980 Days To Go - 27/01/2013

Complete Pokémon Games

So this week I started Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, got about 10 hours in and the memory card corrupts so I didn't make any progress there. However, I did start Japanese Pokémon Ruby in order to get to the point where I would be able to transfer a Celebi from the Japanese Colosseum bonus disc. I managed to go from the start until the end of the Elite 4 so now all I have to do is complete the Japanese version of Pokémon Colosseum.

Complete New Super Mario Bros. U

I decided to continue with this game this week. I've already 100% complete the story (All coins etc) and have moved on to Challenge mode. I'm currently on the 4 star regular challenges after managing to complete the final 2 3 star challenges this week (With Gold Medals).

Watch all of Inuyasha

31 episodes in now and it's still good, that's 8 more than last week I believe. It's still pretty good, though I have a feeling it'll get much better...at least I hope it does being 167 episodes long.

Take a photo of myself for 365 days and make one of those 365 day face videos

I started and failed this this week. I took a single photo and then didn't continue so I need to start this again.

Have £1 less to spend each week for 52 weeks and never overspend (Basically save this amount of money)

Similarly to the last, I failed to save the extra money this week so I need to also start this again.

Catch up with the All Gen Gamers Podcast and then stay within 5 episodes

I'm now on Episode 37 which is 6 more than last time. That's 4 more than last week so I've actually done quite well here.

Stay less then 5 episodes behind in the Gamerscore Popcast

I listened to those 3 episodes that I was behind, but not yet this weeks. That means I'm an episode behind which seems reasonable.

Make a sequel to my Mario Fan game containing at least 10 levels

I started on the first level of this, feels similar to when I had the prequel in development :D.

Catch up with Slowflake videos and don't get more than 5 behind

I've now finished the Sonic 3 and Knuckles LP and moved onto the Wind Waker one of which I'm 1 part into. That makes 10 videos this week I believe.

101 Things Progress 2/101

Complete Pokémon Games

So this week I managed to finish the Unova Dex, all 301 Pokémon on Black 2 and kept on with the time sensitive Medals. I think this is where I stop Black 2 for a while in favour of the Generation III games. I caught a few more Pokémon in Emerald so I'm making progress here.

Complete Dunamis 15 - 3/10

I completed Dunamis 15 this week, it's a really quick Japanese text adventure game. I had left it on 900 Gamerscore so I finally finished it. About 3-4 hours for 1,000 points.

Watch all of Inuyasha

I've now watched 23 episodes of Inuyasha which is 10 episodes further than last week. It's really starting to get good now. I can't wait to get back to watching it :D.

Save £1 More a Week for a Year

So the idea of this is to save money. I save £1, then £2, then £3 etc each week up to £52. If successful, this will save £1,378 in total which will be good for a nice holiday break somewhere or maybe for something else.

Catch up with the All Gen Gamers Podcast and then stay within 5 episodes

I'm currently on Episode 31 of this great Podcast. That's 2 more than last time.

Stay less then 5 episodes behind in the Gamerscore Popcast

I was behind 3 episodes in this Podcast that I listen to, I listened to the 3 episodes I was behind. I just have to make sure that I don't get behind by 5 episodes.

Finish this list

Last week there were 74 things on the list, there are now 82 so this is also making progress.

Catch up with Slowflake videos and don't get more than 5 behind

I finished the Final Fantasy VI Spotlight and I made my way 6 parts into the Sonic 3 & Knuckles Let's Play. That's somewhere between 6-11 videos depending.

Complete Otomedius G - 6.5/10

Another game I've been meaning to finish which took a lot of my time this week. A great Shmup that anyone with a Japanese Xbox 360 should play. Around 15 hours for the 1,000 points.

Completed Games

Not completely related, but I also finished the following games:
Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout NES - 4/10
Clu Clu Land NES - 6/10
Excitebike NES - 5/10

The 101 things in 1,001 Days Challenge

So after I watched Grax's video about his 101 things in 1,001 days I decided that I would begin one myself. It's a self explanatory challenge that can be found on www.dayzeroproject.com which involves completing 101 things in 1,001 days. The list I created so far can be found here, with one of the tasks being to simply have 101 things on the list and another to blog my progress.

Complete Pokémon Black 2

This is the first task from my list that is currently in progress, but with 649 Pokémon and 255 Medals (Achievements) to obtain this isn't going to be an easy task. I'm currently almost done with the Unova dex, but the problem isn't going to be with the Pokédex, it'll be with the Medals. There's one for playing a Funfest mission (A minigame) with 30 people in real life and another for getting 1,000 points in a single mission. 1,000 points requiring about 27-40 people.

So what am I doing about this medal? Well I don't have TrueAchievements to create my own boosting session because it's a DS game. Nope, I created an event at the London Expo for it which seems to be going quite well at the moment and I hope it continues to do so. It'll be a fun event, but you know you're addicted to Achievement style things when this is what you go through in order to get them. We're on 23 people going (Plus another 19 maybe going) according to the Facebook Event, so lets keep making that number higher and get as many people that medal whilst having a good time as possible :D.

Watch all of Inuyasha

So I have an Anime schedule and as long as I keep to it, then I'll do this. So far I've watch 13 episodes of this great Anime.

Keep up to date with Naruto (No more than 5 episodes behind)

The filler just ended so let's hope this Anime decides to get good again. Naruto has far too much filler.

Keep up to date with One Piece (No more than 5 episodes behind)

The Naruto Anime could do with some lessons from the One Piece Anime, this is how you do it and keep people interested. One Piece feels like it hardly ever has filler and when it does, it doesn't always suck.

Keep up to date with my Dragon Ball schedule (No more than 5 episodes behind)

I've been watching Dragon Ball Z at 2 episodes a week since mid 2010, mainly because the Dragon Box's weren't all out so I had to watch it at this rate. I haven't stopped since and I'm currently near the end of the Fusion Arc so it's almost over. But then I'm on to the Movies, Specials, GT and finally Kai. So let's keep this going :D.

Catch up with the All Gen Gamers Podcast and then stay within 5 episodes

I listen to this everyday on the way to work. So far I'm on episode 29 and it's one of my favourite podcasts. They talk about pretty much games from all generations, hence the name. It has the same feel as RetroForceGo! did at one time. That podcast was awesome :D.

Make a system for work that is better than the current one

I love my job, I'm a Software Engineer. I'm not sure what I can say about this one but I'm progressing nicely, so let's keep it up :D.

Finish this list (Have 101 tasks)

I'm on 74 so far, so I still need 27.

Catch up with Slowflake videos and don't get more than 5 behind

This guy is my favourite Let's Player and the only one I watch all of the videos for. But I've managed to get around 10 months behind in his videos and for a long time I've wanted to catch up. At the moment I'm in the middle of his Final Fantasy VI Character spotlight, I've got a long way to go.

And that's my progress for this week, now I can mark the one for blogging my way through this as "In Progress", see ya :D.

Weekly Stats

I'm not going to write as much as last week since I don't have a game to grind while I write this. I think I'll just go over the games I've completed this week.

• Virtua Fighter 5 FS
• Ghostscape
• Katamaridamacy
• Mush
• Portal 2
• NBA Live 06

So that's 6 games and it has been a busy week with me going up over 3,000.

I'll also make it known that I have some rivals that I'm keeping track of which they don't know about yet. I'm also going to be sneaky and not tell them about this blog :P. I've also been tracking Dead Herb but I don't have a weekly total for him yet.

Weekly - 

1st KaibaChaos: 3,065G

2nd Bartonator89: 1,500G

3rd Da Mitch Man 90: 895G

4th Demon Liar: 440G

As with the weekly I'm yet to track Bartonator89 or Dead Herb for a month yet so they are not included in these stats.

Monthly - (Last 30 days)

1st KaibaChaos: 11,293G

2nd Da Mitch Man 90: 3,380G

3rd Demon Liar: 830G

Return to Gamerscore...

Well, hasn't it been a long time since I've posted on this blog? Sometime before my final year of university started, I decided to stop gaming for Achievements. It was obviously important that I had my studies as my top priority and that all ended around the middle of May.

So with all that over I'm a little more free and got that craving to start scoring again. It happened when I was at my friend Da Mitch Man 90's house after looking at his score which was when I remembered what I was missing. The urge to unlock achievements again and get higher in the leaderboards was so very tempting and I felt great happiness at the idea so it was hard to ignore.

I can't really explain fully why I like achievements so much, it's probably a combination of the challenge, community, leaderboards, my love for games among other things. I also figure that if this makes me so happy then why shouldn't I do it? I realise that there are people out there that will say it's a waste of time, boring or that it does nothing for you and that they are pointless rewards. Well guess what? I don't really care what you think because I enjoy what I am doing and I'm not harming anyone by doing it. Haters will hate, people can find things hard to understand or just be ignorant that some people enjoy what others don't. Some people like collecting stamps, so if you want to hate then go moan at those people too.

Anyway, I guess I'll now get into why I decided to also return to this blog. There have been times where I have been earning achievements and just haven't written anything into this blog. I don't really have any particular reason for that, though right now I feel like writing a blog and so that's what I'm doing. Of course I'm not wasting any time, I'm writing this between the loading screens on Sonic & SEGA Allstars Racing.

I also wasn't about to just start writing blogs again just because I felt like it, I wanted to make sure that my want to gain achievements again was real. I guess I knew it was coming, since I've had the urge to do it for a while and the only thing stopping me was University. As of writing, I've earned over 10,000 Gamerscore within the last month. I should think that this is enough to justify my return to blogging...despite the few times I've returned to this blog and then stopped just a few weeks later.

Now onto Gamerscore goals. Let's start with Windows Phone 7 and a list of my incomplete games:

• Katamaridamacy
• Angry Birds
• Final Fantasy
• Ghostscape
• Beards & Beaks

At the moment I'm mostly playing Final Fantasy when I get the chance to since it's the easiest to just pick up and play, then put down again. Yes, I realise that the logical choice in such a situation should be Angry Birds, but at the moment I'm going for 3 stars in that so it requires me to concentrate and usually use video guides. Katamari is also blocking me from playing Angry Birds because of the "Exquisite Collection" Achievement which requires every item in the game to be picked up and rolled over. I brought Katamari first and I want to get it finished with so that I can concentrate more on the 3 stars in Angry Birds levels.

Then there's Ghostscape which I find to be a shame because it seems to be an alright game. It just has glitchy achievements. I have a warning to people starting this game, *when* an achievement glitches to the point where you need to restart the game, uninstall it first. After that, wait at least a few hours before downloading it again. The game seems to have problems with you continuing without doing this and will probably glitch even more. However, it is a quick game if you have a guide, it just comes with plenty of problems. Don't buy it unless you want Gamerscore and even if you do, you should be wary of glitches.

Now we come to the final incomplete Windows Phone 7 game which is Beards & Beaks. The game in itself is not a bad game, but it does something which really annoys me. To use the powerups in the game you must spend Microsoft Points and  these powerups are REQUIRED for at least one achievement. The game itself is £2.29 which is about right if you were buying the full thing. It's easy points so far but once again I can't recommend this one. Imagine if every time in Angry Birds to use a Bomb Bird you needed to spend Microsoft Points. I paid for the game without the knowledge of this so consider yourself warned. All would be forgiven if the game was free, it might even seem a little logical to pay for powerups then...but this is the first time I've encountered this on a phone game. It's not a bad thing, but I paid for the game already so I kind of feel cheated out of my money.

Next is retail games which is a much longer list so I think I'll leave that for now. I have a lot to talk about there and I'm pretty sure that I've rambled enough now anyway.

Why don't you just "hack" your 360?

So I just got my NTSC-U Xbox 360 and I've been asked multiple times before I got it why I don't just hack my PAL one to play any game. It's legal as long as I'm not using it for piracy other such things, so why don't I just do that? According to them, I can't be banned if I play offline and only come online to update my score. Well that's just it, my score, that is the reason that I don't want to do something like that. It's against Microsoft's terms and conditions to connect to Xbox Live to hack my Xbox 360 and that's the reason I won't do it. I care about playing online on the console and I care about my Gamerscore. I want to be able to get a consistent update of my position on the now not MGC but TA leaderboards. I also want to know how I'm doing in the 360Voice challenges and time stamps on my Achievements. I can't get any of this by hacking my console, so I won't do it.

I want to be able to also project the integrity of Gamerscore in every way I can. Whilst I have no objections to people hacking their console assuming it's for a legitimate reason, I can't condone it in the world of Gamerscore. I know that there are game saving sites out there which to my knowledge you don't need a hacked 360 to use them, but I'm convinced that some of it could potentially come from hacked consoles. I think of the recent PS3 hacking and yeah, it's a lot more serious but I believe that you can unlock Trophies using a hack. The same could be true for the Xbox 360 and I don't want to have any potential reason to be banned. I love the Xbox 360's and I'll get a Japanese one when I have the money, I want to increase my Gamerscore with games from all around the world, legitimately.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

RIP MyGamerCard.net

Why is it that I keep making these "goodbye" blogs? This is the third one of them and as much as I'd like to continue on with other topics, these keep happening. So as you may have heard http://www.mygamercard.net/ is no more. It served the Xbox community for 5 and a bit years and had by far the biggest worldwide Achievement leaderboard. I used to use the stats from that website in my battle against DizzyChaos way back in those days. It's a real shame to see them go, but I'd rather not be sad about this one and hope that there is something coming along for all Achievement Whores out there. Not to say that the demise of the site means that something better can now come, but Morgan was one person managing a massive website. Maybe one day there will be an official GamerScore leaderboard? Maybe TrueAchievements might implement genre leaderboards which I loved to look at on MGC.

I must thank MGC for the greatness over the years. After I started GamerScore in 2007, you were the site that I visited most. From watching myself and my friends go up the leaderboards to watching the game savers be deleted. The impact this website had is incredible and with it gone it has messed up a spreadsheet I had 7 months in the making. I guess I'll have to start again with TA stats.

Of course, there was that website project I haven't talked about at all yet. Whilst my GamerScore project efficiency thread died on X360A, I still have the spreadsheet and still update it. So perhaps it's time I learnt how to make my own leaderboards and website properly. I have a lot of ideas, but getting them done and getting into the community developer program is another thing. That doesn't mean I'm not going to give it my best try, but these things are going to take time. That and I don't really know much about advertising a website aside from adding links into my forum signature.

Thanks for reading, bye.

5 Games Complete

So there are five games completed this week. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Need For Speed Undercover (WP7), Truth or Lies, X-Men Arcade and Bomberman Live Battlefest.

You know, it kind of seems fitting that I complete American Wasteland near the time when the Tony Hawk's franchise is announced as finished. It's a shame too, that skateboard peripheral should never have been made and I believe is what ruined it. American Wasteland however, despite being a launch title for the console is a very good game in my opinion. I'll never understand why Activision shut them down. Indeed it was due to the games not selling well, but didn't this start because of the skateboard peripheral anyway? Well, Skate was outselling it 2-1 but that's a different game and had Tony Hawk's kept going and innovating with those crazy combos then it could have continued to be awesome. I would say that Skate tries to be more realistic, whereas Tony Hawk's tries to be crazy and unrealistic. It's like the difference between Forza and Mario Kart, they are both racing games but they are also completely different. They're also both good at what they do and don't need to change radically to make themselves "better". Anyway, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is an easy 900 thanks to the in game codes which don't block Achievements. The last 100 takes a really long time though, you must find every Gap in the game. I estimate that there's over 500 of them and even when using a video walkthrough this one is going to take a long time. That's the only part of the game that brings the score down for me. It's somewhat boring and tedious in comparison to the rest of the game which is really fun and enjoyable. RIP Tony Hawk's franchise, I hope someone revives you and makes you good again in the future. I give this game a 7/10.

Need for Speed: Undercover is next for the Windows Phone 7. Generally this game is a good game, a short and somewhat easy 200 GamerScore. It's fun, but can be annoying at times. My friend Da Mitch Man 90 helped me a little bit with this, telling me that the car I was using wasn't very good. So after "upgrading" to a car with lower stats, the end of the game was easy. I'm not a driving game expert, but I thought that upgrading your car would be getting one with better stats. Well, apparently not in Undercover WP7. Oh well, it's a fun somewhat arcade like experience and I enjoyed it a lot more than Fast and Furious because it didn't have those stupid problems with the screen turning off all the time. I'll give this game a 7/10.

Then Truth or Lies was completed which I have to say is one of the oddest 1000's you can possibly do. You need a microphone for the game and the concept of the game just doesn't work whatsoever. The idea is that you are supposed to be able to tell if someone is telling the truth or lying but you could tell it 1+1 is 100 and it may well think you're telling the truth. It's broken and doesn't work, but does only take around 2 hours to 1000. I'll give it a 1/10.

After that was X-Men Arcade which was an easy 200, but a really fun one. I never played the original version of this when it came out but a six player beat 'em up? Wow, I thought that just that fact along was pretty cool. It only takes 1-2 hours to get it all done if you have a multiplayer partner for the 6 player Achievements. You can use 3 controllers each for this, you also get infinite continues and so it's really easy. Perhaps the one disappointing thing was that the complete the game with all six characters achievement is partly glitched. I started the game with whoever was the default character, but I didn't know that you needed to play as Cyclops in order to fix the glitch. Basically, you only have to complete the final level an additional five times to gain the achievement. But when you complete the final level with Cyclops it doesn't save the game. So specifically for Cyclops you will need to go through the whole game again if you didn't do it the first time. I'll give this game a 5.75/10.

Finally, I completed Bomberman Live: Battlefest and to be honest, this game is good but not as good as the original Bomberman Live. It's fun but I think the fact that it has three download packs at 240 points each for a low amount of Gamerscore is just annoying. If you're playing the game to play it then it's probably more fun, almost all of the achievements are boostable with two controllers. I recommend this game for how fun it is and give it an 8/10 based on that. But considering this is a Gamerscore blog, I must bring it down to a 6.5 for how not as fun the achievements are.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

Goodbye Bizarre Creations, and thanks so much

I'm not sure how I couldn't make a blog about this one. Sure, I only ever played the Geometry Wars games but I did buy Blur, it's just still sealed. But, Geometry Wars is my favourite XBLA series and second favourite Xbox series of all time. It's one of the best games on the Wii and even though I haven't played the DS version I'm sure that's good too. When Bizarre made the first game and I downloaded it, I loved it.

I was a bit skeptical at first, I had just gotten my Xbox 360 back in early 2007 and had some points to download my first XBLA games. I knew I wanted Smash TV, which I kind of regret thanks to that glitched Achievement but I really didn't know what else. My friend Siriku told me about Geometry Wars and it didn't seem too exciting and I wasn't too interested. But I wanted to know more and once shown the game and realising it had little to do with math I decided to download it. It was the first dual stick shooter I had played and the controls were perfect. It might have felt a little weird at first but they made so much sense, this game was amazing. A few years later I finally got all of the Achievements in it and that was awesome, it was my most played Xbox 360 game of all time by this point. It's a really odd one too as usually these days once I've finished a games Achievements then I'm done with it. Geometry Wars manages to be one of the few cases where this isn't true, I still play it today and it's still just as good.

Then came Geometry Wars 2, was it better than the first? Well, with all of the different game types it has, the game certainly tries it's hardest to be better. I don't know if it's just nostalgia for the first game, but I like them just as much as each other and find it really difficult to choose between them. Geometry Wars 2 was really awesome, my favourite mode being Pacifism which involves you going through gates to kill enemies and you're not allowed to shoot. Geometry Wars 2 quickly became my second most played Xbox 360 game and it deserves it greatly.

I want to say thank you to Bizarre Creations and in particular the Geometry Wars team, you created such and amazing series which I still play today and will probably continue to play for many, many years to come. It's sad to know that it's highly unlikely we'll see Geometry Wars 3, it's really sad to know that you won't be bringing us great games any longer. But thank you so much for those great games and I hope you have a great future wherever and whatever it is that you decide to do next.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

Fast and the Furious: Adrenaline and Forza Motorsport 2

Two games completed this week, Fast and the Furious: Adrenaline and Forza Motorsport 2.

Fast and the Furious for WP7 wasn't a terrible game, in was fun but did have its flaws. For example, I would be racing through a track and then all of a sudden my phone goes to sleep. Yeah, I could probably change this in the settings of the phone but it's a hassle. The game can't tell that you're playing a game and doesn't know not to turn off. To solve this, since the tilt controls seemed to be the problem I decided to choose another option of controls. At that point, the game became unplayable and I had no choice but to go back to tilt controls. The game also has a nitro button, which I could also potentially use to solve the problem, but sometimes the phone just went to sleep anyway. So as a result, I decided I'd pause the game every 30 seconds in a race and despite losing some immersion I finally finished the game like this. So overall, I do not recommend this game unless of course you're looking for an easy 200 because this game is that. I'll give it a 3.5/10.

Next was Forza 2 which I have been doing for a very long time. Finally, thanks to some help from some friends I got the 1,000,000 online credits achievement. I don't know how many times I raced 75 laps on the Nissan Speedway, but I strangely didn't mind it. For some reason I didn't mind the repetitiveness of the game either, racing the same tracks with different cars. Don't get me wrong, this game has a good amount of tracks but given how long it takes to get the achievements it does get repetitive. You'll have to complete every race in the game and there are loads of them. I haven't played this in a while other than for the online achievement so I can't really say how long, but it is long. It's a fun racing game though and if you like racing games, then I recommend this one. I'll give it a 8/10.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

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Guitar Hero 5 Mobile, Fruit Ninja and Madagascar Kartz

Three games completed this week, Guitar Hero 5 Mobile, Fruit Ninja and Madagascar Kartz.

I'd never played a mobile version of Guitar Hero before, but it seemed like the next logical option for GamerScore on the WP7 and so I downloaded it. Unfortunately, this has to be the worst Guitar Hero I've played but also the easiest at the same time. I think it's the fact that the game wants you to perfect a song on expert that annoyed me the most about it. Considering on the mobile version expert is probably the equivalent to medium this should have been no problem for me. The problem with this achievement was that at times I found the game to be unresponsive. I'd press the buttons but it just sometimes wouldn't register what I'd done. At one point, there was a whole 5 seconds where I could do nothing because the game wouldn't register what I was doing. I can probably almost guarantee that if these "buttons" were actually responsive 100% of the time then I would have had little problem completing this achievement. It's unfortunate as it could have been a better game but it really doesn't deserve the £5.49 price when you can get the next game I'm going to write about for £2.49. I'll give this game a 3/10.

The next game that I completed was Fruit Ninja and unlike Guitar Hero it is very responsive. This is the best WP7 game that I have downloaded so far. It's just so fun to keep slashing fruit over and over using your fingers to swipe the screen. The achievements were great and I had no problem gaining any of them really, it was just an overall fun experience which I'd love to do again. I highly recommend this one, I don't have anything to complain about and the price of £2.49 is really great. I'll give it a 8/10.

Finally, we go back to the not so good games with Madagascar Kartz. Now, I would start comparing this game to Mario Kart, but honestly, although there are similarities there this game does not deserve to compared with such a game. To give you an idea, Madagascar Kartz is like if you took Mario Kart, removed most of the characters, removed most of the tracks, made most of the items blue and red shells, made the mushrooms crash you into a wall or off the edge of a tracks and made the karts slower. The level design is poor, you'll find the AI know all of the shortcuts and that one moment you'll be in first place and the next in last. I can't say that the achievements gave me lot of hassle but this isn't really much of a fun game. Still though, at least it responds better than Guitar Hero 5 Mobile and therefore deserves a better score. I'll give this a 3.5/10.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

Flowerz, Monopoly and Megamind

Wow, three games completed this week. I finished Flowerz and Monopoly on the WP7 and Megamind on the 360.

Flowerz is the game you can download for free if you have a Windows Phone 7. If you want the 200 from it, be prepared to spend a long time playing it. Sure, I was mainly playing it whilst on the train which is quite a short journey for me but I've been consistently playing it since November. There's this one achievement "Clean Slate" which is pretty much a luck achievement. Every morning and afternoon, I'd turn on the game and just go for that achievement, clearing the board of flowers in Standard and Expert difficulty. In Standard this is very easy to do, but once you get to expert it's another thing entirely. Basically, if you haven't played flowers the idea is to make rows of three of a certain flower colour on the board. You can place these flowers anywhere where there is a space. For example you could place three reds next to each other and then they would disappear. Unfortunately, it gets more complicated when you have colours inside colours. For example, the petals could be red and the middle part of the flower could be blue. This time, if you line up three reds, the one with a blue middle will turn blue. So the problem with this achievement was that almost all the time there would be at least a few flowers left on the board. I'd advise anyone going for this achievement to look ahead with their moves using the flower meter at the top which tells you what's coming next. Planning your moves is essential for this achievement and like most guides say, it is best done in the early levels. I'd say specifically the first three as more colours are introduced after that. If you think you're doing well though, don't just stop at level 4 as it's still possible to do. Overall I'd say this was a fun game, though with amount I played it for consistently it did get a little boring and repetitive at times. If you have a Windows Phone 7 or are getting one, this is a must download, even if I only say this because it's free. I'll give it a 6/10.

Monopoly was next for my completions and this was an easy one. There was only one achievement which gave me some trouble and that was "Globe Trotter". The thing with this one is that, like the first 360 retail game you have to land on every property on the board - or as those who say it's glitched will tell you, every space on the board. It's not hard, but it does take a bit of time. You should just set up a game for 2 people and have player 1 buy every property. Well, actually have player 1 bid $1 on the property so that they win it. At the inevitable point where player 2 gets low on money, just trade most of player 1's money to player 2. This way the game keeps going and eventually that achievement will unlock. Overall, I'd say that this game is a good port of Monopoly although I absolutely hate the music, I had the sound off the entire time. It's quick and easy achievements, I'll give it a 5.5/10.

Finally, the last game was Megamind. This game has to be one of the simplest 1000's that I have ever obtained from a game. While it might not quite be as quick as avatar, this game isn't terrible and takes under 5 hours to complete. There isn't much to it other than to make sure you don't die on a boss and to complete a level without dying, it's just so easy. It's definitely a rent though, I feel sorry for anyone who brought it, it's too short for that. Overall, I'll give it a 6.5/10.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

2 Rivals 1 Challenge

So it's been over 7 months and I haven't made a blog post.

Well, I know I said I was back twice but this time it's

actually true because I need this blog to track my

progress. I have two rivals right now who have both made

goals to defeat my GamerScore. One is MagicalChaos who

I'll have to stay infront until July 31st 2013, a very

long time. The other is Demon Liar, who set his goal to

defeat me by January 24th 2012. Demon Liar has been

infront of me before, but as TrueAchievement history shows

I did beat him back.

I have some plans which I don't think I'll go into here in

case either one of them reads this blog. But I've got a feeling it will work since I feel it's somewhat unique and involves things which I'm 99% sure that neither of them use. Perhaps I'll one day reveal it since I'm confident it will work. So I guess if I do reveal it, it will be on August 1st 2013? That's quite a long while away, so hopefully I'll remember by then.

Other than that, this is just yet another one of those "I'm back" posts. The current plan is to post a blog every Tuesday and so we'll see how that goes.

My Gamerscore Plan and Gears 2 6x XP

So I've been making this Gamerscore system in a spreadsheet which will allow me to increase my completion percentage and also let me play new games. It took a while to make and it's main purpose though was to provide an accurate representation of what I consider completion percentage. This means that I removed all glitched achievements and achievements worth 0 points so that they didn't affect the percentage. I never understood why the big sites such as TrueAchievements didn't do this, at least with glitched achievements it makes it inaccurate.

As for playing new games, that's much more complicated:

So X is the achievements I have gained since I started the system. So if I have gained 100 achievements since starting this system then X will be 100.

Next the achievements gained are divided by a number which is determined depending on the completion percentage I have.

For 10% or less:

X / 4

100 / 4 = 25

For 20% or less:

X / 3.5

100 / 3.5 = 28.57

For 25% or less:

X / 3.25

100 / 3.25 = 30.76

For 30% or less:

X / 3

100 / 3 = 33.33

For 40% or less:

X / 2.75

100 / 2.75 = 36.36

For 50% or less:

X / 2.5

100 / 2.5 = 40

For 60% or less:

X / 2.25

100 / 2.25 = 44.44

For 70% or less:

X / 2

100 / 2 = 50

For 75% or less:

X / 1.75

100 / 1.75 = 57.14

For 80% or less:

X / 1.5

100 / 1.5 = 66.66

For 90% or less:

X / 1.25

100 / 1.25 = 80

For 95% or less:

X / 1

100 / 1 = 100

For 100% or less:

X / 0.5

100 / 0.5 = 200

The number gained after the division means that I can start a game with that many achievements. So if I have 60% or less and have gained 100 achievements during the system then I can start a game with 44 achievements or less. Once the new game has been entered into the spreadsheet the achievements of that game are subtracted. So If I start an Arcade game with 12 achievements then I have enough achievements left over to start a game with 32 or less achievements. Or 32.44 to be accurate.

I've probably completely confused you if you read the whole thing, but this system works and is letting me get a higher completion whilst starting new games.

Here's the file if anyone's interested:

http://rapidshare.com/files/398956486/GS_Completion.xlsx.html

Also, I'll be playing Gears 2 a lot this week as it's 6x XP. If you're interested in joining me or have your own session add, message or invite me.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

Livestreaming Super Mario Galaxy 2

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/setochaos

I'm back...again!

It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, I've decided that I will subscribe to LoveFilm again as University ends for the year tomorrow. That is, other than the Summer project which I plan to take part in. This time I'll try to be more active and currently have the goal of 75,000 points by July 29th and so hopefully I can make it.http://tinyurl.com/3xxl7jm

That's my current LoveFilm list above that they'll send me, though I have another 95 titles in my other lists. That gives me 115 if you don't include the reserves at the bottom. Speaking of which, does anyone know where I can get those 3 cheap? At least Space Chimps and My Horse and Me 2 have been there since I added them the last time I was subscribed to LoveFilm.

Rank update:

World: 15,592

Country(UK): 3,493

Hmm, I don't think that's too bad actually since I haven't been going for Gamerscore for a while. Let's see if I can get that rank back to where it was and better.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

Mushihime-sama Futari Region free

Well, it seems that Mushihime-sama Futari is region free. If you are interested in Shmups you might want to buy it as it will directy impact whether or not future Cave shooters are region free:

Article here:

http://kotaku.com/5368190/bullet-hell-shooter-creators-cave-going-region+free-for-next-xbox-360-game

Buy it here:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-br-49-en-15-mushihime-70-3cq6.html

Thanks for reading, bye :)

I'm back!

Well, my laptop decided to break which is why I haven't written any blogs in a while. Then Pokémon Heart Gold arrived and so I've been playing that. I think it is an amazing game, upgraded graphics, Kanto restored to what is originally was, new areas and such. There is no doubt about it, the original Gold, Silver and Crystal were my favourite games of all time. My new favourite games of all time are Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I'm only 4 badges in and have a long way to go to get 16 badges.

Thanks for reading, bye :)

Updates!

Ok, first things first and that's the gamerscore update of which there once again isn't one. I came online for the 1vs100 finale but that was about it.

In RuneScape I'm quite close to level 87 cooking but didn't get the level 88 that I wanted, I still tried though. Hopefully I'll reach a higher level by next week.

In Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobos Dungeon I managed to gain some more dispel magic to uncurse my weapons. Those things seem quite rare, it took me a while to find them and so I wasn't really able to continue the storyline that much.

In Pokémon I did manage to beat the elite 4. Currently I am EV training my Giritina's special attack, battling Golduck after Golduck. Not long until Heart Gold and Soul Silver now though :)

Thanks for reading, bye :)