Hello folks,
It's a lovely summer morning here today which is unusual for England although personally I prefer the winter. So I better start with saying I'm sorry for the lack of posts over the last week and a half but it was my Birthday last week so I went on holiday for a few days. It was nice having a break but I'm back now and I got quite a few things I need to catch up on with the blog.
First up the big news which in a way should not be a shock if you read my blog regularly, I'm stopping my 200,000 gamerscore challenge. I've known and you guys should have known too for the last several months that hitting the 200,000 mark by end of the year was now impossible unless a miracle happened. At the start of this year I did say I would not do a challenge because it usually took over my gaming and I would not play anything else because I needed to get achievements. When I started the 200,000 challenge I promised myself I would not let this happen, well over a week ago I realised I was letting the challenge take over.
I cancelled a MMO Night because I needed to earn some achievements for the week and it was the day after that I realised I needed to cancel the challenge. This of course does not mean I won't stop getting achievements, it's still a passion of mine to keep getting them but I do want to play other games on other consoles.
The 2012 Gaming Progress will be kept going and in fact I just updated the page yesterday, I'm happy to announce I finished Uncharted Golden Abyss on the Vita yesterday. Another great addition to the series and I hope they do more for the Vita, of course I want to go back and platinum all the Uncharted games. They all brilliant and you cannot beat a good treasure hunter story, I'm sucker for them.
This week my plans are to work on my rental games since I have two now, Resistance 3 which I did start before my holiday and got quite far into it. It's good but I'm not getting into it like the last lot, not sure why but I just don't seem to care about the story so far. Hopefully the story will pick up in the later game and give it a good ending.
The second game is Neverdead and I'm not really sure what to expect from this game, guess time will tell and I will post my thoughts once I've tried it. Not sure how a game with the main character being immortal works, how do you fail if you cannot die.
Also got the new patch for Minecraft (Xbox) which as added pistons to the work so I really want to muck about with it, I did start a new game yesterday and made a lovely one floor house with a giant moat around. Going to expand it soon and start hunting down slimes so I can make sticky pistons, that's going to be fun since I've never come across slimes before. My friends have started picking up the PC version since it's more advance and you can do a lot more with it, I'm very tempted and especially with the creative mode. Argh! there is too much coming out, I got Pokemon Conquest this week and I need to renew my Playstation Plus since it ran out a few days ago and the new free stuff as just gone up. Plus in a few weeks the 2012 lineup begins with Borderlands 2, why does everything have to cost so much.
On that note I'm going to end this post since I got quite a few things to do before work, I will try and get a few more posts up later or tomorrow since I've still got quite a few things I want to talk about.
So until then have a good one folks,
~Iznic
Showing posts with label 200k Challenge. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Monday, 9 July 2012
Knockout
Afternoon folks,
Well I just decided to start my latest rental game from Lovefilm "Resistance 3" and was told I need to download the latest update, not a problem I thought until it came up with "1/4" and as been stuck on 20% for the last 30 minutes. So in the meantime hello folks! Have you missed me? No? Oh well I'm back anyway.
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last week but well it was one of those weeks in which I wished I stayed in bed, swear this year as to many of those weeks so far. Putting the bad week to the side I do have my holiday next week and I cannot wait for some time off, popping to Chester for a few days to go see the Zoo there and of course chill out. Also added bonus I will be levelling up to 27 and for those who don't get that it means my birthday next week, feel right old and that dreaded 30 is coming up closer.
Anyway you are not hear for that so time for some gaming updates, well how about two games completed?. Sat down with Resistance Burning Skies last week and got the Platinum trophy in two days without trying, the levels are a decent length but the game as only six levels so it doesn't last that long. Even with that I would still recommend it to everyone since the controls work! I mean they really work for a FPS which shocked me. Uncharted is a great game but some of the aiming for me just annoys the **** out of me so I was shocked how Resistance seems to get it right and I really do hope everyone other shooting game takes notice.
After that I did finish the story for X-men Destiny finally, been saying for the last month I would sit down and play it. Well I got my ass into gear when I realised the disc had arrived back in May so I needed to get it down, I was shocked how fast I flew through the game to be honest. The levels are not that long but the entire game is the perfect length, the only down side had for the game was the story. I just could not get into it or want to care about the characters and I think it's because the story did relied heavily on people knowing the X-men Universe which I don't other than the newest movies. Anyway I cleared up the last of the achievements this morning but of course they don't count to last week's score but it does mean another game 1,000g.
On that note I think it's time to dig out the stats for my challenge:
Week 21
Starting Total: 139,434
To Earn: 2,422
Achieved: 215
Difference: -2,207
Honestly it was a good week last week with just hitting over 600 gamer score (see the challenge page for the archived results) but I'm getting to the point that I really don't care any more. Don't get me wrong I still love my achievement hunting and getting that 200k milestone but the challenge is longer possible. Also add in the fact I'm starting to get annoyed with myself that I'm putting other consoles because I need to get some achievements this week, so don't be surprised if I end this challenge soon.
So what will I be playing this week and that's a good question, well Resistance 3 of course since that is my latest rental and I'm thinking Castlevania Lord of Shadows on the Xbox 360. I did say I want to get this started since the second one was announced at E3 so why not, also need to sort out a handheld game to take on holiday with me. Might take Uncharted Golden Abyss since I've still not finished it off yet which is a sin in itself. Oh that reminds me I did pick up Theatrhthym for the 3DS, it was ok but I really did not see myself playing it enough. I did several series songs (basically it picks a game and does 3-5 songs from it in a row) then did some of the challenges and after a couple of hours I just could not see myself sticking to it so I've just traded it in yesterday with Resistance as well.
On that note I'm going to end this post off but I do have the pictures ready for my next unboxing post and my download is only at 64% on the first part so expect another post in a minute. Until then have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great week of gaming.
~Iznic
P.S. The Knockout title is reference to the fact I've clocked both Resistance and X-men, about time I got some gaming done.
Well I just decided to start my latest rental game from Lovefilm "Resistance 3" and was told I need to download the latest update, not a problem I thought until it came up with "1/4" and as been stuck on 20% for the last 30 minutes. So in the meantime hello folks! Have you missed me? No? Oh well I'm back anyway.
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last week but well it was one of those weeks in which I wished I stayed in bed, swear this year as to many of those weeks so far. Putting the bad week to the side I do have my holiday next week and I cannot wait for some time off, popping to Chester for a few days to go see the Zoo there and of course chill out. Also added bonus I will be levelling up to 27 and for those who don't get that it means my birthday next week, feel right old and that dreaded 30 is coming up closer.
Anyway you are not hear for that so time for some gaming updates, well how about two games completed?. Sat down with Resistance Burning Skies last week and got the Platinum trophy in two days without trying, the levels are a decent length but the game as only six levels so it doesn't last that long. Even with that I would still recommend it to everyone since the controls work! I mean they really work for a FPS which shocked me. Uncharted is a great game but some of the aiming for me just annoys the **** out of me so I was shocked how Resistance seems to get it right and I really do hope everyone other shooting game takes notice.
After that I did finish the story for X-men Destiny finally, been saying for the last month I would sit down and play it. Well I got my ass into gear when I realised the disc had arrived back in May so I needed to get it down, I was shocked how fast I flew through the game to be honest. The levels are not that long but the entire game is the perfect length, the only down side had for the game was the story. I just could not get into it or want to care about the characters and I think it's because the story did relied heavily on people knowing the X-men Universe which I don't other than the newest movies. Anyway I cleared up the last of the achievements this morning but of course they don't count to last week's score but it does mean another game 1,000g.
On that note I think it's time to dig out the stats for my challenge:
Week 21
Starting Total: 139,434
To Earn: 2,422
Achieved: 215
Difference: -2,207
Total So Far -
To Earn: 42,981
To Earn: 42,981
Achieved: 15,283
Difference: -27,698Honestly it was a good week last week with just hitting over 600 gamer score (see the challenge page for the archived results) but I'm getting to the point that I really don't care any more. Don't get me wrong I still love my achievement hunting and getting that 200k milestone but the challenge is longer possible. Also add in the fact I'm starting to get annoyed with myself that I'm putting other consoles because I need to get some achievements this week, so don't be surprised if I end this challenge soon.
So what will I be playing this week and that's a good question, well Resistance 3 of course since that is my latest rental and I'm thinking Castlevania Lord of Shadows on the Xbox 360. I did say I want to get this started since the second one was announced at E3 so why not, also need to sort out a handheld game to take on holiday with me. Might take Uncharted Golden Abyss since I've still not finished it off yet which is a sin in itself. Oh that reminds me I did pick up Theatrhthym for the 3DS, it was ok but I really did not see myself playing it enough. I did several series songs (basically it picks a game and does 3-5 songs from it in a row) then did some of the challenges and after a couple of hours I just could not see myself sticking to it so I've just traded it in yesterday with Resistance as well.
On that note I'm going to end this post off but I do have the pictures ready for my next unboxing post and my download is only at 64% on the first part so expect another post in a minute. Until then have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great week of gaming.
~Iznic
P.S. The Knockout title is reference to the fact I've clocked both Resistance and X-men, about time I got some gaming done.
Results: Week 21-24
Week 24
Starting Total: 138,759
To Earn: 2,359
Achieved: 675
Difference: -1,684
Week 23
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 785
Difference: -1,511
Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Starting Total: 138,759
To Earn: 2,359
Achieved: 675
Difference: -1,684
Week 23
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 785
Difference: -1,511
Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Total So Far -
To Earn: 42,981
To Earn: 42,981
Achieved: 15,283
Difference: -27,698
Monday, 2 July 2012
Busy Week
Afternoon folks,
Been busy all morning playing Resistance Burning Skies, if you have a Vita then you need to pick this game up. I'm shock how well it's turned out with the controls, it works perfectly so far and I'm enjoying every minute of it but from the looks the game is short though with only around six/seven levels. Although the levels are pretty decent length hopefully the the last few will add more time, would hate to finish the game on the first day.
Anyway I've updated the stats on the blog and I'm happy to say this week I earned a decent amount of gamer score, of course I did not hit the week target but we all knew that from the beginning. I did finish off Lego Batman 2 yesterday and I got to say it's the best Lego game in the series so far, the voices work and I'm happy about that because I had my doubts to the point I thought it would ruin the game. Only problem I had through out was the amount of glitches in the game, several times it froze mid-game and I had to restart my Xbox plus characters getting stuck or levels not loading. I would had thought a lot of this would had been caught in the Beta since there quite a few people on the forums having the same problems. Oh well I guess you cannot get everything perfect but anyway that was 33 game for the year so far.
Week 24 - This week
Starting Total: 138,759
To Earn: 2,359
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,359
Week 23 - This week
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 785
Difference: -1,511
Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
As you can see the increase this week is not too bad compared to the last few weeks although I think I will be taking a hit this week, well it depends on how short Resistance is. Once I've finished the game I will be finally working on X-men Destiny and yeah I know I've been saying that for the past month.
That's it really in the ways of this post I do have some new games I want to talk about but I will be saving those thoughts for separate posts, I also do have a MMO night planned for this week but still not decided if it will be on Wednesday like normal or tomorrow (tomorrow I would get a lot more time).
I will be getting the next unboxing post up as well probably around mid-week or end of the week in time for the weekend, have to see where I can get the time from. Still need to make a few hours spare so I can continue working on the blog and to do the E3 posts that I've been promising for the last month.
So much to do and yet so little time to do it, I better get on with it so have a good one folks and don't forget to drop a line with how your week's been.
~Iznic
Been busy all morning playing Resistance Burning Skies, if you have a Vita then you need to pick this game up. I'm shock how well it's turned out with the controls, it works perfectly so far and I'm enjoying every minute of it but from the looks the game is short though with only around six/seven levels. Although the levels are pretty decent length hopefully the the last few will add more time, would hate to finish the game on the first day.
Anyway I've updated the stats on the blog and I'm happy to say this week I earned a decent amount of gamer score, of course I did not hit the week target but we all knew that from the beginning. I did finish off Lego Batman 2 yesterday and I got to say it's the best Lego game in the series so far, the voices work and I'm happy about that because I had my doubts to the point I thought it would ruin the game. Only problem I had through out was the amount of glitches in the game, several times it froze mid-game and I had to restart my Xbox plus characters getting stuck or levels not loading. I would had thought a lot of this would had been caught in the Beta since there quite a few people on the forums having the same problems. Oh well I guess you cannot get everything perfect but anyway that was 33 game for the year so far.
Week 24 - This week
Starting Total: 138,759
To Earn: 2,359
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,359
Week 23 - This week
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 785
Difference: -1,511
Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Total So Far -
To Earn: 40,622
To Earn: 40,622
Achieved: 14,608
Difference: -26,014As you can see the increase this week is not too bad compared to the last few weeks although I think I will be taking a hit this week, well it depends on how short Resistance is. Once I've finished the game I will be finally working on X-men Destiny and yeah I know I've been saying that for the past month.
That's it really in the ways of this post I do have some new games I want to talk about but I will be saving those thoughts for separate posts, I also do have a MMO night planned for this week but still not decided if it will be on Wednesday like normal or tomorrow (tomorrow I would get a lot more time).
I will be getting the next unboxing post up as well probably around mid-week or end of the week in time for the weekend, have to see where I can get the time from. Still need to make a few hours spare so I can continue working on the blog and to do the E3 posts that I've been promising for the last month.
So much to do and yet so little time to do it, I better get on with it so have a good one folks and don't forget to drop a line with how your week's been.
~Iznic
Monday, 25 June 2012
Gaming Weekend
Morning,
Had a blast yesterday by spending the entire day with plenty of games, started off with World of Warcraft since the Midsummer Festival as started. Main part of the festival is Lord Ahune a giant ice lord trying to destroy Azeroth, every day you given one loot bag if you kill him which can give a rare item or two. I'm trying to get the last rare pet that I'm missing but so far no luck, but I have been racking up the justice points which I can use to buy new gear.
Followed by that I jumped onto the weekend event for Gears of War 3, another match of "team work" which really annoys me since they all bugger off to try and attempt the cool shoots which they always fail on. Yet if they just stuck together we could push the enemy back but no, they rather lose the game.
Anyway after that I finally sat down and played the multi player of Kid Icarus with my friend Lesley, the game is brilliant just a shame the camera is terrible for it. Think we did about five matches and my god it was a laugh, first few matches I spent pressing every button in attempt to learn the game. Got myself this nice new giant Black Club which can shoot a giant metal ball now and again, once I got it I was in the zone. Even had a turn playing as Pit which was comical since I took on the Dark Pit which did turn out well, I was down to 30% and he was on 5% then somehow he got some health back and I was down to 5%. Spent the next minute running around the map being chased with me shouting "don't kill me, oh god don't kill me", lucky Lesley and the CPU finished him off and we won. The whole game was brilliant and I cannot wait to get another session on the go.
After that well I played a bit of everything to be honest, I do have Lego Batman 2 now which is amazing! probably the best Lego so far and I cannot wait to see what they do with the Lord of the Rings one. My worries about voices was thrown out the window, it works really well and you have to laugh at some of the jokes.
Ended the night with some CO-OP with my friend Mike playing Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 on hard, it was really hard and frustrating with most of the levels. Wish you could have a save point in the middle of the game because it was getting annoying when we lost having to go back and do everything all over again. Especially this one level which was broken up into three long parts, think we died four times at least so was getting a little bit sick of doing everything over and over.
Anyway enough ramblings for me, I had a blast yesterday as you can tell and now it's time to see where I stand with my challenge for the year. Probably not good since I don't think I really did any achievement hunting at the start of the week.
Week 23 - This week
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,296
Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Dang that was a bad week for me with only 280 earned, OK this week will be good since I have Lego Batman 2 on the go and I should be working on X-men Destiny this week as well (my rental). So fingers crossed to see over a 1,000 hit this week, would love to think that I would clock both games but I'm going to be realistic about it. Also need to get back on Dynasty Warriors 7 Conquest Mode so I can clean up the game.
Before I end this post what do you guys think of the new look so far? thought I would go with the Dungeon like look since of the name and I love Minecraft. Still got plenty to do since I want to clean up the layout concerning the right hand side panel and I want to work on the different pages I've got as well. Also I will be looking at the facebook page and getting a proper logo picture sorted for it, might even get a Google+ page set up for the blog as well.
Anyway any thoughts, feedback, comments just post them below or on the Facebook page. Hope you all had a great weekend like I did, talk to you soon
~Iznic
Had a blast yesterday by spending the entire day with plenty of games, started off with World of Warcraft since the Midsummer Festival as started. Main part of the festival is Lord Ahune a giant ice lord trying to destroy Azeroth, every day you given one loot bag if you kill him which can give a rare item or two. I'm trying to get the last rare pet that I'm missing but so far no luck, but I have been racking up the justice points which I can use to buy new gear.
Followed by that I jumped onto the weekend event for Gears of War 3, another match of "team work" which really annoys me since they all bugger off to try and attempt the cool shoots which they always fail on. Yet if they just stuck together we could push the enemy back but no, they rather lose the game.
Anyway after that I finally sat down and played the multi player of Kid Icarus with my friend Lesley, the game is brilliant just a shame the camera is terrible for it. Think we did about five matches and my god it was a laugh, first few matches I spent pressing every button in attempt to learn the game. Got myself this nice new giant Black Club which can shoot a giant metal ball now and again, once I got it I was in the zone. Even had a turn playing as Pit which was comical since I took on the Dark Pit which did turn out well, I was down to 30% and he was on 5% then somehow he got some health back and I was down to 5%. Spent the next minute running around the map being chased with me shouting "don't kill me, oh god don't kill me", lucky Lesley and the CPU finished him off and we won. The whole game was brilliant and I cannot wait to get another session on the go.
After that well I played a bit of everything to be honest, I do have Lego Batman 2 now which is amazing! probably the best Lego so far and I cannot wait to see what they do with the Lord of the Rings one. My worries about voices was thrown out the window, it works really well and you have to laugh at some of the jokes.
Ended the night with some CO-OP with my friend Mike playing Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 on hard, it was really hard and frustrating with most of the levels. Wish you could have a save point in the middle of the game because it was getting annoying when we lost having to go back and do everything all over again. Especially this one level which was broken up into three long parts, think we died four times at least so was getting a little bit sick of doing everything over and over.
Anyway enough ramblings for me, I had a blast yesterday as you can tell and now it's time to see where I stand with my challenge for the year. Probably not good since I don't think I really did any achievement hunting at the start of the week.
Week 23 - This week
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,296
Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Total So Far -
To Earn: 38,326
To Earn: 38,326
Achieved: 13,823
Difference: -22,543Dang that was a bad week for me with only 280 earned, OK this week will be good since I have Lego Batman 2 on the go and I should be working on X-men Destiny this week as well (my rental). So fingers crossed to see over a 1,000 hit this week, would love to think that I would clock both games but I'm going to be realistic about it. Also need to get back on Dynasty Warriors 7 Conquest Mode so I can clean up the game.
Before I end this post what do you guys think of the new look so far? thought I would go with the Dungeon like look since of the name and I love Minecraft. Still got plenty to do since I want to clean up the layout concerning the right hand side panel and I want to work on the different pages I've got as well. Also I will be looking at the facebook page and getting a proper logo picture sorted for it, might even get a Google+ page set up for the blog as well.
Anyway any thoughts, feedback, comments just post them below or on the Facebook page. Hope you all had a great weekend like I did, talk to you soon
~Iznic
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
A Great Week
Morning,
Last week was 100% without a doubt awesome, why do you ask? well not only did I finish the Shu Campaign in Dynasty Warriors 7 like I wanted to. But I also started and finished the Jin Campaign as well, so I've now finished all the story campaigns in the game. That makes it game number 31 for the year and I'm really happy with that result since my goal for the was just to get Shu done and start with the hopes of finishing. I will now be working on the Conquest Mode so I can try and wrap up the rest of the achievements that I'm missing which is worth about 80% of the gamer score.
Beside that I also clocked Ghost Recon as well which I really did not think would happen, when I posted last week I thought I was near the end only to find out I was barely half way through the game. I had a huge blast on Saturday and Sunday which was when I finished Dynasty Warrior as well. So that was another hopefully goal completed for the week so I hit everything I wanted too plus I can also now trade in Ghost Recon ready for Lego Batman 2. Don't get me wrong Ghost Recon is a good game but the online/co-op is really buggy for me and my mate so it's going to be a while before we do a co-op campaign together. Can pick it up again at a later date when I need it.
So time to update my challenge stats plus the year progress so far, I'm now up to 32 games on my list and one more to the 2012 new releases so on 35% done in that area as well.
Week 22 - This week
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,240
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Just had to laugh at Trueachievements since it says I'm only 15% done with my challenge and 43% of the time as gone, behind is a understatement at this point. But I think this week will turn out better since I will be working on my current rental X-men Destiny which I'm hearing is a good 1,000 gamer score plus so far I'm enjoying the game. Then end of the week See's the release of Lego Batman 2 which I cannot wait for, woot!! only down side is I just heard the Vita version is another port again so very disappointed to hear that. Going to rent it instead of buying because if it's like Harry Potter then I really do not want to waste my money on it.
Anyway that's it for my plans for the week well add in some Minecraft and Diablo 3 (really need to get a session this week), plus I want to kick start the MMO night back up again so keep your eyes open for that. I think that is it for me for this post, hope you all had a blast this week and don't forget to leave a comment on this post or facebook. Always up for hearing what you been upto! until next time folks have a good one.
~Iznic
Last week was 100% without a doubt awesome, why do you ask? well not only did I finish the Shu Campaign in Dynasty Warriors 7 like I wanted to. But I also started and finished the Jin Campaign as well, so I've now finished all the story campaigns in the game. That makes it game number 31 for the year and I'm really happy with that result since my goal for the was just to get Shu done and start with the hopes of finishing. I will now be working on the Conquest Mode so I can try and wrap up the rest of the achievements that I'm missing which is worth about 80% of the gamer score.
Beside that I also clocked Ghost Recon as well which I really did not think would happen, when I posted last week I thought I was near the end only to find out I was barely half way through the game. I had a huge blast on Saturday and Sunday which was when I finished Dynasty Warrior as well. So that was another hopefully goal completed for the week so I hit everything I wanted too plus I can also now trade in Ghost Recon ready for Lego Batman 2. Don't get me wrong Ghost Recon is a good game but the online/co-op is really buggy for me and my mate so it's going to be a while before we do a co-op campaign together. Can pick it up again at a later date when I need it.
So time to update my challenge stats plus the year progress so far, I'm now up to 32 games on my list and one more to the 2012 new releases so on 35% done in that area as well.
Week 22 - This week
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,240
Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833
Total So Far -
To Earn: 36,086
To Earn: 36,086
Achieved: 13,543
Difference: -22,543Just had to laugh at Trueachievements since it says I'm only 15% done with my challenge and 43% of the time as gone, behind is a understatement at this point. But I think this week will turn out better since I will be working on my current rental X-men Destiny which I'm hearing is a good 1,000 gamer score plus so far I'm enjoying the game. Then end of the week See's the release of Lego Batman 2 which I cannot wait for, woot!! only down side is I just heard the Vita version is another port again so very disappointed to hear that. Going to rent it instead of buying because if it's like Harry Potter then I really do not want to waste my money on it.
Anyway that's it for my plans for the week well add in some Minecraft and Diablo 3 (really need to get a session this week), plus I want to kick start the MMO night back up again so keep your eyes open for that. I think that is it for me for this post, hope you all had a blast this week and don't forget to leave a comment on this post or facebook. Always up for hearing what you been upto! until next time folks have a good one.
~Iznic
Monday, 11 June 2012
End of my Holiday
Morning,
Well its the last day of my week off and actually it ended Saturday but my two days off for this week was well placed. Going to try and fit as much gaming in today as I can although deep down I know that won't happen since I've got a lot to do.
Just updated the challenge page since another four weeks as gone by and no shock I hit zero gamer score this week, too much Minecraft in the spare time I had but I'm not going to moan since I love the game. Of course this weeks challenge will probably jump higher then usually, hang on lets take a look.
Week 21 - This week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,163
Not a bad target this week considering I hit nothing last week, doubt I will hit it this week too but I will be playing quite a few different games this week. My plan for this week is to finish the Shu campaign on Dynasty Warriors 7 since I'm over half way through it now and start the new Jing campaign (looking forward to seeing this story line for the first time), would be brilliant if I could also finish that campaign as well since then it will be playing the Conquest mode left (most time consuming part of the game).
With the CO-OP online for Ghost Recon being really bugged for me and my mate I would like to work on the solo for the time, get a few missions done this week as well. Again it would be awesome if I finished this game so I can then work on some other titles, still got X-Men Destiny to work on from Lovefilm. Also have several games calling to me as well, plus there are several games sitting on my shelves that I want to try out to see if I will like them or not.
Plus throw some Minecraft in there and that's my list for the week, going to end this post here and get to it with the rest of my day! plenty to do, have a good week folks and keep your eyes open for more posts soon.
~Iznic
Well its the last day of my week off and actually it ended Saturday but my two days off for this week was well placed. Going to try and fit as much gaming in today as I can although deep down I know that won't happen since I've got a lot to do.
Just updated the challenge page since another four weeks as gone by and no shock I hit zero gamer score this week, too much Minecraft in the spare time I had but I'm not going to moan since I love the game. Of course this weeks challenge will probably jump higher then usually, hang on lets take a look.
Week 21 - This week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,163
Total So Far -
To Earn: 33,923
To Earn: 33,923
Achieved: 13,213
Difference: -20,710Not a bad target this week considering I hit nothing last week, doubt I will hit it this week too but I will be playing quite a few different games this week. My plan for this week is to finish the Shu campaign on Dynasty Warriors 7 since I'm over half way through it now and start the new Jing campaign (looking forward to seeing this story line for the first time), would be brilliant if I could also finish that campaign as well since then it will be playing the Conquest mode left (most time consuming part of the game).
With the CO-OP online for Ghost Recon being really bugged for me and my mate I would like to work on the solo for the time, get a few missions done this week as well. Again it would be awesome if I finished this game so I can then work on some other titles, still got X-Men Destiny to work on from Lovefilm. Also have several games calling to me as well, plus there are several games sitting on my shelves that I want to try out to see if I will like them or not.
Plus throw some Minecraft in there and that's my list for the week, going to end this post here and get to it with the rest of my day! plenty to do, have a good week folks and keep your eyes open for more posts soon.
~Iznic
Results: Week 17 - 20
Total So Far -
To Earn: 33,923
To Earn: 33,923
Achieved: 13,213
Difference: -20,710Week 20
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,128
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,128
Week 19
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 325
Difference: -1,705
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Friday, 8 June 2012
The Daily Grind E3 Edition
Good Morning Folks,
Last night just as I was just about to close my eyes I suddenly realised that I did not do my weekly update about the challenge. Of course it could not be helped since it was in fact E3 week plus I'm on holiday as well so I'm pretty busy having fun, anyway so I thought I would do this Daily Grind post to catch up with everything as well as start my E3 posting with. There is so much to talk about and such little time, where does one start?
Let's start with last week and my 200,000 gamer score challenge, I did actually earn some achievements last week but not enough of course to hit the target. My new rental game arrived which was X-men Destiny which I'm actually enjoying, quite a easy and fun game and the story is pretty good so far. Have to wait and see what the rest of the game is like later on before I pass judgement on it but so far the achievements are really easy.
Week 20 - this week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,128
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,128
Week 19
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 325
Difference: -1,705
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Dang! that was a low score for last week and I really did think I was past the 500 mark, must had been earning achievements in my sleep. Think this week will be a lot worse since I can say as of right now I'm on zero, will be doing some gaming today so hopefully I can get at least one achievement .... hopefully!!
So my plans for this week? well I have no idea what I will be playing sorry, what ever takes my fancy today but I am working on Plants vs Zombies still on my Vita. Think I've only got five trophies left to get the Platinum and I'm about to get two more in a few more levels. This will be second Vita Platinum so I am quite excited about it, so I have no doubts I will be on that this week especially with the fact the last trophies are time consuming luck based ones.
Think that's enough ramblings about my challenge for a week and before I wrap this post up I think it would be a good time to announce my winner of E3. Could do with a drum roll but oh well, winner as to be Sony in my opinion. The conference was everything I wanted, games and guess what more games! they took my breath away with how amazing Last of Us looks then adding a new IP Beyond Two souls. I really need to play Heavy Rain because I know I'm missing out but I will be playing Beyond on day one that's for sure, then lets not forget showing off Assassin's Creed 3 ship battling which really shocked me (big fan of Pirates and I have been waiting a while for a good game with ships).
Assassins Creed Liberation looks amazing on the Vita and let's not forget God of War, the whole conference was great and ohhh don't forget the ton of free games for PlayStation Plus members which is about time!. Of course there was things missing in my opinion but no conference is perfect but anyway Sony won followed by Ubisoft and Nintendo joint second then Microsoft and EA last. I will be doing a series of posts talking about the conferences and of course the games will be up separately as well so stick around for all that, in the mean time what was your favourite conference? I would love to hear!
~Iznic
Last night just as I was just about to close my eyes I suddenly realised that I did not do my weekly update about the challenge. Of course it could not be helped since it was in fact E3 week plus I'm on holiday as well so I'm pretty busy having fun, anyway so I thought I would do this Daily Grind post to catch up with everything as well as start my E3 posting with. There is so much to talk about and such little time, where does one start?
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Let's start with last week and my 200,000 gamer score challenge, I did actually earn some achievements last week but not enough of course to hit the target. My new rental game arrived which was X-men Destiny which I'm actually enjoying, quite a easy and fun game and the story is pretty good so far. Have to wait and see what the rest of the game is like later on before I pass judgement on it but so far the achievements are really easy.
Week 20 - this week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,128
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,128
Week 19
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 325
Difference: -1,705
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Total So Far -
To Earn: 31,795
To Earn: 31,795
Achieved: 11,085
Difference: -20,710Dang! that was a low score for last week and I really did think I was past the 500 mark, must had been earning achievements in my sleep. Think this week will be a lot worse since I can say as of right now I'm on zero, will be doing some gaming today so hopefully I can get at least one achievement .... hopefully!!
So my plans for this week? well I have no idea what I will be playing sorry, what ever takes my fancy today but I am working on Plants vs Zombies still on my Vita. Think I've only got five trophies left to get the Platinum and I'm about to get two more in a few more levels. This will be second Vita Platinum so I am quite excited about it, so I have no doubts I will be on that this week especially with the fact the last trophies are time consuming luck based ones.
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Think that's enough ramblings about my challenge for a week and before I wrap this post up I think it would be a good time to announce my winner of E3. Could do with a drum roll but oh well, winner as to be Sony in my opinion. The conference was everything I wanted, games and guess what more games! they took my breath away with how amazing Last of Us looks then adding a new IP Beyond Two souls. I really need to play Heavy Rain because I know I'm missing out but I will be playing Beyond on day one that's for sure, then lets not forget showing off Assassin's Creed 3 ship battling which really shocked me (big fan of Pirates and I have been waiting a while for a good game with ships).
Assassins Creed Liberation looks amazing on the Vita and let's not forget God of War, the whole conference was great and ohhh don't forget the ton of free games for PlayStation Plus members which is about time!. Of course there was things missing in my opinion but no conference is perfect but anyway Sony won followed by Ubisoft and Nintendo joint second then Microsoft and EA last. I will be doing a series of posts talking about the conferences and of course the games will be up separately as well so stick around for all that, in the mean time what was your favourite conference? I would love to hear!
~Iznic
Monday, 28 May 2012
Not Fully Awake
Morning Readers,
Seriously struggling to stay away right now since I stayed up playing games last night, I had one epic co-op session yesterday that involved Minecraft and Diablo 3. I would like to post up some pictures of what we built but we didn't really make anything other then explore the world and dig a huge mine with a mine cart going into it. It was fun non the less and we now have plenty of resources from the mines to build what ever we want, once decided that is.
Diablo 3 is awesome! mind blowing good but I had a ton of problems on my machine, according to "Can I run it?" my machine can only do minimum and not recommended. CPU/Motherboard and my Graphics Card need upgrading, I was right annoyed until I remembered that my last big upgrade was over four years ago so yeah it's been a long time needed. So need to look into saving some cash so I can do a new upgrade and when I do expect blog posts of me building my nice new gaming machine. Anyway I got most of the bugs sorted but now and again I do get a black screen for a second with a freeze then it jumps back into the game, I can bare with it for the time being since its not that often.
Was playing a Barbarian and got up to level 10, as I said I'm really hooked and need to start a solo character to play on so I can enjoy the story line since it was rushing through the dialogue. I do have regrets now for not getting the collectors edition, especially when my mate is running around with the angel wings on that you get in the box.
Apart from that nothing else to announce, actually wait that's a lie right there I forgot I never posted on Friday or Saturday about the new releases. Yeah I blew my entire amount of my gift cards to pick up all these lovely goodies, think it cost me 12p in cash after my gift cards was used.
So far I've only started Ghost Recon which so far I'm really enjoying, I've got to the third mission and I do have to admit that it as got a lot more linear compared to the past ones. But the graphics, story and game play make up for it in the ways that is awesome, I love the tagging system where you mark enemies and your squad lines up the shot and await your command to fire. Makes life a lot more easier and I am getting into the story, won't spoilt it but it is good so far and easier to follow.
Need to try out the multi player since that is what I bought it for, the Ghost Recon series was one of the games that got me into co-op. In fact it was Splinter Cell Pandora's box that really started it off, playing co-op with my mate Adam. Anyway I'm determined this week to get some time on Dragons Dogma and Rune Factory so stay tuned to see some information about them later this week.
On that note I think its time to update the blog stats and see how I'm doing on my challenge this week, don't expect anything amazing but I did get a few achievements in Ghost Recon and I did start Dynasty Warriors 7 too.
Oh my god I forgot to say I clocked Captain America in the week, yes my rental is finally done woot! so another Platinum for my collection. Cannot believe I forgot all about that, so yeah that was my fourth Platinum trophy for the year and xx for all time, also it brings my score up to 29 games completed this year so getting there. Although one of my friends on twitter posted up they just did their 54th game, seriously how much free time they must have ... actually probably more like no Minecraft addiction lol.
Time for the week 18 stats to be done then and I'm expecting this week will finally hit the 2,000 gamer score a week mark.
Week 19 - This week
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,030
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Ouch! knew I would hit it this week but was still dreading to see it, I'm getting close to ending this challenge and just continue to play and enjoy games while trying to get some completed. Next week should see me behind by at least 20,000 gamer score as well, just getting crazy now lol.
So my plans for this week is to play my new releases, least put an hour on each one then I think my focus will be split across a multiple of games. I would go into detail but not sure what will happen so keep an eye out for future posts, although it probably will be Ghost Recon and some Dynasty Warriors 7 at least.
Anyway on that note I'm going to shoot and finish updating my stats page then going to play around on some games, have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great weekend.
~Iznic
Seriously struggling to stay away right now since I stayed up playing games last night, I had one epic co-op session yesterday that involved Minecraft and Diablo 3. I would like to post up some pictures of what we built but we didn't really make anything other then explore the world and dig a huge mine with a mine cart going into it. It was fun non the less and we now have plenty of resources from the mines to build what ever we want, once decided that is.
Diablo 3 is awesome! mind blowing good but I had a ton of problems on my machine, according to "Can I run it?" my machine can only do minimum and not recommended. CPU/Motherboard and my Graphics Card need upgrading, I was right annoyed until I remembered that my last big upgrade was over four years ago so yeah it's been a long time needed. So need to look into saving some cash so I can do a new upgrade and when I do expect blog posts of me building my nice new gaming machine. Anyway I got most of the bugs sorted but now and again I do get a black screen for a second with a freeze then it jumps back into the game, I can bare with it for the time being since its not that often.
Was playing a Barbarian and got up to level 10, as I said I'm really hooked and need to start a solo character to play on so I can enjoy the story line since it was rushing through the dialogue. I do have regrets now for not getting the collectors edition, especially when my mate is running around with the angel wings on that you get in the box.
Apart from that nothing else to announce, actually wait that's a lie right there I forgot I never posted on Friday or Saturday about the new releases. Yeah I blew my entire amount of my gift cards to pick up all these lovely goodies, think it cost me 12p in cash after my gift cards was used.
So far I've only started Ghost Recon which so far I'm really enjoying, I've got to the third mission and I do have to admit that it as got a lot more linear compared to the past ones. But the graphics, story and game play make up for it in the ways that is awesome, I love the tagging system where you mark enemies and your squad lines up the shot and await your command to fire. Makes life a lot more easier and I am getting into the story, won't spoilt it but it is good so far and easier to follow.
Need to try out the multi player since that is what I bought it for, the Ghost Recon series was one of the games that got me into co-op. In fact it was Splinter Cell Pandora's box that really started it off, playing co-op with my mate Adam. Anyway I'm determined this week to get some time on Dragons Dogma and Rune Factory so stay tuned to see some information about them later this week.
On that note I think its time to update the blog stats and see how I'm doing on my challenge this week, don't expect anything amazing but I did get a few achievements in Ghost Recon and I did start Dynasty Warriors 7 too.
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Gutting I forgot to add Diablo 3 to the 2012 list next so with these three as well now I'm up to twenty games bought for the year, dropped down to 30% completed so far from 38%. Not worried yet since still got over half a year to clean up, of course November will kill me like normal lol.
Oh my god I forgot to say I clocked Captain America in the week, yes my rental is finally done woot! so another Platinum for my collection. Cannot believe I forgot all about that, so yeah that was my fourth Platinum trophy for the year and xx for all time, also it brings my score up to 29 games completed this year so getting there. Although one of my friends on twitter posted up they just did their 54th game, seriously how much free time they must have ... actually probably more like no Minecraft addiction lol.
Time for the week 18 stats to be done then and I'm expecting this week will finally hit the 2,000 gamer score a week mark.
Week 19 - This week
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,030
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Total So Far -
To Earn: 29,765
To Earn: 29,765
Achieved: 10,760
Difference: -19,005Ouch! knew I would hit it this week but was still dreading to see it, I'm getting close to ending this challenge and just continue to play and enjoy games while trying to get some completed. Next week should see me behind by at least 20,000 gamer score as well, just getting crazy now lol.
So my plans for this week is to play my new releases, least put an hour on each one then I think my focus will be split across a multiple of games. I would go into detail but not sure what will happen so keep an eye out for future posts, although it probably will be Ghost Recon and some Dynasty Warriors 7 at least.
Anyway on that note I'm going to shoot and finish updating my stats page then going to play around on some games, have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great weekend.
~Iznic
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Weekly Roundup
Morning folks,
Well looks like blogspot is back to normal so I can now get on with the posts finally, got at least two today since I had a epic 10 hour marathon of Minecraft with some friends on Sunday so I'm going to cover that next. Currently trying to update the challenge stats but I just this second noticed that the TrueAchievements website was not up to date and in fact the last recording was 15th May. I use that website to keep track of my progress for the year and it comes back with the average gamer score I need to earn each day which I use to work out my weekly target. So with it being out of date for so long this means the stats I did on Thursday where out of date in the ways of what I need to earn, oh well lesson learnt I just need to pay attention more and anyway I think the scan is done so going to take a look now.
Week 18 - This week
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.974
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Yup it was out of date but not by much, the average before was 284 a day and its now 282 so only a small drop but it does add up overall in the long run. Last weeks points mostly came from finishing the story of Sniper V2 and doing a few of the Plants vs Zombies achievements, have to say it's a lot harder on the main consoles compared to the Vita version.
Hmm not sure where my achievements will come from this week since I have no Xbox game lined up, still playing Captain America on the PS3 and trying to do a level or two a day. Might see some achievements at the end of the week with Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Dragon's Dogma since I'm picking them both up. Might go through my collection in a bit and see if I can pick something to work over the next few days, although I have been thinking about starting Dynasty Warriors 7. I will not get that done by Friday since its a very long game but I could start getting the ball rolling on it.
Oh yeah I should be starting Diablo 3 this week finally, still not tried it yet just installed it and that was that. Friend of mine is picking it up so we going to do some co-op on it, in fact think we planned for tomorrow so I need to re-organise MMO Night and get that back on track.
Well looks like blogspot is back to normal so I can now get on with the posts finally, got at least two today since I had a epic 10 hour marathon of Minecraft with some friends on Sunday so I'm going to cover that next. Currently trying to update the challenge stats but I just this second noticed that the TrueAchievements website was not up to date and in fact the last recording was 15th May. I use that website to keep track of my progress for the year and it comes back with the average gamer score I need to earn each day which I use to work out my weekly target. So with it being out of date for so long this means the stats I did on Thursday where out of date in the ways of what I need to earn, oh well lesson learnt I just need to pay attention more and anyway I think the scan is done so going to take a look now.
Week 18 - This week
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.974
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Total So Far -
To Earn: 27,791
To Earn: 27,791
Achieved: 10,595
Difference: -17,196Yup it was out of date but not by much, the average before was 284 a day and its now 282 so only a small drop but it does add up overall in the long run. Last weeks points mostly came from finishing the story of Sniper V2 and doing a few of the Plants vs Zombies achievements, have to say it's a lot harder on the main consoles compared to the Vita version.
Hmm not sure where my achievements will come from this week since I have no Xbox game lined up, still playing Captain America on the PS3 and trying to do a level or two a day. Might see some achievements at the end of the week with Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Dragon's Dogma since I'm picking them both up. Might go through my collection in a bit and see if I can pick something to work over the next few days, although I have been thinking about starting Dynasty Warriors 7. I will not get that done by Friday since its a very long game but I could start getting the ball rolling on it.
Oh yeah I should be starting Diablo 3 this week finally, still not tried it yet just installed it and that was that. Friend of mine is picking it up so we going to do some co-op on it, in fact think we planned for tomorrow so I need to re-organise MMO Night and get that back on track.
Apart from that folks not much else to talk about other then not long now for E3, think I'm going to call it for now and get on with my Minecraft Episode post.
Have a good one folks,
~Iznic
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Running Late
Morning,
So I'm nearly a week overdue with my post but I got here in the end, my Minecraft addiction took over but it's under control for now. Of course thanks to my week of non stop gaming on Minecraft and the chaos of my social life the week before that I'm really behind with ... well ... everything!
My Captain America (PS3) rental is still in it's unopened envelope that I had a few weeks back so that's costing me right now, still not got any further with Sniper V2 and I want to trade that in next week for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Also not done a MMO night in over two weeks now and still not got onto the beta for World of Warcraft Mists of Panderia.
Picked up Kid Icarus last week to give it a shot and that is now currently sitting on my desk sealed along with Dynasty Warriors Next for the Vita. Oh and just before I got into Minecraft I was getting quite far into working towards the Platinum trophy for Plants vs Zombies on the Vita, was doing all the side games etc.
Think I need to go bang my head against the wall for a bit since I got too much to do in such a little time. First I think it's about time I updated last week stats which should only be the 400g I got for clocking Minecraft, yeah it's not shocking I got that finished last week but it was nice to have my first 400g arcade game.
Week 17 - This Week
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,953
Just archived the last four weeks stats and they can be found on the challenges page. Last week did see me hit just short of 500 gamer score so not too bad I guess but I can see next week hitting 2k to earn each week. But I be more happy if I can catch up on my gaming and oh dear lord I forgot I got Diablo 3 to play as well, told you I was massively behind!!
So I guess it would be wise to do a battle plan for what's left of this week, think my focus will be on finishing Sniper V2 ready for next week. After that I have no doubts in my mind that I will be on Minecraft since I got several projects on the go currently. Building a giant fortress in world one, world two is co-op survival fun and world three is survival solo.
Right I'm off, going to go update my stats pages then hit Sniper and hopefully I can report later that I did at least two levels.
Have a good one folks
~Iznic
So I'm nearly a week overdue with my post but I got here in the end, my Minecraft addiction took over but it's under control for now. Of course thanks to my week of non stop gaming on Minecraft and the chaos of my social life the week before that I'm really behind with ... well ... everything!
My Captain America (PS3) rental is still in it's unopened envelope that I had a few weeks back so that's costing me right now, still not got any further with Sniper V2 and I want to trade that in next week for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Also not done a MMO night in over two weeks now and still not got onto the beta for World of Warcraft Mists of Panderia.
Picked up Kid Icarus last week to give it a shot and that is now currently sitting on my desk sealed along with Dynasty Warriors Next for the Vita. Oh and just before I got into Minecraft I was getting quite far into working towards the Platinum trophy for Plants vs Zombies on the Vita, was doing all the side games etc.
Think I need to go bang my head against the wall for a bit since I got too much to do in such a little time. First I think it's about time I updated last week stats which should only be the 400g I got for clocking Minecraft, yeah it's not shocking I got that finished last week but it was nice to have my first 400g arcade game.
Week 17 - This Week
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,953
Total So Far -
To Earn: 25,838
To Earn: 25,838
Achieved: 10,225
Difference: -15,613Just archived the last four weeks stats and they can be found on the challenges page. Last week did see me hit just short of 500 gamer score so not too bad I guess but I can see next week hitting 2k to earn each week. But I be more happy if I can catch up on my gaming and oh dear lord I forgot I got Diablo 3 to play as well, told you I was massively behind!!
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So I guess it would be wise to do a battle plan for what's left of this week, think my focus will be on finishing Sniper V2 ready for next week. After that I have no doubts in my mind that I will be on Minecraft since I got several projects on the go currently. Building a giant fortress in world one, world two is co-op survival fun and world three is survival solo.
Right I'm off, going to go update my stats pages then hit Sniper and hopefully I can report later that I did at least two levels.
Have a good one folks
~Iznic
Results: Week 13-16
Total So Far -
Week 16
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 495
Difference: -1.409
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
To Earn: 25,838
Achieved: 10,225
Difference: -15,613 Week 16
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 495
Difference: -1.409
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Monday, 7 May 2012
The Daily Grind - End of a Week
Morning Folks,
I swear these weeks are going by too fast and I still cannot believe I'm doing my weekly Monday post again. Been another busy week but this time I did get a lot more gaming which you all should know from reading my posts. Very proud of myself for finishing of Mass Effect 3 and Batman Arkham City (PC) this week, they where part of the three games I wanted to finish off before I did anything else. Right now my attention is on Sniper V2 which just came out last Friday, it's not a bad game but does a few annoying game mechanics. Anyway my focus is to clock it this week and probably do all the co-op with my mate, after that I will either go for the full 1,000 gamer score or trade it in while it's still high trade in value.
Think it's time to update the stats for my challenge and this year's progress page, so with Kinectimals (WP7) also been clocked this week it means I've done three more games this week so I'm now up to twenty six games completed for the year. Not bad so far and I am now just at the half way point to matching last year for the games completed. Also thanks to Mass Effect 3 I'm now up to four of the 2012 games releases completed but I did add two more to the purchase list, so now on 31% so again not a bad number.
Week 16 - This week
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.904
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
I am shocked with this weeks results due to the fact I thought the score would be a lot higher with the fact I clocked three games this week, was expecting around the 800 marker. Oh well it's not the end of the world, anyway time for me to shoot since I need to get ready for work. Would like to say I will be posting later but no promises, until then have a good one folks!
~Iznic
I swear these weeks are going by too fast and I still cannot believe I'm doing my weekly Monday post again. Been another busy week but this time I did get a lot more gaming which you all should know from reading my posts. Very proud of myself for finishing of Mass Effect 3 and Batman Arkham City (PC) this week, they where part of the three games I wanted to finish off before I did anything else. Right now my attention is on Sniper V2 which just came out last Friday, it's not a bad game but does a few annoying game mechanics. Anyway my focus is to clock it this week and probably do all the co-op with my mate, after that I will either go for the full 1,000 gamer score or trade it in while it's still high trade in value.
Think it's time to update the stats for my challenge and this year's progress page, so with Kinectimals (WP7) also been clocked this week it means I've done three more games this week so I'm now up to twenty six games completed for the year. Not bad so far and I am now just at the half way point to matching last year for the games completed. Also thanks to Mass Effect 3 I'm now up to four of the 2012 games releases completed but I did add two more to the purchase list, so now on 31% so again not a bad number.
Week 16 - This week
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.904
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Total So Far -
To Earn: 23,934
To Earn: 23,934
Achieved:9,730
Difference: -14,204I am shocked with this weeks results due to the fact I thought the score would be a lot higher with the fact I clocked three games this week, was expecting around the 800 marker. Oh well it's not the end of the world, anyway time for me to shoot since I need to get ready for work. Would like to say I will be posting later but no promises, until then have a good one folks!
~Iznic
Monday, 30 April 2012
The Daily Grind Issue Three
Good Morning Folks,
Cannot believe how fast these weeks are going right now and I cannot believe its been a week since I planned out bringing back the Daily Grind. Think I will start this issue with the challenge results for last week and how it went with the week then go into my plans for this week.
Well as you all can remember from my last posts I wanted to focus on finishing off several games before I got myself into anything else. So I had a massive marathon over the several days and did clock the story for Marvel Superhero Squad Infinity Gauntlet and Plants vs Zombies (Vita).
Over the weekend I also put my full attention on Mass Effect 3 finally and I'm now very close to the ending, which I would say expect to see a finish post any day now. In fact it was all I did yesterday since my mate did not bother to turn up on the afternoon for our planned achievement marathon, was a bit gutted since I did not want to get into anything so I felt like I wasted some time waiting.
But anyway back to the point, Mass Effect 3 is awesome and I keep kicking myself for waiting this long to get into it. I really want to get the full galaxy ready achievement before I finish though. so might have to do a big multiplayer marathon to increase the percent before I do the ending. I have got the ios app game on the go as well to help me rise the percent up but still only just over 50% so far.
That was it for yesterday other then quickly jumping on Gears of War 3 for the latest weekend event, one more event and I've clocked the Silver Medal for the social events. Actually that was a lie I just remembered while I was waiting for my mate I did play several demo's and trials. I thought I would finally check out Sniper V2 and got to say "WOW", never been a huge fan of sniper games since well I suck at them and usually they poorly made as well. Anyway I failed straight away since I was sneaking through some ruins and did not see the guard but soon as I restarted I fell in love with the game. It's everything you expect from a sniper game, the harder the difficulty the more you have to take in (e.g. wind drift, distance etc). Since I suck at the games I tried out casual and I was amazed how great it was, the A.I doesn't instantly know where you are if you fire a shot. They panic and search around trying to find you, if you keep firing from a spot that's in their eye sight then yes they will spot you. Fire from a distance and behind lots of cover they have no clue and try to flush you out.
Kill cam was a also a nice gruesome feature, watching the x ray vision of the bullet going through them can make you a little queasy but satisfied at the same time for such a good shot. I will be putting a pre-order down later for the game since it's out Friday and I have no doubts I probably will be on it this weekend (I know I said I wouldn't buy any more or play any more until this lot is sorted but will explain later in this post).
After that I did try out the South Park Tenorman's Revenge arcade game, it's a lot like the Mario games to be fair. A side scrolling action game where most of the time you jumping on top of ginger kid terminators with Cartman, I did enjoy it but I wouldn't go out of my way to say brilliant well not yet anyway. Finally I did try out that Deep Water game I mentioned in my upcoming games but I died straight away in the tutorial, game as brilliant graphics and it's a third person shooter but think I've got a lot to learn but I can see it being a good game. Will be giving it another go in the week before I buy it so keep an eye open for a later Daily Grind post.
So it's about time for the stats for my challenge from last week, drum roll please....
Week 15 - This week
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,848
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Only a third of the required score achieved which is not that bad considering I did most of that with Marvel on one day, Mass Effect is giving me achievements but only a few 15g's at a time. Should get a nice boost when I finally clock the game, plus once I done that I'm jumping back on Batman Arkham City PC where the later levels give a lot so fingers crossed that this week could see me hitting the target.
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With that out of the way time to talk about this week and what I want to do, well I said I want to clock Mass Effect 3 but I really want to get the 100% theatre of war achievement and the go to war with assets so all depends how that goes first. Batman Arkham City PC will be next as well this week when I finish that or maybe even played on the side while I work on those achievements.
After nearly a week of thinking about it I've decided that I probably will trade in the games I would not want to keep when I finish them, the piles are huge right now and I just don't see myself playing most of them any time soon. GAME as still got it's trade in promotion on where you get extra £10 for every three games so I might as well take them in and get credit ready for all the new games. Can always rent them when I'm ready to play them or pick up them up again at later date only when I got the time to play them.
Also the credit can be used against Sniper V2 since I do want the game and I can see myself playing it this weekend, that's why I will be getting it. Anyway back to the plans this week and I've actually got quite a lot of time to myself this week, Wednesday I'm off so expect a longer MMO Night again. Friday and Saturday I'm hoping to do some more Red Alert 3 co-op with another mate and fingers crossed we can get the Japanese campaign finished on hard (Russian already done).
Expecting a good week for gaming and on that note I'm going to log off, get some gaming done today. Hope you all had a great weekend and got a nice week ahead of you, have a good one!
~Iznic
Cannot believe how fast these weeks are going right now and I cannot believe its been a week since I planned out bringing back the Daily Grind. Think I will start this issue with the challenge results for last week and how it went with the week then go into my plans for this week.
Well as you all can remember from my last posts I wanted to focus on finishing off several games before I got myself into anything else. So I had a massive marathon over the several days and did clock the story for Marvel Superhero Squad Infinity Gauntlet and Plants vs Zombies (Vita).
Over the weekend I also put my full attention on Mass Effect 3 finally and I'm now very close to the ending, which I would say expect to see a finish post any day now. In fact it was all I did yesterday since my mate did not bother to turn up on the afternoon for our planned achievement marathon, was a bit gutted since I did not want to get into anything so I felt like I wasted some time waiting.
But anyway back to the point, Mass Effect 3 is awesome and I keep kicking myself for waiting this long to get into it. I really want to get the full galaxy ready achievement before I finish though. so might have to do a big multiplayer marathon to increase the percent before I do the ending. I have got the ios app game on the go as well to help me rise the percent up but still only just over 50% so far.
That was it for yesterday other then quickly jumping on Gears of War 3 for the latest weekend event, one more event and I've clocked the Silver Medal for the social events. Actually that was a lie I just remembered while I was waiting for my mate I did play several demo's and trials. I thought I would finally check out Sniper V2 and got to say "WOW", never been a huge fan of sniper games since well I suck at them and usually they poorly made as well. Anyway I failed straight away since I was sneaking through some ruins and did not see the guard but soon as I restarted I fell in love with the game. It's everything you expect from a sniper game, the harder the difficulty the more you have to take in (e.g. wind drift, distance etc). Since I suck at the games I tried out casual and I was amazed how great it was, the A.I doesn't instantly know where you are if you fire a shot. They panic and search around trying to find you, if you keep firing from a spot that's in their eye sight then yes they will spot you. Fire from a distance and behind lots of cover they have no clue and try to flush you out.
Kill cam was a also a nice gruesome feature, watching the x ray vision of the bullet going through them can make you a little queasy but satisfied at the same time for such a good shot. I will be putting a pre-order down later for the game since it's out Friday and I have no doubts I probably will be on it this weekend (I know I said I wouldn't buy any more or play any more until this lot is sorted but will explain later in this post).
After that I did try out the South Park Tenorman's Revenge arcade game, it's a lot like the Mario games to be fair. A side scrolling action game where most of the time you jumping on top of ginger kid terminators with Cartman, I did enjoy it but I wouldn't go out of my way to say brilliant well not yet anyway. Finally I did try out that Deep Water game I mentioned in my upcoming games but I died straight away in the tutorial, game as brilliant graphics and it's a third person shooter but think I've got a lot to learn but I can see it being a good game. Will be giving it another go in the week before I buy it so keep an eye open for a later Daily Grind post.
So it's about time for the stats for my challenge from last week, drum roll please....
Week 15 - This week
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,848
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Total So Far -
To Earn: 22,086
To Earn: 22,086
Achieved:9,085
Difference: -13,001Only a third of the required score achieved which is not that bad considering I did most of that with Marvel on one day, Mass Effect is giving me achievements but only a few 15g's at a time. Should get a nice boost when I finally clock the game, plus once I done that I'm jumping back on Batman Arkham City PC where the later levels give a lot so fingers crossed that this week could see me hitting the target.
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With that out of the way time to talk about this week and what I want to do, well I said I want to clock Mass Effect 3 but I really want to get the 100% theatre of war achievement and the go to war with assets so all depends how that goes first. Batman Arkham City PC will be next as well this week when I finish that or maybe even played on the side while I work on those achievements.
After nearly a week of thinking about it I've decided that I probably will trade in the games I would not want to keep when I finish them, the piles are huge right now and I just don't see myself playing most of them any time soon. GAME as still got it's trade in promotion on where you get extra £10 for every three games so I might as well take them in and get credit ready for all the new games. Can always rent them when I'm ready to play them or pick up them up again at later date only when I got the time to play them.
Also the credit can be used against Sniper V2 since I do want the game and I can see myself playing it this weekend, that's why I will be getting it. Anyway back to the plans this week and I've actually got quite a lot of time to myself this week, Wednesday I'm off so expect a longer MMO Night again. Friday and Saturday I'm hoping to do some more Red Alert 3 co-op with another mate and fingers crossed we can get the Japanese campaign finished on hard (Russian already done).
Expecting a good week for gaming and on that note I'm going to log off, get some gaming done today. Hope you all had a great weekend and got a nice week ahead of you, have a good one!
~Iznic
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Second Issue
Welcome to another Issue of the Daily Grind,
My gaming progress as improved a lot since Issue one a few days ago, happy to report I had a big marathon on the Marvel Superheroes game and did not realise I had only got the last level left. Tuesday night I had a small session on Plants vs Zombie's on the Vita while watching TV with the girlfriend, again ended with a few levels left. So yesterday after I finished my MMO night marathon I went for it and clocked both, so both stories are now done. I will mop up the other trophies on Plants vs Zombies at a later date but for now going to focus on Uncharted Golden Abyss, it deserves to be finished.
In the way of Marvel I've still got over the gamer score to go, its mostly doing the heroic feats, collectibles and challenges. I will be working on these for the time being mostly because it is a enjoyable game and I want the 1,000 gamer score, after that I might try out the expansion packs but will have to see on that part.
Just updated the stats page for my 2012 Progress so far and it's looking good, I'm now up to twenty three games finished so far which is nearly half way to what I did last year. Not bad at all to say we not five months into the year so far and hopefully it will stay on track, all though I'm more concerned about enjoying the games then clocking them.
I've also sorted out my 2012 brought list and it now includes Plants vs Zombie's and the Welcome Park both for Vita, completely forget to add them and with that I'm now three out of elven so 27% of the new releases this year I've bought have been completed. I would say I'm aiming to get over half done but if last year is anything to go by it won't happen, too much came out in the last few months of the year and killed the percentage.
I know I keep saying I not worried about stats and just want to enjoy games, that is the truth and I use the stats just to see where I am. I hate having a back pile and I would like to think one day that there won't be a back pile, every time I buy a new game I can just sit down and enjoy it then done. Not thinking that I got twenty plus games waiting to be done after this, or I need to shelve it because it takes too long and I rather spend the time on a smaller game.
So with that sorted I think I might do a few posts that I keep saying I will put up then get on with some gaming, I have been thinking about some changes to the blog. New colour scheme with a new template, although the first thing I really need to do is a logo for the blog finally. There is so much to do and so little time for it, well I better get on
~Iznic
P.S. This post could be part one of two as I might do a follow up later, I was thinking of just saving it in the drafts then adding later but thought its better just post it in parts. Anyway we will see what happens later.
My gaming progress as improved a lot since Issue one a few days ago, happy to report I had a big marathon on the Marvel Superheroes game and did not realise I had only got the last level left. Tuesday night I had a small session on Plants vs Zombie's on the Vita while watching TV with the girlfriend, again ended with a few levels left. So yesterday after I finished my MMO night marathon I went for it and clocked both, so both stories are now done. I will mop up the other trophies on Plants vs Zombies at a later date but for now going to focus on Uncharted Golden Abyss, it deserves to be finished.
In the way of Marvel I've still got over the gamer score to go, its mostly doing the heroic feats, collectibles and challenges. I will be working on these for the time being mostly because it is a enjoyable game and I want the 1,000 gamer score, after that I might try out the expansion packs but will have to see on that part.
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Just updated the stats page for my 2012 Progress so far and it's looking good, I'm now up to twenty three games finished so far which is nearly half way to what I did last year. Not bad at all to say we not five months into the year so far and hopefully it will stay on track, all though I'm more concerned about enjoying the games then clocking them.
I've also sorted out my 2012 brought list and it now includes Plants vs Zombie's and the Welcome Park both for Vita, completely forget to add them and with that I'm now three out of elven so 27% of the new releases this year I've bought have been completed. I would say I'm aiming to get over half done but if last year is anything to go by it won't happen, too much came out in the last few months of the year and killed the percentage.
I know I keep saying I not worried about stats and just want to enjoy games, that is the truth and I use the stats just to see where I am. I hate having a back pile and I would like to think one day that there won't be a back pile, every time I buy a new game I can just sit down and enjoy it then done. Not thinking that I got twenty plus games waiting to be done after this, or I need to shelve it because it takes too long and I rather spend the time on a smaller game.
So with that sorted I think I might do a few posts that I keep saying I will put up then get on with some gaming, I have been thinking about some changes to the blog. New colour scheme with a new template, although the first thing I really need to do is a logo for the blog finally. There is so much to do and so little time for it, well I better get on
~Iznic
P.S. This post could be part one of two as I might do a follow up later, I was thinking of just saving it in the drafts then adding later but thought its better just post it in parts. Anyway we will see what happens later.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The Daily Grind - Issue One
Good Morning Folks,
I am pleased to report that the new and improved "The Daily Grind" is back for business once again, for those who don't remember or are new to the site. The Daily Grind was a series of posts about my gaming time each day, I went into quite a bit of detail about everything I was doing. Of course I did find myself spending too much time writing then playing so it did start to be reduced and then eventually I just stopped altogether.
So why a new improved version and what will it cover? well this year as been one big kick to the teeth and it's been getting me real down. No doubt you have noticed my rants when I do my weekly general posts since it's been effecting my game time. Yesterday I was writing the post for last week and it was pretty much just one big post of ranting and whining, after two attempts at the post I gave up on it.
But it then came to me it was a brand new week and think it was time for a new start, my pile of shame as got to the worst I've ever seen it. Just looking at the pile by my desk I'm counting roughly 57 Xbox 360 games, 35 PC games, 2 Wii Games and around 15 PS3 games, that's just pile one of many. It's coming to the point that I've been thinking about just grabbing the games that I would not keep after finishing and just trade them in right now since I doubt I got enough time in the year to work on all of them. But I don't want to go down that path yet and that's how this fresh start comes into play, this new series of posts will cover all the general stuff that I normally post but will also keep everyone updated on my progress on the pile. Plus it will be a great for motivating me as well, so welcome back to "The Daily Grind" and this is issue one of hopefully many posts.
Think the best place to start this issue off is with last week gaming which you all probably know sucked a lot since I spent most of my time off in the middle of the week in bed with a bad head. But I was able to get in a good blast of gaming this weekend, while I was out I did a few more levels of Plants vs Zombies on the Vita. Love that game to bits but I did forget how hard it can be sometimes if you not prepared, especially the night times with a pool.
Sunday I was planning to get some jobs done but in the end I spent the afternoon and evening doing a giant Gears of War 3 marathon, started off with Act 5 on Insane complete. Felt very proud watching the final boss die on insane although most of the palace guards did not show up and after all that hard work to get the Vampire Mutator to help us. Anyway after that we just had a big session of Beast and Horde mode, nothing special to report there other then picked up a few achievements and grinding a few stats towards the Seriously 3.0 achievement (very long way off still).
On that note time to update the stats of my challenge:
Week 14 - This week
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.820
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Dang! I'm way off target for the year and to say I'm only a few months in the challenge that's crazy. Going to be a lot hard to get that 1,800 a week right now, pretty much two games fully clocked a week plus need to crawl back that 11k.
Not sure on how I'm going to do but if I played the games that I do have I probably could smash this challenge, speaking of that I might as well write out what I want to do this week and how I'm going to get through my pile of shame. I do read a lot of gamer blogs and follow several friends who have the same problem when it comes to games, I love seeing their solutions to their problems. Everything from playing one game at time until it's fully clocked up to having ten games on the go with new ones replacing completed ones.
Personally I've not decided on what I want to do yet but I do have the start planned out and it's based on three games. First one is Mass Effect 3 which I've put 28 hours into so far and I'm ashamed of myself for not finishing it by now, well I can understand why I had a late start but the last few weeks I've had plenty of time to work on it. I call myself a fan boy of the series and yet I'm letting the Reapers win. Second game is my rental from Lovefilm, Marvel Superhero Squad Infinite Gauntlet, it's not a bad game and it works a lot like the Lego games. So far I'm three or four levels into the game so about halfway through of course once the story is finished need to do all the collectibles, challenges etc.
Finally the last game I had completely forgot about until I was watching a trailer yesterday and that's Batman Arkham City on the PC. I was half way through the game earlier this year and I got no clue on why it was shelved, I want to say something came out but I cannot for the love of money remember what. Anyway these three games I want to finish up before I even start to think about doing anything else, after that then I can come up with a plan.
Speaking of pile of shames, what about you readers? do you giant piles of games to complete and how do you cope with getting through it.
Just remembered I will be playing my handhelds on the weekend still since I cannot take my main consoles with me, but I will be doing the same with those in the ways of I need to finish Plants vs Zombies before I even think of doing anything else. Maybe after that work on Pokemon Rumble again or start Dr Lautrec, ohhh dang! I just remembered Uncharted on the Vita needs finishing and I started Pokemon White. See what I mean by needing to get my ass into gear, it's going to be a interesting few months.
Anyway I'm going to head off and start playing some games, I will be doing some more posts later so keep your eyes open for that.
Have a good one folks and hope you liked the first issue
~Iznic
I am pleased to report that the new and improved "The Daily Grind" is back for business once again, for those who don't remember or are new to the site. The Daily Grind was a series of posts about my gaming time each day, I went into quite a bit of detail about everything I was doing. Of course I did find myself spending too much time writing then playing so it did start to be reduced and then eventually I just stopped altogether.
So why a new improved version and what will it cover? well this year as been one big kick to the teeth and it's been getting me real down. No doubt you have noticed my rants when I do my weekly general posts since it's been effecting my game time. Yesterday I was writing the post for last week and it was pretty much just one big post of ranting and whining, after two attempts at the post I gave up on it.
But it then came to me it was a brand new week and think it was time for a new start, my pile of shame as got to the worst I've ever seen it. Just looking at the pile by my desk I'm counting roughly 57 Xbox 360 games, 35 PC games, 2 Wii Games and around 15 PS3 games, that's just pile one of many. It's coming to the point that I've been thinking about just grabbing the games that I would not keep after finishing and just trade them in right now since I doubt I got enough time in the year to work on all of them. But I don't want to go down that path yet and that's how this fresh start comes into play, this new series of posts will cover all the general stuff that I normally post but will also keep everyone updated on my progress on the pile. Plus it will be a great for motivating me as well, so welcome back to "The Daily Grind" and this is issue one of hopefully many posts.
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Think the best place to start this issue off is with last week gaming which you all probably know sucked a lot since I spent most of my time off in the middle of the week in bed with a bad head. But I was able to get in a good blast of gaming this weekend, while I was out I did a few more levels of Plants vs Zombies on the Vita. Love that game to bits but I did forget how hard it can be sometimes if you not prepared, especially the night times with a pool.
Sunday I was planning to get some jobs done but in the end I spent the afternoon and evening doing a giant Gears of War 3 marathon, started off with Act 5 on Insane complete. Felt very proud watching the final boss die on insane although most of the palace guards did not show up and after all that hard work to get the Vampire Mutator to help us. Anyway after that we just had a big session of Beast and Horde mode, nothing special to report there other then picked up a few achievements and grinding a few stats towards the Seriously 3.0 achievement (very long way off still).
On that note time to update the stats of my challenge:
Week 14 - This week
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.820
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Total So Far -
To Earn: 20,266
To Earn: 20,266
Achieved: 8,420
Difference: -11,846Dang! I'm way off target for the year and to say I'm only a few months in the challenge that's crazy. Going to be a lot hard to get that 1,800 a week right now, pretty much two games fully clocked a week plus need to crawl back that 11k.
Not sure on how I'm going to do but if I played the games that I do have I probably could smash this challenge, speaking of that I might as well write out what I want to do this week and how I'm going to get through my pile of shame. I do read a lot of gamer blogs and follow several friends who have the same problem when it comes to games, I love seeing their solutions to their problems. Everything from playing one game at time until it's fully clocked up to having ten games on the go with new ones replacing completed ones.
Personally I've not decided on what I want to do yet but I do have the start planned out and it's based on three games. First one is Mass Effect 3 which I've put 28 hours into so far and I'm ashamed of myself for not finishing it by now, well I can understand why I had a late start but the last few weeks I've had plenty of time to work on it. I call myself a fan boy of the series and yet I'm letting the Reapers win. Second game is my rental from Lovefilm, Marvel Superhero Squad Infinite Gauntlet, it's not a bad game and it works a lot like the Lego games. So far I'm three or four levels into the game so about halfway through of course once the story is finished need to do all the collectibles, challenges etc.
Finally the last game I had completely forgot about until I was watching a trailer yesterday and that's Batman Arkham City on the PC. I was half way through the game earlier this year and I got no clue on why it was shelved, I want to say something came out but I cannot for the love of money remember what. Anyway these three games I want to finish up before I even start to think about doing anything else, after that then I can come up with a plan.
Speaking of pile of shames, what about you readers? do you giant piles of games to complete and how do you cope with getting through it.
Just remembered I will be playing my handhelds on the weekend still since I cannot take my main consoles with me, but I will be doing the same with those in the ways of I need to finish Plants vs Zombies before I even think of doing anything else. Maybe after that work on Pokemon Rumble again or start Dr Lautrec, ohhh dang! I just remembered Uncharted on the Vita needs finishing and I started Pokemon White. See what I mean by needing to get my ass into gear, it's going to be a interesting few months.
Anyway I'm going to head off and start playing some games, I will be doing some more posts later so keep your eyes open for that.
Have a good one folks and hope you liked the first issue
~Iznic
Monday, 16 April 2012
Good Morning Post
Morning folks,
Just updating the stats on my progress for the year along with the challenge stats, just archived the last four weeks of the challenges (link is on the challenge page, weeks 9-12). Cannot believe this is week thirteen of my challenge, it really does not feel like three months since I started this. Anyway last week was the worst week so far since I only gained 85 points for the entire week, this was due to fact I was working on Lego Harry Potter for the Vita which I did clock yesterday and got the Platinum for. So it was cool that I got my first Vita Platinum but at the at same time it was disappointing to get so little gamer score.
Week 13 - This week
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,778
So far I'm down by 10k for the year and my god that is a lot of points, it's amazing to think if I was on track I would be on 144k. This week I really want to hit that 135k mark since the last few thousands as dragged on for a while, I want to try and get a good score this week. But in truth what I really want to do is get some of my old clocked, my game collection is like a giant snowball that's rolling down a mountain and getting bigger every second. Right now Warriors Orochi 3 as just been released and I want it, this week sees Witcher 2 and Disagea for the Vita launching as well. Way too much stuff coming out and a lot more to finish off, could do with the year off to be honest.
Anyway back to the stats update, just updating the 2012 progress page now and Lego Harry was my 21st game to be finished this year. Very proud of the list so far and it was even better since it was launched this year so I've finally starting to clear the new releases, currently on one out of six (17%). Yes the list as increased to six since work as finally start to get new stock so when I went in on my last shift, right in front of me was Shogun 2 Total War Fall of the Samurai. My will power just went out of the window and it was bought, did play a skirmish game yesterday and my god was it hard but I did win in the end for it to only crash. Need to look into what caused that since my PC should be powerful enough to run it without trouble.
So that's it for the stats for the week, I will be working on a few games this week but knowing me I will start a few more on top of that as well. Have a good one folks and I hope you all had a good week too,
~Iznic
Just updating the stats on my progress for the year along with the challenge stats, just archived the last four weeks of the challenges (link is on the challenge page, weeks 9-12). Cannot believe this is week thirteen of my challenge, it really does not feel like three months since I started this. Anyway last week was the worst week so far since I only gained 85 points for the entire week, this was due to fact I was working on Lego Harry Potter for the Vita which I did clock yesterday and got the Platinum for. So it was cool that I got my first Vita Platinum but at the at same time it was disappointing to get so little gamer score.
Week 13 - This week
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,778
Total So Far -
To Earn: 18,488
To Earn: 18,488
Achieved: 8,080
Difference: -10,408So far I'm down by 10k for the year and my god that is a lot of points, it's amazing to think if I was on track I would be on 144k. This week I really want to hit that 135k mark since the last few thousands as dragged on for a while, I want to try and get a good score this week. But in truth what I really want to do is get some of my old clocked, my game collection is like a giant snowball that's rolling down a mountain and getting bigger every second. Right now Warriors Orochi 3 as just been released and I want it, this week sees Witcher 2 and Disagea for the Vita launching as well. Way too much stuff coming out and a lot more to finish off, could do with the year off to be honest.
Anyway back to the stats update, just updating the 2012 progress page now and Lego Harry was my 21st game to be finished this year. Very proud of the list so far and it was even better since it was launched this year so I've finally starting to clear the new releases, currently on one out of six (17%). Yes the list as increased to six since work as finally start to get new stock so when I went in on my last shift, right in front of me was Shogun 2 Total War Fall of the Samurai. My will power just went out of the window and it was bought, did play a skirmish game yesterday and my god was it hard but I did win in the end for it to only crash. Need to look into what caused that since my PC should be powerful enough to run it without trouble.
So that's it for the stats for the week, I will be working on a few games this week but knowing me I will start a few more on top of that as well. Have a good one folks and I hope you all had a good week too,
~Iznic
Results: Week 9-12
Total So Far -
To Earn: 18,488
To Earn: 18,488
Achieved: 8,080
Difference: -10,408Week 12
Starting Total: 134,274
To Earn: 1,729
Achieved: 85
Difference: -1,644
Week 11
Starting Total: 133,974
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 300
Difference: -1,394
Week 10
Starting Total: 132,719
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 1,255
Difference: -469
Week 9
Starting Total: 131,549
To Earn: 1,680
Achieved: 1,170
Difference: -510
Monday, 9 April 2012
Start of April
Morning folks,
Not exactly a good week last week for my gamer score challenge especially after the last weeks of earning 1,000+ each time. Reason for this was I spent a good chunk of my time finishing of Kane's Challenge on Hard Mode so I could clock the game, I have no regrets on that decision but it did knock my earning up over 1,700 now each week. So far this year I've earned around 9,300 (at this point of writing I've not updated my stats page yet) so if that is for four months of work I'm looking at hitting 37,000 for the year meaning I be on around 170,000. Actually that's not bad at all since I did not think I would hit 200,000 and was secretly hoping for 175,000.
Anyway back to the matter at hand and here is the updated stats for the week...
Week 12 - This week
Starting Total: 134,274
To Earn: 1,729
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,729
Week 11
Starting Total: 133,974
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 300
Difference: -1,394
Week 10
Starting Total: 132,719
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 1,255
Difference: -469
Week 9
Starting Total: 131,549
To Earn: 1,680
Achieved: 1,170
Difference: -510
No real big plans this week other then doing the Easter event in World of Warcraft, I have been working on Mass Effect 3 recently so I might continue from there.
That's it for now, I want to make this short and sweet since I need to get ready for work so take care all.
~Iznic
Not exactly a good week last week for my gamer score challenge especially after the last weeks of earning 1,000+ each time. Reason for this was I spent a good chunk of my time finishing of Kane's Challenge on Hard Mode so I could clock the game, I have no regrets on that decision but it did knock my earning up over 1,700 now each week. So far this year I've earned around 9,300 (at this point of writing I've not updated my stats page yet) so if that is for four months of work I'm looking at hitting 37,000 for the year meaning I be on around 170,000. Actually that's not bad at all since I did not think I would hit 200,000 and was secretly hoping for 175,000.
Anyway back to the matter at hand and here is the updated stats for the week...
Week 12 - This week
Starting Total: 134,274
To Earn: 1,729
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,729
Week 11
Starting Total: 133,974
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 300
Difference: -1,394
Week 10
Starting Total: 132,719
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 1,255
Difference: -469
Week 9
Starting Total: 131,549
To Earn: 1,680
Achieved: 1,170
Difference: -510
Total So Far -
To Earn: 16,759
To Earn: 16,759
Achieved:7,995
Difference: -8,764No real big plans this week other then doing the Easter event in World of Warcraft, I have been working on Mass Effect 3 recently so I might continue from there.
That's it for now, I want to make this short and sweet since I need to get ready for work so take care all.
~Iznic
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