Favorite Achievement of All Time.

Hey dudes. I'm back form Helena and starting back up my normal life/routine. My roommate in Helena is actually a killer COD player. We rocked out some Ops while we were down there. He had a person by person plan for Sniper Fi. It only took us 3 minutes to complete. Out of control awesome.

Before I left, I played a lot of Rock Band 3. Man, I really love that game right now. I got my drums in and spent a huge ammount of time getting them set up, tweaking, tuning, etc. In Rock Band, there's a drum trainer mode. If done properly, you can practice the modes it gives you and actually learn a few solid things on drums. I know I'm not the best drummer in the world, but the Trainer beast gave me a run for my money. It took me 5-6 hours to get the achievement, and it was hard work. But alas, meet my favorite achievement of all time, Drum Trainer Graduate -


While the achievement itself is only worth 30 points, its True Achievement score is 271. 9X THE SCORE! That might not mean a lot to you, but out of 15,000 people who tracked Rock Band on True Achievements, only 187 have unlocked it. I feel like a conquered a serious piece of awesome with this guy. Way pumped.

So, with that done, I'm now focusing on completing Borderlands and Getting as much done as possible in The Force Unleashed. I'm still aiming for 60 percent. Cheers.

The end of the contest.

Well, the contest is now over. We made it through. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. At the same time, I had some really frustrating gaming moments. I hate collection games with a passion now. (I'm talking to you, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.) If you read throughout, you can see I am the victor. Ultimately, I beat Joe by 10K+, which is what I said I would do.



If I remember correctly, I heard a lot of this - "Gamefly is gay. My name's Joe. I'm super gay. I'm going to win the contest. Blah blah blah."



As we can see, this was not the case. Joe didn't show up. Here's the stats, person by person, for the contest.



Joseph - 3rd place

- Starting score - 12053

- Ending score - 19339

- Total gain - 7286



Joshua - 2nd place

- Starting score - 11370

- Ending score - 20610

- Total gain - 9240



And last but not least...



Jesse - 1st place

- Starting score - 6988

- Ending score - 30902

- Total gain - 23914

- Total Achievements gained - 746



This was the most concentrated span of gaming I've ever gone through. What next? I'm taking things slow. I'm doing one game at a time. That doesn't include Rock Band. I'm going to play that game to death. I'll probably only be posting on here when I do fun achievements/complete big games. First up is Borderlands. 4 Achievements left in that beast.



Thanks for reading up to this point. I'll talk to you soon.

Game completion time.

I set up new gamer goals on True Achievements. I've had games sitting around, collecting dust, waiting for their chance to shine. It's also been a goal of mine to complete a game worth more than 1,000 gs. Well, Borderlands, you're my next target. The hours I have accumulated into that game are immense. I really think we owe each other the favor of a full completion. Yesterday I played MINAC for about 2 hours to get all of the collection achievements. (I still really hate those, but understand they will always be a necessity.)


Up next, I have to do Moxxi's Underdome. Luckily, I found a little gem that will help me get through the whole thing in a fairly easy manner. 375 waves of baddies is a lot, though. I'm guessing it will take me around 6 hours to get the last 4 achievements, but Borderlands will be my most proud completed game.


Once that is completed, I'm going to finish off Reach. I've talked about doing that a lot, but it just hasn't happened. It's going to be a beast to pull off. I have Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming in the mail today. I'm pretty excited to play that. I haven't had a legit Star Wars game in my hands since.... since... Well, you know how they make Star Wars games.

Gone again.

I WON AN ION DRUM SET FOR ROCK BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EBAY RULES!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT IT FOR HALF OFF!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't type that myself. I turned the speech-to-text gadget on my computer. So. Life is shredding so hard in my face right now. Rock Band 3 = Gaming perfection. <3

I have Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming soon. That's going to be a rager. Yes. Yes Yes. Yes Yes Yes.

Currently listening - Re(Mission) by YBF. Steven Colyer is super nice. bee tee dub.

Rock Band 3

I've played RB3 almost exclusively the last week. It's the funnest music/rhythm game I've ever played. I have a bid on eBay for the Ion drum set that you play pro drums with. If I win that, it's game over for my social life. I'll hole up in my music room and won't come out until I conquer everything in the game.

There are a ton of good games coming out right now, but I can't keep up with them. Next up will probably be Mass Effect. Rage Cage.

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Played some NHL 2K6. Solid. 20 minutes for 750 points. I didn't even try for the last achievement. It was stupid. Also, the best way to get a penalty in that game was to punch the goalie in the face. Victory.

I've been jamming tons of Rock Band lately. I popped a few bass achievements yesterday. I'm number 6 in the world on "I Will Possess Your Heart." 100%. Woo.

I'm bummed that I found out I have until 5/3 with 3 games. That means I have to play a few more junkers. There's no point in having 3 AAA titles at the same time. I couldn't make any headway on more than 1 at a time, anyway.

Also, Rock Band went down to 20 dollars. Go buy it.

Hi Blog.

I'm back. Way back. Super back. It's been a big week. 1) I saw Mike Pedicone play drums. 2) 1,200 miles. 3) I've also worked near 40 hours in 3 days. 4) I thought about Mike Pedicone playing drums. With those activities, there wasn't a lot of room for games. I had 2 games in my mail box when I arrived. NHL 2k6 and Backyard Football '10. I haven't had a chance to play them until today. Backyard Football '10 was a quickie. 10 achievements. 20 minutes. Boom. Done. I'm less than 500 away from 30k now. I'll try to go home and do NHL 2k6 tonight. That brings me to my next point. I'm done with filler games. I'm done playing for achievements. It's been a good ride. I've rocked a ton so far. I don't see Josh or Joseph coming back from 10k down in two weeks. Who knows? I could be wrong. Maybe a rally of doom will happen. Either way, I'm not going to be playing games solely for achievements anymore. However, that doesn't mean that I won't still try to complete games. I want to do Reach on Legendary. I don't mind if I get the achievement anymore. I just want to do it. So, personal Everest gaming goals are still going to happen. Victory. I want to beat the hardest enemies in FF XIII. I want to beat the hardest songs on RB3. So. I'll still keep updated. I'll still have Gamefly. I'll still play. But I'm moving other activites into the spot that has occupied gaming for the last 3 months. Also, Mike Pedicone is a beast. He is beast master. Beast master of beasts. Just saying. Until next time--