Christmas Thoughts

Morning readers,
It's amazing how the post counts drop as it got closer to Christmas and I do apologise like I always do but with working in retail you can guess how busy it gets. I swear next year needs to be different because I cannot go through with another Christmas like that, its nearly killed my Christmas spirit and my gaming time went out the window.

In fact I was on the last bit of Uncharted 3 for the last three weeks, was finally able to finish it off last and got to say it was a great story just a shame the controls are buggy and annoying.

So anyway enough with the ranting and moaning, time for a big update and I'm going to start by updating all the stat pages and challenges.

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Just finished updating the stats and I've got to say I'm impressed with the fact that I did complete 52 games this year. Of course I do think that could had been a lot higher if it was not for the last few months with work but oh well, still a good number though.

Of course my challenge for the year as pretty much gone out the window, currently sitting on 32% for games I've bought this year completed. In fact it would not shock me if I had just replaced all the games I've completed, my pile of shame still looks huge. Next year (2012) I don't think I will be doing anything amazing in the ways of challenges and goals, just enjoy my games and do my best to get some finished. Although give it a week or two and no doubt there will be a new goal up on my blog.

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 Hoping to finish Lego Harry Potter on the PS3 this week which I've rented from Lovefilm and it should be the last game I finish this year. Doubt it very highly that I can get another game done this week. I will be starting Assassin's Creed finally too since I've been waiting until I've finished Uncharted 3, once I've started I can then pick my game of the year which is a very tough choice this year. So many good games have come out and speaking of good games, 2012 is already looking jam packed. Have you taken a look? IGN the other day put up there top 10 they looking forward too and I was shocked what was coming out. I know the Vita and Mass Effect 3, but forgot Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 heart of the swarm, Hitman and many more are coming out/

I need to try and be good next year by spending less but already I can see that being a problem with what's coming out. Anyway going to wrap this post up for now and go play some Lego, catch you all soon.

~Iznic

I'm alive, I think!

Evening one and all,
How have you all been? It's been a busy month for me thanks to all the new releases of games at work. Cannot believe how many games are coming out over the next few weeks and how many have come out.

Been trying to stay on top of my new purchases but still stood on 30% competition for this years releases, I do take that as a good sign though since I've picked up so many new releases and not dropped below 30. Speaking of completing games, quite proud of myself these last two weeks since last Saturday I clocked NCIS for the full 1,000 gamescore and then on Sunday finished the battlefield 3 campaign on hard. This weekend so far I've done the entire campaign for modern warfare 3 on veteran, not bad for a days work. Now working on uncharted 3 and playing skyrim on the side, both games are amazing and breath taking.

Anyway this was just a quick update, I've updated all my stats and challenges as well. Going to shoot for a bit to do some jobs then do some gaming finally. Tomorrow I will be putting a Christmas theme on the site so stay tuned, also will be posting more and doing some reviews finally.

Until then have a good one!
Iznic

Sunday Update

Afternoon one and all,
As you can see I have been doing some updating finally today, earlier on I switched the banner over to Gears of War. and also finally updated all the stats for this year so it's now up to date for the time being.

How's things for you guys? hope you all been busy gaming and clocked some stuff, give a shout with what you been up to.

For me this week not seen much to be far, I did pick up the Ico collection and started Shadow of the Colossus but it went on the shelf thanks to work taking up all my free time. I also caved in at the end of the week and picked up the new red 3DS, normally I would not pick up the random colours but the red was amazing! it reminds me a lot of the Christmas red balls on the tree (reason why I keep calling it a Christmas red). Anyway GAME was doing a launch offer where you can trade in your old 3DS and get £120 off it which meant it cost only £20, plus my reward points knocked so got it for £15 which I gladly pay for.

It's now currently charging on my bed so I can see what I've lost, kept my old memory card but doubting any of the free games will work but we will see. Might have to do all the spot pass stuff again too which I won't mind! and I need to download Zelda four swords since that it up for free right now.

Right going to stop here and go get on with some gaming, got the Battlefield 3 beta downloading so might jump on Shadow of the Colossus for a bit while I wait.

Have a good one,
~Iznic

2011 Games So Far

It's took me nearly ten months to finally sit down and post this list up. As you know at the top of the page is a link to a page listing the stats for my gaming progress this year and one of the stats is how many of the 2011 new releases have I completed. The one thing that it does not show is what games are on the list, just the ones that I have done so I'm finally sitting down and typing it all out (also not been keeping tracking of the last purchases so its time to see what I do have).

So on with the list...

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2. Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
3. Bulletstorm (X360)
4. Total War Shogun 2 (PC)
5. Trinity Souls (PS3)
6. Killzone 3 (PS3)
7. Hyperdimension Neptune (PS3)
8. Dragon Age 2 (X360)
9. Pokemon Black (DS)
10. Tactics Ogre (PSP)
11. Knights Contract (X360)
12. Warriors Legends of Troy (X360)
13. Gray Matter (X360)
14. Homefront (X360)
15. Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars (X360)
16. Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars (PS3)
17. Crysis 2 (X360)
18. Samurai Warriors Chronicles (3DS)
19. Lords of Arcana (PSP)
20. Dynasty Warriors 3 (X360)
21. Portal 2 (X360)
22. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (X360)
23. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (PS3)
24. Brink (X360)
25. L.A.Noire (X360)
26. Fable 3 (PC)
27. Final Fantasy IV (PSP)
28. God Eater Burst (PSP)
29. Bulletstorm (PC)
30. Hunted The Demons Forge (X360)
31. Mindjack (X360)
32. Move Heroes (PS3)
33. Yakuza 4 (PS3)
34. Deathsmiles (X360)
35. Dungeons (PC)
36. Zelda (3DS)
37. Dungeon Seige 3 (X360)
38. Thor (X360)
39. Green Lantern (X360)
40. Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 (X360)
41. Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
42. Space Marines (X360)
43. Deus Ex Human Revolution (X360)
44. Gears of War 3 (X360)
45. God of War HD Collection 2 (PS3)
46. ICO/Shadow of the Colossus Collection (PS3)
47. 3rd Birthday (PSP)
48. Atelier Totori The Adventurer of Arland (PS3)
49. White Knight Chronicles Origins (PSP)
50. Age of Empires Online (PC)
51. Gunslinger (X360)
52. Batman Arkham City (X360)
53. Batman Arkham City (PS3)
54. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (X360)
55. Skylanders (X360)
56. Skyrim (X360)
57. NCIS (X360)
58. Uncharted 3 (PS3)
59. Dark Souls (X360)
60. Kinect Sports Season 2 (X360)
61. Dance Central 2 (X360)
62. Battlefield 3 (X360)
63. Forza 4 (X360)
64. Skyrim (PS3)
65. Batman Arkham City (PC)
66. Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 (PS3)
67. Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 (X360)
68. Assassins Creed Revelations (X360)
69. Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call (DS)
70. Red Faction Armageddon (X360)
71. Lord of the Rings War in the North (X360)
72. Dynasty Warriors 7 Xtreme Legends (PS3) 
73. Xenoblade (Wii)
74. Halo Anniversary (X360)
75. Dr Lautrec and the Forgotten Kingdom (3DS)
76. Pokemon Rumble Blast (3DS)
77. El Shaddai (X360)
78. White Knight Chronicles 2 (PS3)

Updated: 31st December

Well that is it, of course some of thsese have been rented and some traded in as well. Of course it's just come to me thats one huge fecking list and maybe I need to cut back next year on the spending or at least put more on the rental list!

Anyway have a good one
~Iznic

The Daily Grind - Day Forty-Six (Part One)

Good morning one and all,
As promised I'm trying my best to get back into my habits of posting quite often, this post will be in several parts since I've got plenty to talk about today. First off thought it would be a good start to get the stats updated on my challenges and the yearly progress, of course not all the stats will be updated since I'm currently in the middle of some games.

With my 2011 Progress I'm now standing on 39 games completed with 12 new releases for this year finished which brings me up to 30% so far. Got to say I've let myself down since I had a really good start to the year with completing stuff, I was easily finishing 6+ games on some months and was knocking my pile of shame down.

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The Summer Challenge is now over and I've finished with seven of the fourteen games completed, so in a way it was a fail since I only did half of the games on the list. But to me it was a win, why you ask? the whole point of that challenge was to complete the prequel games ready for the new releases this year and I did all of them. So in my books it was a pass but yes it would had been really cool to finish off some of those side games.

Currently I have no plans to do any more small challenges, pretty much from now until the new year my work load will increase thanks to all the new releases coming out and spare time will go into playing them lol. I have planned to do a list of the upcoming titles I want later and probably will do a tick off list of ones that I buy and when I've finished them. But for now the only challenge will be the Golden Key.

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So that's my stats and challenges updated finally, so going to end this post in a minute and start playing some Deus Ex with maybe Lego Pirates on the PS3 later (rental game). Actually one thing I did do last night was look through my xbox profile at the achievements I've got for my games, I was shocked on how many achievements I could do. There are tons of games that have collectibles or achievements for doing a certain thing that I've not done, just by glancing I could several thousand gamer score easily. In fact it would not shock me if I could get another 10k if I pushed it, might go through my profile again later and list everything on a post.

Anyway time to shoot off and get some gaming on the go, catch you later and have a good one
~Iznic

The Daily Grind - Day Twenty Eight

Morning,
How goes every one's weekend? hopefully you been getting plenty of gaming in like myself. Well got to say I'm please so far with the fact I clocked Uncharted and half way through Green Lantern, hoping to finish it off today and I will then trade it in. After that I've got my rental game Thor to do as well as all the summer challenge games I've got listed, thinking one of the PC games to be honest. Either Starcraft 2, Bulletstorm, Dawn of War 2 Retribution or Fable 3. Also do have some pick up games to finish off like Where the Wild Things are on PlayStation 3, X-men official game with one achievement left and Pirates of the Caribbean Worlds End with one achievement left as well. So plenty to do afterwards, just no Idea where I will start...anyway I'm going to jump straight into Green Lantern, no time like the present.

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So if you remember from my last post last night I was opening a series of doors and died which put me back at the start, this time I took my time and now opened the main door and entering the main chamber for which I'm guessing is the boss fight with the queen again. Got to say the two mace power is the best for controlling groups of enemies, been a life saver the last few fights.

Level 6 finished, boss fight was pretty cool basically the queen merged with a giant well statue. Anyway now on my way to Biot to rescue one of are friends who is missing there.

Just making my way across several levels, a moment ago just finished off another Ultra Manhunter. While I'm playing keep making sure to do the upgrades since they make a lot of difference, in fact just found one awesome upgrade that I'm getting next. When in ring surge mode you get unlimited energy for your attacks, well you can get upgrades that increase damage, reduce damage taken etc while in that mode. Anyway there is a second upgrade for the reduce damage that makes you invulnerable while in ring mode, score!

Got the upgrade and it is awesome, just go into ring surge mode and Gatling gun everything without worry of damage. Anyway I'm going in circles since I'm back at the start again but on a higher level this time, then back down to where I took on the Ultra. Honestly the levels look exactly the same, from the looks I will be going back to the Ultra area again.

Back at that area again and just shooting down floating mines, picked up another upgrade that allows me to refill the ring surge meter faster. LMAO just took on two Ultras and just went into ring surge mode, they stood no chance and now level 9 thanks to that.

Just died trying to open the third gate and back to the start with the two ultras again, this can be very annoying. Right defeated them both the hard way and got the last ring surge upgrade to give me more time in that mode. Woah just got level 10 on the top floor! so maxed level now as well.

Boss fight against the Grandmaster, was able to open all the doors with the perfect timing of the ring surge mode. Really does make all the difference, if you do decide to get this game put all your upgrade points into it. Took a while and he was tough but was able to get him down, found out the traitor which shocked me to be honest was expecting him. Anyway just finished upgrading all the basic attacks so now putting points into the constructs.

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Another level down but this time it was a flight one and the boss fight was horrible, basically you was just taking on another Ultra Manhunter but you pushed close. Imagine playing a flight sim but the plane is pretty much stuck against a wall, you cannot aim with the guy because of the angel so just have to pray that the missile lock will work.

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Just had a huge break and spent some time with my dad watching tv, so back now and time to finish. According to my achievements I'm on level 9 of 10 so pretty much in the end game now and currently have 505 gamerscore so far. Will have to go back and mop up while finish off purchasing the missing upgrades but should not be too hard.

Making my way through the level trying to find Kilrogg or what ever his name is, just unlocked the missile pack construct so now working on the x kills with it for the achievement.

Took out the second generator to open some kind of vault door and had one small bar of health left, one hit and would be down. Made it through several groups and got some health back only to die to an attack from a group with a fighter aircraft backing them up. Of course made it through the next time since I knew what to expect and now currently heading down a huge evaluator with tons of manhunters attacking me in groups so spamming the mace attack. Just purchased the mech suit construct, good as time as any to get the x kills for it.

Just got completely wiped out by three ultras! and it puts me right back up at the top again...

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Made it down this time but was ready so kept my ring surge ready...what the hell two huge ultra, well lets call them grandmasters in a way just attacked.

Right here we go going into the central area now and I can see one huge manhunter in the background. Kilowog is the name of the green lantern and hes powering the so called "Highmaster". Oh that's great, boss fight and if you move the giant fans around the area take up the whole screen so your blind! good development, ever heard of alpha and beta testing.

Seems to only happen when in co-op since the camera has a limit thanks to the second player, makes it a lot hard to dodge for both of us. Auto aim is shit, keep trying to find throw bombs at the boss but at the last second hal will decide to turn and throw at my coop buddy...

Done it finally, bloody hell they really should had tested this game in coop because the camera can go badly at the wrong times, hell that boss battle was unplayable at most points. Anyway time for the last level and to end this game.

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Died at the end of the second stage of the fight, doing feck all damage to him and he takes out 40% of your health per hit and block does not work.

Lmao ok so made it through the three stages and just barely on the last bit then the sound dies...yup no sounds just the talking voices so no stomping or fighting sounds. Now having a giant mech battle and its just weird without sound, sound came back half way through the battle at least and the mech battle was actually quite cool in the end. So that's the game completed, well the story anyway so time to go back and clear up the missing collectibles and x amount kills with certain constructs.

Only a few meteorites are missing so that's cool, ah dinner is ready be right back!

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Good lunch, now on mission three cleaning up and just picked up my first green meteorite which was the last one I needed which was cool. Just two blue left to go, one here and one on the level 9.

Just picked up the first blue meteorite and now loading up level 9 to get the last one, after that I just need 100k points to get the last upgrade and that's the game fully 100% clocked.

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Had another break and went to watch a film, currently now on my 6th play through of level five in which I'm just grinding out upgrade points. So far its the fastest way I've found and only need four more to finish off.

And done! 1,000g for Green Lantern, which now brings me up to two games finished this weekend so a job well done. Of course I then look at my collection and groan realising I got ton still to go, but least I'm getting there. Think it's time to update all my stats for my progress this year and the challenges, so be right back.

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Just updated the progress and now standing on 31 games completed but my percent for new releases only increased by one so still sitting on 26% so really could do with knocking out a few new games next really. On the ways of my Golden Key challenge I'm close to getting Level 12, sitting on a nice 36% for the fourteen old games as well. But still got a long way to go for the rest of the goals, my gamer score goal is dragging thanks to the massive PlayStation marathon I've been having lately.

Still in two minds on what to play next so I think I will take advantage of this free time to do some updates on the site that have been waiting, first up changing that countdown timer since E3 ended ages ago. Going to set it to the first release of the massive load of games that are coming out later this year, right now that starts with Deus EX on the 26th August.

Ok that's up now and running, currently got 60 days left! not much time to get my summer challenge finished really. So what next can I do for the site....hmmm where is that list I put together, think it's on the iPad hang on!

Ah ha! right first up going to finally put up a post about E3, if you remember I did post a while back saying what I hope to see at the conferences. Well time to go back and see what came true and what did not, from the looks a lot of the stuff I was hoping for came true but there was a few things that did not happen but oh well.

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Well forgot to do the daily Lord Ahune quest in Warcraft, feck! probably the day I would got something knowing my luck. Did have a huge session on WOW though with my mate Matt again, this weekly thing is great and hopefully be doing it more often then a Sunday Night. We got up to level 12 and now finished with the starting zone and in the real world.

Goblin starting zone is without a doubt the best zone I've played in a long time, from giant mechanical chickens to zombies, to mechanical shark submarines and rocket boots. Every minute you was doing something wacky that only a Goblin would come up with and we blew up a volcano and destroyed an island! That's a fun night

Anyway off to bed so catch you in the morning, have a good one!
~Iznic

The Daily Grind - Day Fifteen

Evening all,
Been a very very long day but I can now relax and chill since off tomorrow, woooooottt!! so to celebrate going to finish Resistance 2! bring it on!

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Just watching the credits now, what a game! the ending was awesome and very happy I decided to give a good go. Best few hours well spent! looking forward to seeing Resistance 3 now

So better update my challenge stats, give me two seconds while I look up how many trophies I earned.

Right the winning numbers are: 1 gold, 1 silver and 12 bronze trophies which to be honest doesn't seem a lot. Shame but was still worth every minute though! So just going to add that to my 2011 progress and update all the lists to say I've finished this game. According to my list this was number 27 for completed games this year, very chuffed just wish the last few months had more completed games like the first couple.

Ok that's all the challenges updated, one of my goals this year is to finish fourteen old games and now on four down with ten to go. Getting there! and the summer classic challenge as started with 1 of the fourteen down.

Need to update Dragaknight stats but facebook won't load for me to see the stats, have to wait till later to do that. Anyway time to think about what to play next, thinking I might work on two games. Want Uncharted to be my next game since I want to see if this series is to my liking, really don't want to go and order Uncharted 3 collectors edition or Uncharted for Vita if I won't like the series. Now the second game is my rental Batman, I want to play Batman but wanted to wait until after Uncharted but since it costs me to rent I'm going to attempt to work on both.

Anyway that's later, right now going to take a breather!

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Took a longer break then I was planning so going to call it a night since watching simpsons and eating pizza with the girlfriend. Tomorrow hoping to finish up posting about E3 game trailers and updating that list finally. Oh and need to review Resistance 2! so much to do

Anyway see you tomorrow and thanks for reading my madness,
~Iznic

Better Late Then Never

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

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

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

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

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

~Iznic

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

Games Completed In 2011

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

Gamerscore Earned This Year
3,240

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

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

2011 Releases Completed
- 4/17 - 24% -

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

Finally an update

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

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

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

Games Completed In 2011

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

Gamerscore Earned This Year
2,800

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

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

2011 Releases Completed
- 3/12 - 25% -

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

End of Month Update

Well it's the last day of February so thought I would do another update on my stats for 2011 and the progress towards my Golden Key challenge. Been quite an increase since last time thanks to my two rental games and I've got to say I'm impressed with myself. Completing 6 games in Janurary and now 8 in February is an achievement for me since as I said before it use to be one a month barely.

Games Completed In 2011

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

Gamerscore Earned This Year
2,300

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

Games Working On
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition (PC)
Pokemon Soulsilver (NDS)


2011 Releases Completed
- 3/7 - 43% -

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

Playstation as the most love the last few weeks but I have got Batman back on the works again so the gamer score should be seeing some love soon. Think the main reason the playstation is getting the most love is the fact I've got ton of exclusives unplayed and sequels for all them are coming out end of the year. Add in the fact the trailers for these sequels look amazing just makes me want to finish them off so I can get them.

With February ending it means we now in the crazy launch peroid which my the 2011 completion rating as started to show, going to take quite a knock by the end of the month that's for sure. Bank account going to take a knock too! lol

Anyway on to the Golden key Challenge progress

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 1/14 (7%)

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

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

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

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 28.5% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,414 (30,586 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 10
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)

Update time!

Time for an update, I was meant to be updating the stats every week but I was so close to finishing two games I held off the updating until I was done. Since the start of the year I been trying to do the rule of three (think star wars rule of two), basically one major game and one minor game. The third game is reserved for handheld titles since I do stay over the girlfriends on a weekend meaning no big consoles.

So last week I decided to play some of the games on my golden challenge list, hopefully to clock them in time for the end of week. Reason for that being its the start of the new releases this week (see my week away posts and you will understand), of course this did not go to plan since Lovefilm sent me two game rentals so now I'm overwhelm with games and time as run out. So here is what I picked and what was sent.

Batman AA GOTY on the pc was my first choice, it was on the list of old games and would easily give me 600 gamerpoints to my xbox score, add in the fact I love the game it was a solid choice.

Second game I picked Resistance fall of man, this game as been sitting on my shelf since day one. I played for a like an hour on launch then never bothered with it since, end of this year sees the third in the series being released so I thought it was time to finish it so I could get on with no. 2 (which is also sitting on my shelf). Again it was another game on my challenge list but no trophies, shame but it would be nice to get another old game finished.

Finally the third game is Pokemon Soulsilver, with the release of Black and White soon I had a craving to play some Pokemon, that and the fact I cannot find my Phoenix Wright cartridge did not leave me with much choice.

Then as I said Lovefilm threw two games at me, both on the Playstation 3 Call of Duty World at War and Eat Lead Return of Matt Hazard. Two easy games but both would take their time to finish, but on the plus side both give plenty of trophies.

So I'm in the middle of those right now but I did divert from the plan on Sunday and finished the last few levels on Transformers War for Cybertron. I suddenly remembered I was close to finishing the game and by doing that it was one more game clocked, one more knocked off the challenge list, some more gamer points and a game to trade in towards the new releases. Not a great game to be honest, better than the other transformers game out there but still not good. I will do a review later for it and go into detail why, the good news is that the trade in price is higher then I paid so woot!

Anyway last bit information before I finish the post with the stats, I just finished Resistance fall of man the other day. It is amazing, very underrated game that's for sure. Again like Transformers I will be doing a review later and I'm now looking forward too playing the second one. So onto the good stuff, the stats, first up the 2011 details so far:

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
    

I just realised that I've completed six games in Janurary and five in this month so far, that's really impressive for me since I barely do one a month normally.

Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,970

Trophies Earned This Year
1 Gold
8 Silver
60 Bronze

Playstation as been getting a lot of love lately, glad it's starting to get some use. Just need to play more Wii more then once a year and I will be happy.

Games Working On
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition (PC)
Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (PS3)
Call of Duty World at War (PS3)
Pokemon Soulsilver (NDS)


2011 Releases Completed
- 2/7 - 28.5% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2 Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)

The new releases have come out and now my completion score as dropped, need to pull that back up so I can complete my challenge goal and not have another stack of unfinished games on my shelf.


Finally the Golden Key challenge information

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 1/14 (7%)

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

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

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
  

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 28.5% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,084 (30,916 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 9
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)

What a week

Sorry it's took so long to post but this week as been busy thanks to weird shifts at work, so anyway onto the gaming!. Hope everyone had a good week gaming and got a game or two finished.

This week had a lovely me day on my day off Wednesday, spent the entire day having a Mass Effect 2 marathon followed by a few movies. Thanks to this I was able to clock the game yesterday, good old WOOT is in order. Also in the week I finally got the missing achievement in NHL 2K6 allowing me to get the full 1,000 gamer score and making it my number 46 game that's 100%. So great week for me adding two more games to the complete list with a ton of trophies and achievements along with them.

Also means that I've finished two of the three new releases this year, not going to allow 2011 to beat me this year! I've already got plenty of backcat games to work on from past years.

Well that's it for this rambling, I do have tons I want to talk about (upcoming games etc) which I will talk about in the next posts, so far now here the updated stats. Don't forget to comment about how you guys are doing

~Iznic

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
   

Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,690

Trophies Earned This Year
1 Gold
5 Silver
43 Bronze


Games Working On
Dante's Inferno (Xbox 360)


2011 Releases Completed
- 2/3 - 66% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2 Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)

February Update

Since there should be a few new readers I will start with a little bit of information about what these posts are about, basically I'm tracking pretty much everything this year I do with gaming. How many Xbox 360 Achievements I earn, trophies for the Playstation 3. How many games I completed so far (finishing the story is a completion in my books but will mark if I get 100% of the achievements/trophies) and what they are. Finally I'm also keeping a tab on the 2011 releases I've bought and finish.

If you go back through some of the older posts you will see I buy a ton of games that get stacked on the shelf and never finished, so I'm trying my best to not allow the 2011 releases to do the same as well as trying to finish some old games off. So lets get started with how January went and how it's going this month.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)

Amazing start to the year, the first six where all in January and Professor Layton was finished last night making it the first game of February. I still love the fact I've got a mixture of different platforms there, anyway hopefully this completion rate will continue on throughout the year.

Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,250

Trophies Earned This Year
1 Silver
23 Bronze

Not bad on the trophies and achievements, think I could done a lot better since most of my completions where on other platforms. But its nice to be using my other consoles and getting their moneys worth.

Games Working On
Enslaved (Xbox 360)
Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
Dungeons (PC)

2011 Releases Completed
- 1/3 - 33% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)

2011 Releases have started to appear and I need to keep on top, there is so much coming out on the 25th of both February and March. Along with the huge list in march as well. It's a great time to be a gamer.


So that's it for this update on my progress, how you guys doing on your gaming collections? completed anything?

Sunday Progress Update

Thought I post an update on how the gaming is going, here is the current stats.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
   

Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,075

Trophies Earned This Year
14 Bronze

Games Working On
Enslaved (Xbox 360)
Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
DC Universe Online (Playstation 3)

Started Enslaved back up and finished another chapter, I am enjoying it but other games keep tempting me and taking over all my time. I also tried DC Universe today finally and to be honest I'm not that impressed, will try a few more hours in the week on it but I got a feeling I will be trading it in.

Thats it for the progress information, catch you all later

Plus one more

I realised the other night that last summer was in the middle of trying to finish off some of my old games and increasing my gamer score while I was at it. On the schedule was Batman AA for the PC with the GOTY edition to be played next after it (the achievements lists stack), anyway it suddenly come to me that I was about to finish off Poison Ivy when Halo Reach came out and got side tracked with Christmas.

So popped the disc back in the other night and finished the game yesterday, finished off the collectibles this afternoon and did one of the challenges too. Nice increase of 345 gamer points for that game without much trouble and making it the fifth game I've completed this year (yes i know its kinda cheating since I did most of the work last year :-p).

It was good to keep me occupied until today anyway since picked up DC Universe Online and Mass Effect 2 (PS3). So now currently busy wrapped up playing those two, well actually I've not played DC yet since still doing the downloads (11gb patch did in 10 minutes, currently on 30 mins for the 2gb patch lmao).

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
   

Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,025

Trophies Earned This Year
4 Bronze

Games Working On
Enslaved (Xbox 360)
Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
DC Universe Online (Playstation 3)

Gaming Weekend

What a weekend, on Saturday I finally finished God of War Ghost of Sparta and I got to say I loved the ending, hope to see more of Kratos in the future. Then I started Ghost Trick which I just finished about an hour ago.

OMG! its just that good, I will be reviewing it later but its on my list of top great games. This is the type of games I love having my DS for, Time Hollow blew me away in 2009 and Phoenix Wright series is another one. Love the anime style graphics and the different game styles but its the stories that get me, they suck me in and feel part of the world. I want to know what happens next!

Just hope to see more games like this

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
   

Gamerscore Earned This Year
680

Trophies Earned This Year
0

Games Working On
Enslaved (Xbox 360)

Four games completed this year so far and I'm very happy with that achievement, not even three weeks in the new year. Top it off as well that each game is on a different platform made me chuckle, wonder if I got a Wii and PS3 game I could do. In fact actually Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 is coming out this week, maybe that will be added to the complete list soon (you know what I'm like for Mass Effect games).

Another good thing as well is the fact that Ghost Trick was the first 2011 new release I've bought so I'm currently on 100% completed for the 2011 games lol. Anyway that's it really, pretty much spent the entire time playing those two games and now trying to pick some games to take over for them. Really could do with jumping back on Enslaved again while I'm at it.

2011 Releases Completed
- 1/1 - 100% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)

Update for the week

The 2011 new releases have started! picked up Ghost Trick for the DS today which I had no idea was out. Really need to get on the ball, still shocked Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 is out next week. Anyway so its begun alot earlier then I thought and I've still got tons to complete, good news is that I finished C&C4 Tiberium Twilight last night (both GDI and Nod story campaigns). Will review it soon but it was ok, expected alot better for a C&C game though. I'm also about half way through God of War Ghost of Sparta so I'm doing pretty good, let's just hope it stays like this lol.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
   

Gamerscore Earned This Year
680

Trophies Earned This Year
0

Games Working On
God of War Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
Enslaved (Xbox 360)
Ghost Trick (DS)

I've added Ghost Trick to the games working on (taking over for C & C) because I want to stay on top of the 2011 releases this year, last year had to be the worst for the back log of games I built up compared to others and I do not want to repeat that again. Also when I tested out Ghost Trick I loved it straight away, reminds me alot of Time Hollow and Phoenix Wright. It's games like this that make the DS great for me!

~Iznic

2011 Gaming Progress

I've decided to start keep track of some stats of my gaming, lets see how long I can keep this up before I get bored.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)

Gamerscore Earned This Year
680

Trophies Earned This Year
0

Games Working On
Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
God of War Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
Enslaved (Xbox 360)