The Easy Games - September 2008

At time of writing, I'm at 55 retail completions and 28 arcade completions. In a descending list of GS/hour:

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Madden 06
NBA 2k6
College Hoops 2k6
NHL 2k6
Madden 08
MLB 2k6
TMNT
Open Season
Fifa 06 RTFWC
NBA Live 2006
NHL® 07
Cars
Galaga
Surf's Up
Jumper
Lost: Via Domus
CSI: Hard Evidence
Cars: Mater-National
King Kong
POTC: At World's End
GUN
A-Train HX
Fuzion Frenzy 2
Jericho
Fifa Street 3
Fight Night Round 3
Viva Pinata: Party Animals
New Rally-X
Sonic
Eragon
Golden Axe
NBA Street Homecourt
Live Draft Tracker
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
X-Men III
Madden 07
Track and Field
Ms. Pac-Man
NBA Ballers: Chosen One
SpiderMan: FoF
Spyglass Board Games
Shrek III
Summer Athletics
Bomberman Live
Sonic 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Meet the Robinsons
Gauntlet
Prey
NBA 2k7
NHL 2k7
3D Ultra Minigolf
Bionicle Heroes
Superman Returns
Bee Movie Game
Dig Dug
Pac-Man
Buku Numeros
Buku Sudoku
Backgammon
Carcassone
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
NCAA Football 07
Puzzle Fighter HD
Soul Calibur
Uno
Worms
TMNT: Arcade
Bankshot Billiards 2
Enchanted Arms
Phantasy Star Universe
WWE 08
LMA Manager 07
Arkadian Warriors
Civilisation Revolution
Viva Piñata
Wits and Wagers
WWE 07
Fable 2 Pub Games
Pro Evo 6 / Winning Eleven 2007
Undertow
Blue Dragon
Beautiful Katamari
Forza
Puzzle Quest

I've left Puzzle Quest in there, even though it's now got some DLC (for 700MSPs... rip off). To my surprise a few arcade games come in near the bottom.

I have a list of games I still want to play, due to easy GS:

Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda
Bourne Supremacy
Spiderwick Chronicles
Golden Compass
Madden 09
Big Game Hunter
Prince Caspian

and also a few games I own but not completed 100% yet:

Bully
Eternal Sonata
Lost Odyssey
Two Worlds
Cabela Safari
Scene It
Braid

etc. etc.

Here's the PDF of easy games with handy hints for most of the games.

7th September: GS Update

2 weeks since last update, so lots of gaming to cover :) Take, for example, my last 360voice entry:

borandi hit the switch and fired me up yesterday... his total gamer score is 109,879.That is an improvement of 385 points over last time! He opened up Jumper winning 1 achievement to defeat the game, Live Score Tracker winning 1 achievement, Unreal Tournament® 3 picking up 2 achievements, Infinite Undiscovery gaining 3 achievements, Yaris, Rez HD, Poker Smash, N+, NHL 2K8 adding 4 achievements, Bully Scholarship Ed. finishing an amazing 6 achievements, and laughed with joy and glee the whole time. I like making people happy.

And all the games:

NHL 2K8 0 -> 445 of 1000 10 of 19 Achievements Started on NHL 2k8 this week. Its... frustrating. The menu system is weird, and like THE LAST NHL 2k7 there is a GLITCHED ACHIEVEMENT!! DAMN YOU 2K SPORTS!! HOW CAN YOU GET THIS SH!T WRONG TWICE IN A ROW!!!... Damn you, and your crappy programmers.

Live Score Tracker 0 -> 195 of 200 11 of 12 Achievements Live score Tracker is EA's attempt to garnish money from us by making a game related to Fantasy NFL and offering easy gamerscore with it. Damn them. Damn us for buying it! I'm beginning to question EA's ethical practices.

Unreal Tournament® 3 290 -> 420 of 1000 22 of 50 Achievements Spent a while on UT3 this week - mostly working towards the 200 kills every day for 50 days. On the way, worked on the weapons achievements. Fairly straightforward.

Bully Scholarship Ed. 150 -> 430 of 1000 20 of 38 Achievements I completely blitzed Bully today. Did some of the story, but mainly worked on the easy achievements, like Kiss 20 Gents, Kick a football 100 times etc. Fairly easy so far, apart from the Shop classes (failed 3x :p).

Infinite Undiscovery 0 -> 50 of 1000 3 of 50 Achievements I preordered IU with my Elite, so got some additional DLC with it. It's a JRPG with a Star Ocean type battle system. Only played a couple hours, seems fun, though the actual speech in game is words, not vocals which is common nowadays in RPGs. Will play more, will aim for 1k GS :)

Jumper 0 -> 1000 of 1000 20 of 20 Achievements Jumper is an odd game. It offers a new battle system which is fun, but the camera angles are shoddy and the game is glitchy enough that 3 times I fell through the floor. On a speed run, I completed the story mode in 1hr 1minute, though it took 3 playthroughs to get the achievements. One boss was really hard half-way through the first playthrough, but after that it was easy (even the final boss). Game Complete!

Ticket to Ride™ 0 -> 100 of 250 7 of 15 Achievements I bought Ticket to Ride for the Social 2* badge over at 360voice. It's a fairly easy 200, though I need to boost some online games. Overall, it's a simple (but long) card game.

Live Draft Tracker 0 -> 200 of 200 12 of 12 Achievements Live Draft Tracker is also one of EA's money making machines. This one is less palateable - too many MSPs!

NBA 2K7 655 -> 1000 of 1000 50 of 50 Achievements Finally finished NBA 2k7. The main problem here were the blocks. I was able to fire up a second controller to get all block related achievements, and find a boosting partner for the online wins. Overall, a nice 1000 :)

NBA 2K8 210 -> 820 of 1000 40 of 50 Achievements I played NBA 2k8 in the same ilk as 2k7 - once the blocks were out of the way, the rest was easy. The only achievements left are the online ones. I like the NBA 2k series - nice and somewhat easy :)

Call of Juarez 0 -> 10 of 1000 1 of 36 Achievements I went into Gamestation and bought Call of Juarez and Kane&Lynch this week in their 2 for 20 (GBP) range. I've wanted CoJ for a while as part of my collection, though I'm not too fond of Westerns. I played this for a little, though it seemed a little frustrating. Must play later.

Buku Números 0 -> 200 of 200 12 of 12 Achievements I got the opportunity to play Buku Numeros - the Mexican version of Buku Soduku. So I quickly wrapped up the 200GS, fairly easy when I found a boosting partner - which was a bit hard, seeing as only 100 people have ever played the game (according to MGC)!

Marvel Ult. Alliance 980 -> 1135 of 1250 54 of 58 Achievements I've had Marvel: UA a while, and tbh I should have completed this already! I spent part of this past update time doing the simulation discs. Some of them were hard to get gold, but by using a combination of the best moves and being quick, it worked. After that, a case of getting all the outfits for every character. It was just a case of using one of the Asgard simulation levels. All that's left is to complete the game on hard, 100 arcade wins, and 2 DLC 'Meet X with X' achievements.

Rock Band 265 -> 285 of 1000 15 of 50 Achievements Did some boosting with Roquey on Rock Band - some Score Duels. We traded about 10 each, along with me getting the 5 in a row achievement (he already had it).

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No position updates this time - MGC are having problems. We all hope they get it sorted soon :) Good luck guys.

Ordered an Elite!!

So thats an Xbox 360 Elite (the version with 120GB HDD), Fable 2 Collectors Edition, Fallout 3 Collectors Edition and Infinite Undiscovery for £335 (inc P&P). Thats £30 saving over the cheapest prices to get these together, £65 over Gamestation.co.uk prices. Bargain.

See you on Fable II :)