XBox 360 Achievement Challenge - Week 46

Well my 360 coffin STILL hasn’t arrived, so I was able to play the 360 over the last week.  Unfortunately this led for frustrating times, especially with games that read the disc often like Fallout 3, as it resulted in the game freezing at LEAST once an hour.  There was one bit in the game that was very action intensive, and it would have been over in about 5-10 minutes, yet it took me over an hour with it constantly freezing.  Sigh.

Regardless, I battled on and on, and managed to have quite a good week.  Let’s see what I did….

Fallout 3: I beat the game.  I can’t even begin to review the game here because all that comes out of my mouth is the word “AWESOME” over and over and over and over again.  Regardless, my first playthrough topped out at just under 40  hours, and I’m already anxious for my next playthrough.

Quest wise, I beat Big Trouble in Big Town, Picking Up The Trail, Finding the Garden of eden, The American Dream and Take It Back!  I got 20 points for each of those, except for the final one which I got 40 gamerscore points for.

In-game, I picked 50 locks for Keys are for Cowards, and killed 300 creatures for Slayer of the Beasts.  Unfortunately, this only left me with 420 gamerscore points.  I decided to wait for my 2nd playthrough until after the challenge is over, to give me even more incentive to beat this fucking challenge.  So I went back to some previous saves and reached Level 8 with bad and neutral karma, for Mercenary and Reaver.  Then I did the same for level 14, for Pinnacle of Survival and Harbinger of war.  I also placed a grenade while pickpocketing(SO SICK YET SO AWESOME) for Psychotic Prankster, and won 50 speech challenges for the Silver Tounged Devil, to put me at 520 for the game, and add that to the completed list;

NHL 2K6: Brando came to Kingston for the weekend to watch UFC 91.  He asked if I wanted him to bring any games.  I told him to bring NHL 2K6, and much lols were had when I scored on a breakaway(50 points), scored with a defender(150 points), scored with 2 men down(200 pts), and scored in under 1 minute(300 points) to bump my gamerscore by 750 achievement points in approximately 2 minutes of real time.  I tried to score on a penalty shot for another 250, but sadly couldn’t do it and couldn’t really be bothered.  Still, this was quite fun after a lot of achievement “grinding” recently.

Shrek the 3rd: I was a bit hungover on Sunday, and didn’t feel like doing work.  I decided as the 360 seemed to handle itself okay still on games that didn’t read the disc constantly, I’d try out Shrek.  I didn’t plan on playing it that long, but me and Mason played it for most of the day while watching football(god bless picture in picture)  and ended up beating it.  Story wise, I defeated the Ice Dragon for the Ice Tamer achievement, and defeated Captain Hook for the Music Critic achievement.  I also beat all 20 missions for Hail to the King, did that in the most difficult setting(Grimm) for Glorious Liege, and beat Prince Charming for the Upstaged Charming achievement.

During gameplay, I launched 50 enemies into the air then caught them for The Juggler, used Super Ogre Power 10 times for Super Ogre and Super Ogre Power Extreme achievements, performed 100 finishing moves for The Finisher, and used Fairy Dust 50 times for Ogre Smash!

The game also has a lot to collect.  I collected 66% of all souvenior mugs for Novice and Amateur collector, as well as 66% of all coloring book pages for For the Fridge and Upstart Artist.  I also beat 33% of all challenge quests in the game for Questing Rookie.  Final score?  620.  Oh hell yes.

As for the game itself?  If you like platformers, this isn’t the worst game out there.  It has a lot of flaws and major annoyance, from invisible walls to a really annoying camera, but I still had fun and it’s a decent way to kill an afternoon.

Alright - so 6 weeks left, plus another 2 additional weeks if necessary due to my 360 death earlier in the year.  Here’s the stats:

CURRENT GAMES STILL TO DO:

(Current points in parenthesis)

1. Assassins Creed (105)
2. Burnout Revenge (195)
3. Call of Duty 2 (50)
4. Call of Duty 4 (50)
   
5. Gears of War 2 (145)
6. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (150)
7. Saints Row 2 (370)
   
8. Tiger Woods 09 (180)

I must admit, looking quite good, and I think this challenge is doable.  God I hope it is, otherwise I’ve written for 46 straight weeks on ANOTHER NPP DISASTER.

ACHIEVEMENT TARGET HIT:

1. Bioshock (910)
2. Blitz: The League (520)
3. Bully (1000)
4. Burnout Paradise (500)
5. Cars (1000)
6. Civilization: Revolution (505)
7. Crackdown (535)
8. Dark Sector (620)
9. Dead Rising (520)
   
10. Fallout 3 (520) +250
11. Fight Night Round 3 (1000)
12. Gears of War (520)
13. Kameo (610)
14. Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore Edition: (520)
15. King Kong (1000)
16. Lego Batman (575)
17. Lego Indiana Jones (920)
18. Lego Star Wars (900)
19. Madden 2008 (880)
20. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (830)
21. NBA 2K8 (880)
22. NHL 2008 (575)
23. NHL 2K6 (750) +750
24. Open Season (1000)
25. Rainbow Six: Vegas (500)
26. Saints Row (500)
27. Scene It (595)
28. Shrek The Third (620) +620
29. Splinter Cell: Double Agent (550)
30. Stuntman:Ignition (505)
31. Superman Returns (570)
32. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1000)
33. Tetris Evolution: (515)
34. The Darkness (795)
35. The Outfit (655)
36. The Simpsons Game (845)
37. The Spiderwick Chronicles (1000)
38. Tomb Raider: Legend (560)
39. UEFA Euro 2008 (505)
40. WWE: Smackdown vs RAW 2007 (650)