Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Patch Notes
You will now find at the bottom of the page on the right the blog patch notes, it will show the current version and a nice little link to the patch notes page. Here you will find the list of changes to the site and when it was done, know it's probably boring to most but it will be listing any changes I do. So any new pages added or taken away, colour changes, or anything new completely will be listed here and the date it happened.
Get Mass Effect 2 Free
The lovely people over at Bioware are giving away Mass Effect 2 (PC edition) for free if you have bought Dragon Age 2. All you got to do is go onto their offer page found below this sentence and follow the instructions given.
Offer page link
It's really easy, all you do is register your online code for Dragon Age 2 (black emporium) then play a game of Dragon Age 2, this will log everything on the EA servers. Then you just type that online code into the offer page and it will generate the code for your copy of Mass Effect 2. Put that code into the EA Download Manager and start downloading, all done!
Just to warn you it is a 11gb download so get cracking! and the offer ends 30th April 2011
Upcoming Games Part Two
As I mentioned in my last post the last few weeks have seen an increase of new trailers, announcements etc and so here is part two of some of the titles I'm keeping my eye on.
Asura's Wrath by Capcom
It looks interesting and that boss battle with the guy bigger then the world could be sweet, reminds me a lot of Devil May Cry or God of War style. Hopefully will see a lot more footage at E3 this year and some proper game play stuff as well.
Dragon's Dogma by Capcom
Capcom seem to be turning out the games in the bucket loads. This one looks amazing just a shame its not out until 2012, basically a mysterious dragon is terrorising the land and you been tasked to take it out. You be controlling a party of three on your journey while fighting plenty of monsters and critters on the way. The trailer looks amazing and i love the griffin fight, this is high up on my want list.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Another open world rpg that I have to say looks beautiful, the graphics stood out to me from the start and the combat system looks to be good if it stays like that. Not much information though on the story and that's one thing I like about my games, it needs a good story to keep me sucked in.
So that's all of them guys, quite a few nice games have appeared and I've got a good feeling we will be seeing a lot more at E3. Any of these take your fancy? or have you found some more hidden treasures, looking forward to hearing your comments later.
Monday, 18 April 2011
Upcoming Games
Over the last few weeks there have been quite a few new trailers released, in fact there are quite few I did not know about until now. First up thanks to shopto.net, they posted up a new trailer for a 3DS game by Konami (makers of one of my favourite games Time Hollow), Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights. Yes it looks a lot like Professor Layton but it still looks amazing and well done but still no proper date just this summer so hopefully not too long of a wait.
Source: Trailer thanks to shopto.net
Next up again thanks to shopto.net is the game play trailer for Resistance 3, after playing the PSP retribution game and the first in the series (ps3) at the start of the year I have been waiting to see the third. The second in the installment is sitting on my shelf waiting to be played anyway back to the trailer, It looks good and could be a first day buy but I was shocked the release date is now September. Both Batman AC and Gears of War 3 are slated for then as well, so it could be a crowded launch and a later buy thanks to that which is a shame.
Source: Trailer thanks to sparkthesun youtube channel and shopto.net
Xbox360achievements.org have posted up a dev diary for the new Warhammer 40,000 console game Space Marines, a third person shooter which looks awesome. They really are trying to keep to the lore and I'm looking forward to jumping into the 40,000 universe, had in the fact it takes place on a forge world just makes it all the sweeter!
Source: trailer thanks to xbox360achievements.org
Well that's it for this post, there are few more trailers that I like but will post them at a later date. Got to admit this year is looking to be amazing for the gaming industry, just hope we have enough time to keep up with it (trying not to think of the back catalogue of games I've got to play lol).
Next up again thanks to shopto.net is the game play trailer for Resistance 3, after playing the PSP retribution game and the first in the series (ps3) at the start of the year I have been waiting to see the third. The second in the installment is sitting on my shelf waiting to be played anyway back to the trailer, It looks good and could be a first day buy but I was shocked the release date is now September. Both Batman AC and Gears of War 3 are slated for then as well, so it could be a crowded launch and a later buy thanks to that which is a shame.
Xbox360achievements.org have posted up a dev diary for the new Warhammer 40,000 console game Space Marines, a third person shooter which looks awesome. They really are trying to keep to the lore and I'm looking forward to jumping into the 40,000 universe, had in the fact it takes place on a forge world just makes it all the sweeter!
Well that's it for this post, there are few more trailers that I like but will post them at a later date. Got to admit this year is looking to be amazing for the gaming industry, just hope we have enough time to keep up with it (trying not to think of the back catalogue of games I've got to play lol).
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Review: Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Cosmic Destruction
The things I play for achievements, basically welcome to the second Ben 10 game for the Xbox 360. A simple action and adventure game which has you battling several low level minions and complete several puzzles to move through the levels. Each level will also have a mini boss battle of some type then end the level facing one of the many villains from the show.The achievements are quiet simple, finish a boss, finish a level and collectibles in every level. Of course they have thrown in there box standard achievements like get "x combo" and "destroy x amount of objects". I followed the lovely walk through guide over on Xbox360achievements.org to find the collectibles and they got a wonderful video on how to get the x100 hit combo, took a few goes but got it with no problem.
In fact I got the full 1,000 gamerscore in one play through, would recommend you trash everything in each level to collect the DNA points to upgrade your forms. This will also count towards the destroy object and DNA collector achievements.
The game is just ok, the story is very boring and you can skip the cut scenes with the B button. Game it self is quite easy to play, puzzles are not that hard and the controls are very simple as well. Hold down the left trigger will bring up the forms you can select and with the right analog you pick the one you want to transform into. Holding down the right trigger brings up the specials moves, just press either the A/B/X/Y buttons. Not many bugs, few clipping problems where I got stuck in a wall but nothing to warrant game breaking.
So overall I would recommend it if you got a kid that's into Ben 10 or if you after a easy 1,000 gamerscore/platinum trophy but don't expect anything amazing (best to rent it)
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Cosmic Destruction (Xbox 360)
Score: 5 out of 10
Gameplay: Average
Graphics: Average
Story: Poor
Length: Decent
Controls: Average
Update
Thought I would throw in a quick update in between working on the site. Not really put much time into the consoles lately, the PC as took up most of my time playing Dragon Age Legends and RIFT. Just shortly after the last update I did I went and finished Lego Star Wars Clone Wars, got the full 1,000 gamerscore in it which was a nice boost and added another game to the completed list. Will try and get a review asap along with the other list of games I meant to be reviewing, very disorganised right now.
Of course since then I have picked up several more new releases so the completion percent is down in the dumps right now, really need to start clocking some more games. Only console game I am playing is my rental game Ben 10 (Xbox 360) which to be honest I've not played in the last few days since of work taking up most of my time.
That's it really for me, as I said it's mostly been quiet but hopefully the next few days I will be able to get some more game time in and have a nice long update for you.
Check out the Progress page for the updated stats
Of course since then I have picked up several more new releases so the completion percent is down in the dumps right now, really need to start clocking some more games. Only console game I am playing is my rental game Ben 10 (Xbox 360) which to be honest I've not played in the last few days since of work taking up most of my time.
That's it really for me, as I said it's mostly been quiet but hopefully the next few days I will be able to get some more game time in and have a nice long update for you.
Check out the Progress page for the updated stats
Gears of War 3 Beta Information
Well its nearly time for the Beta and I'm very excited, been reading the press release for the dates and the awesome unlocks you can get for the main game. So I thought I be nice and post it up here if you have not seen it already.
Then the normal beta will begin for those who have codes for pre-ordering in advance, start date is Monday 25th April and lasts until Sunday 15th May.
Flaming Hammerburst
Complete one match by Sunday 24th April (Exclusive to the Bulletstorm week start)
Flaming Lancer
Complete one match during the week of 25th April
Flaming Sawed-Off Shotgun
Complete one match during the week of 2nd May
Flaming Gnasher Shotgun
Complete one match during the week of 9th May
Beta Tester Medal
Complete one match during the beta, attaches to you profile in Gears of War 3 and can be shown in the multiplayer lobby.
Thrashball Cole
Multiplayer skin unlock, complete 50 matches (any game type) during the beta. There is a catch, you must then complete 10 matches as Thrashball Cole to permanently unlock the character.
Gold-Plated Retro Lancer
This is the hardest/longest unlock, complete 90 matches during the beta (any game type) and then score 100 kills with the Lancer to permanently unlock this skin.
So there you have it, the full list and got to say it does look like a lot to do but I'm hoping that the 60 matches for Thrashball Cole will count towards towards the lancer as well (would make life easier). Anyway so give a shout if you going to be on the beta and will have to organise a night to work on some unlocks together and have a laugh.
Source: Gears of War Official Site
DATES
Bulletstorm Epic Edition will give you one week head start to everyone else, starts next Monday (18th April) and lasts until Sunday 24th Arpil.Then the normal beta will begin for those who have codes for pre-ordering in advance, start date is Monday 25th April and lasts until Sunday 15th May.
UNLOCKS
There are several unlocks for the beta (these unlocks will pass over to Gears of War 3) with a wide variety of criteria to unlock them.Flaming Hammerburst
Complete one match by Sunday 24th April (Exclusive to the Bulletstorm week start)
Flaming Lancer
Complete one match during the week of 25th April
Flaming Sawed-Off Shotgun
Complete one match during the week of 2nd May
Flaming Gnasher Shotgun
Complete one match during the week of 9th May
Beta Tester Medal
Complete one match during the beta, attaches to you profile in Gears of War 3 and can be shown in the multiplayer lobby.
Thrashball Cole
Multiplayer skin unlock, complete 50 matches (any game type) during the beta. There is a catch, you must then complete 10 matches as Thrashball Cole to permanently unlock the character.
Gold-Plated Retro Lancer
This is the hardest/longest unlock, complete 90 matches during the beta (any game type) and then score 100 kills with the Lancer to permanently unlock this skin.
So there you have it, the full list and got to say it does look like a lot to do but I'm hoping that the 60 matches for Thrashball Cole will count towards towards the lancer as well (would make life easier). Anyway so give a shout if you going to be on the beta and will have to organise a night to work on some unlocks together and have a laugh.
Source: Gears of War Official Site
Site Changes
This is just a quick post to say I've not forgot about the blog, in fact as you loaded you should have seen some of the new changes I've been doing to the site. First of course is my Easter banner, hope you like my newb skills.
Second thing is that the time chamber page as been taken down for the time being, need to redesign to make it look a lot better. In it's place you will notice now there is a 2011 gaming progress stats page, in the future when I update I will talk about what I did then just link to that page to see the stats. Saves me keeping copying and pasting, also saves having tons of huge long posts, will be doing also for the Golden Key challenge too so expect to see some changes on that page as well.
Finally I will be doing a patch notes page, bit like MMO's work. On this page it will keep record of the dates and whats major change to the blog, I know it doesn't sound that interesting but I like the idea.
Anyway that's it for this post, catch you all in a bit and hoping you been having a good few weeks of gaming.
Second thing is that the time chamber page as been taken down for the time being, need to redesign to make it look a lot better. In it's place you will notice now there is a 2011 gaming progress stats page, in the future when I update I will talk about what I did then just link to that page to see the stats. Saves me keeping copying and pasting, also saves having tons of huge long posts, will be doing also for the Golden Key challenge too so expect to see some changes on that page as well.
Finally I will be doing a patch notes page, bit like MMO's work. On this page it will keep record of the dates and whats major change to the blog, I know it doesn't sound that interesting but I like the idea.
Anyway that's it for this post, catch you all in a bit and hoping you been having a good few weeks of gaming.
Monday, 4 April 2011
So what's game of the year so far
Been meaning to post this for a while now, in fact I was meant to be updating every time I play a new 2011 release but oh well its here now. So what is game of the year for me so far? well check out the lovely list below, oh and a few things. First off the list can change since some of the games on there I'm still currently playing and finally I've only added games I've played which makes sense anyway.
Game of the Year 2011
-!Work in progress!-
-!Work in progress!-
- Ghost Trick (NDS)
- Bulletstorm (X360)
- Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars (X360)
- Pokemon Black (NDS)
- Crysis 2 (X360)
- Total War Shogun 2 (PC)
- Homefront (X360)
- Gray Matter (X360)
So what's got your game of the year so far? I know this list is going to change for me quite a lot since of the huge line up at the end of the year.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Challenge Update
Going to make this quick since I pretty much covered everything in the last post, few more games completed and bit more gamerscore but that's about it. With the new releases dying down hopefully can start working on the back log of games again and completing some of these challenges.
1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 3/14 (21%)
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 110,354 (29,646 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%)
I've also got another update, If you think back I did say one of my reader as decided to join me in the challenge and so here is an update with how he's doing.
1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 3/14 (21%)
- 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
- 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
- Starcraft 2
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 110,354 (29,646 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%)
I've also got another update, If you think back I did say one of my reader as decided to join me in the challenge and so here is an update with how he's doing.
Dragaknight
1. 40 Platinums by the end of the year - 5/40 (13%)
- Dead Space 2
- Killzone 3
- Sly Racoon 2
- Sly Racoon 3
- Assassin's Creed 2
2. 20 Platinums by June - 5/20 (25%)
3. 20 100% Playstation Network Games - 2/20 (10%)
- Sly Mini Games
- Back to the Future: It's about time
4. 10 100% Playstation Network Games by June - 2/10 (20%)
Dragaknight decided to increase his challenge by added PSN games completions to the list, some serious gaming this year. So far he's on track and I'm amazed how fast he's going through this challenge, would not shock me if he's done before the year is over.
- Dead Space 2
- Killzone 3
- Sly Racoon 2
- Sly Racoon 3
- Assassin's Creed 2
2. 20 Platinums by June - 5/20 (25%)
3. 20 100% Playstation Network Games - 2/20 (10%)
- Sly Mini Games
- Back to the Future: It's about time
4. 10 100% Playstation Network Games by June - 2/10 (20%)
Dragaknight decided to increase his challenge by added PSN games completions to the list, some serious gaming this year. So far he's on track and I'm amazed how fast he's going through this challenge, would not shock me if he's done before the year is over.
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.
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
- Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
- Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
- Ghost Trick (DS)
- Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
- Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
- NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
- Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
- Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
- Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
- Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
- Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
- Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
- Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (PC)
- Homefront (Xbox 360)
- Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (Xbox 360)
Gamerscore Earned This Year
3,240
Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze
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)
Lego Star Wars Clone Wars (X360)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
Shogun 2 Total War (PC)
2011 Releases Completed
- 4/17 - 24% -
- 4/17 - 24% -
- Ghost Trick (DS)
- Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
- Bulletstorm (X360)
- Homefront (X360)
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Tomorrow!
Time does fly I've got to admit that, I cannot believe tomorrow is the 3DS launch day. I will be picking mine up after work tomorrow and will be popping to the stationary store to get my AR cards blown up to A3 (looks so much better). My work is doing a midnight launch but I would struggle to get home if I stayed to pick mine up at that time, besides its great but I would not be up in the early hours of the morning playing.
Still debating about picking up a game, so far only Samurai Warriors Chronicles as my attention. The other games won't be out for a few more months which is a bit disappointing when I think about it but least there is a few mini games on there, the face raiders and AR will keep me occupied for the time being (hopefully).
Of course it's not just the 3DS launch, tomorrow also sees Lego Star Wars 3 and Crysis 2 launching. Two games I've been looking forward too for a long time, so no doubt the next week will see me engrossed in these two games. But the best thing about tomorrow is that it's the last day of the mad Q1 launches, after tomorrow it dies down quite a bit to one game every few weeks. Seriously the developers need to space things out to give us time to catch up lol my back log of games to play is huge, need a year off work.
Anyway that's it for this short post, hope everything is going good for you all. By the way who's getting the 3DS and what games if any? will you be picking up any new releases on the other consoles since there is a few out tomorrow.
Still debating about picking up a game, so far only Samurai Warriors Chronicles as my attention. The other games won't be out for a few more months which is a bit disappointing when I think about it but least there is a few mini games on there, the face raiders and AR will keep me occupied for the time being (hopefully).
Of course it's not just the 3DS launch, tomorrow also sees Lego Star Wars 3 and Crysis 2 launching. Two games I've been looking forward too for a long time, so no doubt the next week will see me engrossed in these two games. But the best thing about tomorrow is that it's the last day of the mad Q1 launches, after tomorrow it dies down quite a bit to one game every few weeks. Seriously the developers need to space things out to give us time to catch up lol my back log of games to play is huge, need a year off work.
Anyway that's it for this short post, hope everything is going good for you all. By the way who's getting the 3DS and what games if any? will you be picking up any new releases on the other consoles since there is a few out tomorrow.
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Batman Trailer!!!
October cannot come quick enough! love the open world gameplay and the music for the trailer is spot on. Going to be one hell of a story as well from the looks, espically after hearing about the Riddler setting up puzzles that will kill citizens if you fail to complete them (Saw ripoff). Anyway I can see this being game of the year at this rate
Source: IGN Youtube Channel
Source: IGN Youtube Channel
Golden Key Challenge Update
Decided to put the post into two from now on, reason being is that one of the readers as decided to join the Golden Key Challenge.
Dragaknight as decided to set his goal of 40 Platinum trophies this year, 20 by half the year (need to find out if that's June or 6 months after joining the challenge).
Now that is a challenge and to be honest I did have a slight doubt he could not do it until I got a message the day after saying he got the platinum in Dead Space 2 then week or so later again for Killzone 3. So I'm very impressed right now and got no doubt that he probably could blitz this and then some if he keeps up that pace.
Now for me, well I've slacked the last few weeks so I need to pick up the ball and get back into the game. Espically now that I've realised I've got 12 games for 2011 (13 if I like the rental game Gray Matter) and only completed 3 lol. Only thing to change is I did one more game off the old game list (Batman AA GOTY PC) and increased my gamerscore slightly, nothing to report really.
1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 2/14 (14%)
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,914 (30,086 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%)
So that's it for another update, give me a shout with what you been playing would love to hear how things are going for my readers.
Dragaknight as decided to set his goal of 40 Platinum trophies this year, 20 by half the year (need to find out if that's June or 6 months after joining the challenge).
Now that is a challenge and to be honest I did have a slight doubt he could not do it until I got a message the day after saying he got the platinum in Dead Space 2 then week or so later again for Killzone 3. So I'm very impressed right now and got no doubt that he probably could blitz this and then some if he keeps up that pace.
Now for me, well I've slacked the last few weeks so I need to pick up the ball and get back into the game. Espically now that I've realised I've got 12 games for 2011 (13 if I like the rental game Gray Matter) and only completed 3 lol. Only thing to change is I did one more game off the old game list (Batman AA GOTY PC) and increased my gamerscore slightly, nothing to report really.
1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 2/14 (14%)
- 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
- 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
- Starcraft 2
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,914 (30,086 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%)
So that's it for another update, give me a shout with what you been playing would love to hear how things are going for my readers.
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).
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
- Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
- Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
- Ghost Trick (DS)
- Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
- Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
- NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
- Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
- Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
- Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
- Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
- Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
- Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
- 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
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)
Gray Matter (X360)
Killzone 2 (PS3)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
Shogun 2 Total War (PC)
2011 Releases Completed
- 3/12 - 25% -
- 3/12 - 25% -
- Ghost Trick (DS)
- Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
- Bulletstorm (X360)
Sunday, 13 March 2011
Batman Arkham City Dated!!!
Now this is the type of news I like to come back too on the weekend. Batman Arkham City will be coming to the UK on 21st October and 18th October for America. Seriously the end of this year is going to be amazing, so we got Gears of War in September and now Batman in October then finally well everything else (Uncharted 3, Resistance 3, Mass Effect 3, Elderscrolls 5) in November (hoping some of them be moved about to give more time to play them).
Anyway back to the point, mark your calendars for Batman because it won't be that long away!
Source: good old xbox360achievements.org
Anyway back to the point, mark your calendars for Batman because it won't be that long away!
Source: good old xbox360achievements.org
Friday, 11 March 2011
I'm still here!
Don't panic I'm still here, I know I've been quiet the last week but work as given me weird shifts which left me with little personal time. So in the way's of gaming I did not get much done so that's why there as been no updates on my challenges and progress this year. I have been playing Dawn of War 2 Retribution and finished the story for the Space Marines and Tyranids, basically the game as six races and you playing the same story for each just with a different ending and slightly different turn of events through the game. Won't be classing I've finished the game until all six races are done, love the game that much!
Anyway so yeah I am around and will be updating again when I can, got this Sunday off so planning to have a huge gaming day to catch up. Thinking trying to get a good chunk finished on Batman AA GOTY for the PC done in the morning, jump over to my rental game (Gray Matter) to start that since I've had it for a week and half. Then on the evening switch over to some MMO action, thinking World of Warcraft and I've got Rift waiting to be unwrapped, Sounds like a good plan to me.
How's everyone Else's week been? any good gaming been happening?
Anyway so yeah I am around and will be updating again when I can, got this Sunday off so planning to have a huge gaming day to catch up. Thinking trying to get a good chunk finished on Batman AA GOTY for the PC done in the morning, jump over to my rental game (Gray Matter) to start that since I've had it for a week and half. Then on the evening switch over to some MMO action, thinking World of Warcraft and I've got Rift waiting to be unwrapped, Sounds like a good plan to me.
How's everyone Else's week been? any good gaming been happening?
Monday, 28 February 2011
Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim
I've never finished Oblivion, every time I start a new game I usually get distracted by another game. But I've got to say it's amazing, even to this day its one of my favourite fantasy games and still blows me away on how huge the game is. Always go rob the jewellery store on my first night in the game, don't know why I just do.
Anyway back to the point of the post, OMG the trailer looks amazing!! look at the graphics! seriously can you imagine an open world with those graphics. And the locations I cannot wait to visit and of course dragon fighting! dragon fighting! Ok I'm sold now.
Cannot wait to see what they got lined up for this game
Anyway back to the point of the post, OMG the trailer looks amazing!! look at the graphics! seriously can you imagine an open world with those graphics. And the locations I cannot wait to visit and of course dragon fighting! dragon fighting! Ok I'm sold now.
Cannot wait to see what they got lined up for this game
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.
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%)
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%)
Games Completed In 2011
- Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
- Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
- Ghost Trick (DS)
- Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
- Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
- NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
- Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
- Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
- Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
- Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
- Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
- Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
Gamerscore Earned This Year
2,300
Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze
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% -
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition (PC)
Pokemon Soulsilver (NDS)
2011 Releases Completed
- 3/7 - 43% -
- Ghost Trick (DS)
- Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
- 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
- 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
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%)
Pokemon Black & White Wi-Fi Event
Now got one more reason to buy the game (like you need another reason), on the launch day (4th march) until 22nd April you can download the legendary Pokemon Victini a Fire/Physic pokemon (first time these combos have been used according to the report).
I'm already hyped about this game with all the new features so having a legendary on day one to go with them is great news!
So who's getting the game? and what version? me I'm going for Pokemon Black
Source: Nintendo Magazine Website
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