Zay’z – [ Den 'O' Slack ]

Well for those of you (like me) who’ve been playing Halo Wars off and on for the past week and I don’t know about you but I get the feeling like it’s a dumbed down version of an RTS. It really makes me long for Starcraft 2 to see how that’s going to be unfortunately that won’t be on any console which makes me a sad panda indeed.

StarCraft 2 : Screenshot

[Oops now only fourteen more gamerscore to go, until I reach the 10,000 mark.]

How the hell did I get such a weird gamerscore? Luxor2 and that’s all I’m going to say about that… never ever play that game. EVER.

Flawless Drumming (25g)

Want to finally get your Flawless Drumming achievement in Rock Band 2 for Xbox360? Still trying but to no avail…? Just can’t play expert drums?

Well then just download the NIrvana Track Pack or specifically Polly.

Why?

Because there are just eight notes.

Yes you read that correctly, eight total notes and only four spots where you play.

You can’t five star it on drums this way but you can at least get a simple achievement. You should also be able to accomplish this with Rock Band 1 as well, I have yet to confirm this however.

Rock on!

Also don’t forget about the new downloads that were released today.

So last night I fired up a little bit of Madden 09 goodness just prior to me hitting the lights out, (you do know that Madden is like warm-milk to some).

And suddenly started to understand the newer passing game. Though I still had issues with my pass defense I was doing alright against the run.

And most importantly I was finally starting to register some wins.

Oh and I snagged me some more achievements; Steal Their Thunder, Kick a FG for over 50 yards, 80% completion for a game and Shut out Rival in Franchise.

So that’s 50% of the 1,000 possible gamerscore possible.

Oh and what’s really awesome the Steal Their Thunder achievement… just requires you to press the B [RED] button while in a celebration zone.

Very, very, zen.

Now just have to work on that New York Jets rushing for 300 yards. [sigh]

.oO( Well more like a plan… a wish, perhaps hope… no more like delusion. )

Achievements, Xbox360 style… and lots of them. For my upcoming birthday week I’m going to take some time off (of work) and spend twenty-four to forty-eight hours in an attempt to achieve a cumulative gamerscore of ten thousand or more points.

So far I’ve got a few rough ideas of the games I’m going to do this with.

Not necessarily in the order but the video-a-thon-sketch looks something like the following:

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• College Hoops 2K6 [1,000]
• NHL 2K6 [1,000]
• NFL 2K6 [1,000]
• NBA 2K6 [1,000]
• Madden 06 [1,000]
• Madden 07 [1,000]
• Madden 08 [1,000]
• NBA Live 06 [1,000]
• NBA Live 07 [1,000]
• NBA Live 08 [1,000]
• Fight Night Round 3 [1,000]
• Peter Jackson’s King Kong [1,000]
• TMNT [1,000]
• NBA Street Homecourt [1,000]
• Jumper: Griffin’s Story [1,000]
• Avatar: The Last Airbender [1,000]
• Prey [1,000]
• Spider Man: Friend or Foe [1,000]

That gives us a sub-total of 18,000 possible gamerscore points, (if we don’t adjust for some already acquired achievements). Subtracting existing achievements of [420] (no seriously), we are then left with a total of [17,580] respectively.

And of course because I won’t get to all of these games or even necessarily the max score I’ll need some alternates. But I have yet to determine what those are.

Man this seems like a complete waste of time…. sober.

;-p]

So I was playing some post coital GTA IV last night (which does makes the game play more bearable). Which was the first time in about a week I had fired up something other then a movie or Rock Band, mostly due to the fact the last time I did I was having a difficult time keeping interested.

I played for less then an hour and picked up two more achievements; Fed The Fishes [5] and Wheelie Rider [30].

The game is obviously more interesting as you progress since there are more (of the same) options to be had.

However I still give them mad props for their music selection, which almost makes “driving” long distances tolerable.