Statistics

Retail - 98 games

2006 FIFA World Cup - 500/1000
Alan Wake - 1060/1500
Aliens vs. Predator - 785/1000
Alone in the Dark - 245/1000
Army of Two: The 40th Day - 715/1250
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts - 170/1250
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - 1000/1430
Beijing 2008 - 10/1000
Bioshock 2 - 1000/1400
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - 295/1000
Brutal Legend - 60/1090
Burnout Paradise - 240/1250
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 970/1150
Call of Duty: World at War - 1040/1500
Call of Juarez - 185/1000
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 - 815/1000
Command & Conquer 3 -25/1000
Conan - 140/1000
Condemned 2: Bloodshot - 70/1000
Crackdown - 515/1250
Dance Central - 125/1000
Dante's Inferno - 1095/1290
Dark Sector - 10/1000
Dead Rising - 740/1000
Dead to Rights: Retribution - 405/1250
DJ Hero - 655/1000
Dragon Age: Origins - 125/1750
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 690/1250
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - 425/1250
F1 2010 - 390/1000
Fable 2 - 310/1350
Fallout: New Vegas 455/1140
Fifa 08 - 265/1000
Final Fantasy XIII - 230/1000
Gears of War - 430/1250
Gears of War 2 -1390/1750
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 - 45/1250
Ghostbusters: The Video Game - 790/1000
Grand Theft Auto IV - 775/1500
Guitar Hero II - 370/1000
Guitar Hero III - 210/1000
Guitar Hero World Tour - 100/1000
Guitar Hero: Metallica - 275/1000
Half Life 2: The Orange Box - 610/1000
Halo 3 - 1005/1750
Halo: Reach - 315/1250
Iron Man - 175/1000
John Woo Presents Stranglehold - 190/1250
Just Cause 2 - 345/1000
Kane & Lynch:Dead Men - 90/1250
Kinectimals - 80/1000
Lost Odyssey - 235/1100
Mafia II - 1040/1500
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 - 120/1250
Mass Effect - 515/1200
Mass Effect 2 - 940/1255
Medal of Honor: Airborne - 380/1000
Meet the Robinsons - 190/1000
Metro 2033 - 1000/1240
Mirror's Edge - 825/1250
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - 1195/1390
Ninja Gaiden 2 - 120/1250
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - 60/1000
Overlord - 30/1250
Prince of Persia - 960/1250
Quantum of Solace - 60/1000
Race Driver: GRID - 370/1100
Red Dead Redemption - 395/1500
Red Faction: Guerrilla - 230/1250
Resident Evil 5 - 870/1400
Rock Band - 170/1000
Saints Row - 50/1000
Saints Row 2 - 15/1250
Scene it? Box Office Smash - 875/1250
Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! - 590/1000
Spider-Man 3 - 690/1000
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows - 115/1000
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - 730/1345
Stuntman: Ignition - 255/1000
Super Street Fighter IV - 0/1000
Superman Returns - 210/1000
Test Drive Unlimited 2 - 515/1195
The BIGS 2 - 110/1000
The Club - 370/1000
The Darkness - 310/1000
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - 270/1000
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas2 - 545/1000
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent - 180/1000
Tomb Raider Underworld - 1000/1250
Tomb Raider Legend - 360/1250
Transformers: The Game - 135/1000
Tropico 3 - 675/1000
UFC 2009 Undisputed - 125/1000
Viva Pinata - 180/1000
Viva Pinata (PC) - 200/1000
Wolfenstein - 30/1000
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 - 140/1000

41335/111325

Arcade - 18 Games

'Splosion Man - 65/200
Braid - 185/200
Chime - 100/200
Doom - 70/200
Duke Nuken 3D - 20/200
Duke Nuken: Manhattan Project - 100/200
Doritos Crash Course - 160/200
Geometry Wars 2 - 130/200
Hexic HD - 40/200
Ilomilo - 60/200
Limbo - 190/200
Peggle - 70/250
TMNT 1989 Arcade - 55/200
Tower Bloxx Deluxe - 25/200
Trials HD - 180/300
Undertow - 30/200
Where's Waldo - 100/200
Worms 2: Armageddon - 20/250

1600/3800

So there is my wall of stats. This doesn't include the games I have not even started playing which I have sitting. There are some on this list that I doubt I will finish.

The list of ones I plan to finish this year are:

Alan Wake - 1060/1500
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts - 170/1250
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 - 815/1000
Conan - 140/1000
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 690/1250
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - 425/1250
Iron Man - 175/1000
Kinectimals - 80/1000
Mafia II - 1040/1500
Meet the Robinsons - 190/1000
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - 1195/1390
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows - 115/1000
Superman Returns - 210/1000
Test Drive Unlimited 2 - 515/1195
Tomb Raider Underworld - 1000/1250
Tropico 3 - 675/1000
Duke Nuken: Manhattan Project - 100/200

That would increase me just: 10190

I plan on progressing in my other games too. Shall try to follow this up with more stats to show my progress

Target

Target for next year will be to try and finish off some older games so I am at a minimum of half my total games done. At the moment 10 more retail games would put me to half way so I am not too far off. Its just motivating myself to get it done. Having a choice of over 100 games at home I find I just look at them all and can't pick out anything I want to play. I feel I play some for hours and barely get anywhere. Seem to just lose concentration and wonder about sometimes. Others I distract myself with the internet for 5-10 minutes here and there which all adds up to huge distractions.

Looking over other blogs, I can see I just don't have the literacy skills to write the big interesting posts. Would like to put more effort in to it really as it would be nice to get more posts in here that are worth reading, even if it just for me to read.

Highs and Lows of point whoring

I just finished the GSL on x360a.org and went through a very low point in scoring. I was excited for it to start. I had 17 games lined up to playthrough and thought I could easily put up 30000 points. The realisation set in a few weeks into it, how much harder that is to do. I thought it would be a breeze since I love gaining gamerscore, but the glitches I hit in many of the games due to them being cheaply made really drained the fun out of them. At a lot of stages I couldn't even bring myself to keep playing anything. I kept trying, but the enjoyment was not there.

I have gone back to some bigger budget games now and am having a much better time. The tag line on easy scoring games should be "Fun in small doses".

New CoD is out next week and I really can't wait for it. The new online modes look really interesting. Will be nice to wager my cash for my skill. I generally do well online with it, so will be interesting to see how it goes when I have something on the line.

Completion

As much as I have not put effort in to post I thought of one I could.

I noticed that I have almost completed 20 retail games this year. Last year I did 20 and year prior 14. This would suggest I have completed more this year as it is not nearly done yet. It is pleasing to see this as it has been one of my goals to push for this year. This has also reflected in my gamerscore as I have gained around 30000 this year which is usually my average over a whole year.

Lovefilm has been one of the biggest reason for all my completions as I have been getting a lot more games including a lot of easy ones. They have been good fun for the few hours they last.

Proudest completion this year is probably prototype as it requires a lot of practice to get through.

My writing of this blog has lost its appeal

As no one is following this Im guessing I am writing to myself. I kind of lost motivation to keep going with this. I started a few posts, but they got abandoned quickly. Might get back to this at some point

Update

Have really been lacking motivation to post, but have some time now. Started to fall behind on games I wanted to complete with all the new games I got. Oblivion has been sitting at 660 for a while now. Really want to push myself to finish that off.

Managed to finish some easy games recently that I got over Christmas. I did enjoy Open Season, Kung Fu Panda and Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper even though they were short. The Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince game was not as good as the first one and had a lot of stuff cut out from it. It felt like they cut out some content to make it an easier full gamerscore game than the last one.

Really enjoying Tropico 3 at the moment. Best RTS game I have come across. It is not too difficult and there is not a lot of different things to remember, but it does have enough of a challenge to keep it entertaining. Hope to finish that off soon, but will probably still keep playing it.

The Saboteur is another game I got a lot out of, but am now at the point where most of the achievements are destroy lots of things which gets very repetitive unfortunately. It is still a fun game, but I can only play it in small doses due to the lack of variation.

Christmas time

Well now that Christmas is coming around I have got a lot more games. As I will be away from home over Christmas I am getting some presents early as I am not taking my xbox with me. So far I have 10 new games and more to come. Have not tried them all yet though.

Managed to finish Assassin's Creed 2. Overall it was very fun. Side quests did drag on a little though as it seemed to just be piles of assassination quests with little variation so I ended up skipping them nearer the end. I also complete Wall*E which is obviously not too hard to do, but it was pretty fun. I had to buy it after watching the film recently as it was great.

We were celebrating my flat mates birthdays over the weekend and decided that Rock Band would be a good idea. I realised at this point how much of a pain it is. Digging out all the instruments, building the durm kit up, plugging into the back USB port of the xbox and we ended up playing it for less than an hour when people got bored. Overall a bit too much hassle