Bejeweled Live

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OK, so I finally unlocked the last Achievement (that I felt I could realistically achieve) in Bejewelled Live for the Windows Phone today. Thanks to the wonderful website TrueAchievements.com, it appears it took me just under a year to unlock it by smashing one million jewels. I bought the game in April 2013, quickly notched up 155 Gamerscore, hit another…
2013 videogame targets update and 2014 videogame targets

2013 videogame targets update and 2014 videogame targets

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Fail

I made three posts in January of 2013 outlining some targets I had for the coming year, and all of them started well, but fizzled out towards the end. I reckon that if I acknowledge my mistakes, I can learn from them. I’m tackling the videogame targets in this post – You can find the original one here, if you’re interested.

http://www.trueachievements.com/gamergoals.aspx?gamerid=2710

As you can see if you follow that link – I failed my attempt at reaching 100,000 Gamerscore in 2013. I’m not really bothered by this, as I (finally) learned that my time is worth more than some arbitrary number, and I had fun playing some great games in 2013, and that’s what counts. Still, I have made a new target, which roughly works out at 50% of the Achievement score of all the games in my pile of shame, I think. I reckon 50% is about right for any story or Campaign related Achievements in all the games on the list.

Goodbye 2013

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So what happened in 2013 then? It was another mixed bag. The best thing ever happened: I stopped smoking. And I don't even miss it. I'm not suffering from some black depression because I'm holding myself back from smoking my precious cigarettes, I'm not deluding myself by switching to an eCigarette, I'm not counting down the hours until I can…

It’s been a while

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This is the longest I've left making a post for a long time. Nothing interesting has really happened to be honest. I've made a canvas for a work-friend, and nearly finished another one for some other friends, convinced Jane to make some progress on her fiction (specifically, The Famous Yiberdeedo), watched some films that I don't really feel the need…
Videogame targets

Videogame targets

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http://www.trueachievements.com/gamergoals.aspx?gamerid=2710 I know I was debating not having a target this year, but with all these other targets I thought "Why not, eh?". Can I get to 100,000 in eleven months? It's an increase of around 14,000 - I managed that last year. If I can find enough short and easy games then it won't take long, but I'm kind…

Smash Maniac

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I finally won the Smash Maniac Achievement in Angry Birds, to complete the game. All I had to do was smash a total of 250,000 blocks. "Shouldn't take too long", I foolishly thought to myself. Looking at the timestamps on the other Achievements is enlightening... The previous one I won was for getting three stars in Episode 3, and that…

The Darkness

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I'm giving this another go. I played it for an afternoon, like, four years ago. There are reasons for this: I'd like to think I've become a more tolerant man in the past four years. Sometimes I don't like the start of games that turn out to be great - I put Bioshock off for years and that was awesome…
Gamerscore target reached

Gamerscore target reached

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I hit my target of 80,000 Gamerscore today. I had until the end of the year, but it was playing on my mind a lot, so I just decided to get it over with before Halo 4 hits. And there are a few other games I want to play for fun in the meantime too, such as Deus Ex: Human…

Taking stock

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After the madness of my cousins wedding and the holiday with the boys, I feel I need to streamline my existence, have a good sort out and tidy everything up. I started today (whilst catching up on Peep Show - the tail end of series 6 and start of series 7), just general organisational things really, and I have next…

Gamersc-whore

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In the last few days I've made huge progress on my Gamerscore target. I've gone from near 74,000 to almost 76,000 thanks to a couple of proper easy games. I would say shit games, but one of them was quite good. Megamind was horse-shit, but it only took me around 4 hours to get the 1000. Cloudy With A Chance…