Very Late Stats Update

Morning folks,
Sorry it's took me nearly a week to finally update last weeks stats but you know what it is like when you get busy, anyway enough excuses time for a chat. Since I'm waiting for Mass Effect 3 to arrive I thought I would start catching up with all my posts I wanted to do. Last week I did not earn much again but mostly because I started to work on Enchanted Arms (yes a JRPG!), I knew it would be a while before I earned any achievements due to the fact I've attempted this game twice already.

So I got up to the main city in the game which was a few hours off where I last played and it went south from there. What happened you ask? well I was barely surviving the fights after leaving the city, every fight I saw half of my party going down on the first turn. Then it hit my why I stopped last time I got really far and then could not progress since the enemies where too hard for my party, travelling back wasn't an option since the nearest heal point was ages away and my last save not in this region was over five hours back.

I realised it was the same thing going to happen all over again, so I took a look into a nice guide on Xbox360achievements.org and my god the game is a lot bigger then I first though. Everyone quotes around 20 hours and the game is very linear in the case it always points where you need to go. What I didn't realise is there is a ton of side stuff to help you and there are load of option quests on the side to explore temples to find some of the best golems for your party. The guide even explains that at the first city there is a casino (I walked right past) where it gives you tips to earn some quick money to use on getting some powerful golems from the local shop (missed them). Then it explains several important tips on levelling with what stats to aim on and the best parties to use to pretty much own the game.

So I stopped after reading that and decided I will be following this guide from now on but not right away, when I realised all this it was barely a week away for Mass Effect. I don't want to be half way through only shelf it when Mass Effect arrives so I will continue after instead. Lesson learnt though and that's to explore more in a RPG, you never know what you are missing.

Apart from that I did complete Sudoku on my phone and did another massive marathon of Gears of War 3 on Sunday with some friends, in fact we did another 1-50 sitting on horde insane. Clocked around five achievements worth 180g so it was a brilliant night to end the week with.


Week 7 - this week
Starting Total: 131,134
To Earn: 1,631
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,631

Week 6
Starting Total: 130,839
To Earn: 1,582
Achieved: 295
Difference: -1,287

Week 5

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 390

Difference: -1,122

 

Total So Far -
To Earn: 8,415

Achieved: 4,855

Difference: -3,560

Wow I am falling behind but in the end it cannot be helped unless I just work on easy games all year and even then there are not enough to cover it. I am working on some old games with some friends so hopefully now and again will see some boosts but in the end I'm not worried, it's all a bit of fun!

anyway that's it for now, catch you all later
~Iznic