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
Monday, 28 February 2011
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
Just a Week Away (Part Four)
Sorry it took so long to continue but had things to do, people to see and games to play! So anyway where was I, oh yes the final release date of March and the one I'm dreading the most, why? console release of course.
25th March
3DS Handheld Console
I'm really looking forward to it, at first I was bit iffy on the subject since it was 3D without glasses but after having ago on one I'm now very excited to see what they bring out on this baby. I love face raiders the built in game and augmented reality looks amazing, wish I could see an actual game playing on it. But still I'm sold on it! Will be trading my DSI in for it
Samurai Warriors 3D
Think this will be the only game I'm getting for the time being until they release some of the Zelda's, RPG's, Marios etc. I'm a huge fan of the Dynasty Warriors as I said before so having one on the handheld will keep me busy for hours on end
The First Templar
This game does have my interest but I can see it being just a rental game, basically its a hack and slash game based on the origins of the Templar Order (big fan of the Templars, love reading books about them and looking up the history about them).
Lego Stars Wars 3 The Clone Wars
It's a lego game do I need to give a reason? lol these games are always awesome, I know should rent them since I just play to clock the game fully then trade them back in. But they are so fun and it takes ages for Lovefilm to send them to me, cannot wait for Pirates of the Caribbean Lego later on as well.
Crysis 2 Limited Edition
Originally I was not going to get this on the day but all the trailers I keep seeing make me want to buy this game. The multi player trailers look so much fun, I like the idea the suit can be tech'd out to your style of playing. Story campaign looks stunning with the graphics engine and it does have my interest unlike the first one. So I see this being a day one purchase as well
Well there you have it, the next several weeks of huge games and I know April is already filling up with new releases as well. Think the developers need to give us some time off so we can catch up! Until next time have a good one
25th March
3DS Handheld Console
I'm really looking forward to it, at first I was bit iffy on the subject since it was 3D without glasses but after having ago on one I'm now very excited to see what they bring out on this baby. I love face raiders the built in game and augmented reality looks amazing, wish I could see an actual game playing on it. But still I'm sold on it! Will be trading my DSI in for it
Samurai Warriors 3D
Think this will be the only game I'm getting for the time being until they release some of the Zelda's, RPG's, Marios etc. I'm a huge fan of the Dynasty Warriors as I said before so having one on the handheld will keep me busy for hours on end
The First Templar
This game does have my interest but I can see it being just a rental game, basically its a hack and slash game based on the origins of the Templar Order (big fan of the Templars, love reading books about them and looking up the history about them).
Lego Stars Wars 3 The Clone Wars
It's a lego game do I need to give a reason? lol these games are always awesome, I know should rent them since I just play to clock the game fully then trade them back in. But they are so fun and it takes ages for Lovefilm to send them to me, cannot wait for Pirates of the Caribbean Lego later on as well.
Crysis 2 Limited Edition
Originally I was not going to get this on the day but all the trailers I keep seeing make me want to buy this game. The multi player trailers look so much fun, I like the idea the suit can be tech'd out to your style of playing. Story campaign looks stunning with the graphics engine and it does have my interest unlike the first one. So I see this being a day one purchase as well
Well there you have it, the next several weeks of huge games and I know April is already filling up with new releases as well. Think the developers need to give us some time off so we can catch up! Until next time have a good one
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Fare Well MyGamerCard.net
If you looked at the blog this morning you would notice my gamercard as vanished and in replace a thank you message. Basically MyGamerCard.net as closed the site and it's a sad day indeed. It was amazing site where it kept track of every ones gamercard, there was leader boards for the world, countries and genres of games. You could make your own custom leader boards and it would list everyone who had the 1,000's in each game. It was a great site and in fact one of the reason I started this blog to record my adventures.
It will be missed, so fare well MyGamerCard.net hope everyone who worked on it have a great future and Microsoft take notice, this is how it should be done!
It will be missed, so fare well MyGamerCard.net hope everyone who worked on it have a great future and Microsoft take notice, this is how it should be done!
Friday, 25 February 2011
Review Transformers War for Cybertron
This as to be the best Transformers game I've played but saying that doesn't mean it did not have some flaws. Combat is simple and fun, transform at a click of a button with no having to hold down anything (thank you!). Graphics are amazing and several times I've had to stop to take in the sights.You see two sides to the story, Decepticons are first showing the events leading up to the end of the war and the reason why they leave their world. Then you switch over to Autobots to see their side at the end and why everything happened. Sorry the explanation is rubbish but I don't want to do any spoilers.
Overall I did enjoy it but as I said at the start there are several faults I hated, boss fights lack ammo and health which can mean several deaths. One fight I found myself going around the room in vehicle form with thrusters on full to dodge attacks while waiting for health, if I get hit it's over and the painful 10 minute fight starts over again.
It's worse on hard mode since you receive more damage, in fact I turned it off half way through the Autobots campaign. I was doing a protect end mission which nearly broke my controller. Allies do barely any damage and the enemy just ignore them, Ratchet (who you are protecting) is sitting in the middle of the room in full open. If he goes down you have several second window to revive him, of course usually there is six enemy's around him blocking your attempt meaning end game. Maybe an extra checkpoint in the last wave would had helped for the lack of health/ammo.
As I said it needs more ammo and health drop's in the boss fights, and better ally A.I to make this game great. But I would still recommend this game to anyone to give a try, I did enjoy it when I was not doing the boss events. So I give it a 9 out of 10
Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
Score: 9 out of 10
Gameplay: Average
Graphics: Good
Story: Good
Length: Decent
Controls: Good
Review: Resistance Fall of Man
I picked this game up on day one and barely played an hour before It was put on my shelf to gather dust for several years. I don't something at the time didn't interest and with plenty of new games coming out it's not shocking I ignored it. So jump back to the present and I've decided to work my way through some of my old games, I thought this would be a good start since I have both one and two on the shelf, also throw in the fact the third one is coming out end of the year thought it was time to begin.I got say the first levels are slightly dull but after that the game really keeps you entertained, it's a very under rated game. Story isn't the best but at the same time it does keep you interest, I would like to know about how the events happen and finding myself wanting to crack the second one open to play on to see what happens.
Controls I did find a bit confusing at first since they differ to most FPS but after 5-10 minutes you catch on. Graphics and game play mechanics are good, no real problems to talk about to be honest. Overall it's a good shooter and I know it can be picked up for less than £10 so would recommend it to anyone.
In fact I have been thinking about playing it again to unlock all the Intel so I can learn more of the story, although could just look the Intel up on the Internet but where's the challenge in that!
Anyway I give this game full marks
Resistance - Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
Score: 10 out of 10
Gameplay: Good
Graphics Good
Story: Good
Length: Decent
Controls: Good
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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:
Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,970
Trophies Earned This Year
1 Gold
8 Silver
60 Bronze
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%)
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%)
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
- 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)
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
- 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
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%)
Gears of War 3 dated
I need to book a week off, Gears of War 3 is coming out world wide on the 20th September 2011. It's a good time to release it, christmas already as a long list of triple A titles so fitting it in after the summer holiday and just before the october rush is a good idea. Anyway I'm off to go mark my calendar's and book time off lol
Cannot wait for this game!
Source: Xbox360achievements.org
Cannot wait for this game!
Source: Xbox360achievements.org
Monday, 21 February 2011
Pokemon Wi-fi Event Final Part
Well it's the last week of the shiny Johto legendary dogs downloads, this week you can now get Suicune. The last day is this Sunday (27th February) so make sure to download while you can. You can transfer the Pokemon over to the new versions Black and White to help unlock Zoroark and the download can be done on any of the versions below:
- Platinum
- Pearl
- Diamond
- Soulsilver
- Heartgold
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Just a Week Away (Part Three)
Blimey there is a lot of games I want, think my bank manager is panicking lol. So done the first two weeks and now hitting the eye of the storm, the quiet period.
11th March
Dragon Age 2
Since I've not completed or really put the time into the first one, the sequel was going to wait for a price drop. Of course then they announced the Sig Edition, basically loads of extra weapons, armour and an entire dlc content all for the same price as the normal edition. Now that's a deal! so of course I've now got that on order, shame the special edition can no longer be ordered. If you missed out the dlc content is meant to come out a month later, you just won't get it for free sorry.
15th March
Shogun 2 Total War
Yes a Tuesday release and one of my favourite games, I've never finished the story campaigns on any of the Total War games I just love playing skirmishes. So what's making me look forward to this version? samurai are back! and the A.I looks amazing in the game play trailers. I can tell that I'm going to be wasting hours on small battles, cannot wait!. Also I've got the GAME special edition on order that also supplies you with some exclusive clan dlc and a full chess set made out of bamboo and hand painted. Score!
18th March
God Eater
It's not often I find a game I want on the PSP, God Eater is basically anime style monster hunter game. Watch the trailer, it looks amazing! your weapon can transform into melee, range and predator (some kind of form that eats the monsters/gods). Looks action packed and the story looks pretty solid with you chasing after some kind of boss god that is causing destruction, wasn't paying attention since I was glued to watching the fights lol. Hopefully got another gem for the PSP.
Homefront
Another game I was not going to get straight away, in fact it was going to be a rental. But the more I see about it the more I want to play it. Basically North Korea as become stronger and taken over most of Asia to become a super state, then in the name of peace they launch a satellite that in fact is a weapon that takes out all electronic devices in America. This begins the invasion and the story folds around you a resistance fighter, it looks good and I hear you can choose to be either the Korean forces or American in the story. The game play trailers look good and the multi player seems to be ok as well. Maybe I will pick it up, will see closer to the date.
Well that's it for another post, the next one contains the 25th March a huge launch day! So see you soon
11th March
Dragon Age 2
Since I've not completed or really put the time into the first one, the sequel was going to wait for a price drop. Of course then they announced the Sig Edition, basically loads of extra weapons, armour and an entire dlc content all for the same price as the normal edition. Now that's a deal! so of course I've now got that on order, shame the special edition can no longer be ordered. If you missed out the dlc content is meant to come out a month later, you just won't get it for free sorry.
15th March
Shogun 2 Total War
Yes a Tuesday release and one of my favourite games, I've never finished the story campaigns on any of the Total War games I just love playing skirmishes. So what's making me look forward to this version? samurai are back! and the A.I looks amazing in the game play trailers. I can tell that I'm going to be wasting hours on small battles, cannot wait!. Also I've got the GAME special edition on order that also supplies you with some exclusive clan dlc and a full chess set made out of bamboo and hand painted. Score!
18th March
God Eater
It's not often I find a game I want on the PSP, God Eater is basically anime style monster hunter game. Watch the trailer, it looks amazing! your weapon can transform into melee, range and predator (some kind of form that eats the monsters/gods). Looks action packed and the story looks pretty solid with you chasing after some kind of boss god that is causing destruction, wasn't paying attention since I was glued to watching the fights lol. Hopefully got another gem for the PSP.
Homefront
Another game I was not going to get straight away, in fact it was going to be a rental. But the more I see about it the more I want to play it. Basically North Korea as become stronger and taken over most of Asia to become a super state, then in the name of peace they launch a satellite that in fact is a weapon that takes out all electronic devices in America. This begins the invasion and the story folds around you a resistance fighter, it looks good and I hear you can choose to be either the Korean forces or American in the story. The game play trailers look good and the multi player seems to be ok as well. Maybe I will pick it up, will see closer to the date.
Well that's it for another post, the next one contains the 25th March a huge launch day! So see you soon
Just a Week Away (Part Two)
Morning all, so we continue with the long list of games that are being launched over the next few weeks. Plenty to keep everyone busy and plenty to kill my completion percentage challenge lol, anyway so this time we jumping one week forward from the last post. It was meant to be a quite week with only one game but already its shaping up to be another big day.
4th March
Rift
Brand new fantasy MMO that peaked my interest a few months back after watching a trailer. Basically at any point a Rift portal can open and a invasion army can come through, if left open for too long they start to take over the area. So you can log off safely in a village to come back later to find a war zone if the rifts are not kept under check, not only that but there are several factions that come through Rifts. So if two opposite rifts open the invasion armies will fight each other, it sounds awesome and so far I'm liking the beta. Also the class trees are huge, so many choices that I don't know where to start. I've ordered the collectors edition with all the lovely goodies, should be fun to play hopefully.
Hyperdimension Neptunia
Anime style RPG coming out on the Playstation 3, type of games I love but never finish! Can't really explain the game I would just say watch the trailer, as I said the style of game play and graphics appeal to me. I was going to buy this later on since I was not going to play it straight away but just found out can get a free hardcover artwork book for pre-ordering. Companies need to stop trying to tempt me!
Pokemon White and Black
Need I say more? lol I want the Black Version, if you read through my past posts you will see a post dedicated to this game and what makes its different. But a quick summary why I'm looking forward to it, new battle system and seasons are the two big things for me. oh and of course extra 150 new Pokemon (I wonder if they running out of ideas yet). This will be a day one purchase!
Warriors: Legend of Troy
Basically a Greek Dynasty Warriors game, I'm a huge fan of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors so this is right up my street. Basically over the top characters that take on huge armies, can get a bit repetitive but I find it a lot of fun Not sure if I will get it on day one though since there is so much coming out
Dawn of War 2 Retribution
Cannot wait!!! I love the dawn of war series, its been one of my favourite all time RTS games. This time its bringing back several classics modes and features, first upplanet type campaigns are back. This is where you take over sectors and aim to control the entire planet while fighting multiple factions. Also thrown in again is playing as different factions, its going to be awesome! Orks, Chaos Space Marines, Imperial Guard (new race), Space Marines and Tyranids! Think this game could take up most of my time for the next few weeks and be on the list for game of the year
So that's it for the 4th, doesn't like many but when you take in the fact what came out the week before you can see why it becomes so costly. Next post will contain the next few weeks since only a few games are coming out.
Edit: Forgot to add Dawn of War 2 Retribution
4th March
Rift
Brand new fantasy MMO that peaked my interest a few months back after watching a trailer. Basically at any point a Rift portal can open and a invasion army can come through, if left open for too long they start to take over the area. So you can log off safely in a village to come back later to find a war zone if the rifts are not kept under check, not only that but there are several factions that come through Rifts. So if two opposite rifts open the invasion armies will fight each other, it sounds awesome and so far I'm liking the beta. Also the class trees are huge, so many choices that I don't know where to start. I've ordered the collectors edition with all the lovely goodies, should be fun to play hopefully.
Hyperdimension Neptunia
Anime style RPG coming out on the Playstation 3, type of games I love but never finish! Can't really explain the game I would just say watch the trailer, as I said the style of game play and graphics appeal to me. I was going to buy this later on since I was not going to play it straight away but just found out can get a free hardcover artwork book for pre-ordering. Companies need to stop trying to tempt me!
Pokemon White and Black
Need I say more? lol I want the Black Version, if you read through my past posts you will see a post dedicated to this game and what makes its different. But a quick summary why I'm looking forward to it, new battle system and seasons are the two big things for me. oh and of course extra 150 new Pokemon (I wonder if they running out of ideas yet). This will be a day one purchase!
Warriors: Legend of Troy
Basically a Greek Dynasty Warriors game, I'm a huge fan of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors so this is right up my street. Basically over the top characters that take on huge armies, can get a bit repetitive but I find it a lot of fun Not sure if I will get it on day one though since there is so much coming out
Dawn of War 2 Retribution
Cannot wait!!! I love the dawn of war series, its been one of my favourite all time RTS games. This time its bringing back several classics modes and features, first upplanet type campaigns are back. This is where you take over sectors and aim to control the entire planet while fighting multiple factions. Also thrown in again is playing as different factions, its going to be awesome! Orks, Chaos Space Marines, Imperial Guard (new race), Space Marines and Tyranids! Think this game could take up most of my time for the next few weeks and be on the list for game of the year
So that's it for the 4th, doesn't like many but when you take in the fact what came out the week before you can see why it becomes so costly. Next post will contain the next few weeks since only a few games are coming out.
Edit: Forgot to add Dawn of War 2 Retribution
Friday, 18 February 2011
Just a Week Away (Part One)
Good morning all, how is everyone?
It's come to me today that in a week's time begins the quarter one huge line up, starting from 25th until pretty much April there is at least one/two games out every week! It's going to be very expensive and push my challenge to the test since I'm trying to keep at least 50% completion rate on new releases this year. Anyway I thought I would do a post on what's got my interest and why.
25th February
Killzone 3
After playing this at the beta rooms I've been looking forward to it, of course I will only be able to play the multi player for the time being since I need to finish the second one first. Technically I should wait for this game since I'm not getting it straight away but I'm picking up the collectors edition with all the lovely first day perks and dlc content included.
Bulletstorm
This game is going to rock, over the top chaos is the words I would use to describe it. Love the kill skills involved, I can see replaying this game a lot to try and beat old scores, and of course to clock every skill in the game. Going to be getting the Epic Edition so I have access to the Gears 3 beta, that's one awesome bonus!
Grey Matter
Mystery solving game, for some reason this game as got my attention and I'm not sure why. Of course with all the new releases only a select few will be picked up on day one and this game is being added to the rental since I found out its a point and click, but as I said for some reason I want to play this game.
Two Worlds 2
Not getting this game on launch, originally I was but realising I still need to finish the first one I see no reason to buy this yet. Just wait for a price drop/deal of the week in a few months then probably pick it up
Pirates of the Caribbean Armada of the Damned
Ok I want this game on launch but when I looked up the trailer the other week there was a news post saying it was cancelled back in October. So right now I don't know what's going on, I'm assuming its an error on GAME's part with it still being on the release list. Secretly I'm hoping it does come out but I know the chances are too slim.
Tactics Ogre
Another RPG for the PSP, I keep looking at this game and I'm on the fence about it. It's getting some awesome reviews and scores but I doubt I would play it for a while. But just checked it again and it's now coming with a load of goodies included, vouchers, soundtracks etc. Stop tempting me!
Knights Contract
Saw a trailer a few months back and looked ok, basically a fantasy based game around a knight and witch. Story along the lines of the knight was cursed with immortally thanks to a witch he killed (some kind of witch bounty hunter), now a darkness as appeared and the witch is brought back to life. So now the witch and knight have to work together to combat the darkness. So cliche but the trailer did look good, again though I'm not sure if this would be a day one purchase, will have to see.
So that's the first friday, yes its a lot lol. Basically the 25th feb and march are the two worse days in this quarter for too many releases, next week is going to be costly but its a good thing I did some trade-ins and its pay day. Anyway going to split the post into multiple ones to cover everything, so this is the end of part one.
It's come to me today that in a week's time begins the quarter one huge line up, starting from 25th until pretty much April there is at least one/two games out every week! It's going to be very expensive and push my challenge to the test since I'm trying to keep at least 50% completion rate on new releases this year. Anyway I thought I would do a post on what's got my interest and why.
25th February
Killzone 3
After playing this at the beta rooms I've been looking forward to it, of course I will only be able to play the multi player for the time being since I need to finish the second one first. Technically I should wait for this game since I'm not getting it straight away but I'm picking up the collectors edition with all the lovely first day perks and dlc content included.
Bulletstorm
This game is going to rock, over the top chaos is the words I would use to describe it. Love the kill skills involved, I can see replaying this game a lot to try and beat old scores, and of course to clock every skill in the game. Going to be getting the Epic Edition so I have access to the Gears 3 beta, that's one awesome bonus!
Grey Matter
Mystery solving game, for some reason this game as got my attention and I'm not sure why. Of course with all the new releases only a select few will be picked up on day one and this game is being added to the rental since I found out its a point and click, but as I said for some reason I want to play this game.
Two Worlds 2
Not getting this game on launch, originally I was but realising I still need to finish the first one I see no reason to buy this yet. Just wait for a price drop/deal of the week in a few months then probably pick it up
Pirates of the Caribbean Armada of the Damned
Ok I want this game on launch but when I looked up the trailer the other week there was a news post saying it was cancelled back in October. So right now I don't know what's going on, I'm assuming its an error on GAME's part with it still being on the release list. Secretly I'm hoping it does come out but I know the chances are too slim.
Tactics Ogre
Another RPG for the PSP, I keep looking at this game and I'm on the fence about it. It's getting some awesome reviews and scores but I doubt I would play it for a while. But just checked it again and it's now coming with a load of goodies included, vouchers, soundtracks etc. Stop tempting me!
Knights Contract
Saw a trailer a few months back and looked ok, basically a fantasy based game around a knight and witch. Story along the lines of the knight was cursed with immortally thanks to a witch he killed (some kind of witch bounty hunter), now a darkness as appeared and the witch is brought back to life. So now the witch and knight have to work together to combat the darkness. So cliche but the trailer did look good, again though I'm not sure if this would be a day one purchase, will have to see.
So that's the first friday, yes its a lot lol. Basically the 25th feb and march are the two worse days in this quarter for too many releases, next week is going to be costly but its a good thing I did some trade-ins and its pay day. Anyway going to split the post into multiple ones to cover everything, so this is the end of part one.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Deus Ex Human Revolution
I'm very excited to play this game, it's in my top five most anticipated games for this year. It look's beautiful and looks to have a gripping story, I can see losing a good few months of my life to this game. But don't take my word for it, check out the trailers below that got me wanting this game.
My favourite first trailer I watched
Story Teaser
Gameplay
Source: Deus Ex Human Revolution Youtube Channel
My favourite first trailer I watched
Story Teaser
Gameplay
Source: Deus Ex Human Revolution Youtube Channel
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
My Challenge
Just been thinking about what challenge to set myself for the Golden Key 2011. In the end there are at least half dozen of different things I would like to do which would not last the year by them selves, so I've decided my challenge will be built on several goals.Of course I have done several year long goals in the past and never hit them due to many factors, hopefully this year I can keep on track/keep the motivation up. My goals are mostly set on past games that have been gathering dust on the shelf, if you been read the past posts at the start of the year you know full well I've got half dozen piles to get through. The constant "I will get around to them" keeps annoying me so I'm using this challenge as a excuse to play them. So without further stalling here are my goals for the ultimate gamers challenge!
1. Complete two JRPGS!
Every year I say I will finally complete one and for the past two/three years I've not even done one yet! So instead of trying to complete one I'm going for two. Call me insane but this is a worthy challenge in it's self.
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100%
I'm going to regret setting myself this, the 100% means all achievements or trophies
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below
- 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
If you been reading my stats that I post you know I'm already been keeping track of this and trying to stay on top of it
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3
Just throwing some stat boosting challenges in there
So that's it, 8 goals for my Golden Key Challenge. Each one a hard challenge in its self and I'm sure I'm going to regret setting them later on. Wish me luck! and hope to see your challenges soon
Monday, 14 February 2011
Movie Games
When I hear there is a game being released based on the movie I always cringe, 99.9% of the time they turn out to be aweful. This year there are several already appearing on the coming soon list to tie in with the new movies, so far I know of:
Is anyone actually looking forward to any of these games? or are you worried they just be another bad game? I'm interested to see your opinions
Pop over to xbox360achievements.org who have all the story along with the trailer
- Green Lantern
- Captain America
- Thor
Is anyone actually looking forward to any of these games? or are you worried they just be another bad game? I'm interested to see your opinions
Pop over to xbox360achievements.org who have all the story along with the trailer
Pokemon Wi-fi Event Part Two
The second event as started and will be running until this Sunday (20th February), this time you can get Entei. You can download on either of the following versions. Soulsilver, Heartgold, Platnium, Pearl or Diamond. Also effects the following regions, Europe, America and Australia
One thing I did forget to mention last week is that all three will be in shiny form. Just to make it that much more awesome!
Source: Thanks to serebii.net
Saturday, 12 February 2011
The 1st Golden Key Challenge
I've decided to host a site video game challenge for everyone to take part in, so the 1st Golden Key Challenge is born.
Want to partake? it's quite simple, to make this interesting I'm going to let you set your own challenge for the year. Of course nothing to easy it has to be a challenge that can last the year e.g. finish X amount of games, gain X amount of achievements/trophies, complete a huge game to the 100% max or two games.
Once you have decided what you going to do just reply to this post or the facebook post with what your challenge is. I will be doing a update post quite regularly on my challenge and will be looking forward to hear your updates as well.
Will be listing everyone who is taking part in the posts and will put your updates on there as well, of course if you don't want any of your information posted up just say. I've also made a mini logo image that can be used to show you part of the challenge
Hope to see all of you taking part
~Iznic
~Iznic
Who's Getting Killzone 3?
Looking for a little bit of feedback from you guys, who is getting Killzone 3 on the day launch?Reason I'm asking is that I'm hoping to get a multi-player game setup on the launch weekend and it would also be the first game night setup by the site. So if you getting Killzone 3 on launch and would be interested in doing some multi-player either reply here or on the facebook page post. If I get few people I will set a game night up for us
Oh also who is getting the collector's edition or Helghast Edition as well would help, reason been these editions give extra multi-player maps.
If this kicks off well I will start trying to get a monthly gaming night setup
~Iznic
Looking forward to Pokemon White and Black
I've always been a big Pokemon fan, ever since it was start showing on sky 1 back in the days (months before it became the popular thing) and since then I've pretty much bought every version that as come out. But every time I do wonder how it keeps going since all they do is add another 100 Pokemon and just move the map around with a slight improvement here or there.
So I was shocked to read about the new improvements in the new versions that are coming out the start of march.
Of course we getting some more new Pokemon, this time another 150 so a big increase compared to normal. But this time we see some massive changes:
So I was shocked to read about the new improvements in the new versions that are coming out the start of march.
Of course we getting some more new Pokemon, this time another 150 so a big increase compared to normal. But this time we see some massive changes:- Seasons have now been added, they work along since the calendar which is pretty cool so you got a reason to play all year long. Pokemon forms/colours can change depending on the season along with some Pokemon only appearing in certain seasons. Also some areas will be closed off until a season starts. So an improved night and day feature
- New battle system, 3v3 with tactics on where you place your Pokemon since some attacks can only damage right side or left or centre etc.
- Rotation battles where you can switch pokemon at any time without losing a turn (finally!)
- Speech is now in bubbles above the character heads to allow multiple characters to talk
- Massive improvements on the graphics (feel like this game was a test ready for the next version on the 3DS)
- Double battles in the wild depending on the grass you walk through
- New Dream World, works with the Global Link website. Basically you can find Pokemon here with abilities they do not normally have. You can also have a house here to grow berries and allow other trainers to come visit (Still looking into it this but it sounds awesome)
Crysis 2
I've been looking forward too Crysis 2 for a while which is a bit strange since I was not that interested in the first one. All the trailers for the story campaigns looking amazing, espically the station fight with the huge mech. You cannot beat a good old sci-fi shooter.Anyway a few weeks back I saw the below trailer for the multi player and I got to say I'm now excited for the entire game.
[Edit: Sorry to say the embed would not work so its just the link to gamespot so you can watch the trailer there, sorry no idea what happened! looking into it]
So hopefully the entire game will turn out awesome, only thing I'm worried about is the release date. 25th March and for all those who don't know, it seems this is the day to release everything. So far there is the 3ds launching, Lego Star Wars Clone Wars, Dynasty Warriors 7 and a few more. It's going to be costly!
To wrap this post up here is one more trailer for you, the multi player leveling trailer. Shows how leveling up works along with what you can unlock.
Source: thanks to gamespot.com trailers
For more information checkout the Crysis 2 website
COD Black Ops Stats
Some stats on Call of Duty Black Ops have been released and I've got to say they are insane, 1.1 trillion shots fired lol and the world population times nine have been killed. Just shows how popular the call of duty franchise is online.
Friday, 11 February 2011
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
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
- 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)
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)
Monday, 7 February 2011
Pokemon Wi-fi Event As Started
The legendary dogs event as begun, I nearly forgot myself until I popped over to serebii.net and found the news post. This event will be broken up into three stages, one dog per week so make sure you don't miss out.
This week will end on the 13th February and contains Raikou
You need a European, Australian or American Heartgold, Soulsilver, Diamond, Platnium or Pearl game. Also when they are traded over to Black or White it will start an event to capture Zoroark.
Right I'm off to go download!
Source: Serebii.net
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.
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.
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?
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
- 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)
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
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)
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?
Welcome
Thought I would do a quick post welcoming everyone to the "new" blog, for those coming over from the brotherhood of gaming you won't find much difference here. Purpose of this site is all about games and my adventures in them, I love collecting achievements and trophies. I like amazing stories that keep enthralled for hundreds of hours and make you feel part of the game. This site is where I will review, talk about what I'm looking forward too and of course the progress of trying to complete the huge piles of games I keep buying. Not forgetting a few rambling on posts thrown in too.
Of course I will would love to hear your comments on the different games, your progress through your collections and of course what games that you look forward too. So don't be a stranger, comment on the facebook and here on the blog it self.
Hope you enjoy your time here
Of course I will would love to hear your comments on the different games, your progress through your collections and of course what games that you look forward too. So don't be a stranger, comment on the facebook and here on the blog it self.
Hope you enjoy your time here
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