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.
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.
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
Evening one and all, It's been nearly a week since the last time I posted but I've been very busy (work, birthday and major tidy up of the mess that I call a room), so not had much free time spare for posting. So anyway hope you guys are all doing well and been getting plenty of gaming in, I've not had much time for gaming unfortunately. Did start the week off well by finishing off Starcraft 2 finally, woot!, but my progress in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood as pretty much stopped for the time being.
As I mentioned above I'm trying to tidy my room up since it's a joke and I want to have some space finally, also be nice to finally unpack some of those figurines I've got and have space for all the new stuff that is coming out. That and having a awesome gaming room in time for the new releases would be nice, place where I can relax and chill out while saving the princess, defeating a boss or two etc.
So with that I will warn you now, the next week or so there won't be too many updates like in the past while I attempt to get this huge job done, but I will make it my mission to get a giant update in now and again.
Back to the point about what gaming I've been doing this week, it started with Starcraft 2 being finished at the start of the week (think Monday if I can remember right), so another game to my clocked list. Which brings me up to 36 games completed this year, an amazing results for me to be honest.
It was also on both of my challenges this year as well, so woot! can finally update some stats and slowly make some progress towards some of those goals. For my Golden Key challenge its knocked my fourth goal up to 60% for completing five new games, just need to finish two more and that's one more goal completed. Then for the summer challenge it's pushed me up to five games of the fourteen completed (36%), so not bad but could do with picking up the pace a little bit there.
So overall good results with finishing that game off, the story was amazing and the levels where challenging yet fun at the same time. Really looking forward to seeing the rest of the trilogy now and could do with going and playing Starcraft 1.
Apart from Starcraft I was doing my Warcraft dailies like normal and did unlock the Warden phase which has some pretty cool quests, also should be unlocking the next phase in the next few days. They take less marks to open since they will be mostly opening up vendors etc so hopefully in a week or two, I should have opened up all the fireland area and get the fire hippogriff mount as my reward (very excited about that).
Finally I did start Assassin's Creed Brotherhood but not touched it in the last few days, but dang what an amazing game! just unlocked the brotherhood part where I can now finally start recruiting assassin's to my cause. It was so cool watching one of my recruits spring out of some hay as the mark ran past, looking forward to putting some more time into it.
Of course without blogging for a week there is a lot of stuff I want to talk about, especially with all the new stuff being announced. First will have to start with the announcement from yesterday, R2-D2 themed xbox!!! omg! seriously looks amazing and I want one now.
Love the C3-PO controller as well, its even got the wire details around the edges and top it all off the console makes R2 sounds when turned on. Comes bundled with star wars kinect, white kinect sensor (looks very nice), kinect adventures and some exclusive dlc as well. Price is set at £350 right now so no idea if I can afford it, especially with me still wanting the gears of war one as well!!. System link would be cool though but think might have to go through everything I want this year finally and decide on what to do.
Next up for the announcements that are going to cost me, Star Wars Old Republic collectors edition is now up for ordering!! priced up at a whooping £130 though but the contents looks outstanding (praying for a price drop and hoping the game comes out next year as well).
You get the following in this edition:
Figurine of Darth Malgus
Collectors artwork box
artwork book
authenticator
soundtrack
Metal case with game discs
galaxy map
journal of master gnost-dural annotated by satele shan
extra 7 dlc items as well
- flare gun
- training droid
- STAP vehicle
- Mouse droid
- collectors edition in game store with a assortment of items
- holodancer
- holocam (says that it records visual of your in game adventures which is awesome if its the way I think it is)
Seems all worth it to me and so put my deposit down both in store and on the website (game exclusive) just in case there is problems, especially with some sites reporting that EA cannot guarantee the levels of stock. Did get a pre-order pack from store which gives me a in game crystal to change my lightsabre colour and blaster shots as well, also early head start to the game before it launches as well.
On that note I'm going to finish here for the night, there is a lot more stuff I want to talk about but I really need to do a bit more tiding before I hit the sack. Hopefully I can knock out another post over the weekend but until then have a good one folks!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
--------------------------------------------
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!
--------------------------------------------
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
Morning one and all, Been relaxing all morning so time for some posting that I promised. As I said in yesterday's post there was quite a bit of stuff announced through out the day which I did not get chance to talk about so going to spend the time now going through it.
First up a teaser trailer appeared yesterday morning for Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm! and then found out there is a game play video as well for two of the campaign missions. Below is the teaser that was posted up, cannot wait!
Right going to take a few minutes to watch the game play since I've not seen it myself yet then will post it up here.
Wow it looks awesome and reminds me I need to finish Starcraft 2, good thing I've heard this is not out until next year. Anyway here is the game play trailer below and the official website link
Also the Sony fans are happy that a leak of Syphon Filter 4 came out, never played one to be honest and guessing its good since of the amount of fans. Shocked got leaked though, well actually I'm not but with days away from E3 you would think they would be a bit better with keeping the lids shut on announcements.
Speaking of Sony they did update their blogs yesterday saying by the end of this week the network store should be up along with all missing network features, and voucher codes will be emailed for the welcome back pack. No doubt the store will be inaccessible since everyone will be rushing on lol
Also it seems they going to be doing quite a lot of E3 stuff in the PlayStation Home(video streams etc), might check it out this year since you meant to be able to get some goodies for your avatars. Don't think I've evern been Home yet lol, should be a good experience to see.
Ah now here is something you might be interested in, Call of Duty Elite trailer. A video was put together by Activision to show what's it all about and I got to say the trailer describes it a lot better then from what I've read about it. The stats pages does look very cool and having all the map packs would be handy, have to wait and see for more announcements next week.
Sorry needed a cup of tea to keep me going, need to have at least 20 a day :-p
So where was I? oh yes talking about yesterday new releases/announcements. A new trailer as appeared for Lord of the Rings War in the North, again not seen it myself yet so going to watch it now.
WOW!! I don't understand why I've not been keeping an eye on this game, it looks outstanding. Check this bad boy out and I need to find the release date for this game
No date yet which is shame, hopefully next week will see an announcement for it. Dang that looks awesome, going to add that to the list of games.
Anyway there is still more to come, as I said yesterday was just madness with the announcements. Think E3 just started early to be honest with the amount of stuff. So next up is a Square Enix game for the 3DS, Heroes of Ruin. Band of heroes doing the box standard questing (cross between RPG and action adventure) but the game will be using streetpass a lot, it will allow you to trade items with other players and there will be daily challenges for more rewards and game play. Check out ign.com chat with the developers about the game, could be good I guess and the 3DS does need some more games.
Finally the last news for yesterday was the L.A.Noire Rockstar Pass details, you can now download it for 800 Microsoft points and it gives you access to several suits and all the pre-order bonuses that where being handed out. To be honest its a good value for what you getting, here is the link to shopto news page that covers what is included in the pass. Need to play the game first before I pick this pass up
So that was all the announcements yesterday and you can see why I did not stay up last night to add them to yesterdays daily grind, took me nearly an hour to write that up but then again I did keep getting distracted with all the nice trailers. So going to take a five minute break then start today's writing and getting on with some gaming!
Right seems the PlayStation network is going down for maintenance tonight, maybe the store tomorrow then??? would make sense to be honest. Also before I forget this morning I found a e-mail in my inbox for the trailer for the Trooper Class in Star Wars Old Republic. They look pretty sweet and I'm pretty torn on what to play when this game comes out.
Ohhh I knew I forgot something in the announcements section, if you into World of Warcraft did you see MMOChampion post about the new pvp mounts and some of the firelands mounts. They look awesome! check them out here
Right sorry that's it now for announcements, well until the twitter goes crazy with more news. So back to the important matter at hand, whats next on my play list since I've finished my Lego rental.
Well this year as quite a few sequels coming out and I've still not finished the prequels yet, for example Resistance 3 is coming out and Ive done the first one few months back but still got the second one to do. Uncharted 3 at the end of the year and I've not even touched the first one, not even picked up the second one yet since I've not played the first. Elderscrolls Skyrim takes place right after Oblivion which again I've played but always get side tracked, need to sit down for a few weeks and finished that bad boy.
So I'm thinking this what I need to do, finish this prequel games first so I'm ready for the new releases, as I said at the start of the year I do not want 2011 to be another shame pile. I want to get most of the games that come out this year that I pick up completed and so far I'm doing rubbish. But at the same time there is quite a few old games I really want to play right now and some of the new releases this year are sitting on my desk that I want to play as well.
You know what, new challenge! I'm going to set myself a summer challenge to finish all the prequels and some of the games I want to play right now by the end of this summer. If I do this it will knock a dent in that pile of shame I've got, get me ready for the new releases and knock my 2011 completion rate up as well. So it's settled then, just need to sort out what games will be in this challenge so be right back.
End Date: 31st August 2011 Goal: To finish the 2011 prequels I've got sitting in my pile of shame and to complete several old/new games that are tempting me to play. The Games:
Resistance Fall of Man 2 - Ready for the 3rd this September
Uncharted - Ready for the 3rd this November
Uncharted 2 - Need to buy it first and only if I enjoy Uncharted 1
Elderscrolls Oblivion - Ready for the 5th this October/November
Starcraft 2 - Ready for the 2nd in the trilogy next year
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - Ready for Revelations
Dawn of War 2 Retribution - Only got three races campaigns left to finish
Fable 3 PC - Been wanting to play it since it came out
Bulletstorm PC - Again for some reason I've really wanted to play it again on the PC
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 - With all the marvel movies out really wanted to finish this
Crysis 2 - I got into it and I really want to finish it
God of War 1 & 2 - The hd remakes have been sitting there since I had them with 3, time to finish
Killzone 2 - I never finished this in time for 3, tried twice to get in so determined to finish it!
Killzone 3
So there we go, fourteen games waiting to be finished and Oblivion it self could take up the whole summer lol. Let's not forget I will be still getting rentals sent and new releases over the next few months, should be good to see how this turns out. By the way loyal readers if you got a shame pile why not join in and set yourself a goal this summer to finish some of those games.
Now I think it's time to actually do some gaming finally today, first I'm going to give L.A.Noire a little try since I've not opened it and I want to make sure I will like the game. If I don't I can trade it in and still get an high value back for it.
Very impressive, going to stop now since I don't want to get into it just yet but looks like it will be a good game.
I think I'm going to start Resistance Fall of Man 2, I'm in the mood for a shooting game right now. Something easy to jump into with out too many complicated buttons or things to remember.
Well I'm stuck on a update for the game which is taking forever *Sigh* in the mean time I'm currently catching up on the blogs I follow.
Well I'm back, its 11.24pm and I'm very tired thanks to work. I only had time earlier to do the first prologue level then had to get myself ready and leave. But once again I come
back to a few more announcements, first up is THQ announced Darksiders 2 which could be very cool. I kinda did like the first one but I really did not give it enough time (like most games) so could do with going back and playing it again.
The second one will not be out until next year and takes place with the brother Death trying to prove War's innocence, so the game runs parallel with the first one story wise.
Next up on the announcements is a trailer for Starhawk showing a eight vs eight game between the designers and artists. Got to say I'm impressed with it, I like the idea you can build the base up as you playing to combat with whats going on in the game. Could be a buy this time around unlike its a previous Warhawk game. Will be keeping an eye out for this in the streams next week
Well that's it for the current announcements, so I'm going to go and play a quick level of resistance then hit the sack. Will catch you all tomorrow and expect another long post since I hear Konami as a pre-E3 conference tomorrow so no doubt something to talk about. Anyway thanks for reading my madness and have a good one!
