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.

Milestone Hit!

It's been a long two weeks but I finally hit 65,000 gamerscore :-)



Thanks to Ice Age and the Brothers in Arms 17th sep achievement today I hit over the border, the last achievement to do it was from Ice Age.

	Pursuit	15
	Complete The Pursuit

So just 35,000 to go until I hit my goal for the year, lol honestly I really cannot see myself hitting it right now. Kinda hoping for a christmas miracle :-) anyway here is the updated stats, enjoy!

2009 360 Challenge 2.0
Goal: 100,000 by December 31st 2009
- Progress -
Start: 44,719
1. 50,000 - 16th March 2009
2. 55,000 - 28th April 2009
3. 60,000 - 17th June 2009
4. 65,000 - 17th September 2009
5. 70,000
6. 75,000
7. 80,000
8. 85,000
9. 90,000
10. 95,000
End: 100,000
- Bonus -
Bronze Award: 105,000
Silver Award: 110,000
Gold Award: 115,000
Platinum Award: 120,000

So close

Well I'm roughly around 1,500 points away from next milestone (65k), with this in mind I decided to pick up some easy point games while at work. I did say I wouldn't buy them anymore and just rent, but being this close I just want to get it out of the way. So I got the following..

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Ice Age 3

Also picked up Section 8 on the PC but I wouldn't say that's a game for achievements since I don't spend too much time on multiplayer unless my mates do.

So hopefully this week I will hit the next milestone and boost myself onto the next one, keep your eyes open for future posts this week about it.

Daily Update

Going to give up with the daily updates on achievements earned etc, mostly because over the last few day's I've earned easily 30+ achievements and to be honest it takes way to long to write it all out. Instead I could spend that time getting more achievements and trophies.

:-) Will of course I update when I hit big milestones

Daily Update (30/8 and 31/8)

Sorry I didn't post sunday or last night but with work pretty much tiring me out, I lost the will to do any posts. So here is the update for the past two days

SUNDAY 30/8/9
Xbox 360 Achievements Unlocked
None
Playstation 3 Trophies Earned
None
World of Warcraft Achievements Earned
1,000 Daily Quests Completed - 10 Points (Iznic - Alliance Druid)


MONDAY 31/8/9
Xbox 360 Achievements Unlocked
Elegant Dancer - 15GS Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires
Playstation 3 Trophies Earned
None
World of Warcraft Achievements Earned
Rapid Defense - 10 Points (Katsuhito - Alliance Death Knight)
Black War Mammoth -10 Points (Iznic - Alliance Druid)


Not much really but least it's better then nothing. Anyway that's it for now, talk to you all later once I've got something decent to post.

WOW Magazine

This morning I subscribed to the World of Warcraft magazine, so hopefully in the next several weeks the first issue will arrive. When it does come I will post my thoughts of it on here.

I'm a huge fan of Warcraft, pretty much collect everything to do with it (Comics, Novels, Trading cards, mini's and figures) so I got high expectations of this magazine which I know it probably will not meet (although it could shock us and be great).

But we will see, keep an eye out in the future for a review post on it

Daily Update

Lately when I've earned a trophy or achievement, I would post it on my twitter. Well I'm going to change that now since I think it might be annoying a lot of people who follow me. From now on I will post here on the night with a full list of achievement's that I've earned etc.

So for yesterday (sat 29th aug) I earned no achievement's lol, I'm at Lynn's for the weekend so no XBOX or PS3. But I do have my laptop so I can play WOW but it's not great (max 20/30 fps), news from WOW ... I did level one of my alts.


Katsuhito - Death Knight - Level 73

:-) that's it for yesterday

Star Wars The Force Unleashed

When they announced the Sith Edition, i was annoyed especially since I've already got the temple dlc as well. Few weeks back I did see a post about the hoth level not having achievements, great so don't have to go out and buy it just pay for the new dlc and that's it.

This week was the patch release for the PS3 trophies, so I rented the game from Lovefilm. While I was going through the list of trophies, look what I came across...

	Official PETW Member	Silver Trophy
	Make it through the Ice Caves without killing a single Wampa
	PETW Hates You	Silver Trophy
	Kill 10 Wampas in the Ice Caves

	"I’m Not Your Father, But..."	Gold Trophy
	Take Luke to school

Great, going to hold off on the tatooine dlc and wait for the sith edition because I can see these being achievements as well. Lucasarts you need to get your act together and not screw us over again (especially when you pay 800points for a 20 minute level, what's up with that).

WOW Cataclysm

The rumours have been going on for a while now about a possible new expansion and the huge revamp to Azeroth. Of course like most people I did hold off my opinion until Blizzard announced something and now that they have...well what can i say...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really excited for these changes, from the images and trailer it looks awesome with what they done. I cannot wait...I'm like a kid in a candy store.

The two new races where a surprise to me but I am looking forward to playing both, more the Worgen then Goblins to be honest. The Worgen area/city looks amazing and the whole transforming between human and Worgen forms ... brilliant!. I am interested to see what their mount will be and dance lol. I was asked by my mate how would they fight, would they carry weapons or use their claws, I really do wonder (maybe something like druid cat/bear form where you cannot see the weapon). Not exactly too hyper with the Goblins but I do love their racial abilities and mount so I will be making one to play lol

I do hope they add some more character slots because I'm going to need them lol especially since the Dwarf shaman picture looks amazing and now I want that combo lol.

Also looking forward to seeing more of the new dungeons and I love the idea with the Icecrown airship fight. There really is too much that I like about this new expansion, think the next few months I will be hyper, dreading the launch lol

Only down part is now have to rush my Horde characters so I can see the old quest storyline before its all changed.

Think I will end the post now, that's enough random writing for one day. Hope it didn't confuse too much



P.S.
I hope they announce a collectors edition

Playstation 3

I've said this hundreds of times, I barely play my PS3 and the reason why?...wish I knew to be honest. I do play my PC (WOW) and Xbox more, there is no passion there for the PS3 (and Wii). Amount of problems I've had with online play is a joke, lack of good titles with trophy support etc just doesn't help one bit. Since I've joined Lovefilm I have started to use it more for blu-rays but last week there was a silver lining in my clouds.

Ghostbusters

It shocked me, it really did, I enjoyed the game to the point I could not put it down. Two days straight I played until the campaign was finished (including collections), I would be playing online with it but it's too bugged for me right now. When the patches do come out, I will be going out to buy a copy so I can play online with my mates.

Now of course since I sent it back to Love, I did wonder what will happen next, will something else keep me using the console or will it gather dust again.

Well it seems Star Wars is getting trophies finally :-D this thursday as well, so I will be hunting for a cheap copy to pick up. Might even finally buy the lastest DLC for Eye of Judgement to get the trophies on it. So good news for me in the end, my PS3 wasn't a waste of money after all and lets hope it stays this way.

Just hope Wii can prove it's worth now

Update

Once again sorry for the lack of updates but college is now over and I'm waiting for the results. Hopefully now I will have some spare time to post more often again and get back into the 360 challenge.

Anyway here is a current update with what's going on gaming wise.

Playstation 3
Ghostbuster's is good game so far but no spark to get me into the console, think it's going to take a miracle to do that (maybe God of War or Last Guardian). I did attempt the multiplayer for Ghostbuster's on wednesday night but all I kept getting was the "Failed to connect to game" error message.

Xbox 360
Finally finished the story of Army of Two yesterday, it was ok but nothing amazing. Going to attempt few of the achievement's but I do not see this being a game I will fully clock. Also working on Harry Potter and Star Wars, hoping to clock both in the next few weeks.

Wii
Nothing to report other than it's gathering dust lol might get Wii Sports Resort but worried it might be another game that will keep my interest for one week then end up on the shelf for year or two without being touched.

PC
Wow, Wow and WOW lol spending way too much time in this game, will do a post on what's been happening for my character's later.



So as you can see not much really to report about, hopefully over the next few weeks you sill see alot more activity. Anyway take care and see you next post

PS3

My PlayStation barely gets used these day's, the only time it's turned on is for blu-ray's. I've even got the infamous collector's edition still sealed sitting on my desk. For some reason I just don't have that spark to want to play on it like the Xbox or PC (same for Wii really). At the start of my old Collins UK challenge I did put I wanted to get at least one platinum trophy this year.

So to attempt this I have put a few PS3 games on my rental list, the rental list right now as only two high propriety games and they are Harry Potter and Terminator for the PS3. Unfortunately they still not in stock but I did get something good sent, Ghostbuster's is on the way so hopefully it will turn out to be a good game for me and push me to get a full complete on it.

Maybe over the next few week's you will be seeing some post's to do with the PS finally :)

Dynasty Warrior 6 Empires

I got a chance last night to have a good play of the game, seriously I'm really enjoying this newer version.

• At the start you can pick a ruler or a officer, officer's explore the land and then join upto a ruler so that was a nice touch.
  
• When invading/defending you no longer have to move your forces to the nearest country, they automatically can attack/defend any land.
  
• Weapons no longer drop as loot, instead you can go to the forge and upgrade your current weapon (attack power, skills, effects etc) which is a blessing, I hated in the past having a ton of different weapons.

That's just what come's to mind, cannot forget how good the graphics are and gameplay etc. Finally the achievement list look's pretty good/easy so far, mostly complete a battle with one character. I would say a solid 8 out of 10

WOW - Multiboxing Part 2

The first night went well and got to level 10 before I even start the level 5 quests lol, but I got hit by some terrible lag and server disconnects. Found it later that the server I joined as huge population so on the peak times their can be problem's (I did notice on my travels other multiboxers so maybe that's why the population is so high). Anyway after like an hour I decided to give up on the server and joined another with a medium population.

So once again Kiyone and Mihoshi are reborn :) as of last night they where about level 17 and now heading to the ghostlands. Most of the quests are grey for me lol loving the triple experiences. Did try a dungeon last night but got wiped (Ragefire), but I will be trying again later on.

WOW - Multiboxing

The last few night's I've been watching Justin TV live and pre-recorded show's of multiboxing in WOW (http://www.justin.tv/multiboxing). It looks simple and very cool, so last night I decided to take the plunge and try it. The software is from pwnboxer.com and cost's $18.95 which is about £11.35 at the time, this is for a year's lience along with free updates. The software is updated pretty much weekly, in fact in the show the other night he mentioned he has another patch going up in a day or two.

In less then 10 minutes I was ready, using the refer a friend program I've set up a trail account and was happly playing two hunters. No joke it was amazing, it does take some time to setup if you new to macros etc but once you get into it you will not want to go back.

It's all legal too btw since all the software does is run two wow instances and just broadcast your keystrokes to the other instance, nothing done for you :) the programmer followed blizzard's words by the book.

Anyway this morning I had to pop down town for some stuff for college, so I picked up a copy of the WOW battlechest and now my second account is full retail with burning crusade. So right now I'm taking a break from my work and going to have a game at multiboxing. My first two characters are female blood elf hunter's, Kiyone and Mihoshi (wonder how many Tnechi fans read this blog, if anyone reads this blog that is lol).



So here they are, Kiyone on the right and Mihoshi on the left currently at level 2 :) got to love the triple experience thanks to refer-a-friend program.

I will be posting on their progress as well so keep an eye open

Update

I know I don't post much here but that's because I've got nothing really to report right now, too much college work mean's less gaming time. I will be playing more of Transformer's soon once my work is finished so I will post a update about it.

Going to be playing Dynasty Warrior's 6 Empires in my spare time, so once I've done a few fight's will post my thought's on it too (Achievement's look easy so hoping there will be a few good hard earned secret achievement's mixed in).

In WOW new's, thanks to the lovely midsummer event alot of my character's have leveled. The bonfire quests give out some large amount experience so today my mage went from level 38 to 40 and my warlock 30 to 31 along with 32 soon. Will be running all my alts through azeorth doing the bonfires for easy experience.

That's it for this random post

Friday's Huge Launch

This friday feel's like november with all the games that are coming out that I want, wish they would spread it out a little more since july/august are partly empty.

This friday:
- Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen - 360
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires - 360
- Another Code: R - Wii
- Overlord 2 - 360
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - PSP
- Tales of Vesperia - 360
- Valhalla Knights 2 - PSP

I've only ordered the first two since I really cannot afford all of them, I really hope Transformers turns out good because Another Code on the DS was in my top 10 favourite games.

Got doubt's on Overlord because the first one made me wonder what was going on (saving villagers from the good guys, I thought it should be the other way around), but I have heard you will be more evil this time around so we shall see.

Really looking forward to DW6E since the 5th one was the one that got me addicted into the series, just hope the gameplay is good and backed up with a decent achievement list.

Transformers as got alot against it, the film was awesome and the first game was ok not brilliant so I'm really expecting the 2nd to be a improvement.

Finally the other games are just random RPG's I'm interested in getting, might rent them first to see if they are worth getting/keeping.

100% List

In the time of no communication I did clock two more games for the challenge, they where Night at the Museum 2 and Terminator Salvation. Both where average games, nothing amazing except the easy achievement's lol. Anyway it came to me that I cannot remember how many I've clocked, so here it is... the 100% List.

- 1,250 GS -
Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends

- 1,000 GS -
Assassin's Creed
Avatar
Call of Duty 2
Civilization Revolution
CSI: Hard Evidence
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Eragon
Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
Hitman Blood Money
Jumper: The Griffin Story
King Kong
Lego Batman
Lego Indiana Jones
Lost
Meet the Robinsons
Night at the Museum 2
Open Season
Prince Caspian
Spiderwick Chronicles
Samurai Warriors 2 Empires
Terminator Salvation
TMNT

23 Total

Rental

I mentioned quite some time back that I joined the GAME rental service on their website, it's a nice service. Been using them since the start of the year and had no real problem's with them (8 out of 10 no problem). The only thing that is putting me off is new released games, it can take some time for them to be allowed to rent and when they are up for renting you can be waiting along time to get a copy (guessing they don't have too many copies of the new titles).

Anyway I'm going to give Lovefilm a try since I do want to start renting films too, they offer the same deals and prices as the game one. Also they do allow you to reserve new titles for rental (plus in my books) so kinda hoping they will have plenty of copies of each one. But we will see when the trail starts

Will post my thought's on Lovefilm once I've given them a try

It's Alive

Thought it was time I did a post, I've still got a ton of college work to do but I'm taking a break :-)

Well it's been over a month since my last post and not much as really happened with the achievement challenge. Actually that's a lie, I've clocked several games, hit a new milestone last night and made a bit of progress in other area's so things have been happening, just not as much as I would had liked.


Last night I took the night off since my project's where getting to me, instead I played Madagascar 2, Burnout Paradise and Trivia Pursuit which clocked my final 600 points needed to hit 60k. Long way off hitting my goal of 100k but I'm still happy about being at this marker. Hopefully when college finishes I will have some more spare time to clock some more games.


Anyway that's it for this post, sorry about the bad spellings/grammar etc never really been good in that area. Might do a few more post's in a bit (doubt it since always something comes up when I write that line). 65k here I come!!

2009 360 Challenge 2.0

Goal: 100,000 by 31st December 2009
-Progress-
Start: 44,719
1. 50,000 - 16th March 2009
2. 55,000 - 28th April 2009
3. 60,000 - 17th June 2009
4. 65,000
5. 70,000
6. 75,000 (Half way)
7. 80,000
8. 85,000
9. 90,000
10. 95,000
11. 100,000
-Bonus-
12. 105,000 (Bronze Award)
13. 110,000 (Silver Award)
14. 115,000 (Gold Award)
15. 120,000 (Platinum Award)