Fighting fire with fire

Fighting fire with fire

This is all about Firefight, the super cool mode on Halo 3: ODST where you are in an arena and wave after wave of Covenant rush at you, shooting their futuristic neon laser guns in your direction. It was going to be about Pokémon, I figured I'd not written about it in a while. I am still playing Pokémon Emerald…

Tenpeat – 50g

Don't hold back your true potential! Win 10 Ranked Matches in a row! Well, after a few failed attempts at trying organise a boosting session for it on TrueAchievements, I managed to win it legit. It was so different to how I won the win-10-ranked-games-in-a-row Achievement in regular Street Fighter IV. There, I was flitting between ranked and custom games,…
I’m going to write about True Achievements again

I’m going to write about True Achievements again

Here's that URL again. http://www.trueachievements.com/ Now, along with some other guys on RF, I had set myself a Gamerscore target (get from 38,000 to 50,000) for 2010. What I didn't realise at the time was that you could actually set yourself goals on TrueAchievements! I set myself two goals yesterday. The first is to get to 50,000 Gamerscore and the…

Revenge of the Burnout

As I said on Sunday, I recently re-purchased Burnout: Revenge for the Xbox 360. When I first got it, I had only just finished Burnout: Revenge on the old Xbox, so I was not really motivated to play through it again. I was probably suffering from Burnout BURNOUT lol! Some time has passed now though, and coupled with the measly…
Resident Evil 5 Achievements

Resident Evil 5 Achievements

Man, some of the Achievements on this were obscure. Here are my tips for some of them. I had trouble getting "The Works" Achievement. For this, Chris attacks an enemy with a melee attack, then Sheva follows up quickly with a melee attack, then Chris finishes the enemy off with a final melee blow. I found it best to do…

More 7 on 7 fail

Hehe, I forgot to do this again. That's, what, eight months in a row now? Anyway, it's not even like the Achievement is worth a whole lot of points, it's 0 Gamerscore, I JUST FUCKING WANT IT. I really need to put a note somewhere I can see it to remind myself. I spent most of last night playing the…
True Achievements is a great website

True Achievements is a great website

Being well into my Gamerscore, I love it! http://www.trueachievements.com/ Basically, they were annoyed that there are certain disparages within the Gamerscore points system (some easy Achievements in easy games award the same amount of points as hard Achievements in hard games), so they award more Achievement points to Achievements that are harder to obtain than easy ones. The formula is…

I’m doing it wrong

Usually I’ve written my Sunday entry by now – I like to make notes of any ideas I have, or any exciting events there may have been during the week, and most times I actually write it ahead of time when the inspiration strikes. This week however, the only thing of note that has happened is that interview I had, but I’ve already covered that in a post of it’s own… So… I’m struggling to think of things to write about.

Oh, I remember something now, the Live Arcade game this week was Game Room (essentially a collection of demos for rubbish old games), and it was free. That sounds good, right? Free game – free Achievements. Not really very many achievements, but some, 80 G’s added to your Gamerscore for free, nonetheless. To get anywhere near the full 1000 you need to pay for the individual games, and considering they are mostly priced the same as proper Live Arcade titles, it’s a bit of a money-spinning exercise by Microsoft there. Did I mention the games are all awful? Well, one or two could be construed as “classic”, but they’re mostly dog-shit.

Something else I could mention is that I’ve been re-reading the Harry Potter books this month, I finished Deathly Hallows the other night and I’m slowly writing up my thoughts on them. Expect those posts early April.

Who likes privacy, anyway?

In what is turning into a weekly moan about the people who live in this house with me, I'm getting used to not having any privacy at all any more. It seems like every five minutes I'm being visited by a small child who comes in and moans and cries when I tell him "I'm playing a game which involves…

Tweaks, here and there – Final version ready

Let's see, what have I done? OK, so I put my Halo 3 stats on the (now defunct) About toxic and Waves page and put my Gamercard at the top of the right sidebar to show off my Gamerscore. The "Currently playing/reading/watching" box is a neat addition, don't you think? I'll try to comment on the various entertainments once in…