)
47. Wonderbook: Book of Spells (PlayStation 3)
48. Lego Batman 2 (PlayStation 3)
49. Lego Lord of the Rings (PlayStation Vita)
50. Lego Lord of the Rings (Xbox 360)
51. Virtue's Last Reward (PlayStation Vita)
52. Halo 4 (Xbox 360)
53. Family Guy Back to the Multiverse (Xbox 360)



Updated:1st January 2013

Week Three Results

Morning folks,
Sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend but had some real bad news on Saturday, anyway don't want to get into it. On Sunday I decided to have a huge gaming marathon which was pretty awesome, finally sat down and finished FIFA 06. It killed me to do it since I'm not a sports fan and can't stand FIFA with a passion but having it on my profile with only 500g  was annoying. Sunday morning I had that in the bag then played several more games (Harry Potter, Halo CE) then finally sat down with Old Republic. Levelled up several times and got myself to level 10, won't be long before I get my own ship.

Stats wise it was a good haul for the and I'm now in the plus for the challenge, currently on +158 for the whole challenge. This week I think will see a dip along with the next few weeks due to the fact I will be working on my longer games now and not easy gamer score games. But it will be worth it in the end if I can finally get through some of my back log of games.

Anyway that's it for now, bit too tired to get into any writing so I will post later.
~Iznic



Week 4 - This week
Starting Total: 130,274
To Earn: 1,484
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,484


Total So Far -
To Earn: 3,837
Achieved: 3,995
Difference: +158

Week 3 -
Starting Total:  128,499
To Earn: 1,491
Achieved: 1,775
Difference: +284

Week 2 -
Starting Total: 126,759
To Earn: 1,498
Achieved: 1,740
Difference:+242

Week 1 -
Starting Total: 126,279
To Earn: 848
Achieved: 480
Difference: -368

Just a quick one

Evening folks,
Just quickly popping on to say hello and that I'm still alive, along with a quick update before I dash out. It's been a long stressful week but it's now over and I'm off for two days so plenty of time to game and catch up on my jobs I need to get done. I did update my 2012 gaming stats in the week since I clocked Truth or Lies (horrible game) on both Xbox and the PlayStation, never again! its unbelievably broken beyond words.

Thanks to that 1,000 game score though it means I only need around 400 to finish this week off for my challenge and if I can make up the missing 130 from week one the better. Not sure how I will do that right now since not sure if I got any easy achievements left to collect. I'm currently working on mopping up achievements on some of my games but it will take time before any reward is seen (Dante's Inferno, Saints Row the Third).

Apart from that nothing really to report other then I did pick up Final Fantasy XIII-2 a few hours ago when I finished my shift, also the collectors edition strategy guide. Nice hard book guide with plenty of in depth details for areas, monsters, items etc. Also got my pre-order bonus steel book too which is really nice, in fact here is a picture of the lot.

Anyway I need to shoot since I'm going out but might be on later but if not will be on tomorrow morning since I really could do with some tiding on the blog and posting some more. Until then anyway have a good one.

~Iznic