11th November: GS Update

Another week, another bunch of gaming!

borandi showed up yesterday and we were like a superhero team together. I make a great sidekick! Gamerscore stands at 56,387. Up up and away right? That is an improvement of 545 points over last time! Another day, another milestone. The 56,000 barrier has fallen! He rallied Beautiful Katamari gaining 1 achievement, Halo 3 acquiring an amazing 6 achievements, and then I basked in the warm glow of post gaming. Mmmm warm...

My 360voice actually says I was away the past couple of days, which is true. I had to travel to Oxford for an interview. But I'm back, and ready to rack up that GS.

This following fortnight, I'm participating in the 'XBL 10k Community Challenge - No. 1' as set up on 360voice. Its where a group of people get together, and in a set period, try and get as much GS as possible. This first challenge is for 14 days, and we have 7 people ready to win. The people who start with the lowest have the natural advantage, given that they havent played all the easy games! Well, I've a few easy games left too =D

This weeks games were:

Beautiful Katamari	420 -> 640 of 1250 31 of 40 Achievements
Sonic The Hedgehog 2	190 -> 200 of 200 12 of 12 Achievements
Halo 3	230 -> 735 of 1000 22 of 49 Achievements
Tony Hawk's Project 8	50 -> 120 of 1000 9 of 49 Achievements

This week has been a big Katamari week. I'm at a great point now - all the presents and cousins in the game without the DLC, and I'm 3 stages from getting 100+ points on each stage. I'm back up to second in the UK, and my biggest Katamari is 1.4m kilometres. I've got 95% of the collection, still getting the new bit here and there. I also went online a bit - which can get laggy, but usually goes ok if I'm in a Japanese room. Got the 1000 cookies, so now just after the 50 games worth - I'm sure I'm around the 25 mark. Apart from that, I need the 100/200 requests, 50/100hrs gameplay and the DLC achievements.

Sonic 2 is now complete! I just needed the 10 stage wins online, but usually there's no-one on. Luckily, someone was on, and they asked me to boost. 5 mins later, we both had the achievement. Score =D Game complete!

Warmish Hot Tub and I met up again this thursday for some Halo 3 pwnage. We completed Legendary - so I got all 3 completionist achievements and the 3 stages we had left to do, which was around 500GS. The only achievements left now are skulls, online achieves, and points in the round achievements. Fun =P

I also rented out Project 8 again. I didn't elaborate last time, but its a hellish game. The achievements are hard, and it feels worse than previous Hawk games out there. I'm having trouble with the challenges, and the achievements I got this time were for online, and a viral achievement worth 50GS. I see people online getting 2mill in one combo, so I guess I'm not doing something right...

GS: 55,632 -> 56,437

Completed XBLA:	14 / 36
Completed Retail:	26 / 131
GS Completion %:	38.92%
GS % (Non-Demo):	41.28%

Country Rank:	196
World Rank:	1,310

Belated Update

I haven't posted in over a week, unfortunately not due to my fault - internet was down a couple of days and I've been tired the rest. So hopefully we'll get back on track with some GS Updates and Achievement whoring!

Well since the last update I've probably played 30-40 games, so I'm not going to update them all. I've been loading up a few to get them registered on http://my360stats.com, you can find me here. I've always kept a spreadsheet of all my acheivements - this website thankfully does it for me and other people, allowing easy game comparison and the oppertunity to see how well I'm doing against the average in each game. If you've a gamertag, go register yourself over there. Every update they take the info from you last 16, non-zero GS, games played. Updates are every 4 days, unless your profile gets viewed, then it's every 24 hours.

Well suffice to say, I've now passed the 30k barrier! =D I've also got 1000+ total achievements, so two large milestones this week. GS: 29985 -> 32865. I havent completed any games in this past week, but I've played a few new ones (both owned and rented), and got some more GS on others:

Shadowrun	0 -> 60 of 1000 6 of 50 Achievements
Battlefield 2: MC	0 -> 210 of 1000 10 of 46 Achievements
NBA 2K7	0 -> 525 of 1000 25 of 50 Achievements
Mad Tracks	0 of 200 0 of 12 Achievements
X-Men:TheOfficialGame	0 -> 410 of 1000 9 of 16 Achievements
LEGO Star Wars II	70 -> 250 of 1000 7 of 29 Achievements
Tetris Evolution	185 -> 280 of 1000 17 of 40 Achievements
NHL 2K7	360 -> 535 of 1000 11 of 17 Achievements
Football Manager 2006	320 -> 325 of 1000 28 of 50 Achievements
Test Drive Unlimited	70 -> 360 of 1000 22 of 46 Achievements
Rayman Raving Rabbids	200 of 1000 4 of 16 Achievements
Aegis Wing	0 -> 45 of 200 4 of 12 Achievements
Gears of War	80 of 1000 7 of 49 Achievements
WSOP: TOC	0 -> 55 of 1000 3 of 35 Achievements
American Wasteland	570 -> 900 of 1000 44 of 45 Achievements
Pro Evolution Soccer 6	120 -> 360 of 1000 9 of 23 Achievements
Tony Hawk's Project 8	0 -> 50 of 1000 6 of 49 Achievements
Rainbow Six® Vegas	0 of 1000 0 of 36 Achievements

I've not going into detail about each game this time, mainly because it's 5:55am and I've not been to bed yet, but it has been fun trying out a few new games and rentals. Rayman was fun, R6 was shite. X:Men was good, I'm still figuring out Shadowrun.

Completed XBLA:	7 / 20
Completed Retail:	17 / 65
GS Completion %:	43.03%
GS % (Non-Demo):	47.12%

Country Rank:	588/149171
World Rank:	3312/1147024